Emergent Masculinities in the Pacific
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About the author
Aletta Biersack is Professor Emerita, Department of Anthropology, University of Oregon, USA. Her principal research continues to be among the Ipili speakers of the Papua New Guinea highlands. She has edited and co-edited several collections: Clio in Oceania (1991); Papuan Borderlands: Huli, Duna, and Ipili Perspectives on the Papua New Guinea Highlands (1995); Ecologies for Tomorrow: Reading Rappaport Today (1999); with J. Greenberg, Reimagining Political Ecology (2006); and with M. Jolly and M. Macintyre, Gender Violence and Human Rights: Seeking Justice in Fiji, Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu (2016). Her current research interests include the dynamics of gold mining, gender transformations, witchcraft, and Christianities among Ipili speakers.
Martha Macintyre
is an honorary Principal Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne, Australia and Adjunct Professor at the Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining at the University of Queensland, Australia. She has undertaken research in Papua New Guinea, and is the co-editor, with M. Jolly, of Family and Gender in the Pacific (1989); with M. Patterson, of Managing Modernity in the Western Pacific (2011); with A. Biersack and M. Jolly, of Gender Violence and Human Rights: Seeking Justice in Fiji, Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu (2016); and with C. Spark, of Transformations of Gender in Melanesia (2017).
