Haidy Geismar

Haidy Geismar

Assistant Professor of Museum Studies, Anthropology

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Research Interests:

Visual anthropology, Pacific anthropology, intellectual, cultural and indigenous property rights, economic anthropology, cross-cultural theories of value and valuation, materiality, contemporary indigenous art, museum theory and criticism.

Selected Works:

"Malakula: A Photographic Collection," Comparative Studies in Society and History, 48:3 (2006).

"Building sites of memory: The Ground Zero Sonic Memorial Sound Walk," Fabrications: The Journal of the Society of Historians of Australia and New Zealand, 15:2 (2006), pp. 1-11.

"Slit-Drums on Atchin: an unpublished manuscript by John Layard." Edited and with an introduction by Haidy Geismar. RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics. 47 (2005).

"Copyright in Context: carvings, carvers and commodities in Vanuatu," American Ethnologist, 33:3 (2005), pp. 437-459.

"Footsteps on Malakula: a report on a photographic research project," Journal of Museum Ethnography , Vol.17 (2005), pp. 191-207.

"The Spitting Image of Race? A Review of 'Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self,'" Journal of Museum Ethnography (March 2005).

"Contemporary Traditions: Museum Collecting and Creativity in Vanuatu." In Karen Stevenson and Virginia Lee Webb (Eds.), Creative Arts in the Pacific, Bathurst: Crawford House.

"Reproduction, Creativity, Restriction: Material Culture and Copyright in Vanuatu," Journal of Social Archaeology, 5:1 (2005).
Introduction (with Heather Horst), Journal of Material Culture, 9:1 (2004), pp. 5-10.

"The Materiality of Contemporary Art in Vanuatu," Journal of Material Culture, 9:1 (2004), pp. 43-58.

"Fieldwork: A Review" (with Rebecca Empson), Cambridge Anthropology, 24:1 (2004), pp. 39-50.

"Negotiating Materiality: International and Local Museum Practices at the Vanuatu Cultural Centre and National Museum" (with Prof. Chris Tilley), Oceania, 73:3 (2003), pp. 170-188.

Vanuatu Stael: Kastom and Creativity, Cambridge: University of Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (2003).

"What's in a Price? An Ethnography of Tribal Art at Auction," Journal of Material Culture, 6:1 (March 2001), pp. 25-49.

Reprinted in N.Thrift and A. Amin (Eds.), The Blackwell Cultural Economy Reader, Oxford: Blackwell Press (2003).

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