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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:
Editor, Material World: http://www.materialworldblog.com/
Selected Publications
Treasured Possessions, Cultured Resources: Indigenous Values in the Face of the Free Market. (In Progress)
"Database relations: rethinking the database in the Vanuatu Cultural Centre and National Museum," H. Geismar and W. Mohns. In C. Pinney and N. Mookherjee (eds) The aesthetics of nations: Anthropological and historical approaches. Special Issue of the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. (forthcoming, 2010).
"Pig Banks: Re-imagining the economy in Vanuatu," R. Regenvanu and H. Geismar. In Social Movements, Cultural Heritage and the State in Oceania, E. Hviding & K.M. Rio (eds.). Oxford: Sean Kingston Publishing. (forthcoming)
"Indigenous Acrylic: art and identity in Vanuatu." In New Voyagers: Contemporary Art in the Pacific. Edited by Karen Stevenson. Auckland: Pandanus Press (Forthcoming)
Moving images: John Layard, fieldwork and photography on Malakula since 1914. (with Anita Herle). Crawford House Australia/ Hawaii University Press. (2009).
"Stone Men of Malekula on Malakula: an ethnography of an ethnography." Ethnos 74(2):199-228 (2009)
"Materialising Oceania." (with Joshua Bell.) Introduction and Guest editors, The Australian Journal of Anthropology Special Edition 20: 3-27 (2009)
"The Photograph and the Malanggan." The Australian Journal of Anthropology Special edition (see above) 20: 48–73 (2009)
"Cultural Property, Museums and the Pacific – re-framing the debates" (introduction and guest editor to special section of the journal). The International Journal of Cultural Property, May 2008. 109 - 122 (2008)
"Alternative market values? Interventions into auctions in Aotearoa/New Zealand." The Contemporary Pacific. 20(2): 291-327 (2008) "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"Slit-Drums on Atchin: an unpublished manuscript by John Layard."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).
Courses:
History and Theory of Museums (G49.1500)
Topics in Museum Studies: Cultural Property, Rights and Museums (G49.3330)
Topics in Museum Studies: Anthropology in and of Museums (G49.3330)
Topics in Museum Studies: Making a Museum with the DSNY Materiality (G14.3392)
Anthropology of Art (V14.0321)
Economic Anthropology: Money, Markets, Morality (V14.0801.001)
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