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Bergen Pacific Studies

The research group Bergen Pacific Studies is located in the Department of Social Kids in Solomon islandsAnthropology at the University of Bergen, Norway, and is the outcome of several years’ concerted effort towards strengthening this regional research focus through increasing the number of participating scholars, expanding the participation in international projects, and consolidating a range of connected research topics.

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News & Events

March 2009:
Pacific Alternatives: Cultural Heritage and Political Innovation in Oceania. Hawai'i Imin International Conference Center. Read announcement here.
Conference web page

November 2008:
'The Legacy of A.M. Hocart and W.H.R Rivers: In the Percy Sladen Trust Expedition Centennial Year.' Symposium, University of Bergen. Full programme here

September 2008:
‘New Christian movements in Old Christian contexts in Melanesia’
University of Bergen. Full programme here

July 2008:
Cultural heritage and political innovation: relations of the state and alternative social movements in Oceania'. Invited session at the 2008 Conference of the European Society for Oceanists, Verona. Full programme here

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Projects

The Research Group's main ongoing project is Pacific Alternatives, a major multi-disciplinary programme funded by the Research Council of Norway and involving partner insitutions in the Pacific, Australia, the U.S and the U.K. Project members participate in a number of other projects, some of which are listed below.
Other individual projects activities of group members are listed here

 

Other projects:

Western Solomons Research Database

Pacific Alternatives:
Cultural heritage and political innovation in Oceania

In the wake of colonialism

Challenging the state


Bergen Research Group in Pacific Studies. Department of Social Anthropology , University of Bergen Updated 13 February, 2009