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Department of Anthropology
School of Social Science
University of Aberdeen
Aberdeen
AB24 3QY
United Kingdom

Tel: +44 (0)1224 274354
james.leach(AT)abdn.ac.uk

I am Professor of Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland. My research focuses on creativity, knowledge production, and ownership; on art, science, and collaboration; on Papua New Guinea; and on the development of new technologies and their implications for social form (see Activities for a selection). Read more about me.

My published works reflect these interests with books and articles focused on kinship, creativity, place/landscape and art in Papua New Guinea, on creativity and the person, intellectual and cultural property, knowledge production and exchange, on gender and free software, and on the relation of technology and law to artistic and collaborative practice (see Books and Articles).

Having been awarded the Royal Anthropological Institute J.B. Donne Prize in the Anthropology of Art for 1999, I was subsequently a recipient of The Philip Leverhulme Prize (in my case for a co-creative approach to anthropological research) in 2004.

My writing and teaching draws upon, and extends, long term collaborative ethnographic field research with Nekgini-language speaking people who live in and around Reite village on the Rai Coast of Papua New Guinea. A co-authored publication with Porer Nombo is the most recent output drawing on these relationships – see Books for free download.

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