CREDO (UMR 7308)
Centre de Recherche et de Documentation sur l'Océanie
Université d'Aix-Marseille
3, Place Victor Hugo
CS 80249
13331 Marseille Cedex 03
Email: james.leach(AT)pacific-credo.fr
Adjunct Professor, Anthropology and Sociology,
University of Western Australia
Email: james.leach(AT)uwa.edu.au
I am a Social Anthropologist with research interests in creativity, intellectual property, knowledge production, digital technologies, and ecological relations to place. My primary fieldsite is in Papua New Guinea, and I have also undertaken fieldwork in the UK, Europe, and Australia with Contemporary dance companies, interdisciplinary collaborators, and software engineers.
Updates
TK Reite Notebooks Project
proboscis.org.uk/5717/tkrn-in-vanuatu-again/
TK Reite Notebooks Toolkit
proboscis.org.uk/projects/ongoing/tk-reite-notebooks/tk-reite-notebooks-toolkit/
IUCN World Conservation Congress
portals.iucn.org/congress/session/12241
Subversion, Conversion, Development. Cross Cultural Knowledge Encounter and the Politics of Design published by MIT Press 2014 mitpress.mit.edu/books/subversion-conversion-development
Recent writings
Dance Becoming Knowledge (with Scott deLahunta), Leonardo.
The death of a drum: objects, persons, and changing social form on the Rai Coast of Papua New Guinea, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute.
‘Foreword’: Ownership and Nurture Studies in Native Amazonian Property Relations, eds. Brightman, Faust, and Grotti. www.berghahnbooks.com/title/BrightmanOwnership
Leaving the Magic Out. Knowledge and effect in different places. Anthropological Forum.
