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
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
13th Conference of the European Society for Oceanists: https://www.pacific-studies.net/conferences/public.php?confID=4
Recent writings
Porer Nombo, James Leach & Urufaf Anip (2021) Drawing on Human and Plant Correspondences on the Rai Coast of Papua New Guinea, Anthropological Forum, DOI: 10.1080/00664677.2021.1990012 Available at: https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/CDT73DM2SCJ34ZCKSW3G/full?target=10.1080/00664677.2021.1990012
James Leach (2020) Creativity in an Occidental mode, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, 45:1, 41-45, DOI: 10.1080/03080188.2020.1724378 Available at: https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/HZRFYWFGHRCZHWSZXUHF/full?target=10.1080/03080188.2020.1724378
James Leach & Catherine J. Stevens (2020) Relational creativity and improvisation in contemporary dance, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, 45:1, 95-116, DOI: 10.1080/03080188.2020.1712541 Available at: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03080188.2020.1712541
James Leach (2021) The mystery of the dying language. Comment on Kulick, Don. 2019. A death in the rainforest: How a language and a way of life came to an end in Papua New Guinea. Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill. Hau 20(2): 660-663. Available at: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/709967
Biersack, A. L. Goldman et al. (2020) Reading and Remembering the Anthropologist James F. Weiner , Oceania, Vol. 91, Issue (2021): 2?25.
James Leach and Monika Stern (2020) 'The Value of Music in Melanesia', in The Oxford Handbook of Economic Ethnomusicology , (eds. A. Morcom and T. T. Taylor. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press.
James Leach (2019) ?Kinship and Place: The Existential and Moral Process of Landscape Formation on the Rai Coast of Papua New Guinea? . In S. Bamford (Ed.), The Cambridge Handbook of Kinship (Cambridge Handbooks in Anthropology, pp. 211-230). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781139644938.009 .
James Leach (2019). Documents against ?Knowledge?; immanence and transcendence and approaching legal materials, Law Text Culture, 23, 2019, 16-39. Available at: https://ro.uow.edu.au/ltc/vol23/iss1/3
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.
