Mark Busse
My research concerns social organisation, reciprocity and markets, intellectual and cultural property, and inequality with a geographical focus on Papua New Guinea.
I have carried out intensive, long-term ethnographic research among Boazi-speaking peoples in the Lake Murray-Middle Fly area of Western Province in Papua New Guinea since 1982. That research has focused on dual organisation, sister exchange marriage, gender and inequality, history, and regional integration. My most recent fieldwork in the Middle Fly was in 2009. As a result of that trip, I am currently writing about food shortages, cash crops, money, and socio-economic development.
Before moving to New Zealand in 1999, I worked for nine years at the Papua New Guinea National Museum, first as Curator of Anthropology and then as Assistant Director for Science and Research. As a result of my experiences there, I am interested in, and write about, intellectual and cultural property, and museums as political institutions.
In 2011 I received a three-year Marsden grant from the Royal Society of New Zealand for research on “Food Security in a Rapidly Urbanizing Country: The Goroka Fresh Food Market, Papua New Guinea”. The goal of this research is to understand the Goroka market as a set of complex social relationships from the perspectives of the diverse participants in the market rather than through the application of Western economic models. This will be achieved through long-term anthropological research in the marketplace and surrounding rural hinterland. The grant includes tuition, stipends, and field expenses for two PhD students.
Phone: +64 9 373 7599
Address: Department of Anthropology
University of Auckland
Private Bag 92018
Auckland
Aotearoa New Zealand
I have carried out intensive, long-term ethnographic research among Boazi-speaking peoples in the Lake Murray-Middle Fly area of Western Province in Papua New Guinea since 1982. That research has focused on dual organisation, sister exchange marriage, gender and inequality, history, and regional integration. My most recent fieldwork in the Middle Fly was in 2009. As a result of that trip, I am currently writing about food shortages, cash crops, money, and socio-economic development.
Before moving to New Zealand in 1999, I worked for nine years at the Papua New Guinea National Museum, first as Curator of Anthropology and then as Assistant Director for Science and Research. As a result of my experiences there, I am interested in, and write about, intellectual and cultural property, and museums as political institutions.
In 2011 I received a three-year Marsden grant from the Royal Society of New Zealand for research on “Food Security in a Rapidly Urbanizing Country: The Goroka Fresh Food Market, Papua New Guinea”. The goal of this research is to understand the Goroka market as a set of complex social relationships from the perspectives of the diverse participants in the market rather than through the application of Western economic models. This will be achieved through long-term anthropological research in the marketplace and surrounding rural hinterland. The grant includes tuition, stipends, and field expenses for two PhD students.
Phone: +64 9 373 7599
Address: Department of Anthropology
University of Auckland
Private Bag 92018
Auckland
Aotearoa New Zealand
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