Bonshek, Dr. Elizabeth
Assistant Professor, Museum Studies
Faculty of Arts & Design
Bldg, Floor & Room: 7, C4
Telephone: (02) 6201 2031
Facsimile: (02) 6201 5419
Elizabeth.Bonshek@canberra.edu.au
Biography
Elizabeth is an anthropologist and has worked in museums for over twenty years, both as a collection manager and as a researcher.
Areas of Teaching
- Museum Studies in the Bachelor of Heritage, Museums and Conservation
Research Interests
- Her primary research interest focuses on the material culture and cultural heritage of Melanesia, and she has carried out fieldwork in Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands. Elizabeth is interested in all aspects of material culture studies, museums as ethnographic sites and “contact zones ”, and issues relating to museum objects and indigenous people in Melanesia.
Qualifications Obtained
- PhD, Australian National University
Recent Publications
- In press “Melanesia: Art and Encounter” co-editors Lissant Bolton, Nicholas Thomas and Julie Adams, British Museum Press: London
- 2011 “Collecting Relations: contemporary collecting in Papua New Guinea”, Journal of Museum Ethnography, 23
- 2009 “A personal narrative of particular things: feather money from Santa Cruz”, in The Australian Journal of Anthropology (20): 74- 92.
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