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Dr Barbara Andersen PhD

Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology

Doctoral Supervisor
School of People, Environment and Planning

Professional

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy - New York University (2014)

Certifications and Registrations

  • Licence, Supervisor, 淘料视频

Research Expertise

Research Interests

Medical anthropology, health education, cultures of development, Pacific peoples, Papua New Guinea (Highlands region)

Thematics

Health and Well-being

Area of Expertise

Field of research codes
Anthropology (160100): Anthropology of Development (160101): Other Studies in Human Society (169900): Social and Cultural Anthropology (160104): Studies In Human Society (160000): Studies of Pacific Peoples' Societies (169905)

Research Projects

Current Projects

Project Title: Housing and Everyday Security in Papua New Guinea

Date Range: 2020 - 2025

Funding Body: Royal Society of New Zealand

Project Team:

Research Outputs

Journal

Andersen, B. (2023). Review of THE NEW PORT MORESBY: Gender, Space, and Belonging in Urban Papua New Guinea. Pacific Affairs: an international review of Asia and the Pacific. 96(1)Retreived from https://pacificaffairs.ubc.ca/
[Book Review]Authored by: Andersen, B.
Andersen, BA. (2023). Compassion or Corruption? Temporalities of Care and Nationhood in Papua New Guinean Nursing Education. Medical Anthropology Quarterly. 37(1), 42-58
[Journal article]Authored by: Andersen, B.
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Andersen, B. (2022). Review of Placental Politics: CHamoru Women, White Womanhood, and Indigeneity under U.S. Colonialism in Guam. The Journal of Pacific History. 58(3)
[Book Review]Authored by: Andersen, B.
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Palatchie, B., Beban, A., & Andersen, B. (2022). The myth of medical multiculturalism: how social closure marginalises traditional Chinese medicine in New Zealand. Health Sociology Review. 31(3), 262-277
[Journal article]Authored by: Andersen, B., Beban, A.
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Andersen, B. (2018). Cultural Competency and Rural Disorder in PNG Health Promotion. Anthropological Forum. 28(4), 359-376
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Andersen, B. (2018). Review of Becoming landowners: entanglements of custom and modernity in Papua New Guinea and Timor-Leste. Journal of Intercultural Studies. 39(5), 606-607Retreived from https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07256868.2018.1508009
[Book Review]Authored by: Andersen, B.
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Venkateswar, S., & Andersen, B. (2018). Ethnographic Frontiers: Pushing the Boundaries of Ethnography. Sites: A Journal of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies. 15(1), v-vi Retrieved from https://sites.otago.ac.nz/Sites/article/view/411
[Journal article]Authored by: Andersen, B., Venkateswar, S.Edited by: Andersen, B., Venkateswar, S.
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Andersen, B. (2018). GENDER VIOLENCE & HUMAN RIGHTS: Seeking Justice in Fiji, Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu | TRANSFORMATIONS OF GENDER IN MELANESIA. PACIFIC AFFAIRS. 91(1), 204-208Retreived from https://pacificaffairs.ubc.ca/book-reviews/gender-violence-human-rights-seeking-justice-in-fiji-papua-new-guinea-and-vanuatu-edited-by-aletta-biersack-margaret-jolly-martha-macintyre/
[Book Review]Authored by: Andersen, B.
Andersen, B. (2018). GENDER VIOLENCE & HUMAN RIGHTS: Seeking Justice in Fiji, Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu. PACIFIC AFFAIRS. 91(1), 204-208Retreived from https://pacificaffairs.ubc.ca/book-reviews/gender-violence-human-rights-seeking-justice-in-fiji-papua-new-guinea-and-vanuatu-edited-by-aletta-biersack-margaret-jolly-martha-macintyre/
[Book Review]Authored by: Andersen, B.
Andersen, B. (2018). GENDER VIOLENCE & HUMAN RIGHTS: Seeking Justice in Fiji, Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu | TRANSFORMATIONS OF GENDER IN MELANESIA. Pacific Affairs: an international review of Asia and the Pacific. 91(1), 204-208Retreived from https://pacificaffairs.ubc.ca/book-reviews/gender-violence-human-rights-seeking-justice-in-fiji-papua-new-guinea-and-vanuatu-edited-by-aletta-biersack-margaret-jolly-martha-macintyre/
[Book Review]Authored by: Andersen, B.
Andersen, B. (2017). Careful Words: Nursing, Language, and Emotion in Papua New Guinea. Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness. 36(8), 758-771
[Journal article]Authored by: Andersen, B.
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Andersen, BA. (2017). Intimate economies of development: Mobility, sexuality and health in Asia. Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology. 18(2), 191-192
[Book Review]Authored by: Andersen, B.
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Andersen, BA. (2016). Wives and wanderers in a New Guinea highlands society: Women's lives in the Waghi Valley by Marie Olive Reay. Francesca Merlan, ed. American Anthropologist. 118(4), 952-953
[Book Review]Authored by: Andersen, B.
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Andersen, B. (2016). Temporal circuits and social triage in a Papua New Guinean Clinic. Critique of Anthropology. 36(1), 13-26
[Journal article]Authored by: Andersen, B.
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Kowal, E., Meyers, T., Raikhel, E., Redfield, P., Abramowitz, S., Andersen, B., . . . Grant, J. (2015). The Open Question: Medical Anthropology and Open Access. Medicine Anthropology Theory. 2(1), 75-94
[Journal article]Authored by: Andersen, B.Contributed to by: Andersen, B.
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Andersen, B. (2015). Style and self-making: String bag production in the Papua New Guinea Highlands. Anthropology Today. 31(5), 16-20
[Journal article]Authored by: Andersen, B.
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Andersen, BA. (2015). Book review: Alice Street, biomedicine in an unstable place: Infrastructure and personhood in a Papua New Guinean hospital. Anthropological Quarterly. 88(2), 581-586
[Book Review]Authored by: Andersen, B.
Andersen, BA. (2014). Review of the book Interpreting Corruption: Culture and Politics in the Pacific Islands by Peter Larmour. Pacific Affairs: an international review of Asia and the Pacific. 87(2), 404-406
[Book Review]Authored by: Andersen, B.
Andersen, BA. (2014). Working together in Vanuatu: Research Histories, Collaborations, Projects, and Reflections by ed. John Taylor and Nick Thieberger (review). Collaborative Anthropologies. 7(1), 84-87
[Book Review]Authored by: Andersen, B.
Andersen, B. (2013). Tricks, Lies, and Mobile Phones: 'Phone Friend' Stories in Papua New Guinea. Culture, Theory and Critique. 54(3), 318-334
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Andersen, BA. (2012). Book review: Out of place: Madness in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea by Michael Goddard. The Contemporary Pacific. 12(2), 460-462
[Book Review]Authored by: Andersen, B.

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Book

Andersen, B. (2024). Papua New Guinea, Nursing College, Lectures and Pedagogy, 2012. In D. Elliott, & MJ. Wolf-Meyer (Eds.) Naked Fieldnotes A Rough Guide to Ethnographic Writing. (pp. 21 - 28). Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press
[Chapter]Authored by: Andersen, B.
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Andersen, BA. (2021). Gender and Medical Professions. In H. Callan, & S. Coleman (Eds.) International Encyclopedia of Anthropology. New Jersey, USA: John Wiley and Sons, Limited.
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Andersen, BA. (2017). Learning to believe in Papua New Guinea. In K. Rio, M. MacCarthy, & R. Blanes (Eds.) Pentecostalism and Witchcraft: Spiritual Warfare in Africa and Melanesia. (pp. 235 - 255). : Palgrave Macmillan
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Thesis

Andersen, BA. (2014). Our people are still out there: Nursing education and dilemmas of development in Papua New Guinea. (Doctoral Thesis) Andersen, BA. (2014). Our people are still out there: Nursing education and dilemmas of development in Papua New Guinea. (Doctoral Thesis)
[Doctoral Thesis]Authored by: Andersen, B.

Conference

Andersen, B.Informal session on Teaching and Learning Health Care in the Pacific. . Kona, Hawai`i
[Conference Other]Authored by: Andersen, B.
Andersen, B. (2023, February). Health Workers’ Housing and Moral Geographies of Citizenship in Papua New Guinea. Presented at Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania. Kona, Hawai`i.
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Andersen, B.
Andersen, B.Afterlives of Employee Housing in Papua New Guinea. . Portland, OR and online
[Conference Paper]Authored by: Andersen, B.
Andersen, B.Trust, Care, and Wanbel in Papua New Guinean Rural Nursing. . Portland, OR and online
[Conference Paper]Authored by: Andersen, B.
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Andersen, B.No-man's-land to Promised Land: Landownership and Political Emplacement in Kundiawa, PNG. . Online
[Conference Paper]Authored by: Andersen, B.

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Andersen, B.Talanoa on "Trust and Care in Pacific Health Systems". . Virtual
[Conference Other]Authored by: Andersen, B.Contributed to by: Andersen, B.
Andersen, B."Housing Pasts and Housing Futures: Patronage and the Afterlife of Employee Housing in Papua New Guinea". . Virtual
[Conference Paper]Authored by: Andersen, B.
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Andersen, B.Laying the Graun Work: Becoming Landlords in Kundiawa's "Promised Land". . Auckland
[Conference Paper]Authored by: Andersen, B.
Andersen, B.Compassion or Corruption? The Emotional Education of Papua New Guinean Health Workers. . Vancouver
[Conference Paper]Authored by: Andersen, B.
Andersen, B.The Moral Labor of Health Promotion in Rural Papua New Guinea. . Auckland
[Conference Paper]Authored by: Andersen, B.
Andersen, B.Fencing, Cleaning, Straightening and Adorning: Spatializing Practices and Community Health in Papua New Guinea. . Wellington
[Conference Paper]Authored by: Andersen, B.
Andersen, BA.Home in the 'siggy state': Housing and security in Papua New Guinea. . Munich, Germany
[Conference Paper]Authored by: Andersen, B.
Andersen, BA.In the place of other people: Labour & mobility in the PNG health sector. . Cairns, Australia
[Conference Paper]Authored by: Andersen, B.
Andersen, BA.(2016). Friendship and the securitization of everyday life in Papua New Guinea. Paper presented at the meeting of Newsletter of the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania. San Diego, CA
[Conference Paper]Authored by: Andersen, B.
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Andersen, BA.On 'Showing Respect': Order and Disorder in the Papua New Guinea Health Sector. . San Diego, CA
[Conference Paper]Authored by: Andersen, B.
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Andersen, BA.Relational infrastructures in Papua New Guinean nursing education. . Denver, Colorado
[Conference Paper]Authored by: Andersen, B.Contributed to by: Andersen, B.
Andersen, BA.(2015). The relatives are always watching: Surveillance and subjectivity in a Papua New Guinea nursing school. . Brussels, Belgium
[Conference Paper]Authored by: Andersen, B.
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Andersen, BA.Learning to believe: Education and the reproduction of witchcraft beliefs among Pentecostal youth in Papua New Guinea. . Washington DC
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Other

Schram, R. (2023). Comment on "Sanguma Em i Stap (Sanguma is Real): Sorcery Stories and the Ethnographic Citizenship of Tok Pisin Print Journalism. The University of Chicago Press
[Other]Contributed to by: Andersen, B.
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Andersen, B., & Korson, C. (2019, March). Developing a Community of Practice: Taking Stock of Teaching Strategies.
[Oral Presentation]Authored by: Andersen, B.
Andersen, BA. (2014). Thinking with Kuru.
[Other]Authored by: Andersen, B.
Andersen, BA. (2012). Fieldnote: “Reflections from Papua New Guinea: Making ‘friends’ and the desire for ‘white men’”. : Anthropology Now
[Internet publication]Authored by: Andersen, B.

Consultancy and Languages

Languages

  • Tok Pisin
    Last used: today
    Spoken ability: Excellent
    Written ability: Excellent
  • French
    Last used: last year
    Spoken ability: Average
    Written ability: Average

Teaching and Supervision

Contact Supervisor

Summary of Doctoral Supervision

Position Current Completed
Main Supervisor 1 0
Co-supervisor 0 1

Current Doctoral Supervision

Main Supervisor of:

  • Jingyi Pan - Doctor of Philosophy
    Being Rainbow/tongzhi in post颅socialist China: An anthropological study in Jilin province

Completed Doctoral Supervision

Co-supervisor of:

  • 2017 - Hanny Hartono - Doctor of Philosophy
    Media Consumption in Contemporary Urban Indonesia and Everyday Life: Muslim Women, Parenting and Media

Media and Links

Media

  • 22 Mar 2017 - Online, Newspaper
    New York Times: "India's 'Phone Romeos'.."
    "Tricks, Lies, and Mobile Phones: 'Phone Friend' Stories in Papua New Guinea" linked in online version of New York Times Article, March 22, 2017.
  • 16 Apr 2016 - Online
    Interview with Dr Barbara Andersen
    Association of Social Anthropologists of Aotearoa New Zealand blog interview