Where: 353 Haines Hall

When: Thursday, March 12th, 2026 from 1 pm-2:30 pm

Lunch provided. 

This lecture examines how long-term Indigenous collaboration in Papua New Guinea unsettles conventional anthropological approaches to ethics, method, and authorship. Grounded in kinship, reciprocity, and relational accountability, the work challenges extractive research models, short-term field engagements, and institutionalized ethics frameworks that separate knowledge production from moral obligation and social life. By treating kinship not as metaphor but as a methodological and ethical infrastructure, the lecture proposes alternative forms of collaboration, co-authorship, consent, and responsibility. These practices extend anthropology’s commitments to decolonial scholarship by reconfiguring what counts as evidence, expertise, and accountability in engaged environmental research.