Dr Graeme Macrae PhD

Contact details

• Ph: +64 9 414 0800 x43474
  Location: 2.27, Atrium
  Campus: Albany

Qualifications

• Doctor of Philosophy - University of Auckland (1998)

Research Interests

Broadly: the intersections of human society/culture with environment/ecologies by way of technological interventions, such as  ....

Specifically: architecture/urban design/landscape, agriculture, waste management, disaster recovery.

Regionally: mostly in Indonesia (especially Bali) but also in India.

Thematics

Resource Development and Management, Future Food Systems

Area of Expertise

Field of research codes
Agricultural And Veterinary Sciences (070000):
Anthropology (160100): Anthropology not elsewhere classified (160199): Anthropology of Development (160101):
Biological Sciences (060000):
Comparative Economic Systems (149901): Ecological Economics (149902):
Ecology (060200): Ecology not elsewhere classified (060299):
Economics (140000):
Engineering (090000):
Other Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences (079900):
Other Economics (149900):
Social and Cultural Anthropology (160104): Studies In Human Society (160000):
Technology (100000)

Keywords

Disciplinary background: Anthropology

Regional focus: 1. Indonesia (especially Bali) and 2. India (especially Tamil Nadu and north India).

Research Focus:Environment and Development, especially the technological systems by which human societies intervene into natural systems - e.g agriculture, waste management, disaster recovery, architecture/engineering.

Languages

• Spanish (S American)
  Last used: minimal
  Spoken ability: Needs work
  Written ability: Needs work
• Dutch
  Last used: reading only
  Spoken ability: Needs work
  Written ability: Needs work
• German
  Last used: occasionally
  Spoken ability: Needs work
  Written ability: Needs work
• Balinese
  Last used: annually
  Spoken ability: Needs work
  Written ability: Needs work
• Indonesia
  Last used: regularly
  Spoken ability: Excellent
  Written ability: Excellent

Teaching Statement

100 level: Endangered Cultures

200 level: Visual Ethnography

300 level: Regional Ethnography: SE Asia & Environment

Postgraduate:

Contemporary Anthropology: Theory and Practice

Supervision: BA hons, MA, PhD

Current Doctoral Supervision

Co-supervisor of:

• Kris Finlayson - Doctor of Philosophy
  Performing Identities: An Ethnographic Analysis of Afrikaner Identity in NZ

Completed Doctoral Supervision

Main Supervisor of:

• 2019 - Siaosi Ilaiu - Doctor of Philosophy
  Paradigm Shifts in Ancient Kingship Traditions in Tonga. A Historical and Anthropological examination of political practices and changes throughout the bi-partite and try-partite systems of government 1350-1875 AD: The Case of Hau.
• 2017 - Hanny Hartono - Doctor of Philosophy
  Media Consumption in Contemporary Urban Indonesia and Everyday Life: Muslim Women, Parenting and Media
• 2016 - Ruth Gibbons - Doctor of Philosophy
  "It's All of These Puzzle Pieces.": The Representation and the Manifest Discourse of Dyslexic Experience
• 2013 - Rachael Burke - Doctor of Philosophy
  Bodies in Context: A Comparative Study of Early Childhood Education in New Zealand and Japan

Co-supervisor of:

• 2017 - Ariadne Menzel - Doctor of Philosophy
  Making Meaning through Movement: Hiking the Cathar Trail in the South of France
• 2016 - Thi Mai Duyen Dang - Doctor of Philosophy
  Eating alone is painful: An interdiciplinary and ethnographically inspired sociolinguistic investigation into Vietnamese mealtime ritual invitations
• 2013 - Christopher Howard - Doctor of Philosophy
  Himalayan journeys: A mobile ethnography and philosophical anthropology
• 2012 - Irene Sanson - Doctor of Philosophy
  Taking the spirits seriously: Neo-shamanism and contemporary shamanic healing in New Zealand
• 2009 - Syahira Hamidon - Doctor of Philosophy
  The development of Malay Enterpreneurship in Malaysia
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• 2009 - Michael McCool - Doctor of Philosophy
  An Ethnographic Study of the experience of persons with a disability in tertiary education.
• 2007 - Gregg Lahood - Doctor of Philosophy
  Bearing in Mind: Birth, Fathers, Ritual, and 'Reproductive Consciousness' in Transpersonal Anthropological Perspective

Media

• 23 May 2014 - Newspaper
  Pastika, scholars look to future of tourism
  Article in Bali Daily referring to a public symposium to which I contributed.
• 11 May 2013 - Radio
  Basmati Rice
  Radio interview (25 mins), on 'This Way Up'. Radio NZ National.

Other Links

• Anthropology, Indonesia, Bali