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Nancy Lutkehaus

An expert on female rights of passage, primitive art of the South Pacific, and Polynesian culture

Associate professor of Anthropology
Co-director, Center for Visual Anthropology

Contact at: (213) 740-1917 or lutkehau@usc.edu


Expertise:
  • peoples and cultures of Melanesia, Polynesia and Micronesia
  • gender roles and male/female relationships in cross-cultural perspective
  • female rites of passage and other gender rituals
  • primitive art from the South Pacific
  • non-Western economics and politics
  • religion and ritual
  • the anthropological work of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson
  • the history of anthropology
  • visual anthropology/ethnographic film
  • cultural anthropology
  • colonial history and social change
Additional Information:
    Author of Zaria's Fire: Gender, Power and Change in Manam Society (1994) and Gender Rituals: Female Initiation in Papua New Guinea (1995)
    Co-editor of Gendered Missions: Women and Men in Missionary Discourse and Practice (1999)
    Former student of Margaret Mead

Foreign Languages:
French