Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0451620

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0451620

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Oceanic Encounters: colonial and contemporary transformations of gender and sexuality in the Pacific. This project innovatively combines an analysis of past and contemporary configurations of gender and sexuality across the Pacific, using historical and ethnographic methods to address interconnected questions about women, men and transgendered persons. It situates dynamic transformations of gender and sexuality in cross-cultural encounters wherein indigenous and exogenous patterns creatively combined. It focuses successively on four epochs and processes: the Cook voyages in the late eighteenth century; Christian conversion from the nineteenth century and the changing fabric of femininities; parallel transformations of masculinities with Christian conversion and male migrant labour and contemporary reconfigurations of gender liminality in relation to homosexuality.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 05-01-2004

End Date: 31-12-2009

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $1,004,318.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Historical Studies Not Elsewhere Classified | Culture, Gender, Sexuality | Cultural Studies | Social And Cultural Anthropology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Gender | Studies in human society |

Other Keywords

Cultural Studies | Culture, Gender, Sexuality | Gender | Historical Studies Not Elsewhere Classified | Social And Cultural Anthropology | Studies in human society

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