Anne-sylvie Malbrancke

Biography

2017 Associate Researcher - Field and Investigation Report Project in collaboration with Bruce Knauft (Samuel C. Dobbs Professor of Anthropology, Emory University, Atlanta, USA). Recipient of a research grant from the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation in New York ($ 28,508). Three-month land for the Gebusi (Western Province, New Guinea). Research topics: witchcraft, mechanisms to reduce lethal violence, marital violence. 2016 Associate Researcher - Field and Report of Inquiry Project in collaboration with Bruce Knauft (Samuel C. Dobbs Professor of Anthropology, Emory University, Atlanta, USA). Recipient of a research grant from the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation in New York ($ 39,985). Two-month land for the Gebusi (Western Province, New Guinea). Investigations focusing on the dynamics of violence reduction (homicides related to witchcraft and domestic violence). August-October 2015 Translator (Presses Universitaires de Nouvelle-Calédonie) • Translation of the work of Anna Paini, Il Filo and the Aquilone, Nuove Muse, 2007, from Italian to French. • Self-contractor status (translation and interpreting). October 2010 Research engineer at the CNRS As part of the ANR SimPa project (Simulations de Parenté), conducted by the TIP team (Paris). Computer processing of the corpus of Maurice Godelier (Baruya). 2010-2011 Volunteer Guide to the Pitt-Rivers, Oxford Museum of Anthropology Organization of guided tours for adults and children Participation in family events Work weekly at the Information Desk Point.

Research Interest

Melanesia, Papua New Guinea, populations Anga, kinship, social organization, researcher archives , social transformations, gender relations, personal development, political anthropology, Big Men, Big-men.