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Research output per year
Personal profile
Research overview
Fieldwork, Sawaieke, Gau, Fiji 1981-83, 1990, 1993, 2005, 2007. My area interests focus on Fiji and the Pacific, and Melanesia.
Research interests
My theoretical interests include: exchange processes; spatio-temporality as a dimension of human being; sociality, kinship and ideas of the person; the analysis of ritual; epistemology; ontogeny as an historical process. My work is informed by the idea that the primary duty of the anthropologist as analyst is to produce richly detailed ethnography that is able to throw light on the human condition, even while it deals with the historical specificity that is evinced in any given case.
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Human ontogenies as historical processes: an anthropological perspective
Toren, C., 5 Jul 2018, Why we disagree about human nature. Hannon, E. & Lewens, T. (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 170-185Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
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The evanescence of experience and how to capture it
Toren, C., Jun 2017, Human Nature and Social Life: Perspectives on Extended Sociality. Remme, J. H. Z. & Sillander, K. (eds.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 26-40 15 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
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What is it to be human? A unified model suggests history will have the last word.
Toren, C., 2016, (Accepted/In press) In Shalini Randeria. Ed.. BrillResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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How ritual articulates kinship. In C.Toren and S.Pauwels, Living Kinship in the Pacific, Berghahn
Toren, C., 2015, Living Kinship in the Pacific. BerghahnResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Living kinship in the Pacific
Toren, C. (Editor) & Pauwels, S. (Editor), 1 Apr 2015, New York: Berghahn. 274 p. (Pacific perspectives: studies of the European Society for Oceanists; vol. 4)Research output: Book/Report › Book
Activities
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New Trends in Evolutionary Biology
Toren, C. (Invited speaker)
7 Nov 2016 → 9 Nov 2016Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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History as lived reality and the future of anthropology
Toren, C. (Organiser)
21 Jul 2016Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in or organising a workshop, seminar, course
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Magic and mana in Fiji
Toren, C. (Speaker)
12 Mar 2016Activity: Talk or presentation types › Public lecture/debate/seminar
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Panel debate for philosophy forum 'Thinking in Public'
Toren, C. (Panel participant)
29 Feb 2016Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in or organising a public lecture/debate/seminar
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Everyday Ritual in Fiji
Toren, C. (Speaker)
17 Feb 2016Activity: Talk or presentation types › Public lecture/debate/seminar
Prizes
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Firth Award. Given by the Social Anthropology Department, London School of Economics, for the best paper by a graduate student presented to the Departmental Seminar in Anthropology, 1980-81.
Toren, C. (Recipient), 1981
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Malinowski Memorial Lecture, London School of Economics.
Toren, C. (Recipient), 1996
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Marett Lecture, Exeter College, Oxford
Toren, C. (Recipient), 2006
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Robert Mackenzie Prize. Awarded by London School of Economics for the best Ph.D Dissertation across all Departments.
Toren, C. (Recipient), 1987
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Press/Media
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An anthropology beyond culture and society: Interview with Christina Toren. Revista Habitus vol. 11(1) 178-189. 2013
1/03/13
1 item of Media coverage
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