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Research overview
My name is Mark Collins, I am an anthropologist working in Papua New Guinea on the social and cultural aspects of interactions with marine animals. I am broadly interested in relations between culture and environment, in marine anthropology, in human-animal relations and in the impacts of climate change and globalisation on all these aspects of social life.
My research is, more precisely, concerned with the social and cultural aspects of marine interspecies relations, that is relations between different species living in and around the sea, in particular people and fish. The main site of my fieldwork is on the island of Lavongai (or New Hanover), in Western Oceania, where I was in 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2025 for a total of 17 months. There, I studied fishing activities, in particular ritual practices aiming to influence the behaviour of fish, marine ethno-biology, ethno-ichtyology, and also ethno-ornithology.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
External positions
Associate researcher, Aix-Marseille Université
13 Dec 2024 → …
Keywords
- GE Environmental Sciences
- Human-animal relations
- Ethnoecology
- GN Anthropology
- Ethnography
- Marine anthropology
- GC Oceanography
- Fisheries
- Human-fish relations
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Riranga: Amphidromous Sicyopterus spp. Whitebait on Lavongai Island (Papua New Guinea)
Collins, M., Lord, C., Aini, J., Mennesson, M., Portoleau, I. & Béarez, P., 1 May 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Cybium, International Journal of Ichthyology. Early ViewResearch output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Enjeux de classification et d’épistémologie dans l’approche des savoirs locaux : le cas des relations interspécifiques marines à Lavongai (Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée)
Translated title of the contribution :Classification and epistemological issues when attending to local knowledge: the case of marine interspecies relations on Lavongai (Papua New Guinea) Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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Indigenous coastal management in Papua New Guinea: resilience and the revitalization of polepole stone fish traps on Lovongai island
West, P., Collins, M., Aini, J., Piskaut, M. L., Almais, M., Sauri, M., Tubail, B., Fode, B. & James, R. S., 3 Jul 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space. OnlineFirst, 23 p., 25148486251351206.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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« Pourquoi tous ces oiseaux ? » Premières pistes de recherche au retour d'une enquête ethnographique sur les relations interspécifiques marines à Lavongai (Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée)
Collins, M., 9 Dec 2022.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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« Les gros poissons se cachent ». Frictions entre conceptions du vivant marin sur l’île de Lavongai (Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée)
Translated title of the contribution :“The big fish hide”. Frictions between perceptions of marine life on Lavongai Island (Papua New Guinea) Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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