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CNRS Délégation Côte d'Azur: Marseille, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azu, FR

2014-01-01 to present | Directeur de rechereche (Centre for Research and Documentation in Oceania (CREDO UMR 7308))
Employment
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James Leach

The University of Western Australia: Crawley, WA, AU

2017-01-01 to 2023-12-06 | Hon Professor of Anthropology (School of Social Science)
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James Leach

University of Western Australia: Crawley, WA, AU

2013-08-01 to 2017-01-01 | ARC Future Fellow and Professor of Anthropology (Anthropology and Sociology)
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James Leach

University of Aberdeen: Aberdeen, Aberdeen, GB

2010-08-01 to 2013-07-01 | Professor of Anthropology (Anthropology)
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James Leach

University of Aberdeen: Aberdeen, Aberdeen, GB

2006-09-30 to 2010-07-31 | Senior Lecturer (Anthropology)
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James Leach

King's College Cambridge, University of Cambridge: Cambridge, GB

2003-10-01 to 2007-09-30 | Junior Research Fellow
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James Leach

University of Cambridge: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, GB

2000-10-01 to 2003-09-30 | ESRC Research Associate?Newton Trust Lecturer (Social Anthropology)
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James Leach

University of Cambridge: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, GB

1998-10-01 to 2000-09-30 | Leverhulme Trust Special Research Fellowship/Newton Trust Fellow (Social Anthropology)
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James Leach

University of Manchester: Manchester, Greater Manchester, GB

1998-01 to 1999-01 | Temporary Lecturer (Social Anthropology)
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James Leach

Education and qualifications (3)

University of Cambridge: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, GB

2003 to 2004 | MA (Hon) (Kings College)
Education
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James Leach

University of Manchester: Manchester, Greater Manchester, GB

1992-09 to 1997-09 | PhD (Social Anthropology)
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James Leach

University of Manchester: Manchester, Greater Manchester, GB

1989-09 to 1992-06 | B.Soc.Sci (Social Anthropology)
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James Leach

Professional activities (3)

British Museum: London, London, GB

2019 to 2019 | William Fagg Memorial Lecturer (Africa, Oceania and Americas)
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Leverhulme Trust: London, London, GB

2004 | Philip Leverhulme Prize
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James Leach

Royal Anthropological Institute: London, London, GB

1999 | J.B.Donne Prize in the Anthropology of Art
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James Leach

Works (50 of 83)

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AN AESTHETIC OF KNOWLEDGE: RELATIONS AND THE DOCUMENTATION OF TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE IN PAPUA NEW GUINEA

Ownership of Knowledge: Beyond Intellectual Property
2023-07-18 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 9780262374644
Source: Self-asserted source
James Leach

Making something together: A conversation about creating and sharing dance knowledge

International Journal of Cultural Property
2022-05 | Journal article
Contributors: Siobhan Davies; James Leach
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Ownership and transmission in contemporary dance and beyond: A short introduction to the special issue

International Journal of Cultural Property
2022-05 | Journal article
Contributors: James Leach
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Principles of ownership and the transmission of knowledge in contemporary dance and Irish traditional music: Social norms and legal contexts

International Journal of Cultural Property
2022-05 | Journal article
Contributors: James Leach
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Drawing on Human and Plant Correspondences on the Rai Coast of Papua New Guinea

Anthropological Forum
2021-10-02 | Journal article
Contributors: Porer Nombo; James Leach; Urufaf Anip
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Reading and Remembering the Anthropologist James F. Weiner

Oceania
2021-03 | Journal article
Contributors: Aletta Biersack; Laurence Goldman; Katie Glaskin; Michael Young; Marilyn Strathern; Tim Ingold; James Leach; Tony Crook; Alan Rumsey; Francesca Merlan et al.
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James Leach via HAL

The Poetry and Music of Science by Tom McLeish. Extended Review Article

Interdisciplinary Science Reviews
2020 | Journal article
Contributors: James Leach
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James Leach via HAL

The mystery of the dying language

Journal of Ethnographic Theory - HAU
2020-09-01 | Journal article
Contributors: James Leach
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James Leach via HAL

The Value of Music in Melanesia: Creation, Circulation, and Transmission Under Changing Economic and Intellectual Property Conditions

2020-03-05 | Book chapter
Contributors: James Leach; Monika Stern
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James Leach via HAL

Relational creativity and improvisation in contemporary dance

Interdisciplinary Science Reviews
2020-01-17 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0308-0188
Part of ISSN: 1743-2790
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James Leach
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Conference Keynote: Documents Against Knowledge

2020-01-09 | Conference paper
Contributors: James Leach
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James Leach via HAL

Creativity in an Occidental mode

Interdisciplinary Science Reviews
2020-01-02 | Journal article
Contributors: James Leach
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Documents Against Knowledge. Immanence and Transcendence and Approaching Materials.

Law Text Culture
2019 | Journal article
Contributors: James Leach
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James Leach via HAL

Relationships in the Making. Negotiating Knowledge Through Documentation

2019-09 | Conference paper
Contributors: James Leach
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James Leach via HAL

Kinship and Place: The Existential and Moral Process of Landscape Formation on the Rai Coast of Papua New Guinea

The Cambridge Handbook of Kinship
2019-04-30 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 9781139644938
Part of ISBN: 9781107041189
Part of ISBN: 9781107697744
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James Leach

Process Documentation with the Australian Dance Theatre

2018-10-01 | Book chapter
Contributors: James Leach; Scott Delahunta; J.B. Vincent; Elizabeith Old; Garry Stuart; Catherine J. Stevens
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James Leach via HAL

Damon, Frederick H.: Trees, Knots, and Outriggers. Environmental Knowledge in the Northeast Kula Ring

Human Ecology
2018-06 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0300-7839
Part of ISSN: 1572-9915
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James Leach

Damon, Frederick H.: Trees, Knots, and Outriggers. Environmental Knowledge in the Northeast Kula Ring

Human Ecology
2018-06 | Book review
Contributors: James Leach
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James Leach via HAL

Foreword from the Editors

Anthropological Forum
2017 | Journal article
EID:

2-s2.0-85014592238

Contributors: Bonnemère, P.; Leach, J.; Telban, B.
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James Leach via Scopus - Elsevier

Dance Becoming Knowledge: Designing a Digital “Body”

Leonardo
2017-10 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0024-094X
Part of ISSN: 1530-9282
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James Leach
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Matter(s) of relations

2017-04 | Book
Contributors: Pascale Bonnemère; James Leach; Borut Telban
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James Leach via HAL

Making Knowledge From Movement

2016 | Book chapter
Contributors: James Leach
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James Leach via HAL

Making knowledge from movement: Some notes on the contextual impetus to transmit knowledge from dance

Transmission in Motion: The Technologizing of Dance
2016 | Book chapter
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2-s2.0-85020792968

Contributors: Leach, J.
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James Leach via Scopus - Elsevier

‘Retracing Steps’: An interview with choreographer and artist Tanya Voges

Memory Studies
2016 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84989214556

Contributors: Voges, T.; Leach, J.; Stevens, C.J.
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James Leach via Scopus - Elsevier

Foreword - Ownership and Nurture

2016-05 | Book chapter
Contributors: James Leach
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James Leach via HAL

Bodystorming: effects of collaboration and familiarity on improvising contemporary dance

Cognitive Processing
2015 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84940724274

Contributors: Stevens, C.J.; Leach, J.
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James Leach via Scopus - Elsevier

Distributed cognition and creativity: Effects of collaboration and familiarity on improvising contemporary dance

2015 | Conference paper
Contributors: Catherine Stevens; James Leach
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James Leach via HAL

Imagination/Making: Working with Others and the Formation of Anthropological Knowledge

2015 | Book chapter
Contributors: James Leach
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James Leach via HAL

The death of a drum: objects, persons, and changing social form on the Rai Coast of Papua New Guinea

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
2015-09 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1359-0987
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James Leach
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Anthropology through Levinas

Current Anthropology
2015-04 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0011-3204
Part of ISSN: 1537-5382
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James Leach

The things we value: culture and history in the Solomon Islands, edited by Ben Burt and Lissant Bolton

Anthropological Forum
2015-04-03 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0066-4677
Part of ISSN: 1469-2902
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James Leach

Anthropology, cross cultural encounter, and the politics of design

2014 | Book chapter
Contributors: Leach, James; Wilson, Lee
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James Leach via BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine

Anthropology, Cross-Cultural Encounter, and the Politics of Design

2014 | Book chapter
Contributors: James Leach; Lee Wilson
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James Leach via HAL

Choreographic Objects: Contemporary dance, digital creations and prototyping social visibility

Journal of Cultural Economy
2014 | Journal article
EID:

2-s2.0-84917686697

Contributors: Leach, J.
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James Leach via Scopus - Elsevier

Subversion, Conversion, Development: Cross-Cultural Knowledge Exchange and the Politics of Design

2014 | Book
Contributors: James Leach; Lee Wilson
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James Leach via HAL

Subversion, conversion, development: imaginaries, knowledge forms, and the uses of ICTs

2014 | Book chapter
Contributors: Leach, James; Wilson, Lee
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James Leach via BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine

Subversion, Conversion, Development: Imaginaries, Knowledge Forms, and the Uses of ICTs

2014 | Book chapter
Contributors: James Leach; Lee Wilson
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James Leach via HAL

«The time of money»: property and sovereignty as alternative narratives of land and value near the Ramu NiCo mining project (Madang, PNG)

Journal de la Société des Océanistes
2014 | Journal article
Contributors: James Leach
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James Leach via HAL

«The time of money»: Property and sovereignty as alternative narratives of land and value near the Ramu NiCo mining project (Madang, PNG)

Journal de la Societe des Oceanistes
2014 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84923875616

Contributors: Leach, J.
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James Leach via Scopus - Elsevier

La mort du tambour

Techniques et culture
2013 | Journal article
Contributors: James Leach
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James Leach via HAL

Step inside: knowledge freely available

The Politics of Knowledge
2013 | Journal article
Contributors: James Leach
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James Leach via HAL

‘Step inside: Knowledge freely available’: The politics of (making) knowledge-objects

The Politics of Knowledge
2013 | Book chapter
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2-s2.0-84921412840

Contributors: Leach, J.
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James Leach via Scopus - Elsevier

Choreographic Objects

Journal of Cultural Economy
2013-11-22 | Journal article
Contributors: James Leach
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James Leach via HAL

‘We will make a man out of you’. Taro styles and Initiation Brands on the Rai Coast of Papua New Guinea’.

U.C. Davis Journal of International Law & Policy
2013-07-31 | Journal article
Contributors: James Leach
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James Leach via HAL

Waterfall, Movement, Life

2013-07-01 | Book chapter
Contributors: James Leach
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James Leach via HAL

Constituting aesthetics and utility: Copyright, patent and the purification of knowledge objects in an art and science collaboration

Journal of Ethnographic Theory - HAU
2012 | Journal article
Contributors: James Leach
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James Leach via HAL

Constituting aesthetics and utility: Copyright, patent, and the purification of knowledge objects in an art and science collaboration

HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
2012 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84903793717

Contributors: Leach, J.
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James Leach via Scopus - Elsevier

Creativity as a social relation

Remediating the Social, Electronic Literature as a Model for Creativity and Innovation in Practice, Bergen
2012 | Journal article
Contributors: James Leach
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James Leach via HAL

Leaving the Magic Out: Knowledge and Effect in Different Places

Anthropological Forum
2012 | Journal article
EID:

2-s2.0-84870924639

Contributors: Leach, J.
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James Leach via Scopus - Elsevier

Opposing the motion: James Leach

Critique of Anthropology
2012 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84858630818

Contributors: Leach, J.
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James Leach via Scopus - Elsevier
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