Contributions in Journals & Edited Volumes | Monographs & Special Issues | Paper, Talks & ConferencesPublications of Dr. Christiane Falck
Contributions in Journals & Edited Volumes
"Sharing Knowledge on Entangled Histories and Climate Change Consequences in Oceania Some Insights from Doing Public Anthropology at the Ethnographic Collection of Göttingen."In: Moritz Pöllath (ed.) Didaktische Perspektiven auf die Geschichte und Kultur des Pazifiks. Frankfurt a.M.: Wochenschau Verlag, 137–149.
"The Supreme Sukundimi Declaration – Sacred Water, Moral Ecologies and Ontological Politics in a Mining Encounter in Papua New Guinea", Anthropological Forum, DOI: 10.1080/00664677.2022.2162847
On the Nyaura Concept of the Person and Healing in a Context of Religious Change. In: Jürg Wassmann (ed.) Tracking the Ancestors. On their Journeys along the Sepik River in Papua New Guinea. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 337-360.
The Gender of God's Gifts - Dividual Personhood, Spirits and the Statue of Mother Mary in a Sepik Society, Papua New Guinea. Religions. Special Issue: Robert J. Wallis und Max Carocci (Hg.), Art, Shamanism and Animism 12(4): 270. DOI: 10.3390/rel12040270
Introduction: Positioning Culture within Pacific Christianities. The Australian Journal of Anthropology. Special Issue: Fraser Macdonald and Christiane Falck (eds.), Positioning Culture within Pacific Christianities 31(2): 123–138. [DOI].
'You have to call the right name' – Operation Joshua meets Cosmology and Catholicism at Lake Chambri in Papua New Guinea. The Australian Journal of Anthropology. Special Issue: Fraser Macdonald and Christiane Falck (eds.), Positioning Culture within Pacific Christianities 31(2): 170–186. [DOI]
Afterword. Cultural Change in the Sepik. In: Brigitta Hauser-Schäublin (ed.), Women in Kararau. Gendered Lives, Works, and Knowledge in a Middle Sepik Village, Papua New Guinea. Göttingen: Göttingen University Press, pp. 351–370. [DOI] [OPAC]
The Life of the Dead in a Sepik Community. On Being Haunted in a Haunted World. In: Roger I. Lohmann (ed.), Haunted Pacific. Anthropologists Investigate Spectral Apparitions across Oceania. Durham: Carolina Academic Press, New York: Berghahn Books, pp. 63–89.
The Thomas Souls Ministry – Onto-praxis, Dividualism, and Charismatic Catholicism at Lake Chambri, Papua New Guinea. Oceania 89(3): 301–315. [DOI]
The Temporality and Materiality of Life and Death in a Sepik Village. In: Sophie Hooge Seebach and Rane Willerslev (eds.), Mirrors of Passing: Unlocking the Mysteries of Death, Materiality, and Time. Berghahn: New York, Oxford, pp. 233–249.
The (Re-) Appropriation of Spirit Beings – Spirits of the Dead and Spirits of God in a Sepik Community. Oceania 88(1): 107–126.[DOI]
Livets Materialitet og Immaterialitet – Relationen mellem mennesker og ander i Sepik-regionen i en sociokulturel forandringskontekst. Religion 4: 8–16.
Monographs & Special Issues
Special Issue: Positioning Culture within Pacific Christianities. The Australian Journal of Anthropology 31(2). [DOI]
Calling The Dead – Spirits, Mobile Phones and the Talk of God in a Sepik Community (Papua New Guinea). PhD Thesis. Aarhus University und James Cook University: Aarhus und Cairns.
Papers, Talks & Panels
Mobility and movement(s) in the Christian landscape of the Sepik region, Papua New Guinea. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania, 1-4 February, Kona, Hawaii, USA.
Pacific Christianities in Motion. Working session co-convened with Fraser Macdonald (Waikato University) at the annual meeting of the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania, 1-4 February, Kona, Hawaii, USA.
’Diverging and Merging Regimes of Historicity at the Sepik River in Papua New Guinea’, Paper presented at the 'Pasts in the Making' workshop at AIAS, 10.11.2022-11.11.2022, Aarhus, Denmark.
’The Materiality and Immateriality of Religious Movements in the Pacific’, Panel convened at the European Society for Oceanists (ESfO) 2022 conference. 02.06-05.06.2022, Ajaccio, France.
’The Power of Things in a Catholic Charismatic Movement at Lake Chambri, Papua New Guinea’, Paper presented at the ESfO 2022 conference, 02.06-05.06.2022, Ajaccio, France.
’Objektforschungen als Beziehungsgeschichten. Beispiele aus der Ethnologischen Sammlung’,
Öffentliche Vortragsreiche: Sach-Verstand. Forschung mit Objekten aus Göttinger Sammlungen. 10.02.2022, Digital, Universität Göttingen.
’Umweltwandel in Ozeanien’, Ethno-Café, 13.01.2021, Institut für Ethnologie, Universität Göttingen.
'Positioning Culture within Pacific Christianities', symposium co-convened with Fraser Macdonald (Waikato University) at the annual meeting of the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania, 22.–25.01.2020, Hilo, Hawai'i, USA.
'Satan in the Pacific', panel co-convened with Fraser Macdonald (Waikato University) at the annual meeting of the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania, 22.–25.01.2020, Hilo, Hawai'i, USA.
‘You have to call the right name – Operation Joshua meets Cosmology and Catholicism at Lake Chambri', presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania, 13.–16.02.19, Auckland, New Zealand.
‘Encountering Nature – Christianity, spirits and environmental change at Lake Chambri’, presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania, 13.–16.02.19, Auckland, New Zealand.
'Lost in Space – Nyaura music, politics of place, and the voyager recordings', presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania, 13.–16.02.19, Auckland, New Zealand.
'(UN)BESTÄNDIGKEIT – Rückfragen im Feld. Gespräche am Sepik über Objekte in Göttingen', Institutskolloquium 20.12.2018, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Göttingen, Germany.
'The Gender of God’s Gifts – dividual personhood, spirits and the statue of Mother Mary in a Sepik society (Papua New Guinea)', presented at the ‘Art, Materiality and Representation’ conference, Royal Anthropological Institute, The Department of Africa, Oceania and the Americas of the British Museum and the Department of Anthropology at SOAS, Panel ‘Art and Personhood in the Historical Moment: Rethinking Alfred Gell and Marilyn Strathern’ British Museum/SOAS 01.–03. June 2018, London, Great Britain.
'Geister Anrufen', presented at the International Museum Day at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, 13.05.2018, Goettingen, Germany.
'The Thomas Souls Ministry: Charismatic Catholicism and Spirit Possessions in a Sepik Community (Papua New Guinea)', presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania 31.01.–03.02.2018, New Orleans, Louisiana.
'The life of the dead in a Sepik community', presented at the European Society for Oceanists 2017 Conference, 29.06.–02.07.2017, in Munich, Germany.
'Calling the Dead: Spirits, mobile phones and the talk of God in a Sepik community', Institutskolloquium, 08.06.2017, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology Göttingen, Germany.
'The (Re-)appropriation of Spirit Beings: Spirits of the Dead and Spirits of God in a Sepik Community', presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania, February 7.–12. 2017, Līhuʻe, Hawaiʻi.