Prof Christina Toren

Emeritus Professor

Researcher profile

Email

ct51@st-andrews.ac.uk

 

Research areas

Fieldwork, Sawaieke, Gau, Fiji 1981-83, 1990, 1993, 2005, 2007. My area interests focus on Fiji and the Pacific, and Melanesia.

Selected publications

• 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. 170-185

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

• 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

• 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.. Brill

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• How ritual articulates kinship. In C.Toren and S.Pauwels, Living Kinship in the Pacific, Berghahn

  Toren, C., 2015, Living Kinship in the Pacific. Berghahn

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• 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

• Open access

  What is a schema? Invited contribution to symposium on Philippe Descola

  Toren, C., 2014, In: HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory. 4, 3, p. 401-409

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review

• Open access

  An Anthropology beyond Culture and Society: An Anthropology beyond Culture and Society: Interview with Christina Toren

  Toren, C. & Moreira Fians, G., 2013, In: Revista Habitus. 11, 1, p. 178-189 12 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Anthropology and Psychology

  Toren, C., 2012, The Sage Handbook of Social Anthropology. Fardon, R., Harris, O., Marchand, T. H. J., Nuttall, M., Shore, C., Strang, V. & Wilson, R. A. (eds.). Los Angeles, London: Sage, Vol. 1. p. 27-41

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Antropologia e Psicologia

  Toren, C., Oct 2012, In: Revista Brasileira de Ciencias Sociais, Vol 27, No. 80. p. 21-36

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Imagining the World that Warrants Our Imagination: The Revelation of Ontogeny

  Toren, C., 1 Mar 2012, In: Cambridge Anthropology. 30, 1, p. 64-79 16 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

 

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