AProf Jeff Sissons

Associate Professor
School of Social and Cultural Studies
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Qualifications

BA (Hons) (VUW), PhD (Auck)

Recipient of 2008 Marsden research grant

Research Specialties

Currently engaged in Marsden-funded research on Polynesian Iconoclasm.

Colonialism and Cultural Change, Cook Islands Society and History, Maori Cultural History.

Selected Publications

Sissons J, 'Anthropological understandings of hapuu and the improvisation of social life', Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 17, 3, September (2011), pp. 628-631. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2011.01711.x.

Sissons J, 'The Tectonics of Power: the Hawaiian Iconclasm and its Aftermath', Oceania, 81, 2, July (2011), pp. 205-216.

Sissons J. 'Building a house society: the reorganization of Maori communities around meeting houses', Journal of the Anthropological Institute, 16, 1 (2010), pp. 372-386.

Sissons J. 'Indigenous Networks', in The Palgrave Dictionary of Transnational History, edited by Akira Iriye and Pierre-Yves Saunier (Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, Palgrave Macmillan, 2009).

Sissons J. 'Indigeneity: global and local', Current Anthropology, 50, 3, June (2009), pp. 326-327.

Sissons, J. First Peoples: Indigenous Cultures and their Futures (Reaktion Books, London, 2005), 224pp.

Sissons, J. Nga Puriri o Taiamai: A Political History of Nga Puhi in the Inland Bay of Islands (Reed Books, Auckland, 2001), 164pp.

Sissons, J. Nation and Destination: Creating Cook Islands Identity (Institute of Pacific Studies, University of the South Pacific, Suva, 1999), 139pp.

Sissons, J. Te Waimana, The Spring of Mana: Tuhoe History and the Colonial Encounter (University of Otago Press, Dunedin, 1991), 305pp.