Katharina Schneider

2011 – 2017: Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin, Institut für Ethnologie, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität, Heidelberg.

2008 – 2009: Associated Lecturer, Department of Political Science, Silliman University, Dumaguete City, Philippines.

2008: PhD, Department of Anthropology, University of Cambridge, UK.

2003: BA in Archaeology and Anthropology, Trinity College, Cambridge, UK.

• Fishing and Fisheries

• Kinship

• Gender

• Political Economy (esp. maritime)

•   Melanesia (Bougainville, Papua New Guinea)

• Southeast Asia (Indonesia)

CONFERENCE AND SEMINAR PAPERS (selection)

2019. ‘Environmentally Friendly: Traces of a Concept in a Javanese Fishery’. Panel: Tracing Traveling Concepts in Southeast Asia, Conference of the European Association for Southeast Asian Studies (EUROSEAS), Berlin, September 12, 2019.

--. ‘Fischfang und immaterielles Kulturerbe in Bougainville’. Immaterielles Kulturerbe – interdisziplinär betrachtet. Museum Five Continents, Munich, March 8, 2019.

2018. ‘Gendered Inequalities in a Javanese Fishery’. DFG Junior Research Network Plural Ecologies in Southeast Asia, Cologne, November 30, 2018.

2017. ‘Precarious Work, Precarious Life. Fish Trading in Northern Java’. Departmental Seminar,Department of Anthropology, Hamburg University, November 21, 2017.

--. ‘Pipes and Beams: Houses and Infrastructure in a northern Javanese fishing village’.

Workshop ‘Space’, DFG Junior Research Network Plural Ecologies in Southeast Asia, Berlin, November 11, 2017.

--. ‘Professional Precarity among Northern Javanese Cantrangan Fishers: A Rhythmanalytic

Approach’. Departmental Seminar, Department of Anthropology, SOAS, January 24th, 2017.

2016. ‘Sustainability and Precarity in a Javanese Fishery’. Workshop ‘Sustainability’, DFG

Junior Research Network Plural Ecologies in Southeast Asia. Passau, December 1, 2016.

--. Who took them to Town? Boat owners, passengers and the traditionalization of inequality in Bougainville, 2005. Village to Town in the Pacific. Workshop, Frankfurt am Main, April 2, 2016.

2015. ‘The Java Sea-Scape: Empty, smelly, source of riches’. Waterscapes (Heidelberg University Cluster of Excellence Asia and Europe, MC9) Workshop, Denpasar, September 21, 2015.

--. ‘Possibilities for Precautionary Management of a Northern Javanese Commercial Fishery: Starting with Fishers’ Strategies’. Conference of the European Association for Southeast Asian Studies (EUROSEAS), University of Vienna, August 13, 2015.

--. ‘Overcapacity in the Java Sea Cantrangan Fishery: An Anthropological Approach to a Persistent Management Problem’. Fakultas Ilmu Budaya Lunchtime Seminar, Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, March 19, 2015.

--. ‘Fishing and Life Itself on Pororan and in Northern Java’. Life Itself in The Pacific. 7th North Sea – South Seas Workshop, University of St. Andrews, February 12, 2015.

Monograph

2012. Saltwater Sociality: A Melanesian Island Ethnography. New York: Berghahn.

Articles

2018. Precariousness and Prosperity among Javanese Fish Traders. HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 8(3), 640-655.

--. Matrilineal Kinship at Sea in Bougainville, PNG. Humaniora 30(3), 223-36.

2017.   Gendered Modes of Evaluating Work in a Javanese Fishery. Ethnoscripts 19(2), 31-55.

2016.   Above and Below among Mainlanders and Saltwater People in Buka, Bougainville.

Structure and Dynamics 9(1), Special Issue: Spatial Orientation in Oceania.

2013. Pigs, Fish, and Birds: Towards Multi-Species Ethnography in Melanesia. Environment and Society: Advances in Research 4, 25–40.

2013.   Bewegungsspielräume junger Frauen in Bougainville oder: Melanesische Agency und

Ethische Maßstäbe. Ethnoscripts 15(2), 60-85.

2012. Who sees What in Pororan Marriage Exchange? Anthropological Forum 22(1), 45-65.

2011. The One and the Two: Mainlanders and Saltwater people in Buka, Bougainville. Oceania 81(2), 180-204.