Ethnography
Culture + Language + Environment + Creativity
My parents were anthropologists working primarily in the same village in Sabah, Malaysia from 1959-2020. I grew up in the world of anthropology, accompanying my parents into the field in Canada, Indonesia, and Malaysia. These experiences infused my world view. In the 1980’s my parents established the Sabah Oral Literature Project and began supporting oral literature around the world. As these communities helped form me, I joined my parents working to save this increasingly rare, generational art form.
HIMALAYAS
Bhutan Oral Literature Project
Founder and Executive Director since 2010
“A unique, community-based, intangible cultural heritage project dedicated to preserving the rich and diverse linguistic, ethnographic, and environmental wisdom embedded in the Bhutanese language and cultural traditions.”
Eastern Himalayan Ethno-Linguistic Research Council
Co-Founder
“EHERC is comprised of community based projects in the Eastern Himalayas engaged in ethnography and linguistics research. EHERC prioritizes direct engagement with, and support of, local people and is dedicated to providing resources and training, and Open Access publishing generally reserved for academics, to the local people on site, all the while respecting the priorities and values of our communities.”
BORNEO
Kalimantan and Sabah
Sabah Oral Literature Project
Advisor
