Dr Anita Lundberg

Adjunct Associate Professor, James Cook University, BA, MA (Hons), PhD, Post-Doc

Anita a cultural anthropologist with over thirty years of experience in Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore. Her areas of expertise span: mythologies and rituals; material culture (art, architecture, boat building, weaving); and the environment. Ethnographic fieldwork was in Lamalera, Indonesia, and Rimbun Dahan, Malaysia. She also undertook field practice while a professor in Singapore for seven years. Since moving to Bali her interest is in village life.

Anita maintains that arts and sciences are interconnected. Her career has drawn on a BA in Arts (UniSA), an MA (Hons) in Science and Technology Studies (UoW), and a PhD (UNSW) and Post-Doc (Cambridge, UK) in Anthropology.  Apart from lecturing and publishing, she has curated several international art exhibitions, exhibited her own works in national galleries, and presented her research in museums, including the Australian National Maritime Museum. Recently she was invited to write a chapter for an art exhibit at the Singapore Art Museum on the science of climate change and the tropics, and a blurb for the ‘Lost Specimens’ exhibit in Europe.

She has been fortunate to travel extensively. Research has taken her to many islands of the Indonesian archipelago and across Malaysia. Whilst a professor in Singapore, she took student groups on field visits to Laos, Sarawak, and remote Bali. Her personal travels have included adventure trips to Komodo, Flores, Sulawesi, Raja Ampat, Maluku (spice islands), Sumba, Sumatra and Aru. Internationally Anita has visited all the countries of mainland Southeast Asia, as well as the Philippines, Taiwan, Japan, China, Sri Lanka, Southern India, Morocco and New Zealand. She has travelled many countries in Europe; lived for a year in Provence, France; and visited the UK and USA. As an Australian she has worked in Sydney and Far North Queensland, and has travelled most of our diverse continent.

Her speaking engagements include addressing learned societies, presenting at international conferences, and delivering lectures. “It is with great enthusiasm that I join Coral Expeditions’ guest lecture circuit”.

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