Campus
- Downtown Toronto (St. George)
Fields of Study
- Sociocultural Anthropology
- Oceania
Areas of Interest
Research Keywords: Study of myth and ritual in non-literate societies, religion in the history of Anthropological theory, psychoanalysis
Research Region: Oceania
Biography
Education:
Ph.D., CUNY, 1978
Book:
1993 Gillian Gillison. Between Culture and Fantasy: A New Guinea Highlands Mythology Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Chapter in Edited Book:
2011. Gillian Gillison “Narcissisme, Animisme et Logique Genocidaire: Rever la Culture Chez les Gimi de la Papouasie-Nouvelle Guinée.” In André Barbier et Myriam Boubli (Eds) L’Oedipe Perspectivs Actuelles. Paris: L’Harmattan.
Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals:
2016. Whatever Happened to the Mother? A New Look at the Old Problem of the Mother’s Brother in Three New Guinea Societies: Gimi, Daribi and Iatmul. Oceania Volume 86 Issue 1 (2016): 2-14. Winner of the 2016 Australian Anthropological Society (AAS) Article Prize.
2013. Gillian Gillison “The ‘Dividual Androgyne’ and Me: a Personal Affair.” Oceania Volume 83, Issue 2 (2013):118-129.
2010. Gillian Gillison “Culture: A Post Concept?” Journal of Interdisciplinary History (MIT), XLI: 1 (Autumn), 243-263.