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Professor Paul Sillitoe

Professor


Affiliations
Affiliation
Professor in the Department of Anthropology

Biography

Paul Sillitoe has a background in both anthropology and agricultural science. His research interests focus on tropical farming systems and indigenous natural resource management strategies. He specialises in development and social change, subsistence and technology, land issues, human ecology and ethno-science. His regional interests focus on the Pacific in particular.

He has conducted extensive fieldwork in Papua New Guinea, where he first championed the competitive sociability of institutionalised exchange individualism, and he is currently involved in projects in South Asia, researching local agricultural knowledge and development programmes. He seeks to further the incorporation of indigenous knowledge in development, particularly in the context of sustainable livelihood initiatives and appropriate technologies.

Publications

See a full list of Prof Sillitoe's publications below.
www.dur.ac.uk/resources/profiles/140/Publications_PaulSillitoe.docx

Research interests

  • Development and social change
  • Economic anthropology and tribal socio-political orders
  • Environmental anthropology and natural resources management
  • Human ecology and ethnosciences
  • Indigenous knowledge and participating development
  • Livelihood and technology
  • Melanesia and South Asia

Esteem Indicators

  • 2009: Qatar Shell Professorial Chair in Sustainable Development in the Sociology Program of the Department of Social Sciences in Qatar University:

Publications

Authored book

Chapter in book

Conference Paper

Edited book

Journal Article

Other (Digital/Visual Media)

Supervision students