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Andrea MolnarPh.D., Australian National University, 1995 Professor Molnar is a broadly trained cultural anthropologist with special topical interests in culture change, religion, symbolism, social organization, language, ecological and political anthropology, and culture change. Her area specialization is Southeast Asia, specifically the eastern Islands of Indonesia and East Timor. She has conducted field research with the Hoga Sara, Hoga Taka, and Soa cultural groups of west central Flores and the Manggarai people of west Flores in eastern Indonesia. Her current research focuses on the Atsabe Kemak group in East Timor. Professor Molnar's ongoing research in Flores (Indonesia) focuses
on culture change, specifically, the effects of recent rapid agricultural
and economic modernization on the indigenous belief system, land
tenure, ecology and gender relations of the people. New research
in East Timor focuses on Kemak social organization and cosmology.
A recent research interest and long term project of Molnar's is
in the newly independent nation of East Timor where concerns with
the Kemak people's conceptions of power vis-à-vis dynamic
interactions between the traditional socio-political system and
the new state system. Molnar teaches courses in general cultural
anthropology, social organization, anthropology of religion, ritual
and myth, and religion and cosmology of Southeast Asia. Selected PublicationsAn Anthropological Study of Atsabe Perceptions of Kolimau 2000.
A New East Timorese Religious Cult or Internal Security Problem?
Anthropos, 99(2):365-380, 2004. Grandchildren of the Gae Ancestors: Social Organization and Cosmology
of the Hoga Sara of Flores. Leiden: KITLV Press, 2000. Considerations of Consequences of Rapid Agricultural Modernization
Among Two Ngada Communities. Special Edition of Flores Cultures.
Molnar, A.K. (ed.) Antropologi Indonesia Jakarta, Indonesia: Universitas
Indonesia 22(56): 47-58, 1999. Local Adjustments and Attitudes to Development and the Environment
in West Flores (eastern Indonesia) In Managing Change in Southeast
Asia: Local Identities, Global Connections. G. Forth, S. Niessen
and J. de Bernardi, eds. Canadian Council for Southeast Asian Studies,
1995. Contact Information:Dr. Andrea Molnar
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Department
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Northern Illinois University DeKalb, IL 60115 Phone: (815) 753-0246 Fax: (815) 753-7027 |
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