My name is Mark Collins, I am an anthropologist working in Papua New Guinea on the social and cultural aspects of interactions with marine animals. I am broadly interested in relations between culture and environment, in marine anthropology, in human-animal relations and in the impacts of climate change and globalisation on all these aspects of social life.
About me
My research is, more precisely, concerned with the social and cultural aspects of marine interspecies relations, that is relations between different species living in and around the sea, in particular people and fish. The main site of my fieldwork is on the island of Lavongai (or New Hanover), in Western Oceania, where I was in 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2025 for a total of 17 months. There, I studied fishing activities, in particular ritual practices aiming to influence the behaviour of fish, marine ethno-biology, ethno-ichtyology, and also ethno-ornithology.
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