Rosita Henry

Rosita Henry is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at James Cook University, Australia. Her research concerns the political dimensions of people-place-state relations and the performative politics of memory in Oceania, including cultural festivals, protest movements, and heritage issues. Currently she is doing an archival ethnography on the work of Australian patrol officers in colonial Papua New Guinea. Among other publications, she is author of the book Performing Place, Practicing Memory (2012), co-editor of The Challenge of Indigenous Peoples (2011) and The Chinese in Papua New Guinea (2024), and editor and co-author of A True Child of Papua New Guinea: Memoir of a Life in Two Worlds (2019).