John Barker-Climate Change in the South Pacific

Speaker:  John Barker

Title for the talk: The Cockatoo in the Coalmine: Climate Change in the South Pacific Islands

John Barker is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia. Since the late 1970s, he has researched social and environmental changes impacting Indigenous communities in Papua New Guinea and coastal British Columbia. His publications include At Home with the Bella Coola Indians: T.F. McIlwraith’s Field Letters, 1922-23 and Ancestral Lines: The Maisin of Papua New Guinea and the Fate of the Rainforest.