Dr Jean Kennedy
PhD (Hawaii), MA Hons (Otago)
Visiting Fellow, Archaeology and Natural History
ANU College of Asia and the Pacific
Areas of expertise
- Archaeology 2101
- Archaeology Of New Guinea And Pacific Islands (Excl. New Zealand) 210106
- Archaeology Of Asia, Africa And The Americas 210103
- Archaeological Science 210102
- Maori Archaeology 210109
- Horticultural Production 0706
- Agroforestry 070501
- Agricultural Land Management 070101
- Social And Cultural Anthropology 160104
- History And Philosophy Of Science (Incl. Non Historical Philosophy Of Science) 220206
Research interests
Southeast Asian and Pacific prehistory, management and domestication of tropical plants, ethnobotany, settlement pattern, ethnic diversity.
Biography
Education and early research in New Zealand and Polynesia (anthropology, University of Otago, BA 1966, MA(Hons) 1969). PhD (anthropology, University of Hawaii, 1977) on mainland southeast Asia, included abortive attempt to pursue funded fieldwork in Burma, and study of Lao, Burmese and Thai languages. Subsequent ANU-funded archaeological research focused on Manus Province, Papua New Guinea. Recent library- and internet-based research concerns tropical crops, especially bananas, and the problems of producing well-founded interdisciplinary syntheses across ever more complex and specialised research fields.
Career highlights
1966-69 Tutor, Department of Anthropology, University of Otago; 1977-82 Research Fellow, Prehistory, RSPacS, ANU; 1983-90 Senior Lecturer, History of Science & Technology/Archaeology, University of Papua New Guinea; 1997-present Visiting Fellow, ANH, ANU.
Publications
- Kennedy, J, Hapsari, L, Lestari, D et al 2017, 'Ethnobotanical survey of bananas (Musaceae) in six districts of East Java, Indonesia', Biodiversitas: journal of biological diversity, vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 160-174pp.
- Summerhayes, G, Kennedy, J, Matisoo-Smith, E et al. 2014, 'Lepong: A New Obsidian Source in the Admiralty Islands, Papua New Guinea', Geoarchaeology: An International Journal, vol. 29, no. 3, pp. 238-248.
- Kennedy, J 2014, 'Agroforestry: Environmental Archaeological Approaches', in C. Smith (ed.), Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, Berlin, pp. 113-199pp.
- Kennedy, J 2012, 'Agricultural systems in the tropical forest: A critique framed by tree crops of Papua New Guinea', Quaternary International 249, pp. 140-150.
- Feary, S, Eastburn, D, Sam, N et al. 2011, 'Western Pacific', in John A. Parrotta & Ronald L. Trosper (ed.), Traditional Forest-Related Knowledge: Sustaining Communities, Ecosystems and Biocultural Diversity, Springer, Netherlands, pp. 395-447.
- Kennedy, J 2010, 'Book Review: Fair Bananas! Farmers, Workers and Consumers Strive to Change an Industry', Economic Botany, vol. 64, no. 2, p. 181.
- Prebble, M, Kennedy, J & Southern, W 2010, 'Holocene lowland vegetation change and human ecology in Manus Province, Papua New Guinea', in Haberle, S.G., Stevenson, J. and Prebble, M. (ed.), Altered Ecologies: Fire, climate and human influence on terrestrial landscapes (Terra Australis 32), ANU ePress, Canberra, pp. 213-238. http://epress.anu.edu.au/terra_australis/ta32/pdf/ch12.pdf
- Kennedy, J 2009, 'Bananas: towards a revised prehistory', in Andrew S. Fairbairn and Ehud Weiss (ed.), From Foragers to Farmers; Papers in Honour of Gordon C. Hillman, Oxbow Books, Oxford, UK, pp. 190-204.
- Bourke, R, Gibson, J, Quartermain, A et al. 2009, 'Part 2. Food production, consumption and imports', in R. Michael Bourke and Tracy Harwood (ed.), Food and Agriculture in Papua New Guinea, ANU ePress, Canberra Australia, pp. 129-192.
- Kennedy, J 2009, 'Bananas and People in the homeland of Genus Musa: not just pretty fruit', Ethnobotony Research and Applications, vol. 7, pp. 179-197. http://www.ethnobotanyjournal.org/vol7/i1547-3465-07-179.pdf
- Kennedy, J 2008, 'Pacific Bananas: Complex Origins, Multiple Dispersals?', Asian Perspectives, vol. 47, no. 1, pp. 75-94.
- Kennedy, J & Clarke, W 2007, 'Tree crops and the cultivated landscapes of the southwest Pacific', in John Connell and Eric Waddell (ed.), Environment, Development and Change in Rural Asia-Pacific: between Local and Global, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom, pp. 76-90.
- Pavlides, C & Kennedy, J 2007, 'Pre-Lapita horizons in the Admiralty Islands:flaked stone technology from GAC and GFJ', Technical Reports of the Australian Museum, vol. 20, pp. 197-215. http://australianmuseum.net.au/Uploads/Journals/18058/1477_complete.pdf
- Thaman, R, Elevitch, C & Kennedy, J 2006, 'Urban and Homegarden Agroforestry in the Pacific Islands: Current Status and Future Prospects', in B.M. Kumar and P.K.R. Nair (ed.), Tropical Homegardens: A Time-Tested Example of Sustainable Agroforestry (Advances in Agroforestry), Springer, Netherlands, pp. 25-41.
- Kennedy, J 2006, 'Book review: Papuan Pasts: Cultural, linguistic and biological histories of Papuan-speaking peoples', Archaeology in Oceania, vol. 41, no. 3, pp. tba.
- Kennedy, J 2005, 'Rich in thought and wisdom, flowers and food: cultivated forests of Western Melanesia', Creating in Tropical Forests Workshop, Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Unknown, pp. 44-45.
- Kennedy, J 2005, 'Book review: The Art of Kula', Journal of Biosocial Science, vol. 37, pp. 525-527.
- Kennedy, J 2004, 'Notes of a southern interloper: an Otago Archaeologist in the Bay of Islands, 1964-1968', Archaeology in New Zealand, vol. 47, no. 4, pp. 144-147.
- Golson, J & Kennedy, J 2004, 'Hail to the Chief: A Tribute to Bill Solheim', in Victor Paz (ed.), Southeast Asian Archaeology, University of the Philippines Press, The Philippines, pp. 8-25.
- Kennedy, J & Clarke, W 2004, Cultivated Landscapes of the Southwest Pacific, ANU. http://www.crawford.anu.edu.au/rmap/pdf/Wpapers/rmap_wp50.pdf
- Kennedy, J 2003, 'Donn Thomas Bayard: 29 June 1940 - 7 September 2002', Bulletin of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association, vol. 23, pp. 3-6.
- Kennedy, J 2003, 'Book Review: The archaeology of Lapita dispersal in Oceania', Archaeology in Oceania, vol. 38, pp. 43-44.
- Kennedy, J 2003, 'Book review: Landscapes of conflict: a field guide to the New Zealand Wars, by N. Prickett', Australasian Historical Archaeology, vol. 21, p. 84.
- Kennedy, J 2002, 'Manus from the beginning: an archaeological overview', in C Kaufmann, C Kocher Schmid and S Ohnemus (ed.), Admiralty Islands: Art from the South Seas, Museum Rietburg Zurich, Zurich, pp. 17-28.
