Congratulations to Dr. Carl Hefner, who has written the lead article entitled Tempting the Nāga: Local Knowledge and Mysteries of the Mekong in the new textbook published by the University of Hawaii Press At Home and in the Field: Ethnographic Encounters in Asia and the Pacific Islands. The article was based on field research conducted when he led a group of 10 students on a research trip down the Mekong River and through 7 countries with funding from UHM Asian Studies Department and the Freeman Foundation.
Dr. Hefner will be a guest panelist in an Anthropology Department Colloquium, for the UHM College of Social Sciences on Thursday September 3rd at 3pm in Crawford Hall 115 during which he will discuss his article, as well as the rigors of doing Anthropological Research and Fieldwork in Southeast Asia.
Dr. Hefner has extensive experience in conducting fieldwork in Indonesia, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Malaysia, Cambodia, Vietnam and many other countries of the region. He is also fluent in Indonesian, and serves as a consultant to the US Department of Education on issues related to Indonesia.