Marianne Riphagen

Areas of expertise:

Anthropology of Art
Economic Anthropology
Art History

Research interests:

* the anthropology of art, specifically questions relating to value production, the functioning of institutional art worlds, and the ways in which artists navigate art worlds.

* contemporary Indigenous Australian art, specifically art created by urban-based Indigenous artists in the mediums of photography and video.

* the concept of cosmopolitanism, specifically the cosmopolitanism of Indigenous peoples.

* Aboriginal cultural heritage, specifically the ways in which Indigenous peoples use their tangible and intangible heritage to benefit their economic autonomy.