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Kalissa Alexeyeff teaches anthropology at the University of Melbourne,
Australia, and specialises in expressive culture and gender politics in
the Asia-Pacific region. She specifically studies the fa’afafini —
Samoan men raised as women, who dress and act with feminine
characteristics — featured in Taboo: Gender Bender. Her other research
interests include dance and music and contemporary feminist thought. She
based her doctoral thesis, “Dancing from the Heart: Gender, Movement
and Sociality in the Cook Islands”, on her two years of fieldwork in the
South Pacific Cook Islands and New Zealand.
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