Cunera Buijs Editor

Dr. Cunera Buijs (1958) is anthropologist and curator Arctic of the National Museum of World Cultures, Leiden. Her research interest lies in issues of dress and identity, and questions of ownership, authority and access. In 2004, she finished her PhD-thesis on clothing, its significance and role in Inuit society (Leiden University). Her publications have also focused on climate change and the trade boycott of sealskin. Cunera’s most recent publications include ‘Living objects, The transfer of knowledge through East Greenlandic material culture’, in: Traditions, Traps and Trends, Transfer of Knowledge in Arctic Regions, Jarich Oosten and Barbara Miller (eds), UAP’s Polynya Press, pp. 143-189 and ‘Shared Inuit Culture: Museums and Arctic Communities from a European Perspective’, Etudes/Inuit/Studies Vol. 41 (2), in: Collections arctiques/Arctic Collections (forthcoming in 2020), Gwénaëlle Guigon (ed.). She is co-curator of the exhibition Healing Power – Winti, shamanism and more (2011).