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GRANT TO RETURN INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE
TO PACIFIC ISLANDS COMMUNITIES (GRIKPIC)*

*A special ASAO committee is currently working to revamp and re-name this program in hopes of encouraging more collaborative anthropological projects in Oceania and increasing the dissemination of information in ways that directly benefit Oceanic source communities. If you are an ASAO member, please take this survey by December 27, 2024 to share your thoughts on the program's future and attend the special GRIKPIC session at our 2025 Meeting in Fiji!
Stay tuned for an update on this program (including its new name) in Spring 2025.


ASAO is committed to making research information gathered from Pacific Islanders available to those source communities in a form that is useful and appropriate. This goes beyond the normal practice of sending copies of theses and dissertations or subsequent academic publications to in-country libraries and government agencies. It emphasizes the preparation and delivery of research materials in a way that specifically caters to local, often village-scale audiences and needs. Through its official acknowledgment and support of the GRIKPIC initiative, ASAO hopes to validate and raise the profile of this much-needed practice. This effort is especially important for junior scholars since tenure and promotion reviews rarely recognize publications or activities outside the formal realm of academia.

GRIKPIC was created at the February 2006 ASAO Meeting but is currently under review (see note, above). The information below relates to the current (2024-2025) GRIKPIC application season.

Please contact Micah Van der Ryn (f.m.vanderryn@gmail.com) with questions or for more information about GRIKPIC.



GRIKPIC APPLICATION PROCESS


Applicants must be ASAO members for at least two years prior to submitting a proposal, and preference will be given to junior scholars. Examples of eligible projects include but are not limited to dictionaries, oral histories, biographies, photo books, interviews, and recordings of storytelling events and performances. The applicant is responsible for ensuring that the material being published is appropriate for the audience to whom it is being given.

Proposals of up to 1,000 words (4 double-spaced pages) must include descriptions of:

  • the island community, including its technological capacities
  • what materials are currently available there, and what kind(s) of materials the applicant is preparing
  • how the materials would be used in the community
  • most efficient way of getting materials to the community
  • anticipated expenses for production and delivery of materials (grant does not cover stipends, travel, or purchase of equipment)
  • possible additional sources of practical and monetary assistance that the applicant might tap


Application review:

A three-member GRIKPIC panel appointed by the ASAO Board will review applications received by the deadline for awards to be given at the following year’s annual meeting. The panel will forward their recommendations to the Board for consideration. Applications for 2021 are not yet open and we will make an announcement later in the year about this.

Funding:

Awards will be given in any year that at least one project meets criteria outlined above and is approved by the panel and the Board. Award amounts (whether for one or more projects) will total no more than US$1,000 per year.

Project completion:

Upon completing a project supported by GRIKPIC, the awardee must submit a report including how award funds were used; provide a presentation at the following ASAO annual meeting; and provide a copy of the materials to the ASAO archives as well as one or more copies to the national or university library in the country of the community involved.

Donate to GRIKPIC:

We welcome financial donations to support GRIKPIC! Donations may be made to ASAO with a note specifying that the funds are to be used for GRIKPIC (as with donations made to the Pacific Islands Scholars Award, or PISA). All donations to ASAO are tax-deductible in the United States, since ASAO is a 501(c)3 nonprofit corporation.

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PREVIOUS AWARDS

(Click on awardee names to see full project descriptions)

2007 - Haidy Geismar awarded to help underwrite the publication of a Bislama-language publication, John Layard: long Malakula 1914-1915.

2010 - Lila San Roque awarded for the delivery of Duna (Yuna) language booklets to the Kopiago area (Papua New Guinea).

2012 - Kenneth Nehrbass awarded for the printing and distributing 100 copies of A Comprehensive Comparison of Lexemes in the Major Languages of Tanna, Vanuatu, a 281-page English-to-vernacular dictionary featuring six of Tanna's major languages. Available at: https://www.sil.org/resources/publications/entry/47767

2017 - Susanne Kuehling awarded for the returning of photographs of Kula valuables to island communities in Milne Bay Province, PNG.

2019 - Jen Shannon, Jerry K. Jacka, and Paige West awarded to provide copies of primary source materials collected from Bougainville Island in 1949 by a US soldier to members of the Kainake Project in the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, PNG. Available at: https://scholar.colorado.edu/concern/books/bz60cx699