Sergio Jarillo de la Torre

Contingent communality and community-based adaptation to climate change: Insights from a Pacific rural atoll

Sergio Jarillo, Jon Barnett

Journal article  |  2021  |  Journal of Rural Studies

Research shows that community-based adaptation (CBA) can empower grassroots agents to determine their preferred responses to clima..

How Malinowski sailed the Midnight Sun: the academic conference as ethnographic performance

Sergio Jarillo

Journal article  |  2021  |  JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE

Anthropology's scope is broader than its public, often limited to other anthropologists, while those who share their knowledge in ..

Where are our ancestors? Rethinking Trobriand cosmology

Sergio Jarillo, Allan Darrah, Carlos Crivelli, Camillus Mkwesipu, Kenneth Kalubaku, Nagia Toyagena, Gumwemwata Okwala, Justin Gumwemwata

Journal article  |  2020  |  HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory

Reincarnation has been a fundamental tenet of anthropologists’ representations of Trobriand cosmology since Bronislaw Malinowski p..

Believing the unbelieved Reincarnation, cultural authority, and politics in the Trobriand Islands

Sergio Jarillo, Allan Darrah, Carlos Crivelli, Camillus Mkwesipu, Kenneth Kalubaku, Nagia Toyagena, Gumwemwata Okwala, Justin Gumwemwata

Journal article  |  2020  |  HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory

Facial Expressions

Alan J Fridlund, Carlos Crivelli, Sergio Jarillo, José-Miguel Fernández-Dols, James A Russell

Book Chapter  |  2019

Rejoinder to Kret and Straffon

Sergio Jarillo, Alan Fridlund, Carlos Crivelli, Jose-Miguel Fernandez-Dols, James A Russell

Journal article  |  2018  |  JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

The Tuma Underworld of Love. Erotic and Other Narrative Songs of the Trobriand Islanders and their Spirits of the Dead

Sergio Jarillo

Journal article  |  2017  |  OCEANIA

Recognizing Spontaneous Facial Expressions of Emotion in a Small-Scale Society of Papua New Guinea

Carlos Crivelli, James A Russell, Sergio Jarillo, Jose-Miguel Fernandez-Dols

Journal article  |  2017  |  EMOTION

We report 2 studies on how residents of Papua New Guinea interpret facial expressions produced spontaneously by other residents of..

Of dragons and mermaids: The art of mimesis in the trobriand islands

SJ De La Torre

Book Chapter  |  2017

Mimesis is a powerful tool for apprehending and comprehending alterity. This chapter examines how carvers in the Trobriand Islands..

The fear gasping face as a threat display in a Melanesian society

Carlos Crivelli, James A Russell, Sergio Jarillo, Jose-Miguel Fernandez-Dols

Journal article  |  2016  |  PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Theory and research show that humans attribute both emotions and intentions to others on the basis of facial behavior: A gasping f..