Christine Jourdan

Christine Jourdan is professor of anthropology at Concordia University in Montreal. Her work focuses on theories of cultural and social change, on the pidginization and creolization of languages, on the linguistic representation of cultural knowledge and practice, on language ideology and on changing food practices in Québec and in the Pacific. She has published books and articles on Solomon Islands Pijin, urbanization in the Pacific, and socio-cultural creolization. She is currently writing a book on the anthropology of pidgin and creole languages (Cambridge University Press) and researching a book on the cultural localization of rice in Solomon Islands. Her current SSHRC project ‘Bridewealth Revisited’ is a study of the transformation of the ideologies and practices of bridewealth in Solomon Islands.