Anthropology

Ivan Roksandic

Ivan Roksandic (PhD University of British Columbia) specializes in linguistics and anthropological linguistics. His current research deals with Native languages of South America; more particularly, it focuses on Arawak language family and addresses problems such as the subdivisions of this family, as well as the spread of Arawak languages across northeastern portion of South America, with an additional emphasis on the patterns of successive migrations and colonization of the Caribbean and on the linguistic heritage of different pre-Colombian ethnic groups as expressed in toponyms in this region.

His other field of research concerns itself with the influence of, and complex interrelations between, mythology and folk traditions, on one hand, and literature, written history, and cultural heritage of a specific ethnic groups, on the other.

Recent publications include The Ouroboros Seizes Its Tale: Strategies of Mythopoeia in Narrative Fiction published in 2010.