Ton Otto

Ton Otto, a Dutch citizen, is professor of anthropology at Aarhus University, Denmark. He has conducted long-term ethnographic field research in Papua New Guinea and has published widely on issues of social and cultural change with a focus on the relationship between religion, historicity and agency. From the start of his fieldwork, he has made extensive use of audio-visual media, and this has resulted in a number of exhibition and film productions, including the award-winning films ‘Ngat is dead’ (2009, with Christian Suhr and Steffen Dalsgaard) and ‘Unity through Culture’ (2011, with Christian Suhr).