Paola Tine

Dr Paola Tine

Visiting Research Fellow

School of Social Sciences

Faculty of Arts, Business, Law and Economics

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD (as Co-Supervisor) - email supervisor to discuss availability.

Dr Paola Tiné is an anthropologist with expertise in visual research methods, medical anthropology, social change and domestic relations.

 

Paola Tiné 

Paola Tiné  is Lecturer in Cultural Anthropology School of Social and Cultural Studies at Victoria University of Wellington and a Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Adelaide. She is a social and medical anthropologist researching the interconnections between morality, relationships, and health. Over the past ten years, she been researching psychophysical well-being and distress from a social and relational perspective through long-term field research in Australia, Nepal, and Italy. Her PhD at the University of Adelaide investigated family moralities in a climate of accelerated social change in Nepal. 

 

  • Language Competencies
    Language Competency
    English Can read, write, speak, understand spoken and peer review
    French Can read, write, speak and understand spoken
    Italian Can read, write, speak, understand spoken and peer review
    Spanish; Castilian Can read and understand spoken

  • Education
    Date Institution name Country Title
    2017 - 2023 The University of Adelaide Australia PhD, Social Anthropology and Development Studies
    2013 - 2015 The University of Siena Italy Master of Arts, Anthropology and Visual Studies
    2010 - 2013 The University of Siena Italy Bachelor of Arts, Human Sciences (History, Philosophy, Anthropology)

  • Postgraduate Training
    Date Title Institution Country
    2019 Postgraduate Training in Medical Anthropology University of Edinburgh United Kingdom
    2017 Ethnographic Film Training Ethnofilm Italy
    2016 Postgraduate Fieldwork Training University of Adelaide Australia
    2015 Erasmus Placement University of Edinburgh United Kingdom

  • Certifications
    Date Title Institution name Country
    2020 Higher Education Teaching Certificate Harvard’s Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning -

  • Research Interests
    Anthropology Anthropology of Development Art Theory Cognitive Science Film and Television Philosophy Social Change Sociology Visual Arts and Crafts Visual Cultures

  • Journals
    Year Citation
    2025 Tine, P., Karanicolas, J., & Allen, D. (2025). A beautiful ghetto. VISUAL STUDIES, 40(1), 152-154.
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    2025 Tinè, P. (2025). Making moral selves through comparison: Narratives of moral decline and the modern virtuous self among middle-class older adults in Nepal. Ethos, 15 pages.
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    2024 Tiné, P. (2024). Feeling social change in the gut: gyāstrik and the problematisation of domestic roles among Newar women in contemporary Nepal. Anthropology and Medicine, 31(1-2), 174-194.
    DOI Scopus1
    2024 Tine, P. (2024). Seeing South Asia: visuals beyond borders. VISUAL STUDIES, 39(4), 766-767.
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    2023 Tiné, P. (2023). Modern dharma: the moral worlds of Newar middle-class families in Bhaktapur, Nepal. Asian Anthropology, 22(3), 217-219.
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    2022 Tiné, P. (2022). The question of expression when using art as a research method in anthropology: Notes for the anthropologist-artist. Unknown Journal, 23-38.
    2022 Tiné, P. (2022). Two Kitchens and Other 'Modern' Stories: Rethinking the Family in Contemporary Nepal Through Household Conflict and Fission. Himalaya, 41(2), 107-126.
    DOI Scopus2
    2022 Tiné, P. (2022). What Makes a Family? A Visual Approach to Ontological and Substantial Dimensions of the Domestic in Nepal. Himalaya, 41(2), 127-143.
    DOI Scopus2
    2021 Tiné, P. (2021). Maya’s story spirit possession, gender, and the making of the self in a painted anthropological account. Current Anthropology, 62(4), 498-504.
    DOI Scopus5
    2021 Tine, P. (2021). ‘Seeking Heartfelt Help: The Emergence of the Friendship Guthi as a Middle-Class Practice in Contemporary Nepal’. Studies in Nepali History and Society 26(2): 313–344..
    2019 Tine, P. (2019). I colori del sogno di Gatsby: proposta di analisi semiotica. O Ideario Patrimonial.
    2018 Tine, P. (2018). ‘Lo sperimentalismo letterario nel romanzo moderno americano’. O Ideário Patrimonial,, (11), 147-156.
    2017 Tine, P. (2017). Le radici storiche del conflitto in Ucraina e la costruzione della memoria. Tetide. Rivista di Studi Mediterranei.
    2017 Tine, P. (2017). Art as a research method: on the expression of anthropological insights’. O Ideário Patrimonial,.
    2017 Tine, P. (2017). ‘Cultural interaction and integration in the context of immigration: the case study of the Nepali-speaking Bhutanese in Adelaide'. Journal of Identity and Migration Studies-JIMS.
    - Tine, P. (n.d.). Doing Gender and Reshaping the Self: The Rehabilitation Narratives of TBI Survivors. Journal of Social, Behavioral, and Health Sciences, 15(1).
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    - Tiné, P. (n.d.). Modern Dharma: The moral worlds of Newar middle-class families in Bhaktapur, Nepal. European Bulletin of Himalayan Research, (61).
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  • Position: Visiting Research Fellow
  • Email: paola.tine@adelaide.edu.au
  • Campus: North Terrace
  • Org Unit: Anthropology and Development Studies
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