Jacopo Baron is an Italian ethnographer and social anthropologist. Trained in Pacific History (University of Milan), Pacific Ethnology (University of Turin), and Social Anthropology (EHESS - Paris), he has conducted several research projects in Vanuatu. He is currently spokesman in Europe for the Vanuatu Cultural Centre and Visiting Fellow at the Sainsbury Research Unit for the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas (University of East Anglia). His wide research interests include: Outdoor Education, Pacific History, Pacific Art, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Material Culture, Heritage Studies, and the Ethnography of ritual action. His most recent contributions include the essays Unlearning to See in Melanesia (Annales de la Fondation Fyssen); and Ephemeral Images, Lasting Memories (RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics).