Number 2 Leighton Street and the Superheated Auckland Housing Market

Additional informationNotes on contributorsJane HoranJane Horan was awarded her PhD in social anthropology from the University of Auckland in 2012. Her dissertation focused on the gifting economy among Cook Islanders in New Zealand and the wider Pacific. She studied specifically the production and use of the paramount ceremonial textile valuables called tivaivai. She looked at how these “unquilted quilts” dignified the gifting of substantial sums of money in ritual events in what constitutes the Cook Islands ceremonial economy. She is a postdoctoral scholar and professional teaching fellow at the University of Auckland

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