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Ingjerd Hoëm

Head of Department - Department of Social Anthropology
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Visiting address Eilert Sundts hus blokk A Moltke Moes vei 31 0851 OSLO
Postal address Postboks 1091 Blindern 0317 OSLO

About

Hoëm has conducted fieldwork in Tokelau, Samoa, New Zealand and The Solomon Islands. She has previously been employed at The Institute of Pacific Archeology and Cultural History at The Kon-Tiki Museum in Oslo. She is currently working on the following projects:

  • Head of Research on a project called “Identity Matters: Movement and Place” (2000-08), financed by The Norwegian Research Board (NFR). This is a project involving anthropologists, linguists and archeologists and which focuses on studying patterns of movement in the Pacific Region in the past and present.
  • Transnational relations and their implication on the forming of identity and macro politics in Polynesian localities (with H. Lee, LaTrobe University Melbourne).
  • Spatial orientation and movement (with G. Senft, Max-Plank Institute, Nijmegen).
  • Performance and ritual communication (with Wenner-Gren Workshop, Sintra). 

Research interests

Thematic: Ritual communication, identification of space, ethnicity, linguistic anthropology, social organization and fourth world populations (indigenous people).  

Regional: Polynesia, including New Zealand and Australia. 

Tags: Identity, Cognitive anthropology, Linguistic anthropology, Space/place, Rituals, Pacific Ocean, Polynesia, Tokelau/New Zealand

Publications

  • Hoëm, Ingjerd (2011). Narratives of Origin. Some Insights from Pacific Ethnography. Occasional papers.  ISSN 0802-6491.  12, s 9- 21
  • Hoem, Ingjerd (2010). Language endangerment: situations of loss and gain., In Gunter Senft (ed.),  Endangered Austronesian and Australian Aboriginal languages. Essays on language documentation, archiving and revitalization..  Pacific Linguistics.  ISBN 9780858836235.  Kapittel 4.  s 53 - 69
  • Hoem, Ingjerd (2009). "Getting out from under": Leadership , Conflict resolution and Tokelau Migration., In Helen Lee (ed.),  Migration and Transnationalism. Pacific Perspectives.  Australian National University e-press.  ISBN 9781921536908.  Kapittel 12.  s 191 - 202
  • Hoem, Ingjerd (2009). Ritualized Performances as Total Social Facts. The House of Multiple Spirits in Tokelau, In Gunter Senft & Ellen B. Basso (ed.),  Ritual Communication.  Berg Publishers.  ISBN 978-1-84788-295-0.  Kapittel 8.  s 203 - 221
  • Hoem, Ingjerd (2008). Polynesian Conceptions of Sociality: A dynamic field of hierarchical encompassment?, In Olaf H. Smedal & Knut.M. Rio (ed.),  Hierarchy. Persistence and Transformation in Social Formations.  Berghahn Books.  ISBN 978-1845454937.  Kapittel.  s 245 - 268
  • Hoëm, Ingjerd & Solsvik, Reidar (ed.) (2011). Identity matters: Movement and place. The Kon-Tiki Museum.  ISBN 978-82-92967-03-4.  177 s.
  • Hoëm, Ingjerd & Solvik, Reidar (2011). Preface, In Ingjerd Hoëm & Reidar Solsvik (ed.),  Identity matters: Movement and place.  The Kon-Tiki Museum.  ISBN 978-82-92967-03-4.  Forord.  s 5 - 6
  • Hoem, Ingjerd (2010). ”Er gjenkjennelse et kriterium på sannhet?” Om løgn og sannhet, tillit og troverdighet i et krysskulturelt perspektiv..
  • Hoem, Ingjerd (2010). “Languages of governance in conflict: A case from Tokelau".
  • Hoem, Ingjerd (2010). “Tokelau Kinship: Power, Knowledge and Communicative Practice”.
  • Hoem, Ingjerd (2010). Tokelau Self-Government: Macro-Political Influences and the Law of the Land.
  • Krohn-Hansen, Christian & Hoem, Ingjerd (2010). Redaksjonelt. Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift.  ISSN 0802-7285.  21(2-3), s 78- 79
  • Hoem, Ingjerd (2009). The Future of Tokelau: Decolonizing Agendas 1975-2006. The Contemporary Pacific.  ISSN 1043-898X.  21(2), s 392- 394
  • Hoem, Ingjerd (2007). Ansikt til ansikt: Konfliktrådsmegling mellom gjerningsperson og offer i voldssaker. Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift.  ISSN 0802-7285.  (3/4), s 311- 312
Published Sep 20, 2010 02:50 PM - Last modified Feb 6, 2013 10:06 AM