Knut Christian Myhre
Faglige interesser
Tematisk: Medisinsk antropologi, juridisk antropologi, personbegreper, materiell kultur, sosial kompleksitet, semantikk, kunnskapsteori og filosofi.
Regionalt: Afrika, Tanzania
Bakgrunn
Knut Christian Myhre har sin utdannelse fra Universitetet i Oslo og University of Oxford, og har tidligere arbeidet ved NTNU og Nordiska Afrikainstitutet.Myhre har gjort feltarbeid blant den Chagga-talende befolkningen i Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. Hans doktorgradsprosjekt fra dette området omhandlet medisinsk mangfold i et historisk og semantisk perspektiv. Myhre har publisert innenfor temaer som bytteteori, representasjoner av andre, ikke-vestlige kunnskapsformer, lokale personbegrep, antropologisk teori, materialitet og hekseri. Han arbeider for tiden med prosjektet ”Property, Ownership and Reproduction: Historical Ethnography of Persons and Things in Kilimanjaro”. I den forbindelse har han nylig gjort feltarbeid i en NGO basert i Dar es Salaam, Tanzania som arbeider med landrettighetsspørsmål.
Undervisning
Verv
Varamedlem i Universitetsstyret ved UiO
Medlem i Forskningskomiteen ved UiO
Varamedlem i Instituttstyret ved SAI
Styremedlem i UiO DOC
Publikasjoner
- Myhre, Knut Christian (2012). Koda. ANTropologi som grenseflate, adskillelse og relasjon. Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift. ISSN 0802-7285. 23(3-4), s 316- 321
- Myhre, Knut Christian (2012). MKUHUMI na Mustakhabali wa Milki ya Kimila. ARDHI NI UHAI. ISSN 0856-9495. s 5- 6
- Myhre, Knut Christian (2012). The pitch of ethnography: Language, relations, and the significance of listening. Anthropological Theory. ISSN 1463-4996. 12(2), s 185- 208 . doi: 10.1177/1463499612454990
- Myhre, Knut Christian (2009). Disease and Disruption: Chagga Witchcraft and Relational Fragility, In Liv Haram & Christian Bawa Yamba (ed.), Dealing with Uncertainty in Contemporary African Lives. Nordiska Afrikainstitutet. ISBN 978-91-7106-649-7. 5. s 118 - 140
- Myhre, Knut Christian (2007). Family Resemblances, Practical Interrelations and Material Extensions: Understanding Sexual Prohibitions, Production and Consumption in Kilimanjaro. Africa. ISSN 0001-9720. 77(3), s 307- 330
- Myhre, Knut Christian (2007). Om ritualer og sosiale relasjoner. Refleksjoner rundt et kraftfullt bytte. Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift. ISSN 0802-7285. 18(3-4), s 253- 265
- Myhre, Knut Christian (2006). Divination and Experience: Explorations of a Chagga Epistemology. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. ISSN 1359-0987. 12(2), s 313- 330
- Myhre, Knut Christian (2006). The Truth of Anthropology: Epistemology, Meaning and Residual Positivism. Anthropology Today. ISSN 0268-540X. 22(6), s 16- 19
- Myhre, Knut Christian (2004). The Bookseller of Kabul and the Anthropologists of Norway. Anthropology Today. ISSN 0268-540X. 20(3), s 19- 22
- Myhre, Knut Christian (1998). The Anthropological Concept of Action and its Problems: A 'New' Approach based on Marcel Mauss and Aristotle. Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford. ISSN 0044-8370. 29(2), s 121- 134
- Myhre, Knut Christian (2013). Anthropos and the Material: Ethnographic Challenges to the Anthropology of Ritual.
- Myhre, Knut Christian (2013). Bokanmeldelse: Paul Wenzel Geissler & Ruth Jane Prince (2010)The Land is Dying: Contingency, Creativity and Conflict in Western Kenya. Oxford: Berghahn Books. Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift. ISSN 0802-7285. 24(1), s 74- 76
- Myhre, Knut Christian (2012). Bokandmeldelse: Koen Stroeken (2010) Moral Power: The Magic of Witchcraft. Oxford: Berghahn Books. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. ISSN 1359-0987. 18(3), s 723- 724
- Myhre, Knut Christian (2012). The multiple meanings of moongo: On doorways and backbones in Kilimanjaro.
- Myhre, Knut Christian (2011). Cutting ANT to make anthropology.
- Myhre, Knut Christian (2011). Membering and dismembering: Normativity and relationality of animal bodies in Kilimanjaro.
- Myhre, Knut Christian (2010). Carving the world at the joints: Normativity and sociality among the Chagga of Kilimanjaro.
- Myhre, Knut Christian (2010). Civilisation unbound: Relational ramifications in Africa.
- Myhre, Knut Christian (2010). Dommen mot Åsne Seierstad. SV Nytt.
- Myhre, Knut Christian (2010). Doorways and backbones in Kilimanjaro: On persons and things in a reproductive perspective.
- Myhre, Knut Christian (2010). How Climate Change Affects Livelihoods in East Africa, In Christian Palme (ed.), Africa in Uncertain Times. Nordic Africa Institute. kapitelnummer 12. s 30 - 31
- Myhre, Knut Christian (2010). How to butcher an animal: Reflections on normativity and relationality among the Chagga of Kilimanjaro.
- Myhre, Knut Christian (2010). Introductory remarks and summary.
- Myhre, Knut Christian (2010). Lærdommer fra steinalderen. Ny Tid. ISSN 0809-9049. 57(5), s 46- 48
- Myhre, Knut Christian (2010). Property, ownership, and reproduction: Historical ethnography of persons and things in Kilimanjaro.
- Myhre, Knut Christian (2010). The notion of 'Afrinesia'.
- Myhre, Knut Christian (2010). Welcome to 'Afrinesia'.
- Myhre, Knut Christian (2009). Anmeldelse av Vigdis Broch-Due (2005) Violence and Belonging: The Quest for Identity in Post-Colonial Africa. London: Routledge. Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift. ISSN 0802-7285. 20(3), s 209- 211
- Myhre, Knut Christian (2009). En innledning til Axel Sommerfelts artikkel. Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift. ISSN 0802-7285. 20(4), s 278- 279
- Myhre, Knut Christian (2005). Family Resemblances, Material Extensions, and Practical Interrelations: Understanding Sexual Prohibitions, Production, and Consumption in Kilimanjaro..
- Myhre, Knut Christian (2005). On the Conceptual Topography of "Power": Understanding Sexual Prohibitions, Production, and Consumption in Kilimanjaro..
- Myhre, Knut Christian (2005). Reiser regjeringen med Ryanair?. Klassekampen. ISSN 0805-3839. 37(107), s 14- 15
- Myhre, Knut Christian (2005). Suffering and Narration.
- Myhre, Knut Christian (2005). The Truth of Anthropology: Wittgenstein, Epistemology, and Meaning..
- Myhre, Knut Christian (2004). Det Moderne Folkemordet. Klassekampen. ISSN 0805-3839. 36(84)
- Myhre, Knut Christian (2004). Divination and Experience: Exploration of a Chagga Lateral Epistemology.
- Myhre, Knut Christian (2004). Dwelling and Experience: The Epistemology of Chagga Divination.
- Myhre, Knut Christian (2004). Family Resemblances, Practical Interrelations, and Material Extensions: Understanding Sexual Prohibitions, Production, and Consumption in Kilimanjaro.
- Myhre, Knut Christian (2004). Kaa and Ikaa: Homesteads and Dwelling in Chagga-speaking Kilimanjaro.
- Myhre, Knut Christian (2004). 'Stammekrig' i Kongo. Klassekampen. ISSN 0805-3839. 36(53)