Arve Sørum

• Sørum, Arve (2019). The Spirit Within. The Landscape of Bedamini Spirit Sèances. In Lohmann, Roger Ivar (Eds.), Haunted Pacific. Anthropologists Investigate Spectral Apparitions across Oceania. Carolina Academic Press. ISSN 9781531014124. p. 190–213. doi: 10.1002/j.1834-4461.1980.tb01410.x. Full text in Research Archive
• Sørum, Arve (2017). Bedamini Male Initiation and Marriage as Transformation Sequences. Anthropological Forum: a journal of social anthropology and comparative sociology. ISSN 0066-4677. 27(1), p. 63–76. doi: 10.1080/00664677.2017.1287056. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  This essay focuses on how certain social relations among the Bedamini in Papua New Guinea are given their form through ritual at selected moments of the life cycle when relational transformations occur. Ritualised moments in Bedamini male initiation and symbolic bride capture are described as a dynamic agency that changes the existential conditions of persons in non-ritual reality. At those important ritual moments, the direct presence of the agents is required, while relations between them are mediated by acts, objects and moods. The effect intended is the formation, or reformation, of a relational field. Male initiation and marriage are consecutive parts of a sequence of transformations beyond its constituent moments, as initiation functions as a prerequisite to marriage.

• Sørum, Arve (2017). Bedamini male initiation and marriage as transformation sequences. Anthropological Forum: a journal of social anthropology and comparative sociology. ISSN 0066-4677. 27(1), p. 63–76. doi: 10.1080/00664677.2017.1287056. Full text in Research Archive
• Sørum, Arve (2003). Village, House and Identity in Pipikoro. In Sparks, S & Howell, Signe Lise (Ed.), The House in Southeast Asia. Routledge. ISSN 9780700711574. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  This chapter deals with forms of collective self-identification among the To po Uma of Central Sulawesi. The house is tentatively disclosed as the concretized locus of social identity. The general question is: what is it that reveals a sense of co-belonging for the people in central Sulawesi that forms the basis of a common social identity? This provokes a general assessment of the concept of self-identification. The specific question in search of an answer is as follows: How is it that the concept used for 'village' is the same as the mame for the fundament of logs on which houses rest? That path leads into the concept of place and an assessment of locality in the social organization of self with others.

• Sørum, Arve (2003). Sociality as Figure: Bedamini Perceptions of Social Relationships. In Roalkvam, Sidsel & Hoem, Ingjerd (Ed.), Oceanic Socialities and Cultural Forms. Ethnographies of Experience. Berghahn Books. ISSN 9781571815583. p. 13–29. Full text in Research Archive
• Sørum, Arve (2000). Sosialantropologiske grunnvoller. In Nielsen, Finn Sivert & Smedal, Olaf H. (Ed.), Mellom Himmel og Jord. Tradisjoner, teorier og tendenser i sosialantropologien. Fagbokforlaget. ISSN 9788276742732. p. 11–45. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Kapitlet gir en fremstilling av viktige temaer i sosialantropologisk faghistorie fra greske oldtidshistorikere frem til 1980 tallet.

• Sørum, Arve (1998). "Norske Reiseskildringer 1945-1970: Et maskulint prosjekt.". In Johnsen, Egil Børre & Eriksen, Trond Berg (Ed.), "Norsk Litteraturhistorie. Saksprosa fra 1750-1995. Bind II.". Universitetsforlaget. Full text in Research Archive
• Sørum, Arve (1996). "Kindreds and Group Formation in West Toraja.". In Aspen, Harald; Jørgensen, C. Dahl; Erring, B. & Larsen, A.K. (Ed.), The Family : anthropological approaches : festschrift to professor Jan Brøgger. Tapir, Trondheim.. ISSN 9788251912150. Full text in Research Archive
• Sørum, Arve (1993). Encountering Femininity: The Ontogenesis of Bedamini Male Selves. In Broch-Due, Vigdis; Rudie, Ingrid & Bleie, T (Ed.), Carved Flesh, Cast Selves. Gendered Symbols and Social Practices. Oxford: Berg. p. 107–129. Full text in Research Archive

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• Sørum, Arve & Klausen, Arne Martin (1993). Under tropenes himmel. Den store norske oppdager Carl Lumholtz. Tiden Norsl Forlag. ISBN 9788210036897. 158 p. Full text in Research Archive

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• Sørum, Arve (2006). Ritual and Performance. Full text in Research Archive
• Sørum, Arve (2006). Lost Souls? Two Modes of Longitudinal Fieldwork Compared. Full text in Research Archive
• Sørum, Arve (2003). Tradisjonelle former for vold i Melanesia. Full text in Research Archive
• Sørum, Arve (1999). Society for Psykological Anthropology. Full text in Research Archive
• Sørum, Arve (1997). "American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings". Full text in Research Archive

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