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 978-1-5310-1412-4. p. 190–213. doi: 10.1002/j.1834-4461.1980.tb01410.x.
• 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. 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.
• Sørum, Arve (2003). Village, House and Identity in Pipikoro. In Sparks, S & Howell, Signe Lise (Ed.), The House in Southeast Asia. Routledge. ISSN 0-7007-1157-0.
• 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 1-57181-558-9. p. 13–29.
• Sørum, Arve (2000). Sosialantropologiske grunnvoller. In Nielsen, Finn Sivert & Smedal, Olaf H. (Ed.), Mellom Himmel og Jord. Tradisjoner, teorier og tendenser i sosialantropologien. Fagbokforlaget, Bergen. ISSN 82-7674-273-4. p. 11–45.
• 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, Oslo..
• 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 82-519-1215-6.
• 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.

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• Sørum, Arve & Klausen, Arne Martin (1993). Under tropenes himmel. Den store norske oppdager Carl Lumholtz. Tiden Norsl Forlag. ISBN 82-10-03689-0. 158 p.

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

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