Ingjerd Hoem

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Ingjerd Hoëm is a professor at the Department of Social Anthropology, and vice dean for education at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Univeristy of Oslo. Her work deals with communication and performance, political change, and labour.

Research interests

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

Regional: Polynesia, including the diaspora. Hoëm has done field work in Tokelau, Samoa, New Zealand and on the Solomon islands.

Background

  • Head of the Department of Social Anthropology (2010-2015)
  • Responsible for the PhD-programme at the Department of Social Anthropology (2008-2009)
  • Head of Research, Institute of Pacific Archaeology and Cultural Historyat the Kon-Tiki Museum (2001-2007)
  • Magister 1990, PhD 1996, University of Oslo
Tags: Identity, Cognitive anthropology, Linguistic anthropology, Space/place, Rituals, Pacific Ocean, Polynesia, Tokelau/New Zealand

Publications

  • Hoem, Ingjerd (2023). Remaining Kin over Time On Valued Relationships and the Things that Make Them So. Social Anthropology. ISSN 0964-0282. 31(3), p. 102–116. doi: 10.3167/saas.2023.310308. Full text in Research Archive
  • Hoem, Ingjerd (2021). ‘Cutting the Colonial Cord’? Tensions of Value and the Relationship between Tokelau and New Zealand. Oceania. ISSN 0029-8077. 91(2), p. 165–180. doi: 10.1002/ocea.5311. Full text in Research Archive
  • Hoëm, Ingjerd (2020). Maori. Store Norske Leksikon (Nettutgaven).
  • Hoëm, Ingjerd (2019). Anthropos and Pragmata: On the Shape of Things to Come. In Harvey, Penny; Krohn-Hansen, Christian & Nustad, Knut Gunnar (Ed.), Anthropos and the Material. Duke University Press. ISSN 9781478002864. p. 81–100.
  • Hoëm, Ingjerd (2018). State, labour, and kin: tensions of value in an egalitarian community. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. ISSN 1359-0987. 24(1), p. 166–179. doi: 10.1111/1467-9655.12806.
  • Hoëm, Ingjerd (2017). «Hva er en krise?» Noen refleksjoner om trusler mot livsgrunnlag, og hvordan VI kan studere dem antropologisk. Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift. ISSN 0802-7285. 28(1), p. 35–46. doi: 10.18261/issn.1504-2898-2017-01-04.
  • Hoëm, Ingjerd (2017). "Hva er en krise?" Noen refleksjoner om trusler mot livsgrunnlag, og hvordan VI kan studere dem antropologisk. Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift. ISSN 0802-7285. 28(1), p. 35–46. doi: 10.18261/ISSN.1504-2898-2017-01-04.
  • Hoëm, Ingjerd (2016). Relationship Thinking: Agency, Enchrony, and Human Sociality. By N. J. Enfield. Journal of Anthropological Research. ISSN 0091-7710. 72(3), p. 365–367. doi: 10.1086/687488.
  • Hoëm, Ingjerd (2015). Gendered Sides and Ritual Moieties: Tokelau Kinship as Social Practice. In Toren, Christina & Pauwels, Simonne (Ed.), Living Kinship in the Pacific. Berghahn Books. ISSN 978-1-78238-577-6. p. 87–106. doi: 10.2307/j.ctt9qctd3.8.
  • Hoem, Ingjerd (2014). Thor Heyerdahl's Kon-Tiki in new light. Editor's preface. Kon-Tiki Museum. Occasional Papers. ISSN 0802-6491. 14, p. 7–7.
  • Hoëm, Ingjerd (2011). Narratives of Origin. Some Insights from Pacific Ethnography. Kon-Tiki Museum. Occasional Papers. ISSN 0802-6491. 12, p. 9–21.
  • Hoem, Ingjerd (2010). Language endangerment: situations of loss and gain. In Senft, Gunter (Eds.), Endangered Austronesian and Australian Aboriginal languages. Essays on language documentation, archiving and revitalization. Pacific Linguistics. ISSN 9780858836235. p. 53–69.
  • Hoem, Ingjerd (2009). Ritualized Performances as Total Social Facts. The House of Multiple Spirits in Tokelau. In Senft, Gunter & Basso, Ellen B. (Ed.), Ritual Communication. Berg Publishers. ISSN 978-1-84788-295-0. p. 203–221.
  • Hoem, Ingjerd (2009). "Getting out from under": Leadership , Conflict resolution and Tokelau Migration. In Lee, Helen (Eds.), Migration and Transnationalism. Pacific Perspectives. Australian National University e-press. ISSN 9781921536908. p. 191–202.
  • Hoem, Ingjerd (2008). Polynesian Conceptions of Sociality: A dynamic field of hierarchical encompassment? In Smedal, Olaf H. & Rio, Knut.M. (Ed.), Hierarchy. Persistence and Transformation in Social Formations. Berghahn Books. ISSN 978-1845454937. p. 245–268.

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  • Hoëm, Ingjerd (2015). Languages of Governance in Conflict. Negotiating democracy in Tokelau. John Benjamins Publishing Company. ISBN 978 90 272 0296 3. 152 p.
  • Hoëm, Ingjerd (2014). Thor Heyerdahl’s Kon-Tiki in New Light. The Thor Heyerdahl Institute. ISBN 978-82-92967-05-8.
  • Hoëm, Ingjerd & Solsvik, Reidar (2011). Identity matters: Movement and place. The Kon-Tiki Museum. ISBN 978-82-92967-03-4. 177 p.

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  • Hoem, Ingjerd (2023). Book review: Beyond These Shores: Aotearoa and the World. Journal of Pacific History. ISSN 0022-3344. 58(4), p. 480–481. doi: 10.1080/00223344.2023.2239954.
  • Hoem, Ingjerd (2023). Tom Bratrud Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift Fire on the Island. Fear, Hope and a Christian Revival in Vanuatu. ASAO Studies in Pacific Anthropology, Vol. 13. Oxford: Berghahn 2022, ISBN: 978-1-80073-464-7. Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift. ISSN 0802-7285. doi: 10.18261/nat.33.3-4.11.
  • Hoem, Ingjerd (2022). Tokelau ways of being with the ocean.
  • Hoem, Ingjerd (2022). Atoll Ways of Being with the Ocean.
  • Hoëm, Ingjerd (2020). Betydningen av slektskap.
  • Hoëm, Ingjerd (2016). STATE;STATE;STATE. Nasjonalteaterets Europaturneprogram 2016.
  • Hoëm, Ingjerd (2016). Innledning til Nasjonalteaterets program "ØY".
  • Hoëm, Ingjerd (2016). On the Arbitrary Nature of Things.
  • Hoëm, Ingjerd (2016). Hva er en krise?
  • Hoëm, Ingjerd (2015). Å snakke flytende.Språk,antropologi og feltarbeid med Ingjerd Hoem. [Journal]. Universitetet i Oslo.
  • Hoëm, Ingjerd (2015). Boklansering av boken: "Languages of Governance in Conflict. Negotiating democracy in Tokelau".
  • Hoëm, Ingjerd (2015). Presentasjon om Norsk Antropologi på den Britiske Antropologiforeningens årsmøte.
  • Hoëm, Ingjerd (2015). Vitenskapsteoretiske perspektiver.
  • Hoëm, Ingjerd (2015). State,labour and kin: tensions of value in an egalitarian economy.
  • Hoëm, Ingjerd (2014). Echoes at Fishermen’s Rock: Traditional Tokelau Fishing by Elders from Atafu Atoll. The Contemporary Pacific. ISSN 1043-898X. 26(1), p. 237–239.
  • Hoëm, Ingjerd & Solvik, Reidar (2011). Preface. In Hoëm, Ingjerd & Solsvik, Reidar (Ed.), Identity matters: Movement and place. The Kon-Tiki Museum. ISSN 978-82-92967-03-4. p. 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), p. 78–79.
  • Hoem, Ingjerd (2009). The Future of Tokelau: Decolonizing Agendas 1975-2006. The Contemporary Pacific. ISSN 1043-898X. 21(2), p. 392–394.
  • Hoem, Ingjerd (2007). Ansikt til ansikt:Konfliktrådsmegling mellom gjerningsperson og offer i voldssaker. Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift. ISSN 0802-7285. p. 311–312.
  • Hoem, Ingjerd (2022). Atoll Ways of Being with the Ocean. Universitetet i Bergen.
  • Gammelgaard, Karen; Hoem, Ingjerd & Bielicki, Alexander Douglas (2012). A nation in worship?: Constructing nationhood and devotion at the Slovak national pilgrimage to Šaštín. Universitetet i Oslo.

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