Signe Howell
Professor emerita

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Email
s.l.howell@sai.uio.no
Room
629
Available hours
Wednesdays 10:10-12:00
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Visiting address
Moltke Moes vei 31 Eilert Sundts hus
6. etg. 0851 Oslo
Postal address
Postboks 1091 Blindern 0317 Oslo
Publications
- Howell, Signe Lise (2020). The fieldwork tradition and the quest for essential perplexities, In João Pina-Cabral & Glenn Bowman (ed.), AFTER SOCIETY: Anthropological Trajectories out of Oxford. Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-78920-768-2. Chapter 7. s 127 - 141
- Howell, Signe Lise (2019). The Interface between Kinship and Politics in Three Different Social Settings, In Sandra Bamford (ed.), The Cambridge handbook of Kinship. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-04118-9. Part VI Kinship and the Nation-State. s 658 - 674
- Howell, Signe Lise (2018). The Kinning of the Transnationally Adopted Child in Contemporary Norway, In Gill Rye; Victoria Browne; Adalgisa Giorgio; Emily Jeremiah & Abigail Lee Six (ed.), Motherhood in Literature and Culture: Interdisciplinary Perspectives from Europe. Routledge. ISBN 9781138648173. Chapter 8. s 111 - 124
- Howell, Signe Lise (2017). Different Knowledge Regimes and Some Consequences for ‘Sustainability’, In Marc Brightman & Jerome Lewis (ed.), The Anthropology of Sustainability:Beyond Development and Progress. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-137-56635-5. Chapter. s 127 - 143
- Howell, Signe Lise (2017). Different Knowledge Regimes and Some Consequences for ‘Sustainability’, In Marc Brightman & Jerome Lewis (ed.), The Anthropology of Sustainability:Beyond Development and Progress. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9781137566355. Chapter 8. s 127 - 143
- Howell, Signe Lise (2017). Rules without rulers? Comment on Sahlins, Marshall. 2017. “The original political society.”. HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory. ISSN 2049-1115. 7(2), s 143- 147 . doi: 10.14318/hau7.2.018
- Howell, Signe Lise (2017). Two or three things I love about ethnography. HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory. ISSN 2049-1115. 7(1), s 15- 20 . doi: 10.14318/hau7.1.004
- Howell, Signe Lise (2016). Battle of cosmologies: The catholic church, Adat, and ‘Inculturation’ among Northern Lio, Indonesia. Social Analysis: The International Journal of Anthropology. ISSN 0155-977X. 60(4), s 21- 39 . doi: 10.3167/sa.2016.600402
- Howell, Signe Lise (2016). Seeing and knowing: Metamorphosis and the fragility of species in Chewong animistic ontology, In Kaj Arhem & Guido Sprenger (ed.), Animism in Southeast Asia. Routledge. ISBN 9780415713795. Part 2. s 55 - 72
- Howell, Signe Lise (2016). The Relationality of Species in Chewong Animistic Ontology, In Bjørn Enge Bertelsen & Synnøve Kristine Nepstad Bendixsen (ed.), Critical Anthropological Engagements in Human Alterity and Difference. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-3-319-40474-5. Chapter 2. s 43 - 63
- Howell, Signe Lise (2016). Transnational Families: Changes in Adoption and the Diffusion of Western Norms, In Shalini Randeria (ed.), Border Crossings.Grenzverschiebungen und Grenzüberschreitungen in einer globalisierten Welt. vdf Hochschulverlag AG an der ETH Zürich. ISBN 978-3-7281-3140-9. Del 2. s 155 - 178
- Howell, Signe Lise (2015). Antropologi - et verneverdig fag?. Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift. ISSN 0802-7285. (2), s 178- 184
- Howell, Signe Lise (2015). Politics of appearances: Some reasons why the UN-REDD project in Central Sulawesi failed to unite the various stakeholders. Asia Pacific Viewpoint. ISSN 1360-7456. 56(1), s 37- 47 . doi: 10.1111/apv.12081
- Howell, Signe Lise (2014). "No rights - no REDD": Some implications of a turn towards co-benefits. Forum for Development Studies. ISSN 0803-9410. 41(2), s 253- 272 . doi: 10.1080/08039410.2014.901241
- Howell, Signe Lise (2014). "The Best Interest of the Child":Global Governmentality and Transnational Adoption. Beiträge zur Afrika - Forschung. ISSN 0938-7285. 40, s 137- 150 . doi: 10.1017/cbo9780511657511.006
- Howell, Signe Lise (2013). Divide and Rule: Nature and Society in a Global Forest Programme, In Kirsten Hastrup (ed.), Anthropology and Nature. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-203-79536-1. Kapittel 9. s 147 - 166
- Howell, Signe Lise (2013). Metamorphosis and Identity: Chewong animistic ontology, In Graham Harvey (ed.), The handbook of contemporary animism. Acumen Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84465-711-7. Part 2. Dwelling in Nature/Culture. s 101 - 112
- Howell, Signe Lise & Lillegraven, Anja L (2013). Cash, Culture and Social Change: Why don't Chewong Become Entrepreneurs?, In Eldar Bråten (ed.), Embedded entrepreneurship: Market, culture, and micro-business in insular Southeast Asia. Brill Academic Publishers. ISBN 978-90-04-25028-4. Chapter 13. s 275 - 297
- Howell, Signe Lise (2012). Cumulative Understandings:Experiences from the Study of Two Southeast Asian Societies, In Signe Lise Howell & Aud Talle (ed.), Returns to the Field. Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-22348-7. Del 2, Chapter 6. s 153 - 180
- Howell, Signe Lise (2012). Knowledge, Morality, and Causality in a 'Luckless' Society: The Case of the Chewong in the Malaysian Rain Forest. Social Analysis: The International Journal of Anthropology. ISSN 0155-977X. 56(1), s 133- 147 . doi: 10.3167/sa.2012.560109
- Howell, Signe Lise & Talle, Aud (2012). Introduction, In Signe Lise Howell & Aud Talle (ed.), Returns to the Field. Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-22348-7. Introduction. s 1 - 22
- Howell, Signe Lise (2011). Antropologiens uutholdelige letthet. Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift. ISSN 0802-7285. (3-4), s 167- 178
- Howell, Signe Lise (2011). Sources of Sociality in a Cosmological Frame: Chewong, Peninsular Malaysia, In Thomas Gibson & Kenneth Sillander (ed.), Anarchic Solidarity, Autonomy, Equality , and Fellowship in Southeast Asia. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-938692-94-2. 2. s 40 - 62
- Howell, Signe Lise (2011). The Uneasy Move from Hunting,Gathering and Shifting Cultivation to Settled Agriculture:the Case of the Chewong(Malaysia)The Uneasy Move from Hunting,Gathering and Shifting Cultivation to Settled Agriculture:the Case of the Chewong(Malaysia), In Graeme Barker & Monica Janowski (ed.), Why cultivate? Anthropological and Archaeological Approaches to Foraging-Farming Transitions in Southeast Asia. McDonald Institute. ISBN 978-1-902937-58-8. Chapter 7. s 95 - 105
- Howell, Signe Lise (2011). Whatever happened to the spirit of adventure, In Holger Jebens & Karl-Heinz Kohl (ed.), The End of anthropology?. Sean Kingston Publishing. ISBN 978-1-907774-05-8. s 139 - 154
- Howell, Signe Lise (2010). Global Governmentality: The Case of Transnational Adoption, In Kamari Maxine Clarke & Mark Goodale (ed.), Mirrors of Justice. Law and Power in the Post-Cold War Era. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521195379. Chapter 4. s 87 - 106
- Howell, Signe Lise (2010). Norwegian Academic Anthropologists in Public Spaces. Current Anthropology. ISSN 0011-3204. 51, s S269- S277 . doi: 10.1086/652907
- Howell, Signe Lise (2010). Whatever happened to the spirit of adventure?. Paideuma: Mitteilungen zur Kulturkunde. ISSN 0078-7809. 56, s 189- 205
- Howell, Signe Lise (2009). Accelerated Globalisation and the Conflicts of Values Seen Through the Lens of Transnational Adoption: A Comparative Perspective, In Monica Heintz (ed.), The Anthropology of Moralities. Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-84545-592-7. Kapittel 5. s 81 - 102
- Howell, Signe Lise (2009). Adoption of the Unrelated Child: Some Challenges to the Anthropological Study of Kinship. Annual Review of Anthropology. ISSN 0084-6570. 38, s 149- 166 . doi: 10.1146/annurev.anthro.37.081407.085115
- Howell, Signe Lise (2009). La voix du sang: adoptés et immigrés dans les discours sur la biologie et la culture. Ethnologie Française. ISSN 0046-2616. (2), s 331- 341
- Howell, Signe Lise (2009). “Return Journeys and the Search for Roots: Contradictory Values regarding Identity.”, In Diana Marre & L.R. Briggs (ed.), International Adoption: Global Inequalities and the Circulation of Children. New York University Press. ISBN 978-0-8147-9102-8. Part three. s 256 - 271
- Howell, Signe Lise & Marre, Diana (2009). Discours sur la destinée et adoption internationale, I: Enric Porqueres i Gené (red.), Défis contemporains de la paranté. L'École des hautes études en sciences sociales. ISBN 978-2-7132-2221-4. Kapittel 9. s 197 - 216
- Melhuus, Marit & Howell, Signe Lise (2009). Adoption and Assisted Conception: One Universe of Unnatural Procreation. An Examination of Norwegian Legislation, In Jeanette Edwards & Carles Salazar (ed.), European Kinship in the Age of Biotechnology. Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-84545-573-6. Kapittel 9. s 144 - 162
- Howell, Signe Lise (2008). Global styringsmentalitet og begreper om rettferdighet motstridende forståelser av barn og transnasjonal adopsjon. Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift. ISSN 0802-7285. 19(2/3), s 122- 135
- Howell, Signe Lise (2007). "Imagined Kin,Place and Community:Some Paradoxes in the Transnational Movement of Children in Adoption", In Marianne Elisabeth Lien & Marit Melhuus (ed.), Holding Worlds Together: Ethnographies of Knowing and Belonging. Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-84545-250-6. Kapittel 2. s 17 - 37
- Howell, Signe Lise (2007). "Relations with the imagined child: the emotionality of becoming an adoptive parent in Norway.", In Helena Wulf (ed.), The Emotions: A Cultural Reader. Berg Publishers. ISBN 978-1-84520-368-9. Kapittel. s 179 - 198
- Melhuus, Marit & Howell, Signe Lise (2007). Race, Biology and Culture in Contemporary Norway: Identity and Belonging in Adoption, Donor Gametes and Immigration, In Peter Wade (ed.), Race, Ethnicity, and Nation:Perspectives from Kinship and Genetics. Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-84545-355-8. Kapittel 3. s 53 - 73
- Howell, Signe Lise (2006). Changes in Moral Values About The Family: Adoption Legislation in Norway and the US. Social Analysis: The International Journal of Anthropology. ISSN 0155-977X. 50(3), s 146- 163
- Howell, Signe Lise & Marre, D (2006). To kin a transnationally adopted child in Norway and Spain: The achievement of resemblances and belonging. Ethnos. ISSN 0014-1844. 71, s 293- 316
- Howell, Signe Lise (2004). Quién soy, entonces? Perspectivas de los adoptados transnacionales acerca de la identidad y la etnia, I: Diana Marre & Joan Bestard (red.), La adopción y el acogimiento. Presente y perspectivas. Departament d'Antropologia Cultural i Historia d'América i África. ISBN 84-475-2864-2. Kapittel 8. s 197 - 221
- Howell, Signe Lise (2004). �The backpackers that come to stay: New challenges to Norwegian transnational adoptive families �, In Fiona Bowie (ed.), Cross-cultural approaches to adoption. Routledge. ISBN 0415303516. Kapittel. s 227 - 242
- Howell, Signe Lise (2003). Kinning: the creation of life trajectories in transnational adoptive families. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. ISSN 1359-0987. 9(3)
- Howell, Signe Lise (2003). The house as analytic concept: A theoretical overview, In S Sparks & Signe Lise Howell (ed.), The House in Southeast Asia. Routledge. ISBN 0-7007-1157-0. s 16 - 34 Show summary
- Howell, Signe Lise (2002). Community beyond place: Adoptive families in Norway, In Realizing Community. Routledge. s 84 - 105 Show summary
- Howell, Signe Lise (2002). Nesting, eclipsing and hierarchy. Processes of gendered values among Lio. Social Anthropology. ISSN 0964-0282. 10(2) Show summary
- Howell, Signe Lise (2002). "We People belong in the Forest", In Geoffrey Benjamin & Cynthia Chou (ed.), Tribal Communities in Malay World. Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore. s 254 - 271 Show summary
- Howell, Signe Lise (2001). Creative responses o alien forrces: "relgions", "government", "tradition" as co-exisiting modes of sociality among Northern Lio, Indnesia, In John Liep (ed.), Locating Cultural Creativity. Pluto Press,London. ISBN 0-7453-1702-2.
- Howell, Signe Lise (2001). Feltarbeide i vår egen bakgård: noen refleksjoner rundt nye tendenser i norsk antropologi. Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift. ISSN 0802-7285. 12(1-2)
- Howell, Signe Lise (2001). Issues about gender arising out of Lio kinship terminology, In Catherine Alès & Cécilie Barraud (ed.), Sexe relatif ou sexe absolu?. Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l'homme, Paris. s 229 - 241 Show summary
- Howell, Signe Lise (2001). Recontextualizing Tradition, In Locating Cultural Creativity. Pluto Press, London. ISBN 07-45-31702-2. Show summary
- Howell, Signe Lise (2001). Self-consciou kinship: some contested values in Norwegian transnatioal adoption, In Relative values: New directions in kinship studies. Duke University press. Show summary
- Howell, Signe Lise (2000). "En vanlig familie": Utenlandsadopsjon i Norge, et stadig voksende fenomen, I: Blod - tykkere enn vann? Betydninger av slektskap i Norge. Fagbokforlaget. ISBN 82-7674-555-5.
- Howell, Signe Lise (1999). "Biologizing and de-biologizing kinship: Some paradoxes in Norwegian transnational adoption", In Anne-Lise Rygvold & Barbro Sætersdal (ed.), Mine - Yours - Ouers and Theirs: Adoption, changing kinskip and family patterns.. Oslo, University of Oslo, Department of Special Needs Education. s 32 - 52
- Howell, Signe Lise (1999). "Den vanlige familie: norske adoptivfamiliers verdier og ønsker". Verdens barn : medlemsblad for Verdens Barn / Norsk Koreaforening. ISSN 0800-3521. 11(4), s 5- 6
- Howell, Signe Lise & Talle, Aud (ed.) (2012). Returns to the Field. Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-22348-7. 275 s.
- Howell, Signe Lise (2006). Chewong Women in Transition: The Effectss of monetization on a hunter-gatherer society. Centre for Orang Asli Affairs. ISBN 983-43248-0-4. 30 s.
- Howell, Signe Lise (2006). The Kinning of Foreigners: Transnational Adoption in a Global Perspective. Berghahn Books. ISBN 1-84545-184-8. 255 s.
- Sparks, S & Howell, Signe Lise (red.) (2003). The House in Southeast Asia. Routledge. ISBN 0-7007-1157-0.
- Howell, Signe Lise & Melhuus, Marit (red.) (2001). Blod, tykkere enn vann? Betydninger av slektskap i Norge. Fagbokforlaget, Bergen.. ISBN 82-7674-555-5.
- Howell, Signe Lise & Melhuus, Marit (red.) (2001). Blod-tykkere enn vann. Fagbokforlaget. ISBN 978-82-7674-555-9. 243 s.
- Howell, Signe Lise (2000). Blod - tykkere enn vann? Betydninger av slektskap i Norge. Fagbokforlaget. ISBN 82-7674-555-5. 239 s. Show summary
- Howell, Signe Lise (2008). Cosmological knowledge and indigenous theory of causation: Personhood, power and morality of Chewong (Malaysia) and Lio (Indonesia).
- Howell, Signe Lise (2008). Norwegian academic anthopolgists in public places.
- Howell, Signe Lise (2008). Norwegian academic anthropologists in public places.
- Howell, Signe Lise (2008). 'The Best Interest of the Child' Global governementality and transantional.
- Howell, Signe Lise (2008). Transnational families: the gløobaløisation of adoption norms and the kinning of strangers.
- Howell, Signe Lise (2008). Whatever happended to the spirit of adventure?.
- Howell, Signe Lise (2006). Change and continuity closely observed: A Malaysian minority in a global world.
- Howell, Signe Lise (2006). Chewong through time: perceived opportunities, coercions and/or choice.
- Howell, Signe Lise (2006). Imagined kin, place, and community: the conflict between 'the naked child' and the psychological pull of origins.
- Howell, Signe Lise (2006). "Some changes in moral values concerning childhood as expressed in adoption legislation". Show summary
- Howell, Signe Lise (2006). The best interest of the Child: a slogan with global ambitions.
- Howell, Signe Lise (2006). The resilience of culture? Some insights from longitudinal fieldwork.
- Howell, Signe Lise (2006). Transnational adoption: An example of global governmentality.
- Howell, Signe Lise (2005). Attitudes to foreigners in contempory Norway.
- Howell, Signe Lise (2005). Changes in moral values about childhood as expressed in adoption legislation.
- Howell, Signe Lise (2005). "I'm Korean on the outside and Norwegian on the inside" Some patterns in the constgruction of personhood among transantionally adopted childern.
- Howell, Signe Lise (2005). Imagined kin, place and community: Some paradoxes in the transnational movemetn of children in adoption.
- Howell, Signe Lise (2005). The meaning of"home" in transantional adoption discourses and adoptees' perspectives on identity and ethnicity.
- Howell, Signe Lise (2005). The significance of sociality in Chewong construction of 'landscape'.
- Howell, Signe Lise (2005). The war of cosmologies: The Catholic Church on Flores.
- Howell, Signe Lise (2005). To kin a foreign child in Norway and Spain: Notions of resemblance and the achievemetn of belonging.
- Howell, Signe Lise (2004). A question of difference: transantioally adoptees and immigrants in Norway.
- Howell, Signe Lise (2004). Eksporter ideen om "barnets beste". Apollon : Forskningsmagasin for Universitetet i Oslo. ISSN 0803-6926. (1), s 8- 9
- Howell, Signe Lise (2004). Noen paradokser i norks utenlandsadopsjon.
- Howell, Signe Lise (2004). Place and body: Adoptees' perceptions of identity.
- Howell, Signe Lise (2004). Public Understanding of Genetics and Governance in Europe. Show summary
- Howell, Signe Lise (2004). Public Understanding of Genetics: Public Understanding of Genetics and Family in Europe. Show summary
- Howell, Signe Lise (2004). Public Understanding of Genetics: Race and etnicity in Europe. Show summary
- Howell, Signe Lise (2004). The Dynamics of Peace.
- Howell, Signe Lise (2004). Transantioanl Adoption, a challenge to "blood is thicker than water".
- Howell, Signe Lise (2004). Unrelated kin and the creation of virtual imagined place and community: Some paradoxes in the transanational movement of children in adoption.
- Howell, Signe Lise (2004). Who am I then? Adoptees' perspectives on idnetity and ethnicity.
- Howell, Signe Lise & Ulfsnes, Kari-Anne (2002). Hvem er adoptivsøkerne, slik de presenterer seg i adopsjonssøknader?. Verdens barn : medlemsblad for Verdens Barn / Norsk Koreaforening. ISSN 0800-3521. 14(1), s 7- 11 Show summary
- Howell, Signe Lise (2001). Tilbakereise til India; resultater fra en spørreundersøkelse. Adopsjonsforum. ISSN 0802-7617. 26(4)
- Howell, Signe Lise (1998). "Autobiography and Writing".
- Howell, Signe Lise (1998). "Bioteknologiens etiske,juridiske og sosiale aspekter".
- Howell, Signe Lise (1998). "Bureaucracy,Policy and Ritual Practice".
- Howell, Signe Lise (1998). "Chewong cosmology", In Encylopedia Malaysia,"Peoples and Cultures.". Editons Didier,Kuala Lumpur..
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