Publikasjoner - Side 9

A few seemingly insignificant pine trees make a small rocky point a highly contested site for claims about Tasmanian identity, Marianne E.Lien and Aidan Davidson write in their article Roots, rupture and remembrance: The Tasmanian Lives of Monterey Pine, published in the Journal of Material Culture.

Ingjerd Hoëm bidrar med et kapittel i boka Migration and Transnationalism. Pacific Perspectives, som utgis på Australian National University E Press.

Signe Howell examines why anthropologists participate in debates about current social, cultural and political issues in the last number of Current Anthropology

Signe Howell is one of the  contributors to a special publication of Paideuma in the chapter with the headline "The end of anthropology?" She asks if we are witnessing the end of academic interest towards the discipline.

Sindre Bangstad and Bjørn Enge Bertelsen discusses the fate, motives and circumstances of Norwegian ex-soldiers Joshua French and Tjostolv Moland in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in the current edition of Anthropology Today.  Tjostolv Moland and Joshua French may have shown us an image of some Norwegians abroad which is not altogether flattering.

As the issue of language endangerment and language death has hit linguistics with some urgency, Ingjerd Hoem writes in her article , the recognition of a need for documentation of vanishing cultures has receded into background within mainstream social anthropology

Arne Kalland beskriver incest og sedelighetssaken  mot Hans Siversen Davanger og Malene Nielsdatter  som ble behandlet på bygdetingene i Nordhordland

I sitt kapittel omkring begrepene identitet, globalisereing og multikulturalisme drøfter Halvard Vike  videre forholdet mellom  temaer som individualitet, autensitet, etnisitet og nasjonalisme

Signe Howell bidrar med  artikkelen "Adoption of the Unrelated Child: Some Challenges to the Anthropological Study of Kinship" i 2009-utgaven av Annual Review of Anthropology.

Marianne Lien og Marit Melhuus har vært gjesteredaktører av siste nummer av tidsskriftet Ethnologie Française. Nummeret har temaet "Norge sett innenfra" og SAIs antropologer Halvard Vike, Signe Howell og Christine Jacobsen er også representerte med artikler. Det samme er Thomas Hylland Eriksen, for tiden ved Culcom. Marianne Lien og Marit Melhuus har sammen skrevet en innledning til dette spesialnummeret, samt levert egne bidrag. Mer om Ethnologie Française

In this article Signe Howell shows how farming tradition in Chewong areas in Peninsular Malaysia are being influenced by market economy. How inequalities are experienced and how the relations with outsiders influence  daily life.

Susanne Brandtstädter gir i denne artikkelen et innblikk i drivkrefter blant kinesiske "bønder"som arbeider for å  oppnå like sivile muligheter og rettigheter i det kineskiske samfunnet.

Sindre Bangstad is discussing the question if  the freedom of speech become freedom to hate?  He takes part in a discussionforum  well-known as the  The Immanent Frame. The forum was founded in October of 2007 in conjunction with the Social Science Research Council’s program on Religion and the Public Sphere

In the May publication of Theory, Culture and Society   the work of the influential poststructuralist and postcolonial anthropologist  Saba Mahmood (UC Berkeley, USA) is being explored by Sindre Bangstad. Saba Mahmood’s work in anthropology adopts an Asadian and Butlerian approach, particularly in the seminal Politics of Piety.

Sindre Bangstad bidrar i antalogien Multikulturell teori og flerkulturelle praksiser

Sindre Bangstad har sammen med Jacob Høigilt  i siste nummer av Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift skrevet artikkelen "Hvordan forstå muslimbrødrene? Islamisme i den arabiske og den europeiske konteksten".

Aud Talle gir i denne boken en innføring i fenomenet omskjæring.

Arnd Schneider and Christopher Wright have published Between Art and Anthropology which provides new and challenging arguments for considering contemporary art and anthropology in terms of fieldwork practice. Artists and anthropologists share a set of common practices that raise similar ethical issues, which the authors explore in depth for the first time.

Marianne Lien bidrar i boka The Globalization of Food med kapitlet "Standards, Science and Scale: The Case of Tasmanian Atlantic Salmon". 

This is a study of the meanings and possibilities for justice in the contemporary world. Anthropologists examine the ambiguities of justice in Europe, Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Middle East. In her chapter "Global Governmentality: the case of transnational adoption", Signe Howell examines some implications of international adoption legislation.

Unni Wikans bok For ærens skyld. Fadime til ettertanke har nå kommet ut på arabisk. 

In her article, Marit Melhuus turn on issues of methodology with regard to the study of biotechnology in contemporary society and its contribution to further debates about what it means to study biotechnology ethnographically

Ruth Jane Prince is focusing on HIV/AIDS interventions and antiretroviral treatment programmes in Kenya, and related issues of global health, the political-economy of knowledge, traditionalism and the state.

Since 1993, Paul Wenzel Geissler has been working , in western Kenya, conducting first medical research and then several years of ethnographic fieldwork.

The Land is Dying. Contingency, Creativity and Conflict in Western Kenya 

Trenger kulturelle forskjeller oppfattes som problematiske? Det er et av spørsmålene i denne boka, redigert av professor ved SAI, Halvard Vike, i fellesskap med Ketil Eide, Marianne Rugkåsa og Naushad A. Qureshi.

In its assessment of the current ‘state of play’ of ethnographic practice in social anthropology, this volume with Marit Melhuus, Jon P.Mitchell and Helena Wulff as editors, explores the challenges that changing social forms and changing understandings of ‘the field’pose to contemporary ethnographic methods. Aud Talle is one of the contributors with her article  "Getting the ethnography ‘right’: On female circumcision in exile".