Tom Bratrud

Bratrud, Tom. 2022 (kommer). Fire on the Island: Fear, Hope and a Christian Revival in Vanuatu. Berghahn Books.

Bratrud, Tom. 2021. What is Love? The Complex Relation between Values and Practice in Vanuatu. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 27(3). DOI: 10.1111/1467-9655.13546

Bratrud, Tom. 2021. Asserting Land, Estranging Kin: On Competing Relations of Dependence in Vanuatu. Oceania 91(2). DOI: 10.1002/ocea.5305

Bratrud, Tom, Ingjerd Hoëm & Keir Martin (red). 2021. Dependence in Oceania (temanummer). Oceania 91(2).

Bratrud, Tom. 2020. Paradoxes of (In)security and Moral Regeneration in Vanuatu and Beyond. Journal of Extreme Anthropology 4(1):177-197. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5617/jea.7395

Bratrud, Tom & Tuva Broch (red). 2020. Hjem(met) i og etter Gullestad (temanummer). Norsk antropologisk tidsskrift 31(1-2).

Bratrud, Tom. 2019. Ambiguity in a Charismatic Revival: Inverting Gender, Age and Power Relations in Vanuatu. Ethnos. DOI: 10.1080/00141844.2019.1696855 

Bratrud, Tom. 2019. Fear and Hope in Vanuatu Pentecostalism. Paideuma: Mitteilungen zur Kulturkunde 65(1): 111-132.

Rangelov, Tihomir, Tom Bratrud & Julie Barbour. 2019. Ahamb (Malekula, Vanuatu) – Language Context. Language Documentation and Description 16(1).

Bratrud, Tom. 2018. The Salvesen Ami Dance: Custom, Christianity and Cultural Creativity in South Malekula. Kon-Tiki Museum Occasional Papers no.15. Oslo: The Kon-Tiki Museum. ISBN: 978-82-92967-18-8/ISSN: 0802-6491.

Bratrud, Tom. 2018. Fire on the Island: The Transformative Power of a Christian Revival in Vanuatu. PhD-avhandling. University of Oslo

Bratrud, Tom. 2017. Spiritual War: Revival, Child Prophecies, and a Battle over Sorcery in Vanuatu. I Knut.M. Rio, Michelle MacCarthy & Ruy Blanes (red). Pentecostalism and Witchcraft: Spiritual Warfare in Africa and Melanesia. New York: Palgrave MacMillan

Bratrud, Tom. 2014. Anmeldelse av Foodways and Empathy: Relatedness in a Ramu River Society, Papua New Guinea. Anthropos 109(2): 733-734

Felix Sam, Tomsen Sam, Hedrick Peter, Graham Thomas, Morvel Tom & Tom Bratrud (red). 2014. Some Stories and Songs from Ahamb Island. In Ahamb Language and Bislama. Port Vila: Vanuatu Cultural Centre

Bratrud, Tom. 2013. Bisnis, risriskure, sosialitet: Melanesisk egalitet og pengebasert modernitet på Ahamb, Vanuatu. Norsk antropologisk tidsskrift (24) 2: 100-111. 

Bratrud, Tom. 2012. Social and Cultural Aspects of Climate Change and other Environmental Hazards: Experiences from Ahamb Island, South Malakula, Vanuatu. Rapport for Vanuatu Cultural Centre og Vanuatu Department of Meteorology.

• Bratrud, Tom (2021). What is love? The complex relation between values and practice in Vanuatu. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute.  ISSN 1359-0987. . doi: 10.1111/1467-9655.13546
• Bratrud, Tom (2020). Paradoxes of (In)security and Moral Regeneration in Vanuatu and Beyond. Journal of Extreme Anthropology.  ISSN 2535-3241.  4(1), s 177- 197 . doi: 10.5617/jea.7395 Fulltekst i vitenarkiv. Vis sammendrag

  This article examines some paradoxical intersections of fear, security, and morality on Ahamb Island in Vanuatu in the South Pacific. I take as my ethnographic vantage point a child-led Christian revival movement that developed in the wake of enduring political conflicts on Ahamb during my fieldwork in 2014. The revival began as a process of moral renewal and turned into a security measure protecting the island against sorcerers found to be responsible for many of the island society’s problems. In the article, I make comparisons between the situation on Ahamb and the recent political and cultural crisis in the UK and USA where an increasing number of people perceive their moral order to be under threat. In both contexts, new charismatic actors of governance emerge and gain a following by identifying an ‘other’ as responsible for the crisis while convincingly presenting themselves as the solution. An important reason for these actors’ appeal, I argue, is that they appear to take people’s concerns seriously in a way that established authorities do not. However, in both Vanuatu, the UK, and the USA there is a paradox in how the actors present themselves as holding the solution to people’s insecurities while at the same time shaping the context for their emergence.

• Bratrud, Tom (2019). Ambiguity in a Charismatic Revival: Inverting Gender, Age and Power Relations in Vanuatu. Ethnos.  ISSN 0014-1844.  s 1- 19 . doi: 10.1080/00141844.2019.1696855 Fulltekst i vitenarkiv. Vis sammendrag

  During a Christian revival movement on Ahamb Island in Vanuatu in 2014, gender- and age-based hierarchies were inverted as women and children were given divine authority and men were positioned as threats to sociopolitical renewal. In analysing these events, I develop Kapferer’s insights on the inherent openness and unpredictability of ritual dynamics. However, I argue that such openness and unpredictability can also be tied to external factors including participants’ multiple and sometimes incompatible values and interests. Attempts to resolve ambiguities in ritual may eventually feed back into ritual ideology and practice in ways that make participants’ experiences disturbing and problematic rather than orderly and supportive.

• Bratrud, Tom (2019). Fear and Hope in Vanuatu Pentecostalism. Paideuma: Mitteilungen zur Kulturkunde.  ISSN 0078-7809.  65, s 111- 132 Fulltekst i vitenarkiv.
• Rangelov, Tihomir; Bratrud, Tom & Barbour, Julie (2019). Ahamb (Malekula, Vanuatu) – Language Context. Language Documentation and Description.  ISSN 1740-6234.  16, s 86- 126 Fulltekst i vitenarkiv.
• Bratrud, Tom (2017). Spiritual War: Revival, Child Prophesies, and a Battle Over Sorcery in Vanuatu, In Knut Rio; Michelle MacCarthy & Ruy Llera Blanes (ed.),  Pentecostalism and Witchcraft: Spiritual Warfare in Africa and Melanesia.  Palgrave Macmillan.  ISBN 978-3-319-56068-7.  Chapter 8.  s 211 - 233 Fulltekst i vitenarkiv. Vis sammendrag

  Sorcery and Christianity have been in an intimate and seemingly opposing relationship on the small Ahamb Island in Vanuatu for more than a century. While sorcery is seen as the most potent threat to the good life as it brings suffering and death, Christianity appears as the main tool to address this and other problems of cosmological and social character. During a turbulent time on the island in 2014, a Christian charismatic revival, largely led by children, became the subject of hope for change on Ahamb. A main event within the revival was a dramatic spiritual war that confronted the island community with the plain and unvarnished realities of good and evil, of God and sorcery, while revealing secrets that literally became a question of life and death.

• Bratrud, Tom (2013). Bisnis, risriskure, sosialitet - Melanesisk egalitet og pengebasert modernitet på Ahamb, Vanuatu. Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift.  ISSN 0802-7285.  24(2), s 100- 111

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• Bratrud, Tom (2018). The Salvesen Ami Dance: Custom, Christianity and Cultural Creativity in South Malekula, Vanuatu. Kon-Tiki Museum. Occasional Papers.  ISBN 978-82-92967-18-8.  111 s.
• Gjøstein, Dagrun Kyte; Knutsen, Lene Vea; Bratrud, Tom; Christensen, Elise; Bardalen, Ingunn; Thorbjørnsen, Vilde Fastvold; Torbjørnsen, Betina & Resset, Heidi (2011). Betwixt & Between 2011. Betwixt & Between, Sosialantropologisk institutt.  ISBN 978-82-90835-37-3.  153 s.

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• Bratrud, Tom (2021). Asserting Land, Estranging Kin: On Competing Relations of Dependence in Vanuatu. Oceania.  ISSN 0029-8077. . doi: 10.1002/ocea.5305
• Bratrud, Tom (2021, 19. juni). Usikker på munnbind-reglene? Dette må du vite.. [Internett].  TV2.
• Bratrud, Tom (2020, 20. juni). - Et gjensidig avhengighetsforhold.  Valdresmagasinet (Avisa-Valdres).
• Bratrud, Tom (2020, 20. juni). - Et gjensigig avhengighetsforhold.  Valdresmagasinet (Avisa-Valdres).
• Bratrud, Tom (2020). Frå Valdres til Vanuatu.
• Bratrud, Tom (2020, 03. juli). Går mot hyttesommer i Norge. [TV].  NRK Nyheter.
• Bratrud, Tom (2020, 28. april). Hvorfor blir det krangel mellom fastboende og hytteeiere?. [Radio].  NRK P1 Østlandssendingen.
• Lien, Marianne Elisabeth & Bratrud, Tom (2020, 08. april). Hytta, korona og drømmen om å klare seg selv.  Aftenposten.
• Bratrud, Tom (2019). Fire on the Island. Fear, hope and a Christian revival movement in Vanuatu.
• Bratrud, Tom (2018, 05. mars). Born blei kristna for å redde stillehavsøy frå moralsk krise. [Internett].  https://forskning.no/2018/03/born-blei-kristna-redde-stilleh.
• Bratrud, Tom (2018, 08. april). Cargo-kultene i Stillehavet. [Radio].  https://radio.nrk.no/serie/mellom-himmel-og-jord/DMTL0400141.
• Bratrud, Tom (2018, 27. mars). Disputerte med guddommeliggjorte barn.  Avisa Valdres.
• Bratrud, Tom (2018). Fire on the Island: The Transformative Power of a Christian Revival in Vanuatu.
• Bratrud, Tom (2018, 05. november). Hva er en hvit elefant?. [Radio].  NRK Østlandssendingen.
• Bratrud, Tom (2018, 03. april). Når en vekkelse tar et samfunn. [Radio].  NRK P2. Program: Ekko.
• Bratrud, Tom (2018, 15. april). The Prince Phillip Movement. [Radio].  NRK P1. Mellom himmel og jord.
• Bratrud, Tom (2015, 20. november). Black Friday. [TV].  NRK, Østlandssendingen.
• Bratrud, Tom (2015, 23. mai). Dette bør du ikke gi til jul. [Internett].  NRK Nordland.
• Bratrud, Tom (2015, 20. desember). Gaver - limet som holder oss sammen. [Radio].  NRK P2, Ytring.
• Bratrud, Tom (2015, 20. desember). Julegaver betyr mye for oss. [Internett].  NRK Ytring.
• Bratrud, Tom (2015, 30. november). Stedstilhørighet og flytting by-land. [Radio].  NRK, Østlandssendingen.
• Bratrud, Tom (2014). Review of Foodways and Empathy. Relatedness in a Ramu River Society, Papua New Guinea. Anthropos: Internationale Zeitschrift für Völker- und Sprachenkunde.  ISSN 0257-9774.

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