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Hana kleberbrudd
Photo:
Per Storemyr

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Our research is primarily based on the Universitymuseum of Bergen's collections, the archaeological, ethnographical and the other cultural-history collections.  The research is thus completely integrated in the museum’s other activities such as field work, collection, conservation and communication.

The research shall contribute to understanding and communication of the collection’s significance, and also challenge the present perspectives of our prehistory, history and present time.

As an interdisciplinary institution, an important task of the Universitymuseum is to stimulate research where cultural sciences and natural sciences, methods and perspectives supplement each other.

Nepal
There were spontaneous festivities in the Nepalese village of Okharbot after the film Tama Gaun – the copper village. An collaborative project between anthropology and archaeology
Photo:
Dipesh Kharel
The Farm as a Social Arena
Presenting of the research project « The Farm as a Social Arena" in Vik municipality.
Photo:
Alf Tore Hommedal
Arkeologisk registrering
Archaeological surveying of structures in outlying fields at the Hellaugvassdraget, Etne municipality, as part of a PhD project.
Photo:
Gitte Hansen
Syngeboller lages i Nepal
The singing bowls are made in Nepal, and are bought by tourists as souvenirs, but are also used globally as a therapeutic and healing instrument in alternative medicine practices. From fieldwork in Kathmandu, 2016.
Photo:
Åshild Sunde Feyling Thorsen
Emplyees of the Research section 

Nils Anfinset

Professor, Vice-dean

  • +47 55 58 29 08

Nils.Anfinset@uib.no

Knut Andreas Bergsvik

Professor, Archaeology

  • +47 55 58 31 36

knut.bergsvik@uib.no

Gitte Hansen

Professor, Medieval archaeology

  • +47 55 58 80 26

gitte.hansen@uib.no

Alf Tore Hommedal

Professor

  • +47 55 58 80 23

Alf.Tore.Hommedal@uib.no

Justin E A Kroesen

Professor, Material Culture of Christianity

  • +47 55 58 31 27

Justin.Kroesen@uib.no

Knut Rio

Professor, Anthropology

  • +47 55 58 31 12
  • +4792056992

knut.rio@uib.no

Åshild Sunde Feyling Thorsen

Adviser, Senior curator, PhD candidate in visual anthropology

  • +47 55 58 31 22
  • +47 951 76 610

Ashild.Thorsen@uib.no

Henrik von Achen

Professor

  • +47 55 58 31 20
  • +47 924 45 843

henrik.von.achen@uib.no

Anna Wessman

Professor, Iron Age

  • +47 412 58 634
  • 0445703403

anna.wessman@uib.no

Trond Lødøen

Associate Professor

  • +47 55 58 29 29
  • +47 950 70 433

trond.lodoen@uib.no

29.04.2022