I have two ethnographic foci: Indonesia, in particular Central Java, and the Nordic countries (“Norden”). In my master work (1988), I studied Islam and ritual change in a rural context north of Semarang, Java, while my doctoral thesis (1995) analyzed formations of self and person among underprivileged people in the city of Yogyakarta. Since then, I have focused on a range of topics related to Javanese everyday life: politics, community and violence, microscale entrepreneurship, and cultural heritage in the context of state transformations.

From approximately 2010, I have primarily focused on discourse about the Nordic countries, not least assertions about a peculiar Nordic “egalitarianism”. Adopting a diachronic perspective, my research concentrates on class formations and mobility over time and, in particular, the mutual effects of movements in geographical and social space. I aim at identifying micro mechanisms of social mobility and in particular examine the role of social networks (based in kinship, marriage, neighborhood, work place, and political or religious allegiance) in the formation of social collectives and careers through time. The approach allows a critique of predominant conceptions about continuity in Nordic local communities (based in cultural constructions of “odel”, kinship solidarity, attachments to place etc.). My empirical case studies are Agder, Norway, and Finnskogen (the Finnish forests) of Norway and Sweden.

More generally, I have become increasingly interested in the theoretical basis of anthropology, not least how our insights about human life compare to the knowledge produced by other social and cultural sciences. Anthropology has developed out of a productive tension between the ambition to be the overarching study of humans versus a specialized niche discipline aimed at conveying sociocultural multiplicity (or «alternative realities») ignored by other disciplines. This tension not only reflects the controversy between generalist and particularistic approaches; it raises fundamental questions about renderings of epistemology and ontology. The so-called “ontological turn” in anthropology during the 2000s has revived interest in this dichotomy, but in my view, the “turn” aggravates rather than solves the basic theoretical problems involved. In contrast, I explore possibilities for a Realist Anthropology, based in positions of philosophical realism.

Spring 2013: SANT 215 - Komparativ regional etnografi - Sørøst-Asia (Regional comparisons)

Autumn 2011: SANT 260 - Bacheloroppgave (Bachelor essay)

Autumn 2010: SANT 100 - Invitasjon til sosialantropologi (Introductory course)

Spring 2010: SANT 260 - Bacheloroppgave (Bachelor essay).

Spring 2010: Member of the Department's Teaching Committee; responsible for the bachelor program in Social Anthropology.

2005-2008 (minus Spring 06): Responsible for the Department's Bachelor- and Master programs in Social Anthropology.

Autumn 2007: SANT 101 - Menneske, kultur og samfunn: Innføring i sosialantropologi (Introductory course).

Spring 2007: SANT 203 - Religion, ritual og politiske realiteter (Course on religion, ritual and power).

Autumn 2005: SANT 601 - Menneske, kultur og samfunn: Innføring i sosialantropologi; Fjernundervisning (Introductory course; distant learning).

Spring 2005: SANT 601 - Menneske, kultur og samfunn: Innføring i sosialantropologi; Fjernundervisning (Introductory course; distant learning).

Short communication

• Bråten, Eldar (2023). 'Utopian confluences': Final reply.. (external link)

Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

• Bråten, Eldar (2023). Dynamics of localized social responsibility: A case from Agder, Norway. (external link)
• Bråten, Eldar (2018). 'Yogya Inc.': Transformed kingship in decentralizing Indonesia. (external link)
• Bråten, Eldar (2016). Reading Holbraad: Truth and doubt in the context of ontological inquiry. (external link)
• Bråten, Eldar (2015). Sultanen av Yogyakarta: Entifisering, identitetspolitikk og kongemakt på Java, Indonesia. (external link)
• Bråten, Eldar (2013). Embedded micro-businesses: Trust, incorporation and scaling in Javanese 'family firms'. (external link)
• Bråten, Eldar (2013). Introduction: Cultural embedding. (external link)
• Bråten, Eldar; Ystanes, Margit (2007). "Kritisk selvstendighet" gjennom fjernundervisning. (external link)
• Bråten, Eldar (2005). Ressurecting "Java": A call for a "Java"nese anthropology. (external link)
• Bråten, Eldar (2002). 'Kampung' revenge: Crime, state, and neighborhood retaliation in Java. (external link)
• Bråten, Eldar (2002). Against community, beyond humanity: Grasping "violence" in Java. (external link)
• Bråten, Eldar (1999). To Colour, Not Oppose: Spreading Islam in Rural Java. (external link)
• Bråten, Eldar (1999). Against community, beyond humanity: Grasping "violence" in Java. (external link)
• Bråten, Eldar (1989). Safe is ambiguous. Identity management and conditions of islamization in a Central-Javanese village. (external link)

Masters thesis

• Johansen, Irmelin; Bråten, Eldar (2023). Permaculture on the Iberian Peninsula: Networks and praxis . (external link)
• Folgerø-Holm, Kari Hilde; Bråten, Eldar (2022). «Ein må tole å bli skitten på fingrane» - Ein studie av identitet og fellesskap blant unge i industristaden Odda. (external link)
• Kjeldsen, Mina Breistein Elmelund; Bråten, Eldar (2021). Ensomhetens kultur. En studie av ensomhet i Norge i lys av kulturelle forståelser av sosiabilitet og hverdagspraksiser. (external link)
• Myrvågnes, Ole Ulvestad; Bråten, Eldar (2020). Langturseilere i marina. En studie om kommunikasjon, nettverk og makt i seilbåtmiljø i Panama og Guatemala. (external link)
• Almklov, Constanze; Bråten, Eldar (2018). "I hope your mom gets cancer and dies!" An anthropological study of sociality within virtual worlds. (external link)
• Erstad, Tollef; Bråten, Eldar (2017). "Ingen hendelser er like". En studie av brannkonstablers forståelse av, og skapelse av, sikkerhet. (external link)
• Birkeland, Marianne; Bråten, Eldar (2014). Verdiuttrykk i den tredje alder; selvstendighet, likhet, ansvarlighet og anerkjennelse i de sosiale fellesskapene. (external link)
• Røthe, Karine; Bråten, Eldar (2013). Common Dreams and Individual Goals. Negotiating Identity Across the Thai-Burma Border. (external link)
• Aydin, Gazal; Bråten, Eldar (2013). Bløming: Stedstilhørighet og tradisjoner i en bygd i Hardanger. (external link)
• Asphaug, Anne-Marte Hagen; Bråten, Eldar (2013). Bandits of Mandiri. Analysis of a land occupation in Lore Lindu National Park, Indonesia. (external link)
• Aasen, Heidi-Beate; Bråten, Eldar (2011). Barns ulike møter med kunst og kultur. 
Hvordan barn fra en bydelsskole i Bergen møter Den kulturelle skolesekken. (external link)
• Ølander, Martin; Bråten, Eldar (2010). You Can Eat Rice, but You Can`t Eat Money. Commercial Agriculture and the Value of Rice in an Upland Karen Village. (external link)
• Jamt Tønjum, Lise; Bråten, Eldar (2009). "Maria Clara eksisterer jo ikke lenger" En Studie av diskurs og holdninger til prevensjonsmidler og familieetablering blant unge filippinske kvinner i høyere klasser. (external link)
• Hurthi Kristiansen, Irene; Bråten, Eldar (2009). Christian Charity Work in the Contemporary United States. - Volunteering os a practice in Huston, Texas. (external link)
• Bere, Anja; Bråten, Eldar (2009). To Be in the World but Not of it: American Evangelicals and the Dilemmas of beinig Christian in a Secular World. (external link)
• Aini, Nurul; Bråten, Eldar (2008). Chinese Indonesians Post Conflict and Violence Experiences. Coping with Insecurities and Reconstructing Identity. (external link)
• Rohde Rafto, Heidi; Bråten, Eldar (2008). Tihørighet og utestengelser. (external link)
• Fivelstad, Ellen Angelika; Bråten, Eldar (2008). Socio A Mi Me Falta...- Kammerat, eg manglar.... (external link)
• Morberg, Mari-Kristine; Bråten, Eldar (2008). Revolusjon på la plaza, i hjemme og i senga -Utfordring og reproduksjon av kjønnspraksis i Buenos Aires. (external link)
• Bråten, Eldar; Klokk, Atle (2007). Min musikk og alle andre. (external link)
• Brodtkorb, Thomas; Bråten, Eldar (2006). I og UtenforUnge pinsevenners identitetshåndtering i en urban kontekst. (external link)

Academic article

• Bråten, Eldar (2022). The “ontological turn” in anthropology: self-silencing irrealism. (external link)
• Bråten, Eldar (2022). The ‘onto-logics’ of perspectival multi-naturalism: A realist critique. (external link)
• Bråten, Eldar (2020). Viruses beyond epistemic fallacy. (external link)
• Bråten, Eldar (2019). «Min haplogruppe» - Biologi, slektskap og kulturell identitet i lys av genetisk genealogi. (external link)
• Bråten, Eldar (2018). Critical realist anthropology - exemplification of a non-conflationary perspective. (external link)
• Bråten, Eldar (2016). Kritisk realistisk antropologi - Eksemplifisering av et ikke-konflatorisk perspektiv. (external link)
• Bråten, Eldar (2015). Spørsmål om «ontologi»: Momenter til en realistisk antropologi. (external link)
• Bråten, Eldar (2013). Introduksjon - Den gang da: Synkrone og diakrone perspektiver på "fortid". (external link)
• Bråten, Eldar (2013). Slekt, jord og odel i Vest-Agder: Bondegods som "hus"?. (external link)
• Bråten, Eldar (2002). Feltarbeidet i fare? En pragmatisk tilnærming. (external link)
• Bråten, Eldar (2002). Research on Southeast Asia in the Nordic Countries. (external link)
• Bråten, Eldar (2002). Railways, sugar mills - and the politics of "culture". (external link)
• Bråten, Eldar (2001). Marked, stat og det antropologiske rom. (external link)
• Bråten, Eldar (1999). Hvordan forholde seg til "det nye?" Møte mellom gamle normer og ny virkelighet på Java, Indonesia. (external link)
• Bråten, Eldar (1997). "Person, time and conduct":et skråblikk på symbolantropologien. (external link)
• Bråten, Eldar (1993). Mennesket i den etnografiske beskrivelse: Noen grunnlagsproblemer,. (external link)

Article in business/trade/industry journal

• Bråten, Eldar (2022). 'Utopian Confluences’: A Critique. (external link)

Book review

• Bråten, Eldar (2021). HEUSER, ERIC ANTON. Friendship in Java: narratives of relatedness and culture politics in postcolonial Indonesia. 221 pp., bibliogr. Berlin: regiospectra Verlag, 2018. €28.90 (paper). (external link)
• Bråten, Eldar (2017). Ottar Brox: På vei mot et postindustrielt klassesamfunn? Om vi vil unngå for store forskjeller i våre barns Norge, er det mye å lære av våre forfedre. (external link)
• Bråten, Eldar (2013). Anmeldelse av Cecilie B. Neumann og Iver B. Beumann: Forskeren i forskningsprosessen: Metodebok om situering. (external link)
• Bråten, Eldar (2001). Varieties of Javanese Religion: An Anthropological Account. Andrew Beatty. (external link)

Academic anthology/Conference proceedings

• Bråten, Eldar (2013). Embedded entrepreneurship: Market, culture, and micro-business in insular Southeast Asia. (external link)

Academic lecture

• Bråten, Eldar (2012). Egalitet i Norden - Innledning. (external link)
• Bråten, Eldar (2012). "Egalitet i Norden" - Konvergerende og motstridende perspektiver. (external link)
• Bråten, Eldar (2011). Synkrone og diakrone perspektiver på "fortid". (external link)
• Bråten, Eldar (2011). Slekt, jord og odel i Vest-Agder: Bondegods som "hus"?. (external link)
• Bråten, Eldar (2010). Kultur og entreprenørskap: Noen teoretiske betraktninger. (external link)
• Bråten, Eldar (2010). Slekt og rom: Klassebaserte sjangere i slektsforskningen. (external link)
• Bråten, Eldar (2009). Innledning: Statens utfordringer - Makt, suverenitet og dagligliv. (external link)
• Bråten, Eldar (2009). ”Yogya Inc.”: Transformed kingship in decentralising Indonesia. (external link)
• Bråten, Eldar (2009). Desentralisering, revitalisering og motstand i Yogyakartaprovinsen, Indonesia. (external link)
• Bråten, Eldar (2009). Slekt og rom: Klassebaserte genre i slektsforskningen. (external link)
• Bråten, Eldar (2008). Embedded Entrepreneurship: Cases from Southeast Asia. (external link)
• Bråten, Eldar (2007). Norske Rom - Mot konkretiseringer av noen forskningstematikker. (external link)
• Bråten, Eldar (2007). Eidskog, Oslo Øst og Minneapolis: Geografisk og sosial mobilitet i en husmannsslekt. (external link)
• Bråten, Eldar (2007). Eidskog, Oslo Øst og Minneapolis: Geografisk og sosial mobilitet i en husmannsslekt. (external link)
• Bråten, Eldar (2005). On scaling and incorporation in Javanese micro enterprises, with examples from Semarang, Indonesia. (external link)
• Bråten, Eldar (2005). General issues: The notion of economic "embedding". (external link)
• Bråten, Eldar (2004). Concluding Remarks. (external link)
• Bråten, Eldar (2003). 11. september i Indonesia: Det globale og det lokale. (external link)
• Bråten, Eldar (2002). Migration, entrepreneurship and community formation in contemporary Southeast Asia. (external link)
• Bråten, Eldar (2002). Feltarbeidet i fare? En pragmatisk tilnærming. (external link)
• Bråten, Eldar (2002). Democratisation: The role of socio-cultural patterns. (external link)
• Bråten, Eldar (2001). Market cultures and small-scale enterprises in Java. (external link)
• Bråten, Eldar (2001). Railways, sugar mills - and the politics of culture. (external link)
• Bråten, Eldar (2001). On the concept of culture. (external link)

Doctoral dissertation

• Larsen, Hege Myrlund; Frøystad, Kathinka; Kapferer, Bruce et al. (2010). Buddhism in Popular Culture: The case of Sri Lankan ‘Tovil dance'. (external link)
• Bråten, Eldar (1995). Riddles of inverted being: A case of self and fellowship formation in Yogyakarta, Java. (external link)

Thesis at a second degree level

• Bråten, Eldar; Nordnes, Marthe Katrine (2007). It’s hard to be the same when you are treated differently.Kvinnelige entreprenører og identitetsforståelse i Penang, Malaysia. (external link)
• Bråten, Eldar; Barlaug, Maria Dovran (2007). I feel like an animal.Opplevelser og erfaringer i den Ecuadorianske regnskogen. (external link)
• Stallemo, Maren; Bråten, Eldar (2007). ”Guanxi” in a changing Shanghai - a study of the production, reproduction and conversion of social capital within a Scandinavian company in Shanghai, China. (external link)
• Hansen Gishu, Frode; Bråten, Eldar (2006). ''No Chatter!'' En studie av Zen-Buddhistisk praksis i England. (external link)
• Southard, Beate; Bråten, Eldar (2006). Being Naked is one way we Pray here.Boundaries of Sexuality and Naturalness in a New Age community in California. (external link)
• Røed, Grethe; Bråten, Eldar (2006). ''Fly now...Pay later...'' Kvinnelige filipinske sykepleieres motivasjoner for arbeidsmigrasjon og ytre strukturelle påvirkninger. (external link)
• Olsen, Solgunn Flatebø; Bråten, Eldar (2005). Discourses on Malay entrepreneurship: Indigenous malayness, neoliberalism and ambivalence in urban Malaysia. (external link)
• Johansen, Kristina ; Bråten, Eldar (2004). Som i en boble:Velstående colombianere vold, usikkerhet og kamp om rom. (external link)
• Bråten, Eldar (1988). Respect for power? Islamization and impression management in a Javanese village. (external link)

Multimedia product

• Bråten, Eldar; Bøe, Ragnar (2005). Modul for nettbasert formidling av forelesninger og etnografisk film. (external link)

Compendium

• Bjelland, Anne Karen; Bråten, Eldar; Grønhaug, Reidar (2003). SANT 101; Menneske, kultur og samfunn. Innføring i sosialantropologi.. (external link)
• Bråten, Eldar (1997). Helbredelsens epistemologi:en tilnærming til subjektive transformasjoner. (external link)

Reader opinion piece

• Bråten, Eldar (2000). Konstruksjon, destruksjon- og livsmening: Noen tanker fra en konferanse. (external link)

Report

• Bråten, Eldar; Knudsen, Ståle (1996). Pre-Study on P4K. Credit to small farmers and landless in Indonesia. (external link)
• Tvedt, Terje; Brekke, Hilde; Bråten, Eldar (1992). Norwegian Development Aid Evaluations 1980-1989. A Bibliography. (external link)

Popular scientific lecture

• Bråten, Eldar (1996). Recapturing "Java": A call for a Javanese anthropology;. (external link)
• Bråten, Eldar (1995). Black holes in white pursuit: Conceptualizing mystical self transformation. (external link)
• Bråten, Eldar (1995). Teaching anthropology: Perspectives for the 21th century. (external link)
• Bråten, Eldar (1991). Mediated Learning Experience (MLE) and psycho-social development: Western concepts and Sundanese reality. (external link)

Non-fiction book

• Bråten, Eldar; Tvedt, Terje; Brekke, Hilde (1991). Bibliography on Norwegian development research 1980-1989: A compilation of Norwegian research on Africa, Asia, Latin-America, Oceania and North-South relations. (external link)
• Tvedt, Terje; Brekke, H.; Bråten, Eldar (1991). A bibliography of Norwegian Development Research 1980-89. A compilaton of Norwegian research on Africa, Asia, Latin America and Oceania and on North-South relations. (external link)

See a complete overview of publications in Cristin.

Journal articles

2024. Coronavirus Verity: Anti-dualist Evasiveness. Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale, online first, Dec. 2024. Coronavirus Verity in: Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale - Ahead of print

2024. ANT, SPIDER and DNA: Letting mindless generative mechanisms speak. Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford Vol XVI: 51-71. jaso_16_2024_51-71_braten.pdf

2023. 'Utopian confluences': Final reply. Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale 31(2): 157–160. https://doi.org/10.3167/saas.2023.310210

2022a. The ‘onto-logics’ of perspectival multi-naturalism: A realist critique. Anthropological Theory 22(2): 201-221. https://doi.org/10.1177/14634996211072369

2022b. The “ontological turn” in anthropology: Self-silencing irrealism Public Anthropologist 4(2): 160-183. https://doi.org/10.1163/25891715-bja10036

2022c. ‘Utopian Confluences’: A Critique. Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale 30(1): 134-139. https://doi.org/10.3167/saas.2022.300110

2020. Viruses beyond epistemic fallacy. Social Anthropology. https://doi.org/10.1111/1469-8676.12839

2019. «Min haplogruppe» - Biologi, slektskap og kulturell identitet i lys av genetisk genealogi. Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift Volum 30.(1) s. 59-77. https://www.idunn.no/nat/2019/01/min_haplogruppe

2018. Critical realist anthropology - exemplification of a non-conflationary perspective. Déjà lu Volum 6. https://www.waunet.org/downloads/wcaa/dejalu/feb_2018/norsk.pdf

2016. Kritisk realistisk antropologi - eksemplifisering av et ikke-konflatorisk perspektiv. Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift. 27(2):121-137. [Price for best NAT article in 2016] https://www.idunn.no/nat/2016/02/kritisk_realistisk_antropologi_-_eksemplifisering_av_et_ikk]

2015. Spørsmål om «ontologi»: Momenter til en realistisk antropologi. Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift. 26(2):162-176.

2013. Introduksjon - Den gang da: Synkrone og diakrone perspektiver på "fortid". Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift. 24(3-4):157-168.

2013. Slekt, jord og odel i Vest-Agder: Bondegods som "hus"? Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift. 24(3-4):221-234.

2002. Introduction: Research on Southeast Asia in the Nordic countries. Asian Journal of Social Science, 30: 471-475.

2002. Studentfeltarbeidet i fare? En pragmatisk tilnærming. Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift, 13(4): 187-196.

2002. Research on Southeast Asia in the Nordic Countries. Asian Journal of Social Science, 30(3): 471-475.

2001. Stat, marked og det antropologiske rom. Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift, 12(1-2): 9-15.

2000. Konstruksjon, destruksjon - og livsmening: Noen tanker fra en konferanse. Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift, 11(3): 157-160.

1997. "Person, time and conduct". Et skråblikk på symbolantropologien. Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift, 8(2): 85-95.

1993. Mennesket i den etnografiske beskrivelse: Noen grunnlagsproblemer. Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift, 4(1): 28-42.

Chapters in in anthologies

2023. Dynamics of localized social responsibility: A case from Agder, Norway. In: Knudsen (ed.): Corporate Social Responsibility and the Paradoxes of State Capitalism. Berghahn Books. Pp. 92-114.

2018. 'Yogya Inc.': Transformed kingship in decentralizing Indonesia. In: State, Resistance, Transformation: Anthropological Perspectives on the Dynamics of Power in Contemporary Global Realities. Sean Kingston Publishing, p. 119-151.

2016. Reading Holbraad - Truth and doubt in the context of ontological inquiry. In: Bjørn E. Bertelsen and Synnøve Bendixsen (eds.): Critical Anthropological Engagements in Human Alterity and Difference. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. p.273-294. 

2015. Sultanen av Yogyakarta: Entifisering, identitetspolitikk og kongemakt på Java, Indonesia. I: Harald Aspen, Malin Noem Ravn og Emil André Røyrvik (red.): Det skapende mennesket: Antropologiske dialoger om tegn, ting og tolkning. Oslo: Scandinavian Academic Press, p.45-63.

2013. Introduction: Cultural Embedding, i: Eldar Bråten (red.): Embedded Entrepreneurship: Market, Culture, and Micro-Business in Insular Southeast Asia. Leiden and Boston: Brill. Pp. 1-28.

2013. Embedded Micro-Businesses: Trust, incorporation and scaling in Javanese 'family firms', i: Eldar Bråten (red.): Embedded Entrepreneurship: Market, Culture, and Micro-Business in Insular Southeast Asia. Leiden and Boston: Brill. Pp.253-274.

2007. [med Margit Ystanes] "Kritisk selvstendighet" gjennom fjernundervisning, medforfatter Margit Ystanes, i Gunnar Myklebost og Olav Skare (red.) Om Re-mediering av Undervisning - og Læring Gjennom Samarbeid. Refleksjoner over Prosjekterfaringer 2006. Tromsø: Norgesuniversitetet, pp. 35-46.

2005. Resurrecting "Java": A call for a "Java"nese anthropology, i Jörgen Hellman og Hans Antlöv (red.) The Java that Never Was: Academic Theories and Political Practices. Münster: LIT Verlag, pp. 21-42.

2002. ‘Kampung' Revenge: Crime, state, and neighborhood retaliation in Java, i Tor H. Aase (red.) Tournaments of Power: Honour and Revenge in the Contemporary World. Aldershot UK: Ashgate Publishing Ltd, pp. 115-142.

2002. Against community, beyond humanity: Grasping "violence" in Java, i Frans Hüsken og Huub de Jonge (red.) Violence and Vengeance: Discontent and Conflict in New Order Indonesia. Saarbrücken: Verlag für Entwicklungspolitik, pp. 11-30.

1999. Hvordan forholde seg til "det nye"? Møte mellom gamle normer og ny virkelighet på Java, Indonesia, i Else Mundal and Ingvild Øye (red.) Norm og praksis i Middelaldersamfunnet. Bergen: Senter for Europeiske Kulturstudier, pp. 206-230.

1999. To colour, not oppose: Spreading Islam in rural Java, i Leif Manger (red.) Muslim Diversity: Local Islam in Global Contexts. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, pp. 150-172.

1989. Safe is ambiguous. Identity management and conditions of islamization in a Central-Javanese village, i Mikael Gravers (red.) Southeast Asia between autocracy and democracy. Århus : Aarhus University Press, pp. 57-59.

Edited books/journal issues

2013. Eldar Bråten (ed.): Norsk fortid. Temanummer av Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift, 24(3-4).

2013. Eldar Bråten (ed.): Embedded Entrepreneurship: Market, Culture, and Micro-Business in Insular Southeast Asia. Leiden and Boston: Brill.

2002. Eldar Bråten (ed.): Research on Southeast Asia in the Nordic countries. Asian Journal of Social Science, 30 (3).

Online lectures

2020. Grunntrekk i en mulig realismeantropologi. [in Norwegian; Basic principles of a possible Realist Anthropology] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnJM-oHXgwrLm1aJNrOg3sw/

 

Completed 2008: Migrants and Entrepreneurs in Insular Southeast Asia (21 researchers and students from Norway and Southeast Asia; project leader: Eldar Bråten)

Completed 2010: Magico-political transformations of "Jogja"; individual project under the research group and research project Challenging the State (project leader: Bruce Kapferer)

Ongoing: I) Class, migration and mobility in Nordic rural communities, ii) Theoretical potentials in critical realist anthropology