Prof. Minnich has for several decades worked in the Austro-Italian-Slovene border areas on issues pertaining to language, identity politics, border problematics, ecology and farming, as well as state formation.

Academic literature review

• Minnich, Robert Gary (2012). Serendipitous Encounters and Associations – Thirty-Two years with the SSS. (external link)
• Minnich, Robert Gary (2008). An Introduction to Papers on "New Research on Slovenes of Carinthia". (external link)

Academic lecture

• Minnich, Robert Gary (2011). From pigs to pork, from ethnic frontier to European Union: reflections over identity formation among Slovene speakers encountered between 1974 and 2006. (external link)
• Minnich, Robert Gary (2005). Some Reflections over Interdisciplinary Cooperation in the Study of an Inter-state Region: The Austro-Italian-Slovene Borderland. (external link)
• Minnich, Robert Gary (2005). Collective identity formation and linguistic identities in the Austro-Italian-Slovene border region. (external link)
• Minnich, Robert Gary (2005). Collective Identity Formation and Linguistic Identities in the Three Border Region. (external link)
• Minnich, Robert Gary (2004). Organization and leadership of full-day graduate seminar with title: An Anthropology of Collective Idenitity Formation with Reference to Theories of Ethnicity, Citizenship, Civil Society and Cultural Ecology. (external link)
• Minnich, Robert Gary (2004). On the Methodology of Studying Identity Formation in a Borderland: the Case of "Tromeje". (external link)
• Minnich, Robert Gary (2004). Implementation of the Bologna Declaration on University Reform: Experience of the Dept. of Social Anthropology, University of Bergen. (external link)
• Minnich, Robert Gary (2003). Rural Dimensions of Norwegian Modernity. (external link)
• Minnich, Robert Gary (2003). Rural Dimensions of Norwegian Identity. (external link)
• Minnich, Robert Gary (2002). Fokus på Balkan - en orientering. (external link)
• Minnich, Robert Gary (2002). Language Identity in a Borderland: the case of the Three Border Region (Austria, Italy, Slovenia). (external link)
• Minnich, Robert Gary (2002). "Speaking Slovene – Being Slovene" reconsidered: Language and Identity with Reference to the Situation of Ugovizza Villagers in Val Canale, Italy. (external link)
• Minnich, Robert Gary (2001). Citizenship beyond the state: prospects for trans-ethnic civil society in the Three Border Region. (external link)
• Minnich, Robert Gary (2000). To ben på tre steder - Et "multi-sited" antropologliv som analytisk redskap. (external link)
• Minnich, Robert Gary (2000). Language in the Making and Unmaking of an Alpine Borderland: From Mussolini and Hitler to the Iron Curtain and European Union. (external link)
• Minnich, Robert Gary (2000). At the grassroots of European integration: citizenship practices in the "Circum-Alpine" culture area. (external link)
• Minnich, Robert Gary (2000). From "culture area" to collective identity: on the ecology of identity formation in the Three Border Region. (external link)
• Minnich, Robert Gary (2000). Methods in Anthropological Inquiry. (external link)
• Minnich, Robert Gary (2000). Language, Thought and Culture. (external link)
• Minnich, Robert Gary (1997). Prospects for transnational civil society after the arrival of the European Union in a contested borderland. (external link)
• Minnich, Robert Gary (1996). The legacy of ethnic cleansing in the southeastern Alps: some implications for conflict prevention. (external link)
• Minnich, Robert Gary (1995). Citizens of Many States, Inhabitants of One Village : Civil Society along a Contested Frontier. (external link)
• Minnich, Robert Gary (1995). Slovenes in Kanalska Dolina - Kanaltal - Val Canale. (external link)
• Minnich, Robert Gary (1995). The individual as author of collective identities: reconsidering identity formation within a multilingual borderland. (external link)
• Minnich, Robert Gary (1994). Wie man in den Randlagen moderner Staaten zu Bürgern wird: Einige Überlegungen zur politischen Implikation der Ethnizität, wie sie von mehrsprachigen Dorfbewohnern im "Dreiländereck" erlebt wird. (external link)
• Minnich, Robert Gary (1993). Regionalna identiteta in integracija iz vidika domačinov Posočja in Kanalske doline (Regional identity and integration from the perspective of indigenous villagers in the Soča and Canal Valleys). (external link)

Book review

• Minnich, Robert Gary (2007). Regiono apibudinimas: Baltijos regiono tyrimai žvelgiant iš sociokultūrinės antropologijos ir tarpdisciplininiu tyrimu perspektyvos. (external link)
• Minnich, Robert Gary (2006). anmeldelse av: Changing the Basis of Citizenship in the Modern State. Political Theory and the Politics of Identity. Hakan G. Sicakkan og Yngve G. Lithman (red) New York: Edward Mellon Press (2005). (external link)
• Minnich, Robert Gary (2005). Review of: James Andersen, Liam O'Dowd and Thomas M. Wilseon, eds. Culture and Cooperation in Europe's Borderland: European Studies � An Interdisciplinary Series in European Culture, History and Politics. Vol. 19. Rodopi: Amsterdam and New York. 2003; 250 pp; 9042010851 (hbk). (external link)
• Minnich, Robert Gary (2004). Review of: Sluga, Glenda. The Problem of Trieste and the Italo-Yugoslav Border: Difference, Identity and Sovereignty in Twentieth Century Europe. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 2001. (external link)
• Minnich, Robert Gary (2004). Pamela Ballinger (2003): History in Exile. Memory and Identity at the Borders of the Balkans. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press), pp. 1-328, illustrated, ISBN 0-691-086966, hardback. (external link)
• Minnich, Robert Gary (2003). Post-socialist peasant? Rural and urban constructions of identity in Eastern Europe, East Asia, and the former Soviet Union. Ed. Pamela Leonard and Deema Kaneff. New York: Palgrave, 2002. ix, 255 pp. (external link)
• Minnich, Robert Gary (2003). Review of: Leonard, Pamela and Deema Kaneff (eds.) Post-Socialist Peasant? Rural and Urban Constructions of Identity in Eastern Europe, East Asia and the former Soviet Union. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave, 2002. (external link)

Masters thesis

• Minnich, Robert Gary; Bayissa, Gudeta Urgessa (2007). Transformed Oromo Lives. Understanding Secularization of Identity and the Role of Circumstances. (external link)
• Rognås, Hilde; Minnich, Robert Gary (2007). El Hombre Nuevo.Kontinuitet og endring i postutopiske refleksjoner over individ og stat blandt potensielle emigranter på Cuba. (external link)
• Fure Hansen, Katrine; Minnich, Robert Gary (2007). A Piece of Our Puzzle is Missing.En studie av de savnede og deres pårørende på et delt Kypros. (external link)
• Minnich, Robert Gary; Aamaas, Åsmund (2007). St.Josef i verda - Verdi i St.Josef. Ein studentheim som fleirkulturell kommunikasjon. (external link)
• Minnich, Robert Gary; Indjic, Goran (2007). Coping with Uncertainty.An Analysis of Disjunction between Young People and the State of Bosnia and Herzegovina. (external link)
• Minnich, Robert Gary; Tvete, Mia Katrine (2007). Bachata Life- social identity in the Dominican Republic through the lens of a musical tradition Bachata Life- social identity in the Dominican Republic through the lens of a musical tradition. (external link)
• Hodzic, Mirza; Minnich, Robert Gary (2006). Å leve livet flere steder. Identitet og deterritorialiserte liv blant bosniske flyktninger i Bergensregionen. (external link)

Thesis at a second degree level

• Teigen, Anne Mette; Minnich, Robert Gary (2007). In the Borderland between Childhood and Adulthood:Social agency among Working and Street Children in the Dominican Republic. (external link)
• Simonsen, Jan Espen; Minnich, Robert Gary (2007). Ikke la Ohridsjøen bli som Dojransjøen.Organisering, deltakelse og identitet i Ohridregionen, Makedonia. (external link)
• Lysen, Kirsten; Minnich, Robert Gary (2007). Innføring av parlamentarisme i Bergen- Politiske roller i endring i Bergen Bystyre. (external link)
• Mikkelsen, Karen Marie; Minnich, Robert Gary (2006). Ingen kommer fra Lisboa. Identitetshåndtering, endring og sosial mobilitet i portugisisk middelklasse. (external link)
• Sundve, Kristin; Minnich, Robert Gary (2005). The pure life. Respectability and reputation in the world-making of Dominican Rastafarians. (external link)
• Jakobsen, Anne Solveig; Minnich, Robert Gary (2005). Å leke sammen. Samhandlingsmønstre blant barn i en flerkulturell skole. (external link)
• Stornes, Torunn; Minnich, Robert Gary (2005). Rebels in the Mormon 'Heartland'. Identity management and boundary maintenance among youth in the context of Utah. (external link)
• Odner, Maja; Minnich, Robert Gary (2005). Samliv med usedvanlige mennesker. En etnografisk beskrivelse av en Camphill-landsby for psykisk utviklingshemmede i Nordvest-Russland. (external link)
• Døscher, Cathrine; Minnich, Robert Gary (2004). Deltakelse i fellesskap: Perspektiver på uttrykk for sivilt samfunn i Havanna, Cuba. (external link)

Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

• Minnich, Robert Gary (2007). Citizenship beyond the state: on the formation of civil society in the Three-Border Region. (external link)
• Minnich, Robert Gary (2006). Einige abschließende Bemerkungen aus antropologischer Sicht. (external link)
• Minnich, Robert Gary (2006). Bürger eines Grenzlandes - individuelle Wege zur Selbstbestimmung. (external link)
• Minnich, Robert Gary (2006). Collective identity formation and linguistic identities in the Austro-Italian-Slovene border region. (external link)
• Minnich, Robert Gary (2002). From 'Culture Area' to Collective Identity: On the Ecology of Identity Formation in the Three Border Region. (external link)
• Minnich, Robert Gary (2000). Under the Linden Tree: A Slovenian Life on a Contested State Frontier. (external link)
• Minnich, Robert Gary (1997). Wie man an den Rändern moderner Staaten zu Bürgern wird. (external link)
• Minnich, Robert Gary (1993). Uvodna beseda avtorja (author's introduction). (external link)
• Minnich, Robert Gary (1987). Introduction. (external link)
• Minnich, Robert Gary (1979). Styringsproblemer i jugoslavias migrasjonspolitikk (Problems in the implementation of Yugoslavia's migration policy). (external link)
• Minnich, Robert Gary (1976). Jugoslavia - kort utredning om den jugoslaviske erfaring med bilaterale avtaler i forsøket på å regulere migrasjon over nasjonale grenser. (Yugoslavia- a short report om the Yugoslav experience with bilateral conventions which seek to regulate migration across national frontiers). (external link)

Academic article

• Minnich, Robert Gary (2006). Some reflections over inter-disciplinary cooperation in the study of an inter-state region: the Austro-Italian-Slovene borderland. (external link)
• Minnich, Robert Gary (2002). Die Leute von Ugovizza: Kollektive Identitäten im alpinen Raum. (external link)
• Minnich, Robert Gary (1998). Anthropology as text. (external link)
• Minnich, Robert Gary (1998). Prospects for transnational civil society following the arrival of the European Union in a contested borderland. (external link)
• Minnich, Robert Gary (1997). Civil Society and the Legacy of Ethnic Cleansing in the Southeastern Alps: Some Implications for Conflict Prevention. (external link)
• Minnich, Robert Gary (1994). Citizenship and the politicization of ethnicity as aspects of state-making in marginal Southcentral European communities. (external link)
• Minnich, Robert Gary (1993). Reflections on the violent death of multi-ethnic state: a Slovene perspective. (external link)
• Minnich, Robert Gary (1990). At the interface of the germanic, romance and slavic worlds - folk culture as an idiom of collective self-images in the southeastern Alps. (external link)
• Minnich, Robert Gary (1989). Tradition in the face of modernization: cultural continuity and 'deagrarization' in the village of Ukve. (external link)
• Minnich, Robert Gary (1988). Speaking Slovene - being Slovene: verbal codes and collective selfimages. Some correlations between Kanalska doline and Zilska dolina. (external link)
• Minnich, Robert Gary (1987). Koline kot darilo in izražanje identitete v slovenski kmečki družbi. . (external link)
• Minnich, Robert Gary (1982). The symbolic dimension of West Haloze peasant technology. (external link)
• Minnich, Robert Gary (1982). Anthropological contributions to the study of law. (external link)

Report

• Minnich, Robert Gary (2006). Syllabus: SANT 120 "Anthropology of Scandinavia". (external link)
• Minnich, Robert Gary (2006). Syllabus: SANT 116 "Regional Ethnography: Europe / Norden". (external link)
• Minnich, Robert Gary (1997). Syllabus: SAS 10 "Anthropology of Scandinavia". (external link)
• Minnich, Robert Gary (1994). Metodologija antropološkega raziskovanja (a revised curriculum). (external link)

Popular scientific lecture

• Minnich, Robert Gary (2006). Norway and Norwegians. (external link)
• Minnich, Robert Gary (1998). An economy of ethnicity and the production of collective identity in Val Canale. (external link)
• Minnich, Robert Gary (1998). Leben im Nationalstaat - am Beispiel persönlicher Schicksale. (external link)
• Minnich, Robert Gary (1997). Sivilt samfunn - private organisasjoner- konfliktløsning. (external link)
• Minnich, Robert Gary (1996). Percepcija pripadnosti (perceptions of identity). (external link)
• Minnich, Robert Gary (1994). Statsborgerskap, politisert etnisitet og dannelsen av moderne stater i den sørlige Sentral-Europa. (external link)
• Minnich, Robert Gary (1994). Etnisk nasjonalisme mht. opprettelsen og forfall av den jugoslaviske stat. (external link)

Poster

• Minnich, Robert Gary (2005). Panel discussant - New Research by Young Scholars in Slovene Studies: the Kozolec, the EMU, Clitics. (external link)

Non-fiction book

• Minnich, Robert Gary; Gulbrandsen, Ørnulf; Knudsen, John Chr (1998). Homesteaders and Citizens: Collective identity formation on the Austro-Italian-Slovene frontier. (external link)
• Minnich, Robert Gary (1987). Aspects Of Polish Folk Culture: An Anthology of Contemporary Research from the Department of Slavic Ethnography, Cracow. (external link)
• Minnich, Robert Gary; Bialy, Zbigiew; Bujak, Jan et al. (1987). Aspects Of Polish Folk Culture: An Anthology of Contemporary Research from the Department of Slavic Ethnography, Cracow. (external link)
• Minnich, Robert Gary (1979). The Homemade World Of Zagaj - An Interpretation of the 'Practical Life' among Traditional Peasant-Farmers in West Haloze, Slovenia, Yugoslavia. (external link)

Feature article

• Minnich, Robert Gary (1997). From Volksgruppe to Nation: The Politicization of Ethnic Difference in Bilingual Carinthia. A review of: Slowenisch oder deutsch? Nationale Differenzierungsprozesse in Kaernten (1848-1914), by Janko Pleterski. (external link)
• Minnich, Robert Gary (1996). A participant's observations of the course: <I>metodologija antropološkega raziskovanja</I> (anthropological research methods). (external link)
• Minnich, Robert Gary (1993). Peasant Russia: Family and Community in the Post Emancipation Period. (external link)

Compendium

• Minnich, Robert Gary (1996). Partition and Integration of the Three Country Region. (external link)

Doctoral dissertation

• Minnich, Robert Gary (1993). Homesteaders and Citizens: An Ecology of Person and Self-realization Among Slovene Speaking Villagers on the Austro-Italian Frontier. (external link)

Academic monograph

• Minnich, Robert Gary (1993). Socialni antropolog o slovencih - zbornik socialnoantropoloških besedil. (external link)

See a complete overview of publications in Cristin.

2008. An Introduction to Papers on "New Research on Slovenes of Carinthia". Slovene studies, 30(2): 219-223.

2007. Citizenship beyond the state: on the formation of civil society in the Three-Border Region, in Warwick Armstrong and James Anderson (eds.) Geopolitics of European Union Enlargement. The fortress empire. London: Routledge, pp. 177-191.

2006. Collective identity formation and linguistic identities in the Austro-Italian-Slovene border region, in Dieter Stern and Christian Voss (red.) Marginal Linguistic Identities. Studies in Slavic Contact and Borderland Varieties. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, pp. 103-118.

2002. From ‘Culture Area' to Collective Identity: On the Ecology of Identity Formation in the Three Border Region, in Bojan Baakar and Irena Weber (eds.) MESS - Mediterranean Ethnological Summer School , Vol. 4 Piran/Pirano, Slovenia, 1999-2000. Ljubljana: University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts, Dept. of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, pp. 115-133.

2000. Under the Linden Tree: A Slovenian Life on a Contested State Frontier, in Joel Martin Halpern and David A Kideckel (eds.) Neighbours at War: Anthropological Perspectives on Yugoslav Ethnicity, Culture and History. University Park, PA.: Pennsylvania State University Press, pp. 143-163.

1998. Homesteaders and Citizens: Collective identity formation on the Austro-Italian-Slovene frontier. Bergen Studies in Social Anthropology No. 52. Bergen: Norse Publications .

1994. Citizenship and the politicization of ethnicity as aspects of state-making in marginal South-central European communities. Teorija in Praksa, XXXI (3-4): 267-283.

1988. Speaking Slovene - being Slovene: verbal codes and collective self-images: some correlations between Kanalska dolina and Ziljska dolina. Slovene Studies, 10 (2): 125-147.

1979. The Homemade World of Zagaj: An Interpretation of the "Practical life" Among Traditional Peasant-Farmers in West Haloze - Slovenia, Yugoslavia. Bergen: Dept. of Social Anthropology (Occasional Papers #18).