Eldar Bråten
Biographic Data
| ID | 121669 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eldar Bråten |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eldar |
| FAMILY NAME | Bråten |
| SIGNATURE | BRÅTEN E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bergen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8903-5220 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Livet på randen – kontinuitet og diskontinuitet i norsk underklasse
I denne artikkelen hevder jeg at antropologiske representasjoner av ‘det norske’ i for stor grad inspireres av historisk vellykkede sosiale tilpasninger. Fokuset er hovedsakelig ‘positiv’ samfunnsbygging forankret i tilgang på fast eiendom. Dermed faller lett den store eiendomsløse underklassen og deres mer prekære og diskontinuerlige tilværelse ut av synsfeltet. I artikkelen drøfter jeg former for ‘bygging’ i underklassens livsløp gjennom en stu…
Coronavirus Verity
The COVID-19 pandemic is one of the most dramatic events in recent history. In the course of a few months, tiny coronaviruses managed to draw virtually the entire globe's population into a common reference point. In this article, I question whether predominant anthropological perspectives, especially those that critique dualism, are capable of accounting for viruses' reality - their unquestionable existence and efficacy. Claiming that anti-dualis…
Forum
Many thanks to Ruy Blanes and Bjørn Enge Bertelsen for their response to my critique (Bråten 2022a) of their special section on ‘Utopian Confluences’ (especially, Blanes and Bertelsen 2021; Bertelsen 2021), and to Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale for publishing the exchange. The theoretical questions that arise from our diverging stances are, hopefully, of general interest. While I take Blanes and Bertelsen (hereafter B&B) to argue an ep…
The “Ontological Turn” in Anthropology
This article calls attention to problematic effects of the so-called “ontological turn” that now gains ground in academic anthropology, especially the entailments of perspectival multi-naturalism. I argue that a consistent embrace of this approach challenges public anthropology at its core. The irrealist grounding of perspectival multi-naturalism encourages withdrawal from both analysis and engagement, rendering the application of anthropological…
Utopian Confluences
The first 2021 issue of Social Anthropology contains a Special Section on 'utopian confluences' guest-edited by Ruy Blanes and Bjørn Enge Bertelsen. This is, indeed, an interesting and important topic, partly because the multiple crises that characterise our times call for progressive visions and practices, but also because they challenge our analytical grip: how to understand - that is, conceptualise and theorise - utopian mobilisations in the c…
The 'onto-logics' of perspectival multi-naturalism
In this article, I argue for a realist anthropology based on the recognition of mind-independent reality; pitching this premise against concerted anti-dualist tendencies in contemporary anthropological thinking. I spell out core analytical entailments of these, in my view, profoundly conflicting premises. In particular, I focus on perspectival multi-naturalism, arguing that despite adherents' claims to reinvigorate studies of 'ontology', this app…
Viruses beyond epistemic fallacy
Min haplogruppe
Artikkelen omhandler genetisk genealogi, det vil si genetisk testing som gjør det mulig for slektsgranskere å spore «opprinnelse» i historisk og førhistorisk tid. Jeg drøfter hvordan de tre vanligste metodene som tilbys – testing på Y-kromosomet, mitokondrie-DNA og autosomalt DNA – kan gi ulike premisser for utforming av slektskap, avstamning og kulturell identitet. Artikkelen relaterer til klassisk fagdebatt om biologi versus mening i konstituer…
Ottar Brox
Kritisk realistisk antropologi - eksemplifisering av et ikke-konflatorisk perspektiv
Kritisk realistisk antropologi
Spørsmål om «ontologi» - Momenter til en realistisk antropologi
Embedded Entrepreneurship
"Examines the importance of cultural meaning in the creation and utilization of economic value. Based on case-studies from Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia, the authors demonstrate that micro-scale entrepreneurship is intertwined with prevailing conceptions, moralities and habituations in the entrepreneurs' social milieu. More specifically, the volume argues that meaning-making is integral to economic opportunity; that economic actors'…
Cecilie B. Neumann og Iver B. Neumann Forskeren i forskningsprosessen
Introduksjon – Den gang da
Slekt, jord og odel i Vest-Agder
Research on Southeast Asia in the Nordic Countries
Studentfeltarbeidet i fare? En pragmatisk tilnærming
Varieties of Javanese Religion
Varieties of Javanese Religion: An Anthropological Account. Andrew Beatty. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. x + 272 pp., glossary, map, notes, references, index
Spørsmål om «ontologi» - Momenter til en realistisk antropologi
Varieties of Javanese Religion
Varieties of Javanese Religion: An Anthropological Account. Andrew Beatty. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. x + 272 pp., glossary, map, notes, references, index
Introduksjon – Den gang da
The 'onto-logics' of perspectival multi-naturalism
In this article, I argue for a realist anthropology based on the recognition of mind-independent reality; pitching this premise against concerted anti-dualist tendencies in contemporary anthropological thinking. I spell out core analytical entailments of these, in my view, profoundly conflicting premises. In particular, I focus on perspectival multi-naturalism, arguing that despite adherents' claims to reinvigorate studies of 'ontology', this app…
Min haplogruppe
Artikkelen omhandler genetisk genealogi, det vil si genetisk testing som gjør det mulig for slektsgranskere å spore «opprinnelse» i historisk og førhistorisk tid. Jeg drøfter hvordan de tre vanligste metodene som tilbys – testing på Y-kromosomet, mitokondrie-DNA og autosomalt DNA – kan gi ulike premisser for utforming av slektskap, avstamning og kulturell identitet. Artikkelen relaterer til klassisk fagdebatt om biologi versus mening i konstituer…
Kritisk realistisk antropologi - eksemplifisering av et ikke-konflatorisk perspektiv
Kritisk realistisk antropologi
Slekt, jord og odel i Vest-Agder
Varieties of Javanese Religion
Varieties of Javanese Religion: An Anthropological Account. Andrew Beatty. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. x + 272 pp., glossary, map, notes, references, index
Research on Southeast Asia in the Nordic Countries
Studentfeltarbeidet i fare? En pragmatisk tilnærming
Embedded Entrepreneurship
"Examines the importance of cultural meaning in the creation and utilization of economic value. Based on case-studies from Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia, the authors demonstrate that micro-scale entrepreneurship is intertwined with prevailing conceptions, moralities and habituations in the entrepreneurs' social milieu. More specifically, the volume argues that meaning-making is integral to economic opportunity; that economic actors'…
Cecilie B. Neumann og Iver B. Neumann Forskeren i forskningsprosessen
Introduksjon – Den gang da
Slekt, jord og odel i Vest-Agder
Spørsmål om «ontologi» - Momenter til en realistisk antropologi
Kritisk realistisk antropologi - eksemplifisering av et ikke-konflatorisk perspektiv
Kritisk realistisk antropologi
Ottar Brox
Min haplogruppe
Artikkelen omhandler genetisk genealogi, det vil si genetisk testing som gjør det mulig for slektsgranskere å spore «opprinnelse» i historisk og førhistorisk tid. Jeg drøfter hvordan de tre vanligste metodene som tilbys – testing på Y-kromosomet, mitokondrie-DNA og autosomalt DNA – kan gi ulike premisser for utforming av slektskap, avstamning og kulturell identitet. Artikkelen relaterer til klassisk fagdebatt om biologi versus mening i konstituer…
Viruses beyond epistemic fallacy
The “Ontological Turn” in Anthropology
This article calls attention to problematic effects of the so-called “ontological turn” that now gains ground in academic anthropology, especially the entailments of perspectival multi-naturalism. I argue that a consistent embrace of this approach challenges public anthropology at its core. The irrealist grounding of perspectival multi-naturalism encourages withdrawal from both analysis and engagement, rendering the application of anthropological…
Utopian Confluences
The first 2021 issue of Social Anthropology contains a Special Section on 'utopian confluences' guest-edited by Ruy Blanes and Bjørn Enge Bertelsen. This is, indeed, an interesting and important topic, partly because the multiple crises that characterise our times call for progressive visions and practices, but also because they challenge our analytical grip: how to understand - that is, conceptualise and theorise - utopian mobilisations in the c…
The 'onto-logics' of perspectival multi-naturalism
In this article, I argue for a realist anthropology based on the recognition of mind-independent reality; pitching this premise against concerted anti-dualist tendencies in contemporary anthropological thinking. I spell out core analytical entailments of these, in my view, profoundly conflicting premises. In particular, I focus on perspectival multi-naturalism, arguing that despite adherents' claims to reinvigorate studies of 'ontology', this app…
Forum
Many thanks to Ruy Blanes and Bjørn Enge Bertelsen for their response to my critique (Bråten 2022a) of their special section on ‘Utopian Confluences’ (especially, Blanes and Bertelsen 2021; Bertelsen 2021), and to Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale for publishing the exchange. The theoretical questions that arise from our diverging stances are, hopefully, of general interest. While I take Blanes and Bertelsen (hereafter B&B) to argue an ep…
Coronavirus Verity
The COVID-19 pandemic is one of the most dramatic events in recent history. In the course of a few months, tiny coronaviruses managed to draw virtually the entire globe's population into a common reference point. In this article, I question whether predominant anthropological perspectives, especially those that critique dualism, are capable of accounting for viruses' reality - their unquestionable existence and efficacy. Claiming that anti-dualis…
Livet på randen – kontinuitet og diskontinuitet i norsk underklasse
I denne artikkelen hevder jeg at antropologiske representasjoner av ‘det norske’ i for stor grad inspireres av historisk vellykkede sosiale tilpasninger. Fokuset er hovedsakelig ‘positiv’ samfunnsbygging forankret i tilgang på fast eiendom. Dermed faller lett den store eiendomsløse underklassen og deres mer prekære og diskontinuerlige tilværelse ut av synsfeltet. I artikkelen drøfter jeg former for ‘bygging’ i underklassens livsløp gjennom en stu…
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