T Kolshus
Biographic Data
| ID | 18344 |
|---|---|
| NAME | T Kolshus |
| GIVEN NAMES | T |
| FAMILY NAME | Kolshus |
| SIGNATURE | KOLSHUS T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oslo |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0519-1841 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Thomas Hylland Eriksen (1962–2024): Et legendarisk akademisk liv
Tribute to Signe Howell (1942-2025)
Professor Signe Howell passed away on 25 January, leaving a virtually unfillable void at the University of Oslo's Department of Social Anthropology, where she had been working since 1987. She joined us from the University of Edinburgh, coming as a welcome breath of fresh air with her combination of erudition, theoretical sophistication and a remarkable fascination with all things human. The latter trait had followed her since her childhood in the…
Etikk ved Sosialantropologisk institutt, UiO
Typecast! Some lessons from Norwegian public anthropology
After many years of slumber, a string of disturbing political developments and setbacks in many parts of the world have convinced the anthropological community to recommit to its public role. As one of a mere handful of nations where anthropology has had a longstanding presence in public debates, Norway serves as an example for others to follow. In this essay, I use my experiences from years of varied media engagements to make the case for a publ…
Full revers mot fremtiden: Antropologiens samfunnsfagsoppdragde kommende femti år
Esoterogeni og aktiv forskjellsdannelse: Religion og identitetsskapning, i Stillehavet og andre steder
Taking its cue from Marx' and Weber's grand theorizing, a key narrative in Western modernity has been the inevitable dissolution of pre-modern identities. This thesis has informed both policy making and notions of global agency, and in effect caused a particular worldview in which everyone will become more or less the same - what I refer to as the Star Trek-vision of globalized culture and values. In this article, I borrow the linguistic concept …
Gjesteredaktørenes innledning: English title: Guest editors' introduction
Fra grobunn til stengrunn: Kulturrelativismens skjebne i norsk offentlighet
For antropologer med anlegg for nostalgi vil årene mellom Berlinmurens og Twin Towers’ fall lett fortone seg som fagets gullalder hva samfunnsinnflytelse angår. Gjennom Arne Martin Klausens og Fredrik Barths formidlingstrang, -iver og -evner hadde norsk offentlighet allerede over lengre tid blitt introdusert for den systematiske lekenheten antropologiens komparative og kulturrelativistiske metodeverktøy inviterer til. På nittitallet slo dette ut …
The power of ethnography in the public sphere
A number of anthropology's most emblematic innovations have caught on elsewhere. Yet anthropologists seem almost distressed by the success of concepts like "culture" and "ethnicity" and too readily dispose of them in the name of scholarly fastidiousness. Lately, "ethnographic method" has gained multidisciplinary attention. Instead of providing guidance to the limits of ethnography, we engage in a search for the catchall definition, risking abando…
Mana on the Move: Why Empirical Anchorage Trumps Philosophical Drift
Til utroskapens pris
C odrington, K eesing, and Central M elanesian mana: Two Historic Trajectories of P olynesian Cultural Dissemination
Much has been said about mana since R obert H enry C odrington's 1891 exegesis based mainly on ethnography from the B anks I slands in northern V anuatu. In P olynesian contexts, mana has been regarded as a cultural common denominator, with comparatively minor differences within the vast P olynesian cultural area. In M elanesian scholarship, however, consistent with the general emphasis on cultural diversity within the region, it remains a matter…
Stokkmaur i bærebjelkene? – En nærsynt antroposentrisk lesning av ANT i NAT-tapning
Hilde Nielssen, Inger Marie Okkenhaug og Karina Hestad Skeie (red.): Protestant missions and local encounters in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
The Technology of Ethnography. An empirical argument against the repatriation of historical accounts
Based on experiences from a longitudinal fieldwork engagement on Mota island in north Vanuatu, this article challenges the established opinion that old ethnographies shall be repatriated as a matter-of-course. Firstly, because they are far from factual but nevertheless are treated as such, since books are a different technology of knowledge from the orally transmitted versions of the past and consequently have a different sociocultural impact; se…
Reassessing the death of Bishop John Coleridge Patteson
The killing of the first Bishop of Melanesia, John Coleridge Patteson, in 1871, on tiny Nukapu island in the Reef Islands of what today is the Temotu Province of Solomon Islands, is a central event in the mission history of the Western Pacific and continues to be a key narrative within Anglican Melanesia. In the standard explanations, Patteson's killing was retaliation for the alleged kidnapping of five Nukapu men by labour traders. Here, this in…
Myten om moderniteten – et litt for polemisk essay med et litt for alvorlig budskap
Skurtresker: Hundekjeks::dampveivals:løvetann – Kommentarer til Halvard Vike og Harald Beyer Broch
Arne Martin Klausen: Et liv i kulturkollisjon
The power of ethnography in the public sphere
A number of anthropology's most emblematic innovations have caught on elsewhere. Yet anthropologists seem almost distressed by the success of concepts like "culture" and "ethnicity" and too readily dispose of them in the name of scholarly fastidiousness. Lately, "ethnographic method" has gained multidisciplinary attention. Instead of providing guidance to the limits of ethnography, we engage in a search for the catchall definition, risking abando…
Reassessing the death of Bishop John Coleridge Patteson
The killing of the first Bishop of Melanesia, John Coleridge Patteson, in 1871, on tiny Nukapu island in the Reef Islands of what today is the Temotu Province of Solomon Islands, is a central event in the mission history of the Western Pacific and continues to be a key narrative within Anglican Melanesia. In the standard explanations, Patteson's killing was retaliation for the alleged kidnapping of five Nukapu men by labour traders. Here, this in…
Thomas Hylland Eriksen (1962–2024): Et legendarisk akademisk liv
Fra grobunn til stengrunn: Kulturrelativismens skjebne i norsk offentlighet
For antropologer med anlegg for nostalgi vil årene mellom Berlinmurens og Twin Towers’ fall lett fortone seg som fagets gullalder hva samfunnsinnflytelse angår. Gjennom Arne Martin Klausens og Fredrik Barths formidlingstrang, -iver og -evner hadde norsk offentlighet allerede over lengre tid blitt introdusert for den systematiske lekenheten antropologiens komparative og kulturrelativistiske metodeverktøy inviterer til. På nittitallet slo dette ut …
Stokkmaur i bærebjelkene? – En nærsynt antroposentrisk lesning av ANT i NAT-tapning
The Technology of Ethnography. An empirical argument against the repatriation of historical accounts
Based on experiences from a longitudinal fieldwork engagement on Mota island in north Vanuatu, this article challenges the established opinion that old ethnographies shall be repatriated as a matter-of-course. Firstly, because they are far from factual but nevertheless are treated as such, since books are a different technology of knowledge from the orally transmitted versions of the past and consequently have a different sociocultural impact; se…
Arne Martin Klausen: Et liv i kulturkollisjon
Myten om moderniteten – et litt for polemisk essay med et litt for alvorlig budskap
Skurtresker: Hundekjeks::dampveivals:løvetann – Kommentarer til Halvard Vike og Harald Beyer Broch
Reassessing the death of Bishop John Coleridge Patteson
The killing of the first Bishop of Melanesia, John Coleridge Patteson, in 1871, on tiny Nukapu island in the Reef Islands of what today is the Temotu Province of Solomon Islands, is a central event in the mission history of the Western Pacific and continues to be a key narrative within Anglican Melanesia. In the standard explanations, Patteson's killing was retaliation for the alleged kidnapping of five Nukapu men by labour traders. Here, this in…
The Technology of Ethnography. An empirical argument against the repatriation of historical accounts
Based on experiences from a longitudinal fieldwork engagement on Mota island in north Vanuatu, this article challenges the established opinion that old ethnographies shall be repatriated as a matter-of-course. Firstly, because they are far from factual but nevertheless are treated as such, since books are a different technology of knowledge from the orally transmitted versions of the past and consequently have a different sociocultural impact; se…
Hilde Nielssen, Inger Marie Okkenhaug og Karina Hestad Skeie (red.): Protestant missions and local encounters in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
C odrington, K eesing, and Central M elanesian mana: Two Historic Trajectories of P olynesian Cultural Dissemination
Much has been said about mana since R obert H enry C odrington's 1891 exegesis based mainly on ethnography from the B anks I slands in northern V anuatu. In P olynesian contexts, mana has been regarded as a cultural common denominator, with comparatively minor differences within the vast P olynesian cultural area. In M elanesian scholarship, however, consistent with the general emphasis on cultural diversity within the region, it remains a matter…
Stokkmaur i bærebjelkene? – En nærsynt antroposentrisk lesning av ANT i NAT-tapning
Til utroskapens pris
Mana on the Move: Why Empirical Anchorage Trumps Philosophical Drift
The power of ethnography in the public sphere
A number of anthropology's most emblematic innovations have caught on elsewhere. Yet anthropologists seem almost distressed by the success of concepts like "culture" and "ethnicity" and too readily dispose of them in the name of scholarly fastidiousness. Lately, "ethnographic method" has gained multidisciplinary attention. Instead of providing guidance to the limits of ethnography, we engage in a search for the catchall definition, risking abando…
Fra grobunn til stengrunn: Kulturrelativismens skjebne i norsk offentlighet
For antropologer med anlegg for nostalgi vil årene mellom Berlinmurens og Twin Towers’ fall lett fortone seg som fagets gullalder hva samfunnsinnflytelse angår. Gjennom Arne Martin Klausens og Fredrik Barths formidlingstrang, -iver og -evner hadde norsk offentlighet allerede over lengre tid blitt introdusert for den systematiske lekenheten antropologiens komparative og kulturrelativistiske metodeverktøy inviterer til. På nittitallet slo dette ut …
Esoterogeni og aktiv forskjellsdannelse: Religion og identitetsskapning, i Stillehavet og andre steder
Taking its cue from Marx' and Weber's grand theorizing, a key narrative in Western modernity has been the inevitable dissolution of pre-modern identities. This thesis has informed both policy making and notions of global agency, and in effect caused a particular worldview in which everyone will become more or less the same - what I refer to as the Star Trek-vision of globalized culture and values. In this article, I borrow the linguistic concept …
Gjesteredaktørenes innledning: English title: Guest editors' introduction
Full revers mot fremtiden: Antropologiens samfunnsfagsoppdragde kommende femti år
Typecast! Some lessons from Norwegian public anthropology
After many years of slumber, a string of disturbing political developments and setbacks in many parts of the world have convinced the anthropological community to recommit to its public role. As one of a mere handful of nations where anthropology has had a longstanding presence in public debates, Norway serves as an example for others to follow. In this essay, I use my experiences from years of varied media engagements to make the case for a publ…
Etikk ved Sosialantropologisk institutt, UiO
Thomas Hylland Eriksen (1962–2024): Et legendarisk akademisk liv
Tribute to Signe Howell (1942-2025)
Professor Signe Howell passed away on 25 January, leaving a virtually unfillable void at the University of Oslo's Department of Social Anthropology, where she had been working since 1987. She joined us from the University of Edinburgh, coming as a welcome breath of fresh air with her combination of erudition, theoretical sophistication and a remarkable fascination with all things human. The latter trait had followed her since her childhood in the…
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