Cato Berg

Curriculum Vitae

Dissertation
Berg, Cato 2008
« A Chief is a Chief Wherever He Goes ». Land and Lines of Power in Vella Lavella, Solomon Islands. Dr. polit thesis, University of Bergen.

Berg, Cato 2000
Managing Difference: Kinship, Exchange and Urban Boundaries in Honiara, Solomon Islands. Master thesis, University of Bergen.

Articles in Refereed Journals
Berg, Cato 2000
Barnet som forsvant ut med badevannet: refleksjoner omkring slektskapsdiversitet i en post-moderne sosialantropologi, Norsk antropologisk tidsskrift, 11: 289-309.

Papers presented
Berg, Cato 2008
The Law and the Land: Contemporary Hierarchies in Vella Lavella, Solomon Island. Paper delivered at the seminar: North Sea, South Seas: Research Futures in Pacific Studies. Centre for Pacific Studies, St Andrews University, November 2008.

Berg, Cato 2008
Conflicting Christianities: The past and contemporary Methodist Church in New
Georgia. Papers delivered at the workshop Old Christianities, University of Bergen, September 2008.

Berg, Cato 2006
Participation in Pacific Alternatives workshop, University of Bergen, October 2006

Berg, Cato 2005
Trans-local kinship: A case from New Georgia. Paper delivered at workshop Western Solomons Research. Annual Conference of American Social Anthropology in Oceania (ASAO), Massachusetts, February 2005.

Berg, Cato 2005
Hatsoa: Contemporary courting practices in Gizo, Solomon Islands. Annual Conference of American Social Anthropology in Oceania (ASAO), Massachusetts, February 2005.

Berg, Cato 2004
Tradition at Gunpoint: Violence and tension in Honiara, Solomon Islands. Paper presented at the Department seminar at the Department of Social Anthropology, UoB, April 2003.

Berg, Cato 2004
Violence and schismogenesis: the tension in Solomon Islands. Paper delivered at the on Violence in Oceania. Finse, Norway 2004

Berg, Cato 2003
Ethnicity and conflict in Solomon Islands. Paper delivered at workshop on race and racism in the Pacific. Vancouver, Canarada, February 2003

Missions, History and traditions: The missionary project in New Georgia. Invited paper at the Pacific Islands Studies, East-west Centre and the Department of Anthropology, University of Hawaii. March 16, 2003

Berg, Cato 2001
“We Fight the Town and the Town Fights us”: Ethnicity, Kastom and Violence in Contemporary Oceania: Patterns of Cultural Transformation in Honiara, Solomon Islands. Papers delivered at the Annual Conference of American Social Anthropology in Oceania (ASAO), Miami, February 2001.

Berg, Cato 2001
Ethnicity, Migration and the Complexities of Culture. Urban Polynesian Lives in Honiara, Solomon Islands. Working Paper for the ASAO Conference 15.

Berg, Cato 1997
Hospaes: Metaphorisation of Gifts, Giving and Kinship in Contemporary Melanesian Town. Paper delivered at a seminar on “Austronesian Modernity”. Department of Social Anthropology, University of Bergen.

Scholarships

Fully funded scholarship from Norwegian Research Council for Doctoral degree, 2001-2004

Organised and Co-organised Conferences

Convenor for the conference,
The Birth of Anthropological Fieldwork: W.H.R. Rivers and A.M. Hocart in the Percy Sladen Trust Expedition Centennial Year. November 2008, University of Bergen.

Pacific Alternatives: Cultural heritage and Political Innovation. Symposium in Bergen. Organised by the Pacific Research group, November 2008, University of Bergen.

Popular scientific presentations

Ethnic Groups and Boundaries Today. Invited panel debate on the current state of ethnic studies, with Professor Fredrik Barth, arranged by the Student Union, University of Bergen, May 2000.

Myths of the Pacific. Invited lecture on the state of Pacific Studies, by the Student Board of Dept. of Anthropology, University of Bergen, May 2001.

Other

Co-development and administration of the Western Solomons Research Database (WSRD), an initiative of the Bergen Pacific Studies Research Group in collaboration with the Premier of Western Province, Hon. Alex Lokopio. The assignment has not only been to administer and construct the site, but to maintain contact with a large international network of scholars. The WSRD presently contains more than 30 profiles of international scholars from all fields of science, and hundreds of reports and articles pertaining to the Western Solomons, This effort is taken not only  to give people of Solomon Islands access to scientific information to ensure their livelihoods, but also  to provide a lasting site of cultural heritage.