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SELECTED RECENT AND FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS BY GROUP MEMBERS

  • Eriksen, Annelin 2005.”The gender of the church: conflicts and social wholes on Ambrym, Vanuatu”. Oceania, 75: 284-301.
  • Hviding, E. 2005. Reef and Rainforest: Environmental Encyclopedia of Marovo Lagoon. Knowledges of Nature Series No. 1. Paris: UNESCO. 236p. (in Marovo and English, with indexes in Latin and 3 Solomon Islands vernaculars)
  • Hviding, E. 2005. “Christian Fellowship Church (Solomon Islands)”, in Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature, Bron Taylor w. J. Kaplan (eds.), 306. London: Continuum Books.
    Hviding, E. 2003. “Between Knowledges: Pacific Studies and Academic Disciplines”. The Contem-porary Pacific, 15:43-73.
  • Hviding, E. 2003. “Contested Rainforests, NGOs and Projects of Desire in Solomon Islands”. International Social Science Journal, 178: 540-553.
  • Bayliss-Smith, T., E. Hviding & T.C. Whitmore 2003. “Rainforest composition and histories of human disturbance in Solomon Islands”. Ambio, 32: 346-352.
  • Hviding, E. 2003. “CA* Comment” on S. Aswani & P. Sheppard, “The archaeology and ethnohistory of exchange in precolonial and colonial Roviana”. Current Anthropology, 44 (5 Supplement Dec 03): S72-S73.
  • Hviding, E. 2003. “Both Sides of the Beach: Knowledges of Nature in Oceania”, in Nature Across Cultures: Non-Western Views of the Environment and Nature, Helaine Selin (ed.), 243-275. Science Across Cultures: The History of Non-Western Sciences, Volume 4. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
  • Hviding, E. 2003. “Disentangling the butubutu of New Georgia: cognatic kinship in thought and action”, in Oceanic Socialities and Cultural Forms: Ethnographies of Experience, I. Hoëm & S. Roalkvam (eds.), 71-113. Oxford: Berghahn Publishers.
  • Rio, Knut, in press. The power of perspective: Social ontology and agency on Ambrym Island, Vanuatu. Oxford: Berghahn Books.
  • Rio, Knut 2005. “Discussions around a sand-drawing: Creations of agency and society in Melanesia”. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (N.S),  11: 401-423.
  • Rio, Knut 2002. “The sorcerer as an absented third person. Formations of fear and anger in Vanuatu”. Social Analysis, 46(2):129-154.
  • Rio, Knut 1999. Oceania Gjenoppdaget ved Bergen Museum: En reise i Bergen Museums samlinger fra Stillehavet [Oceania rediscovered in Bergen: a journey in the Pacific collections of Bergen Museum]. Bergen: Bergen Museums skrifter nr. 3. (in Norwegian)
  • Rio, Knut & Olaf H. Smedal, in press. Hierarchy: Persistence and transformation in social formations. Oxford: Berghahn Books.
  • Scott, Rolf, in press. Positioning the Individual in a Modern World. Oxford: Berghahn Books. 

 


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Bergen Research Group in Pacific Studies. Department of Social Anthropology , University of Bergen Updated 14 November, 2006