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Lien, Marianne Elisabeth -
Associate professor
Born: 1960 in Oslo, Norway
Education: Nutrition, Univ.of Oslo, 1983; Fulbright scholar in
Connecticut 1986 (with professors Gretel and Pertti Pelto), Mag. art.
social anthropology. Univ. of Oslo, 1987; Dr. polit, social anthropology,
Univ.of Oslo, 1995.
Postions held: Researcher / research fellow at the National Institute
for Consumer Research, Norway 1988-1998. Guest researcher at the Social
Science Centre, Berlin (Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung
WZB) 1989, Associate Professor at the Department of Social Anthropology,
University of Oslo since 1998- . Member of the National Nutrition Council
1999-2002.
Marianne E. Lien has conducted research in the interface between consumption,
production and marketing with a focus on food and nutrition since the
late 1980’s. Recent publications are in the areas of economic anthropology,
marketing, globalisation, methods in anthropology, food production and
food policy, salmon farming and nature conceptions in Tasmania, and egalitarian
ideals in Norway.
Lien has done fieldwork in Norway (Finnmark, Northern Norway 1985 and
2000, Oslo 1992) and Tasmania, Australia (2002-2004). She coordinated
the research program ‘Transnational Flows of Concepts and Substances’
(2001-2004) funded by the Norwegian National Research Council and located
at the Department of Anthropology. English publications include Marketing
and Modernity (Berg, 1997) and Politics of Food (Berg 2004, coedited with Brigitte Nerlich).
She is currently engaged in the following research projects:
- Transnational Flows in Food Production; Tasmanian Atlantic Salmon
- Anthropological perspectives on politics of food
- Food habits, gift exchange and globalisation in a coastal community
in Finnmark, Northern Norway
- Nature perception and biomigration
- Marine domestication
Areas of research:
- Thematic: Consumption, economic anthropology,
globalisation, food habits, nature conceptions, politics of food, nutritional
anthropology, aquaculture
- Regional: Norway, Nordic countries, Europe, Tasmania,
Australia.
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Publications:
Marianne Lien (artikkel): 'King of fish' or 'feral peril': Tasmanian Atlantic salmon and the politics of belonging
Marianne Lien - The Politics of Food
- Publications in the research database Frida
- Publications in the library database Bibsys
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