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Academic interests

I currently lead a research project entitled Forms of Ethics, Shapes of Finance: Ethnographic Explorations of the Limits of Contemporary Capital. The project is funded by the Research Council of Norway and explores how ethical notions and consideration are used to shape international finance flows, and how financial forms entail ethical considerations. The project centres on the Norwegian Government Pension Fund Global (better known as the 'oil fund'), which currently is the world's largest sovereign wealth fund. 

My previous work has primarily been conducted in Tanzania, where I have conducted long-term fieldwork in rural areas of Kilimanjaro Region, and in urban environments in Dar es Salaam and its surroundings. This has resulted in publications on a range of topics, such as kinship and marriage, witchcraft, ritual, modes of exchange, forms of knowledge, and cross-cultural comparison.

For more information regarding my research, see my page on Academia.edu

Background

I hold a D.Phil in Social Anthropology from the University of Oxford, and have previously held research and teaching positions at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Nordic Africa Institute, and the University of Oslo. I have also been attached to an ERC Advanced Grant project at the University of Bergen.

Awards

Nominated for Journal Article of the Year 2018, Universitetsforlaget.

Curl Essay Prize 2017, Royal Anthropological Institute.

Terence Ranger Prize for African Studies 2002, University of Oxford.

Partners

I collaborate with researchers at SUNY Binghamton, Stockholm University, University of Toronto, Bergen University Museum, Uppsala University, and Warwick University. 

Tags: Social Anthropology, Ethnography, Norway, Tanzania, Anthropology of Finance, Anthropology of Ethics, Material Culture, Rituals and Cosmology

Publications

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  • Myhre, Knut Christian (2023). Accommodating Others: Ethnographic Explorations of Lysningen at Utøya.
  • Myhre, Knut Christian (2023). Anthropology, Productive Incompleteness and the Twilight of Liberalism.
  • Myhre, Knut Christian (2023). Affording Others: Ethnographic Explorations of Lysningen at Utøya.
  • Myhre, Knut Christian; Simonsen, Jan Ketil & Canás Bottos, Lorenzo (2023). Krisemaksimering ved NTNU? Universitetsavisa. ISSN 0807-5271.
  • Myhre, Knut Christian & Holmes, Douglas R. (2023). Redescribing the corporation: Ownership, productive incompleteness, and the future in Norway's sovereign wealth fund.
  • Myhre, Knut Christian; Cañás Bottos, Lorenzo & Simonsen, Jan Ketil (2023). Stans reformkåtheten ved SU-fakultetet. www.universitetsavisa.no.
  • Holmes, Douglas R. & Myhre, Knut Christian (2022). The Concept of the Corporation: Anthropological Perspectives.
  • Myhre, Knut Christian & Holmes, Douglas R. (2022). Great Expectations: How the World's Largest Sovereign Wealth Fund Redescribes the Corporation in Times of Crisis.
  • Myhre, Knut Christian (2022). Statens pensjonsfond utland og samfunnskontrakten: Innledende betraktninger.
  • Myhre, Knut Christian (2022). The Norwegian Oil Fund and the Social Contract.
  • Myhre, Knut Christian (2022). Rikdommens språk: tekster om Oljefondet.
  • Myhre, Knut Christian (2022). Rikdommens språk: tekster om Oljefondet.
  • Myhre, Knut Christian & Evjemo, Eivind Hofstad (2022). Etter Ord, Rikdommens språk: tekster om Oljefondet. Cappelen Damm AS. ISSN 9788202710903. p. 162–177.
  • Myhre, Knut Christian & Evjemo, Eivind Hofstad (2022). Forord, Rikdommens språk: tekster om Oljefondet. Cappelen Damm AS. ISSN 9788202710903. p. 6–12.
  • Myhre, Knut Christian (2021). Great Expectations, How the World's Largest Sovereign Wealth Fund Redescribes the Corporation in a Time of Crisis.
  • Myhre, Knut Christian (2020). Fattigslig finans. Dagens næringsliv. ISSN 0803-9372. p. 79–79.
  • Myhre, Knut Christian (2020). Om tillit og Tangen-debatten. Dagens næringsliv. ISSN 0803-9372. p. 38–38.
  • Myhre, Knut Christian (2020). Sovereign wealth and custodial finance in Norway. Anthropology News. ISSN 1541-6151. doi: 10.1111/AN.1411.
  • Myhre, Knut Christian (2020). From Ethics to Sustainability: Reflections from the Norwegian Government Pension Fund Global.
  • Myhre, Knut Christian (2019). Reframing Welfare: Expectations, Collaboration, and Ownership at the World's Largest Sovereign Wealth Fund.
  • Myhre, Knut Christian (2019). Reframing Welfare: Expectations, Communication, and Ownership at the World's Largest Sovereign Wealth Fund.
  • Myhre, Knut Christian (2019). Trenger ikke kunne finans for å ha en mening om Oljefondet. [Newspaper]. Dagens perspektiv.
  • Myhre, Knut Christian & Storaas, Frode (2019). Atali's Gift.
  • Myhre, Knut Christian (2019). Oljefondets subtile forventninger. Dagens næringsliv. ISSN 0803-9372. p. 34–34.
  • Myhre, Knut Christian (2018). Returning Life: Becoming and Being in Kilimanjaro.
  • Myhre, Knut Christian & Storaas, Frode (2018). Beyond Life: Cooling and Cleansing in Kilimanjaro.
  • Myhre, Knut Christian (2018). Financialisation and the welfare state: The case of the Norwegian oil fund.
  • Myhre, Knut Christian (2018). The Norwegian oil fund and the contemporary social contract .
  • Myhre, Knut Christian & Storaas, Frode (2018). Atali's Gift.
  • Myhre, Knut Christian & Storaas, Frode (2018). Atali's Gift.
  • Myhre, Knut Christian (2017). Enactments of Transparency.
  • Myhre, Knut Christian (2017). The Norwegian Government Pension Fund Global and Its Public.
  • Myhre, Knut Christian (2017). Drømmen om impact.
  • Myhre, Knut Christian & Storaas, Frode (2017). Atali's Gift.
  • Myhre, Knut Christian (2017). Forms of Ethics, Shapes of Finance: Ethnographic Explorations of the Limits of Contemporary Capital.
  • Myhre, Knut Christian & Gullbekk, Svein H. (2017). Oljefondet og kriseberedskap. Dagens næringsliv. ISSN 0803-9372. p. 26–26.
  • Myhre, Knut Christian & Storaas, Frode (2016). Atali's Garden.
  • Myhre, Knut Christian (2014). Gleaming Towers.
  • Myhre, Knut Christian (2014). Regnmakerne. [TV]. NRK 2 Kunnskapskanalen.
  • Myhre, Knut Christian (2014). Flowing beer, positing concepts: An ethnographic challenge to the anthropology of ritual.
  • Myhre, Knut Christian (2014). On beer as a material concept in Kilimanjaro: An ethnographic challenge to the anthropology of ritual.
  • Myhre, Knut Christian (2014). The Rainmakers. [Internet]. ScienceNordic.com.
  • Myhre, Knut Christian (2014). Why Use One Word for Many Things? Reflections on Persons and Houses in Kilimanjaro.
  • Myhre, Knut Christian (2013). Corporeal Transformation and Material Abstraction in Kilimanjaro: An Attempt at an Ethnographic Engagement with Deleuze.
  • Myhre, Knut Christian (2013). Anthropos and the Material: Ethnographic Challenges to the Anthropology of Ritual.
  • Myhre, Knut Christian (2013). Regnmakerne. [TV]. NRK 2 Kunnskapskanalen.
  • Myhre, Knut Christian (2013). Anthropos and the Material: Ethnographic Challenges to the Anthropology of Ritual.
  • Myhre, Knut Christian (2013). Bokanmeldelse: Paul Wenzel Geissler & Ruth Jane Prince (2010)The Land is Dying: Contingency, Creativity and Conflict in Western Kenya. Oxford: Berghahn Books. Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift. ISSN 0802-7285. 24(1), p. 74–76.
  • Myhre, Knut Christian (2012). The multiple meanings of moongo: On doorways and backbones in Kilimanjaro.
  • Myhre, Knut Christian (2012). Moral power: the magic of witchcraft. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. ISSN 1359-0987. 18(3), p. 723–724. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2012.01787_30.x.
  • Myhre, Knut Christian (2011). Cutting ANT to make anthropology.
  • Myhre, Knut Christian (2011). Membering and dismembering: Normativity and relationality of animal bodies in Kilimanjaro.
  • Myhre, Knut Christian (2010). How Climate Change Affects Livelihoods in East Africa. In Palme, Christian (Eds.), Africa in Uncertain Times. Nordic Africa Institute. ISSN 1104-5256. p. 30–31.
  • Myhre, Knut Christian (2010). Dommen mot Åsne Seierstad. SV Nytt.
  • Myhre, Knut Christian (2010). Lærdommer fra steinalderen. Ny Tid. ISSN 0809-9049. 57(5), p. 46–48.
  • Myhre, Knut Christian (2010). Civilisation unbound: Relational ramifications in Africa.
  • Myhre, Knut Christian (2010). Property, ownership, and reproduction: Historical ethnography of persons and things in Kilimanjaro.
  • Myhre, Knut Christian (2010). Doorways and backbones in Kilimanjaro: On persons and things in a reproductive perspective.
  • Myhre, Knut Christian (2010). The notion of 'Afrinesia'.
  • Myhre, Knut Christian (2010). Introductory remarks and summary.
  • Myhre, Knut Christian (2010). Carving the world at the joints: Normativity and sociality among the Chagga of Kilimanjaro.
  • Myhre, Knut Christian (2010). Welcome to 'Afrinesia'.
  • Myhre, Knut Christian (2010). How to butcher an animal: Reflections on normativity and relationality among the Chagga of Kilimanjaro.
  • Myhre, Knut Christian (2009). En innledning til Axel Sommerfelts artikkel. Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift. ISSN 0802-7285. 20(4), p. 278–279.
  • Myhre, Knut Christian (2009). Anmeldelse av Vigdis Broch-Due (2005) Violence and Belonging: The Quest for Identity in Post-Colonial Africa. London: Routledge. Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift. ISSN 0802-7285. 20(3), p. 209–211.
  • Myhre, Knut Christian (2005). Reiser regjeringen med Ryanair? Klassekampen. ISSN 0805-3839. 37(107), p. 14–15.
  • Myhre, Knut Christian (2005). The Truth of Anthropology: Wittgenstein, Epistemology, and Meaning.
  • Myhre, Knut Christian (2005). Suffering and Narration.
  • Myhre, Knut Christian (2005). Family Resemblances, Material Extensions, and Practical Interrelations: Understanding Sexual Prohibitions, Production, and Consumption in Kilimanjaro.
  • Myhre, Knut Christian & Boulifa, Jonas Bugtene (2023). Paper promises: The effects of inflation on social life in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Department of Social Anthropology, NTNU.
  • Myhre, Knut Christian & Olafsen, Anette (2023). Sivil ulydighet for en levelig fremtid: En studie av norske klimaaktivister i Extinction Rebellion. Institutt for sosialantropologi, NTNU.

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