Knut Christian Myhre

Faglige interesser
Jeg leder for tiden et forskningsprosjekt med tittelen Forms of Ethics, Shapes of Finance: Ethnographic Explorations of the Limits of Contemporary Capital. Prosjektet er finansiert av Norges Forskningsråds SAMKUL-program, og utforsker hvordan etiske begreper og argumenter benyttes for å forme den internasjonale kapitalflyten til Statens Pensjonsfond Utland (bedre kjent som oljefondet), samt hvordan finansielle fenomener innebærer etiske betraktninger.
Mine tidligere forskningsprosjekter har i hovedsak foregått i Tanzania, der jeg har utført antropologisk feltarbeid i mange år på landsbygda i Kilimanjaro-området, samt i urbane strøk i Dar es Salaam og omkringliggende områder. Dette har resultert i publikasjoner over et mangfold av ulike temaer, som slektskap, hekseri, ritualer, bytteformer, kunnskap og komparasjon.
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Bakgrunn
Jeg har en doktorgrad i sosialantropologi fra University of Oxford, og har tidligere hatt forsknings- og undervisningsstillinger ved NTNU, Nordiska Afrikainstitutet og Universitetet i Oslo. Jeg har også vært tilknyttet et ERC-prosjekt ved Universitetet i Bergen.
Priser
Nominert til Årets tidsskriftsartikkel 2018, Universitetsforlaget.
Curl Essay Prize 2017, Royal Anthropological Institute.
Terence Ranger Prize for African Studies 2002, University of Oxford.
Verv
Møtende vararepresentant i styret for Norges Forskningsråds forskningsprogram NORGLOBAL (2016-2017)
Medlem av styringsgruppen for Resilience in East African Lanscape, Marie Curie Initial Training Network.
Vararepresentant i universitetsstyret (2011-2013)
Representant i SAIs instituttstyret (2013-2014)
Vararepresentant i SAIs instituttstyret (2011-2013)
Medlem i universitetets forskningskomite (2011-2012)
Samarbeid
Jeg samarbeider med forskere ved SUNY Binghamton, Stockholms Universitet, Victoria University, Universitetsmuseet i Bergen, Uppsala Universitet og Warwick University.
Publikasjonar
- Myhre, Knut Christian (2020). COVID-19, Dugnad, and Productive Incompleteness: Volunteer Labour and Crisis Loans in Norway. Social Anthropology. ISSN 0964-0282. 28(2), s 326- 327 . doi: 10.1111/1469-8676.12814 Fulltekst i vitenarkiv.
- Myhre, Knut Christian (2020). Deep Pragmatism, In Giovanni Da Col & Stephan Palmié (ed.), The Mythology in Our Language: Remarks on Frazer's Golden Bough by Ludwig Wittgenstein. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780990505068. 5. s 95 - 113 Fulltekst i vitenarkiv.
- Myhre, Knut Christian (2020). Financialization and the Norwegian State: Constraints, Contestations, and Custodial Finance in the World's Largest Sovereign Wealth Fund, In Donatus Pius Kalb & Chris Hann (ed.), Financialization - Relational Approaches. Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-78920-751-4. 6. s 157 - 176
- Chuhila, Maximillian Julius; Das, Veena; Pillen, Alex & Myhre, Knut Christian (2019). First book symposium.. Social Analysis: The International Journal of Anthropology. ISSN 0155-977X. 63(1), s 117- 122 . doi: doi.org/10.3167/sa.2019.630107
- Myhre, Knut Christian (2019). Life and its inflections in Kilimanjaro: Becoming and being beyond the metaphoric. HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory. ISSN 2049-1115. 9(2), s 405- 420 . doi: 10.1086/706042 Fulltekst i vitenarkiv.
- Myhre, Knut Christian (2019). Tales of a Stitched Anus: Fictions, Analytics, and Personhood in Kilimanjaro. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. ISSN 1359-0987. 25(1), s 9- 28 . doi: 10.1111/1467-9655.12960 Fulltekst i vitenarkiv.
- Myhre, Knut Christian & Storaas, Frode (2018). Antropologi på film - refleksjoner rundt tre filmer fra Kilimanjaro. Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift. ISSN 0802-7285. 29(3-4), s 146- 164 . doi: 10.18261/issn.1504-2898-2018-03-04-04
- Myhre, Knut Christian (2017). The Power of A Severed Arm: Life, Witchcraft, and Christianity in Kilimanjaro, In Knut Rio; Michelle MacCarthy & Ruy Llera Blanes (ed.), Pentecostalism and Witchcraft: Spiritual Warfare in Africa and Melanesia. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-3-319-56068-7. Kapittel 7. s 163 - 187
- Myhre, Knut Christian (2016). Introduction: Cutting and Connecting - 'Afrinesian' Perspectives on Networks, Relationality, and Exchange, In Knut Christian Myhre (ed.), Cutting and Connecting: 'Afrinesian' Perspectives on Networks, Relationality, and Exchange. Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-78533-263-0. Introduksjon. s 1 - 24
- Myhre, Knut Christian (2016). Membering and Dismembering: The Poetry and Relationality of Animal Bodies in Kilimanjaro, In Knut Christian Myhre (ed.), Cutting and Connecting: 'Afrinesian' Perspectives on Networks, Relationality, and Exchange. Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-78533-263-0. kapittel 6. s 114 - 131
- Myhre, Knut Christian (2015). What the beer shows: Exploring ritual and ontology in Kilimanjaro. American Ethnologist. ISSN 0094-0496. 42(1), s 97- 115 . doi: 10.1111/amet.12119
- Myhre, Knut Christian (2014). The Multiple Meanings of Moongo: On the Conceptual Character of Doorways and Backbones in Kilimanjaro. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. ISSN 1359-0987. 20(3), s 505- 525 . doi: 10.1111/1467-9655.12120
- Myhre, Knut Christian (2013). Cutting and Connecting: 'Afrinesian' Perspectives on Networks, Relationality, and Exchange. Social Analysis: The International Journal of Anthropology. ISSN 0155-977X. 57(3), s 1- 24 . doi: 10.3167/sa.2013.570301
- Myhre, Knut Christian (2013). Membering and Dismembering: The Poetry and Relationality of Animal Bodies in Kilimanjaro. Social Analysis: The International Journal of Anthropology. ISSN 0155-977X. 57(3), s 114- 131
- Myhre, Knut Christian (2012). Koda. ANTropologi som grenseflate, adskillelse og relasjon. Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift. ISSN 0802-7285. 23(3-4), s 316- 321
- Myhre, Knut Christian (2012). MKUHUMI na Mustakhabali wa Milki ya Kimila. ARDHI NI UHAI. ISSN 0856-9495. s 5- 6
- Myhre, Knut Christian (2012). The pitch of ethnography: Language, relations, and the significance of listening. Anthropological Theory. ISSN 1463-4996. 12(2), s 185- 208 . doi: 10.1177/1463499612454990
- Myhre, Knut Christian (2009). Disease and Disruption: Chagga Witchcraft and Relational Fragility, In Liv Haram & Christian Bawa Yamba (ed.), Dealing with Uncertainty in Contemporary African Lives. Nordiska Afrikainstitutet. ISBN 978-91-7106-649-7. 5. s 118 - 140
- Sommerfelt, Axel & Myhre, Knut Christian (2009). Etnopolitikk og bruk av historie blant konzoene i Uganda på slutten av kolonitiden. Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift. ISSN 0802-7285. 20(4), s 280- 295
- Myhre, Knut Christian (2007). Family Resemblances, Practical Interrelations and Material Extensions: Understanding Sexual Prohibitions, Production and Consumption in Kilimanjaro. Africa. ISSN 0001-9720. 77(3), s 307- 330
- Myhre, Knut Christian (2007). Om ritualer og sosiale relasjoner. Refleksjoner rundt et kraftfullt bytte. Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift. ISSN 0802-7285. 18(3-4), s 253- 265
- Myhre, Knut Christian (2006). Divination and Experience: Explorations of a Chagga Epistemology. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. ISSN 1359-0987. 12(2), s 313- 330
- Myhre, Knut Christian (2006). The Truth of Anthropology: Epistemology, Meaning and Residual Positivism. Anthropology Today. ISSN 0268-540X. 22(6), s 16- 19
- Myhre, Knut Christian (2004). The Bookseller of Kabul and the Anthropologists of Norway. Anthropology Today. ISSN 0268-540X. 20(3), s 19- 22
- Myhre, Knut Christian (1998). The Anthropological Concept of Action and its Problems: A 'New' Approach based on Marcel Mauss and Aristotle. Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford. ISSN 0044-8370. 29(2), s 121- 134
- Myhre, Knut Christian (2018). Returning Life: Language, Life Force and History in Kilimanjaro. Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-78533-665-2. 336 s.
- Myhre, Knut Christian (ed.) (2016). Cutting and Connecting: 'Afrinesian' Perspectives on Networks, Relationality, and Exchange. Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-78533-263-0. 162 s.
- Myhre, Knut Christian (2020). Fattigslig finans.. Dagens næringsliv. ISSN 0803-9372. s 79- 79
- Myhre, Knut Christian (2020). From Ethics to Sustainability: Reflections from the Norwegian Government Pension Fund Global.
- Myhre, Knut Christian (2020). Om tillit og Tangen-debatten.. Dagens næringsliv. ISSN 0803-9372. s 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 (2019). Oljefondets subtile forventninger. Dagens næringsliv. ISSN 0803-9372. s 34- 34
- Myhre, Knut Christian (2019). Reforming Welfare: Expectations, Communication, and Ownership in Norway's Oil-Fund.
- 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, 17. oktober). Trenger ikke kunne finans for å ha en mening om Oljefondet. Dagens perspektiv.
- Myhre, Knut Christian & Storaas, Frode (2019). Atali's Gift.
- Myhre, Knut Christian (2018). Financialisation and the welfare state: The case of the Norwegian oil fund.
- Myhre, Knut Christian (2018). Returning Life: Becoming and Being in Kilimanjaro.
- 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 & Storaas, Frode (2018). Beyond Life: Cooling and Cleansing in Kilimanjaro.
- Myhre, Knut Christian (2017). Drømmen om impact.
- Myhre, Knut Christian (2017). Enactments of Transparency.
- Myhre, Knut Christian (2017). Forms of Ethics, Shapes of Finance: Ethnographic Explorations of the Limits of Contemporary Capital.
- Myhre, Knut Christian (2017). The Norwegian Government Pension Fund Global and Its Public.
- Myhre, Knut Christian & Gullbekk, Svein H. (2017). Oljefondet og kriseberedskap. Dagens næringsliv. ISSN 0803-9372. s 26- 26
- Myhre, Knut Christian & Storaas, Frode (2017). Atali's Gift.
- Myhre, Knut Christian & Storaas, Frode (2016). Atali's Garden.
- Myhre, Knut Christian (2014). Flowing beer, positing concepts: An ethnographic challenge to the anthropology of ritual.
- Myhre, Knut Christian (2014). Gleaming Towers. [html ].
- Myhre, Knut Christian (2014). On beer as a material concept in Kilimanjaro: An ethnographic challenge to the anthropology of ritual.
- Myhre, Knut Christian (2014, 26. april). Regnmakerne. [TV]. NRK 2 Kunnskapskanalen.
- Myhre, Knut Christian (2014, 25. januar). The Rainmakers. [Internett]. ScienceNordic.com.
- Myhre, Knut Christian (2014). Why Use One Word for Many Things? Reflections on Persons and Houses in Kilimanjaro.
- Myhre, Knut Christian (2013). Anthropos and the Material: Ethnographic Challenges to the Anthropology of Ritual.
- 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), s 74- 76
- Myhre, Knut Christian (2013). Corporeal Transformation and Material Abstraction in Kilimanjaro: An Attempt at an Ethnographic Engagement with Deleuze.
- Myhre, Knut Christian (2013, 21. september). Regnmakerne. [TV]. NRK 2 Kunnskapskanalen.
- Myhre, Knut Christian (2012). Moral power: the magic of witchcraft. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. ISSN 1359-0987. 18(3), s 723- 724 . doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2012.01787_30.x
- Myhre, Knut Christian (2012). The multiple meanings of moongo: On doorways and backbones in Kilimanjaro.
- 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). Carving the world at the joints: Normativity and sociality among the Chagga of Kilimanjaro.
- Myhre, Knut Christian (2010). Civilisation unbound: Relational ramifications in Africa.
- Myhre, Knut Christian (2010). Dommen mot Åsne Seierstad. SV Nytt.
- Myhre, Knut Christian (2010). Doorways and backbones in Kilimanjaro: On persons and things in a reproductive perspective.
- Myhre, Knut Christian (2010). How Climate Change Affects Livelihoods in East Africa, In Christian Palme (ed.), Africa in Uncertain Times. Nordic Africa Institute. kapitelnummer 12. s 30 - 31
- Myhre, Knut Christian (2010). How to butcher an animal: Reflections on normativity and relationality among the Chagga of Kilimanjaro.
- Myhre, Knut Christian (2010). Introductory remarks and summary.
- Myhre, Knut Christian (2010). Lærdommer fra steinalderen. Ny Tid. ISSN 0809-9049. 57(5), s 46- 48
- Myhre, Knut Christian (2010). Property, ownership, and reproduction: Historical ethnography of persons and things in Kilimanjaro.
- Myhre, Knut Christian (2010). The notion of 'Afrinesia'.
- Myhre, Knut Christian (2010). Welcome to 'Afrinesia'.
- 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), s 209- 211
- Myhre, Knut Christian (2009). En innledning til Axel Sommerfelts artikkel. Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift. ISSN 0802-7285. 20(4), s 278- 279
- Myhre, Knut Christian (2005). Family Resemblances, Material Extensions, and Practical Interrelations: Understanding Sexual Prohibitions, Production, and Consumption in Kilimanjaro.
- Myhre, Knut Christian (2005). On the Conceptual Topography of "Power": Understanding Sexual Prohibitions, Production, and Consumption in Kilimanjaro.
- Myhre, Knut Christian (2005). Reiser regjeringen med Ryanair?. Klassekampen. ISSN 0805-3839. 37(107), s 14- 15
- Myhre, Knut Christian (2005). Suffering and Narration.
- Myhre, Knut Christian (2005). The Truth of Anthropology: Wittgenstein, Epistemology, and Meaning.
- Myhre, Knut Christian (2004). Det Moderne Folkemordet. Klassekampen. ISSN 0805-3839. 36(84)
- Myhre, Knut Christian (2004). Divination and Experience: Exploration of a Chagga Lateral Epistemology.
- Myhre, Knut Christian (2004). Dwelling and Experience: The Epistemology of Chagga Divination.
- Myhre, Knut Christian (2004). Family Resemblances, Practical Interrelations, and Material Extensions: Understanding Sexual Prohibitions, Production, and Consumption in Kilimanjaro.
- Myhre, Knut Christian (2004). Kaa and Ikaa: Homesteads and Dwelling in Chagga-speaking Kilimanjaro.
- Myhre, Knut Christian (2004). 'Stammekrig' i Kongo. Klassekampen. ISSN 0805-3839. 36(53)