Journal publications

• Aspen, Harald. (2020) First encounters with industrial work: Kombolcha Industrial Park. Annales d'Éthiopie. vol. 33.
• Aspen, Harald; Woldeyesus, Bedemariam. (2020) Priceless land: valuation and compensation of expropriated farmland in the Amhara region, Ethiopia. Journal of Eastern African Studies. vol. 14 (4).
• Aspen, Harald. (2018) Introduksjon til Montevarese. Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift. vol. 28 (2-3).
• Aspen, Harald. (2011) Sicurezza alimentare e livelihood dei contadini nel Wälo/Food Security and Peasant Livelihoods in Wälo. Afriche e Orienti.

Books

• Fyhn, Håkon; Aspen, Harald; Larsen, Anne Kathrine. (2018) Edges of Global Transformation: Ethnographies of Uncertainty. Lexington Books. 2018. ISBN 978-1-4985-8407-4.
• Aspen, Harald; Ravn, Malin Noem; Røyrvik, Emil André. (2015) Det skapende mennesket : Antropologiske dialoger om tegn, ting og tolkning. Scandinavian Academic Press. 2015. ISBN 9788230401736.
• Aspen, Harald; Teferra, Birhanu; Bekele, Shiferaw; Ege, Svein. (2010) Research in Ethiopian Studies: Selected papers of the 16th International Conference of Ethiopian Studies, Trondheim July 2007, Aethiopistische Forschungen Vol. 72. Harrassowitz Verlag. 2010. ISBN 978-3-447-06146-9.
• Ege, Svein; Aspen, Harald; Teferra, Birhanu; Bekele, Shiferaw. (2009) Proceedings of the 16th International Conference of Ethiopian Studies (Vol. 1-4). 2009. ISBN 978-82-90817-27-0.
• Aspen, Harald. (2003) Faces of Poverty: Life in Gäta, Wälo. 2003. FSS Studies on Poverty.
• Aspen, Harald. (2001) Amhara traditions of knowledge : spirit mediums and their clients. Harrassowitz Verlag. 2001. ISBN 3-447-04410-1. Aethiopistische Forschungen (58).
• Aspen, Harald. (1999) Poverty and Resources: Ethiopian Rural Realities. 1999. ISBN 82-90817-15-0. Working Papers on Ethiopian Development (13).
• Aspen, Harald; Dahl-Jørgensen, Carla; Erring, Bjørn Bauck; Larsen, Anne Kathrine. (1995) THE FAMILY Anthropological Approaches. Festschrift to Professor. 1995. ISBN 82-519-1215-6.

Part of book/report

• Aspen, Harald. (2019) Conclusion. Land Tenure Security: State-Peasant Relations in the Amhara Highlands, Ethiopia.
• Aspen, Harald. (2019) Rich and Poor: Land and Wealth in Mäqét, North Wälo. Land Tenure Security: State-Peasant Relations in the Amhara Highlands, Ethiopia.
• Aspen, Harald. (2019) Rural Land and Urban Aspirations: Future Orientation in a Time of Change. Land Tenure Security: State-Peasant Relations in the Amhara Highlands, Ethiopia.
• Aspen, Harald. (2018) Die Amhara. Äthiopien - Geschichte, Kultur, Herausforderungen.
• Aspen, Harald. (2018) State, Peasant Society and Modernization in Ethiopia. Edges of Global Transformation: Ethnographies of Uncertainty.
• Fyhn, Håkon; Aspen, Harald; Larsen, Anne Kathrine. (2018) Conclusion. Edges of Global Transformation: Ethnographies of Uncertainty.
• Fyhn, Håkon; Aspen, Harald; Larsen, Anne Kathrine. (2018) Neoliberalism and the Ethnographies of Uncertainty. Edges of Global Transformation: Ethnographies of Uncertainty.
• Klemm, Peri; Aspen, Harald. (2018) Hausbau. Äthiopien - Geschichte, Kultur, Herausforderungen.
• Aspen, Harald. (2017) Amhara. Ethiopia - History, Culture and Challenges.
• Aspen, Harald; Klemm, Peri. (2017) Houses. Ethiopia - History, Culture and Challenges.
• Aspen, Harald. (2010) Chapter Nine. 'Home' is the Family Compound in Banjul: Aku Diaspora, Property and Identity. Reveries of Home: Nostalgia, Authenticity and the Performance of Place.
• Mekonnen, Berihun Mebratie; Aspen, Harald. (2010) Early Marriage and the Campaign against It in Ethiopia. Research in Ethiopian Studies: Selected papers of the 16th International Conference of Ethiopian Studies, Trondheim July 2007, Aethiopistische Forschungen Vol. 72.
• Mekonnen, Berihun Mebratie; Aspen, Harald. (2009) Early Marriage and the Campaign against It in Ethiopia. Proceedings of the 16th International Conference of Ethiopian Studies (Vol. 1-4).
• Aspen, Harald. (2006) Informal Credit in Rural Wällo. Proceedings of the XVth International Conference of Ethiopan Studies Hamburg 2003.
• Aspen, Harald. (2002) "Models of Democracy - Perceptions of Power. Government and Peasantry in Ethiopia". Ethiopia. The Challenge of Democracy from Below. Ed. by Bahru Zewde and Siegfried Pausewang.
• Aspen, Harald. (1999) Poverty measurement and assessment - anthropological perspectives. Poverty and Resources.Ethiopian Rural Realities.
• Aspen, Harald. (1995) The ecology of rural Amhara marriage and divorce. THE FAMILY: Anthropological approaches. Festschrift to Professor Jan Brøgger.

Report/dissertation

• Aspen, Harald; Ege, Svein. (2010) Peasant Livelihoods in North Wälo, Ethiopia. A survey of key indicators in Tiweha, Dänkäna and Debeko qäbälé, Mäqét wäräda. 2010. ISBN 978-82-90817-28-7.
• Ege, Svein; Aspen, Harald; Teferra, Birhanu; Bekele, Shiferaw. (2007) 16th International Conference of Ethiopian Studies (ICES 16): Programme. 2007. ISBN 82-90817-26-6.
• Ege, Svein Einar; Aspen, Harald. (2003) On the Brink of Famine: Ch'orisa, Qalu, 2002. 2003. ISBN 82-90817-21-5.
• Aspen, Harald. (1995) The 1995 National and Regional Elections in Ethiopia: Local Perspectives. 1995.
• Aspen, Harald; Kello, Abdulhamid B.. (1995) The programme Peasant Production and Development in Ethiopia (PPDE): Achievements and experiences 1988-1995. 1995.
• Aspen, Harald; Brøgger, Jan. (1994) Spirits, mediums and human worlds. The Amhara peasants of North Ethiopian highlands and their traditions of knowledge. 1994.
• Aspen, Harald. (1986) Ghost corporations - the Gambian Akus' responses to dethronement. 1986.