Jan Ketil Simonsen

Associate Professor

Bygg 7, Rom 7474, Dragvoll, Edvard Bulls veg 1

jan.ketil.simonsen@ntnu.no

Jan Ketil Simonsen is Associate Professor at the Department of Social Anthropology. He holds a PhD and an MPhil in Social Anthropology from the University of Oslo.

He is also the co-editor of the Norwegian Journal of Anthropology

Research interests

Ritual Studies
Visual Anthropology
Childhood Studies
Mobility, migration and urbanization

Scientific, academic and artistic work

A selection of recent journal publications, artistic productions, books, including book and report excerpts. See all publications in the database

Journal publications

Simonsen, Jan Ketil. (2018) Arne Martin Klausen: En bibliografi. Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift. vol. 29 (1.2).
Jirata, Tadesse Jaleta; Simonsen, Jan Ketil. (2014) The Roles of Oromo-Speaking Children in the Storytelling Tradition in Ethiopia. Research in African Literatures. vol. 45 (2).
Simonsen, Jan Ketil. (2005) Sidsel Saugestad: "The inconvinient indigenous. Remote Area Development in Botswana, donor assitance, and the First people of the Kalahari". Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift. vol. 16 (2-3).
Simonsen, Jan Ketil. (1997) Erfaring og Leksikalisering: Om det teoretiske grunnlaget for meningsdannelse. Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift. vol. 8 (2).

Books

Simonsen, Jan Ketil; Larsen, Kjersti; Engebrigtsen, Ada I.. (2018) Movement and Connectivity: Configurations of Belonging. Peter Lang Publishing Group. 2018. ISBN 978-1-78707-550-4.
Iversen, Gunnar; Simonsen, Jan Ketil. (2010) Beyond the visual. Sound and image in ethnographic and documentary film. Intervention Press. 2010. ISBN 978-87-89825-93-9. Proceedings from NAFA (1).
Simonsen, Jan Ketil; Crawford, Peter I.. (1992) Ethnographic Film, Aesthetics and Narrative Traditions - Proceedings from NAFA II. Intervention Press. 1992. ISBN 87-89825-01-2.

Part of book/report

Larsen, Kjersti; Simonsen, Jan Ketil; Engebrigtsen, Ada I.. (2018) Introduction. Movement and Connectivity: Configurations of Belonging.
Simonsen, Jan Ketil. (2018) Kinship and Mobility in Urban Zambia (and Beyond). Movement and Connectivity: Configurations of Belonging.
Simonsen, Jan Ketil. (2015) Om å jage og pleie ånder: Nyliberalisme, spirituell helbredelse og konkurrerende kunnskapstradisjoner i Zambia. Det skapende mennesket : Antropologiske dialoger om tegn, ting og tolkning.
Smørholm, Sesilie; Simonsen, Jan Ketil. (2015) Children’s Drawings in Ethnographic Explorations: Analysis and Interpretations. Methodological Approaches, Geographies of Children and Young People.
Simonsen, Jan Ketil; Serpell, Robert. (2012) Foreword. Children’s Games and Play in Zambia.
Iversen, Gunnar; Simonsen, Jan Ketil. (2010) Introduction. Beyond the visual. Sound and image in ethnographic and documentary film.
Simonsen, Jan Ketil. (2010) Ephemeral images in the Chisungu female initiation ritual. Beyond the visual. Sound and image in ethnographic and documentary film.
Simonsen, Jan Ketil. (2010) The Revival of the Mambwe-Lungu First-Fruits Ceremony in Zambia. Reveries of Home: Nostalgia, Authenticity and the Performance of Place.
Simonsen, Jan Ketil. (2003) Children, Communities, and Coping Strategies: Some Reflections on Fieldwork Methods. Children, AIDS, and Communal Coping Strategies: Papers presented for a research workshop at University of Fort Hare 18-22 March 2002.
Simonsen, Jan Ketil; Talle, Aud. (1996) Øst-Afrika og det sørlige Sentral-Afrika. Fjern og nær : sosialantropologiske perspektiver på verdens samfunn og kulturer.

Report/dissertation

Simonsen, Jan Ketil. (2004) Fra Feltarbeider til Forfatter: Erfaringer fra skrivekurs for mastergradsstudenter på sosialantropologi. Working Papers Series, Sosialantropologisk institutt, NTNU. 2004.
Simonsen, Jan Ketil. (2004) Å Skrive er Å Tenke (og å tolke og analysere) Studiehefte for mastergradsstudenter, Sosialantropologisk institutt, NTNU. 2004.
Simonsen, Jan Ketil. (2003) Children, AIDS, and Communal Coping Strategies: Papers presented for a research workshop at University of Fort Hare 18-22 March 2002. 2003. ISBN 82-8048-031-5. Diakonhjemmet University College Report Series (5/2003).