Jan Ketil Simonsen
Background and activities
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
- (2020) For fellesskapets beste: Moralske forpliktelser, innblanding og etiske dilemmaer på feltarbeid. Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift. vol. 32 (3).
- (2019) Skogsbeitets konge, 100% naturlig og menneskets respektfulle hånd Om industrialiseringen av iberisk svinekjøtt og kulturelle konfigureringer av grisen og eikeskogsbeitene i sørvestlige Spania. Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift. vol. 30 (3-4).
- (2018) Arne Martin Klausen: En bibliografi. Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift. vol. 29 (1.2).
- (2014) The Roles of Oromo-Speaking Children in the Storytelling Tradition in Ethiopia. Research in African Literatures. vol. 45 (2).
- (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).
- (1997) Erfaring og Leksikalisering: Om det teoretiske grunnlaget for meningsdannelse. Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift. vol. 8 (2).
Books
- (2018) Movement and Connectivity: Configurations of Belonging. Peter Lang Publishing Group. 2018. ISBN 978-1-78707-550-4.
- (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).
- (1992) Ethnographic Film, Aesthetics and Narrative Traditions - Proceedings from NAFA II. Intervention Press. 1992. ISBN 87-89825-01-2.
Part of book/report
- (2020) Beyond Words: Children’s Drawings, the Socio-Spatial Environment and Experience. Perceiving Children The Visual Anthropology of Childhood.
- (2018) Introduction. Movement and Connectivity: Configurations of Belonging.
- (2018) Kinship and Mobility in Urban Zambia (and Beyond). Movement and Connectivity: Configurations of Belonging.
- (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.
- (2015) Children’s Drawings in Ethnographic Explorations: Analysis and Interpretations. Methodological Approaches, Geographies of Children and Young People.
- (2012) Foreword. Children’s Games and Play in Zambia.
- (2010) Introduction. Beyond the visual. Sound and image in ethnographic and documentary film.
- (2010) Ephemeral images in the Chisungu female initiation ritual. Beyond the visual. Sound and image in ethnographic and documentary film.
- (2010) The Revival of the Mambwe-Lungu First-Fruits Ceremony in Zambia. Reveries of Home: Nostalgia, Authenticity and the Performance of Place.
- (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.
- (1996) Øst-Afrika og det sørlige Sentral-Afrika. Fjern og nær : sosialantropologiske perspektiver på verdens samfunn og kulturer.