Knut Christian Myhre

About

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.

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 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 was primarily conducted in Tanzania, where I 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.

Publications

2022

Myhre, Knut Christian; Evjemo, Eivind Hofstad. (2022) Etter Ord. Rikdommens språk: tekster om Oljefondet.
Myhre, Knut Christian; Evjemo, Eivind Hofstad. (2022) Forord. Rikdommens språk: tekster om Oljefondet.
Myhre, Knut Christian; Evjemo, Eivind Hofstad. (2022) Rikdommens språk: tekster om Oljefondet. Cappelen Damm AS. 2022. ISBN 9788202710903.
Myhre, Knut Christian; Holmes, Douglas R.. (2022) Reframing Welfare: Expectations, Collaboration and Ownership at the World's Largest Sovereign Wealth-Fund. Anthropological Forum: a journal of social anthropology and comparative sociology. volum 32 (2).

2017

Myhre, Knut Christian. (2017) The Power of A Severed Arm: Life, Witchcraft, and Christianity in Kilimanjaro. Pentecostalism and Witchcraft: Spiritual Warfare in Africa and Melanesia.

2016

Myhre, Knut Christian. (2016) Cutting and Connecting: 'Afrinesian' Perspectives on Networks, Relationality, and Exchange. Berghahn Books. 2016. ISBN 978-1-78533-263-0.
Myhre, Knut Christian. (2016) Introduction: Cutting and Connecting - 'Afrinesian' Perspectives on Networks, Relationality, and Exchange. Cutting and Connecting: 'Afrinesian' Perspectives on Networks, Relationality, and Exchange.
Myhre, Knut Christian. (2016) Membering and Dismembering: The Poetry and Relationality of Animal Bodies in Kilimanjaro. Cutting and Connecting: 'Afrinesian' Perspectives on Networks, Relationality, and Exchange.
Myhre, Knut Christian; Storaas, Frode. (2016) Atali's Garden. null

2015

Myhre, Knut Christian. (2015) What the beer shows: Exploring ritual and ontology in Kilimanjaro. American Ethnologist. volum 42 (1).

2014

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. volum 20 (3).

2013

Myhre, Knut Christian. (2013) Cutting and Connecting: 'Afrinesian' Perspectives on Networks, Relationality, and Exchange. Social Analysis: The International Journal of Anthropology. volum 57 (3).
Myhre, Knut Christian. (2013) Membering and Dismembering: The Poetry and Relationality of Animal Bodies in Kilimanjaro. Social Analysis: The International Journal of Anthropology. volum 57 (3).

2012

Myhre, Knut Christian. (2012) Koda. ANTropologi som grenseflate, adskillelse og relasjon. Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift. volum 23 (3-4).
Myhre, Knut Christian. (2012) MKUHUMI na Mustakhabali wa Milki ya Kimila. ARDHI NI UHAI.
Myhre, Knut Christian. (2012) The pitch of ethnography: Language, relations, and the significance of listening. Anthropological Theory. volum 12 (2).

2010

Myhre, Knut Christian. (2010) How Climate Change Affects Livelihoods in East Africa. Africa in Uncertain Times.

2009

Myhre, Knut Christian. (2009) Disease and Disruption: Chagga Witchcraft and Relational Fragility. Dealing with Uncertainty in Contemporary African Lives.
Myhre, Knut Christian. (2009) En innledning til Axel Sommerfelts artikkel. Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift. volum 20 (4).
Sommerfelt, Axel; Myhre, Knut Christian. (2009) Etnopolitikk og bruk av historie blant konzoene i Uganda på slutten av kolonitiden. Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift. volum 20 (4).

2007

Myhre, Knut Christian. (2007) Family Resemblances, Practical Interrelations and Material Extensions: Understanding Sexual Prohibitions, Production and Consumption in Kilimanjaro. Africa. volum 77 (3).
Myhre, Knut Christian. (2007) Om ritualer og sosiale relasjoner. Refleksjoner rundt et kraftfullt bytte. Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift. volum 18 (3-4).

2006

Myhre, Knut Christian. (2006) Divination and Experience: Explorations of a Chagga Epistemology. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. volum 12 (2).
Myhre, Knut Christian. (2006) The Truth of Anthropology: Epistemology, Meaning and Residual Positivism. Anthropology Today. volum 22 (6).

2004

Myhre, Knut Christian. (2004) The Bookseller of Kabul and the Anthropologists of Norway. Anthropology Today. volum 20 (3).

1998

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. volum 29 (2).

Journal publications

Myhre, Knut Christian; Holmes, Douglas R.. (2022) Reframing Welfare: Expectations, Collaboration and Ownership at the World's Largest Sovereign Wealth-Fund. Anthropological Forum: a journal of social anthropology and comparative sociology. volum 32 (2).
Myhre, Knut Christian. (2020) COVID-19, Dugnad, and Productive Incompleteness: Volunteer Labour and Crisis Loans in Norway. Social Anthropology. volum 28 (2).
Myhre, Knut Christian. (2020) Sovereign wealth and custodial finance in Norway. Anthropology News.
Myhre, Knut Christian. (2019) Life and its inflections in Kilimanjaro: Becoming and being beyond the metaphoric. HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory. volum 9 (2).
Myhre, Knut Christian. (2019) Tales of a stitched anus: fictions, analytics, and personhood in Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. volum 25 (1).
Myhre, Knut Christian; Storaas, Frode. (2018) Antropologi på film - refleksjoner rundt tre filmer fra Kilimanjaro. Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift. volum 29 (3-4).
Myhre, Knut Christian. (2015) What the beer shows: Exploring ritual and ontology in Kilimanjaro. American Ethnologist. volum 42 (1).
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. volum 20 (3).
Myhre, Knut Christian. (2013) Cutting and Connecting: 'Afrinesian' Perspectives on Networks, Relationality, and Exchange. Social Analysis: The International Journal of Anthropology. volum 57 (3).
Myhre, Knut Christian. (2013) Membering and Dismembering: The Poetry and Relationality of Animal Bodies in Kilimanjaro. Social Analysis: The International Journal of Anthropology. volum 57 (3).
Myhre, Knut Christian. (2012) Koda. ANTropologi som grenseflate, adskillelse og relasjon. Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift. volum 23 (3-4).
Myhre, Knut Christian. (2012) MKUHUMI na Mustakhabali wa Milki ya Kimila. ARDHI NI UHAI.
Myhre, Knut Christian. (2012) The pitch of ethnography: Language, relations, and the significance of listening. Anthropological Theory. volum 12 (2).
Myhre, Knut Christian. (2009) En innledning til Axel Sommerfelts artikkel. Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift. volum 20 (4).
Sommerfelt, Axel; Myhre, Knut Christian. (2009) Etnopolitikk og bruk av historie blant konzoene i Uganda på slutten av kolonitiden. Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift. volum 20 (4).
Myhre, Knut Christian. (2007) Family Resemblances, Practical Interrelations and Material Extensions: Understanding Sexual Prohibitions, Production and Consumption in Kilimanjaro. Africa. volum 77 (3).
Myhre, Knut Christian. (2007) Om ritualer og sosiale relasjoner. Refleksjoner rundt et kraftfullt bytte. Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift. volum 18 (3-4).
Myhre, Knut Christian. (2006) Divination and Experience: Explorations of a Chagga Epistemology. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. volum 12 (2).
Myhre, Knut Christian. (2006) The Truth of Anthropology: Epistemology, Meaning and Residual Positivism. Anthropology Today. volum 22 (6).
Myhre, Knut Christian. (2004) The Bookseller of Kabul and the Anthropologists of Norway. Anthropology Today. volum 20 (3).
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. volum 29 (2).

Artistic productions

Myhre, Knut Christian; Storaas, Frode. (2016) Atali's Garden. null

Part of book/report

Myhre, Knut Christian; Evjemo, Eivind Hofstad. (2022) Etter Ord. Rikdommens språk: tekster om Oljefondet.
Myhre, Knut Christian; Evjemo, Eivind Hofstad. (2022) Forord. Rikdommens språk: tekster om Oljefondet.
Myhre, Knut Christian. (2020) Deep Pragmatism. The Mythology in Our Language: Remarks on Frazer's Golden Bough by Ludwig Wittgenstein.
Myhre, Knut Christian. (2020) Financialization and the Norwegian State: Constraints, Contestations, and Custodial Finance in the World's Largest Sovereign Wealth Fund. Financialization - Relational Approaches.
Myhre, Knut Christian. (2017) The Power of A Severed Arm: Life, Witchcraft, and Christianity in Kilimanjaro. Pentecostalism and Witchcraft: Spiritual Warfare in Africa and Melanesia.
Myhre, Knut Christian. (2016) Introduction: Cutting and Connecting - 'Afrinesian' Perspectives on Networks, Relationality, and Exchange. Cutting and Connecting: 'Afrinesian' Perspectives on Networks, Relationality, and Exchange.
Myhre, Knut Christian. (2016) Membering and Dismembering: The Poetry and Relationality of Animal Bodies in Kilimanjaro. Cutting and Connecting: 'Afrinesian' Perspectives on Networks, Relationality, and Exchange.
Myhre, Knut Christian. (2010) How Climate Change Affects Livelihoods in East Africa. Africa in Uncertain Times.
Myhre, Knut Christian. (2009) Disease and Disruption: Chagga Witchcraft and Relational Fragility. Dealing with Uncertainty in Contemporary African Lives.

Books

Myhre, Knut Christian; Evjemo, Eivind Hofstad. (2022) Rikdommens språk: tekster om Oljefondet. Cappelen Damm AS. 2022. ISBN 9788202710903.
Myhre, Knut Christian. (2018) Returning Life: Language, Life Force and History in Kilimanjaro. Berghahn Books. 2018. ISBN 978-1-78533-665-2.
Myhre, Knut Christian. (2016) Cutting and Connecting: 'Afrinesian' Perspectives on Networks, Relationality, and Exchange. Berghahn Books. 2016. ISBN 978-1-78533-263-0.

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