2012. The State and the Social. State formation in Botswana and its Precolonial and Colonial Genealogies. New York/Oxford: Berghahn.

2007. Town-state formations on the edge of the Kalahari: Social cultural dynamics of centralization in Northern Tswana kingdoms. Social Analysis: Journal of cultural and social practice, 51 (3): 55-77.

2006. 'Det sørlige Afrika', i S. Howell and M. Melhuus (red.), Fjern og nær. Sosialantropologiske perspektiver på verdens samfunn og kulturer, ss.127-155, Oslo: Ad Notam-Gyldendal.

2003. The discourse of ‘ritual murder': Popular reactions to political leaders in Botswana, i B. Kapferer (red.), Beyond Rationalism: Rethinking Magic, Witchcraft and Sorcery, New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books. Også publisert 2002 i Social Analysis: Journal of cultural and social practice, 46 (3): 215-234.

2002. The tragedy of the commons: collective resources and individual interests, i S. Ugelvik Larsen (red.), Theory and Method in Social Sciences, ss. 197-215, New York: Columbia University Press. (Også å finne i kinesiske, russiske og tyske oversettelser/utgaver.)

2001. Christianity in an African context: On the inadequacy of the notion of sacred/secular divide. Journal of the Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies, 3 (1): 31-59.

1999. Almenningens tragedie, i S. Ugelvik Larsen (red.), Lov og struktur, ss. 164-179, Oslo: Universitetsforlaget.

1997. Africa South, i A. Barnard and J. Spencer (red.), Encyclopedic Dictionary of Social and Culural Anthropology. London: Routledge

1996. Living their lives in courts: The counter-hegemonic force of the Tswana kgotla, i O. Harris (red.), Inside and Outside the Law, ss. 125-156, London: Routledge.

1996. Poverty in the Midst of Plenty. Socio-Economic Marginalization, Ecological Deterioration and Political stability in a Tswana Society, Bergen: Norse Publications.

1995. ‘The king is king by the grace of the people.' Control and exercise of power in subject-ruler relations. Comparative Studies in Society and History, 37 (3) 415-455.

1993. The rise of the North-Western Tswana kingdoms: On the socio-cultural dynamics of interaction between internal relations and external forces. Africa. Journal of the International African Institute, 63: (4): 550-582.

1993. Missionaries and Northern Tswana rulers: who used whom? Journal of Religion in Africa, 23 (1): 44-83.

1991. Pastorale sivilisasjoner. Økologi og politikk på Kalaharis bredd. Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift, 2 (2): 119-139.

1991. On the problem of egalitarianism: the Kalahari San in transition, in R. Grønhaug, G. Henriksen and G. Håland (red.), The Ecology of Choice and Symbol. Essays in Honour of Fredrik Barth, ss. 81-111, Bergen: Alma Mater.

1989. Material and symbolic aspects of changing property relations in a Tswana society, i P. Baxter and R. Hogg (red.), Changing Property Relations in Pastoral Societies, ss. 164-182, Manchester: University of Manchester.

1988. Belønning og mening i arbeidsforhold, i O. Brox og M. Gullestad (red.), På norsk grunn. Sosialantropologiske studier av Norge, nordmenn og det norske, ss. 36-58, Oslo: Notabene.

1986. To marry - or not to marry. Marital strategies and sexual relations in a Tswana Society. Ethnos, 51: 1, 7 28.

1986. When land becomes scarce. Land Tenure Transformations in Eastern Botswana, Bergen: Norse Publications.

1985. Access to Agricultural Land and Communal Land Management in Eastern Botswana. Madison: The Land Tenure Centre.

1984. Tørkekatastrofe: Tilfellet Botswana, i A. Hjort och M. Ståhl (red.), Katastrof och Samhälle i Afrika, Uppsala: Det Nordiske Afrikainstituttet.

1983. "Vi" og "bedriften". Om forholdet mellom arbeiderkollektivets forutsetninger og fremtredelsesformer, i M. Hoel og B. Hvinden (red.), Kollektivteori og sosiologi, ss. 63-87, Oslo: Gyldendal Norsk Forlag.

1980. Agro Pastoral Production and Communal Land Use. A Socio Economic Study of the Bangwaketse, Gaborone: Botswana Government Press.

1976. Samarbeidsideologi og interessekonflikt. Analyse av forholdet mellom bedrift og fagorganisasjon, Oslo: ISO.

Projects

- Challenging the state
- 'For and against the state: a comparative study of state-society relations in Botswana and Italy.'
- On the continued significance of patrimonialism: A comparative study of the relationship between premodern and modern political structures with a particular reference to issue of legitimacy and power abuse in Botswana and Italy.
- Challenging sovereignty: interdependence and contradictions in the relationship between the modern state and indigenous kingdoms in post-colonial Botswana in perspective of African failed states.
- Reconciliation versus revenge: explorations of socio-political implications of radically different cultural orientations - Sardo and Tswana compared.