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Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme

Position

Associate Professor

Affiliation

Department of Social Anthropology

E-mail: jon.remme@uib.no
Phone number: +47 55589247
Visitor address: Fosswinckels gate 6
5007 Bergen
Postal address: P.O. Box 7802

NO-5020 Bergen

Norway

Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme

Position

Associate Professor

Affiliation

Department of Social Anthropology

Research

Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme is interested in how people exist in more-than-human collectives, including plants, animals, spirits and gods. He is particularly interested in how human-nonhuman worlds emerge and transform as people engage in relational ontic practices, that is practices with ontological effects. Remme has investigated such practices through studies of both sacrificial rituals and Pentecostal Sunday services in Ifugao, the Philippines. Looking to explore the interlinkages relational dynamics of kinship, animal husbandry and agriculture in a world where spirits enter in and out of people’s relational worlds, Remme’s research in Ifugao has resulted in publications about the relations between persons and pigs, domestication, the sensorial transformation of spirits, notions of causality, the relations between values and murder, the problems for Pentecostals with God becoming present, temporality in human-environment relations and interreligious encounters in burial rituals. Remme’s publications include the monograph Pigs and Persons in the Philippines (Lexington Books, 2014), the edited volume Human Nature and Social Life (Cambridge University Press, 2017) and the special issue The Ambiguities of Rituals (Ethnos, 2019).

Currently, Remme’s research focuses human-marine relations with an ethnographic focus on the lobster fishery of Maine, US. Remme is project leader for the project SEATIMES: How Climate Change Transforms Human Marine Temporalities in which he studies the implications of climate change for relations between humans and marine life in the Gulf of Maine. Remme is interested in question related to the intertwined rhythms of life, how temporal experiences and orientations emerge in human-marine relations and how efforts at shaping futures are enacted through conserving and transforming particular relational constellations of human and marine life.

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