My research focuses on the constitution of the individualistic individual and the phenomenology, history and dynamics of global space. This includes how the Neo-Platonic and Christian notion of the self and God, led to a concretisation of the modern individual, and the epistemolocial structure of the global world as we know it. A main theoretical approach is how the self became after 1400, and following the reintroduction of Ptolemy's Geography, perceived pragmatically as a point relating to the global grid of latitude and longitude, which is an outher projection of the self. Such a cosmological "genesis" figure is the basic structure from which the individual relates to a global world as a collective.

Part of my work has been to investigate Western people who sail on cruising yachts around the world, and I have also worked on the revitalisation of Polynesian Navigation in Hawaii. 

My work includes drug related problems and mental health issues among marginalised people in Bergen, Norway. 

I am also a film producer, and have filmed and directed a whole range of ethnographic films.

Other product

• Scott, Rolf. E (2023). 60 Years of Sudan-Bergen collaboration.. (external link)
• Scott, Rolf. E (2022). What do the Rocks Say? Professor Olaf H. Smedal talks about a myth, and what some sacred rocks from Flores, Indonesia had to say, set in relief with recent discussions on "the ontological turn" within anthropology.. (external link)
• Scott, Rolf. E (2021). Filmed and edited "The 6th Fredrik Barth Memorial Lecture", 26th of November, 2021. Presented by Professor Marianne Lien. Title. Beyond Ethnographic Presentism; Landscape as Relational Archive. Department of Social Anthropology, University of Bergen. Norwegian Anthropological Association (c 2021).. (external link)
• Hviding, Edvard; Scott, Rolf. E (2006). Vincent and the Rainforest: Global Conversations in Rural Melanesia. (external link)
• Hviding, Edvard; Scott, Rolf. E (2006). The Power of Museum Objects: His Grace Reverend Ikan Rove, KBE, of Solomon Islands visits the British Museum. (external link)

Documentary

• Scott, Rolf. E (2023). Hvorfor ta mastergrad ved institutt for sosialantropologi, Universitetet i Bergen. Guro Vesterheim Skeie forteller hvofor hun to Mastergrad ved institutt for sosialantropologi, UiB. . (external link)
• Scott, Rolf. E (2023). Hvorfor ta mastergrad ved institutt for sosialantropologi, Universitetet i Bergen.Tonje Sophie Olsen Grey forteller hvofor hun to Mastergrad ved institutt for sosialantropologi, UiB. [Norsk. (external link)
• Scott, Rolf. E (2023). Cairban: A contemporary Shark Hunt. . (external link)
• Scott, Rolf. E (2023). Sailing the Reef Islands. (external link)
• Scott, Rolf. E (2022). Mannehuset Menn i Skjul sin oppstart. Samtale og felleskap gjennom teknologi, håndtverk og handling. . (external link)
• Scott, Rolf. E (2022). 10 vakre trykk, 10 kunstnere, 1 samlemappe. Laget på Amalie Skrams Hus. . (external link)
• Scott, Rolf. E; Smedal, Olaf H; Storaas, Frode (2017). What do the rocks say?. (external link)

Academic article

• Scott, Rolf. E; Hviding, Edvard (2023). Vincent and the Rainforest Global Conversations in Rural Melanesia. (external link)
• Scott, Rolf. E; Crawford, Peter Ian (2023). Tuo Dolphins. (external link)
• Scott, Rolf. E; Crawford, Peter Ian; Tollefsen, Trygve (2022). Alfred Melotu, The Funeral of a Paramount Chief. (external link)
• Scott, Rolf. E; Storaas, Frode; Perlov, Diane (2020). Going for Mackerel. (external link)
• Storaas, Frode; Scott, Rolf. E; Kassa, Getachew (2019). The Go-Between, Afar of Ethiopia . (external link)
• Scott, Rolf. E; Hviding, Edvard; Tollefsen, Trygve (2018). Chea's Great Kuarao. (external link)
• Scott, Rolf. E (2007). Positioning the Individual in a Global World. (external link)

Lecture

• Scott, Rolf. E (2022). Amalie Skrams Hus. Å styrke selvet i et mangfoldig felleskap. . (external link)
• Scott, Rolf. E; Furstenberg-Tillisch, Sigurd (2022). Verkstedsbasert folkehelse for menn. I live med folk rundt deg. En prat fra skulder til skulder. . (external link)

Academic lecture

• Scott, Rolf. E (2022). The Point Global Self as a Constitutor of both the Global and Global Technologies. (external link)
• Scott, Rolf. E (2017). “Nostalgia as a Dynamic of a Western Individualistic Cosmology”. (external link)
• Scott, Rolf. E (2017). The Point-Self In the Global-Grid as a Universal Value.. (external link)
• Scott, Rolf. E (2017). An Anthropological Inquiry into the Technologicla Grid-Based Transformation of the Social.. (external link)
• Scott, Rolf. E (2017). The Road to Hell is Paved With Good intentions; . (external link)
• Scott, Rolf. E (2016). The Global as the Technological Self of Transcendence.. (external link)
• Scott, Rolf. E (2016). The point-self in the global-grid as a self-confirming evolving system of reality.. (external link)
• Scott, Rolf. E (2015). Technologies of the Self in the Global-Grid of Latitude and Longitude.. (external link)
• Scott, Rolf. E (2014). Bolig og hjem for et bedre liv. (external link)
• Scott, Rolf. E (2014). Å standardisere, disiplinere og redusere individet i en moderne velferdsorientert verden definert ut fra borgerskapets verdier. (external link)
• Scott, Rolf. E (2014). The Connecting Force of the Global Grid of Latitude and Longitude. (external link)
• Scott, Rolf. E (2013). The point and the global grid as the basis of the globally projected self. (external link)
• Scott, Rolf. E (2013). The global grid of latitude and longitude, and how it manifests in the planning and execution of a sailing vacation in the Mediterranean Sea. (external link)
• Scott, Rolf. E (2013). Prosjekt Overgang. Rusmisbruke; Hva er nå det???. (external link)
• Scott, Rolf. E (2013). 1. Hva er et begrep og hvorfor er kunnskap om begrep viktig? 2.Å standardisere, disiplinere og redusere individet i en moderne velferdsorientert verden dominert av borgerskapens verdier. 3.Rusmiljøer versus borgerskap - Hjem og bolig på vei mot et bedre liv? 4. Film. De margnialiserte. 19 min. (external link)
• Scott, Rolf. E (2012). Cosmonauts in the Learning. (external link)
• Scott, Rolf. E (2012). Standardising, Disciplining and Reducing the Individual in a Modern Individualised, and Welfare Orientated World Dominated by Bourgeois Values. (external link)
• Scott, Rolf. E (2012). The Global as a Reality Machine. (external link)
• Scott, Rolf. E (2011). Prosjekt overgang. (external link)
• Scott, Rolf. E (2011). The emergence of a coherent and totalising point based, individualising, and global existence. (external link)
• Scott, Rolf. E (2011). Cosmonauts in the learning. (external link)
• Scott, Rolf. E (2008). The Hawaiian transformation of Pacific and Global Space. (external link)
• Scott, Rolf. E; Hviding, Edvard (2006). Filmene Alfred Melotu, The Funeral of a Paramount Chief (45 min)Chea´s Great Kuarao (50min)Vincent and the Rainforest. Global Conversations in Rural Melanesia (70 min)Ble vist og deretter diskutert. (external link)
• Scott, Rolf. E (2006). Kultur og kulturforståelse: Skapelsen av en vestlig forståelse av rom. (external link)
• Scott, Rolf. E (2006). Film, dens kosmologiske røtter, globale dynamikk og innvirkning på individet. (external link)
• Scott, Rolf. E (2006). Globalt rom, tidlige europeiske utforskere, og vestlige sjønomader. (external link)
• Scott, Rolf (2006). International Agents and Local Development. (external link)
• Scott, Rolf (2005). Film, its Cosmological Roots, Global Dynamics, and Impact on Individuality. (external link)
• Scott, Rolf (2005). Filmwork in the Marovo Lagoon. (external link)
• Scott, Rolf (2005). Filmens plass i helheten. (external link)
• Scott, Rolf (2005). The Construction of Standardized Global Space and the Positioning of the Individual. (external link)
• Scott, Rolf (2004). The Positioning of the Individual and the Construction of Global Space. (external link)
• Scott, Rolf (2004). Konstruksjonen av et globalt rom og dens påvirkninger på individet. (external link)
• Scott, Rolf (2004). ThoughtsConcerning Film as a Tool for Research. (external link)

Feature article

• Scott, Rolf. E (2022). En ideologisk kjøttkvern. (external link)

Interview

• Ullvatn, Anne Marie; Milde, Anne Marita; Scott, Rolf. E et al. (2021). Menn i skjul. Kunsten å leve # 4. (external link)

Popular scientific lecture

• Storaas, Frode; Scott, Rolf. E (2017). Magi i kvardagen - presentasjon og diskusjon av filmen Going for Mackerel. (external link)
• Scott, Rolf. E (2008). Hvordan blir vi en nasjon igjen: navigasjon skaper folk i Stillehavet. (external link)
• Scott, Rolf (2005). Film: Et enkelt verktøy for formidling og kommunikasjon med stor påvirkningskraft. (external link)

Website (informational material)

• Scott, Rolf. E (2016). Meeting in Ascona! 8-15 of March 2016. (external link)
• Scott, Rolf. E (2016). Casino Cities-Las Vegas, Macau and Monaco!. (external link)
• Scott, Rolf. E (2016). Reflections on Charlie Hebdo and Comments in the American Anthropologist.. (external link)
• Scott, Rolf. E (2016). Revolution Through Practice and Fluid Relations. (external link)
• Scott, Rolf. E (2016). Grassroots Challenging “Liberal Democracies. (external link)
• Scott, Rolf. E (2016). The Manipal Centre and Professor Sundar Sarukkai. (external link)

Doctoral dissertation

• Scott, Rolf. E; Kapferer, Bruce (2016). The Global Self. Constituting the Self as a Point in a Grid-Based Global World. (external link)

Film

• Storaas, Frode; Scott, Rolf. E; Kassa, Getachew (2014). The Go-Between, Afar of Ethiopia, film 38min.. (external link)

Museum exhibition

• Crawford, Peter Ian; Scott, Rolf. E; Pinholt, Jens (2014). Montage på veggen til etnografisk museum Moesgaard. Bidraget vårt er tatt fra filmen, Alfred Melotu, The Funeral of a Paramount Chief. Av Peter Crawford, Jens Pinholt, og Rolf Scott.. (external link)
• Scott, Rolf. E; Crawford, Peter Ian (2013). Film. Tuo Dolphins. 24.min. år 2006. (external link)
• Scott, Rolf. E; Crawford, Peter Ian (2013). Film. Alfred Melotu, The Funeral of a Paramount Chief. 44.30. Produksjonsår. 2003. (external link)
• Scott, Rolf. E (2009). 2009 – Juni: Ansvarlig for filmmateriale til utstillingen: ”Kolonitid! Nordmenn på eventyr og big business i Afrika og Stillehavet” ved Bergen Museum. (external link)
• Scott, Rolf. E (2006). Sailing the Reef Islands. Film på 6 minutter til utstillingen "Stjernestier over Stillehavet", fortellinger om opprinnnelse i Oceania. Omhander havseiling med kano av Polynesiere fra Reef Øyene og som er en del av Salomon øyene. (external link)
• Scott, Rolf. E (2006). Bubo. (external link)
• Scott, Rolf. E; Storaas, Frode (2000). Going for Mackerel. 35 min film The Cactus League. 25 min film Magic at Work. 10 min film. (external link)

Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

• Scott, Rolf. E (2011). Voyaging, cultural heritage and rites of passage : the Hawaiian transformation of Pacific and global space. (external link)

Other presentation

• Storaas, Frode; Perlov, Diane; Scott, Rolf. E (2011). Going for Mackerel (film 27'). (external link)
• Scott, Rolf. E; Storaas, Frode (2007). "Going for Mackerel (27 min)", og "The Cactus League (19 min", av Rolf Scott og Frode Storaas. (external link)
• Scott, Rolf. E (2006). Filmforum Bergen. (external link)

Poster

• Scott, Rolf. E (2007). Presentasjon av filmen: FOLKET OG PRESIDENTEN – ET PORTRETT AV DEN BOLIVARIANSKE REVOLUSJON (86 min) Av Iselin Åsedotter Strønen og Hildegunn Wærness Påfølgende analyse og leder av diskusjon. (external link)

Book review

• Scott, Rolf (2006). Godt om manndom i utvikling. Anmeldelse av Knut Kolnar sin bok "Mannedyret; Begjær i Norsk film. Spartacus forlag. (external link)

Digital learning tools

• Scott, Rolf; Storaas, Frode (2004). The Settlement. 23 min. Observations from a an Afar home settlemet early in the morning. Location Ethiopia. (external link)
• Scott, Rolf; Storaas, Frode (2004). The Waterhole 27 min. En film om livet rundt et vanningshull blant Afar folket i Etiopia. (external link)
• Scott, Rolf; Storaas, Frode (2004). The settlement 2. 24 minutes. Observations from an Afar home settlement in Ethiopia towards midday. (external link)
• Scott, Rolf; Storaas, Frode (2004). The Night (23 minutes). Observations from a home settlement among the Afar of Ethiopia during the night. (external link)

Thesis at a second degree level

• Scott, Rolf (2002). Crusing the World as a Western Sea Nomad. (external link)

See a complete overview of publications in Cristin.

2020. The Invisibility of the Visual: The ideological formation of realities as seen through a museum exhibition, and the visual-virtual individualistic-egalitarian way the individual relates to the global world. Monograph (Forthcoming).  

2020. The Lost Child. 1 hour 35 min. Scott, Rolf; Smedal, Olaf. Film, Flores, Indonesia. (Forthcoming). 

2020. Going for Mackerel (27 min). Scott, Rolf; Storaas, Frode; Perlov, Diane. Journal of Anthropological Films (in press).

2019. The Go-Between, Afar of Ethiopia (36 min). Journal of Anthropological Films;Volum 3.(1)UiB. Storaas, Frode; Scott, Rolf. E; Kassa, Getachew.

2018. Chea's Great Kuarao. 55 min. Marovo Lagoon. Salomon Islands. Scott, Rolf. E; Hviding, Edvard; Tollefsen, Trygve. Chea's Great Kuarao. Journal of Anthropological Film. Vol (2)

2018. 1. What is egalitarianism (4,20 min) ? 2. Why do research on egalitarianism (4 min)? 3. Can there be any true egalitarian societies (6,43 min)? 4. Are utopias a driving force of egalitarianism (2,20 min)? 4 films in conversation with professor Bruce Kapferer at the Albert Memorial, London.

2017. What do the Rocks say? (17 min). Scott, Rolf; Storaas, Frode; Smedal, Olaf. The Department of Anthropology, Uib. Website.

2016. The Global Self. Positioning the Individual as a Point in a Grid-Based Global World. Doctoral Thesis. University of Bergen.  

[2010]. Voyaging, Cultural Heritage, and Rites of Passage: The Hawaiian Transformation of Pacific and Global Space, in Edvard Hviding and Knut Rio (eds) Social Movements, Cultural Heritage and the State in Oceania. Oxford: Sean Kingston Publishing.

[2010 in print] The Photograph and Film: Cosmological Roots, Global Dynamics and Impact on Individuality, in Bruce Kapferer and Angela Hobard (eds.) Human Interface between Ritual, Theatre and Film. Oxford and New York: Berghahn Books.

2007. Å posisjonere individet i en moderne verden. Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift, 18(1): 46-62.

2003. Documentary film workshop Tanzania. SOT Film A/S and GeGCA–NUFU papers.

 2002. Cruising the World as a Western Sea Nomad. Master thesis in social anthropology, Dept. of social anthropology, UiB, p. 233.

Selected anthropological films and web presentations

2009. Responisble for the films for the exhibition ”Kolonitid! Nordmenn på eventyr og big business i Afrika og Stillehavet” at Bergen Museum. These films include:

-"Norske etterkommere på Salomonøyene." 27 min. [with Edvard Hviding]. Produced by UiB, Sot Film AS.

- "Nordmenn som formet Kauai." 29 min. [with Knut Rio]. Produced by Bergen Museum, Sot Film AS

- "Entreprenøren Mike Faye." 14 min. [with Knut Rio]. Produced by Bergen Museum, Sot Film AS.

- "Familien Blackstad på Kauai." 11 min. [with Knut Rio]. Produced by Bergen Museum, Sot Film AS.

- "Chris Faye, Kunstmaler." 16 min. [with Knut Rio]. Produced by Bergen Museum, Sot Film AS.

- "Sjø, hav og seilskuter." 8 min. Produced by Bergen Museum, Sot Film AS.

- "Kauai, en bildepresentasjon." 16 min. Produced by Bergen Museum, Sot film AS.


2006. "Å seile Reef Øyene." 6 min. Used in the exhibition "Stjernestier over Stillehavet” at the Ethnographic museum, University of Oslo organized by Arne Perminov. Produced by Ethnographic museum, University of Oslo.

2006. "New Life in the Old World. A Knighthood in London to the Spiritual Authority of the Christian Fellowship Church in Solomon Islands." 60 min. [with Edvard Hviding]. Produced by Sot Film AS, UiB and British Museum.

2006. "Vincent and the Rainforest: Global Conversations in Rural Melanesia." 75 min. [with Edvard Hviding]. Produced by SOT-Film AS, UiB and Solomon Islands National Museum

2006. "The Power of Museum Objects." 40 min. [with Edvard Hviding]. Produced by SOT Film AS, UiB and British Museum.

2006. "Bubo. 10. min. Produced by Bergen Museum, UiB  and Sot Film AS.

2004. Editing of Gunnar og Kari Haaland's film “The Ethiopian Iron Smelter and his World.” 55 min. Produced by UiB.

2004. Film consultant and last editing of the film "Datoga, let's beware AIDS!". 56 min. In co-operation with Ole Bjørn Rekdal at the University College of Bergen.

2003. "Lawrence in the Field. Museum Director Meets Morovo Lagoon." 45 min. [with Edvard Hviding]. Produced by Sot Film AS, UiB and Solomon Islands National Museum.

2003. "Chea’s Kuarao Interactive." [with Edvard Hviding and Trygve Tollefsen]. Web design by Mandag Media. Produced by Sot Film AS and UiB.

2003. "Teknologi, organisasjon og overtro på Havdrøn." 49 min. [with Frode Storås]. Produced by Sot Film AS and UiB.

2003. "The Waterhole." 27 min. [with Frode Storås]. Produced by Sot Film AS and UiB.

2003. "The settlement." 23 minutes. [with Frode Storås]. Produced by Sot Film AS and UiB.

2003. "Augusts. The settlement 2." 24 min. [with Frode Storås]. Produced by Sot Film AS and UiB.

2003. "August. The Night 23 minutes." [with Frode Storås]. Produced by  Sot Film AS and UiB.

2002. "Alfred Melotu, The funeral of a Paramount Chief." 45 min. [with Peter Crawford and Trygve Tollefsen] Produced by Bergen Museum, Universitety of Århus (Denmark), Intervention Press (Denmark) and Nordic Anthropological Film Association (NAFA).

2002. "Chea’s Great Kuarao." 57 min. English version. [with Edvard Hviding and Trygve Tollefsen]. Produced by Sot Film AS in co-operation with UiB.

2002. "Tuo Dolphins." 25 min. [with Peter Crawford]. Produced by Sot Film AS, Intervention Press, Bergen Museum and Nordic Anthropological Film Association (NAFA).

1999. "Going for Mackerel." 27 min. [with Diane Perlov and Frode Storås]. Produced by Sot Film A/S, Bergen Museum and California Science Centre, Los Angeles, USA.

1999. "The Cactus League." 19 min. [with Diane Perlov and Frode Storås]. Produced by Sot Film A/S, Bergen Museum and California Science Centre, Los Angeles, USA.

1999. "Magic at Work." 10 min. [with Diane Perlov and Frode Storås]. Produced by Sot Film A/S, Bergen Museum and California Science Centre, Los Angeles, USA.

Regionalt: Det globale, Stillehavet og Europas utforskningshistorie.

Tematisk: Fenomenologi, ontologi, ritualet, det globale, romlighet, individualisme, navigering, Polynesisk navigasjon, utforskning, film og foto.

Filmkompetanse: Har også utdannelse innen film, og har produsert, regissert, filmet, og redigert en hel rekke etnografiske filmer.