Håland has for decades been concerned with questions pertaining to human ecology within an anthropological and historical framework. He has undertaken a range of lengthy fieldworks in East Africa (e.g. Sudan and Ethiopia) and in Asia (e.g. Nepal, Bangladesh, Thailand and China).

Doctoral thesis (PhD)

• Jiangsheng Huang; Gunnar Haaland (2008). Moral Debt Which Cannot Be Returned: The Predicament of the Moderen Chinese Bureaucrat. (external link)

Radio or TV participation

• Gunnar Haaland; Svein Haaland (2004). Utenfor Eden (Av Jord). (external link)
• Gunnar Haaland (2001). Mordet på Nepal`s kongelige familie. (external link)
• Gunnar Haaland; Svein Haaland (2005). Utenfor Eden (Drømmen om Edens Hage. (external link)
• Gunnar Haaland; Svein Haaland (2005). Utenfor Eden (fruktbar balanse). (external link)

Conference lecture

• Gunnar Haaland (2006). Case studies of ethnicity in Western Yunnan. (external link)
• Gunnar Haaland; Data Dae; Randi Håland (2005). The Ethiopian Iron Smelter and his World. (external link)
• Gunnar Haaland (2011). Economic development of minority areas in Yunnan: Some comparative perspectives. (external link)
• Gunnar Haaland; Wu Yunchuan (2006). Male- female among the Na. (external link)
• Gunnar Haaland (2008). Panel innlegg: Refleksjoner over Barths bidrag tilstudiet av etnisitet. (external link)
• Gunnar Haaland (2008). Rethinking Ethnicity: From Darfur to China and back. (external link)
• Gunnar Haaland; Randi Håland; Data Dea (2006). The Ethiopian Iron Smelter and his World. (external link)
• Gunnar Haaland (2007). Globalization of Interaction Systems and the Culture in Ethnicity: Popular Songs and production of Nepali Ethnoscapes in South-East Asia. (external link)
• Randi Håland; Gunnar Haaland; Data Dea Barata (2002). Caste and Craft spesialization among Ironworkers in SW Ethiopia. (external link)
• Gunnar Haaland; An Beimatsho (2006). Living by Yak on the Tibetan Plateau. (external link)
• Randi Håland; Gunnar Haaland (2005). Caste: Sociological Conceptualisation and Archaeolgical Documentation. (external link)
• Gunnar Haaland (2007). Tourism and Cultural Change. (external link)
• Gunnar Haaland (2001). Hvordan vi kan kvalitetssikre Norads stipendieprogram slik at det gir prioritert og relevant kompetanse som virker effektivt mot fattigdommen i sør. (external link)
• Gunnar Haaland (2007). Theoretical Perspectives on Globalization. (external link)
• Gunnar Haaland (2007). Globalization as an empirical phenomenon. (external link)
• Gunnar Haaland; Randi Håland; Data Dae (2004). The Ethiopian iron smelter and his world. (external link)
• Gunnar Haaland (2005). The Darfur Conflict in Evolving Socio-cuøltural and Politico-economic Contexts. (external link)
• Gunnar Haaland; An Beimatsho (2006). Living by Yak on the Tibetan Plateau. (external link)
• Gunnar Haaland (2006). Ethnic Identity and the Culture in Ethnicity. (external link)
• Gunnar Haaland; Data Dae; Randi Håland (2005). The Ethiopian iron Smelter and his World. (external link)
• Gunnar Haaland (2004). Globalization of Interaction Systems and the Culture in Ethnicity. (external link)
• Gunnar Haaland (2008). The Tourist Encounter: Commodification of Ethnicity in Yunnan, China. (external link)
• Gunnar Haaland (2001). Furnace and pot. Why the Dawro Iron-smelter is a big Pot-maker. (external link)
• Gunnar Haaland (2005). Managing the Managers. (external link)
• Gunnar Haaland (2007). Studying social exclusion in the Nepali context. (external link)
• Gunnar Haaland (2006). Anthropological perspectives on ethnic processes. (external link)
• Gunnar Haaland (2006). Forms of Capital. Guanxi, renxing, bureaucratic position and material wealth. (external link)
• Gunnar Haaland (2011). "Moralske normer, statsmakt og rettssystem". (external link)
• Gunnar Haaland; Randi Håland; Data Dea (2006). The Ethiopian Iron Smelter and his World. (external link)
• Gunnar Haaland (2001). Symbols of identity and belongings. (external link)
• Gunnar Haaland (2007). Ethnic group and Nationality; State and Minorities. (external link)
• Gunnar Haaland (2007). Exploring the interconnection between Cultural Meanings and Social Relations. (external link)
• Gunnar Haaland (2001). Nature, Culture and Society. (external link)
• Gunnar Haaland (2007). Methodological considerations in the investigation of the interplay between local and global processes. (external link)
• Randi Håland; Gunnar Haaland (2002). Furnace and Pot; Why the iron smelter is a big pot maker. (external link)
• Gunnar Haaland (2006). A Society without husbands and without fathers. (external link)
• Gunnar Haaland (2006). Anthropological perspectives on the State and Ethnicity in Yunnan. (external link)
• Randi Håland; Gunnar Haaland; Data Dea (2000). " Furnace and Pot: why is the Wollaita iron smelter a big pot maker?". (external link)
• Gunnar Haaland; Data Dae; Randi Håland (2006). The Ethiopian Iron Smelter and his World. (external link)
• Gunnar Haaland (2001). Personalization of formal relations: Homo Reciprocans and Homo Bureaucraticus. (external link)
• Gunnar Haaland (2005). Ethnicity and Migration. (external link)

Media interview

• Gunnar Haaland; Gunhild Bjerve (2004). Tragedie med komplisert forhistorie. (external link)
• Gunnar Haaland (2003). Mosûo: Morsrett og kvinnemakt i Sør-kina. (external link)
• Gunnar Haaland; Annicken Vargel (2004). konflikten i Darfur. (external link)

Academic article

• Gunnar Håland (1997). Beer, Blood and Mother's Milk: The symbolic context of economic behaviour in the society. (external link)
• Gunnar Haaland; Randi Håland; Data Dae (2004). Furnace and Pot: why the iron smelter is a big pot maker. A case study from South.Western Ethiopia. (external link)
• Gunnar Haaland; Randi Håland; Suman Rijal (2002). The Social Life of Iron: A Cross-Cultural Study of Technological; Symbolic, and Social Aspects of Iron Making. (external link)
• Gunnar Haaland (2006). The Dafur Conflict in evolving Politico-economic and socio-cultural contexts. (external link)
• Gunnar Håland (1999). Beer, Blood and Mother`s Milk. (external link)
• Gunnar Haaland; Wu Yunchuan (2009). From House structure to Gender relations: Exploring the Na (Mosuo) of Yunnan Province, China. (external link)
• Randi Håland; Gunnar Haaland; Suman Rijal (2002). Social Life of Iron. (external link)
• Gunnar Haaland; Randi Håland (2007). God of war, worldly ruler, and craft specialists in the Meroitic Kingdom of Sudan: Inferring social identity from material remains. (external link)
• Randi Håland; Gunnar Haaland; Data Dea (2000). Ethno-archaeological Research on Iron smelting in South-west Ethiopia. (external link)
• Randi Håland; Gunnar Håland (1995). Who speaks the Goddess' Language. Imagination and Method in Archeological Research. (external link)
• Gunnar Håland; Randi Håland (1996). Levels Meaning in Symbolic Objects. (external link)
• Gunnar Haaland (2007). Ethnicity and Migration: Exploring Casual and Semiotic Contexts of Nepalese Migrants in Southeast Asia. (external link)
• Randi Håland; Gunnar Haaland (2008). knut odner 1924 - 2008. (external link)
• JG Brun; Gunnar Håland; H-J Haga et al. (1995). Effects of calprotectin in avridine induced arthritis. (external link)
• Randi Håland; Gunnar Håland (1996). Levels of Meaning in Symbolic Objects. (external link)
• Gunnar Haaland (2011). Reflections on the Cultural Background to China's Reaction to the Nobel Prize Award. (external link)
• Gunnar Haaland; Poonam Gurung (2007). Globalization of Interaction Systems and the Culture in Ethnicity. (external link)
• Gunnar Haaland (2010). Cultural landscape and migration. (external link)
• Gunnar Haaland (2010). Reflections on Contrasting Views on Themes in Chinese Civilization. (external link)

Encyclopedia entry

• Gunnar Haaland (2001). Thor Heyerdahl. (external link)

Academic book chapter

• Gunnar Haaland (2009). Pastoral People in a Globalizing world. (external link)
• Randi Håland; Gunnar Haaland (2008). Craft specialization, cast identites and political centralisation. (external link)
• Gunnar Håland (1995). Foreword. (external link)
• Randi Håland; Gunnar Haaland (2013). Early Farming Societies Along the Nile. (external link)
• Gunnar Haaland; Randi Håland; Data Dae (2004). Smelting iron. Caste and its symbolism in South-Western Ethiopia. (external link)
• Gunnar Haaland; Randi Håland (2017). Prehistoric Figurines in Sudan. (external link)
• Gunnar Haaland (2002). Culture, Society and Nature - Reflections on some Contributions from the Arun Project. (external link)
• Gunnar Haaland (2002). Forword. (external link)
• Randi Håland; Gunnar Haaland (2011). Landscape. (external link)
• Gunnar Haaland (2010). Tourism and Commodification of Ethnicity under Communist Rule. Cases from Yunnan, China. (external link)
• Gunnar Haaland (2008). Explaining causes in evolving contexts: From Nepali hill Farmers to Business Managers in Thailand. (external link)
• Madhusudan Sharma Subedi; Gunnar Haaland (2001). Foreword. (external link)
• Gunnar Haaland (2012). Samfunn: En prosessforståelse. (external link)
• Gunnar Haaland (2012). Event Focused Fieldwork and Comparative Methodology. Exploring Ethnic Boundaries and Cultural Variation. (external link)

Research report

• Gunnar Håland (1994). Khimti Khola Hydroelectric Project - an Evaluation of Socioeconomic consequenses. (external link)
• Gunnar Håland (1995). Khimti kolo Hydro power Project. (external link)

Non-fiction monograph

• Gunnar Håland (2000). Aschehougs Verdens Historie Bind I. (external link)
• Randi Håland; Gunnar Haaland (2000). I begynnelsen. (external link)
• Gunnar Håland; xx xx (1979). Economic allocations and symboloc structures in a Fur society. (external link)
• Gunnar Haaland; Randi Håland (2000). Aschehougs Verdens Historie Bind I. (external link)
• Reidar Grønhaug; Georg Henriksen; Gunnar Håland (1991). The Ecology of Choice and Symbol. Essays in honour of Fredr ik Barth. (external link)

Master’s thesis

• Hongmei He; Gunnar Haaland (2010). Rural - Urban Differentiation, Migration and Emerging Educational Inequalities.A case Study of Left-behind Children in Ganqiu Village, Yunnan. (external link)
• Hua Wen; Gunnar Haaland (2005). Negotiation with State Discourse. An Ethnographic Case Study of Healing Practices in Dali, Southwest China. (external link)
• Dambar Dhoj Chemjong; Gunnar Haaland (2005). An Account of the Multiple Roles of Alcohol among the Limbus in Eastern Nepal. (external link)
• Dawei Xu; Gunnar Haaland (2005). From the Mountains to the Cities. Female Migration on Mount Jinuoshan in South Western China. (external link)
• Jobir Buli; Gunnar Haaland (2005). Conflict and Boundary. The Case of the Karrayu Oromo of the Upper Awash Valley, Ethiopia. (external link)
• Rajmoni Singha; Gunnar Haaland (2005). The Khasi of Bangladesh. Matrilineal Kinship and Marriage System among the Khasis. (external link)
• Phuntsok Droma; Gunnar Haaland (2009). Herbal Medicine in Lima: The Paradox of its Official Status and Accepted Use. (external link)
• U Thowai Maung Marma; Gunnar Haaland (2005). The Monastery and the Village. Continuities and the discontinuities in the Transmission of Culture on Marma Communities of Chittagong Hill Tracts. (external link)
• Khushi Rai Tripura; Gunnar Haaland (2005). Spatial structures and Rites de Passage. Exploring socio-cultural contexts of legal procedures among the Tripura of Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT). (external link)
• Siyu Li; Gunnar Haaland (2009). Sacrifice to Heaven: Ritual Rivaval and Social Change in China, the Case of Naxi. (external link)
• Gudeta Urgessa Bayissa; Gunnar Haaland (2005). Nurturing identity and national consciousness outside a national setting. The case of Ormo refugees. (external link)
• Jianhua Chen; Gunnar Haaland (2005). The Dulong and Their Life. A Preliminary Study on Social Organization of the Dulong in the Chinese Ethno-political Context. (external link)
• Yunchuan Wu; Gunnar Haaland (2005). Yidu, Sexuality, and Social Relationships of the Na. (external link)
• Nibedita Shrestha; Gunnar Haaland (2005). Spiritual Healing and Modernity in Kathmandu. A Study of some Popular Sects of Healing for both Physical and non-Physical reasons in Kathmandu. (external link)
• Yuya Sun; Gunnar Haaland (2005). Mongol, Han or Erliiz (hybrid). Culture, Way of Life, and Ethnic Identity in Inner Mongolia. (external link)
• Juliana Eugenia Wild Fernandez; Gunnar Haaland (2005). Individuals, Households, Associations and Community. Resources Management in Tupe, an Andean Community in the Peruvian Andes. (external link)
• Sanjeev Pokharel; Gunnar Haaland (2005). Jat and Izzat in Panchbhaiya. A Study of the Relationships Between High and Low Castes in Western Nepal. (external link)

Lecture

• Gunnar Haaland (2007). Intercultural Business Encounters. (external link)
• Gunnar Haaland (2003). To what Extent is Fatalism a Factor in Development. Some Critical Comments on Dor Bahadur's book: Fatalism and development. (external link)
• Gunnar Haaland (2008). Åpningstale. (external link)

Media feature article

• Gunnar Håland (1995). Fjærn og Nær, anmeldelse. (external link)

See a complete overview of publications in Cristin.

Selected publications
[forthcoming] Rethinking Ethnicity: From Darfur to China and back. Khartoum.

[forthcoming, with Randi Haaland] Early Farming societies along the Nile. Oxford: Oxford University press.

2012 Samfunn: En prosessforståelse, in Kenneth Dahlgren and Hans Erik Næss (eds) Tanker om samfunn. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget, pp. 33-64,

2012 Event Focused Fieldwork and Comparative Methodology. Exploring Ethnic Boundaries and Cultural Variation, in Loshini Naidoo (ed.) An Ethnography of Global Landscapes and Corridors. Rijeka: Intech publishers, pp. 23-56.

2011 [with Randi Haaland] Landscape, in Tim Insoll (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Ritual and Religion. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 24-37.

2011 Reflections on the Cultural Background to China's Reaction to the Nobel Prize Award. Dhaulagiri Journal of Sociology and Anthropology, 5: 81-100.

2010 Tourism and Commodification of Ethnicity, in Nefissa Naguib and Bert de Vries (eds) Movements of people in time and space : heureux qui comme Ulysses a fait un beau voyage. Bergen: Bric.

2010 Cultural landscape and Migration. Dhaulagiri Journal of Sociology and Anthropology, 4:99-110.

2010 Reflections on Contrasting Views on Themes in Chinese Civilization. Dhaulagiri Journal of Sociology and Anthropology, 4:1-20.

2009. [with Wu Yunchuan] From House structure to gender relations. Exploring the Na (Mosuo) of Yunnan Province. Dhaulagiri Journal of Sociology and Anthropology (Annapurna, Baglung), 3: 19-40.

2009. Pastoral people in a globalizing world?, in Alexandros Tsakos and Henriette Hafsaas-Tsakos (eds) Connecting South and North. Sudan Studies from Bergen in Honour of Mahmoud Salih. Bergen: Bric, pp. 97-114.

2008. Explaining causes in evolving contexts: From Nepali hill Farmers to Business Managers in Thailand, in Bradley Walters, Bonnie J. McCay, Paige West and Susan Lees (eds.) Against the Grain. The Vayda Tradition in Human Ecology and Ecological Anthropology. Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press, pp. 43-66.

2008. [with Randi Haaland] Craft specialization, cast identites and political centralisation, in K. Chilidis, J. Lund and C. Prescott (eds.) Facets of archeology. Essays in honour of Lotte Hedeager on her 60th birthday, Oslo: Unipub, pp. 155-169.

2007. Ethnicity and Migration: Exploring Casual and Semiotic Contexts of Nepalese Migrants in Southeast Asia. Journal of South-central University for Nationalities, 2: 29-34.

2007. [with Randi Haaland] God of war, worldly ruler, and craft specialists in the Meroitic Kingdom of Sudan. Journal of Social Archaeology, 7(3): 372-93.

2007. [with Poonam Gurung] Globalization of Interaction Systems and the Culture in Ethnicity. The International Journal of Diversity in Organisations, Communities and Nations, 7(3): 77-84.

2006. The Darfur Conflict in Evolving Politico-economic and Socio-cultural Contexts. The International Journal of Diversity in Organizations, Communities and Nations, 6(5).

2004. [with Randi Haaland and Data Dea] Smelting iron. Caste and its symbolism in South-western Ethiopia, in Tim Insoll (ed.) Beliefs in the Past. British Archaeological reports. Oxford: Archaeopress, pp. 75-86.

2004. [with Randi Haaland and Data Dea] Furnace and Pot: why the iron smelter is a big pot maker A case study from South-western Ethiopia. Azania, XXXIX: 146-165.

2002. Foreword, in R. Chaudhary, B.P. Subedi and O.R. Vetaas (eds) Vegetation and Society: Their Interaction in the Himalayas. Bergen og Katmandu: University of Bergen and Tribhuvan University, pp. 191-200.

2002. [with Randi Haaland and Suman Rijal] The Social Life of Iron. Anthropos, 97: 35-54.

2002. Culture, Society and Nature. Reflections on some Contributions from the Arun Project, in R. Chaudhary, B.P. Subedi and O.R. Vetaas (eds.) Vegetation and Society: Their Interaction in the Himalayas. Bergen: University of Bergen, pp. 191-200.

2002. Thor Heyerdahl, article in Norsk Biografisk Leksikon. Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget, pp. 269-273.

2000 [1982] [with Randi Haaland] I begynnelsen [In the beginning]. Vol. 1 i Aschehougs verdenshistorie. Oslo: Aschehoug.

2000. [with Randi Haaland and Data Dea] Ethno-Arcaeological Reasearch on Iron Smelting in Woleita South west Ethiopia. Nyamekuma, December 2000.

1998. Beer, Blood and Mother’s Milk. Sudan Notes and Records, 2: 53-75. 

1996. [with Randi Haaland] Levels of meaning in Symbolic Objects. Cambridge Journal of Archaeology, 6(2): 295-300.

1995. [with Randi Haaland] Who Speaks the Goddess's Language? Norwegian Archaeological Review, 28(2).

1993. Økologiske perspektiver i sosialantropologien [Ecological perspectives in Social Anthropology], in A. Semb-Johansson, J. Lund Hansen and I. Mysterud (eds) Bred Økologi. Oslo: Cappelen Forlag.

1991. Cultural Content and Ethnic Identity, in R. Grønhaug, G. Haaland and G. Henriksen (eds) The Ecology of Choice and Symbol. Bergen: Alma Mater.

 1991. Introduction, in R. Grønhaug, G. Haaland and G. Henriksen (eds) The Ecology of Choice and Symbol. Bergen: Alma Mater.

1991. Systems of Agricultural Production in Western Sudan, in J. Craig (re.) The Agriculture of the Sudan. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

1991. Pastorale samfunn og utnyttelsen av fellesresurser [Pastoral Communities and Exploitation of Common Resources], in Stenseth, Tranden and Kristiansen (eds) Forvaltningen av våre fellessresurser. Oslo: Ad Notam forlag.

1990. Fattigdom, bistand og bærekraftig utvikling [Poverty, Aid and Sustainable Development]. Proceedings from the Association of
Development Researchers in Denmark.

1990. Aid and Sustainable Development in a Dual Economy. Forum for utviklingsstudier, 1.

1990. Øl og morsmelk. Symbol, moral og valg i Fur-samfunnet [Beer and Mother's Milk. Symbol, moral and choice in Fur society]. Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift, 1: 3-15.

1987. Centralized Political Systems and the Evolution of Socio-economic Dualism in the Maldives. Journal of Social Studies, 38. Dhaka.

1985-1986. The Global Context of Economic and Political Development in South Yemen, I & II. Journal of Social Studies, no. 28 & 32. Dhaka.

1984 [med W. Keddeman] Poverty Analysis: The Somali Case. Economic Development and Cultural Change, 32(4).

1984. The Jellaba Trading System of Eastern Equatoria, i L. Manger (ed.) Trade and Traders in the Sudan. Occasional Papers in Social Anthropology. No 32. Bergen: University of Bergen.

1984. Fur, in R. Weekes (ed.) Muslim Peoples. Westport: Greenwood Press.

1983. Dualistic Development: Issues for Aid Policy, in J. Parkinson (ed.) Poverty and Aid. London: Blackwell.

1980. Problems of Savannah Development: The Sudan Case. Occasional Papers No 19. Bergen: Dept. of social anthropology, University of Bergen.

1979 [with McCown and deHaan] Interaction between Cultivation and Livestock Production in Semi-arid Africa, in A. Hall, G.H. Cannell and H.W. Lawton (eds.) Agriculture in semi-arid Environments. Ecological Studies No 34. Berlin: Springer Verlag.

1978. Ethnic Groups and Language Use in Darfur, in R. Thelwell (ed.) Aspects of Language in the Sudan. Occasional Papers in Linguistics and Language Learning. No 5. Belfast: The New University of Ulster.

1978. Pastoral Development Programs and Anthropological Information Feedback, in East African Pastoralism. Addis Ababa: ILCA.

1977. Pastoral Systems of Production, in O'Keefe and B. Wisner (eds) Landuse and Development. London: International African Institute.

1975. Some Economic and Ecological Implications of Traditional Systems of Livestock Management. Antropologiska Studier, 15. Stockholm.

1974. [with Georg Henriksen] Teknikk og sult i Afrika [Technology and Starvation in Africa]. [kronikk] Dagbladet 26.08.74.

1972. Nomadization as an Economic Career among Sedentaries in the Sudan Savanna Belt, in I. Cunnison and W. James (eds.) Essays in Sudan Ethnography. London: C Hurst & Company.

1971. Familieliv i et afrikansk stammesamfunn. [Family Life in an African Tribal Community] in F. Barth (ed.) Mennesket som samfunnsborger. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget.

1969. Economic Determinants in Ethnic Processes, in F. Barth (ed.) Ethnic Groups and Boundaries. Oslo: Norwegian University Press.

1967. Methodological Considerations, in F. Barth (ed.) Human Resources. Report submitted to FAO. Published as Occasional Paper No 1. Bergen: Dept. of social anthropology, Universitety of Bergen.

1964. Økonomisk vekst og sosial forandring [Economic Growth and Social Change]. Statsøkonomisk Tidsskrift, 4.

Ongoing

-Globalization of Interaction Systems and Ethnic Identity

-Himalayan farmings (co-operation Tor Halfdan Aaase, UiB)

-Poverty traps in industries with low knowledge- and investment barriers
(co-operation with Magnus Hatlebakk, CMI)

Recently completed
Social exclusion, democratic inclusion and the insurgency in Nepal (with  Magnus Hatlebakk, CMI)