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.

Academic article

• Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme (2019). The Problem with Presence: The Ambiguity of Mediating Forms in Ifugao Pentecostal Rituals. (external link)
• Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme (2014). A dispositional account of causality: From herbal insecticides to theories of emergence and becoming. (external link)
• Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme (2012). Separating Encounters Tangency in an Interreligious Encounter in Ifugao, the Philippines. (external link)
• Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme (2019). Harold C. Conklin: Atlas of Multispecies Relations in Ifugao. (external link)
• Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme (2007). Ritualer, mord og mislykkede overføringer. Dynamikken i forholdet mellom tilbakeholding og artikulering av rituell kunnskap blant ifugao. (external link)
• Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme (2006). Om tangens og meningsgenererende prosesser i et begravelsesrituale i Ifugao, Nord-Luzon, Filippinene. (external link)
• Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme (2012). Mellom potensialitet og aktualitet: Bā’is ontologiske transformasjon i Ifugao. (external link)
• Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme (2014). Sanselige transformasjoner: For en multisensorisk perspektivisme. (external link)
• Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme (2025). Conversion as Lateral Movement: Repetition and Ambiguity in Ifugao Pentecostalism. (external link)
• Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme; Keir James Cecil Martin (2019). The Ambiguities of Rituals: Introduction. (external link)
• Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme (2013). Den ontologiske vendingen i antropologien. (external link)
• Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme (2025). Care in capture: Ambiguous care for lobsters and whales. (external link)
• Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme (2017). The dynamics of lennawa: Exchange, sharing and sensorial techniques for managing life substances in Ifugao. (external link)
• Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme (2011). Hvordan et insektmiddel virker: polygen og disposisjonell kausalitet. (external link)
• Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme (2021). Trans-Temporal pigs: Humans, spirits and the temporal multiplicity of pigs in Ifugao, the Philippines. (external link)
• Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme (2021). The Instability of Values: Tradition, Autonomy and the Dynamics of Sociality in the Philippine Highlands. (external link)

Conference lecture

• Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme (2024). Disassembling whale mortalities: The spectral presence and afterlives of animal deaths. (external link)
• Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme (2023). Humans, Animals, and Climate Change. (external link)
• Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme (2011). Enacting God in an Ifugao Pentecostal Sunday service: Aesthetics, virtuality and onto-praxis. (external link)
• Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme (2025). Pounding lobsters: The timescapes of lively storage. (external link)
• Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme (2023). The microbiopolitics of keeping lobsters alive: Rethinking water in Maine's lobster industry. (external link)
• Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme (2010). Ifugao animism: rethinking religious practices in northern Luzon, the Philippines. (external link)
• Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme (2013). Vilje og motvilje i deltagende observasjon: Noen etiske refleksjoner. (external link)
• Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme (2013). Manifesting God: Conversion as ontological transformation in Ifugao Pentecostalism. (external link)
• Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme (2024). Reviving a Resource: Fishing for Life in Maine's Lobster Industry. (external link)
• Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme (2005). En kompleks begravelse. Et case om et møte mellom ulike tro- og kunnskapssystemer blant Ifugaoene, Nord-Luzon, Filippinene. (external link)
• Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme (2022). What if fishing is...? Speculative ecographies of Maine's more-than-human seascapes. (external link)
• Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme (2024). The Times of Lobsters: Exploring Human-Marine Temporalities in Maine's Lobster Fisheries. (external link)
• Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme (2024). The Gulf of Maine as an 'ecology of mobilities': Infrastructures, contestations, speculations and affects in Maine's plural marine mobilities. (external link)
• Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme (2014). The passion event: Time, virtuality and sacrifice in Ifugao rituals. (external link)
• Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme (2013). Demonic CD-players and bones refusing to become bones: Objects and ontological transformations in Ifugao, the Philippines. (external link)
• Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme (2022). Seatimes: Exploring Temporalities in Human-Marine Contact Zones. (external link)
• Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme (2023). Restoring the fish that feeds all: Alewife and ocean-river connectivity in the Bagaduce River watershed. (external link)
• Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme (2025). Conversion and ghost-work: The spectral temporalities of conversion in Ifugao, The Philippines. (external link)
• Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme (2025). Open|Close|Open: The mutual irritabilities of intersecting negative capabilities in Ifugao. (external link)
• Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme (2007). Landscape, knowledge, and the introduction of Pentecostalism in Ifugao. (external link)
• Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme (2007). Signifikante relasjoner: ritualer og personbegrep blant ifugao, Filippinene. (external link)
• Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme (2014). The ritual time-machine: Ontological dynamics in Ifugao sacrificial rituals. (external link)
• Jon Henrik Remme (2015). Ontology - chronically unstable: Ontological dynamics and the 'difference within'. (external link)
• Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme (2022). Stinky entrapments, visions of care, and the affordances of hearing: Exploring the sensory politics of human-lobster relations. (external link)
• Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme (2015). God's other within: The precarity of divine emergence in Ifugao Sunday services. (external link)
• Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme (2014). Containing lennāwa: Relational techniques for sustaining life in Ifugao, the Philippines. (external link)
• Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme (2010). Reproducing subjects: Pigs and signs of life among the Ifugao, the Philippines. (external link)
• Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme (2014). Transformasjonens komparative annerledeshet. (external link)
• Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme (2024). Tales from a stuffed lobster: Keeping life alive in Maine's spectral ecologies. (external link)
• Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme (2025). The Ocean Multiple: Spectralities of Oceans Otherwise. (external link)
• Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme (2023). Lobster holding tanks as liquid assemblages: The emerging waterscapes of keeping lobsters alive. (external link)
• Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme (2023). From pigs in the Philippines to lobsters in Maine: An anthropologist’s exploration of the life of humans and marine life. (external link)
• Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme (2014). The Passion Event: Time, Aesthetics and Perspectives in Ifugao Sacrificial Rituals. (external link)
• Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme (2013). Colliding expectations to an indigenous religion: What anthropological theory does to Ifugao animism. (external link)
• Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme (2011). Born to be wild: from depleted to excessive biodiversity in Norwegian lobster sea ranching. (external link)
• Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme (2018). The values of a murder: Values and the topographies of socialities. (external link)
• Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme (2019). Marine dislocations: An anthropology of livelihoods and an underwater refugee crisis. (external link)
• Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme (2024). From pigs to lobsters: Multispecies temporalities across worlds. (external link)
• Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme (2024). Capturing lobsters: On the relational modalities of fishing in the Gulf of Maine, US. (external link)
• Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme (2013). At the other side of religion: Animism and its perspectival others in Ifugao. (external link)
• Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme (2022). Living with whales and lobsters: Commoning and the volumization of space in the Gulf of Maine. (external link)
• Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme (2025). What lobster gear affords: Excerpts from a trap encyclopedia. (external link)
• Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme (2014). Ifugao native pigs: Becoming with the otherwise. (external link)
• Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme (2004). Discourses on personhood among the Ifugao, Northern Luzon, the Philippines. (external link)
• Anne Karen Bjelland; Liv Haram; Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme (2017). NAT prisen 2016. (external link)
• Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme (2011). Å høre sammen: Ifugao auditiv perspektivisme. (external link)
• Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme (2008). Changing religious landscapes: Pentecostalism in Ifugao. (external link)
• Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme (2020). Digital teaching: Experiences from University of Oslo. (external link)
• Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme (2007). Separating encounters: tangent religions in an Ifugao burial ritual. (external link)
• Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme (2021). Trapcams of care: Digital affectivity in human-lobster-trap relations. (external link)
• Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme (2007). Semantikk, pragmatikk og duplekse tegn. (external link)

Media interview

• Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme (2013). Intervju, Norgesglasset. (external link)
• Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme (2018). Ønsker ikke "kristent" kommunevåpen. (external link)
• Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme (2013). Intervju, Tyfon i opprørt landskap. (external link)
• Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme (2012). Hva skjer når åndetilbedere blir pinsevenner? Religiøse ritualer hos gamle hodejegere på Filippinene. (external link)
• Kyrre Styve; Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme (2016). Forskar på hummerfiske. (external link)

Master’s thesis

• Aleksandra Solis; Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme (2024). Transnasjonale familier: Omsorg og intimitet på fysisk avstand mellom mor og barn blant filippinske familier. (external link)
• Chiara Elisabeth Pecorari; Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme (2022). 2047/2021: Hong Kong and Securitizing Change. (external link)
• Moira Magdalena Remme Blamey; Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme (2023). Maneuvering Contested Space and Community An Ethnographic Study of the Underground Electronic Music Scene in Itaewon. (external link)
• Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme (2006). Significant relations : ritual and person among the Ifugaos. (external link)
• Julie Tangvik; Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme (2023). Transnasjonale ekteskap i Thailand: Veien mot et trygt og stabilt liv. (external link)
• Bruland Ida; Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme (2022). An Ethnography of Energy: Manifestations of Spirits in Norwegian Spiritualism. (external link)

Academic book chapter

• Jon Henrik Remme (2016). Actualizing spirits: Ifugao animism as onto-praxis. (external link)
• Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme (2024). Trap-cam of care: Conservation and the digital ecology of online lobster entrapment. (external link)
• Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme (2017). Ethnographies Returned: The Mobilisation of Ethnographies and the Politicisation of Indigeneity in Ifugao, the Philippines. (external link)
• Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme; Kenneth Sillander (2017). Introduction: Extended sociality and the social life of humans. (external link)
• Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme (2017). Human at risk: Becoming human and the dynamics of extended sociality. (external link)
• Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme (2016). Chronically unstable ontology: Ontological dynamics, radical alterity, and the "otherwise within". (external link)
• Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme (2018). Pigs and spirits in Ifugao: A cosmological decentering of domestication. (external link)
• Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme (2005). Rituals, murder, and failed transmissions. The dynamics of retention and articulation of Ifugao ritual knowledge. (external link)

Journal review

• Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme (2012). Review of Anarchic Solidarity: Autonomy, equality, and fellowship in Southeast Asia. (external link)
• Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme (2012). Anarchic solidarity: Autonomy, equality, and fellowship in Southeast Asia. (external link)
• Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme (2011). The art of not being governed: An anarchist history of upland Southeast Asia. (external link)
• Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme (2011). Bokomtale: Katrine Fangen, Deltagende observasjon, 2. utgave. (external link)
• Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme (2016). Review of The Multispecies Salon (E. Kirksey, ed.), Duke University Press, 2014. (external link)
• Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme (2022). Review of Cutting Cosmos: Masculinity and Spectacular Events among the Bugkalot. (external link)
• Jon Henrik Remme (2015). Anmeldelse av 2001 and Counting: Kubrick, Nietzsche, and Anthropology (Bruce Kapferer). (external link)
• Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme (2016). Review of Tuked Rini, Cosmic Traveller: Life and Legend in the Heart of Borneo (M. Janowski). (external link)
• Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme (2011). Review of Verbal Arts in Philippine Indigenous Communities: Poetics, Society, and History (Herminia Meñez Coben). (external link)
• Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme (2014). Review of "Missionary Impositions: Conversion, Resistance, and Other Challenges to Objectivity in Religious Ethnography". (external link)
• Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme (2020). Review of Revaluing coastal fisheries: how small boats navigate new markets and technology. (external link)

Academic monograph

• Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme (2014). Pigs and Persons in the Philippines: Human-Animal Entanglements in Ifugao Rituals. (external link)

Radio or TV participation

• Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme (2013). Dagsnytt Atten. (external link)

Lecture

• Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme (2005). Ifugao, Nord-Luzon, Filippinene. (external link)
• Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme (2024). Hvis hummeren forsvinner, er vi i trøbbel: Om klimaendringenes samfunnsmessige konsekvenser. (external link)
• Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme (2010). Hvorfor døde Mario? Et foredrag om fotografi blant ifugaoene på Filippinene. (external link)

Popular science article

• Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme (2007). Der de døde lever videre. (external link)

Academic literature review

• Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme (2024). The Sounds of Life: How Digital Technology Is Bringing Us Closer to the Worlds of Animals and Plants. (external link)
• Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme (2016). Review of The Empty Seashell: Withcraft and Doubt on an Indonesian Island. (external link)

Doctoral thesis (PhD)

• Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme (2012). Manifesting Potentials: Animism and Pentecostalism in Ifugao, the Philippines. (external link)

Book anthology

• Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme; Kenneth Sillander (2017). Human Nature and Social Life: Perspectives on Extended Sociality. (external link)

See a complete overview of publications in Cristin.

Major publications include:

Pigs and Persons in the Philippines: Human-Animal Entanglements in Ifugao Rituals

Human Nature and Social Life: Explorations in Extended Sociality