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Ørnulf Gulbrandsen

Ørnulf Gulbrandsen

Position

Emeritus, Professor emeritus

Affiliation

E-mail
ornulf.gulbrandsen@uib.no
Visitor address
Fosswinckels gate 6
5007 Bergen
Postal address
P.O. Box 7802
NO-5020 Bergen
Norway

Ørnulf Gulbrandsen

Position

Emeritus, Professor emeritus

Affiliation

Publications
Radio or TV participation
Academic article
Conference lecture
Academic monograph
Doctoral thesis (PhD)
Academic book chapter
Master’s thesis
Research report
Journal review
Editorial/Leader article
Working paper
Non-fiction monograph
Non-fiction book chapter

See a complete overview of publications in Cristin.

Selected publications

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.