Prof. Minnich has for several decades worked in the Austro-Italian-Slovene border areas on issues pertaining to language, identity politics, border problematics, ecology and farming, as well as state formation.

Conference lecture

• Robert Gary Minnich (2004). On the Methodology of Studying Identity Formation in a Borderland: the Case of "Tromeje". (external link)
• Robert Gary Minnich (2002). Fokus på Balkan - en orientering. (external link)
• Robert Gary Minnich (2000). From "culture area" to collective identity: on the ecology of identity formation in the Three Border Region. (external link)
• Robert Gary Minnich (2005). Collective Identity Formation and Linguistic Identities in the Three Border Region. (external link)
• Robert Gary Minnich (1995). Slovenes in Kanalska Dolina - Kanaltal - Val Canale. (external link)
• Robert Gary Minnich (1993). Regionalna identiteta in integracija iz vidika domačinov Posočja in Kanalske doline (Regional identity and integration from the perspective of indigenous villagers in the Soča and Canal Valleys). (external link)
• Robert Gary Minnich (2002). "Speaking Slovene – Being Slovene" reconsidered: Language and Identity with Reference to the Situation of Ugovizza Villagers in Val Canale, Italy. (external link)
• Robert Gary Minnich (1996). The legacy of ethnic cleansing in the southeastern Alps: some implications for conflict prevention. (external link)
• Robert Gary Minnich (2000). At the grassroots of European integration: citizenship practices in the "Circum-Alpine" culture area. (external link)
• Robert Gary Minnich (1995). Citizens of Many States, Inhabitants of One Village : Civil Society along a Contested Frontier. (external link)
• Robert Gary Minnich (2000). To ben på tre steder - Et "multi-sited" antropologliv som analytisk redskap. (external link)
• Robert Gary Minnich (2003). Rural Dimensions of Norwegian Modernity. (external link)
• Robert Gary Minnich (2000). Methods in Anthropological Inquiry. (external link)
• Robert Gary Minnich (2004). Implementation of the Bologna Declaration on University Reform: Experience of the Dept. of Social Anthropology, University of Bergen. (external link)
• Robert Gary Minnich (2004). Organization and leadership of full-day graduate seminar with title: An Anthropology of Collective Idenitity Formation with Reference to Theories of Ethnicity, Citizenship, Civil Society and Cultural Ecology. (external link)
• Robert Gary Minnich (1994). Wie man in den Randlagen moderner Staaten zu Bürgern wird: Einige Überlegungen zur politischen Implikation der Ethnizität, wie sie von mehrsprachigen Dorfbewohnern im "Dreiländereck" erlebt wird. (external link)
• Robert Gary Minnich (2011). From pigs to pork, from ethnic frontier to European Union: reflections over identity formation among Slovene speakers encountered between 1974 and 2006. (external link)
• Robert Gary Minnich (2002). Language Identity in a Borderland: the case of the Three Border Region (Austria, Italy, Slovenia). (external link)
• Robert Gary Minnich (2005). Some Reflections over Interdisciplinary Cooperation in the Study of an Inter-state Region: The Austro-Italian-Slovene Borderland. (external link)
• Robert Gary Minnich (1997). Prospects for transnational civil society after the arrival of the European Union in a contested borderland. (external link)
• Robert Gary Minnich (2005). Collective identity formation and linguistic identities in the Austro-Italian-Slovene border region. (external link)
• Robert Gary Minnich (2000). Language, Thought and Culture. (external link)
• Robert Gary Minnich (2001). Citizenship beyond the state: prospects for trans-ethnic civil society in the Three Border Region. (external link)
• Robert Gary Minnich (1995). The individual as author of collective identities: reconsidering identity formation within a multilingual borderland. (external link)
• Robert Gary Minnich (2003). Rural Dimensions of Norwegian Identity. (external link)
• Robert Gary Minnich (2000). Language in the Making and Unmaking of an Alpine Borderland: From Mussolini and Hitler to the Iron Curtain and European Union. (external link)

Research report

• Robert Gary Minnich (2006). Syllabus: SANT 120 "Anthropology of Scandinavia". (external link)
• Robert Gary Minnich (1997). Syllabus: SAS 10 "Anthropology of Scandinavia". (external link)
• Robert Gary Minnich (1994). Metodologija antropološkega raziskovanja (a revised curriculum). (external link)
• Robert Gary Minnich (2006). Syllabus: SANT 116 "Regional Ethnography: Europe / Norden". (external link)

Master’s thesis

• Karen Marie Mikkelsen; Robert Gary Minnich (2006). Ingen kommer fra Lisboa. Identitetshåndtering, endring og sosial mobilitet i portugisisk middelklasse. (external link)
• Mirza Hodzic; Robert Gary Minnich (2006). Å leve livet flere steder. Identitet og deterritorialiserte liv blant bosniske flyktninger i Bergensregionen. (external link)
• Kirsten Lysen; Robert Gary Minnich (2007). Innføring av parlamentarisme i Bergen- Politiske roller i endring i Bergen Bystyre. (external link)
• Torunn Stornes; Robert Gary Minnich (2005). Rebels in the Mormon 'Heartland'. Identity management and boundary maintenance among youth in the context of Utah. (external link)
• Robert Gary Minnich; Mia Katrine Tvete (2007). Bachata Life- social identity in the Dominican Republic through the lens of a musical tradition Bachata Life- social identity in the Dominican Republic through the lens of a musical tradition. (external link)
• Anne Mette Teigen; Robert Gary Minnich (2007). In the Borderland between Childhood and Adulthood:Social agency among Working and Street Children in the Dominican Republic. (external link)
• Robert Gary Minnich; Goran Indjic (2007). Coping with Uncertainty.An Analysis of Disjunction between Young People and the State of Bosnia and Herzegovina. (external link)
• Robert Gary Minnich; Gudeta Urgessa Bayissa (2007). Transformed Oromo Lives. Understanding Secularization of Identity and the Role of Circumstances. (external link)
• Cathrine Døscher; Robert Gary Minnich (2004). Deltakelse i fellesskap: Perspektiver på uttrykk for sivilt samfunn i Havanna, Cuba. (external link)
• Hilde Rognås; Robert Gary Minnich (2007). El Hombre Nuevo.Kontinuitet og endring i postutopiske refleksjoner over individ og stat blandt potensielle emigranter på Cuba. (external link)
• Katrine Fure Hansen; Robert Gary Minnich (2007). A Piece of Our Puzzle is Missing.En studie av de savnede og deres pårørende på et delt Kypros. (external link)
• Maja Odner; Robert Gary Minnich (2005). Samliv med usedvanlige mennesker. En etnografisk beskrivelse av en Camphill-landsby for psykisk utviklingshemmede i Nordvest-Russland. (external link)
• Jan Espen Simonsen; Robert Gary Minnich (2007). Ikke la Ohridsjøen bli som Dojransjøen.Organisering, deltakelse og identitet i Ohridregionen, Makedonia. (external link)
• Kristin Sundve; Robert Gary Minnich (2005). The pure life. Respectability and reputation in the world-making of Dominican Rastafarians. (external link)
• Anne Solveig Jakobsen; Robert Gary Minnich (2005). Å leke sammen. Samhandlingsmønstre blant barn i en flerkulturell skole. (external link)
• Robert Gary Minnich; Åsmund Aamaas (2007). St.Josef i verda - Verdi i St.Josef. Ein studentheim som fleirkulturell kommunikasjon. (external link)

Academic article

• Robert Gary Minnich (1994). Citizenship and the politicization of ethnicity as aspects of state-making in marginal Southcentral European communities. (external link)
• Robert Gary Minnich (1982). The symbolic dimension of West Haloze peasant technology. (external link)
• Robert Gary Minnich (1987). The gift of "koline" and the articulation of identity in Slovene peasant society. (external link)
• Robert Gary Minnich (1990). At the interface of the germanic, romance and slavic worlds - folk culture as an idiom of collective self-images in the southeastern Alps. (external link)
• Robert Gary Minnich (2006). Some reflections over inter-disciplinary cooperation in the study of an inter-state region: the Austro-Italian-Slovene borderland. (external link)
• Robert Gary Minnich (2002). Die Leute von Ugovizza: Kollektive Identitäten im alpinen Raum. (external link)
• Robert Gary Minnich (1988). Speaking Slovene - being Slovene: verbal codes and collective selfimages. Some correlations between Kanalska doline and Zilska dolina. (external link)
• Robert Gary Minnich (1982). Anthropological contributions to the study of law. (external link)
• Robert Gary Minnich (1998). Prospects for transnational civil society following the arrival of the European Union in a contested borderland. (external link)
• Robert Gary Minnich (1993). Reflections on the violent death of multi-ethnic state: a Slovene perspective. (external link)
• Robert Gary Minnich (1989). Tradition in the face of modernization: cultural continuity and 'deagrarization' in the village of Ukve. (external link)
• Robert Gary Minnich (1998). Anthropology as text. (external link)
• Robert Gary Minnich (1997). Civil Society and the Legacy of Ethnic Cleansing in the Southeastern Alps: Some Implications for Conflict Prevention. (external link)

Lecture

• Robert Gary Minnich (1994). Statsborgerskap, politisert etnisitet og dannelsen av moderne stater i den sørlige Sentral-Europa. (external link)
• Robert Gary Minnich (2006). Norway and Norwegians. (external link)
• Robert Gary Minnich (1998). Leben im Nationalstaat - am Beispiel persönlicher Schicksale. (external link)
• Robert Gary Minnich (1994). Etnisk nasjonalisme mht. opprettelsen og forfall av den jugoslaviske stat. (external link)
• Robert Gary Minnich (1996). Percepcija pripadnosti (perceptions of identity). (external link)
• Robert Gary Minnich (1997). Sivilt samfunn - private organisasjoner- konfliktløsning. (external link)
• Robert Gary Minnich (1998). An economy of ethnicity and the production of collective identity in Val Canale. (external link)

Academic book chapter

• Robert Gary Minnich (1993). Uvodna beseda avtorja (author's introduction). (external link)
• Robert Gary Minnich (1976). Jugoslavia - kort utredning om den jugoslaviske erfaring med bilaterale avtaler i forsøket på å regulere migrasjon over nasjonale grenser. (Yugoslavia- a short report om the Yugoslav experience with bilateral conventions which seek to regulate migration across national frontiers). (external link)
• Robert Gary Minnich (2006). Collective identity formation and linguistic identities in the Austro-Italian-Slovene border region. (external link)
• Robert Gary Minnich (2000). Under the Linden Tree: A Slovenian Life on a Contested State Frontier. (external link)
• Robert Gary Minnich (1979). Styringsproblemer i jugoslavias migrasjonspolitikk (Problems in the implementation of Yugoslavia's migration policy). (external link)
• Robert Gary Minnich (2006). Bürger eines Grenzlandes - individuelle Wege zur Selbstbestimmung. (external link)
• Robert Gary Minnich (2007). Citizenship beyond the state: on the formation of civil society in the Three-Border Region. (external link)
• Robert Gary Minnich (1997). Wie man an den Rändern moderner Staaten zu Bürgern wird. (external link)
• Robert Gary Minnich (1987). Introduction. (external link)
• Robert Gary Minnich (2002). From 'Culture Area' to Collective Identity: On the Ecology of Identity Formation in the Three Border Region. (external link)
• Robert Gary Minnich (2006). Einige abschließende Bemerkungen aus antropologischer Sicht. (external link)

Doctoral thesis (PhD)

• Robert Gary Minnich (1993). Homesteaders and Citizens: An Ecology of Person and Self-realization Among Slovene Speaking Villagers on the Austro-Italian Frontier. (external link)

Conference poster

• Robert Gary Minnich (2005). Panel discussant - New Research by Young Scholars in Slovene Studies: the Kozolec, the EMU, Clitics. (external link)

Academic literature review

• Robert Gary Minnich (2008). An Introduction to Papers on "New Research on Slovenes of Carinthia". (external link)
• Robert Gary Minnich (2012). Serendipitous Encounters and Associations – Thirty-Two years with the SSS. (external link)

Journal review

• Robert Gary Minnich (2003). Review of: Leonard, Pamela and Deema Kaneff (eds.) Post-Socialist Peasant? Rural and Urban Constructions of Identity in Eastern Europe, East Asia and the former Soviet Union. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave, 2002. (external link)
• Robert Gary Minnich (2004). Pamela Ballinger (2003): History in Exile. Memory and Identity at the Borders of the Balkans. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press), pp. 1-328, illustrated, ISBN 0-691-086966, hardback. (external link)
• Robert Gary Minnich (2003). Post-socialist peasant? Rural and urban constructions of identity in Eastern Europe, East Asia, and the former Soviet Union. Ed. Pamela Leonard and Deema Kaneff. New York: Palgrave, 2002. ix, 255 pp. (external link)
• Robert Gary Minnich (2007). Regiono apibudinimas: Baltijos regiono tyrimai žvelgiant iš sociokultūrinės antropologijos ir tarpdisciplininiu tyrimu perspektyvos. (external link)
• Robert Gary Minnich (2004). Review of: Sluga, Glenda. The Problem of Trieste and the Italo-Yugoslav Border: Difference, Identity and Sovereignty in Twentieth Century Europe. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 2001. (external link)
• Robert Gary Minnich (2005). Review of: James Andersen, Liam O'Dowd and Thomas M. Wilseon, eds. Culture and Cooperation in Europe's Borderland: European Studies � An Interdisciplinary Series in European Culture, History and Politics. Vol. 19. Rodopi: Amsterdam and New York. 2003; 250 pp; 9042010851 (hbk). (external link)
• Robert Gary Minnich (2006). anmeldelse av: Changing the Basis of Citizenship in the Modern State. Political Theory and the Politics of Identity. Hakan G. Sicakkan og Yngve G. Lithman (red) New York: Edward Mellon Press (2005). (external link)

Media feature article

• Robert Gary Minnich (1997). From Volksgruppe to Nation: The Politicization of Ethnic Difference in Bilingual Carinthia. A review of: Slowenisch oder deutsch? Nationale Differenzierungsprozesse in Kaernten (1848-1914), by Janko Pleterski. (external link)
• Robert Gary Minnich (1996). A participant's observations of the course: <I>metodologija antropološkega raziskovanja</I> (anthropological research methods). (external link)
• Robert Gary Minnich (1993). Peasant Russia: Family and Community in the Post Emancipation Period. (external link)

Non-fiction monograph

• Robert Gary Minnich; Zbigiew Bialy; Jan Bujak et al. (1987). Aspects Of Polish Folk Culture: An Anthology of Contemporary Research from the Department of Slavic Ethnography, Cracow. (external link)
• Robert Gary Minnich (1979). The Homemade World Of Zagaj - An Interpretation of the 'Practical Life' among Traditional Peasant-Farmers in West Haloze, Slovenia, Yugoslavia. (external link)
• Robert Gary Minnich; Ørnulf Gulbrandsen; John Chr Knudsen (1998). Homesteaders and Citizens: Collective identity formation on the Austro-Italian-Slovene frontier. (external link)
• Robert Gary Minnich (1987). Aspects Of Polish Folk Culture: An Anthology of Contemporary Research from the Department of Slavic Ethnography, Cracow. (external link)

Working paper

• Robert Gary Minnich (1996). Partition and Integration of the Three Country Region. (external link)

Academic monograph

• Robert Gary Minnich (1993). Socialni antropolog o slovencih - zbornik socialnoantropoloških besedil. (external link)

See a complete overview of publications in Cristin.

2008. An Introduction to Papers on "New Research on Slovenes of Carinthia". Slovene studies, 30(2): 219-223.

2007. Citizenship beyond the state: on the formation of civil society in the Three-Border Region, in Warwick Armstrong and James Anderson (eds.) Geopolitics of European Union Enlargement. The fortress empire. London: Routledge, pp. 177-191.

2006. Collective identity formation and linguistic identities in the Austro-Italian-Slovene border region, in Dieter Stern and Christian Voss (red.) Marginal Linguistic Identities. Studies in Slavic Contact and Borderland Varieties. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, pp. 103-118.

2002. From ‘Culture Area' to Collective Identity: On the Ecology of Identity Formation in the Three Border Region, in Bojan Baakar and Irena Weber (eds.) MESS - Mediterranean Ethnological Summer School , Vol. 4 Piran/Pirano, Slovenia, 1999-2000. Ljubljana: University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts, Dept. of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, pp. 115-133.

2000. Under the Linden Tree: A Slovenian Life on a Contested State Frontier, in Joel Martin Halpern and David A Kideckel (eds.) Neighbours at War: Anthropological Perspectives on Yugoslav Ethnicity, Culture and History. University Park, PA.: Pennsylvania State University Press, pp. 143-163.

1998. Homesteaders and Citizens: Collective identity formation on the Austro-Italian-Slovene frontier. Bergen Studies in Social Anthropology No. 52. Bergen: Norse Publications .

1994. Citizenship and the politicization of ethnicity as aspects of state-making in marginal South-central European communities. Teorija in Praksa, XXXI (3-4): 267-283.

1988. Speaking Slovene - being Slovene: verbal codes and collective self-images: some correlations between Kanalska dolina and Ziljska dolina. Slovene Studies, 10 (2): 125-147.

1979. The Homemade World of Zagaj: An Interpretation of the "Practical life" Among Traditional Peasant-Farmers in West Haloze - Slovenia, Yugoslavia. Bergen: Dept. of Social Anthropology (Occasional Papers #18).