Bruce Kapferer har utført en rekke langvarige feltarbeid i Zambia, India (Kerala), Sri Lanka og Australia og hans engasjement innen antropologi har omhandlet problemstillinger knyttet til urbanisering og migrasjon, vold og statsdannelse, ritualteori og politiske og sosiale formasjoner, samt engasjert seg i teoridannelse innen sosialantropologi.

Før Kapferer kom til Institutt for sosialantropologi, UiB i 1999 har han arbeidet ved en lang rekke institusjoner som inkluderer Center For Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences, Palo Alto, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies, Wassenaar, Institute For Advanced Studies, Hebrew University og Centre for Cultural Research, Aarhus.

Posisjoner han har holdt inkluderer Commonwealth Scholar & Research Affiliate, Rhodes Livingstone Institute (senere Institute For African Studies), Zambia 1963-1966, førsteamanuensis ved University of Manchester 1966-1973, professor ved University of Adelaide 1973-1985, professor ved University College London 1985 -1996 samt professor ved James Cook University 1996-1999. Kapferer har også i ulike kapasitetet vært tilknyttet University of California, Los Angeles, Stockholms Universitet, Københavns Universitet og Gøteborgs Universitet.

 

Vitenskapelig artikkel

• Rio, Knut; Kapferer, Bruce; Bertelsen, Bjørn Enge (2022). An Introduction to Egalitarian Thought and Dynamics. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce (2019). Crisis and communitas: Victor Turner and social process. (ekstern lenke)
• Holbraad, Martin; Green, Sarah; Corsin Jimenez, Alberto et al. (2018). What is analysis? Between theory, ethnography, and method. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce; Gold, Marina (2018). A Nail in the Coffin. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce (2018). From the Outside In. Anthropology as a Dialectic of Unsettlement.. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce; Gold, Marina (2017). The Cuckoo in the Nest. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce (2017). Ideas on Populism. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce (2016). Comment on Joel Robbins "What is the matter with transcendence? On the place of religion in the new anthropology of ethics". (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce (2014). A Note on Gluckman’s 1930s Fieldwork in Natal. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce (2013). How anthropologists think: configurations of the exotic. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce (2013). Ritual Practice and Anthropological Theory inReligion and Society: Advances in Research. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce (2011). Strathern's new comparative anthropology: thoughts from Hagen and Zambia. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce (2010). The aporia of power. Crisis and the emergence of the corporate state. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce (2010). Beyond Ritual as Performance. Towards Ritual as Dynamics and Virtuality. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce; Meinert, Lotte (2010). In the event. Towards an anthropology of generic moments. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce; Eriksen, Annelin; Telle, Kari G (2009). Religiosities toward a Future-in Pursuit of the New Millennium. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce (2008). Beyond Symbolic Representation: Victor Turner and Variations on the Themes of Ritual Process and Liminality. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce (2008). Comment: Interrogating the new-pluralist orthodoxy in American Anthropology A new ethnography of the state?. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce (2007). Anthropology and the dialectic of enlightenment: A discourse on the definition and ideals of a threatened discipline. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce (2005). New Formations of Power, the oligarchic corporate state and anthropological discourse. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce (2005). In positions to do great Damage: A comment on the Cushman, Denich, Hayden and Wilson debate Anthropological Theory Vol.5(4): 577-581. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce (2004). Democracy, Wild Sovereignties and The New Leviathan. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce (2003). Injustice, Suffering and the State: Sorcery and renewal in Contemporary Sri Lanka. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce (2003). The Australian Society of the State. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce (2002). Ethnicity, Nationalism and the Culture of the State. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce (2001). Comment on "Random Mind: Towards an Appreciation of Openness in Individual, Society and Anthropology" by Nigel Rapport. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce (2001). Star Wars. About anthropology, culture and globalisation. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce (2001). Anthropology. The paradox of the secular. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce (2001). Ethnic Nationalism and the Discourses of Violence in Sri Lanka. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce (2001). Sorcery and the Shapes of Globalization. Disjunctions and Continuities- the case of Sri Lanka. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce (2001). Globalization, The State and Civil Violence in Sri Lanka. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce (2000). Sexuality and the Art of Seduction in Sinhala Exorcism. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce (2000). Star Wars: About Anthropology, Cultue and Globalization. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce (2000). The Sorcery of Consciousness: A Sinhala Buddhist Ritual Dicourse on the Dynamics of Consciousness. (ekstern lenke)

Vitenskapelig Kapittel/Artikkel/Konferanseartikkel

• Kapferer, Bruce; De Silva-Wijeyeratne, Roshan (2018). Buddhist cosmological forms and the situation of total terror in Sri Lanka’s ethnic civil war . (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce; Gold, Marina (2018). Introduction: Reconceptualizing the Discipline. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce; Gold, Marina (2018). Afterword. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce (2018). Crises of power and the state in global realities. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce; Theodossopoulos, Dimitrios (2016). Afterword: Lessons of the Exotic. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce; Theodossopoulos, Dimitrios (2016). Introduction: Against Exoticism. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce (2015). Introduction. In the Event—toward an Anthropology of Generic Moments. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce (2015). When Is a Joke Not a Joke? The Paradox of Egalitarianism. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce (2014). Cosmology and the mythic in Kubrick’s 2001: the imaginary in the aesthetic of cinema. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce (2013). The Cosmic Vortex and Don Handelman's Anthropological Vision: A Personal View. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce (2013). Montage and Time, Deleuze, Cinema and a Buddhist Sorcery Rite. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce; Wijeratne, R (2012). Post-War Realities in Sri Lanka: From the Crime of War to the Crime of Peace in Sri Lanka. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce; Taylor, Christopher C. (2012). Forces in the Production of the State. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce; Telle, Kari G; Eriksen, Annelin (2010). Introduction. Religiosities toward a future. In pursuit of the new millennium. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce (2010). From the Crime of War to the Crime of Peace. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce (2010). Louis Dumont and a holist anthropology. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce; Bertelsen, Bjørn Enge (2009). Introduction: The crisis of power and reformations of the state in globalizing realities. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce (2007). Afterword. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce (2007). Max Gluckman. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce (2007). Egalitarianism. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce (2007). Cosmologies. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce; Morris, Barry (2006). Nationalism and Neo-Populism in Australia: Hansonism and the Politics of the New Right in Australia. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce (2006). Virtuality. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce (2006). Dynamics. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce (2006). Mask and Face in Sinhala Exorcism. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce (2005). Sorcery and the Beautiful:A Discourse on the Aesthetics of Ritual. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce (2005). The Social Construction of Reductionist Thought and Practice. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce (2005). Oligarchic Corporations and New State Formations. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce; Hobart, Angela (2005). Introduction: The Aesthetics of Symbolic Construction and Experience. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce (2005). Foreword. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce (2004). Ritual Dynamics and Virtual Practice: Against Representation and Meaning. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce (2003). Sorcery and the Shapes of Globalization, Disjunctions and Continuities. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce (2002). Outside All Reason: Magic, Sorcery and Epistemology in Anthropology. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce (2002). Hatred, Revenge and Sorcery: Reflections on the personalization of violence in contemporary societies. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce (2002). Sorcery, Modernity and the Constitutive Imaginary: Hybridizing Continuities. (ekstern lenke)

Leder

• Kapferer, Bruce (2018). Anthropology at risk. (ekstern lenke)
• Austin-Broos, Diane; Bastin, Rohan; Kapferer, Bruce et al. (2012). Responses to David Trigger's Article Anthropology Pure and Profane: The Politics of Applied Research in Aboriginal Australia (previous issue). (ekstern lenke)
• Hirsch, E; Kapferer, Bruce; Martin, E et al. (2007). 'Anthropologists Are Talking' about anthropology after globalisation. (ekstern lenke)

Vitenskapelig antologi/Konferanseserie

• Kapferer, Bruce; Gold, Marina (2018). Moral Anthropology: A Critique. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce (2018). State, Resistance, Transformation: Anthropological Perspectives on the Dynamics of Power in Contemporary Global Realities. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce; Theodossopoulos, Dimitrios (2016). Against Exoticism. Toward the Transcendence of Relativism and Universalism in Anthropology. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce; Meinert, L. (2015). In the event. Toward an anthropology of generic moments.. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce; Hobart, Angela (2012). Contesting the State: The Dynamics of Resistance and Control. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce (2011). Legends of people, myths of state. Violence, Intolerance, and Political Culture in Sri Lanka and Australia. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce; Eriksen, Annelin; Telle, Kari G (2010). Contemporary religiosities. Emergent socialites and the post-nation state. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce; Bertelsen, Bjørn Enge; Bertelsen, Bjørn Enge (2009). Crisis of the state. War and social upheaval. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce (2005). Oligarchs and Oligopolies. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce (2005). The Retreat of the Social: The Rise and Rise of Reductionism. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce; Hobart, Angela (2005). Aesthetics in Performance: Formations of Symbolic Construction and Experience. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce (2004). The World Trade Center and Global Crisis: Some Critical Perspectives. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce (2004). State, Sovereignty, War: Civil Violence in Emerging Global Realities. (ekstern lenke)

Vitenskapelig foredrag

• Kapferer, Bruce (2017). “What is Populism?”. Keynote lecture given at «Populism in Theory: towards an Anthropological frame». Conference jointly organized by the ERC Grassroots Economics (GRECO) project, University of Barcelona and the ERC Egalitarianism: Forms, Processes, Comparisons project, University of Bergen. 10-12 January 2017. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce (2016). "Technology, egalitarianism and society: An introduction". Opening paper given at the workshop "New Technologies and their Social Impact". Workshop organized by Rolf Scott and Bruce Kapferer, University of Bergen, in London, 10.-11. November 2016.. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce (2016). «Egalitarian Paradox and Hierarchical Intimacy». Keynote lecture presented at opening conference of «Gender and Cultures of Equality» opening conference, 11 May 2016, The Guildhall, Kingston-Upon-Hill, University of Hull. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce (2016). "Foundational Hierarchy and Egalitarian Paradox". Paper presented at workshop “Hierarchy, Egalitarianism & Responsibility”, 13-14 May 2016, Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH), University of Cambridge. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce (2015). "Anthropological Issues in Deleuze on Modernity". Keynote lecture given at the "Third International Deleuze Studies in Asia Conference. Inter-national, inter-connection, inter-operativity", 05-07.06.15. Hosted by Manipal Centre for Philosophy and Humanities, Manipal University, Mangalore, India.. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce (2015). "Charlie Hebdo and state reaction". Paper given at the workshop "Authoritarianism and Religiosity", 12.-13. November 2015, organized by Roshan DeSilva Wijeyeratne and Graeme Were, University of Queensland.. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce (2014). “Imaginaries of the Future: Concluding Remarks “. Paper presented at “Strangers in Strange Lands: Mapping the Relationship between Anthropology and Science Fiction”, an interdisciplinary workshop, 15-16 November 2014, School of Anthropology and Conservation, University of Kent. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce (2014). "Mitchell and Latour: Two Approaches to Networks. Elementary Critical Considerations". Keynote lecture given at the Mitchell Centre for Social Network Analysis, University of Manchester. 50th anniversary Conference, 29 October 2014.. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce (2010). 'Ritual Virtualities: Beyond Dramatic Metaphors.' Paper presented at the conference 'Performing the future', 8.-10. July 2010, Berlin. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce (2010). 'The corporate state'. Paper presented at the Fulbright 60 year conference 'Sustainable societies in the tropical world', 18.-20. August 2010, Cairns. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce (2010). "Victor Turner and the Concept of the Liminal". Keynote lecture at the conference "Death and liminality. Concepts, rituals and iconography" held at the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Groningen 29th and 30th of October 2010. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce (2010). "Montage and Time: Deleuze, Cinema and a Buddhist Sorcery Rite". Paper presented at the Senior Seminar, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge, 4. November 2010. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce (2008). Mary Douglas, Henri Frankfort and the Virtual. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce (2008). Virtuality and Liminality: the Contribution of Victor Turner to the Study of Ritual. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce (2008). Violence and the Formation of the Corporate State. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce (2008). Europe at, across and beyond the borders. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce (2006). Erewhon Revisted: Anthropology and the Dialectis of the Enlightenment. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce (2006). The Manchester School and the Issue of Holism. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce (2006). The ANZAC Tradition and Australian Nationalism. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce (2005). Situational analysis and the Manchester School. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce (2005). New ontological constructions in the cinema. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce (2005). Globalization and the corporate state. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce (2005). Introduction, comments and final summary. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce (2005). New Formations of Power, the Oligarchic-Corporate State, and Anthropological Ideological Discourse. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce (2005). The logic of healing in Sri Lanka. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce (2005). The Aesthetics of Symbolic Construction and Experience. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce (2004). Democracy and the state. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce (2004). War and the State: A critical introduction. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce (2004). Old Permutations, New Formations: War, State and Global Transgression. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce (2003). Post Colonial State Formations. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce (2003). Egalitarianism and the Australian State, Individualism and Postmodernity. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce (2003). Healing in Sri Lanka. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce (2003). Aesthetics and Exorcism in Sri Lanka. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce (2000). Anthropology and Secularism. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce (2000). Sorcery and Hatred. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce (2000). Critical Perspectives on the Anthropology of Migration and Globalization. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce (2000). Culture and the Crisis in Anthropology. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce (2000). Buddhism and Consciousness. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce (2000). New Religious Movements and Globalization. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce (2000). Sorcery and Resistance in Sri Lanka. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce (2000). Culture, Fieldwork and the Crisis in Anthropology. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce (2000). Globalization and the Resurgence of Irrationality?. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce (2000). Anthropology and Globalization. (ekstern lenke)

Kronikk

• Rio, Knut; Kapferer, Bruce (2017). Er populisme udemokratisk?. (ekstern lenke)

Populærvitenskapelig artikkel

• Kapferer, Bruce (2016). Brexit and Remain: A pox on all their houses. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce (2003). Gluckman og Manchester-Skolen i social-antropogiens historie. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce (1978). Structural Marginality and the Urban Social Order. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce (1977). First Class to Maradana: Secular Drama in Sinhalese Healing Rites. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce (1976). Transactional Models Reconsidered. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce; Aronoff, M.J. (1976). Conflict and Contradiction in a Zambian Mining Community. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce (1975). Entertaining Demons: Comedy, Interaction and Meaning in a Sinhalese Healing Ritual. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce; Boissevain, Jeremy; Mitchell, J. Clyde (1973). Social network and conjugal role in urban Zambia: towards a reformulation of the Bott hypothesis. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce; Handelman, Don (1972). Forms of Joking Activity: A Comparative Approach. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce; Garbett, G.K. (1971). Theoretical orientations in the study of labour migration. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce; Michell, J.C. (1969). Norms and the manipulation of relationships in a work context. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce (1966). The Population of a Zambian Municipal Township. (ekstern lenke)

Short communication

• Kapferer, Bruce (2016). The Trump Reality. (ekstern lenke)
• Bertelsen, Bjørn Enge; Kapferer, Bruce (2013). How to approach the state in anthropology? A response to Thomas Blom Hansen. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce (2010). Comment [til Pnina Werbners artikkel 'Notes from a Small Place: Anthropological Blues in the Face of Global Terror']. (ekstern lenke)

Doktorgradsavhandling

• Scott, Rolf. E; Kapferer, Bruce (2016). The Global Self. Constituting the Self as a Point in a Grid-Based Global World. (ekstern lenke)
• Skartveit, Hanna; Kapferer, Bruce (2015). Migrants of Consciousness: Spiritual exile, self-transformation and the overcoming of individualism in the Kabbalah Centre. (ekstern lenke)
• Larsen, Hege Myrlund; Frøystad, Kathinka; Kapferer, Bruce et al. (2010). Buddhism in Popular Culture: The case of Sri Lankan ‘Tovil dance'. (ekstern lenke)
• Fosshagen, Kjetil K; Kapferer, Bruce (2008). Island of conjuncture: State modalities and historical trajectories in Cyprus. (ekstern lenke)
• Sissiner, Tone; Kapferer, Bruce (2008). A State of Corruption? An Anthropology of the South Asian State. (ekstern lenke)

Anmeldelse

• Kapferer, Bruce (2014). Back to the future. Descola’s neostructuralism. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce (2002). Foundation and Empire (with apologies to Isaac Asimov): A Consideration of Hardt and Negri's Empire. A Review Article. (ekstern lenke)

Vitenskapelig monografi

• Kapferer, Bruce (2014). 2001 and counting. Kubrick, Nietzsche, and anthropology. (ekstern lenke)

Intervju

• Kapferer, Bruce; Bertelsen, Bjørn Enge; Andreassen, Kim (2014). Knuser myter om likhet. (ekstern lenke)
• Bertelsen, Bjørn Enge; Kapferer, Bruce; Andreassen, Kim (2014). Nå kommer gerilja-antropologene. (ekstern lenke)
• Bertelsen, Bjørn Enge; Kapferer, Bruce; Andreassen, Kim (2014). "Say hello to the guerrilla anthropologists". (ekstern lenke)
• Bertelsen, Bjørn Enge; Kapferer, Bruce (2012). Moving at the margins to re-centre anthropology. (ekstern lenke)

Mastergradsoppgave

• Raj, Jayaseelan; Kapferer, Bruce (2010). The Remnants of Colonial Capital. Economic Crisis and the Social Reproduction of Alienation in the South of Indian Plantation Belt. (ekstern lenke)
• Thomas, Sajan; Kapferer, Bruce (2008). The Clash of Domestic Econonies. Microcredit and Household Economic Processes the Migrant Settlements of Kerala, India. (ekstern lenke)
• Varghese, Mathew Akkanda; Kapferer, Bruce (2006). NEW URBAN SPATIALITIES: PUBLIC SPACES AND NEW RELIGIOUS ASSERTIONS IN THE ERNAKULAM URBAN COMPLEX. (ekstern lenke)

Hovedfagsoppgave

• Aaberge, Bård Rydland; Kapferer, Bruce (2007). Aboriginal Dreamings and Existence– Living with the Kuku Yalanji. (ekstern lenke)
• Ånestad, Siv Elin; Kapferer, Bruce (2004). Tourism and the Politics of the Body in Cuba:Male and female sexualized strategies. (ekstern lenke)
• Skartveit, Hanna; Kapferer, Bruce (2004). An Angel Watching Over Me: Fan Culture and the Formations of Self and Identity in Buenos Aires. (ekstern lenke)
• Tevik, Jon Cato; Kapferer, Bruce (2004). Porteño Logics:The Meaning of Taste and Moralities in Social Classification in Buenos Air. (ekstern lenke)
• Engelsen, Tore; Kapferer, Bruce (2004). Opportunities and racism in a sectarian divide: The Indian community in Northern Ireland. (ekstern lenke)
• Veum, Guro; Kapferer, Bruce (2004). Coping with Spirits through Healing:The Meeting between Protestantism and Traditional Religion in the Mikea Forest of Southwest Madagascar. (ekstern lenke)

Leksikonartikkel

• Kapferer, Bruce (2004). Ethnic Violence and the Nationalism of Destruction in Sri Lanka. (ekstern lenke)

Populærvitenskapelig bok

• Kapferer, Bruce; Papigny, Georges (2002). Tovil:Exorcismes therapeutiques bouddhistes. (ekstern lenke)

Fagbok

• Kapferer, Bruce (1997). The Feast of the Sorcerer: Practices of Consciousness and Power. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce (1992). A Celebration of Demons: Exorcism and the Aesthetics of Healing in Sri Lanka. - 2nd. edition. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce (1988). Legends of People, Myths of State: Violence, Intolerance and Political Culture in Sri Lanka and Australia. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce (1987). Power, Process and Transformation: Essays in Memory of Max Gluckman (Special Issue 22). (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce (1983). A Celebration of Demons: Exorcism and the Aesthetics of Healing in Sri Lanka. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce (1979). The Power of Ritual (Special Issue 1)(Republished 1980). (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce (1976). Transaction and Meaning: Directions in the Anthropology of Exchange and Symbolic Behavior (Association of Social Anthropology Monograph Series). (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce (1972). Strategy and Transaction in an African Factory. (ekstern lenke)
• Kapferer, Bruce (1967). Cooperation, Leadership and Village Structure: a Study of Ten Bisa Villages of the Bangweulu Swanmps, Zambia. (ekstern lenke)

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Utvalgte publikasjoner

Bøker
2011. Legends of People, Myths of State. Violence, Intolerance and Political Culture in Sri Lanka and Australia. New York og Oxford: Berghahn Books. [Revidert utgave med kapitler og kommentarer av blant annet David Rampton, Roshan de Silva Wijeyeratne, Rohan Bastin og Barry Morris.]

1998 [1988]. Legends of People, Myths of State. Violence, Intolerance and Political Culture in Sri Lanka and Australia. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press.

1997. The feast of the sorcerer. Practices of Consciousness and Power. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press.

1991 [1987]. A celebration of demons Exorcism and the Aesthetics of Healing in Sri Lanka. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

1972. Strategy and Transaction in an African Factory. Manchester: Manchester, University Press.

1967. Co-operation, leadership and village structure. A preliminary economic and political study of ten Bisa villages in the northern province of Zambia. Lusaka: University of Zambia.

1966. The Population of a Zambian Municipal Township. Communication I. Lusaka: Institute for Social Research.


Redigerte verk

2012. [med Angela Hobart] Contesting the state. The dynamics of resistance and control. Oxford: Sean Kingston Publishing.

2010. [med Annelin Eriksen og Kari Telle] Contemporary Religiosities. Emergent Socialities and the Post-Nation-State.  New York og Oxford: Berghahn Books.

2009. [with Bjørn Enge Bertelsen] Crisis of the state. War and Social Upheaval. New York og Oxford: Berghahn Books.

2005. Oligarchs and Oligopolies. New York og Oxford: Berghahn Books.

2005. The Retreat of the Social: The Rise and Rise of Reductionism. New York og Oxford: Berghahn Books.

2005. [med Angela Hobart] Aesthetics in Performance: Formations of Symbolic Construction and Experience. New York og Oxford: Berghahn Books.

2004. State, Sovereignty, War: Civil Violence in Emerging Global Realities. New York og Oxford: Berghahn Books.

2004. The World Trade Center and Global Crisis: Critical Perspectives. New York og Oxford: Berghahn Books.

2002. Beyond Rationalism: Rethinking Magic, Witchcraft and Sorcery. New York og Oxford: Berghahn Books.

2002. [med Georges Papigny] Tovil. Exorcismes therapeutiques bouddhistes. Paris: Editions DesIris.

1987. Power, process and transformation. Essays in memory of Max Gluckman. Temanummer av Social analysis, 22.

1979. The Power of ritual : transition, transformation and transcendence in ritual practice. Temanummer av Social analysis, 1

1976. Transaction and meaning. Directions in the anthropology of exchange and symbolic behavior. Philadelphia : Institute for the Study of Human Issues.
 

Bokkapitler
2012. [med Christopher Taylor] Introduction: Forces in the production of the state, i Bruce Kapferer og Angela Hobart (red.) Contesting the state. The dynamics of resistance and control. Oxford: Sean Kingston Publishing, pp. 1-19.

2012. [med Roshan de Silva Wijeyeratne] Post-war realities in Sri Lanka: From the crime of war to the crime of peace in Sri Lanka?, i Bruce Kapferer og Angela Hobart (red.) Contesting the state. The dynamics of resistance and control. Oxford: Sean Kingston Publishing, pp. 147-160.

2011. Louis Dumont and a holist anthropology, i Ton Otto og Nils Bubandt (red.) Experiments in holism. Theory and practice in contemporary anthropology. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 187-208.

2010. From the crime of war to the crime of peace, i Ana Pararajasingham (red.) Sri Lanka: 60 Years of 'Independence' and Beyond. Emmenbrucke, Switzerland: Centre for Just Peace and Democracy, pp. 182-191.

2009. [med Bjørn Enge Bertelsen] Introduction: The Crisis of Power and Reformations of the State in Globalizing Realities, i Bruce Kapferer og Bjørn Enge Bertelsen (red.) Crisis of the state. War and Social Upheaval. New York og Oxford: Berghahn Books, pp. 1-26.

2008. Afterword: Cosmologies, i Marianne Lien og Marit Melhus (red.) Holding Worlds Together. New York og Oxford: Berghahn, pp 185-198.

2007. Egalitarianism, i Michael Flood et al (red.) International encyclopedia of men and masculinities. Oxford: Routledge, pp. 167-168.

2007. Max Gluckman, i Clark, David Scott (red.) Encyclopedia of Law & Society. American and Global Perspectives. Los Angeles: Sage publications.

2006. Virtuality, i Jens Kreinath, Jan Snoek og Michael Stausberg (red.) Theorizing Rituals, Volume 1: Issues, Topics, Approaches, Concepts. Leiden og Boston: Brill, pp. 671-684.

2006. Dynamics, i Jens Kreinath, Jan Snoek og Michael Stausberg (red.) Theorizing Rituals, Volume 1: Issues, Topics, Approaches, Concepts. Leiden og Boston: Brill, pp. 506-522.

2006. [med Barry Morris] Nationalism and neo-populism in Australia: Hansonism and the politics of the New Right in Australia, i Andre Gingrich og Marcus Banks (red.) Neo-nationalism in Europe and Beyond: Perspectives From Social Anthropology. New York og Oxford: Berghahn Books, pp. 248-270.

2006. Situations, crisis, and the anthropology of the concrete. The contribution of Max Gluckman, i T.M.S. Evens og D. Handelman (red.) The Manchestes school. Practice and ethnographic praxis in anthropology. New York og Oxford: Berghahn Books, pp. 118-155.

2006. Coda. Recollections and refutations, i T.M.S. Evens og D. Handelman (red.) The Manchestes school. Practice and ethnographic praxis in anthropology. New York og Oxford: Berghahn Books, pp. 118-155.

2005. Oligarchic Corporations and New State Formations, i Bruce Kapferer (red.), Oligarchs and Oligopolies. New York og Oxford: Berghahn Books, pp. 1-23

2005. Mask and Face in Sinhala Exorcism, i D. Shulman (red.) Masked Ritual and Performance in South India: Dance, Healing and Possession. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, pp. 72-88.

2005. Sorcery and the Beautiful. A Discourse on the Aesthetics of Ritual, i Angela Hobart og Bruce Kapferer (red.), Aesthetics in Performance: Formations of Symbolic Construction and Experience. New York og Oxford: Berghahn Books, pp. 129-160.

2005. The Social Construction of Reductionist Thought and Practice, i Bruce Kapferer (red.) The Retreat of the Social: The Rise and Rise of Reductionism. New York og Oxford: Berghahn Books, pp. 1-18.

2005. Foreword, i Christian Krohn-Hansen og Knut Nustad (red.) State Formation: Anthropological Perspectives. London: Pluto Press, pp. vii-xii.

2004. Ritual Dynamics and Virtual Practice. Against Representation and Meaning, i Don Handelman og Galina Lindquist (red.) Ritual in its own right: Exploring the dynamics of transformation. New York og Oxford: Berghahn Books, pp. 35-54.

2004. Introduction. Old permutations, new formations? War, state, and global aggression, i Bruce Kapferer (red.) State, Sovereignty, War: Civil Violence in Emerging Global Realities. New York og Oxford: Berghahn Books, pp. 1-15.

2004. Ethnic Violence and the Nationalism of Destruction in Sri Lanka, i Dinah Shelton (red.) Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity. Farmington Hills: Macmillan Reference.

2003. Sorcery, Modernity and the Constitutive Imaginary: Hybridising Continuities, i Bruce Kapferer (red.) Beyond Rationalism: Rethinking Magic, Witchcraft and Sorcery. New York og Oxford: Berghahn Books, pp. 105-128.

2003. Sorcery and the Shapes of Globalization Disjunctions and Continuities: The Case of Sri Lanka, i Jonathan Friedman (red.) Globalization, the State, and Violence. Walnut Creek: AltaMira Press, pp 249-78.

2002. Hatred, Revenge and Sorcery: Reflections on the personalization of violence in contemporary societies, i Tor Aase (red.) Tournaments of Power: Honor and Revenge in the Contemporary World. Aldershot: Ashgate, pp. 143-149

2002. Outside All Reason: Magic, Sorcery and Epistemology in Anthropology, i Bruce Kapferer (red.) Beyond Rationalism: Rethinking Magic, Witchcraft and Sorcery. New York og Oxford: Berghahn Books, pp. 1-30.

2002. Sorcery, Modernity and the Constitutive Imaginary: Hybridizing Continuities, i Bruce Kapferer (red.), Beyond Rationalism: Rethinking Magic, Witchcraft and Sorcery. New York og Oxford: Berghahn Books, pp. 105-128.

1996. Remythologizing discourses. State and insurrectionary violence in Sri Lanka, i D. Apter (red.) Legitimation of violence. London: Routledge, pp. 159-188.

1995. Bureaucratic erasure: identity, resistance and violence : aborigines and a discourse of autonomy in a North Queensland town, i Daniel Miller (red.) Worlds apart. Modernity through the prism of the local. London: Routledge, pp. 69-90.

1995. From the edge of death. Sorcery and the motion of consciousness, i A. Cohen og N. Rapport (red.) Questions of consciousness. London: Routledge, pp. 134-152.

1995. The performance of categories. Plays of identity in Africa and Australia, i A. Rogers og S. Vertovec (red.) The urban context. Oxford: Berg Press, pp. 55-80.

1988. Performance and the structuring of meaning and experience, i Victor Turner og Edward M. Bruner (red.) The anthropology of experience. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, pp. 188-206.

1977. First class to Maradana. Secular drama in Sinhalese writing, i Sally Falk Moore og Barbara G. Myerhoff (red.) Secular ritual. Assen: Van Gorcum, pp. 91-123.

1976. Introduction: Transaction Models Reconsidered, i Bruce Kapferer (ed.) Transaction and Meaning. Philadelphia: Institute for the Study of Human Issues, pp. 1-22

1976. Conflict and process in a Zambian mine community, i Myron J. Aronoff (red.) Freedom and constraint. Amsterdam: Van Gorcum, pp. 55-82.

1973. Social Network and Conjugal Role in Urban Zambia: Towards a Reformulation of the Bott Hypothesis, i Jeremy Boissevain og J. Clyde Mitchell (red.) Network Analysis. Studies in Human Interaction. The Hague: Mouton.

1969. Norms and the Manipulation of Relationships in a Work Context, i J.C. Mitchell (red.) Social Networks in Urban Situations. Manchester: Manchester University Press.

Tidsskriftartikler
2012. [with Diane Austin-Broos; Bastin, Rohan; Merlan, Francesca; Morris, Barry; Peterson, Nicolas; Vaarzon-Morel, Petronella] Responses to David Trigger's article 'Anthropology Pure and Profane: The Politics of Applied Research in Aboriginal Australia' (previous issue). Anthropological Forum, 22(1):67-93.2011.

Strathern’s new comparative anthropology. Common Knowledge, 17(1): 104-110.

2010. [med Lotte Meinert] In the event. Towards an anthropology of generic moments. Social Analysis, 54(3): 1-30.

2010. The Aporia of Power: Crisis and the Emergence of the Corporate State.  Social Analysis, 54(1): 125-151. 

2009. [med Annelin Eriksen og Kari Telle] Religiosities toward a Future. In Pursuit of the New Millennium. Social analysis, 53(1): 1-16.

2008. Beyond Symbolic representation: Victor Turner and Variations on the Themes of Ritual Process and Liminality. Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society, 33 (4): 5-24.

2008. Comment: Interrogating the new-pluralist orthodoxy in American Anthropology A new ethnography of the state? Dialectical Anthropology, 32 (1-2): 93-95.

2007. Anthropology and the dialectic of enlightenment: A discourse on the definition and ideals of a threatened discipline. The Australian Journal of Anthropology, 18 (1): 72-96.

2007. [med E. Hirsch, E. Martin og A. Tsing] 'Anthropologists Are Talking' about anthropology after globalisation. Ethnos, 72(1): 102-126.

2005. New Formations of Power, the Oligarchic-Corporate State, and Anthropological Ideological Discourse. Anthropological Theory, 5(3): 285-299.

2005. In positions to do great Damage. A comment on the Cushman, Denich, Hayden and Wilson debate. Anthropological theory, 5(4): 577-581.

2005. Situations, crisis, and the anthropology of the concrete. The contribution of Max Gluckman. Social analysis, 49(3): 85-133.

2005. Coda. Recollections and refutations. Social analysis, 49(3): 273-283.

2004. Ritual Dynamics and Virtual Practice: Beyond Representation and Meaning. Social Analysis, 48 (2): 33-54.

2004. Democracy, Wild Sovereignties and the New Leviathan. Bulletin of the Royal Institute of Inter-Faith Studies, 6 (2): 23-38.

2003. Injustice, Suffering and the State: Sorcery and renewal in Contemporary Sri Lanka. Bulletin of the Royal Institute of Inter-Faith Studies, 5(2).

2003. The Australian Society of the State. Social analysis, 47(3): 80-107.

2003. Erindring om forgangne tider. Gluckman og Manchester-skolen i social-antropologiens historie. Jordens folk, 38(3): 11-14.

2002. Outside All Reason: Magic, Sorcery and Epistemology in Anthropology. Social Analysis, 46 (3): 1-30.

2002. Sorcery, Modernity and the Constitutive Imaginary: Hybridizing Continuities. Social Analysis, 46 (3): 103-128.

2002. Ethnicity, Nationalism and Culture of the State. The 17th Edvard Westermarck Memorial Lecture. Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society, 27 (2): 2-23.

2002. Foundation and Empire (with apologies to Isaac Asimov): A Consideration of Hardt and Negri's Empire. A Review Article. Social analysis, 46(1): 167-179.

2001. Anthropology. The paradox of the secular. Social Anthropology, 9(3): 341-344.

2001. Comment on "Random Mind: Towards an Appreciation of Openness in Individual, Society and Anthropology" by Nigel Rapport. The Australian Journal of Anthropology, 12(2): 212-214.

2001. Ethnic Nationalism and the Discourses of Violence in Sri Lanka. Communal Plural, 9(1): 33-67.

2001. Globalization, The State and Civil Violence in Sri Lanka. Bulletin of the Royal of Inter-Faith Studies, 3(2): 59-111.

2001. Sorcery and the Shapes of Globalization. Disjunctions and Continuities- the case of Sri Lanka. Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society, 26(1): 4-28.

2001. Star Wars. About anthropology, culture and globalisation. Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society, 26(3): 2-29.

2000. Star Wars: About Anthropology, Culture and Globalization. The Australian Journal of Anthropology, 11(3): 174-198.

2000. Sexuality and the Art of Seduction in Sinhalese Exorcism. Ethnos, 65 (1): 5-32.

2000. The sorcery of Consciousness: A Sinhala Discourse on the Dynamics of Consciousness". Jnl. Of Communication and Cognition, 33(1-2).

1999. [med Edward F. Fischer, Quetzil E. Castaneda, Quetzil E. Castañeda, Johannes Fabian, Jonathan Friedman, Charles Hale, Richard Handler, Michael Kearney] Cultural Logic and Maya Identity: Rethinking Constructivism and Essentialism [and Comments and Reply]. Current Anthropology, 40(4): 473-499.

1990. [med Jonathan Spencer, Richard Handler, R. S. Khare, Dennis B. McGilvray, Gananath Obeyesekere, Daniel A. Segal og Martin Southwold] Writing Within: Anthropology, Nationalism, and Culture in Sri Lanka [and Comments and Reply]. Current Anthropology, 31(3): 283-300.

1989. Nationalist ideology and a comparative anthropology. Ethnos, 195-234.

1988. The anthropologist as hero. Critique of anthropology, 8(2): 77-104.

1988. Gramsci's Body and a Critical Medical Anthropology. Medical Anthropology Quarterly, N.S. 2(4): 426-432.

1980. [med Don Handelman] Symbolic types, mediation and the transformation of ritual context: Sinhalese demons and Tewa clowns. Semiotica, 30(1-2): 41-72.

1979. Mind, Self, and Other in Demonic Illness: The Negation and Reconstruction of Self. American Ethnologist, 6(1): 110-133.

1979. Introduction: Ritual Process and the Transformation of Context. Social Analysis, 1: 3-19.

1979. Entertaining Demons: Comedy, Interaction and Meaning in a Sinhalese Healing Ritual. Social Analysis, 1:108-152.

1978. Structural marginality and the urban social order. Urban Anthropology, 7(3): 287-320.

1977. [med Thomas J. Scheff, Brenda E. F. Beck, Michael P. Carroll, Arlene Kaplan Daniels, Richard Day, Stephen Fuchs, Jeffrey H. Goldstein, Don Handelman, Arlie Russell Hochschild, Ivan Karp, Aaron Lazare, Philippe Mitrani, Kurt O. Schlesinger, John D. Stoeckle, Jan Van Baal, W. E. A. Van Beek, Thomas Rhys Williams] The Distancing of Emotion in Ritual [and Comments and Reply]. Current Anthropology, 18(3): 483-505.

1972. [med Don Handelman] Forms of Joking Activity: A Comparative Approach. American Anthropologist, 74(3): 484-517.

1971. [med G.K. Garbett] Theoretical orientations in the study of labour migration. New Atlantis, 2: 179-197.

Bokomtaler
1998. Bokomtale. Understanding Witchcraft and Sorcery in Southeast Asia av C. W. Watson og Roy Ellen. American Ethnologist, 25(3): 521-522.

1994. Bokomtale. Buddhism Betrayed? Religion, Politics, and Violence in Sri Lanka av Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah. American Anthropologist, 96(1): 172-174 .

1994. Bokomtale. Cultural Complexity: Studies in the Social Organization of Meaning av Ulf Hannerz. American Anthropologist, 96(2): 460-462.

1993. Bokomtale. The Theater of the Mahābhārata: Terukkūttu Performances in South India av Richard A. Frasca. American Ethnologist, 20(3): 637-638.

1992. Bokomtale. A Sinhala Village in a Time of Trouble: Politics and Change in Rural Sri Lanka av Jonathan Spencer. American Ethnologist, 19(4): 843-844.

1992. Bokomtale. Fusion of the Worlds: An Ethnography of Possession among the Songhay of Niger av Paul Stoller. American Ethnologist, 19(4): 845-846.

1985. Bokomtale. The Cult of the Goddess Pattini av Gananath Obeyesekere. American Ethnologist, 12(1): 176-179.

1984. Bokomtale. Medusa's Hair: An Essay on Personal Symbols and Religious Experience av Gananath Obeyesekere. American Ethnologist, 11(2): 384-386.

 

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