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.

 

Konferanseforedrag

• Bruce Kapferer (2008). Europe at, across and beyond the borders. (ekstern lenke)
• Bruce Kapferer (2000). New Religious Movements and Globalization. (ekstern lenke)
• Bruce Kapferer (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)
• Bruce Kapferer (2005). Introduction, comments and final summary. (ekstern lenke)
• Bruce Kapferer (2005). Globalization and the corporate state. (ekstern lenke)
• Bruce Kapferer (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)
• Bruce Kapferer (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)
• Bruce Kapferer (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)
• Bruce Kapferer (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)
• Bruce Kapferer (2000). Culture, Fieldwork and the Crisis in Anthropology. (ekstern lenke)
• Bruce Kapferer (2000). Anthropology and Secularism. (ekstern lenke)
• Bruce Kapferer (2004). Democracy and the state. (ekstern lenke)
• Bruce Kapferer (2003). Healing in Sri Lanka. (ekstern lenke)
• Bruce Kapferer (2005). The Aesthetics of Symbolic Construction and Experience. (ekstern lenke)
• Bruce Kapferer (2004). Old Permutations, New Formations: War, State and Global Transgression. (ekstern lenke)
• Bruce Kapferer (2010). 'Ritual Virtualities: Beyond Dramatic Metaphors.' Paper presented at the conference 'Performing the future', 8.-10. July 2010, Berlin. (ekstern lenke)
• Bruce Kapferer (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)
• Bruce Kapferer (2005). New ontological constructions in the cinema. (ekstern lenke)
• Bruce Kapferer (2005). Situational analysis and the Manchester School. (ekstern lenke)
• Bruce Kapferer (2003). Aesthetics and Exorcism in Sri Lanka. (ekstern lenke)
• Bruce Kapferer (2003). Egalitarianism and the Australian State, Individualism and Postmodernity. (ekstern lenke)
• Bruce Kapferer (2006). The ANZAC Tradition and Australian Nationalism. (ekstern lenke)
• Bruce Kapferer (2008). Violence and the Formation of the Corporate State. (ekstern lenke)
• Bruce Kapferer (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)
• Bruce Kapferer (2000). Buddhism and Consciousness. (ekstern lenke)
• Bruce Kapferer (2000). Sorcery and Hatred. (ekstern lenke)
• Bruce Kapferer (2000). Sorcery and Resistance in Sri Lanka. (ekstern lenke)
• Bruce Kapferer (2000). Anthropology and Globalization. (ekstern lenke)
• Bruce Kapferer (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)
• Bruce Kapferer (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)
• Bruce Kapferer (2006). Erewhon Revisted: Anthropology and the Dialectis of the Enlightenment. (ekstern lenke)
• Bruce Kapferer (2006). The Manchester School and the Issue of Holism. (ekstern lenke)
• Bruce Kapferer (2004). War and the State: A critical introduction. (ekstern lenke)
• Bruce Kapferer (2000). Globalization and the Resurgence of Irrationality?. (ekstern lenke)
• Bruce Kapferer (2000). Critical Perspectives on the Anthropology of Migration and Globalization. (ekstern lenke)
• Bruce Kapferer (2000). Culture and the Crisis in Anthropology. (ekstern lenke)
• Bruce Kapferer (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)
• Bruce Kapferer (2005). The logic of healing in Sri Lanka. (ekstern lenke)
• Bruce Kapferer (2005). New Formations of Power, the Oligarchic-Corporate State, and Anthropological Ideological Discourse. (ekstern lenke)
• Bruce Kapferer (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)
• Bruce Kapferer (2003). Post Colonial State Formations. (ekstern lenke)
• Bruce Kapferer (2008). Mary Douglas, Henri Frankfort and the Virtual. (ekstern lenke)
• Bruce Kapferer (2008). Virtuality and Liminality: the Contribution of Victor Turner to the Study of Ritual. (ekstern lenke)

Vitenskapelig artikkel

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

Populærvitenskapelig artikkel

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

Vitenskapelig bokkapittel

• Bruce Kapferer (2002). Hatred, Revenge and Sorcery: Reflections on the personalization of violence in contemporary societies. (ekstern lenke)
• Bruce Kapferer (2006). Dynamics. (ekstern lenke)
• Bruce Kapferer; Roshan De Silva-Wijeyeratne (2018). Buddhist cosmological forms and the situation of total terror in Sri Lanka’s ethnic civil war. (ekstern lenke)
• Bruce Kapferer (2015). When Is a Joke Not a Joke? The Paradox of Egalitarianism. (ekstern lenke)
• Bruce Kapferer (2005). Oligarchic Corporations and New State Formations. (ekstern lenke)
• Bruce Kapferer (2010). From the Crime of War to the Crime of Peace. (ekstern lenke)
• Bruce Kapferer (2024). Introduction. Liminality: Structure/Anti-structure and Egalitarian Dynamics. (ekstern lenke)
• Bruce Kapferer (2002). Sorcery, Modernity and the Constitutive Imaginary: Hybridizing Continuities. (ekstern lenke)
• Bruce Kapferer; Dimitrios Theodossopoulos (2016). Introduction: Against Exoticism. (ekstern lenke)
• Bruce Kapferer; Dimitrios Theodossopoulos (2016). Afterword: Lessons of the Exotic. (ekstern lenke)
• Bruce Kapferer (2002). Outside All Reason: Magic, Sorcery and Epistemology in Anthropology. (ekstern lenke)
• Bruce Kapferer (2004). Ritual Dynamics and Virtual Practice: Against Representation and Meaning. (ekstern lenke)
• Bruce Kapferer (2006). Virtuality. (ekstern lenke)
• Bruce Kapferer (2003). Sorcery and the Shapes of Globalization, Disjunctions and Continuities. (ekstern lenke)
• Bruce Kapferer (2005). The Social Construction of Reductionist Thought and Practice. (ekstern lenke)
• Bruce Kapferer; Angela Hobart (2005). Introduction: The Aesthetics of Symbolic Construction and Experience. (ekstern lenke)
• Bruce Kapferer (2010). Louis Dumont and a holist anthropology. (ekstern lenke)
• Bruce Kapferer; Roland Kapferer (2024). Extremism as Immanence and Process: The Trump Transmutation. (ekstern lenke)
• Bruce Kapferer; Marina Gold (2018). Afterword. (ekstern lenke)
• Bruce Kapferer; Marina Gold (2018). Introduction: Reconceptualizing the Discipline. (ekstern lenke)
• Bruce Kapferer; R Wijeratne (2012). Post-War Realities in Sri Lanka: From the Crime of War to the Crime of Peace in Sri Lanka. (ekstern lenke)
• Bruce Kapferer (2007). Egalitarianism. (ekstern lenke)
• Bruce Kapferer (2018). Crises of power and the state in global realities. (ekstern lenke)
• Bruce Kapferer (2015). Introduction. In the Event—toward an Anthropology of Generic Moments. (ekstern lenke)
• Bruce Kapferer (2005). Sorcery and the Beautiful:A Discourse on the Aesthetics of Ritual. (ekstern lenke)
• Bruce Kapferer (2005). Foreword. (ekstern lenke)
• Bruce Kapferer; Christopher C. Taylor (2012). Forces in the Production of the State. (ekstern lenke)
• Bruce Kapferer (2014). Cosmology and the mythic in Kubrick’s 2001: the imaginary in the aesthetic of cinema. (ekstern lenke)
• Bruce Kapferer (2007). Max Gluckman. (ekstern lenke)
• Bruce Kapferer (2013). Montage and Time, Deleuze, Cinema and a Buddhist Sorcery Rite. (ekstern lenke)
• Bruce Kapferer; Bjørn Enge Bertelsen (2009). Introduction: The crisis of power and reformations of the state in globalizing realities. (ekstern lenke)
• Bruce Kapferer (2013). The Cosmic Vortex and Don Handelman's Anthropological Vision: A Personal View. (ekstern lenke)
• Bruce Kapferer; Kari G Telle; Annelin Eriksen (2010). Introduction. Religiosities toward a future. In pursuit of the new millennium. (ekstern lenke)
• Bruce Kapferer (2006). Mask and Face in Sinhala Exorcism. (ekstern lenke)
• Bruce Kapferer; Barry Morris (2006). Nationalism and Neo-Populism in Australia: Hansonism and the Politics of the New Right in Australia. (ekstern lenke)
• Bruce Kapferer (2007). Cosmologies. (ekstern lenke)
• Bruce Kapferer (2007). Afterword. (ekstern lenke)

Antologi

• Bruce Kapferer; Annelin Eriksen; Kari G Telle (2010). Contemporary religiosities. Emergent socialites and the post-nation state. (ekstern lenke)
• Bruce Kapferer (2005). Oligarchs and Oligopolies. (ekstern lenke)
• Bruce Kapferer; Marina Gold (2024). Egalitarian Dynamics. Liminality, and Victor Turner’s Contribution to the Understanding of Socio-historical Process. (ekstern lenke)
• Bruce Kapferer; Dimitrios Theodossopoulos (2016). Against Exoticism. Toward the Transcendence of Relativism and Universalism in Anthropology. (ekstern lenke)
• Bruce Kapferer; L. Meinert (2015). In the event. Toward an anthropology of generic moments.. (ekstern lenke)
• Bruce Kapferer (2018). State, Resistance, Transformation: Anthropological Perspectives on the Dynamics of Power in Contemporary Global Realities. (ekstern lenke)
• Bruce Kapferer (2004). The World Trade Center and Global Crisis: Some Critical Perspectives. (ekstern lenke)
• Bruce Kapferer; Marina Gold (2018). Moral Anthropology: A Critique. (ekstern lenke)
• Bruce Kapferer; Angela Hobart (2012). Contesting the State: The Dynamics of Resistance and Control. (ekstern lenke)
• Bruce Kapferer; Bjørn Enge Bertelsen; Bjørn Enge Bertelsen (2009). Crisis of the state. War and social upheaval. (ekstern lenke)
• Bruce Kapferer; Angela Hobart (2005). Aesthetics in Performance: Formations of Symbolic Construction and Experience. (ekstern lenke)
• Bruce Kapferer (2005). The Retreat of the Social: The Rise and Rise of Reductionism. (ekstern lenke)
• Bruce Kapferer (2004). State, Sovereignty, War: Civil Violence in Emerging Global Realities. (ekstern lenke)
• Bruce Kapferer (2011). Legends of people, myths of state. Violence, Intolerance, and Political Culture in Sri Lanka and Australia. (ekstern lenke)

Lederartikkel

• Diane Austin-Broos; Rohan Bastin; Bruce Kapferer 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)
• Bruce Kapferer (2018). Anthropology at risk. (ekstern lenke)
• E Hirsch; Bruce Kapferer; E Martin et al. (2007). 'Anthropologists Are Talking' about anthropology after globalisation. (ekstern lenke)

Doktorgradsavhandling

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

Fagbok

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

Medieintervju

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

Masteroppgave

• Jayaseelan Raj; Bruce Kapferer (2010). The Remnants of Colonial Capital. Economic Crisis and the Social Reproduction of Alienation in the South of Indian Plantation Belt. (ekstern lenke)
• Bård Rydland Aaberge; Bruce Kapferer (2007). Aboriginal Dreamings and Existence– Living with the Kuku Yalanji. (ekstern lenke)
• Tore Engelsen; Bruce Kapferer (2004). Opportunities and racism in a sectarian divide: The Indian community in Northern Ireland. (ekstern lenke)
• Mathew Akkanda Varghese; Bruce Kapferer (2006). NEW URBAN SPATIALITIES: PUBLIC SPACES AND NEW RELIGIOUS ASSERTIONS IN THE ERNAKULAM URBAN COMPLEX. (ekstern lenke)
• Guro Veum; Bruce Kapferer (2004). Coping with Spirits through Healing:The Meeting between Protestantism and Traditional Religion in the Mikea Forest of Southwest Madagascar. (ekstern lenke)
• Hanna Skartveit; Bruce Kapferer (2004). An Angel Watching Over Me: Fan Culture and the Formations of Self and Identity in Buenos Aires. (ekstern lenke)
• Jon Cato Tevik; Bruce Kapferer (2004). Porteño Logics:The Meaning of Taste and Moralities in Social Classification in Buenos Air. (ekstern lenke)
• Sajan Thomas; Bruce Kapferer (2008). The Clash of Domestic Econonies. Microcredit and Household Economic Processes the Migrant Settlements of Kerala, India. (ekstern lenke)
• Siv Elin Ånestad; Bruce Kapferer (2004). Tourism and the Politics of the Body in Cuba:Male and female sexualized strategies. (ekstern lenke)

Tidsskriftomtale

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

Populærvitenskapelig bok

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

Leksikonartikkel

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

Vitenskapelig monografi

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

Fremhevet artikkel i media

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

Se en full oversikt over publikasjoner i Cristin

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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