Thorgeir Kolshus is Associate professor at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo and a Columnist in Aftenposten, Norway’s largest newspaper. His research focuses on relations between religion and politics.
Selected publications:
– (2014): “A House upon Pacific sand. W.H.R. Rivers and his 1908 ethnographic “survey work” in Edvard Hviding og Cato Berg (red.) The ethnographic experiment: Rivers and Hocart in Melanesia 1908 New York og Oxford: Berghahn, s 155-176
– (2013): “Codrington, Keesing, and Central Melanesian mana: Two historic trajectories of Polynesian cultural dissemination” in Oceania 83: 316-327