Finn Sivert Nielsen

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1981 "Sovjetisk minoritetsforskning: to eksempler."
Antropolognytt, nr. 4, 1981.
1987 The Eye of the Whirlwind: Russian Identity and Soviet Nation-Building. Quests for Meaning in a Soviet Metropolis.
Oslo: Department of Social Anthropology.
  Table of Contents
  Preface to the Russian Edition (2003) (AnthroBase)
  Excerpt: Father Peter and Tolya (English and Russian versions)
1987 "Korrupsjon i komparativt perspektiv."
Prøveforelesning til magistergraden Institutt for sosialantropologi, Universitet i Oslo, 24/2 1987.
1987 "Vesten sett med russiske øyne - forbilde eller fiende?"
Nordisk Øst-Forum, Nr. 2, 1987.
1987

"The Post-European Condition."
Paper Presented at the Nordic Research Course in
Soviet Foreign Policy, Sigtuna 1987.

1989 "Rapport fra et skrivekurs ved Institutt for Sosialantropologi UiO, Våren 1989"
Konklusjoner og anbefalinger efter evalueringsmøte 2.3.89
1989 In Worlds of Mirrors: Models of Complex Societies and Anthropological Complexity.
Unpublished manuscript.
  Table of Contents
  Chapter One: The Morality of Mythical Worlds - Critical Reflections on Narrative Form
  Chapter Two: The Dual and the Real - Thoughts on an Essay by Claude Lévi-Strauss
  Chapter Three: What the Form Contains - Toward a Theory of Intention
  Chapter Five: The Space Between - Lecture One in a Series on the Post-European Individual
1993 "How Anthropology? Oslo-antropologien ved en korsvei."
Antropress Xtra, Våren 1993.
1994 "Soviet Culture, Russian Kul'tura."
Paper Presented at the First Nordic Conference on the Anthropology of Post-Socialism, Tromsø (Skibotn).
1994 "Rapport fra Forskerkurset: Continuity and Change in Post-Soviet Societies."
(The First Nordic Conference on the Anthropology of Post-Socialism), Skibotn i Troms, 10.-12. oktober 1994.
1995

"Sted og Meta-Sted: Mot en postmoderne teori om identitet."
Revidert versjon av paper ved Årsmøtet i Norsk antropologisk forening, Tromsø, Januar 1995.

1996 "Anthropology in Norway: A Brief Introduction."
Written for .....
2000 "Hva er identitet?"
Artikkel skrevet for dansk Operation Dagsværk, 2000.
2000 "Det kunde blive nemmere lige med det samme: Om computere og deres interface med mennesker."
Ikke publisert.
2001 "Models of Social Complexity - What is Theory?"
Paper presented at the Magleås Seminar, Denmark, May 15th 2001.
2001 "Bringing it all home. What can we expect from America's new war"
September 24, 2001.
2001 "'Fagets kjerne' - Innlegg på debattmøte om antropologiens formål i verden."
Institut for antropologi, Københavns Universitet, 27.11.01.
2001 "Human - Object - Tool."
Paper read at the Institute of Anthropology, Copenhagen, November 18, 2001
2002 "Cultural networks and mediating elites: A very unfinished model of the informal circulation of cultural values in the Soviet Union, with some questions about the post-Soviet situation."
Paper presented at the Fourth Nordic Conference on the Anthropology of Post-Socialism, April 2002, Copenhagen, Denmark.
2002 Til verdens ende og tilbake. Antropologiens historie.
Bergen: Fagbokforlaget. (With Thomas Hylland Eriksen.)
  Bokens hjemmeside: http://www.anthrobase.com/Browse/home/hst/
  Kapittel 4. Ekspansjon og institusjonsbygging (AnthroBase)
  Rettelser til den norske utgaven (AnthroBase)
2003 "Kommunismens ondskap og forenklingens tyranni."
Ikke publisert.
2003 "Building anthropology: A historical sketch of the formative years of anthropology in the Nordic countries, with parallels to the situation in the Baltic countries today"
Lecture at the conference: Defining ourselves - Establishing anthropology in the Baltic states, Vilnius, Oct. 2-5, 2003.
2005 "Ytringsfrihetens uutholdelige grenser."
En (meget) kritisk respons til den offentlige debatt i Danmark om Jyllandspostens publikasjon av 12 karikaturtegninger av Profeten Muhammed. Ikke publisert.