- E-mailRobert.Minnich@uib.no
- Visitor AddressFosswinckels gate 6
- Postal AddressPostboks 78025020 BERGEN
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.
Academic article
- 2006. Some reflections over inter-disciplinary cooperation in the study of an inter-state region: the Austro-Italian-Slovene borderland. Acta Historica Universitatis Klaipedensis. 19-28.
- 2002. Die Leute von Ugovizza: Kollektive Identitäten im alpinen Raum. Historische Anthropologie: Kultur, Gesellschaft, Alltag. 51-75.
- 1998. Prospects for transnational civil society following the arrival of the European Union in a contested borderland. Anthropology of East Europe Review. 51-58.
- 1998. Anthropology as text. Antropolognytt. 15-20.
- 1997. Civil Society and the Legacy of Ethnic Cleansing in the Southeastern Alps: Some Implications for Conflict Prevention. Anthropology of East Europe Review. 15-22.
- 1994. Citizenship and the politicization of ethnicity as aspects of state-making in marginal Southcentral European communities. Teorija in praksa. 267-283.
- 1993. Reflections on the violent death of multi-ethnic state: a Slovene perspective. Anthropology of East Europe Review. 89-99.
- 1990. At the interface of the germanic, romance and slavic worlds - folk culture as an idiom of collective self-images in the southeastern Alps. Studia Ethnologica. 163-179.
- 1989. Tradition in the face of modernization: cultural continuity and 'deagrarization' in the village of Ukve. Slovene studies. 97-108.
- 1988. Speaking Slovene - being Slovene: verbal codes and collective selfimages. Some correlations between Kanalska doline and Zilska dolina. Slovene studies. 125-147.
- 1987. The gift of "koline" and the articulation of identity in Slovene peasant society. Bulletin of the Slovene Ethnological Society./Glasnik slove nskega etnolo#vskega dru#vstva.. 171-179.
- 1982. The symbolic dimension of West Haloze peasant technology. Slovene studies. 21-28.
- 1982. Anthropological contributions to the study of law. Antropolognytt. 13-38.
Report
- 2006. Syllabus: SANT 120 "Anthropology of Scandinavia". .
- 2006. Syllabus: SANT 116 "Regional Ethnography: Europe / Norden". .
- 1997. Syllabus: SAS 10 "Anthropology of Scandinavia". .
- 1994. Metodologija antropološkega raziskovanja (a revised curriculum). .
Popular scientific lecture
- 2006. Norway and Norwegians.
- 1998. Leben im Nationalstaat - am Beispiel persönlicher Schicksale.
- 1998. An economy of ethnicity and the production of collective identity in Val Canale.
- 1997. Sivilt samfunn - private organisasjoner- konfliktløsning.
- 1996. Percepcija pripadnosti (perceptions of identity).
- 1994. Statsborgerskap, politisert etnisitet og dannelsen av moderne stater i den sørlige Sentral-Europa.
- 1994. Etnisk nasjonalisme mht. opprettelsen og forfall av den jugoslaviske stat.
Academic lecture
- 2011. From pigs to pork, from ethnic frontier to European Union: reflections over identity formation among Slovene speakers encountered between 1974 and 2006.
- 2005. Some Reflections over Interdisciplinary Cooperation in the Study of an Inter-state Region: The Austro-Italian-Slovene Borderland.
- 2005. Collective identity formation and linguistic identities in the Austro-Italian-Slovene border region.
- 2005. Collective Identity Formation and Linguistic Identities in the Three Border Region.
- 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.
- 2004. On the Methodology of Studying Identity Formation in a Borderland: the Case of "Tromeje".
- 2004. Implementation of the Bologna Declaration on University Reform: Experience of the Dept. of Social Anthropology, University of Bergen.
- 2003. Rural Dimensions of Norwegian Modernity.
- 2003. Rural Dimensions of Norwegian Identity.
- 2002. Language Identity in a Borderland: the case of the Three Border Region (Austria, Italy, Slovenia).
- 2002. Fokus på Balkan - en orientering.
- 2002. "Speaking Slovene Being Slovene" reconsidered: Language and Identity with Reference to the Situation of Ugovizza Villagers in Val Canale, Italy.
- 2001. Citizenship beyond the state: prospects for trans-ethnic civil society in the Three Border Region.
- 2000. To ben på tre steder - Et "multi-sited" antropologliv som analytisk redskap.
- 2000. Methods in Anthropological Inquiry.
- 2000. Language, Thought and Culture.
- 2000. Language in the Making and Unmaking of an Alpine Borderland: From Mussolini and Hitler to the Iron Curtain and European Union.
- 2000. From "culture area" to collective identity: on the ecology of identity formation in the Three Border Region.
- 2000. At the grassroots of European integration: citizenship practices in the "Circum-Alpine" culture area.
- 1997. Prospects for transnational civil society after the arrival of the European Union in a contested borderland.
- 1996. The legacy of ethnic cleansing in the southeastern Alps: some implications for conflict prevention.
- 1995. The individual as author of collective identities: reconsidering identity formation within a multilingual borderland.
- 1995. Slovenes in Kanalska Dolina - Kanaltal - Val Canale.
- 1995. Citizens of Many States, Inhabitants of One Village : Civil Society along a Contested Frontier.
- 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.
- 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).
Book review
- 2007. Regiono apibudinimas: Baltijos regiono tyrimai žvelgiant iš sociokultūrinės antropologijos ir tarpdisciplininiu tyrimu perspektyvos. Lietuvos Etnologija (Lithuanian ethnology). 247-248.
- 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). Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift. 307-308.
- 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). European History Quarterly. 337-341.
- 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. Austrian History Yearbook. 310-311.
- 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. Journal of Modern Italian Studies. 242-244.
- 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. Slavic Review: Interdisciplinary Quarterly of Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies. 578-579.
- 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. Slavic Review: Interdisciplinary Quarterly of Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies. 578-579.
Academic monograph
- 1993. Socialni antropolog o slovencih - zbornik socialnoantropoloških besedil.
Non-fiction book
- 1998. Homesteaders and Citizens: Collective identity formation on the Austro-Italian-Slovene frontier. Norse Publications.
- 1987. Aspects Of Polish Folk Culture: An Anthology of Contemporary Research from the Department of Slavic Ethnography, Cracow. Bergen Studies in Social Anthropology #38.
- 1987. Aspects Of Polish Folk Culture: An Anthology of Contemporary Research from the Department of Slavic Ethnography, Cracow. Dept. of Social Anthropology, University of Bergen.
- 1979. The Homemade World Of Zagaj - An Interpretation of the 'Practical Life' among Traditional Peasant-Farmers in West Haloze, Slovenia, Yugoslavia. Dept. of Social Anthropology, University of Bergen.
Compendium
- 1996. Partition and Integration of the Three Country Region.
Thesis at a second degree level
- 2007. Innføring av parlamentarisme i Bergen- Politiske roller i endring i Bergen Bystyre.
- 2007. In the Borderland between Childhood and Adulthood:Social agency among Working and Street Children in the Dominican Republic.
- 2007. Ikke la Ohridsjøen bli som Dojransjøen.Organisering, deltakelse og identitet i Ohridregionen, Makedonia.
- 2006. Ingen kommer fra Lisboa. Identitetshåndtering, endring og sosial mobilitet i portugisisk middelklasse.
- 2005. Å leke sammen. Samhandlingsmønstre blant barn i en flerkulturell skole.
- 2005. The pure life. Respectability and reputation in the world-making of Dominican Rastafarians.
- 2005. Samliv med usedvanlige mennesker. En etnografisk beskrivelse av en Camphill-landsby for psykisk utviklingshemmede i Nordvest-Russland.
- 2005. Rebels in the Mormon 'Heartland'. Identity management and boundary maintenance among youth in the context of Utah.
- 2004. Deltakelse i fellesskap: Perspektiver på uttrykk for sivilt samfunn i Havanna, Cuba.
Masters thesis
- 2007. Transformed Oromo Lives. Understanding Secularization of Identity and the Role of Circumstances.
- 2007. St.Josef i verda - Verdi i St.Josef. Ein studentheim som fleirkulturell kommunikasjon.
- 2007. El Hombre Nuevo.Kontinuitet og endring i postutopiske refleksjoner over individ og stat blandt potensielle emigranter på Cuba.
- 2007. Coping with Uncertainty.An Analysis of Disjunction between Young People and the State of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- 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.
- 2007. A Piece of Our Puzzle is Missing.En studie av de savnede og deres pårørende på et delt Kypros.
- 2006. Å leve livet flere steder. Identitet og deterritorialiserte liv blant bosniske flyktninger i Bergensregionen.
Feature article
- 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. HABSBURG, an H-Net list.
- 1996. A participant's observations of the course: <I>metodologija antropološkega raziskovanja</I> (anthropological research methods). Anthropological Notebooks. 102-104.
- 1993. Peasant Russia: Family and Community in the Post Emancipation Period. Social Anthropology. 331-332.
Doctoral dissertation
- 1993. Homesteaders and Citizens: An Ecology of Person and Self-realization Among Slovene Speaking Villagers on the Austro-Italian Frontier.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
- 2007. Citizenship beyond the state: on the formation of civil society in the Three-Border Region. 15 pages.
- 2006. Einige abschließende Bemerkungen aus antropologischer Sicht. 13 pages.
- 2006. Collective identity formation and linguistic identities in the Austro-Italian-Slovene border region. 15 pages.
- 2006. Bürger eines Grenzlandes - individuelle Wege zur Selbstbestimmung. 39 pages.
- 2002. From 'Culture Area' to Collective Identity: On the Ecology of Identity Formation in the Three Border Region. 19 pages.
- 2000. Under the Linden Tree: A Slovenian Life on a Contested State Frontier. 21 pages.
- 1997. Wie man an den Rändern moderner Staaten zu Bürgern wird. 45 pages.
- 1993. Uvodna beseda avtorja (author's introduction). 27 pages.
- 1987. Introduction. 14 pages.
- 1979. Styringsproblemer i jugoslavias migrasjonspolitikk (Problems in the implementation of Yugoslavia's migration policy). 11 pages.
- 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). 16 pages.
Poster
- 2005. Panel discussant - New Research by Young Scholars in Slovene Studies: the Kozolec, the EMU, Clitics.
Academic literature review
- 2012. Serendipitous Encounters and Associations – Thirty-Two years with the SSS. Slovene studies. 211-216.
- 2008. An Introduction to Papers on "New Research on Slovenes of Carinthia". Slovene studies. 219-223.
More information in national current research information system (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).
Regional: Southcentral Europe, Slovenia (and countries of pre- 1991 Yugoslavia), Carinthia and Styria (Austria), Friuli-Venezia- Giulia (Italy), Poland.
Thematic: Identity formation in borderland society (ethnicity, nationalism, resistance movements, autobiography, narrative analysis); The political culture of marginal communities (social history, civil society, citizenship, state-making); Alpine and sub-pannonian peasant adaptations (indigenous technology, cultural ecology).