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Curriculum Vitae
Terje Oestigaard
Born: April 11, 1973
I have conducted fieldworks in Bangladesh, Egypt, Ethiopia, Greece, Jordan, India, Nepal and
Palestine. My main research interests are death rituals and cremations, water and religion,
political archaeology, and Nile Basin issues.
Academic degrees
2004. Dr.art, Centre for Development Studies and Department of Archaeology, University of
Bergen, Norway. Dissertation: Death and Life-giving Waters – Cremation, Caste, and
Cosmogony in Karmic Traditions.
1998. Cand. philol. Department of Archaeology, University of Bergen, Norway. Thesis: The
Deceased’s Life Cycle Rituals: Present Cremation Burials for Interpretations of the Past. An
Ethnoarchaeological Study of Funeral Practices in Nepal.
Academic appointments
2010. 01.09.10 - Nordic Researcher (Norway), The Nordic Africa Institute – Uppsala
University, Sweden.
2010. 01.05-31.07. Researcher, Department of Geography, University of Bergen.
2010. 01.04-01.04. Researcher at the Nile Basin Research Programme, Uni Global.
2006. April 2006 – April 2010. Post.doc. University of Bergen.
2008. 15.08-15.12. Research fellow at The Centre for Advanced Study (CAS) at the
Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, University of Oslo, part of the research
group Understanding the Role of Water in History and Development, 2008/2009.
2008. 01.01-15.06. Research coordinator at the Nile Basin Research Programme’s group
“Water, culture and identity”, Unifob Global, University of Bergen.
2007. 01.10-01-12. Research associate, School of Arts, Histories and Cultures, University of
Manchester.
2007. 15.02.-15.04. Academic coordinator at the Nile Basin Research Programme,
Unifob Global, University of Bergen.
2006. 08-01-10.04. Curator at Midgard Historic Centre, Tønsberg.
2004-2005. Research fellow 15.05.05-31.12.05 Centre for Development Studies, University
of Bergen, Norway
2004-2005. Lecturer, 15.08.04 – 15.05.05, Department of Archaeology
and Centre for Development Studies, University of Bergen, Norway
2001-2004. Dr.art scholarship, Norwegian Research Council from 15.02.01 – 15.02.04.
Worked at Centre for Development Studies and Department of Archaeology,
University of Bergen, Norway.
2000-2001. May 2000 – February 2001: Research assistant at the Nature, Society and Water –
programme at Centre for Development Studies, University of Bergen, Norway.
1998-2001. Part time teacher and assistant lecture in archaeology at Department of
archaeology, University of Bergen.
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Publications
Books
Oestigaard, T. Horus’ Eye and Osiris’ Efflux: The Egyptian Civilisation of Inundation ca.
3000-2000 BCE. (Book manuscript forthcoming 2011).
Oestigaard, T. Water, Christianity and the Spirit of Capitalism. I.B. Tauris. In press
Oestigaard, T. 2010. Nile Issues: small streams from the Nile Basin research Programme.
Fountain Publishers. Kampala. 64 p.
Lykke Syse, K. V. & Oestigaard, T. (eds.). 2010. Perceptions of Water in Britain from Early
Modern Times to the Present: An Introduction. BRIC Press. Bergen. 145 p.
Tvedt, T. & Oestigaard, T. (eds.). 2010. A History of Water. Series 2, Vol. 1. Ideas of
Water from Antiquity to Modern Times. I.B. Tauris. London. 490 p.
Oestigaard, T. (ed.). 2009. Water, Culture and Identity. Comparing Past and Present
Traditions in the Nile Basin Region. BRIC Press. Bergen. 272 p.
Fahlander, F. & Oestigaard, T. (eds.). 2008. The Materiality of Death. Bodies, Burials, Beliefs.
BAR International Series. Oxford.
Goldhahn, J. & Østigård, T. 2007. Rituelle spesialister i bronse- og jernalderen Vols. 1-2.
Gotarc Series C, No. 65. Göteborg University. Gothenburg.
Østigård, T. 2007. Transformatøren - Ildens mester i jernalderen. Vol. 2. Gotarc Series C, No.
65. Göteborg University. Gothenburg. 199 p.
Oestigaard, T. 2007. Political Archaeology and Holy Nationalism – Archaeological battles
over the Bible and land in Israel and Palestine from 1967-2000. Gotark. C No. 67.
Gothenburg. 165 p.
Østigård, T. (ed.). 2006. Lik og ulik: Tilnærminger til variasjon i gravskikk. UBAS Nordisk
2. Bergen. 278 p.
Tvedt, T. & Oestigaard, T. (eds.). 2006. A History of Water Vol. 3. The World of Water.
I.B.Tauris. London. p. 506.
Østigård, T. 2006. På liv og død. Med døden som følgesvenn i 1500 år. Midgard historisk
forlag. Borre. p. 62.
Oestigaard, T. 2005. Water and World Religions. An Introduction. SFU & SMR. Bergen.
112 p.
Oestigaard, T. 2005. Death and Life-giving Waters – Cremation, Caste, and Cosmogony in
Karmic Traditions. BAR International Series 1353. Oxford. 343 p.
Oestigaard, T. 2004. Death and World Religions. Human responses to the inevitable. BRIC
Press. Bergen. 132 p.
Fahlander, F. & Oestigaard, T. (eds.). 2004. Material Culture and Other Things - Postdisciplinary studies in the 21st century. Gotarc Series C, No. 61. Gothenburg. 281 p.
Oestigaard, T. 2004. Death and Life-giving Waters – Cremation, Caste, and Cosmogony in
Karmic Traditions. Dr.art thesis. Department of Archaeology, University of Bergen,
Norway. 530 p.
Oestigaard, T., Anfinset, N. & Saetersdal, T. (eds.). 2004. Combining the Past and the
Present: Archaeological perspectives on society. BAR International Series 1210.
Oxford. 216 p.
Oestigaard, T. 2003. An Archaeology of Hell: Fire, Water and Sin in Christianity. Bricoleur
Press. Lindome. 137p.
Østigård, T. 2001. Norge uten nordmenn – en antinasjonalistisk arkeologi. Spartacus. Oslo.
128 p.
Oestigaard, T. 2000. The Deceased’s Life Cycle Rituals in Nepal: Present Cremation Burials
for the Interpretations of the Past. BAR International Series 853. Oxford. 66 p.
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Level I & II articles and referee articles
Oestigaard, T. 2010. Osiris and the Egyptian Civilization of Inundation; The Pyramids, the
Pharaohs and their Water World. In Tvedt, T, & Coopey, R. (eds.). A History of Water,
Series 2, Vol. 2: From Early Civilizations to Moderen Times: 72-99. I.B. Tauris.
London.
Tvedt, T. & Oestigaard. 2010. A History of the Ideas of Water: Deconstructing
Nature and Constructing Society. In Tvedt, T. & Oestigaard, T. (eds.). A History of
Water. Series 2, Vol. 1. The Ideas of Water from Antiquity to Modern Times: 1-36. I.B.
Tauris. London.
Oestigaard, T. 2010. Purification, Purgation and Penalty: Christian Concepts of Water and
Fire in Heaven and Hell. In Tvedt, T. & Oestigaard, T. (eds.). A History of Water.
Series 2, Vol. 1. The Ideas of Water from Antiquity to Modern Times: 298-322. I.B.
Tauris. London.
Oestigaard, T. 2010. The Egyptian Civilisation and the Sun Cult in a Water Perspective
In Willy Østreng, W. (ed). Transference. Interdisciplinary Communications
2008/2009. Centre for Advanced Study. Oslo. www.cas.uio.no
Oestigaard, T. 2009. The materiality of hell: The Christian hell in a world religion context.
Material religion, Vol. 5, No. 3: 312-331.
Østigård, T. 2009. Nasjonal og regional identitet eller kulturell kompleksitet: Forståelser av
irrelevante og unike kulturminner. Primitive Tider 11: 19-30.
Fahlander, F. & Oestigaard, T. 2008. The Materiality of Death: Bodies, Burials, Beliefs. In
Fahlander, F. & Oestigaard, T. (eds.). The Materiality of Death. Bodies, burials,
beliefs: 1-16. BAR International Series 1768. Oxford.
Kaliff, A. & Oestigaard, T. 2008. Excavating the King’s Bones: the Materiality of Death in
Practice and Ethics Today. In Fahlander, F. & Oestigaard, T. (eds.). The Materiality
of Death. Bodies, burials, beliefs: 47-57. BAR International Series 1768. Oxford.
Kristoffersen, S. & Oestigaard, T. 2008. “Death myths”: Performing of Rituals and Variations
in Corpse Treatment during the Migration Period in Norway. In Fahlander, F. &
Oestigaard, T. (eds.). The Materiality of Death. Bodies, burials, beliefs: 127-139. BAR
International Series 1768. Oxford.
Oestigaard, T. 2008. Review Juuti, P. S., Katko, T. S. & Vuorinen, H. S. (eds.).
Environmental history of water. IWA Publishing. London. Natural Resources Forum
Vol. 32 No. 2:168-169.
Oestigaard, T. 2008. The Sisters Kali and Ganga: Waters of Life and Death. In Håland, E.
(ed.). Women, Pain and Death: Rituals and Everyday Life on the Margins of Europe
and Beyond: 203-221. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Newcastle upon Tyne.
Goldhahn, J. & Oestigaard, T. 2008 Smith and death – cremations in furnaces in Bronze and
Iron Age Scandinavia. In Childis, K., Lund, J. & Prescott, C. (eds.). Facets of
Archaeology. Essays in Honour of Lotte Hedeager on her 60th Birthday: 215-242.
OAS 10. Oslo Academic Press. Oslo.
Oestigaard, T. 2007. Review Dragos Gheorgiu & George Nash (eds.). The Archaeology of
Fire – Understanding Fire as Material Culture. Archaeolingua Series Minor 23.
Østigård, T. 2007. Bokomtale Martin Modéus. Biblical Selamim in a ritual perspective.
Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift Nr. 1 2007: 66-68.
Oestigaard, T. & Goldhahn, J. 2006. From the Dead to the Living. Death as Transactions and
Re-negotiations. Norwegian Archaeological Review Vol. 39, No. 1: 27-48.
Tvedt, T. & Oestigaard, T. 2006. Introduction. In Tvedt, T. & Oestigaard, T. 2006. (eds.). A
History of Water Vol. 3. The World of Water: ix-xxii. I.B.Tauris. London.
Oestigaard, T. 2006. River and Rain: Life-giving Waters in Nepalese Death Rituals. In Tvedt,
T. & Oestigaard, T. (eds.). A History of Water Vol. 3. The World of Water: 430-448.
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I.B.Tauris. London.
Gansum, T. & Oestigaard, T. 2004. The Ritual Stratigraphy of Monuments that Matter.
European Journal of Archaeology. Vol. 7(1): 61-79.
Oestigaard, T. 2004. Approaching material culture: A history of changing epistemologies.
Journal of Nordic Archaeological Science 14: 79-87.
Kaliff, A. & Oestigaard, T. 2004. Cultivating Corpses – A Comparative Approach to
Disembodied Mortuary Remains. Current Swedish Archaeology. Vol. 12. 2004: 83104.
Oestigaard, T. 2004. Kings and Cremations – Royal Funerals and Sacrifices in Nepal. In
Insoll, T. (ed.). Belief in the Past. The Proceedings of the Manchester Conference on
Archaeology and Religion: 115-124. BAR International Series 1212. Oxford.
Oestigaard, T. 2000. Sacrifices of Raw, Cooked and Burnt Humans. Norwegian
Archaeological Review, Vol. 33, No. 1: 41-58.
Oestigaard, T. 1999. Cremations as transformations: When the dual cultural hypothesis was
cremated and carried away in urns. European Journal of Archaeology. Vol. 2(3): 345364.
Articles
Østigård, T. 2010. Helvetes inferno av ild – fra ingenting til fravær av Gud. Riss Nr 1(2010):
38-45.
Lykke Syse, K. V. & Oestigaard, T. 2010. Introduction. In Lykke Syse, K. V. & Oestigaard,
T. (eds.). 2010. Perceptions of Water in Britain from Early Modern Times to the
Present: An Introduction: 9-16. BRIC Press. Bergen.
Oestigaard, T. 2010. The Topography of Holy Water in England after the Reformation. In
Lykke Syse, K. V. & Oestigaard, T. (eds.). 2010. Perceptions of Water in Britain from
Early Modern Times to the Present: An Introduction: 15-34. BRIC Press. Bergen.
Oestigaard, T. 2010. Water. Berkshire Encyclopedia of Sustainability. Volume 1. The Spirit of
Sustainability: 422-424. Berkshire Publishing Group LLC. Massachusetts.
Oestigaard, T. 2009. Water, Culture and Identity. Comparing Past and Present Traditions in
the Nile Basin Region. In Oestigaard, T. (ed.). 2009. Water, Culture and Identity.
Comparing Past and Present Traditions in the Nile Basin Region: 11-22. BRIC Press.
Bergen.
Oestigaard, T. 2009. Christianity and Islam as Nile Religions in Egypt: Syncretism and
Continuity. In Oestigaard, T. (ed.). 2009. Water, Culture and Identity. Comparing Past
and Present Traditions in the Nile Basin Region: 141-164. BRIC Press. Bergen.
Østigård, T. & Gansum, T. 2009. Vikingtiden på Borre: Hvordan har fortiden blitt brukt og
formidlet? In Samuel Edquist, S., Hermanson, L. & Johansson, S. (red.). Tankar om
ursprung. Forntiden och medeltiden i nordisk historieanvändning: 249-268. The
Museum of National Antiquities, Studies 13. Stockholm. ISBN 978-91-89176-38-6.
Oestigaard, T. 2008. Water and World Historical Processes. The Forum on Religion and
Ecology Newsletter 2.11 (November 2008).
Oestigaard, T. 2008 From Death to Life – The Hydrological Circle of Cosmos and
Copulation. Dhaulagiri Journal of Sociology and Anthropology Vol.2: 121-144.
Østigård, T. & Goldhahn, J. 2007. Rituella specialister i brons- och järnålder - en epilog. I
Østigård, T. Transformatøren - Ildens mester i jernalderen. Rituelle spesialister i
bronse- og jernalderen Vol. 2: 187-199. Gotarc Series C, No. 65. Göteborg University.
Gothenburg.
Goldhahn, J. & Østigård, T. 2007. Rituelle spesialister i bronse- og jernalderen. En
introduksjon. I Goldhahn, J. Dödens hand - en essä om brons- och hällsmed. Rituelle
spesialister i bronse- og jernalderen Vol. 1: 1-18. Gotarc Series C, No. 65. Göteborg
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University. Gothenburg.
Budapest. Norwegian Archaeological Review Vol. 40 No.2: 212-215.
Østigård, T. 2007. Arkeologi eller nasjonalisme - hva kan vi lære av forhistorien?
www.heimskringla.no.
Østigård, T. 2006. Den undertrykte mannen: Gendercide og kjønnsroller i marxistisk og
anarkistisk perspektiv. I Skogstrand, L. & Fuglestvedt, I. (red.). Det arkeologiske
kjønn: 149-164. Oslo Academic Press. Oslo.
Østigård, T. 2006. Lik og ulik – introduksjon til variasjon i gravskikk. I Østigård, T. 2006.
(red.). Lik og ulik: Tilnærminger til variasjon i gravskikk: 9-46. UBAS Nordisk 2.
Bergen.
Kristoffersen, S. & Østigård, T. 2006. ”Dødsmyter” – regissering av ritualer og variasjon i
likbehandling i folkevandringstid. I Østigård, T. 2006. (red.). Lik og ulik:
Tilnærminger til variasjon i gravskikk:113-132. UBAS Nordisk 2. Bergen.
Østigård, T. 2006. UBAS - Universitetet i Bergen Arkeologiske Skrifter. Riss Nr. 1-2006:3437.
Oestigaard, T. 2006. Heavens, Havens and Hells of Water – Life and Death in Society and
Religion. In Leybourne, M. & Gaynor, A. (eds.). Water: Histories, culture, ecologies:
94-105. University of Western Australia Press. Perth.
Oestigaard, T. 2006. Divine challenge for Nepalese river clean-up. World water and
Environmental Engineering May/June 2006:22-23.
Østigård, T. 2005. Øst-Timor. Krokodilleøya. Exhibition catalogue. Hordamuseet. 48. p
Oestigaard, T. 2005. Cremation and Cosmogony – Karma and Soteriology. Dhaulagiri
Journal of Sociology and Anthropology: 164-175.
Kyvik, G. & Østigård, T. 2004.Kollektiv hukommelse og glemsel: Kulturminnevern,
identitet og endring. Forståing og praksis i kulturminnevernet - Nye utfordringer i eit
kulturelt mangfald: 37-44.Norsk kulturråd. Oslo.
Oestigaard, T. 2004. The World as Artefact. Archaeology as Material Culture Studies. In
Fahlander, F. & Oestigaard, T. (eds.). Material Culture and Other Things - Postdisciplinary studies in the 21st century: 19-52. Gotarc Series C, No. 61. Gothenburg.
Fahlander, F. & Oestigaard, T. 2004. Introduction. Material Culture and Post-Disciplinary
Sciences. In Fahlander, F. & Oestigaard, T. (eds.). Material Culture and Other ThingsPost-disciplinary studies in the 21st century: 1-18. Gotarc Series C, No. 61.
Gothenburg.
Østigård, T. Offerteori i praksis – i nåtid og fortid. Riss Nr. 2 2004: 20-26.
Østigård, T. 2004. Gammel fremtid eller demokratisk fortid? Arkeologiske perspektiver på
Israel – Palestina-konflikten. Babylon. Vol. 2, No. 2: 80-89.
Østigård, T. 2004. Dødens speilbilder - Livets selvbilder. Pamflett. Hordamuseet. Fana. 30 p.
Oestigaard, T. 2004. Death and Ambivalent Materiality – Human Flesh as Culture and
Cosmology. In Oestigaard, T., Anfinset, N. & Saetersdal, T. (eds.). Combining the
Past and the Present: Archaeological perspectives on society: 23-30. BAR
International Series 1210. Oxford.
Oestigaard, T. 2003. The Bible and Believers, the Power of the Past, and Antiquated
Archaeology in the Middle East. In Bergstøl, J. (ed.). Scandinavian archaeological
practice – in theory. Proceedings from the 6th Nordic TAG, Oslo 2001: 302-314. Oslo
Archaeological Series. Oslo.
Østigård, T. 2002. Kollegialitet og lojalitet – den tause maktens brødre. Primitive Tider
2002:175-182.
Østigård, T. 2001. Norge uten nordmenn: En kritikk av forestillingen om blod og jord. Om
bruken av vikinger og andre gamle ting i nasjonsbyggingen. www.vitem.com. 4. des.
Østigård, T. 2000. Forskningsetikk i arkeologi som vitenskap og sosial praksis. Primitive tider
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2000(3): 120-134. Oslo. Debate article.
Østigård, T. 2000. Svar til kommentarene. Primitive tider 2000(3): 151-157. Answers to the
comments.
Østigård, T. 2000. Kjønnsforskning i arkeologi fra et ”mannsperspektiv”. Replikk. Nr. 10: 6578. Bergen. Debate article.
Østigård, T. 2000. Demarkasjon, dekonstruksjon og forskning som prosess. Replikk. Nr. 11:
81-86. Bergen. Answers to the comments
Østigård, T. 1999. Arkeologien i skyggen av folkets historie. Samtiden 5/6: 15-23. Oslo.
Oestigaard, T. 1999. Food Rituals and Taboos: An Ethnoarchaeological Study Among
Brahmans and Magars in the Baglung District of Western Nepal. In Chhetri, R. B. &
Gurung, O. (eds.). Anthropology and Sociology of Nepal: Cultures, Societies, Ecology
and Development: 48-55. SASON. Kathmandu.
Gansum, T. & Østigård, T. 1999. En haug med ritualer. Haugar og rikssamlingen.
Vestfoldminne 1998/1999: 74-99. Tønsberg.
Østigård, T. 1998. Makten til endring – ideologi i indoeuropeiseringsprosessen. Primitive tider
1998 (1): 47-60. Oslo.
Østigård, T. 1997. Hvordan tolke et arkeologisk materiale? Forståelse av fortiden gjennom
bruk av analogi og etnoarkeologi. Arkeo Nr. 2-1997: 20-24. Bergen.
Østigård, T. 1996. Det indoeuropeiske problem. Historie Nr. 1-1996: 50-55. Bergen.
Editor
Series editor of the Nile Basin Research Programme in 2009.
Series editor of Universitetet i Bergen Arkeologiske Skrifter. Established the series at three
levels.
Exhibitions
From June 2010: Poster exhibition Nile Issues: small streams from the Nile Basin research
Programme in different Nile basin countries.
01.03.06 – 01.11.06. Exhibition presenting death: “På liv og død – Med døden som følgesvenn
i 1500 år. Midgard Historic Centre. Tønsberg.
18.09.05 – 18.06.06. East-Timor, Hordamuseet, Bergen, where I wrote the catalogue and the
posters at the exhibition.
October 20, 2004 – February 28, 2005. Exhibition presenting death: “Dødens speilbilder –
livets selvbilder” at Hordamuseet, Bergen, based on photos I have taken during my
fieldworks.
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