Astrid Bredholt Stensrud

• Stensrud, Astrid Bredholt (2026). Sálvese Quien Pueda: Emergencies and In(ter)Dependencies among Micro-Entrepreneurs in Neoliberal Andean Peru. Ethnos. ISSN 0014-1844. doi: 10.1080/00141844.2026.2698041. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Informal micro-entrepreneurs in Cusco, Peru, were heavily affected by the COVID-19 pandemic as well as the following political and economic crises. This article shows how families making a living from ‘independent’ businesses navigate the necrocapitalist dynamics of contemporary neoliberalism. Discussing what it means to be ‘independent’ in a context of precarity, inadequate public health care and racialised inequalities, I argue that entrepreneurship in Cusco is not an individualistic affair, but inherently interdependent in the sense that business practices are dependent upon inter-relational webs of mutual dependencies and gendered practices of collective care and more-than-human reciprocity. By discussing the creative and relational more-than-economic practices through which people respond, resist, and reimagine life, the article shows how neoliberalism in Cusco is actively being reconfigured. Finally, I suggest that everyday practices of collective and more-than-human care are a form of worlding with ethical and political implications.

• Stensrud, Astrid Bredholt (2025). The Anthropology of Water and Environmental Change in the Andes. In Aldenderfer, Mark (Eds.), Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Anthropology. Oxford University Press. ISSN 9780190854584. doi: 10.1093/acrefore/9780190854584.013.470. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Access to water has always been important in the Andes, and since the 1980s, it has become an even more critical issue because of the growth of extractive industries, increasing urban populations, and global climate change. The massive loss of glaciers in the Andes is one of the most visible signs of global warming and has wide-ranging implications for water availability, ecosystems, livelihoods and more-than-human lives. Among the consequences of climate change are more-extreme temperatures, seasonal instability, extreme weather events, irregular rain, and water shortages. The growing stress on water resources also leads to an increasing number of socio-environmental conflicts—which are often related to water grabbing for and pollution from mines, enclosures by dams for hydropower, and large-scale export-oriented agribusiness—as well as conflicts related to legal pluralities and contested rights to water. Furthermore, the global shift to renewable energies has led to new extractivist actions that are criticized for reproducing exploitation, environmental damage, and water injustice in Andean countries. Many environmental conflicts are less entangled with issues about the distribution of and access to land and water than they are with ontological disagreements about how humans understand and relate to land and water. Anthropologists and other social scientists using ethnographic methods—e.g., within sociology, human geography, and development studies—have researched water and environmental change in the Andes since the 1970s. The central importance of water in social and political organizations and in the cosmologies of peasant and Indigenous communities has been observed in ethnographic studies of water. Water and power have been consistent themes in Andean ethnography since the 1970s, however, the analytical perspectives have changed from structures and systems to hydrosocial flows, practices and assemblages. Examples include the analytical shift from political structures to governance and multi-scalar power dynamics, and the shift from cosmologies and political ecology to more-than-human approaches, world-making practices and ontological politics. Areas of study have shifted with societal changes: from rural irrigation water to urban drinking water, from political and socioeconomic conditions within nation states to global issues of climate change and adaptation, and from Indigenous struggles and neoliberal multiculturalism to injustice related to green extractivism . With increased awareness of water’s critical role in society, research on the social aspects of water has grown significantly in the 21st century. Although the scope and scale of such research increasingly include global contexts, anthropologists continue to insist on the importance of ethnography for understanding the implications for human and more-than-human practices in local contexts. Climate change and extractivism will continue to affect life in the Andes for the foreseeable future, and there is a continual need for further ethnographically grounded and collaborative research that is informed by critical, decolonial, and careful thinking about how to act upon urgent matters.

• Stensrud, Astrid Bredholt (2023). The water obliges: Climate change and world-making practices in Peru. In Crate, Susan A. & Nuttall, Mark (Ed.), Anthropology and Climate Change: From Transformations to Worldmaking. Routledge. ISSN 9781032150932. p. 144–156. Full text in Research Archive
• Stensrud, Astrid Bredholt (2023). La formalización de los derechos de uso del agua y la propiedad hidráulica condicional en el valle del Colca, Perú. Allpanchis. ISSN 0252-8835. 91, p. 157–200. doi: 10.36901/allpanchis.v50i91.1532. Full text in Research Archive
• Stensrud, Astrid Bredholt (2020). Sentient Springs and Sources of Life. Water, climate change and world-making practices in the Andes. In Ray, Celeste (Eds.), Sacred Waters. A Cross-Cultural Compendium of Hallowed Springs and Holy Wells. Routledge. ISSN 9780367445133. p. 368–377. Full text in Research Archive
• Eriksen, Thomas Hylland & Stensrud, Astrid Bredholt (2019). Introduction: Anthropological perspectives on global economic and environmental crises in an overheated world. In Stensrud, Astrid Bredholt & Eriksen, Thomas Hylland (Ed.), Climate, Capitalism and Communities: An Anthropology of Environmental Overheating. Pluto Press. ISSN 9780745339566. p. 1–22. doi: 10.2307/j.ctvjnrw0q.5. Full text in Research Archive
• Stensrud, Astrid Bredholt (2019). “You cannot contradict the engineer”: Disencounters of modern technology, climate change, and power in the Peruvian Andes. Critique of Anthropology. ISSN 0308-275X. 39(4), p. 420–438. doi: 10.1177/0308275X18821164. Full text in Research Archive
• Stensrud, Astrid Bredholt (2019). The social embeddedness of hydraulic engineers in the regulation of water and infrastructure in Peru. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space. ISSN 2399-6544. 37(7), p. 1235–1251. doi: 10.1177/2399654419866835. Full text in Research Archive
• Stensrud, Astrid Bredholt (2019). The Formalisation of Water Use and Conditional Ownership in Colca Valley, Peru. Water Alternatives - An interdisciplinary journal on water, politics and development. 12(2), p. 521–537. Full text in Research Archive
• Stensrud, Astrid Bredholt (2019). Water as Resource and Being: Water Extractivism and Life Projects in Peru. In Ødegaard, Cecilie Gro Vindal & Rivera, Juan Javier Rivera (Ed.), Indigenous life projects and extractivism. Ethnographies from South America. Palgrave Macmillan. ISSN 9783319934358. p. 143–164. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-93435-8_6. Full text in Research Archive
• Stensrud, Astrid Bredholt (2019). The dark side of progress: the intersections of climate change, neoliberalism, and modernity in Peru. In Stensrud, Astrid Bredholt & Eriksen, Thomas Hylland (Ed.), Climate, Capitalism and Communities: An Anthropology of Environmental Overheating. Pluto Press. ISSN 9780745339566. p. 96–114. doi: 10.2307/j.ctvjnrw0q.10. Full text in Research Archive
• Stensrud, Astrid Bredholt (2019). Safe milk and risky quinoa the lottery and precarity of farming in Peru. Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology. ISSN 0920-1297. 2019(83), p. 72–84. doi: 10.3167/fcl.2019.830108. Full text in Research Archive
• Stensrud, Astrid Bredholt (2018). Settlers and Squatters: The Production of Social Inequalities in the Peruvian Desert. In Ystanes, Margit & Strønen, Iselin Åsedotter (Ed.), The Social Life of Economic Inequalities in Contemporary Latin America: Decades of Change. Palgrave Macmillan. ISSN 9783319615356. p. 231–252. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  This chapter discusses the production of social inequalities in the Majes Irrigation Project (MIP) in southern Peru in terms of class, race and gender. More than 30 years after the construction of MIP, and after radical neoliberal structural adjustments in the 1990s, many of the first settlers have lost their farms or are struggling with debt. Nevertheless, Majes is known as a ‘place of opportunities’, and thousands of people have migrated from the poor rural highlands in search of work or informal business, settling in the desert surrounding the irrigated areas. The population in Majes comes from different places, with various cultural, educational and economic backgrounds. The chapter examines how Majes has been generated through relations of capital and labour and how families experience debt and uncertainty, and yet continue struggling to get ahead in a precarious informal economy. The chapter argues that inequality is embedded in the historical intersectionality of class formations, gender and conceptions of race and that these differences have not diminished with various attempts of social reform. On the contrary, social inequality has increased during the past three decades of neoliberalism, with more insecure conditions for farming and work.

• Stensrud, Astrid Bredholt (2017). Precarious entrepreneurs: mobile phones, work and kinship in neoliberal Peru. Social Anthropology. ISSN 0964-0282. 25(2), p. 159–173. doi: 10.1111/1469-8676.12395. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  In the first decade of the 21st century, a new niche opened up in the street economy of Cusco, a city in the Southern Peruvian Andes: the sale of calls between mobile phones. This article shows that the neoliberal policies of deregulation that enabled the mobile phone call business have also produced new regulatory spaces that small-scale entrepreneurs have to manage in their relationships to the authorities. Through the story of a family business, Stensrud discusses the relationships between precariousness, informality, uncertainty and ambiguity, and focuses on the tensions that arise in kinship relationships that are affective and supportive, yet also exploitative. The main argument is that there are different modes of precarity, and that kinship, which mostly has been thought of as security in an uncertain world, in fact can exacerbate a precarious condition.

• Stensrud, Astrid Bredholt (2016). Climate Change, Water Practices and Relational Worlds in the Andes. Ethnos. ISSN 0014-1844. 81(1), p. 75–98. doi: 10.1080/00141844.2014.929597. Full text in Research Archive
• Stensrud, Astrid Bredholt (2016). Dreams of Growth and Fear of Water Crisis: the Ambivalence of ‘Progress’ in the Majes-Siguas Irrigation Project, Peru. History and Anthropology. ISSN 0275-7206. 27(5), p. 569–584. doi: 10.1080/02757206.2016.1222526. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  The boom in extractivist industries since the 1990s has resulted in a concomitant increase in socio-environmental conflicts in Peru. In the southern region of Arequipa, the Majes Irrigation Project has transformed 15,000 hectares of desert to fertile land and has become a hub for economic opportunities. In the planned second phase of the project, a new dam will be built to extend the amount of irrigated land and foster large-scale export-oriented agribusiness. Contrary to the government’s promises about progress, modernity and employment, the planned extension triggers anxiety among the local farmers who fear privatization, corporate dominance and a neo-colonial return of foreign big estates. This article examines four different stories – both overlapping and contradicting – about Majes. The first story envisions expectations of growth and modernity, while the second focuses on hard work and sacrifice. The other side of the coin appears in the third story about debt, loss and vulnerability following from neoliberal deregulations. The final story concerns the lack of benefits for the local farmers and the growing inequalities, resulting in struggles for land rights and water justice. The stories reflect clashing local and global scales and tensions between private and public ownership and between individual and collective solutions. The farmers in the highlands are ambivalent about the project because in spite of dreams about progress, they have long-standing concerns with large-scale corporate dominance and lack of local autonomy.

• Paerregaard, Karsten; Stensrud, Astrid Bredholt & Andersen, Astrid Oberborbeck (2016). Water Citizenship: Negotiating Water Rights and Contesting Water Culture in the Peruvian Andes. Latin American Research Review. ISSN 0023-8791. 51(1), p. 198–217. doi: 10.1353/lar.2016.0012. Full text in Research Archive
• Stensrud, Astrid Bredholt (2016). Adapting to what? The neoliberal politics of climate change and alternative forms of governance in the Andes. In Wilhite, Harold Langford & Hansen, Arve (Ed.), Will the Paris agreement save the world? An analysis and critique of the governance roadmap set out in COP 21. Centre for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo. ISSN 9788290391657. p. 57–63. Full text in Research Archive
• Stensrud, Astrid Bredholt (2016). "It Seems Like a Lie”: The Everyday Politics of World-Making in Contemporary Peru. In Bertelsen, Bjørn Enge & Bendixsen, Synnøve Kristine Nepstad (Ed.), Critical Anthropological Engagements in Human Alterity and Difference. Palgrave Macmillan. ISSN 9783319404745. p. 253–272. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-40475-2_11. Full text in Research Archive
• Stensrud, Astrid Bredholt (2016). Harvesting Water for the Future Reciprocity and Environmental Justice in the Politics of Climate Change in Peru. Latin American perspectives. ISSN 0094-582X. 43(4), p. 56–72. doi: 10.1177/0094582X16637866. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Examination of the distribution of climate vulnerability, water resources, and economic opportunities in a Peruvian watershed suggests that, rather than the concept of adaptation, a focus on political agency is important to highlight the creative and dynamic political action in local responses to climate change. Peasant farmers and herders in the Peruvian headwaters are among the most vulnerable to global warming, since they are the first to experience the changes in water supplies. Leaders in the highlands claim rights connected to a fluid ownership of water that is born in their territory and demand payments from the companies making money on this water based on the principles of reciprocity and justice. These demands are attempts at taking control of an uncertain future and as such are examples of political agency relating to climate change. © 2016 SAGE Publications

• Stensrud, Astrid Bredholt (2016). "We Are All Strangers Here":Transforming Land and Making Identity in a Desert Boomtown. In Schober, Elisabeth & Eriksen, Thomas Hylland (Ed.), Identity Destabilised. Living in an overheated world.. Pluto Press. ISSN 9780745399126. p. 59–76. doi: 10.2307/j.ctt1gk07wf.8. Full text in Research Archive
• Stensrud, Astrid Bredholt (2015). Raining in the Andes: Disrupted Seasonal and Hydrological Cycles. In Hastrup, Kirsten & Hastrup, Frida (Ed.), Waterworlds: Anthropology in Fluid Environments. Berghahn Books. ISSN 9781782389460. p. 75–92. Full text in Research Archive
• Stensrud, Astrid Bredholt (2010). Los peregrinos urbanos en Qoyllurit'i y el juego mimético de miniaturas. Anthropologica. ISSN 0003-5459. p. 39–66. Full text in Research Archive
• Stensrud, Astrid Bredholt (2007). Negociación de poder y respeto: El comedor popular como punto de encuentro entre mujeres pobres y el estado en Cusco, Perú. Serie Haina. ISSN 1403-3933. 6. Full text in Research Archive
• Stensrud, Astrid Bredholt (2006). Forhandlinger om makt og respekt felleskjøkkenet som møtepunkt mellom kvinner og stat i Peru. Norsk antropologisk tidsskrift. ISSN 0802-7285. 17(3/4), p. 253–263. Full text in Research Archive

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• Stensrud, Astrid Bredholt (2021). Watershed Politics and Climate Change in Peru. Pluto Press. ISBN 9781786807571. 240 p. Full text in Research Archive
• Stensrud, Astrid Bredholt & Eriksen, Thomas Hylland (2019). Climate, Capitalism and Communities: An Anthropology of Environmental Overheating. Pluto Press. ISBN 9780745339566. 243 p. Full text in Research Archive
• Lillebø, Kjersti; Kennedy, Audhild Lindheim; Smørvik, Kjersti Hilden; Stensrud, Astrid Bredholt & Linderud, Hilde Tanggaard (2004). Betwixt & Between 2004. Universitetet i Oslo. ISBN 9788290835083. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Forord Marianne E. Lien Gratulerer! Nok en gang er den kommet oss i hende, denne lille boken som på nesten forunderlig vis dukker opp mot slutten av våren, år etter år, og uten at vi fast ansatte har løftet en finger. . . Hvordan går det til? Har studentene virkelig tid til dette i disse "reformerte" ulvetider? Det har de antagelig ikke, men de gjør det likevel, og bidrar på denne måten til å skape et forum for å dele erfaringer, faglige refleksjoner og innspill med en bredere krets. Antropologistudentenes årbok er et av de beste eksempler på at hovedfags- og masterstudenter i sosialantropologi er oppegående, engasjerte og velartikulerte formidlere, og, ikke minst, at de velger å skrive tekster som ikke har annet mål enn å bære fram et synspunkt, en erfaring, noen tanker. Bidrag i årboka gir ingen studiepoeng, men gir et godt grunnlag for å utøve en bevisst rolle som intellektuelle i samfunnsmessig debatt og i faglige fora. Det lover godt for fagets framtid! Også i år kommer bidragene fra flere universiteter, tre fra Bergen, fire fra Tromsø og de øvrige tolv fra Oslo. Tematisk spenner de som vanlig vidt, men lesere som har en interesse for mat, helse, kjønn og film har spesielt mye å glede seg over i år. Regionalt er det i denne utgaven uvanlig mange bidrag fra det afrikanske og det sør- og nordamerikanske kontinent, og tilsvarende taust fra Asia og stillehavsregionen. Dette reflekterer antagelig bare tilfeldige svingninger, og svekker ikke hovedinntrykket av at studentene stadig reiser langt, og til svært ulike steder. Ikke minst er det verdt å merke seg at urbanitet nå også studeres i afrikanske storbyer, og at helsesystemer studeres - ikke bare i Norge – men for eksempel i Chile. Flere bidrag tar også opp mer generelle problemstillinger som for eksempel vilkårene for antropologiske feltarbeid i det nye masterstudiet, og antropologistudenters påståtte vegring mot å profilere sin kompetanse i et kommersielt arbeidsmarked. Årets årbok bærer preg av en viktig overgang: den veletablerte tittelen Hovedfagstudentenes Årbok har i denne utgaven, som er den 14. i rekken, blitt erstattet av den langt mer “antropologiske” tittelen Betwixt and Between, med referanse til Victor Turners berømte studie av liminalitet og overgangsritualer fra 1970. Dette passer fint til en utgave som ikke bare omfatter bidrag fra hovedfagsstudenter, men også har rukket å inkludere masterstudenter, etter at de første kullene med masterstudenter ble tatt opp høsten 2003. Det er lovende, og bærer bud om at dette utmerkede tiltak kan overleve overgangen til masterstudiet, og at Betwixt and Between dermed kan videreføre Hovedfagstudentenes Årboks stolte tradisjon i mange, mange år framover. Lykke til! "SAVE YOUR DARLINGS" Årbokredaksjonen Bidragene har strømmet inn i år og vi er meget fornøyd med årets ekstra tykke bok. Årboka er et forum for høyeregradsstudenter til å utfolde seg, uten å måtte forholde seg til oppgaveskrivingens begrensninger. Mange har nok hørt uttrykket "kill your darlings"i den forbindelse, der plass begrenser spennende empiri og betraktninger. "Darlingene" kan derimot blomstre i årboka, og du får delt dem med andre! I år har årboka et nytt og velklingende navn, Betwixt and Between, som gjenspeiler endringene i overgangen fra hovedfag til master. Som høyeregradsstudent kan man dessuten få en opplevelse av å være i en slags liminal fase hvor man både er student og forsker - midt i mellom og begge deler samtidig. Mange av årboktekstene speiler også antropologens mellomposisjon i feltet hvor vi innehar flere og gjerne motstridende roller, både som deltagere og utenforstående. For første gang harårboka med bidrag fra masterstudentene og vi håper denne utgaven av Betwixt and Between vil skape fellesskap blant studentene, og kontinuitet i tradisjonen med studentutgivelser framover. Takk til skribentene, deltakerne i navnekonkurransen og Hanne Rekkebo for navnekonkurransens vin- nerbidrag! Takk til Inger-Lise Schwab og Christopher Gambert for engelsk språkvask, Louis Kennedy for setting og språkvask, Monica Gebhardt for ny forsidedesign og Marianne Lien for flott forord. Til slutt takker vi de sosialantropologiske instituttene i Oslo, Tromsø og Bergen, samt Kulturstyret ved UiO for tidenes beste økonomiske støtte. Nå er høsten her med regn og mørke, så sett deg i godstolen med en kopp varm kakao og årboka! God lesning! Oslo, juli 2004

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• Stensrud, Astrid Bredholt (2024). The Unequal Ocean: Living with Environmental Change along the Peruvian Coast. Maximilian Viatori. Journal of Anthropological Research. ISSN 0091-7710. 80(1), p. 80–81. doi: 10.1086/728353. Full text in Research Archive
• Stensrud, Astrid Bredholt (2024). Navigating Crisis: Reciprocity and Practices of Care among Precarious Entrepreneurs in Cusco, Peru. Full text in Research Archive
• Stensrud, Astrid Bredholt (2023). Caring Under Crisis: Social and Moral Resilience in Andean Peru. Full text in Research Archive
• Stensrud, Astrid Bredholt (2022). A Future History of Water by Andrea Ballestero (review). Anthropological Quarterly. ISSN 0003-5491. 95(3), p. 709–714. doi: 10.1353/anq.2022.0040. Full text in Research Archive
• Stensrud, Astrid Bredholt (2021). Falske anklager om valgfusk truer demokratiet. Full text in Research Archive
• Salinas, Cecilia; Guzman-Gallegos, Maria A. & Stensrud, Astrid Bredholt (2021). Overforenklende Premisser. 91(uke 16 årgang 53), p. 22–22. Full text in Research Archive
• Salinas, Cecilia; Guzman-Gallegos, Maria A.; Stensrud, Astrid Bredholt & Jimenez, Monica Yobana Amador (2021). Å være for selvbestemt abort og avkolonisering er ingen motsetning. Full text in Research Archive
• Guzman-Gallegos, Maria A.; Salinas, Cecilia; Stensrud, Astrid Bredholt & Jimenez, Monica Yobana Amador (2020). Avkolonisering vil gi en mer robust vitenskap. Full text in Research Archive
• Haaland, Hanne; Stensrud, Astrid Bredholt & Wallevik, Hege (2020). Kvinners rettigheter er under økende press. Full text in Research Archive
• Stensrud, Astrid Bredholt (2019). Klimapolitikken trenger samfunnsvitere. Full text in Research Archive
• Stensrud, Astrid Bredholt (2019). El cambio climático y el derecho al agua: Relaciones múltiples, colectividad y mutualidad. Memoria. Full text in Research Archive
• Stensrud, Astrid Bredholt (2019). El cambio climático y el derecho al agua: desigualdad y reciprocidad en una cuenca peruana. Full text in Research Archive
• Stensrud, Astrid Bredholt (2016). Kvinner og klær. p. 6–6. Full text in Research Archive
• Stensrud, Astrid Bredholt (2016). “The Social Vindication of the Highlands”: Climate Change and Justice in Southern Peru. LASA Forum. ISSN 0890-7218. 47(4), p. 26–29. Full text in Research Archive
• Stensrud, Astrid Bredholt (2016). Private enclosing of public water? The politics of water extractivism and financialization of infrastructure in Peru. Full text in Research Archive
• Stensrud, Astrid Bredholt (2016). A comparative comment from another climate change frontline, and remarks on the Moana Rua film. Full text in Research Archive
• Stensrud, Astrid Bredholt (2016). Water as value and being: Extractivist mega-projects and ownership in Peru. Full text in Research Archive
• Stensrud, Astrid Bredholt (2016). “What unites us is the umbilical cord of water:” Hydrosociality, precarity and politics in Peru. Full text in Research Archive
• Stensrud, Astrid Bredholt (2016). Politics of climate change, uneven impacts on livelihood and multiple forms of governance. Full text in Research Archive
• Stensrud, Astrid Bredholt (2016). Drought, debt and claims for water justice in the Colca-Majes watershed, Peru. Full text in Research Archive
• Stensrud, Astrid Bredholt (2016). Kamp om fortida i Perus presidentvalg. Full text in Research Archive
• Hansen, Arve; Wilhite, Harold Langford; Bang, Guri; Stensrud, Astrid Bredholt; Torvanger, Asbjørn & Vetlesen, Arne Johan (2016). Klimaavtalen i Paris: viktig men utilstrekkelig. Full text in Research Archive
• Stensrud, Astrid Bredholt (2015). Included into what? Frost, Debt and Thoughts on "Progress" in Peru. Full text in Research Archive
• Stensrud, Astrid Bredholt (2014). Litres per second: Measuring the Water Flow. In Hastrup, Kirsten & Rubow, Cecilie (Ed.), Living with Environmental Change: Waterworlds. Routledge. ISSN 9780415746670. p. 248–251. Full text in Research Archive
• Stensrud, Astrid Bredholt (2014). Hualca Hualca: Mountain Lord and Life Source. In Hastrup, Kirsten & Rubow, Cecilie (Ed.), Living with Environmental Change: Waterworlds. Routledge. ISSN 9780415746670. p. 162–165. Full text in Research Archive
• Stensrud, Astrid Bredholt (2014). Scalable and Fluid Sprinklers. In Hastrup, Kirsten & Rubow, Cecilie (Ed.), Living with Environmental Change: Waterworlds. Routledge. ISSN 9780415746670. p. 130–133. Full text in Research Archive
• Stensrud, Astrid Bredholt (2014). Seawater to the Mountain Top: The Hydrological Cycle in Chivay, Peru. In Hastrup, Kirsten & Rubow, Cecilie (Ed.), Living with Environmental Change: Waterworlds. Routledge. ISSN 9780415746670. p. 36–39. Full text in Research Archive
• Stensrud, Astrid Bredholt (2013). Globalt klima, lokal vannmangel – hvem betaler prisen? Full text in Research Archive
• Stensrud, Astrid Bredholt (2013). Commodifying Water in Times of Global Warming. NACLA REPORT ON THE AMERICAS. ISSN 1071-4839. 46(1), p. 32–37. Full text in Research Archive
• Stensrud, Astrid Bredholt (2012). Material climate effects and water multiplicity in the Peruvian Andes. Full text in Research Archive
• Stensrud, Astrid Bredholt (2012). (New?) perspectives on animism, personhood and violence in the Andes. Full text in Research Archive
• Stensrud, Astrid Bredholt (2012). Perspectives on violence, personhood and animism in the Andes. Full text in Research Archive
• Stensrud, Astrid Bredholt (2012). Harvesting water: the politics of climate change in Peru. Full text in Research Archive
• Stensrud, Astrid Bredholt (2012). Calling and collecting rain: knowledge, technologies, and time-space in the mountains. Full text in Research Archive
• Stensrud, Astrid Bredholt & Andersen, Astrid Oberborbeck (2012). "A new water culture? Technologies and terminologies of water and climate change in Peru. Full text in Research Archive
• Stensrud, Astrid Bredholt (2012). Water flow, hydrometric practices and response-abilities. Full text in Research Archive
• Stensrud, Astrid Bredholt (2012). Local responses to climate change: Sowing and harvesting water in the Peruvian Andes. Full text in Research Archive
• Stensrud, Astrid Bredholt (2012). Making rain: intersecting knowledge, creativity and mimesis. Full text in Research Archive
• Stensrud, Astrid Bredholt (2011). Water is life - water has life: relating to nonhuman beings and things in the politics of water and climate. Full text in Research Archive
• Stensrud, Astrid Bredholt (2011). La situación actual del agua y los cambios climáticos en Caylloma. Full text in Research Archive
• Stensrud, Astrid Bredholt (2010). Kosmologi og kapitalisme i Andes. Jordens Folk. ISSN 0021-7484. p. 6–13. Full text in Research Archive
• Stensrud, Astrid Bredholt (2009). Negociando la vida y dando poder a los deseos: los indígenas urbanos en Qoyllur Rit'i. Full text in Research Archive
• Stensrud, Astrid Bredholt (2009). Mais og miniatyrer: forhandling av verdier i Andes. Full text in Research Archive
• Stensrud, Astrid Bredholt (2009). Spiritual and moral objects? The Cross, maize and money in Cusco. Full text in Research Archive
• Stensrud, Astrid Bredholt (2008). Todo en la vida se paga: Negotiating life in the margins of Neoliberalism in the city of Cusco. Full text in Research Archive
• Stensrud, Astrid Bredholt (2008). Vendiendo llamadas en la calle: Observación participativa e interpretación de un caso empírico de Cusco. Full text in Research Archive
• Stensrud, Astrid Bredholt (2008). The doing of identity through economic and ritual activities in Cusco, Peru. Full text in Research Archive
• Stensrud, Astrid Bredholt (2008). Negotiating life through economic and ritual activities. Full text in Research Archive
• Stensrud, Astrid Bredholt (2008). "Alt i livet må betales": Moralsk gjeld, moder jord og forhandling av livet i en skjønnhetssalong i Cusco. Full text in Research Archive
• Stensrud, Astrid Bredholt (2007). To feltarbeid i Peru: fra felleskjøkken til frisørsalong. Full text in Research Archive
• Stensrud, Astrid Bredholt (2006). “Desafiando los discursos de género: El comedor popular como punto de encuentro entre mujeres y estado en Perú”. Full text in Research Archive
• Stensrud, Astrid Bredholt (2006). "Rituelle redskaper og kroppsliggjøring av identitet i et hellig andisk landskap". Full text in Research Archive
• Stensrud, Astrid Bredholt (2004). CHUÑO, CUY og CHICHA : om resiprositet og klassifisering i Andes. In Lillebø, Kjersti; Kennedy, Audhild Lindheim; Smørvik, Kjersti Hilden; Stensrud, Astrid Bredholt & Linderud, Hilde Tanggaard (Ed.), Betwixt & Between 2004. Universitetet i Oslo. ISSN 9788290835083. p. 99–105. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Forord Marianne E. Lien Gratulerer! Nok en gang er den kommet oss i hende, denne lille boken som på nesten forunderlig vis dukker opp mot slutten av våren, år etter år, og uten at vi fast ansatte har løftet en finger. . . Hvordan går det til? Har studentene virkelig tid til dette i disse "reformerte" ulvetider? Det har de antagelig ikke, men de gjør det likevel, og bidrar på denne måten til å skape et forum for å dele erfaringer, faglige refleksjoner og innspill med en bredere krets. Antropologistudentenes årbok er et av de beste eksempler på at hovedfags- og masterstudenter i sosialantropologi er oppegående, engasjerte og velartikulerte formidlere, og, ikke minst, at de velger å skrive tekster som ikke har annet mål enn å bære fram et synspunkt, en erfaring, noen tanker. Bidrag i årboka gir ingen studiepoeng, men gir et godt grunnlag for å utøve en bevisst rolle som intellektuelle i samfunnsmessig debatt og i faglige fora. Det lover godt for fagets framtid! Også i år kommer bidragene fra flere universiteter, tre fra Bergen, fire fra Tromsø og de øvrige tolv fra Oslo. Tematisk spenner de som vanlig vidt, men lesere som har en interesse for mat, helse, kjønn og film har spesielt mye å glede seg over i år. Regionalt er det i denne utgaven uvanlig mange bidrag fra det afrikanske og det sør- og nordamerikanske kontinent, og tilsvarende taust fra Asia og stillehavsregionen. Dette reflekterer antagelig bare tilfeldige svingninger, og svekker ikke hovedinntrykket av at studentene stadig reiser langt, og til svært ulike steder. Ikke minst er det verdt å merke seg at urbanitet nå også studeres i afrikanske storbyer, og at helsesystemer studeres - ikke bare i Norge – men for eksempel i Chile. Flere bidrag tar også opp mer generelle problemstillinger som for eksempel vilkårene for antropologiske feltarbeid i det nye masterstudiet, og antropologistudenters påståtte vegring mot å profilere sin kompetanse i et kommersielt arbeidsmarked. Årets årbok bærer preg av en viktig overgang: den veletablerte tittelen Hovedfagstudentenes Årbok har i denne utgaven, som er den 14. i rekken, blitt erstattet av den langt mer “antropologiske” tittelen Betwixt and Between, med referanse til Victor Turners berømte studie av liminalitet og overgangsritualer fra 1970. Dette passer fint til en utgave som ikke bare omfatter bidrag fra hovedfagsstudenter, men også har rukket å inkludere masterstudenter, etter at de første kullene med masterstudenter ble tatt opp høsten 2003. Det er lovende, og bærer bud om at dette utmerkede tiltak kan overleve overgangen til masterstudiet, og at Betwixt and Between dermed kan videreføre Hovedfagstudentenes Årboks stolte tradisjon i mange, mange år framover. Lykke til! "SAVE YOUR DARLINGS" Årbokredaksjonen Bidragene har strømmet inn i år og vi er meget fornøyd med årets ekstra tykke bok. Årboka er et forum for høyeregradsstudenter til å utfolde seg, uten å måtte forholde seg til oppgaveskrivingens begrensninger. Mange har nok hørt uttrykket "kill your darlings"i den forbindelse, der plass begrenser spennende empiri og betraktninger. "Darlingene" kan derimot blomstre i årboka, og du får delt dem med andre! I år har årboka et nytt og velklingende navn, Betwixt and Between, som gjenspeiler endringene i overgangen fra hovedfag til master. Som høyeregradsstudent kan man dessuten få en opplevelse av å være i en slags liminal fase hvor man både er student og forsker - midt i mellom og begge deler samtidig. Mange av årboktekstene speiler også antropologens mellomposisjon i feltet hvor vi innehar flere og gjerne motstridende roller, både som deltagere og utenforstående. For første gang harårboka med bidrag fra masterstudentene og vi håper denne utgaven av Betwixt and Between vil skape fellesskap blant studentene, og kontinuitet i tradisjonen med studentutgivelser framover. Takk til skribentene, deltakerne i navnekonkurransen og Hanne Rekkebo for navnekonkurransens vin- nerbidrag! Takk til Inger-Lise Schwab og Christopher Gambert for engelsk språkvask, Louis Kennedy for setting og språkvask, Monica Gebhardt for ny forsidedesign og Marianne Lien for flott forord. Til slutt takker vi de sosialantropologiske instituttene i Oslo, Tromsø og Bergen, samt Kulturstyret ved UiO for tidenes beste økonomiske støtte. Nå er høsten her med regn og mørke, så sett deg i godstolen med en kopp varm kakao og årboka! God lesning! Oslo, juli 2004

• Stensrud, Astrid Bredholt (2011). 'Todo en la vida se paga': Negotiating life in Cusco, Peru. Universitetet i Oslo. Full text in Research Archive

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