Books
Det gamle skysstellet. Reiseliv i Noreg frå mellomalderen til førre hundreåret. Det Norske Samlaget, 1986.
Det nære og det fremmede. Vindu mot fransk etnologi (ed.). Novus, 1993.
Fra Hidra til nordsjøbankene. Et nærbilde av moderne kystfiskere i tradisjonelle fiskerier. Novus, 1996.
Jeg fant, jeg fant. Om samling av kunst, antikviteter og snurrepiperier. Aschehoug,1997.
Mellom tradisjon og modernisering. Kapitler av 1800-tallets samferdselshistorie. Novus, 1998.
Norge anno 1900. Kulturhistoriske glimt fra et århundreskifte (ed.). Pax, 1999
Norden og Europa. Fagtradisjoner i nordisk etnologi og folkloristikk.Novus, 2000 (ed. with Bente G. Alver)
Museer i fortid og nåtid. Essays i museumskunnskap. Novus, 2003 (ed. with Arne Bugge Amundsen og Margrethe C. M. Stang)
Samling og museum. Kapitler av museenes historie, praksis og ideologi. Novus 2010 (ed. with Arne Bugge Amundsen)
Materiell kultur & Kulturens materialitet. Novus 2011 (ed. with Saphinaz-Amal Naguib)
Etnologi og folkloristikk. En fagkritisk biografi om norsk kulturhistorie. Novus, 2013 (ed. with Anne Eriksen)
Hans Normann Dahl. Fortelleren. (ed.) Pax, 2017
Kystfisker. Med sjarken Havsund fra Agder til Troms. Novus 2020.
Articles
Things With a History – and Other Possessions. Some Notes on Public and Private Aspects of Possession among Elderly People. Ethnologia Scandinavica 1998.
On Collecting as Play, Creativity and Aesthetic Practice. Etnofoor. Antropologisch Tijdschrift 1998.
Material Culture and Gender. Seen through the Practice of Collecting. I: Männlich. Weiblich. Zur Bedeutung der Kategorie Geschlecht in der Kultur. Berlin: Waxmann Münster, New York, München, 1999.
Consuming Passion & Erudite Consumption: Approaches to a Consumption Phenomenon. I: An Adventurer in European Ethnology.Jyväskylä: Atena 2001.
The Emerging Museums of Europe. Ethnologia Europaea 2003.
Norvège. L'auberge du bon secours. I: L'hospitalité. Accueil de l'étranger dans l'histoire et les cultures. Paris: Bayard 2004.
An Entangled Object. The Picture Postcard as Souvenir and Collectible, Exchange and Ritual Communication. Cultural Analysis, 2005.
Folk Art and Politics in Inter-War Europe: An Early Debate on Applied Ethnology. Folk Life, 2007.
Travelling – Between Materiality and Mental Constructs. ... In: Northbound. Travels, Encounters and Constructions 1700–1830. Aarhus Universitetsforlag, 2007.
From a Haven for Travellers to a Boarding House for Tourists. The Vicarage in the History of Travelling and Hospitality in Norway. I: The Discovery of Nineteenth-Century Scandinavia. Norvik Press, 2008.
The Troubled Past of European Ethnology. Ethnologia Europaea 38:1, 2008.
From CIAP to SIEF. Visions for a Discipline or Power Struggle? In: Everyday Culture in Europe. Approaches and Methodologies, Aldershot, Ashgate 2008.
From Rivals to Partners on the Inter-War European Scene. Sigurd Erixon, Georges Henri Rivière and the International Debate on European Ethnology in the 1930s. Arv, 2008.
Une Alliance fragile. Sigurd Erixon, Georges Henri Rivière et l'ethnologie européenne d'avant-guerre. Ethnologie Française 4, 2008.
An internationalist among Norwegian Folklorists. A Biographical Sketch of Reidar Th. Christiansen (1886–1971). Arv, 2012.
Objets de collection et modes de collectionner. A propos de la sexualisation des objets. In: Les objets ont-ils un genre? ... Paris: Armand Colin 2012.
The Institutionalization of Folklore. I: A Companion to Folklore. Boston: Wiley Blackwell, 2012.
The road and the materiality of the journey. In: Views. Norway seen from the road 1733–2020. Oslo: Forlaget Press.
Sigurd Erixon on the Post-War International Scene. International Activities, European Ethnology and CIAP from 1945 to the mid 1950s. Arv, 2013.
Popular Culture and International Cooperation in the 1930s. In: Herren, Madeleine (ed.) Networking in the International System. Global Histories on International Organizations. Springer Verlag, 2014.
When the Folklorists Won the Battle but lost the War. The Cumbersome (Re-)Birth of SIEF in 1964. Cultural Analysis, 2015.
Sigurd Erixon – "The Heavy Artillery" from Sweden. CIAP, SIEF and European Ethnology from the Mid 1950s to 1964. Nordic Yearbook of Folklore 2015.
A Remarkable Congress and a Popular General Secretary: CIAP/SIEF, Arnhem 1955 and Jorge Dias. Etnográfica 2015.
Sigurd Erixon, European Ethnology and Ethnologia Europe 1964-1968. Arv. Nordic Yearbook of Folklore 2016.
Between Politics of Memory and Politics of Art. The Making of a New National Museum in France. In Früh, Anja (ed.): Museen als Orte geschichtspolitischer Verhandlungen. Museen im Wandel. Schwabe Verlag 2017.