Knut Rio is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Bergen. His research has been concerned with Melanesian anthropology and such topics as gift exchange, hierarchy and egalitarianism, the material and the social, the colonial history of the Pacific as well as issues to do with witchcraft, divination and sacrifice. He is curator for the ethnographic collections at the University Museum of Bergen and has been involved in many exhibitions, most recently on Greenland. He has published The Power of Perspective: Social Ontology and Agency on Ambrym Island, Vanuatu (2007), Hierarchy: Persistence and transformation in social formations (co-edited with Olaf Smedal, 2009), Made in Oceania: Social Movements, Cultural Heritage and the State in the Pacific (co-edited with Edvard Hviding 2011), The Arts of Government: Crime, Christianity and Policing in Melanesia (co-edited with Andrew Lattas 2011), and Towards an Anthropology of Wealth (co-edited with Theodoros Rakopoulos, 2019).
