Bilde av Heneise, Michael T.
Bilde av Heneise, Michael T.
Department of Archaeology, History, Religious Studies and Theology michael.t.heneise@uit.no +4777623366 You can find me here

Michael T. Heneise


Associate Professor

Job description

Michael T. Heneise is associate professor of religious studies at UiT The Arctic University of Norway. He has conducted anthropological research in the South American Andes, and in the Indian Himalayas. His doctoral research at the University of Edinburgh explored the relationship between dreams and agency among the Nagas in the Indo-Myanmar highlands. Prior to Edinburgh he studied anthropology in Ecuador at the Latin American School of Social Sciences (FLACSO). He co-founded the Highland Institute in India, and is co-editor of the journals Himalaya and Highlander.


  • Amrit Virk, Rebecca King, Michael Timothy Heneise, Lanuakum Aier, Catriona Child, Julia Brown et al.:
    How ready is the health care system in Northeast India for surgical delivery? A mixed-methods study on surgical capacity and need
    PLOS ONE 2024 DOI
  • Jelle J.P. Wouters, Michael T. Heneise :
    Highland Asia as a World Region: An Introduction
    Routledge 2023 ARKIV / DOI
  • Michael T. Heneise :
    Healing [in Northeast India]
    Routledge 2022
  • Michael T. Heneise :
    Dreams [in Northeast India]
    Routledge 2022
  • Michael T. Heneise :
    Konyak Cosmopolitics: Feasting Kings, Fasting Prophets, and the State
    Oxford University Press 2022
  • Michael Heneise :
    Contextualising Magic Realism in Contemporary Naga Fiction
    Littcrit 2018
  • Michael T. Heneise :
    The Naga tiger-man and the modern assemblage of a myth
    Routledge 2017
  • Jelle J. P. Wouters, Michael Heneise :
    Introduction to Nagas in the 21st century
    The South Asianist 06. May 2017
  • Michael Heneise :
    Making dreams, making relations: dreaming in Angami Naga society
    The South Asianist 06. May 2017
  • Michael T. Heneise :
    Insurgency, citizenship, and entitlements amongst Indian migrant labourers in Nagaland
    Routledge 2017
  • Michael T. Heneise :
    Uncertain labour: migrant workers in Karbi Anglong, Assam
    Unfamiliar: An Anthropological Journal 2012 DOI
  • Jelle J. P. Wouters, Michael T. Heneise :
    Routledge Handbook of Highland Asia
    Routledge 2023
  • Michael Heneise :
    Agency and Knowledge in Northeast India: The Life and Landscapes of Dreams
    Routledge 2018
  • Jelle J.P. Wouters, Michael T. Heneise :
    Nagas in the 21st Century
    2017
  • Michael Heneise :
    Passing Things On: Ancestors and Genealogies in Northeast India
    2014
  • Michael Timothy Heneise :
    Religion and Senses of Place
    Indigenous Religious Traditions 21. December 2023 DOI
  • Michael Timothy Heneise, Jeevan R. Sharma :
    Special Issue - Writing with Care: Ethnographies from the Margins of Tibet and the Himalayas
    Himalaya 2023 DOI
  • Jeevan R. Sharma, Michael Timothy Heneise :
    Editorial - HIMALAYA Volume 42, Issue 1
    Himalaya 2023 DOI
  • Michael Timothy Heneise, Jeevan R. Sharma :
    Editorial - HIMALAYA Volume 43, Issue 1
    Himalaya 2023 DOI
  • Jeevan R. Sharma, Michael Timothy Heneise :
    Editorial - HIMALAYA Volume 42, Issue 2
    Himalaya 2023 DOI
  • Jeevan Sharma, Michael Timothy Heneise :
    Editorial
    Himalaya 2023 DOI
  • Jeevan R. Sharma, Michael Timothy Heneise :
    Editorial
    Himalaya 2023 DOI
  • Jeevan R. Sharma, Michael T. Heneise :
    Editorial - HIMALAYA Volume 41, Issue 2
    Himalaya 2022 DOI
  • Jeevan R. Sharma, Michael T. Heneise :
    Editorial - HIMALAYA Volume 41, Issue 1
    Himalaya 2022 DOI
  • Jeevan R. Sharma, Michael T. Heneise :
    Editorial - HIMALAYA Volume 40, Issue 2
    Himalaya 2021 DOI
  • Michael T. Heneise :
    Dreams and Dreaming among the Angami Naga
    Brill Academic Publishers 2021
  • Michael T. Heneise :
    Christianity, Millenarianism, and Identity among the Konyak Naga
    Brill Academic Publishers 2021
  • Jelle J.P. Wouters, Michael T. Heneise :
    Nagas in the 21st Century
    2017
  • Michael T. Heneise, Edward Moon-Little :
    Introduction to Passing Things On: Ancestors and Genealogies in Northeast India
    2014
  • Michael T. Heneise, Heid Maria Jerstad :
    Why the open access movement needs South Asian scholars
    The South Asianist 2013
  • Michael T. Heneise, Heid Maria Jerstad :
    Marginalities and Aspirations in South Asia
    The South Asianist 2012

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    Research interests

    Heneise's main research interests include indigenous religion, ecological knowledge, ritual healing, medical pluralism, dreams, and oral epics in the Himalayas. He is also interested in the notion of Highland Asia as a new world region, and his co-edited book (with Jelle JP Wouters) The Routledge Handbook of Highland Asia (2022), is the first comprehensive and critical overview of the ethnographic and anthropological work in Highland Asia over the past half a century. The 32 chapter handbook presents Highland Asia as a world region that cuts across the traditional divides inherited from colonial and Cold War area divisions - the Indian subcontinent / South Asia, Southeast Asia, China / East Asia, and Central Asia. Heneise is also completing a book with indigenous scholar Dharamsing Teron documenting the 35-hour long Kecharhe Alun oral epic in Karbi Anglong, Northeast India. The first effort of its kind to fully record and document, translate, and publish the Kecharhe Alun, the project has involved a community of indigenous researchers in Assam, and led to renewed interest in the region in the oral epic genre. 

    Teaching

    As a recent arrival in Norway, Heneise mainly teaches in English, and often introduces his own anthropological work in the Himalayas in his classes. The rich cultures of the region, which is also the seat of many of the world's great religious traditions, is undergoing great transformations - ecological, political, economic, cultural - and is thus a critical region to study. 



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