After being founded as an organisation for the protection of political prisoners in 1961, Amnesty International moved into the fight against torture after the Greek Coup of 1967. This change was gradual, and part of the ...

This thesis explores how Gerd Tinglums photographic series Usynliggjorte, utryddete og truede arter (Invisible, extinct and endangered species) from 1991 engages with the historical, present and potential future relationship ...

A typical call in contemporary self-help literature is to “look away from screens and enter the physical world.” Drawing on an empirical analysis of 15 self-help books, this chapter explores advice to reconnect with social ...

The repercussions of CO2 emissions on the environment and the climate have caused worry among individual scientists since the 1930s. Not until the late 1960s did international organizations express similar concern for the ...

In the wake of the trade in ancient materials, several ethical and political issues arise that merit concern: The decimation of the cultural heritage of war-torn countries, proliferation of corruption, ideological connotations ...

This article deals with the history of late hunter-gatherer and early agricultural societies in Scandinavia through the Norwegian case. Here, the Neolithic is not perceived as a slow but steady introduction and consolidation ...

This study explores the use of upland resources on the Høg-Jæren Plateau (360 m asl) in southwestern Norway during the last 6500 years. Human activities and land-use variations were reconstructed using a compilation of ...

Denne oppgaven tar for seg den norske polfareren Roald Amundsens reise til Japan, sommeren 1927. Dette gjøres gjennom to spørsmål. Det første spørsmålet, «Hva var det Amundsen opplevde i Japan?», besvarer jeg hovedsakelig ...

Art and antiquities have been identified as assets for terrorist financing and money laundering, and their trade is, therefore, being targeted for regulation. However, there is little data on cultural property trading and ...

The main focus on this thesis is how the streamlining of society went hand in hand with the alcohol policy in Norway during the interwar period. The framework for this thesis has been a mixture of cultural history and the ...

This chapter analyses open-source evidence to advance understanding of the trafficking of cultural goods in South Asia. It focuses on Afghanistan; India, including India-administered Jammu and Kashmir; Pakistan, including ...

The goal of this thesis is to question and challenge the current way in which the architectural history of the early 20th century is written in Norway by looking for a presence of Fascist Italian architecture in the ...

Iconoclasm has existed around the world for thousands of years. This chapter traces the etymology and genealogy of religious iconoclasm, then examines why and how ideological programmes are advanced through destruction of ...

I denne artikkelen har vi en talerfokusert tilnærming til det å lære språk i voksen alder. Målet vårt er å svare på en oppfordring fra flere forskere om at taleres egne erfaringer med og perspektiver på språkinnlæring bør ...

Archaeology and cultural heritage has had minor impact on immigrant communities in Norway. Immigrant communities have up to the present had minor impact on archaeology and heritage narratives. In practical terms, students ...

Indigenous languages of Mexico have largely been excluded from formal education spaces. This ethnographic action research study highlights a context where Diidxazá/ Isthmus Zapotec, an Indigenous language of Oaxaca, has ...

Along the western Norwegian coast, in the northwestern region of the Nordic Late Neolithic and Bronze Age (2350-500 BCE) there is cultural homogeneity but variable expressions of political hierarchy. Although new ideological ...

Given the available space, I will focus on the Nordic Bronze Age (BA). Rich data, evolving methods, and conceptual rejuvenation of continental perspectives, politics, conflict and society, and an appreciation of the diversity ...

this paper, we test the hypothesis that possessive pronouns have the same basic structure containing the genitive pronoun, plus, in some languages, some extra structure, as suggested by Caha (2009). In order to unravel the ...

Malaysia’s international image boasts harmonious multiculturalism amongst Malay, Chinese, Indian and Indigenous ethnolinguistic groups, alluring tourists and investors worldwide. Campaigns such as Malaysia, Truly Asia ...

Transmission views of testimony hold that a speaker's knowledge or justification can become the audience's knowledge or justification. We argue that transmission views are incompatible with the hypothesis that one's epistemic ...

The aim of the present paper is to present a new development in language anxiety research, namely the distinction between majority language anxiety and heritage language anxiety. While the former can be particularly acute ...

This article brings the critical turn in linguistics—with its current scepticism towards essentialised languages and bias for languaging—under critical evaluation. It does so by bringing it face-to-face with the local-knowledge ...

Review of "T. Douglas Price: Ancient Scandinavia. An Archaeological History from the First Humans to the Vikings" and more general discussion of curriculum in archaeological training

Throughout my career, I’ve had several involuntary engagements with looting, collectors and the academics who are involved in supporting these activities. The Norwegian Schøyen case is an illuminating and internationally ...

David Hunter has recently argued (in this journal) that Donald Davidson and Elizabeth Anscombe were in basic agreement about practical knowledge. In this reply, it is my contention that Hunter’s fascinating claim may not ...

Norway’s ratification of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages and the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities has had a profound impact on Norwegian minority language policies. ...

Background: eHealth programs may be better understood by breaking down the components of one particular program and discussing its potential for interactivity and tailoring in regard to concepts from face-to-face counseling. ...

Aims and objectives: This study examines the language anxiety that occurs in immigrants’ daily lives when speaking the heritage language and the majority language, both in their host country and during visits to their home ...

This paper examines the motivations behind Malaysia’s national language policy in theoretical terms to allow the Malaysian narrative to be positioned in an international context. To do this, it applies Spolsky’s (2004) ...

Cappelen and Dever have recently defended the view that indexicals are not essential: They do not signify anything philosophically deep and we do not need indexicals for any important philosophical work. This paper contests ...

The postmodern and critical movements in language policy, with their redefinition of governmentality and attention to power structures, call for localised perspectives on language arrangements. In this way, a polity, in ...

Recently, non- and paraverbal properties of literary texts at the level of documentary inscription (i.e. materiality), seen individually or as aspects of a so-called ‘material text’, that is, the union of materiality and ...

A major challenge facing South Africa is that of reconstructing a meaningful and inclusive notion of citizenship in the aftermath of its apartheid past and in the face of narratives of divisiveness that reach back from ...

The aim of this paper is to contribute to the sociolinguistic discussion about the need for a unified sociological theory, by applying realist social theory (RST) (Carter and Sealey, this volume) to the total linguistic ...

In this paper, we present a study of tonal patterns of Accentual Phrases (APs) in spontaneous speech produced by ten Second Language (L2) speakers of Norwegian. The speakers are multilingual, and their dominant language ...

Language policies are born amidst the complex interplay of social, cultural, religious and political forces. With this in mind, Bernard Spolsky theorises that the language policy of any independent nation is driven, at its ...

The study of the linguistic landscape has provided a new dimension to theories and issues related to multilingualism, including language policy. In this growing field of inquiry, however, not enough attention has been given ...

There are certain differences between Turkish as spoken in the Netherlands (NL-Turkish) and Turkish as spoken in Turkey (TR-Turkish). These differences concern issues of linguistic variation and change in immigrant communities ...

Globalization has brought English language to all corners of the globe. English is the pervasive language of international connectivity and even penetrates borders to assume roles within other language communities. Iceland, ...

This study provides evidence that the role of the Obligatory Contour Principle (OCP) in substrate languages is reflected in prosodic systems of contact varieties of French. We have compared two contact varieties: Central ...

"It is not a contingent fact that I cannot bring it about, just like that, that I believe something . . . Why is this? One reason is connected with the characteristic of beliefs that they aim at the truth." (Williams ...

The dissertation collects six essays in the philosophy of perception and perception of mind. The first essay defends the basic claim that perceptual experiences have representational content against Charles Travis’s recent, ...

«Jeg har nærmest en aversjon mot nasjonal rosemaling», uttalte komponisten Finn Mortensen. Han sto i 1950-årene i spissen for den modernistiske kretsen av komponister og musikere som stilte seg kritiske til den nasjonalt ...

What makes funk sound as funk? How is the interplay of musical events and the experience of being in funk? And why is the Western understanding of funk as it is? This study in the classic funk grooves of James Brown and ...

Poetikk er læren om diktekunstens vesen, former og virkemidler. Denne avhandlingen utreder de litterære fremtredelsesformene og virkemidlene i Camilla Wergelands dagbok. Dagboken er vår kilde til kjærlighetsfortellingen ...

Da det nyopprettede Statens Filmdirektorat, under norske nazisters ledelse, startet produkusjonen av en egen norsk filmrevy i august 1941, var denne tiltenkt en viktig plass innenfor Nasjonal Samlings propagandaapparat. ...

Codeswitching is briefly defined as the use of two or more languages, dialects, etc. within the same flow of discourse. This study describes and analyses a data set of Turkish/Norwegian codeswitching in an immigrant language ...

Er det mulig å unngå stereotypiene av det etniske? Og hva kan vi eventuelt bruke dem til? Avhandlingen Hvite løgner/sorte myter det etniske på modernitetens scene tar for seg stereotypier av det etniske i moderne teater ...

Heimskringla, i Norge bedre kjent som Snorres kongesagaer , er overlevert gjennom flere håndskrifter fra middelalderen. Det viktigste av disse ble kalt Kringla. Det in var skrevet på Island midt på 1200-tallet og inneholdt ...

Et ekteskapsløfte er et første skritt mot et følelsesmessig og økonomisk fellesskap som ideelt sett skal vare livet ut. Men i tidsrommet fra et løfte blir utvekslet til bryllup blir feiret vil det alltid være risiko for ...