This thesis is based on a six months of fieldwork in Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Islam in Bosnia and Herzegovina has over 500 years of history and within this history there has been a process of modernisation together ...

Holistisk Forbund og Den usynlige religionen Indre og ytre autoritet i spennet mellom individualisme, relativisme og helhetstenkning Masteroppgave av Øyvind Solum, SAI, UiO, november 2012. Holistisk Forbund er et ...

Children displaying early behavior problems are at risk of experiencing problems in education system and often face poor life chances later in life. As with other mental health problems, there is a social gradient in child ...

This thesis explores the actual impact of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on the reconciliation process in Bosnia-Herzegovina and analyses possible reasons for this impact. It is a ...

Denne avhandlingen er basert på et seks måneders antropologisk feltarbeid blant fotballspillende, unge menn i Soweto i Sør-Afrika. Oppgaven tar sikte på å vise hvordan fotball i denne delen av Johannesburg har en egen og ...

I have conducted seven months of fieldwork among participants and employees at Nansen Center for Peace and Dialogue, in Lillehammer, Norway, and have taken part in seminars where dialogue is significant as concept and ...

During recent decades, Jeffrey C. Alexander has been occupied with studying social life from a cultural perspective, developing a cultural sociology concerned with the shaping or constitutive impact of cultural formations ...

This thesis is concerned with meaning and manhood on San Cristobal, an island in the Galapagos archipelago. It is argued that there is a dialectics between the production of meaning and the cultural construction of male ...

At antallet demokratier i verden har økt, er velkjent (Huntington 1991; Ged- des 1999). Mindre kjent er det at stadig flere av de nye demokratiene er presidentstyrer. Samtidig som nye demokratier ofte er presidentstyrer, ...

Abstract The objective of this thesis is to present an interpretive account of how knowledge influences health seeking behaviour related to pregnancy, delivery, postpartum and family planning and how such knowledge affects ...