Browsing Sosialantropologisk institutt by Title
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Cancer Care in Precarious Places. An Ethnographic Study of Health Workers' Experiences With Childhood Cancer in a Paediatric Oncology Ward in Kumasi, GhanaRestricted Access (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)Abstract In spite of the the disproportionate occurrence of cancers between the wealthier and poorer nations in the world, modern literature and scientific research have rather unproblematic described cancer as a disease ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2003)Med utgangspunkt i en SOS-barneby i Nord-Italia, har jeg analysert det sosiale nettverket til barnebybarna som bor der. Jeg har vist hvordan ulike aktører innenfor barnas nettverk kan være med å gi en opplevelse av trygghet ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2007)I have conducted fieldwork in San Antonio Aguas Calientes, an Indian town (pueblo indígena) in the central highlands of Guatemala. My focus of research has been religious diversity and how different concepts and ideas of ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2000)This work is based on a field study in Auroville, a multinational and intentional community in south India, inaugurated in 1968. The community's intentions are based on 'The Dream', of 1954, by a spiritual master called ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2003)The object of this study is to examine the reproduction and change of moral practices in Mexico. Fieldwork has been conducted in a half rural/half urban town in the state of Jalisco. I am concerned with how the moralities ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2002)In this thesis I study the global phenomenon of environmentalism from the point of view of a local NGO. I base my study on long-term fieldwork done with an environmental organisation in Quito, Ecuador. My aim is a two-fold ...
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Children of Satan, mothers of the barren land : an analysis of women and child witchcraft in a Malawian villageRestricted Access (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)Children confessing to be taught witchcraft is reported to be an increasing problem in Malawi in East Africa. This thesis analyses mothers’ experiences of the phenomenon in a rural village in the central region of the ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2009)This thesis has a focus on consumption in Shanghai. I have chosen to focus on the generation that has grown up in the post-Mao era, who is a generation that has lived through vast economic and social change, and are living ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2008)Abstract This thesis is based on a six months fieldwork on the Chinese community in Penang, a small island-state on the west coast of Malaysia. My intention is to shed light on the connection between Chinese Malaysian ...
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Choreographing the Postcolonial Field: Hip-hop and Identity Politics in the Cape FlatsRestricted Access (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
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Christiania og Møtet Mellom Tre Rettsoppfatninger : En Etnografisk Studie av Subkultur og Gatekultur, og deres Møte med Politi og MyndigheterRestricted Access (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)Christiania, denne mytiske fristaden i København. Hva er det egentlig? Så mangt skulle det vise seg. I denne oppgaven skriver jeg om hva som skjer i skjæringspunktet mellom tre rettsoppfatninger – politi og myndigheter, ...
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(Chapter / Bokkapittel / SubmittedVersion, 2016)I will open this chapter with closures and close it with what I hope will become an opening. The closures I think of here are two. One is created by the alleged comparative dead end created by the ontological turn’s focus ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion, 2004)
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2007)Denne oppgaven er basert på et syv måneder langt feltarbeid i Citykirken. Citykirken tilhører Norges største frimenighet, Oslo Kristne Senter (OKS), som har hovedsete på Kjeller. De er en nyetablert menighet som holder ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion, 2001)
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion, 2001)
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)Abstract Sometimes attempts to reduce volatility have the opposite effect. A naturally flexible system which is regimented and disciplined to a fixed shape loses its ability to adjust to shifting circumstances. This is ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)This article examines whether the use of climate change as a ‘spice’ in order to attract donor funding may instead exacerbate existing environmental problems. The World Bank’s latest adaptation project in coastal Bangladesh ...