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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2010)
Why do certain landscapes become contested sites for claims about identity? We approach landscapes as assemblages of human and non-human elements that reach beyond the confines of their immediate physical and temporal ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2014)
This article is an historical investigation of the term non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and its acronym NSAIDs. Drug names and categories tend to be taken at face value in everyday practice, as natural categories ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
On the first Saturday of every month at midnight, the Zulu Zionist congregation I worked with would climb a mountaintop in their heavily polluted urban township in Durban, South Africa in search of physical and spiritual ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2013)
Based on extensive empirical ethnographic fieldwork in northern Norway, the article examines social or cultural resilience and life quality in an island, fishing-based community. It is argued that resilience and life quality ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
For the Ifugao of Northern Luzon, the Philippines, life, health and well-being depend on the containment of the life force called lennawa within the body. The life sustaining lennawa-body relation is, however, inherently ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)
This article discusses the theoretical potential of air, winds, and atmosphere as they place ux, transience, and motion at the center of the human predicament. Based on ethnographic eldwork conducted among urban Zulu ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2014)
In this article my primary aim is to argue for an ontological and phenomenological approach to studying healing rituals within the African Independent Churches in South Africa. Through ethnographic evidence I will argue ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
A number of anthropology’s most emblematic innovations have caught on elsewhere. Yet anthropologists seem almost distressed by the success of concepts like “culture” and “ethnicity” and too readily dispose of them in the ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)
Examination of the distribution of climate vulnerability, water resources, and economic opportunities in a Peruvian watershed suggests that, rather than the concept of adaptation, a focus on political agency is important ...