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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Siden apartheidpolitikkens fall i 1994, har Sør-Afrika blitt tvunget ut i en nasjonsbyggingsprosess hvor forsoning og grensekryssing har vært sentrale elementer. Denne prosessen har utvilsomt involvert en reformering av ...

Climate change and its possible detrimental effects are among the most widely debated issues of our time. Deforestation and forest degradation may account for nearly 20% of the global emissions. Reducing Emissions from ...

First of all, this thesis is a contribution to Norwegian ethnography. It provides a description and analysis of the family histories, everyday rhythms and activities of a limited number of Norwegian women with different ...

Sammendrag Basert på feltarbeid i London og Somaliland undersøker oppgaven hvordan et liv i diaspora påvirker (re)produksjon av somalisk identitet og kultur. Med utgangspunkt i somaliere ...