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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
In 2010, a proposal to build the ‘Carmichael Coal Mine and Rail Project’ in the Galilee Basin in Queensland Australia, was submitted by the Indian mining company Adani Mining Pty Ltd. This thesis is a study of how this ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
Abstract Indigenous Australians have been living as a dispossessed, colonized people in their own homeland for well over two centuries. 2017 marks the year of the 50th anniversary of the 1967 citizenship referendum, after ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
This chapter explores an ongoing process of establishing local and indigenous user rights in Finnmark, Northern Norway. Our concern is the extent to which this ongoing process allows for what we tentatively refer to as ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Sorcery and Christianity have been in an intimate and seemingly opposing relationship on the small Ahamb Island in Vanuatu for more than a century. While sorcery is seen as the most potent threat to the good life as it ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
Aldersundersøkelsen har vært mye omtalt og som kjent fått mye kritikk siden den ble tatt i bruk i 2013. Stemmene til de mindreårige asylsøkerne har manglet i denne debatten, til tross for at det er dem som må gjennom den ...
Performing identity: The Europe-bound Bidun crossing borders for better or for worse Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
(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 ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
The thesis concerns the social impact of the development of a new capital city in the state of Andhra Pradesh in India
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
The area of inner Finnmark is often presented as a core Sami area. Many of the cultural markers that are considered and recognised as Sami, are based on traits from these areas. Based on fieldwork done mainly in inner ...
(Book / Bok / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Dagens forskningsbibliotek lever ikke opp til stereotypien av støvete, stille rom med hysjende bibliotekarer. Snarere er bibliotekene ofte i forkant av den teknologiske utviklingen. Tenkningen om deres samfunnsoppdrag ...
Running on Hope - Life as an Eritrean Refugee: An Ethnographic Study of Eritrean Refugees in Mekelle
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
Cancer Care in Precarious Places. An Ethnographic Study of Health Workers' Experiences With Childhood Cancer in a Paediatric Oncology Ward in Kumasi, Ghana Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Since the late 1960s a major port in Australia and an important coal port, Gladstone in central Queensland expanded its capacity from 2010 to 2013 through the dredging of its western harbour. This would make it easier ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
”Å se med ett øye” er en studie av somaliske kvinner i Asker, en kommune like utenfor Oslo. Hovedvekten av feltarbeidet foregikk på Borgen, et lite område med store forskjeller. Her er villaer og blokker, rikdom og fattigdom. ...
(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 / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
I Malawi har nasjonsbygging historisk vært tett knyttet til politikk om moderskap og helse. Basert på feltarbeid i en landsby i det sørøstafrikanske landet, utforsker denne artikkelen hvordan beboeres praksiser og diskurser ...
(Book / Bok / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Suddenly, we seem to live in a time dominated by ‘fake news’, ‘alternative facts’, conspiracy theories, scepticism of scientific research, partial accounts parading as ‘the real truth which has hitherto been concealed ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
Based on an ethnographic fieldwork done at the Dutch “right to die” organisation in the Netherlands, I explore and discuss the Western perception on autonomy, identity, and independency in relation to old age. After about ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Set in the urban-rural continuum of Thessaloniki, this paper explores the grounded social activities of certain groups, committed to building a social economy of distributing food without intermediaries. In the light of ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
This material has been published in Human Nature and Social Life: Perspectives on Extended Sociality, edited by Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme & Kenneth Sillander. This version is free to view and download for personal use only. ...
«We are nomads». Place-making, nomadic heritage and contingency in the Republic of Tuva Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
Doing Development the Right Way: Navigating difference and equality in an FK exchange Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
In this thesis I explore how the Nigerian state is encountered in various places and how it is experienced as an active force in the making and remaking of peoples' habitable worlds. I am concerned with how people come to ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
Utgangspunktet for denne oppgaven er unge voksne som lever med fysisk funksjonshemning og har brukerstyrt personlig assistanse (BPA). Jeg har i løpet av seks måneder vært sammen med flere personer som har denne ordningen ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
This paper seeks to elaborate the dynamics through which food acquires potency in shaping human life and organisation as it takes shape in enacting ritual transformation. I argue that whereas life and various existential ...
"Jeg savnet maten mer enn familien". AFS-elevers møte med mat og måltider på utveksling i Norge. Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
Denne masteroppgaven handler om unge, internasjonale utvekslingselever i Norge og deres forhold til mat under oppholdet. Mat er tvetydig, i følge Elisabeth Fürst, den er både substans og symbol på samme tid. Mat kan derfor ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
Systematically aiming toward a high number of converts, Evangelicalism and Pentecostalism has for a long time been considered to be the world’s largest growing religious movement next to Islam. In 2002 it was registered a ...