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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2007)
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Japanske studentklubber er preget av streng ansiennitetshierarkisk organisasjon, og av krav til hvert enkelt medlem om å gi det svært mye av sin tid og energi til klubben. Denne masteroppgaven tar for seg ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
This dissertation examines how the Ibans in Sungai Utik are using their self-perceived cultural distinctiveness and forest resources to protect their customary land, and develop their community in the absence of formalized ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2004)
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2006)
”Tause skrik ”er en kvalitativ studie av minoritetskvinners smerte og er skrevet for å synliggjøre deres smertefulle sosiale felt. Minoritetskvinner befinner seg ofte i det nederste lag av samfunnet. Deres smerte har ...
The games we play: Performing sport as an act of development Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
This thesis examines the interactions between various actors participating in community development initiatives run by the local level branch of a government organisation dealing with sport and recreation. It examines the ...
(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, 2008)
Vegetarian foodways are relatively universal identifiable in different parts of the world and in different local contexts. However, owing to the particularities of these local contexts, vegetarian foodways are also ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
Until the 1970 s in Brazil, a fishing village by the name of Macaé was untraceable on the map. During that decade, petroleum was discovered in Campos basin located at sea outside of the city. The state-led enterprise ...
(Series / Serietittel, 2001)
Artikkelsamlingen blir utgitt av Oslostudentene og har redaksjonen ved Sosialantropologisk institutt ved Universitetet i Oslo. Artikkelsamlingen blir likevel skrevet av høyeregradsstudenter over hele landet.
Betwixt & ...
(Journal issue / Seriehefte, 2013)
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Heksa og husbonden: Om balinesiske kvinners underordnede rolle og svake stilling av Clea Johnsen<br>
Fortellingen om legen, kampkunstinstruktøren og presten: Om historisk kontekstualisering av felt i ...
Being Offsite: Indian Perceptions of Place and Self in the Outsourcing Industry in Mumbai Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
Being offsite is based on a fieldwork in India over six months among IT professionals in the offshore outsourcing industry in Mumbai. In this industry a distinction between onsite and offsite is created, where onsite ...
(Journal issue / Seriehefte, 2005)
Redaksjonens forord
Siden Årboka ble opprettet i 1987 har den vært en tilnærmet åreviss høstpublikasjon. Den første spiren ble sådd under de såkalte “Finse-seminarene”, som var et sosialt og faglig møtested for ...
(Journal issue / Seriehefte, 2006)
Forord av Thorgeir Storesund Kolshus.
Fantastisk! En liten uke etter et stabsmøte ved Sosialantropologisk Institutt, UiO, preget av bekymring over hvor masterstudentene har sine feltarbeid (“nabobygården”) og hva de ...
(Journal issue / Seriehefte, 2012)
Soft Women and Hard News: Female Journalists in Hyderabad. Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
This master’s thesis explores the newsroom culture at Telangana Today in Hyderabad, India and examines how female reporters negotiate the gendered politics within the newsroom and more generally in their daily lives. The ...
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)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)
Creatively operationalizing Claude Lévi-Strauss’ predicament that food is good to think with, I initiate a methodological conceptualization of food by exploring the ways in which it is apt to study Sri Lankan domestic and ...
Doing Development the Right Way: Navigating difference and equality in an FK exchange Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
Bureaucratic Heartbeats: Knowledge Production and Emotions in the Norwegian Agriculture Agency Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
This thesis explores the ways in which knowledge was produced at Landbruksdirektoratet, the Norwegian Agriculture Agency (NAA), a technocratic and bureaucratic government institution in the Norwegian Welfare state. Based ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
Denne oppgaven undersøker norske pars opplevelser av å gjennomgå fosterdiagnostikk i svangerskapet, deres beslutningstakingsprosess der de avgjør om de vil avbryte svangerskapet dersom fosteret får påvist diagnosen Downs ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)
Food and desire are intimately entangled whereby food becomes a core tool to manage desire in fashioning oneself as a morally virtuous person. This paper looks at the ways in which Buddhist texts conceptualize human ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
I denne avhandlingen har jeg undersøkt hvilken rolle kjøkken og mat spiller i hverdagen for syriske flyktninger i Amman. I Jordan er det registrert nesten 650 000 syriske flyktninger, hvorav 80% bor utenfor flyktningleirer. ...
"We Want to be Modern" - An Ethnographic Study of Food, Relationships and Change in Fiji. Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
Lampedusa: Mellom en reddende havn og en stengt port Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
Skolans påverkan på framtidens samhälle : Om elevers förhållningssätt till värderingar på en högstadieskola i Oslo Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
Temat för denna masteruppsatsen är kulturöverföring i skolan. Den är baserad på ett nästan halvt år aktivt fältarbete bland elever på en högstadieskola i östra Oslo. Grundläggande samhällsvärderingar ålagda skolan att föra ...
Whose forest? : a study from four villages adjacent to Bukit Duabelas National Park, Indonesia Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2007)
This thesis is based on data from fieldwork in four Malay villages in Jambi Province, Indonesia. The villages are all adjacent the recently established Bukit Duabelas National Park. In addition to motives of conservation ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2007)
This project aims to provide a perspective on some Jewish Israeli experiences of political violence.
The main purpose of this study is to provide a grounded and concrete ethnographic account of everyday life in a situation ...
(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 ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)
The boom in extractivist industries since the 1990s has resulted in a concomitant increase in socio-environmental conflicts in Peru. In the southern region of Arequipa, the Majes Irrigation Project has transformed 15,000 ...
(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 ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2020)
Hva skal til for at selvhjelpsgrupper klarer å utvikle et fellesskap hvor gruppa blir en arena for deltakernes arbeid med å endre seg selv og sine personlige relasjoner? Avhandlingen følger prosesser i selvhjelpsgrupper ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
Med et mål om å konvertere så mange mennesker som mulig, er evangelisk kristne/pinsebevegelsen en av verdens raskest voksende religiøse bevegelser etter islam. I år 2002 var det registrert et totalantall på 1.699.725 ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
In this introduction, we aim to demystify the concept of wealth, too entangled in financial discourses, which have generally reduced it to ‘accumulated assets’. This is at odds with the intricate cultural history of wealth ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
Since the era of national independence in the Pacific Islands, many indigenous leaders have attempted to articulate a ‘Pacific Way’ aimed at developing island states along lines true to a shared past. Drawing on emblematic ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2019)
That rituals are ambiguous phenomena has been long established in anthropology. However, while this ambiguity is often assumed to be resolved in one way or another through the course of a ritual and taken as contributing ...
Da ulven kom til byen: Om natursyn og konflikt mellem ulvetilhængere og ulvemodstandere i Østmarka Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2019)
This paper explores the namata ritual, common among Tolai people in Papua New Guinea’s East New Britain Province. The namata is often presented as an event that contributes towards social order, both in the ethnographic ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
Jeg har gjennomført feltarbeidet blant tolker som jobber i Oslo, og denne oppgaven handler om møtet mellom offentlig sektor og fremmedspråklige i Norge; møter hvor tolker på forskjellige språk benyttes. I oppgaven vil jeg ...
Å være (som) việt kiều: Kategorien việt kiều i en endringsprosess i dagens Sosialistiske Republikk Vietnam Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
Sammendrag Som følge av hendelsene etter Vietnamkrigen flyktet over 130.000 sør-vietnamesere fra landet. Det er blitt dokumentert at over 1.6 millioner vietnamesere bosatte seg i ulike land utenfor Vietnam i tidsperioden ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
This thesis examines the culture of a couple of Norwegian CrossFit boxes as well as the process of becoming a CrossFitter. The study is based on six months of fieldwork in Eastern Norway. CrossFit is a fitness brand from ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2001)
Religion i det moderne kan sees som dynamisk og flytende. Ut i fra et feltarbeid i den protestantiske kirken Seattle Vineyard i USA analyseres tro og religion i det moderne. I avhandlingen introduseres begrepet "opplevelsesnær ...
Baha'i Pathways to Knowing: Activating Adherents of a World Religion in Knowledge Creation Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
This thesis explores ways of creating knowledge in the Baha'i Faith, and more specifically among Baha'is in the capital district of Apia in Samoa. Based on participant observation in activities inside and outside of the ...
(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, 2020)
What does it mean for a city to progress? What does growth entail for those who wish to make the city a healthy, sustainable, and good place to live? This thesis is based on six-month ethnographic fieldwork in Liverpool, ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2018)
This Ph.D. thesis explores how the production of Dubrovnik’s heritage, and its World Heritage, intersects with the reconstruction and consolidation of identities and locality after the Croatian war of independence (1991-1995). ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
Denne avhandlingen er basert på et fem måneders feltarbeid i Cape Town, Sør-Afrika, våren 2019. Feltarbeidet er utført i et hagesenter i townshipen Khayelitsha, som er en rasemessig avgrenset bydel konstruert av apartheid-regimet ...
The Idea of “Labour”: An Anthropological Study of Women’s Told Qualification for Membership in the Norwegian Society. Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
Since the end of the Second World War, the Norwegian society has seen an increased focus on- and value creation around labour – not only for the viability of the welfare state but also on behalf of the empowerment of the ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
Sammendrag Fuck Politics: Ung, vellykket og middelklasse i Serbia (Torstein Stiegler Seim) begynner med en samtale om politikk og politikere på en lokal trolleybuss i Beograd. Derfra beveger den seg inn i den post(post)- ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
By turning the ethnographical gaze towards an Evangelical community in Beirut, Lebanon, which greets, hosts, and takes care of displaced Syrians, this thesis explores how believers motivate themselves to engage in humanitarian ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
An old tractor serves as an ethnographic entry point to shifting articulations of resources in coastal Finnmark, North Norway. Idle since the 1970s, the tractor is a relic of agricultural dreams, turned to rubble as novel ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
This article outlines the thematic section’s main anthropological interventions and introduces the inherently ambiguous notion of welfare frontiers, implying allegedly benign practices of resource development. Through ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
The health and welfare of farmed fish are often regarded with less concern than for other production animals. This review compares the Norwegian legal health and welfare frameworks for broiler chickens and farmed salmon, ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
Digitalisation and innovation are two terms that have become increasingly more popular in discourse related to the welfare state in Norway. Digital technology has been accredited (and fetishized as) a one-size-fits-all ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
Norge har verdens største bestand av Atlantisk villaks, men er også verdens største produsent av oppdrettslaks. I 2019 forsvant 289.570 laks fra norske oppdrettsanlegg i det fiskeridirektoratet registrerer som «rømningshendelser». ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
The epidemic of COVID‐19 appears to be reshaping the world, separating before and after, present and past. Its perceived novelty raises the question of what role the past might play in the present epidemic and in responses ...
(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 ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
Kjønn, Omsorg og Økonomisk Liv i Post-Sovjet Havanna, Cuba. Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
Innenfor rammene av en kjønnet hverdag utforsker jeg hvordan sosiale relasjoner og økonomisk liv interagerer. Dette gjør jeg ved å se nærmere på utførelsen av uformell omsorg i hverdagslige situasjoner innen et omsorgsnettverk. ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
Yoga som spirituell praksis Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
Abstract The ‘Africanization’ of science after decolonization was replete with dreams. Claims to Africa's place in the high-modern world, expectations of national technological and economic progress, and individual dreams ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
Professor Bukheti Swalehe Kilonzo , born 1949: joined Amani in 1968 as a Scientific Assistant. Studied microbiology and parasitology in London; PhD in plague epidemiology from Dar es Salaam in 1984. Left Amani in 1982 as ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
Speed has a financial significance, it is always a reason for investment. But still many innovations were abandoned because high speed doesn’t always mean success. Smartphone rapidly conquers the world. People managed their ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
Aspirations bring different versions of the future into the present. This introductory essay asks what we can learn by attending to the myriad ways in which rural subjects and collectivities articulate and institutionalise ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
This article seeks to understand the role of land use planning in India's neoliberal regime of dispossession. Analyzing the relationship between planning and land dispossession in the state of Goa, we view planning processes ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
Denne oppgaven baserer seg på et seks måneders feltarbeid i Lisboa, våren 2019. På bakgrunn av en nasjonal rusrelatert krise, gjennomførte Portugal i overgangen til 2000-tallet, en omfattende rusreform. Dette innebar blant ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
To obtain insight into perceptions of how fish welfare and health is governed in Norwegian aquaculture, this study investigates three conflict cases: salmon lice, pancreas disease and farm siting. Using surveys and in-depth ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Exploring Sicilian secular confessions, this essay discusses anthropological impasses on talk and silence. Such dilemmas reveal ethnographic frailties in engaging with concealment and revealing. The delicacy of negotiating ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AccptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
This article explores the meanings of imagined, secret and hidden wealth that followers of conspiracy theory account for on different sides of the moral compass, as bad and good. Conspiracy theory, a strand of intellectual ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
In this special issue, we ask what meaning should be attributed to a concept of wealth. We think there are good reasons for looking closely at the concept, first of all because we are often led to believe that wealth is ...
(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 ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
This article proposes a movement between two sorts of dependency in the secretive bonds of violent men. The first forges an interdependent set of relations between mafia men, independent of the state; the second arises as ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
This article uses the concepts of orchestration and spectacle to analyse the work of leaders of an anti-dispossession movement in rural West Bengal. It examines what being a movement leader entails and argues for the ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
Gravide i møte med familie, sosialt nettverk og helsevesen : råd og veiledning i norsk-vietnamesiske og norsk-pakistanske kvinners svangerskapspraksis Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2008)
Sammendrag Bente Bryhn
Denne oppgaven handler om gravide norsk-pakistanske og norsk-vietnamesiske kvinner og deres møte med helsevesen, eget sosialt nettverk og familie i svangerskapet og hva slags opplevelser kvinnen har ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2004)
Fattige kvinner i Peru kjemper en hard kamp for å komme seg fram i livet. Denne oppgaven handler om kvinner i en bydel i Cusco, som benytter seg av ulike strategier, både individuelle og kollektive, formelle og uformelle, ...
Med hodet høyt hevet : om helse og dens forankring i tid og rom blant kulung raier i Himalaya Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2007)
Sammendrag
Dette er en oppgave om konstituering av helse blant kulung raiene i Himalaya.
Argumentet er at opplevelsen av helse springer ut av ideen om en særegen livskraft kalt sai som er manifestert både i kropp, rom og ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion, 2004)
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2004)
The thesis ‘BECOMING VISIBLE’ is about economic and social transformation and marginalization of Akie hunters and gatherers in Northern Tanzania. My initial interest in the Akie ‘Dorobo’ was motivated by the fact that they ...
"Språk er nøkkelen til alt!" : skole og elever i et samfunn i endring Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2007)
Bakgrunnen for mitt hovedfagsprosjekt er en interesse for debatten om minoritetsspråklige elever, og da spesielt den delen av samfunnsdebatten som handler om disse elevenes språklige og faglige situasjon i den norske ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)
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 ...
Fra død til liv : famadihanafester blant betsileo på Madagaskar Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2007)
Oppgaven er en hermeneutisk analyse av famadihanafestene i noen bygder i det nordlige
betsileoområdet på Madagaskar. Det er et ritual i tilknytning til forfedrene. Det blir ofte
omtalt som et dobbelt begravelsesritual. Jeg ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2006)
Avhandlingens utgangspunkt er et fire måneders langt feltarbeid i en barnehage utenfor Havanna på Cuba. Jeg følger Thornes (1993) konstruksjonistiske syn på kjønn; gutter og jenter er ikke forskjellige fordi de er født ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)
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 ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)
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 ...
Self and the Art of Body Maintenance : A study of food and body issues in a group of female students in Norway Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2002)
This thesis studies the relationship between the visual and the personal in a group of female students at Oslo University in Norway. The fieldwork took place in 1999, and the focus was that of cultural concepts of food, ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2005)
The thesis concerns the relationship between globalization and revitalization
of locality, and explores the impact of globalization on Orvieto, in Umbria,
Italy, and the inhabitants' and municipality's responses to ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2006)
Uppsatsen handlar om firandet av 60-årsjubileet av andra världskrigets slut i Ryssland våren 2005. Den så kallade segerdagen som firas den 9 maj är en av landets största högtider. Uppsatsens huvudintresse är hur bilden av ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)
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 ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)
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 ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2005)
This thesis is based on participant observation on a Rastafari discussion forum on the internet, run by a Trinidadian organization dedicated to personal empowerment and spiritual development, as well as to collective Black ...