Over the last decades, there has been a surge of interest in Amerindian plant medicines, , administered by indigenous healers in sporadic groups across the world - especially ayahuasca. Parallel to this interest, energy ...

This thesis is based on six-month ethnographic fieldwork in Yangon, Myanmar conducted in the spring of 2018. Through three different perspectives, I aim at an understanding of how Facebook gained and withholds its position ...

I denne avhandlingen har jeg undersøkt hvordan sporten Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) utøves av aktører og entreprenører i La Paz, Bolivia. Med sporten som utgangspunkt fikk jeg tilgang til å se fremførelse av maskuline verdier, ...

Siden Sør-Korea åpnet for transnasjonal adopsjon 50-tallet har om lag 200 000 koreanske barn blitt adoptert ut av landet, og siden 1969 har Sør-Korea formidlet 9104 barn til Norge. I dag er en stor andel av koreanskadopterte ...

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 ...

This Master’s thesis is the result of five and a half month fieldwork among members of the French radical right party, Front National (FN), in Gard in the south of France. It aims to illuminate populist worldviews by ...

This thesis describes the life and labor of urban migrant women in Sucre, Bolivia. It is based on six months of ethnographic fieldwork conducted at a local marketplace in Sucre. There, I studied women who worked as independent ...

I denne artikkelen argumenterer jeg for at luft og atmosfære har stort analytisk potensial for studier av den koloniale arven i dagens Sør-Afrika. Med utgangspunkt i bruken av såpe i helbredelsesritualer blant zulusionister ...

Background: There has been an increase in au pairs from the Philippines with TB registered in Norway. The study’s objective is to investigate 1) how this patient group is managing their TB treatment, 2) how the disease ...

Políciamento comunitário (community policing) was launched at the beginning of the 2000s in Mozambique as a project to liberalize, democratize and legitimize the national police. The majority of communities in the country ...

This thesis is based on six months of ethnographic fieldwork among a group of environmentalists in Kuala Lumpur. I explore how civil society in Malaysia dealt with government restrictions, and focus on their negotiations ...

In his Ethnographic Atlas of Ifugao, Harold C. Conklin describes the agricultural practices that have shaped a landscape of extensive terraced irrigation. While the book may be read as an anthropocentric story of human ...

The Samoan Christian theologian Ama’amalele Tofaeono draws on Repetition; Christianity; diverse intellectual sources to articulate an ecological theology theology; Samoa; American both distinctively Samoan and self-consciously ...

Denne oppgaven handler om livet for et utvalg papirløse mennesker som bor på en nedlagt sukkerplantasje i Den dominikanske republikk. Deres problemer, strevet for å prøve å ordne lovlig opphold, økonomiske overlevelsesstrategier, ...

De siste årene har arbeidet for å integrere minoritetskvinner i samfunnsliv og arbeidsliv blitt intensivert. Deres deltakelse i samfunnet angis som et viktig «virkemiddel» for integrasjon av innvandrerbefolkningen, samtidig ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

This ethnographic thesis is based on six months of fieldwork on the island of Ureparapara in 2017. This island is located in the Pacific Ocean and is part of the Banks group, north in Vanuatu. A minimal amount of ethnographic ...

I have always said that Spain is the land that smells of sun-scorched earth, strong cigarettes and cheap perfume, and that you can notice the fragrance immediately once you exit the aeroplane. It is the ultimate sign and ...

Abstract The world leading survey company Gallup ranked Paraguay the world's happiest country in 2015 (Clifton, 2014). Through my fieldwork during the first six months of 2017, I wished to review and investigate this ...

Denne avhandlingen baserer seg på et seks måneder langt feltarbeid på henholdsvis Norsk Taiji Senter og Oslo Buddhistsenter. Teksten tar for seg på hvilken måte kampkunsten taijiquan, meditasjon og buddhistisk filosofi ...

Verneplikten har lenge fungert som Forsvarets viktigste rekrutteringsgrunnlag, et prinsipp som er nedfelt allerede i Grunnloven. Siden slutten av den kalde krigen har imidlertid endringer i doktriner og operasjonelle ...

The use of psychedelic substances has become an emerging trend during the last decade. Perhaps this is due to the substances effects, inducing processes of autognosis (meaning selfknowledge by the process of self-analysis). ...

This thesis is based on six months of ethnographic fieldwork among young middle class women in Nairobi, and focuses on their negotiations concerning the concept of feminism and feminist identities. It discusses what life ...

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, ...

This thesis looks at opportunities and challenges when thinking anthropology and social media. With a focus on Twitter and anthropological ideas, it attempts to consider a broad spectrum of different aspects surrounding ...

This thesis gives an ethnographic account of the past and present everyday realities of former migrant workers from the village San José Calderas in Guatemala. Most of these migrants had returned to the village after working ...

Sammendrag Med denne oppgaven ønsker jeg å belyse hvordan statlige tiltak for håndtering av ofre for æresrelatert vold fungerer i praksis. Gjennom handlingsplaner fra den norske regjering, som «Retten til å bestemme over ...

Denne masteroppgaven gir et bilde av zerowasteres hverdag, av hvordan det er å leve uten søppel når det finnes potensielt avfall overalt. Det oppstår flere dilemmaer og utfordringer i forbindelse med forbruk når man ønsker ...

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 ...

Start-up networks are flourishing around the world, and today the third largest amounts of start-ups are based in India. During my fieldwork in Delhi, I looked further into the start-up network and found a lot of start-ups ...

Drawing on six months of fieldwork in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, this master’s thesis provides a portrait of Rio de Janeiro by following activities related to mosquitoes. Mosquito-borne diseases pose grave health ...

In the past six years I have had the enormous privilege of welcoming 250 undergraduate students to anthropology. Central to the first lecture that I give are three interrelated points about how to become a good anthropologist: ...

Labour regimes organize the economy; they also organize lives. With the continued deregulation of the labour market and the simultaneous drive to cut labour costs, there lies a challenge to grasp not only the workings of ...

This thesis gives an insight into some of the collections and exhibitions of human remains that are being held at institutions and museums in Norway. The main focus is on exhibitions at Nasjonalt Medisinsk Museums located ...

The territory of American Samoa in the southern Pacific, where I conducted fieldwork from January to June of 2017, has for many years been amongst the top places for recruiting personnel for the U.S. military. Everyone in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

The thesis investigates the different sides to a public discourse that connected the emic term madness to young men`s practice of smoking marihuana.

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 ...

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). ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The thesis concerns the social impact of the development of a new capital city in the state of Andhra Pradesh in India

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

”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. ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Siden det militærstøttede partiet Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) ikke overaskende vant valget i 2010, har det skjedd en rekke såkalte "reformvennlige" endringer i Myanmar. Et hundretalls politiske fanger er ...

After years of self-imposed and externally imposed isolation, Myanmar is now opening up to the outside world. The Myanmar government is looking to exploit opportunities arising from the growth in tourism, with a main aim ...

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 ...