Abstract This thesis is a study of the conditions of academia under authoritarian rule. My objectives with this work is to elucidate and explain the contradictory relationship between freedom and control in academic spaces, ...

This article introduces compounding aspirations as a key concept for interrogating complex and contradictory rural transformations in India. We argue that compounding aspirations are central to the conjunctural grounding ...

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 ...

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 ...

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)- ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

As an indigenous farmer living on a small island in the southeast of Chile and lacking basic services and economic security, how does one seek to improve one’s conditions of livelihood? People in the indigenous community ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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». ...

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 ...

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 ...

Denne avhandlingen omhandler fritidsbasert hagebruk i post-krise Spania. Den er basert på seks måneders feltarbeid ved to parsellhager utenfor Málaga. Etnografien illustrerer dyrkernes interaksjon med de ikke-menneskelige ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the movement known as Spiritualism, successful performances of “mental mediumship” are rarely smooth. At services held by the Canberra Spiritualist Association, mediums attempt to provide evidence of life after death ...

Artikkelen retter søkelys mot hvordan mennesker med forskjellig alder opplever virkeligheten som omgir dem gjennom narrativene de selv og andre forteller. Det er først og fremst hverdagens narrativer hvor alle er kreative ...

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 ...

This article poses the question of what analytical insight can be gained by comparing ritual and cliché, both of which involve evaluations of the significance of repetition. The case study is kava-drinking sessions in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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). ...

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). ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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: ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...