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 ...

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). ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

”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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sidsel Mælands avhandling bringer nye data om Den katolske kirke i Norge. Via en omfattende studie basert på to års feltarbeid i katolske menigheter flere steder i landet, arkivstudier samt et større antall intervjuer, får ...

Denne oppgaven belyser norskhet og integrasjon som et relasjonelt prosjekt. Oppgaven er basert på et halvt års feltarbeid våren 2014 i en kristen frivillig organisasjon, og gir innblikk i den norske velferdsstatens ...

This thesis is based on approximately 4,5 months of fieldwork conducted in the spring of 2015 in Houston, Texas. It will concern the overarching anthropological themes of religion, gender, community and performance. It ...

The study of American identity has generally been concerned with the concept of hyphenated identity, a dual identity of sorts. The Norwegian-American identity is a clear example of a hyphenated identity. This thesis will ...

Since the 2003 Rose Revolution, the Republic of Georgia has undergone political upheavals as part of aspiring to become a more modern and Western nation. The recovery from a transition to capitalism and Georgia’s geopolitical ...

Avhandlingen tar utgangspunkt i den postradikale hverdagen som oppstod etter at ETA erklærte permanent våpennedleggelse i 2011. Dette er en hverdag preget av at den voldelige kampen har stilnet og støtten til baskisk radikal ...

Oppgaven er basert på feltarbeid gjennomført på en barnehjemsinstitusjon i Salto, Uruguay, våren 2015. Barnehjemsinstitusjonen, som jeg kaller el hogar (hjemmet), drives av en verdensomspennende evangelisk hjelpeorganisasjon ...

This thesis is based on six months of fieldwork conducted in Montevideo, the capital of Uruguay. The country legalized cannabis in 2013, but during my fieldwork only two of three aspects of the law were implemented. It was ...

Over en million asylsøkere ankom Europa i 2015, mer enn det dobbelte fra det foregående år.1 En av de mange og sammensatte årsakene til økningen er de langvarige konfliktene i Midtøsten, Nord-Afrika og Sentral-Asia.2 ...

«It’s not about picking up women – it’s about building a life» er basert på et feltarbeid i Oslo fra ca oktober 2008 til juli 2009, blant unge menn som er dedikerte til hva jeg kaller strukturert sjekking. Formålet med ...

This dissertation is based on a 5,5 month fieldwork in Melilla, a Spanish city in northeastern Morocco. The city is about 13 km2, and had a population of 85,497 in 2014. Melilla was conquered in the extension of “la ...

In this thesis I investigate the concept of au pair and the significant changes in the au pair scheme over the last decade. Earlier associated with live-in language exchange for young Norwegians, the au pair scheme has ...

Abstract This thesis aims to explore the manifestation of distrust and the feeling marginality in the community of Orkuvík, situated in the eastern fjords of Iceland. More particularly, it investigates the correlation ...

Denne oppgaven handler om 9-10 åringers forhold til mat og ernæring. Oppgaven er basert på et seks måneders feltarbeid i en 4. klasse ved en barneskole i Oslo Vest. Gjennom deltakende observasjon har jeg undersøkt elevenes ...

In this thesis I will take a dip into the world of multi-species ethnography, and through this explore the relations between humans and Tasmanian devils in captivity. Tasmanian devils are at risk of becoming extinct, due ...

In this master`s thesis I seek to understand the magical and religious practice in contemporary United States of America. To do this I studied the practice of Voodoo in New Orleans. I wanted to see how a tradition focused ...

This dissertation is based on 6 months of ethnographic fieldwork at a youth centre in a suburb of Manchester, England. The area is a post-industrial ward, historically characterised by the dying industry previously dominating ...

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 ...

Social change can be like an undetected shift in the weather. In one moment, endless blue sky fills the horizon, promising a lazy day of sunshine. Slowly, however, unnoticed clouds appear. Before one knows it, wind rips ...

This article discusses the theoretical potential of air, winds, and atmosphere as they place ux, transience, and motion at the center of the human predicament. Based on ethnographic eldwork conducted among urban Zulu ...

At a time when the channels for academic publication seem to multiply at a staggering rate and the writer-to-readership ratio approaches 1, our fellows’ gaze becomes an ever scarcer commodity. Attentionseeking behaviour ...

I will open this chapter with closures and close it with what I hope will become an opening. The closures I think of here are two. One is created by the alleged comparative dead end created by the ontological turn’s focus ...

Denne masteroppgaven handler om en miljøorganisasjon i Wellington, New Zealand (NZ) kalt Generation Zero (GZ). Organisasjonens virke er sentret rundt klimaendringer. GZ ønsker en omfattende satsning på fornybare energikilder ...

Sammendrag; Denne avhandlingen bygger på et 5 og ½ måneders langt feltarbeid i Oslo blant straffedømte på siste del av soningsløpet og nylig løslatte. Ved bruk av antropologisk teori om moralitet analyserer jeg hvordan de ...

Abstract This thesis explores and discusses the different motivations the inhabitants of the village Msilala have behind the forest conservation of the Daheni forest, the forest owned and managed by Msilala and the neighboring ...

This thesis aims to investigate the Myanmar health system as it is manifested in a peri-urban area outside Pyin Oo Lwin, Central Myanmar. After decades of military rule, civil war, and poor health indicators, Myanmar is ...

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 ...

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 ...