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Academia under autarchy. Navigating freedom and control in Cameroonian political science Restricted Access
Johansen, Anna Kristine (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
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, ...
Compounding aspirations: grounding hegemonic processes in India's rural transformations 
Jakobsen, Jostein; Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
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 ...
"Takk for tilliten": Gjensidighet, transformasjon og rituell grammatikk i selvorganiserte selvhjelpsgrupper 
Gotaas, Nora (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 ...
Searching for Development: State Relations and Local Aspirations among Rural Mapuche in Neoliberal Chile 
Greek, Martine (Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2020)
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 ...
Fuck Politics: Ung, vellykket og middelklasse i Serbia 
Seim, Torstein Stiegler (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)- ...
Kunstneren, jorden og hagesenteret -En etnografisk studie av bærekraftighet i en marginalisert kontekst 
Staaland, Marie Berge (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
Kaasa, Kaja Sundbeck-Arnäs (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 ...
Liverpool’s Meanwhile Spaces: Re-imagining growth, and the value of values 
Larsen, Charlotte Ulvang (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, ...
Hospitality in the Name of God 
Østrem, Håvard (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 ...
Welfare Frontier: Resource Practices in the Nordic Arctic Anthropocene 
Hastrup, Frida; Lien, Marianne Elisabeth (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 ...
Dreams of Prosperity - Enactments of Growth; The Rise and Fall of Farming in Varanger 
Lien, Marianne Elisabeth (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 ...
Hjemløse laks og laksens hjem: Domestisering, fangenskap og tilhørighet langs norskekysten 
Lien, Marianne Elisabeth (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». ...
Layers of epidemy: Present pasts during the first weeks of COVID‐19 in western Kenya 
Prince, Ruth Jane; Geissler, Paul Wenzel (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 ...
Land use planning, dispossession and contestation in Goa, India 
Nielsen, Kenneth Bo; Bedi, Heather P.; Da Silva, Solano Jose Savio (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 ...
Bureaucracy Meets Innovation: Contradictions at the Municipality of Trondheim 
Courtade, Magali (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 ...
Synchronisation and de-synchronisation in the era of the smartphone 
Eriksen, Thomas Hylland (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 ...
Åkrer som samtalepartnere: En etnografisk studie av hagebruk ved to parsellhager i Sør-Spania Restricted Access
Gjerstad, Anna Vilda Hindal (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
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 ...
Climate Change as a Spice: Brokering Environmental Knowledge in Bangladesh's Development Industry 
Dewan, Camelia (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 ...
Comparison of Norwegian health and welfare regulatory frameworks in salmon and chicken production 
Gismervik, Kristine; Tørud, Brit; Kristiansen, Tore S; Osmundsen, Tonje Cecilie; Størkersen, Kristine Vedal; Medaas, Christian; Lien, Marianne Elisabeth; Stien, Lars Helge (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, ...
Agrarian crossroads: rural aspirations and capitalist transformation 
Bennike, Rune Bolding; Rasmussen, Mattias Borg; Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (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 ...
Beyond realism: Africa’s medical dreams. Introduction to Special Issue 
Geissler, Paul Wenzel; Tousignant, Noémi (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
Governing the welfare of Norwegian farmed salmon: three conflict cases 
Stien, Lars Helge; Tørud, Brit; Gismervik, Kristine; Lien, Marianne Elisabeth; Medaas, Christian; Osmundsen, Tonje Cecilie; Kristiansen, Tore S; Størkersen, Kristine Vedal (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 ...
Cooperatives 
Rakopoulos, Theodoros (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
Cooperatives are a main means of organization for economic activity, generally operating on principles of equal membership and members’ democratic control of their means of livelihood. Co-ops have developed as modern ...
Mastering the environment: frontier behaviour at an ocean Klondike during Greenland halibut fishery 
Broch, Harald Beyer (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
The expression “mastering the environment” may inspire conflicting associations depending on whether we focus on the temporality of targeted fishers, marine biologists, or policymakers. This study presents an emic perspective ...
The dynamics of toxic dust 
Kopf, Charline (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2020)
By examining railway workers' narratives of poussière (dust) and their practices of repair work in the train depot at Rufisque, Senegal, the article reveals how the workers' understanding of dust encapsulates a toxic ...
The shared boundary: Sicilian mafia and antimafia land 
Rakopoulos, Theodoros (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
This article looks at boundaries as shared points of conflict and sociality in rural Sicily where the mafia and their opponents (‘antimafia’ cooperatives) have lately been at loggerheads. My focus is on neighbourly relations ...
States of dependence: Introduction 
Martin, Keir James Cecil; Yanagisako, Sylvia (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
Anxieties around the moral effects of states of ‘dependence’ remain central to political and social debate across the world. At a time when the association between wage‐labour and a particular valorised conception of adult ...
Two kinds of mafia dependency: on making and unmaking mafia men 
Rakopoulos, Theodoros (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 ...
The Return of the Horkatoi (and of a Sociology of Class) 
Rakopoulos, Theodoros (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
Remembering Africanization: two conversations among elderly science workers about the perpetually promissory 
Geissler, Paul Wenzel; Kelly, Ann H.; Gerrets, René; Mangesho, Peter E.; Okwaro, Ferdinand Moyi; Poleykett, Branwyn (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 ...
Remembering Africanization: excerpt of reunion transcripts 
Geissler, Paul Wenzel (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 ...
Do you Want us to Feed you like a Baby? Ascriptions of Dependence in East New Britain 
Martin, Keir James Cecil (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
This paper explores some accusations of wrongdoing in Papua New Guinea in the early 2000s. These accusations illustrate an ambiguous encouragement and discouragement of different kinds of perceived dependence as Papua New ...
"Å bli den du virkelig er" - Kroppssnakk og kroppshistorier i Rosenmetoden Restricted Access
Otneim, Torstein (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
Vern og bevar meg vel Restricted Access
Veivåg, Marlene (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
Working with the Root: The Facilitation of Healing and Activism In the Peruvian Amazon 
Ringstad, Nicholas (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
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 ...
Breathing pneumatology: Spirit, wind, and atmosphere in a Zulu Zionist Congregation 
Flikke, Rune (Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
Atmosfærer: Luft, lukt og stemning som antropologisk forskningsfelt 
Flikke, Rune (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
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 ...
Beyond the “proper job” in Dayton, Ohio: An exploration of precarity, infrastructure and affect in the American city 
Helgesen, Håvard Lunde (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
Repetition in the work of a Samoan Christian theologian: Or, what does it mean to speak of the Perfect Pig of God? 
Tomlinson, Matthew (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
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 ...
WhatsApp of the Weak - An Ethnographic Study of Civil Society’s Responses to Government Restrictions in Malaysia 
Langvik, Karen Amanda Haugs (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
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 ...
How do Filipino au pairs mobilize a support system when becoming ill and undergoing treatment for tuberculosis (TB) in Norway? The story of their rights, relations and illness experience. 
Ingvaldsen, Camilla Rytterager (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
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 ...
Making a Life on the Margins of Urban Bolivia 
Tveit, Kristine (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
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 ...
Inequality, Fear and Security: An Ethnographic Study of Community Policing in Maputo, Mozambique Restricted Access
Syvertsen, Kari Merete (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
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 ...
Harold C. Conklin: Atlas of Multispecies Relations in Ifugao 
Remme, Jon Henrik Ziegler (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
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 ...
Tranquebar: Where Waves and Religions Sing - Christian Identity & Community in A South Indian Town 
Noddeland, Bent Eilif (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
How to speak like a spirit medium: Voice and evidence in Australian Spiritualism 
Tomlinson, Matthew (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
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 ...
Alternative sannheter: Antropologiske betraktninger om meningsdannelsens foranderlighet i livets forskjellige faser 
Broch, Harald Beyer (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
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 ...
Tilgang til det hellige: Karismatisk autoritet hos evangelisk kristne i Santiago, Chile [Access to the sacred: Charismatics authority in an evangelical church in Santiago, Chile] 
Tyldum, Maria Nathalie Oberti (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 ...
Review: Alison SÁNCHEZ HALL | All or none: Cooperation and sustainability in Italy’s red belt 
Rakopoulos, Theodoros (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
THE PACIFIC WAY OF DEVELOPMENT AND CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY 
Tomlinson, Matthew (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 ...
Rituals and Ambiguities of Social Disorder 
Martin, Keir James Cecil (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 ...
Is There a Relationship between Ritual and Cliché?: Indigenous Fijian Criticism of Kava Drinking 
Tomlinson, Matthew (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
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 ...
The Ambiguities of Rituals: Introduction 
Remme, Jon Henrik Ziegler; Martin, Keir James Cecil (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 ...
Impure Foods: Entanglements of Soil , Food and Human Health in Bangladesh 
Dewan, Camelia (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
Body and Soul of a Good Pint: A Note on Nordic Brewing and the Magic of Yeast. 
Naguib, Nefissa (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
Donor Conception and Unknown Kin: Reconsidering Identity and Family Through Anonymous and Deanonymized Relations 
Mogseth, Martin Eggen (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
«Det handler om livene våre» En antropologisk studie av integrering og nettverksbygging blant minoritetskvinner i en by på Østlandet 
Yri, Kristina Guttormsen (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
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 ...
Livet som papirløs: Et etnografisk studie om identitetspapirer, statsløshet, økonomiske overlevelsesstrategier og deportasjon i Den dominikanske republikk 
Egeland, Louise Marie (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
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, ...
Soft Women and Hard News: Female Journalists in Hyderabad. 
Krüger, Louise (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 ...
Unsettled lives, displaced selves: An ethnographic study of refugees’ subjective experiences and identity reformulation in a refugee camp in Greece 
Perez Acosta, Connie (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
Facebook in Yangon, Myanmar: An Ethnographic Study 
Bakke, Marte Rieber (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
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 ...
Marin forsøpling – en materie som ikke hører til? Et etnografisk studie av havplasten i Nordland Restricted Access
Rueslåtten, Mari (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
Andinske hybrider: Kampsport, fellesskap og mannlighet i La Paz, Bolivia 
Mørk, Daniel (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
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, ...
"En fot på hver side": Identitet og Tilhørighet blant Koreanskadopterte i Norge Restricted Access
Johnsen, Emma Kristine Laier (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
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 ...
Reshaping Boundaries Negotiating space among middle class women in Kurdistan 
Vinje, Tara Aziz (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
Kjønn, Omsorg og Økonomisk Liv i Post-Sovjet Havanna, Cuba. Restricted Access
Huse, Gina Marie Hagen (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. ...
Salsa-dance as a metaphor of change -an ethnographic study among a Salsa-community in Hyderabad, India 
Nyløy, Johanna (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
Yoga som spirituell praksis Restricted Access
Aarthun, Gro Nina (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
Orchestrating Anti-Dispossession Politics: Caste and Movement Leadership in Rural West Bengal 
Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (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 ...
Voices from the Front: An ethnographic study of the French radical right in Gard département Restricted Access
Andersen, Fredrik Bakke (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
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 ...
Svangerskapets usikkerheter: Opplevelser av fosterdiagnostikk og selektiv abort Restricted Access
Bauer, Elise Engdahl (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 ...
Ureparapara: An Ethnographic Study of Kastom, Spirits, and Everyday Life on the Island of Ureparapara, Vanuatu. 
Brunvoll, Katrine Flaata (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
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 ...
Hva kan vi lære av Eilert Sundt? 
Lien, Marianne Elisabeth (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Healing in polluted places: Mountains, air, and weather in Zulu Zionist ritual practice 
Flikke, Rune (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
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 ...
"Feminism is an Alien Concept in Kenya" Negotiations around Feminism Among Young, Middle Class Women in Nairobi 
Ijeabuonwu, Ida Ufoma Helgheim (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
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 ...
Gays of the Rock: A Study of the Gibraltarian Homosexuals’ Relations to the Anglo-Spanish Border, Local State Border Politics and Ethnic/National Identity 
Schildger, Jesper (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
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 ...
Todo Tranquilo: Notions of Happiness and Well-Being in Rural and Urban Paraguay 
Lunde, Fredrikke Herlofson (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
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 ...
The Value of Experience: Psychedelics, phenomenology and contemporary perspectives on drug use 
Høifødt, Anna Marie (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
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). ...
«Vær forsiktig, dette kan komme til å endre livet ditt». En etnografisk studie av taijiquan og buddhisme som selvsøkende praksis i Oslo. 
Trangsrud, Kine Marlen Lundebymoen (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
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 ...
Kjønnsnøytral krigerkultur? - En antropologisk studie av maskulinitet, krigerkultur og allmenn verneplikt i det norske Forsvaret 
Gussgard, Ivar Eeg (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
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 ...
Across the Divides: An anthropological enquiry into the relationships between Norwegians, Asylees and Refugees in a rural Municipality in Norway 
Haugen, Adrian Hasnaoui (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
Searching Anthropology and Twitter Do "new" fields require new tools? 
Tollaas, Erlend Jong (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
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 og Møtet Mellom Tre Rettsoppfatninger : En Etnografisk Studie av Subkultur og Gatekultur, og deres Møte med Politi og Myndigheter Restricted Access
Hansen, Dan-Remi Pedersen (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
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, ...
Still naughty after all these years? 
Kolshus, Thorgeir (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
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: ...
Water scarcity in the middle of the ocean: The morality of water in the segregated town Sal Rei, Cape Verde 
Arntsen, Sophie (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
Tracing Unbounded Mosquitoes: An Ethnographic Study of Mosquito Control and Mosquito-borne Disease Outbreaks in the Complex Landscapes of Rio de Janeiro and Niterói 
Berg, Rachel Bjørkli (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
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 ...
Recapturing the household: reflections on labour, productive relations, and economic value 
Melhuus, Marit (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
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 ...
Introduction to an anthropology of wealth 
Rakopoulos, Theodoros; Rio, Knut (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 ...
SAME, SAME, BUT DIFFERENT - en analyse av rommet mellom tolking og fortolking 
Strendo, Raymon (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
Nguyen, Thanh Mai (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 ...
Training for life - An ethnographic study of the Norwegian CrossFit box 
Skaug, Eivind (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 ...
Da ulven kom til byen: Om natursyn og konflikt mellem ulvetilhængere og ulvemodstandere i Østmarka Restricted Access
Svalberg-Hansen, Morten (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
The Wall in Our Minds: Negotiating Heritage and Identity in Post-war Dubrovnik 
Loades, Celine Motzfeldt (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). ...
Bureaucratic Heartbeats: Knowledge Production and Emotions in the Norwegian Agriculture Agency Restricted Access
Nordrum, Solfrid Ingriddatter (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 ...
Becoming Marines in American Samoa: Disciplining mind and body in the making of a Marine identity. 
Toft, Oddmund (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
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 ...
Exhibiting the dead body: an ethnographic study of collections and exhibitions of human remains in Norway 
Straume, Ingrid Jensen (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
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 ...
"We Want to be Modern" - An Ethnographic Study of Food, Relationships and Change in Fiji. Restricted Access
Olafsrud, Eline Tomine (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
Mat på flukt: Kjøkken og mat blant syriske flyktninger i Amman 
Mobekk, Siri-Christine (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. ...
Whom to Blame? Madness among young men in a rural district in Malawi 
Tømmervold, Mathias (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
The thesis investigates the different sides to a public discourse that connected the emic term madness to young men`s practice of smoking marihuana.
There and Back Again: An Ethnographic Study of Migration, Entrepreneurship, and Development in San José Calderas, Guatemala Restricted Access
Nordentoft, Mia Østrup (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
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 ...
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