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(Chapter / Bokkapittel / SubmittedVersion, 2018)
This contribution is an attempt to describe the challenges Islamwissenschaft has to face in a time of increased Islamophobia and (neo)Orientalism, triggered by worldwide Islamist terrorism and large-scale immigration of ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2018)
This dissertation is based on a number of unpublished Judaeo-Arabic manuscripts written by the indigenous Karaite Jews of Egypt who lived in the Jewish Quarter of Cairo during the early modern era. These 17th- through ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
Henrik Smiths 'Tredie Urtegaard' er en bok som prøver å gjøre for mye på en gang. Den skal både inneholde flest mulig relevante tekstutdrag fra lærde, medisinske autoriteter og fungere som en praktisk og anvendbar ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
Denne oppgaven omhandler syn på barn og barndom i Norge på første halvdel av 1800-tallet med utgangspunkt i debatt rundt ny lovgivning. Primærkildene er kommentarer som ble skrevet som svar til et lovforslag utgitt av ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Sommargäster från städerna, eller badgäster som de kallades tidigare, sökte sig med början under det sena 1800-talet till kusttrakter i västra Sverige. Då började kalla bad i det öppna havet förekomma i stället för varma ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Change is afoot for Saudi Arabia’s female citizens, or so suggests much commentary about events over the past few years. There was the first election in which women could vote, the first public concert by a female performer, ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
This thesis investigates the figure of the ‘Ecologically Noble Savage’ as employed by Greenpeace and UN in the report Our Common Future (1987). In this thesis, this figure is understood as a re-articulation of the older ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
Denne oppgaven handler om den historiske utviklingen av kunstmuseal organisering, som i sin tur belyser hvilke grep og virkemidler som ble benyttet ved presentasjonen av utstillingen Emma & Edvard Kjærlighet i ensomhetens ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
Religion og turisme er et forskningsfelt som har fått større oppmerksomhet de siste årene, også utenfor en religionsvitenskapelig forskningskontekst. Spirituell turisme kan ses på som en gren av religiøs turisme og ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
I denne oppgaven vil jeg se på hvordan skillingstrykk kan sees i lys av Norges Dokumentarv, og hvordan dette materialet kan bidra til å forstå utvelgelsesprosesser og kulturarvsbegrepet. Det finnes et hav av måter vi ...
Coming Out as Atheist on Reddit: Breaking the Expectations of the Religiousnormative Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
The need to disclose an atheist identity is understood in this thesis to be suggestive of how the atheist role may be perceived as deviant when actualized in particular social contexts. This thesis seeks to examine the ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
There is something happening in museums after hours; there are drinks served to the sound of live music, an offer to experience the art exhibitions in a setting that differs wildly from any regular day at the museum. In ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
This thesis examines how two Norwegian museums respond to divisive discourses and social issues in the Norwegian society. The last few years has seen an upsurge in polarising discourses in Norwegian news, politics, and ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
The mainstream Arabic pop music is in constant development where new trends replace the old, making room for music from countries like Morocco to participate in this genre together with music from Egypt, the Levant and the ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
Attracting new audiences to visit them is an important priority for modern museums. Museums are no longer places reserved for a small ‘elite’ in the society, at least they should not be that. What does it take to attract ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
I dette studiet har jeg gjennom observasjoner, samtaler og intervjuer med representanter og kalifen i Ahmadiyya Muslims Jamaat, studert hvordan den norske ahmadiyya-bevegelsen presenterer et bilde av selv som «muslimer for ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
China has the largest education system in the world, and a population who values formal education highly and is ready to invest heavily in children’s schooling. As much research has shown, this reverence for education is ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
Oppgaven handler om bedehus, men løfter fram religiøse kulturminner generelt. Kompleksiteten i denne typen kulturminner belyses fra flere perspektiv. Oppgaven forklarer utviklingen fra bedehus som et symbol på en levende, ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
Religiösa minoriteter har i Norge de tre senaste århundrandena fått symbolisera antitesen till den nationella identiteten. I det sociala fältet integrationsfältet blir följande doxa reproducerad: Ett av kriterierna för att ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
Denne oppgaven er en undersøkelse av kunstens rolle i kulturarvsproduksjon, og om det kan bidra til samfunnsutvikling og endring. Oppgaven er også en beskrivelse av kulturarvsproduksjon ved å se på kunstprosjektene til ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
This thesis will look into the social movement of LGBT people in Lebanon and discuss various perspectives of its mobilization. The thesis will offer an understanding on how activists in Lebanon form and view their strategies ...
Nuptial Economics Within Cairo’s Shifting Class Politics And the Social Consequences Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
Denne oppgaven handler om en kopi som tilhører Kulturhistorisk museum i Oslo. Kopien er en gipsavstøpning av Camminskrinet også kjent som St. Cordulas relikvieskrin. Det originale Camminskrinet ble laget på slutten av ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
There is a growing number of Syrian children that are being born in Lebanon and a growing number of Syrian children that fled Syria at a young age and therefore have few memories of the country. A vast number of these ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2018)
Denne avhandlingen er en analyse av spørrelisteserien Ord og sed, som ble utgitt som årlige tidsskrift fra 1934 til 1947. Spørrelistene hadde som formål å samle informasjon om norsk folketradisjon og de ord, fortellinger, ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
After seven decades as an independent democratic nation, India’s social landscape remains marred by persistent contradictions and inequalities. As the country moves from celebrating 70 years of independence towards its ...
Women’s Human Rights in Qatar Comparative. Analysis on Qatari Domestic Law and International Standards of Women’s Human Rights Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
The main focus of this thesis is on Women’s Human Rights in Qatar. It aims to examine the comparative analysis between the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
The article explores a set of sacrificial logics that cluster around a prospective copper mine, situated on the bank of a fjord in the Norwegian Arctic. Analyzing the project as a “sacrifice zone” ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
This thesis explores the political and cultural implications of China’s polar research vessels, the Xue Long and the Xue Long 2. Through a theoretical frame of technopolitics, it looks at how these vessels are perceived ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
The Norwegian museum landscape has been refurbished during the last decades. Smaller and topographically scattered units have been merged into large museum conglomerates, small streams of funding have become regular rivers ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Friedrich Schleiermacher foretok mange reiser, ikke bare innenfor Tyskland, men også til utlandet. Hans siste reise, i det siste leveåret (1833), gikk til Skandinavia. Oppholdet i København er vel dokumentert i faglitteraturen, ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
During his lifetime, Friedrich Schleiermacher went on many journeys, not only within Germany but also abroad. His last journey took him, in the last year of his life (1833), to Scandinavia, where he during many weeks ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
The following master’s thesis Representations of China in Japan - Portrayals of China in the 2014 National Diet is a study of the rhetorical role that China inhabits within the discourse of the Japanese National Diet of ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Bit for bit rekonstruerer forskere i dag historien om den kristne blomstringsperioden på Den arabiske halvøy. Hva kan den fortelle oss om denne glemte perioden?
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
Denne masteroppgaven er en studie av den økonomisk-botaniske samlingen ved Naturhistorisk museum. Oppgaven tar for seg en helt alminnelig samling ved et naturhistorisk museum. Oppgaven undersøker hvordan de ansatte som har ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
As the Arab Spring unfolded in the early months of 2011 in the Middle East and North Africa, the international Salafi-Jihadi movement would rise in importance on the local, regional and international agenda. Gazan Jihadists, ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Dannelsen av Israel førte til at palestinsk klanterritorialitet fikk fornyet politisk betydning.
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
«Some examples» is the title of the opening chapter of Eilert Sundt’s large work Om sæde- ligheds-tilstanden (1857). Sundt asks whether the examples that he presents – short descrip- tions of his encounters with persons, ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
This article discusses the idea of multiple times and synchronization by exploring concrete (historical) texts as «bundles of times», and these texts’ relationship to a particular type of architecture, namely the Norwegian ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
This article is discussing how approaches from Actor-Network theory (ANT) may contribute to the field of folkloristics. I argue that perspectives from ANT can be used in order to better understand the field of folk belief. ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Siden kuppforsøket sommeren 2016 har jurister uttrykt bekymring for at Tyrkias utøvende myndigheter er i ferd med å sette domstolene til side i sin kamp mot Erdoğans fiender. Men tyrkiske domstoler har lenge vært politiske ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Autoritet, forstått som legitim innflytelse, er både vanskelig definerbart og vanskelig målbart. I denne artikkelen diskuterer jeg hvordan den nordafrikanske lærde al-Qādī ʿIyād (d. 1149) tilkjente sine forgjengere i ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
«Sefarad» er den hebraiske betegnelsen på Den iberiske halvøya. Navnet oppsto i det mus-limske al-Andalus. Dagens sefarder er etterkommere etter jøder fra Spania og Portugal.Målsettingen med artikkelen er å vise hvordan ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Mapping the Fields: Geographies of Knowledge Production, is a humanities experiment, exploring fieldworks of the nineteenth century. By studying fieldworks, the project investigates production and circulation of knowledge, ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
The proper analysis of environmental politics in different national contexts requires a returned focus on ideology. This article demonstrates that a neutral conceptualization of ideology is necessary to understand the way ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2018)
Interreligious dialogue involves religious leaders in a hybrid function as diplomats trapped between the secular and religious realms. Who are they and what are their motivations? In this article, we distinguish between ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Small funerary statuettes shaped as mummiform figurines are among the most common ancient Egyptian artefacts to be found in museums of cultural history worldwide. The Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo (MCH) ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
The article positions early modern collecting in relation to wider cultures of knowledge production by using perspectives from the history of knowledge, memory studies, and recent studies of Kunstkammern. Some twenty-five ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
This article analyses ideas about indoor air pollution, fresh and foul air, ventilation and modern hygiene in China during the century between 1849 and 1949. The main focus is on conceptions of and provisions against air ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
The developing cyber-infrastructure has provided new tools, methods, and opportunities to conduct research. However, the Snowden leaks and subsequent developments proved that the same infrastructure has made all-encompassing ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Museums and archaeology share a common engagement to find, recover, safeguard, study and explicate the material world. This article is about the methods and scopes of museums regarding their use of archaeology as a source ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Museums of history are also research objects for historians. Museography can be analysed in order to reconstruct the museology and the historical narrative it shapes. This contribution explores the narratives of the two ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Between the late 19th and mid-20th centuries, Alexandria was known as a multicultural hub and a vibrant port in the Southern Mediterranean, and was home to a number of foreign communities, each with its own cultural ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
This chapter acknowledges the pioneering work of Reinhard Schulze in suggesting that the eighteenth century in the Islamic world may have witnessed significant-enough epistemological and social change to justify regarding ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
In the late nineteenth century, the relationship between fictional literature and religion was up for debate. In the Nordic literary scene, this debate was triggered by Danish literary critic Georg Brandes in 1871, when ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Cunning-folk offering a wide range of mostly supernatural services were a common part of European popular culture until at least the early twentieth century. Still, insight into how they established themselves as people ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
The Osman Dynasty in Bangladesh is several generations deep and combines legitimate mobilization politics with money-making businesses and ‘godfather’ tactics. This article focuses on two aspects of dynasty formation: its ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Ecological civilization (shengtai wenming 生态文明) has been written into China’s constitution as the ideological framework for the country’s environmental policies, laws and education. It is also increasingly presented not ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
This paper interrogates the notions of time and money in Islamic (economic) tradition by applying Toshihiko Izutsu’s theory of the key terms of a worldview. A Japanese scholar of Islam, Toshihiko Izutsu (1914–1993), wrote ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Pak Chonghong (1903~1976) is one of the main agents in founding Korean modern philosophy. His philosophical lineages are rooted in at least three different traditions. In his early years he studied the Chinese classics; ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Introduced to Korea around 1900, the modern idea of the ethno-nation (minjok) developed into one of the most important intellectual and political concepts circulating in the country by the early 1920s. From the nationalists’ ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Borrowing from Judith Butler’s notion of the ethics of plural and heterogeneous cohabitation, this essay reads two of Tsushima Yūko’s novels in light of how they negotiate proximity and distance in forging ethical connections ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
In this study, I investigate the concept of Nordic museology in the early 1990s. Per-Uno Ågren's programmatic article about museology and cultural heritage, published in 1993 in the first ever issue of the journal Nordic ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Studies of environmental governance in China mainly discuss bilateral encounters, such as popular protests against polluting companies, NGO collaboration with local authorities, or local government collusion with enterprises ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
This chapter highlights how local political elites shape and steer governance in China’s vast rural areas where local officials act as both agents of the central state and lower level principals, who enjoy considerable ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion, 2018)
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Until 1845 the Lutheran state church held a monopoly on religion in Norway. From the 1850s onwards this monopoly was challenged by the arrival of several waves of missionaries influenced by revivals in the United States. ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
This article reexamines the long-standing corridor topic of toilet facilities in anthropological fieldwork, arguing that their condition has stronger methodological implications than previously acknowledged. Drawing on ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Folkelig kultur kan spille en viktig politisk rolle som et korrektiv til elitenes autoritære impulser. I Egypt inntok tegneserier for voksne og satirisk litteratur denne funksjonen i tiden før og under revolusjonen i 2011. ...
The Emergence of New Written Histories Amongst Tibetan Pastoralists in Post-Mao China: The Case of Amdo Wongtak Tsowa Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
Since the end of the last century, a wave of literary production has taken place in the Tibetan region known as Amdo in the west of China. Though fiction and poetry writing has been at the center of this movement, texts ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
In this thesis we will examine the localization of the American RPG-title video game Undertale, a video game created and published by Toby Fox in 2015, in the context of language phenomenon in Japanese fiction and translation ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
Denne oppgåva tek føre seg å vise korleis Odda i Hardanger blir presentert til norske og internasjonale turistar. Eg går diskursivt til verks for å finne ut kva Odda som blir presentert. Spesielt går eg inn på omgrepa ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
The Japanese food boom in recent years makes Japanese cuisine one of the most popular food around the world. There are also many academic studies on different aspects of Japanese food culture, among which, culinary ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
Denne oppgaven er en studie av Den gode hyrde katekese i Norge. Den gode hyrde katekese er en metode for trosopplæring av barn med utgangspunkt i montessoripedagogikk. Ved bruk av utvalgte perspektiver ser jeg hvordan Den ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
In this thesis we will follow the snow crab on his adventures across the globe. It is a thesis with significant weight placed on discussions regarding the agency and interpretations of the snow crab’s role in different ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
This thesis addresses when and where the modern concept of environment arose in human history, as well as the shifts in people’s perception of the environment and environmental change in modern China, by applying conceptual ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
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Knowledge translation (KT) is a buzzword in modern medical science. However, there has been little theoretical reflection on translation as a process of meaning production in KT. In this paper, ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
Velsignelse av hus og hjem - En kvalitativ undersøkelse av hvordan prester benytter liturgi i møte med uro i hus Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
Det har eksistert en uoffisiell praksis at prester i Den norske kirke har blitt tilkalt når mennesker opplever «uro i hus». I 2013 vedtok Den norske kirke en liturgi for velsignelse av hus og hjem, som kan anvendes ved ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
There were few, if any, bookstores in Cairo that did not, in 2013, have a section designated to a category of books labelled adab sākhir. Their titles play on humor and familiar Egyptian references; they are often in the ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
The year 2017 is the 500th anniversary of the Lutheran Reformation. To mark the occasion, academic conferences have been held in all the Nordic countries, and books have been published on the history of the Reformation and ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
In 1792 the engraver P.L.Bombelli published a large collection of pictures and narratives about Roman madonnas that had been adorned with a golden crown. Since the early seventeenth century, such crowns had been distributed ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
The idea of history as magistra vitae – a collection of good and bad examples – was a central topos of historical writing in the West from antiquity till the late eighteenth century. The idea has served a number of different ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
Dette er en oppgave som tar for seg biografiske museer og den prosessen et privat hjem gjennomgår når det blir til et offentlig museum. Sentralt i denne prosessen står selve boligen som ikke lenger er et levende hjem, men ...