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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
This article examines the cultural history of the colour red in pre-imperial China by investigating the interrelationship between the materiality of the colour environment and the symbolism of colour language. Linguistically, ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
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This introduction to this special issue considers various approaches to understanding ‘the field’ as an object of archaeological and anthropological research, and researchers’ own engagements with it. We draw out some ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
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This article examines a largely unexplored component of China’s classical garden system – the gardens of salt merchants in Tianjin during the Qing Dynasty (1636-1911). Beyond existing works, which tend to focus on imperial ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
In response to the needs for "relieving Beijing of functions nonessential to its role as the capital", Beijing has fulfilled a series of tasks including old urban area renewal and population dispersion in the central urban ...
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Antimicrobial resistance in M. genitalium is a growing clinical problem. We investigated the mutations associated with macrolide and fluoroquinolone resistance, two commonly used medical regimens ...
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The present article is an attempt at a meta-historical analysis of the ‘Red Age’ (1923 to the late 1930s) experiences in colonial-period Korea. The article focuses on contextualizing the experiences of colonial-age Korea’s ...
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Some scholars have recently discussed the supposed failure of socialism in South Korea. By failure, they tend to refer to the low parliamentary representation of social-democratic parties in today’s South Korea, as well ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
In March 2015, in the midst of a political transition, Tunisia was rocked by a terrorist attack at the Bardo Museum in downtown Tunis in which 21 people were killed. How did Tunisian journalists manage the tension between ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
Journalists are currently facing a multitude of threats. Commonly, these are considered in terms of harassment and bodily harms such as incarceration and murder of journalists. In the Bangladeshi case we argue that the ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
Southeast Asian countries were articulated with the Australia–China value chain for educational services early in the COVID-19 outbreak, when travelers from China could enter Australia only via stopovers in third countries. ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2020)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
Migration processes are often said to involve elements of choice and constraint in variable measure. However, this bipolar framing may fail to capture the twists and turns in many migrants’ erratic lives. In this article, ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
In the early decades of the eighteenth century, small pox inoculation was introduced into northern Europe from the Middle East. The method consisted of grafting infected matter from a person who suffered from smallpox into ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
n this introductory essay, we will present a translational medical humanities approach where the humanities are not only an auxiliary to medical science and practice, but also an interdisciplinary space where both medicine ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
This article proposes the concept of order as a major chronotope of Ottoman political writing which has shaped temporal projections such as decline and renewal from the seventeenth century onwards. In chronological order, ...
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The Norwegian St. Olav Ways are currently the largest Northern European project re-institutionalizing pilgrimage as cultural heritage, providing a new framework for vernacular religious practices to a wide audience. In ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
This article explores the encounters between a Polish-Danish painter and an Egyptian princess in the second part of the nineteenth century, at the junction of Orientalism, modernism and Islamic reformism. The painter ...
A Tibetan village on the Sino-Tibetan borderland : a study of social organization, narrative and local identity in Lhagang Restricted Access
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2019)
How have local people in Lhagang, a Tibetan village in Sichuan Province of China, experienced, responded to, and been transformed by the changes that were caused by the state-imposed urbanization policies? How have they ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
This chapter aims to pose a question and state a hypothesis rather than to come up with a conclusive answer. I wish to draw attention to some interesting parallels that may be observed when comparing a number of core ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2019)
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This article discusses the changing significance of sacred groves (utaki) in contemporary Okinawa. Until recently, utaki were the domain of female ritual practitioners (kaminchu or noro), and men were not allowed to set ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
Triangulating narratives from a prospective mining site in northern Norway, this article works to identify (and render graspable) a particular effect of retroactive shock—tracing its resonance through experiences of chemical ...
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The sacred grove Sēfa Utaki was one of the most important worship sites of the Ryukyu Kingdom (1429–1879). In 2000 it was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List, and in recent years it has seen a dramatic increase in ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
In late 2017, protesting the ongoing forced slaughter of indigenous reindeer herds in Norway, a young Sámi artist traveled to Oslo to set up a “curtain” of some 400 reindeer skulls in front of the national parliament. The ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
High levels of PM2.5 exposure and associated health risks are of great concern in rural China. For this study, we used portable PM2.5 monitors for monitoring concentrations online, recorded personal time‐activity patterns, ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
The article describes an experiment in captive-bred supplementation of a highly endangered wild bird species that took place in the Norwegian Arctic a few years ago. Following the fate of a single bird, over the course of ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
This article explores the way that members of a political milieu of the New Christian Right in Norway reason about an alliance between local and global forces to open the borders to Muslim immigrants as part ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
Can grain crops be increased? The issue was heatedly debated in 18th century Denmark-Norway, both for patriotic and economic reasons. The historian Gerhard Schøning (1722–80) answered affirmatively. Chopping down much of ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
Environmental protection agencies around the globe are establishing different methods for measuring particulates, and then integrating those measurements into a single air quality index with other pollutants. At the same ...
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The early Chinese idea of non-action refers not to spontaneity, as has been argued, but to a relation between agency and spontaneity. Non-action needs to be seen in connection with the idea of emotion, which refers to the ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
There is a dearth of judicial deliberation on article § 112 of the Constitution of Norway, the so-called environmental paragraph. It is consequently a need to examine to what extent this article protects endangered species ...
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In this article I present the transformations and continuities in the cult of Legba in Brazil, an African entity of Fon-Ewe origin, paying special attention to its practice in the Maranhense mine drum. I start from the ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
The missionaries arriving in the Arabian Peninsula dreamt of performing «the greatest marvel of missionary work ever witnessed», but their mission became in the end «notorious for its lack of success». The story of this ...
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The Anthropocene is regularly invoked as an occasion for the rethinking of the Anthropos, for instance through a reexamination of human origin stories. This article examines one such anthropological origin story; the ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
The Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) system is a curious institution: often ridiculed as a decorative “flower vase” for the one-Party regime, or, at best, a networking club meant to appease elite ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
In this article, we discuss the pitfalls and benefits of conceptual history as an approach to Ottoman studies. While Ottoman studies is blossoming and using a wider set of tools to study the Ottoman past, Ottoman intellectual ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
I flyktningleirane i Libanon utfordrar yngre opposisjonskrefter maktmonopolet til den eldre generasjonen i den palestinske nasjonalrørsla.
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
Digital technology and Internet access have created new possibilities for museums and archives for digitization of their collections. Steadily, more museums are experimenting with inviting their audiences to participate ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2019)
For this thesis, I have edited three chapters of the Mūlasarvāstivādavinaya from the facsimile edition of the Gilgit manuscripts viz., Karmavastu, Pudgalavastu and Pārivāsikavastu, along with their Tibetan and English ...
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This article provides the first international overview and detailed discussion of teaching in the environmental humanities (EH). It is divided into three parts. The first offers a series of regional overviews: where, when, ...
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Tidligere forskning på South Park og religion har basert seg på en grunnleggende antakelse om at denne serien fremmer sekulær humanisme. Denne artikkelen kritiserer dette premisset. Basert på en sammenstilling av seks ...
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Omkring 1900 ble det stiftet mange regionale folkemuseer i Norge. Nå, mer enn 100 år seinere, blir deres grunnleggelse og geografiske arbeidsområde ofte tatt for gitt. Denne artikkelen diskuterer et utvalg museumstilblivelser ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
This article examines how front line Chinese social workers navigate between several professional ideals and mobilise different values through their everyday practices. Often starting the work without formal qualifications, ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
Why and how do the tiers of local government, and the modes of governance evolving around them, occupy a critical role in China’s authoritarian state structure? This chapter approaches this question by looking at one of ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2019)
How does the Chinese government, on occasion, manage to spirit away China’s immense air pollution problem? In order to ensure that blue skies will greet participants in international mega-events in China, such as the 2008 ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
A sizable body of popular and academic literature explores how containers have reconstituted the spaces through which they travel. However, the space within containers remains largely unexamined. This article leverages the ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
Air pollution in Chinese cities has become a major topic of public debate and political concern. At the same time, few rural areas are subjected to measurements of ambient air quality, and policy documents and media rarely ...
(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 ...
(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 ...
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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, ...
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(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 ...
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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” ...
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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 ...
(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 / 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 ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
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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. ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
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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?
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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, ...
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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 ...
(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 ...
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Dannelsen av Israel førte til at palestinsk klanterritorialitet fikk fornyet politisk betydning.
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«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, ...
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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 ...
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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. ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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)
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 ...
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«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, ...
(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)
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)
(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 ...
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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 ...
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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’ ...
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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 / 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 ...
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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 ...