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Ane suqhʼ ile. I keep quiet. Focusing on womenʻs agency in western Tigray, North-Ethiopia
(Master thesis, 2004)"Ane suqh' ile. I keep quiet," women in Tigray, in North-Ethiopia often say, and implicitly under-communicate what they actually do. However, even if women seem to be culturally confined within the limits of a normative ... -
An Anthropology of Knowledge
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2002-02)Whereas previous Sidney Mintz lectures have celebrated Mintz’swork on inequality, racism, and ethnicity, I have chosen to speakto the broadest scope of his research and teaching in anthropology.A comparative perspective ... -
An Anthropology of Marketplace Behavior. Aspects of embeddedness in Norwegian entrepreneurship in the Baltics
(Doctoral thesis, 2012-03-16)Based on fieldwork undertaken between 2005 and 2008, this thesis provides an anthropological analysis of cross border Norwegian entrepreneurship in the Baltics in a timeframe that spans from the middle of the 1990s to 2008. ... -
Arbeid for å leve, overleve eller forandre verden?: En studie av rettferdig handel blant kunsthåndverkere i El Alto, Bolivia.
(Master thesis, 2008)Denne masteroppgaven har til hensikt å utforske hvordan det økonomiske forholdet rettferdig handel spilles ut og oppleves blant produsenter i Bolivia. Gjennom 6 måneders deltakende observasjon i en kunsthåndverksorganisasjon ... -
Bachata Life. Social identity in the Dominican Republic through the lens of a musical tradition
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Bandits of Mandiri : Analysis of a land occupation in Lore Lindu National Park, Indonesia
(Master thesis, 2013-12-17)This thesis explores different perspectives concerning power, communication and masculine identities in relation to an illegal occupation in Lore Lindu National Park in Central Sulawesi in Indonesia. The occupation started ... -
Bare Life: Life of the Urban poor during the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa
(Master thesis, 2021-12-15)This thesis is an investigation into topics that have been given new contexts and circumstances as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa. The thesis focuses on processes of marginalization, enduring inequalities, ... -
Barn av irregulære migranter - Ulikhet og ekskludering i møte med likhet og inkludering
(Master thesis, 2014-05-23)I denne masteroppgaven har jeg utforsket irregulære migranters hverdagsliv i Norge, med fokus på barn og skole. Hvordan kan en på samme tid være skoleelev og barn i en familie som har endelig avslag på asylsøknaden? Mitt ... -
Bateye Guarero: Identity-management, resources and agency in an inactive Dominican sugar bateye
(Master thesis, 2014-05-25)This thesis is about a sugarcane bateye situated in the inland province of Monte Plata in the Dominican Republic: Bateye Guarero. A bateye is an agricultural community in the midst of the sugarcane fields, created by the ... -
The Batswanas' encounter with Western medicine : cooperation or confrontation?
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Becoming 'Wild' at the Intersection of Knowledges : Coffee Rust Crisis in Costa Rica
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-08-18)This article explores the relationship between visualism, practice and knowledge through the specific case of the 2012–2013 coffee rust-epidemic and its repercussions among small-scale coffee farmers in Turrialba, Costa ... -
Becoming a returnee Cubarawi. Politics, Personhood and memory in 'Africa's last colony'
(Master thesis, 2014-06-17)For nearly 40 years, an estimated 165.000 Sahrawi have been living in refugee camps in the Algerian part of the Sahara desert, known as hamada. The refugee camps are under the government of the Polisario Front -the Sahrawi ... -
"Becoming urban". A study of post-relocation life and livelihood changes among former peasants in Chenggong, China
(Master thesis, 2014-06-19)This thesis presents an ethnographic study of post-relocation life and livelihood of the land-lost peasants" in Chenggong, China. The wider context for my study is the ongoing process of urbanization in the country. Drastic ... -
"Before there were no diseases" - Perceiving the Coffee Rust Epidemic in the Intersection of Knowledge Systems
(Master thesis, 2016-06-04)In January 2013, Costa Rica declared a state of emergency to combat the spread of a fungus manifesting itself on coffee plants. The fungus (Hemileia vastatrix) is called roya in Spanish (rust). Between 2012 and 2013, a ... -
Belonging, Hope, and the Future in South Caucasus. A Study of The First Post-War Generation of Abkhazia
(Master thesis, 2021-08-03)This thesis is an exploration of how various forms of belonging are being expressed among young adults in Abkhazia, a politically disputed state situated in South Caucasus. Abkhazia is de jure part of Georgia. In 1992, a ... -
Between a rock and a hard place: Undocumented migrants in Norway
(Master thesis, 2012-06-26)This thesis includes different aspects of living situation of undocumented migrants in Norway. It examines self-perception of undocumented migrants and the society's perception of them. It looks into the criminalisation ... -
Between social footprint and compliance, or “what IBAMA wants” Equinor Brazil's social sustainability policy
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)This article analyzes an “Environmental Education Project” run by the Norwegian state oil company Equinor targeting poor women in the seafood processing industry along the coastline adjacent to Equinor's offshore Peregrino ... -
Biting the dirty hand that feeds you Relations and Resistance in the Bidi Bidi refugee camp, Northern Uganda
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Bløming: stedstilhørighet og tradisjoner i en bygd i Hardanger
(Master thesis, 2013-06-24)Abstrakt I denne masteroppgaven har jeg studert stedstilhørighet og reproduksjon av tradisjoner i en bygd i Hardanger. Ved å kontekstualisere bøndenes arv av odelsgård og overføringen av gården til neste generasjon, viser ... -
Brajisalem: Biblical Cosmology, Power Dynamics and the Brazilian Political Imagination
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Based on fieldwork with Brazilian neo-Pentecostal pilgrims to the Holy Land and ongoing survey of social media in this article I argue that Brazilian neo-Pentecostals increasingly imagine Brazil as a Promised Land and the ...