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Learning to be Bad and Mexican. Management of Identities and Behavior in a Texan High School
(Master thesis, 2003)The material for this thesis has been collected through fieldwork among Mexican-American kids, Mexicans in this thesis, in Austin, Texas in the USA, during the period from June to December 1999. During this period I visited ... -
A lesser human? Utopian registers of urban reconfiguration in Maputo, Mozambique
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021-03-24)In the age of climate change, human life’s pliability is also re‐shaping anthropological debates. For debates centring on the urban domain, questions revolve around flexibility, adaptability and resilience, while in work ... -
Levende vann og tapte penger. Diskurs rundt naturforvaltning på lokalplan
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Life in transition: the case of young Eritreans in Norway
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‘Like Playing a Game Where You Don't Know the Rules’: Investing Meaning in Intercultural Cash Transactions Between Tourists and Trobriand Islanders
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-08-20)When tourists visit cultural tourism destinations, the primary form of interaction between visitors and local residents is in the exchange of money for material objects and performances. While purchase of cultural commodities ... -
“Like playing a game where you don’t know the rules”: Investing meaning in intercultural cash transactions between tourists and Trobriand Islanders
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-08-20)When tourists visit cultural tourism destinations, the primary form of interaction between visitors and local residents is in the exchange of money for material objects and performances. While purchase of cultural commodities ... -
Liminality and the asylum process in Switzerland
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-06)The process of turning asylum seekers into refugees involves a complex management and bureaucratic machinery that often creates prolonged periods of uncertainty (social, legal and economic) as people are reclassified and ... -
Living in the Margins of the State
(Doctoral thesis, 2021-02-26)This thesis explores the various forms of state manifestation in the lives of the Uzbek population living in the borderlands of Kyrgyzstan. With a particular focus on the stateless persons amongst this group, the thesis ... -
Love and responsibility: an ethnography of masculinities and marriage in urban Egypt
(Master thesis, 2014-06-11)This thesis deals with masculinity in Cairo, Egypt. It argues that masculinity has an interactional basis, in the sense of G.H. Mead's theory of the self. (1934) The thesis is an ethnographic exploration of some interactional ... -
Love Taken for Granted. Relationships between Fathers and Adolescent Sons among Pakeha New Zealanders
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Mahishi's rage: Communitas and protest at Sabarimala, Kerala
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)In September 2018, the Supreme Court of India lifted the ban on females of menstrual age entering the sacred site to Lord Ayyappan at Sabarimala in the Indian state of Kerala. Violent protests, for and against, engulfed ... -
Making and breaking alliances: on valuation in hegemonic projects
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)In public discourse, the polarizations that accompany the success of authoritarian populisms in recent years are often portrayed as the result of “culture wars” rooted in incompatible values. This article approaches the ... -
Making and managing femaleness, fertility and motherhood within an urban Gambian area
(Doctoral thesis, 2008-06-12) -
The Making and Unmaking of Kuttanad : Development and Transformations Below Sea Level
(Doctoral thesis, 2020-09-18)The aim of my research is to explore the transformation of the physical and social landscapes in Kuttanad, which is closely related to the political and economic dynamisms in Keralam, India and the rest of the world. By ... -
Mama, I wont't go to school. Conflictual relations between education and fishing among the children of Anomabo in the central region of Ghana
(Master thesis, 2014-06-20)It is on records that the Central region along the coastal stretch of Ghana was the first to have received formal education during the colonial period as early as the 18th century. This is evident by the fact that the ... -
- Man må passe - Om kvinneidentitet i et mannsmiljø. En studie om kvinnene på Ekofisk
(Master thesis, 2004)Det er en del prosjekter eller virksomheter som setter større spor enn andre når det gjelder nasjonens økonomi og identitetsbygging. Er ”verdien” i disse virksomhetene stor, blir også fortellingene og mytene mange. Sjøfart ... -
Managing chosen life(spans) - Cryopreservation in Europe
(Master thesis, 2023-05-24)This thesis explores how technoscience is used to extend life and control death through human cryopreservation (cryonics). It is based on multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Berlin, Germany, the United Kingdom, ... -
Managing the threat of violence in Guatemala: Violence as part of women's everyday lives
(Master thesis, 2014-07-30)In this thesis I explore the prevalence of violence against women in Guatemala. Violence is considered a part of everyday life because it has become normalized. By normal" I refer to both the frequency of the act and its ... -
Maneuvering Contested Space and Community An Ethnographic Study of the Underground Electronic Music Scene in Itaewon
(Master thesis, 2023-06-14)This thesis examines the dynamics of the underground electronic music scene in Itaewon, Seoul, South Korea, within the framework of contested space. Building upon the theories of Henri Lefebvre, Anthony Cohen, and Sarah ...