Browsing Department of Social Anthropology by Title
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Moderne tyrkere i Norge. "Tyrkiskhet" – Grunnleggende og vedvarende. En studie av tyrkiske kvinner og deres forhold til sin tyrkiske bakgrunn
(The University of Bergen, 2005)Master thesis -
The morality of mweki: Performing sexuality in the ‘Islands of Love’
(Wiley, 2016-08)Trobriand dance is a key cultural expression and a means of communicating subjectivity in a number of ways: it expresses aspects of kinship, gender, morality, and ideas about modernity and primitivity. In a region with a ...Journal article -
Moving in spaces: young women's aspirations towards an Acholi post-war sociality in Northern Uganda.
(The University of Bergen, 2012-06-21)Northern Uganda has gone through more than 20 years of insurgencies and unrest. On the ground, the war may be understood as a fight between the government army and the Lord's Resistance Army in which the civilians were ...Master thesis -
Navigating Multiple Temporalities: Continuities, Ruptures and Rituals among Young Alteños in Morales' Bolivia
(The University of Bergen, 2014-12-12)At issue in this thesis is the lives of the first urban generation in an ex-miners' neighbourhood of El Alto, Bolivia. Previous studies on temporality and memory in the Andes have not focused specifically on the category ...Master thesis -
Navigering av grenser mellom vennskaps- og arbeidsrelasjoner på jobben - en utgreeing av to bedrifters sosiale arena.
(The University of Bergen, 2015-04-30)Dette er en antropologisk studie, basert på mitt feltarbeid ved to norske bedrifter. Jeg har i denne masteroppgaven utforsket forholdet mellom arbeid og vennskap, ved å forsøke å analysere disse domenene som et felles ...Master thesis -
Negotiating Urban Spaces. Xhosa migrants' movement in and through Cape Town's social and spatical structures, South Africa
(The University of Bergen, 2015-06-12)This thesis is an ethnographic exploration of social and spatial structures in Cape Town and individuals' personal experiences in the urban city spaces. The Apartheid regime was formally abolished in 1994 but the legacy ...Master thesis -
Negotiating World Views: Christian Koyas and their Environment
(The University of Bergen, 2007)The thesis centres around a number of conversion stories that were related to me by Christian Koyas, most of them newly converted. While primarily attempting to understand their motivations for turning to Christianity, the ...Master thesis -
Nye rom for kommunikasjon, inntrykk og meiningsytring. Ei studie av internett og mobiltelefonen sin innverknad i Zanzibar by
(The University of Bergen, 2010-12-06)Mobiltelefon og internett opnar for nye inntrykk, og fører til større moglegheiter til auka kommunikasjon. Samstundes fører verktøya med seg sut for at aspekt ved samfunn skal endre seg i for stor grad. På Zanzibar har det ...Master thesis -
Order and contingencies: children's play in Australian child care centres
(The University of Bergen, 2010-11-15)In this thesis I explore children's play in two Australian child care centres. What is presented here is an analysis of children's experiences and some of the diverse ways in which children constitute their own ideas and ...Master thesis -
“Palestine is everything: my homeland, my religion, my tradition. Without it I am a refugee” Drømmen om retur blant palestinske flyktninger i Rashediyeh, Sør-Libanon
(The University of Bergen, 2010)Etter "den store katastrofen" (al-nakbah) i 1948, har Palestinere spredt seg utover hele verden, flesteparten i Syria, Jordan og Libanon. I Libanon har det nye hjemmet blitt skapt innenfor flyktningleirer, hvor de har blitt ...Master thesis -
Paradoxes of a Modern Viking. A Study of a Living History Museum and Reenactment
(The University of Bergen, 2016-05-27)This thesis thematises the role of the museum and how it, through hundreds of years, has changed from not only being concerned with material things, but also how immaterial heritage, that which is intangible, emerged ...Master thesis -
Pass og citadell: franskbruk i Tunis
(The University of Bergen, 2008-10-05)Nasjonalstater har ofte blitt bygget på forestillingen om ett felles språk. Med et slikt premiss ser man bort fra språklig heterogenitet innenfor nasjonalstatenes grenser. I mange sammenhenger har det vært mer vanlig å se ...Master thesis -
The Pastoral rehab: Drug addiction, therapeutic discourses and self-transformation
(The University of Bergen, 2014-08-04)Abstract My research project involves ethnographic work focused on the culture and social relationships of drug addicts and their responses to different treatment practices. I conducted six months of fieldwork in San ...Master thesis -
Pastoralists in Violent Defiance of the State. The case of the Karimojong in Northeastern Uganda
(The University of Bergen, 2010-05-07)This thesis explores the issue of persistent violence between pastoralists and the state in north eastern Uganda, probing why after many years of trying to settle the problems of cattle raiding, armed violence and disorder ...Doctoral thesis -
Patronage, contextual flexibility and organisational innovation in Lebanese protected areas management
(Wolters Kluwer, 2014)The Lebanese Shouf Biosphere Reserve (SBR) counts among the most successful Middle Eastern conservation projects today. This article describes the evolution and contemporary management of conservation in Shouf. Using SBR ...Journal article -
The Perfect Christian. An analysis of paradoxical aspects of charismatic christianity in the U.S.
(The University of Bergen, 2013-05-26)abstrakt skal ettersendesMaster thesis -
Performing us and the others. Latino identification through expressive culture in a Texan theater company
(The University of Bergen, 2011-06-14)When represented in media, Latinos in the United States are often associated with immigration, border control, drug dealing, gangs or the rising use of Spanish in the U.S. The large and heterogeneous Latino population has ...Master thesis -
Porteño logics. The Meaning of Taste and Morality in Social Classification in Buenos Aires
(The University of Bergen, 2003)Master thesis -
Praktfulle Emirer og Melkepatriotisme: Qatar i krise, forestilt fellesskap og hverdagsnasjonalisme
(University of Oslo Library, 2017)I ukene etter at Saudi-Arabia, De forente arabiske emirater, Bahrain og Egypt innførte en storstilt boikott av Qatar, har en voldsom og personfokusert nasjonalisme blomstret opp i det lille landet. Toppdrevet regimedyrking ...Journal article -
Primitivism prevails: The cultural problematization of Aboriginality
(The University of Bergen, 2011-02-06)Contemporary Darwin is characterised by racial, that is socially constructed notions of culture, structures that are partly produced by stereotypes through misperceptions on the contents of cultural capital. In this ...Master thesis
