Department of Social Anthropology
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A Tale of an Officer and a Gentleman: Ambiguous Masculinities Among Young Rugby Players
(Master thesis, 2022-08-31) -
Lavaland : Vernacular Seismology in Volatile Volcanic Environments in Puna, Hawai'i
(Doctoral thesis, 2022-09-23)Vulkanen Kīlauea på Hawaiʻi’s Big Island er en av de mest aktive vulkanene i verden. Folk har bodd i høyrisikoområder i Punadistriktet, som ligger på nordsiden av denne vulkanen, i over 1000 år. Denne avhandlingen handler ... -
Ofre for menneskehandel og sårbarhetsbegrepet: en etnografisk studie av mennesker i prekære livssituasjoner
(Master thesis, 2022-08-01)Denne oppgaven fokuserer på hvordan sårbarhetsbegrepet og ideen om hva en sårbar situasjon innebærer, påvirker flere faser i arbeidet med menneskehandel i Norge. Oppgaven er basert på feltarbeid utført i Oslo, ved en ... -
“Problem or Resource?” - An anthropological journey through, and with, oil -
(Master thesis, 2022-08-01)This thesis explores narratives in and around the Norwegian oil industry, with a particular focus on the industrial park in Mongstad and based on multi-sited methods, brief ethnographic fieldwork stints as well as digital ... -
Et hjem for familien: en etnografisk studie av hjem og hjemlighet blant marokkanske kvinner i Granada
(Master thesis, 2022-08-01)Denne oppgaven handler om hvordan kvinnelige migranter fra Marokko skaper et hjem i Spania gjennom en rekke ulike homing-prosesser. Basert på et etnografisk feltarbeid utført i Granada i det sørlige Spania, utforsker jeg ... -
"Det sku bo folk i husan" - Minner og materialitet fra gjenreisningstiden på Sørøya
(Master thesis, 2022-08-01)Det har gått 77 år siden de første nordtromsværingene og finnmarkingene reiste tilbake til sine hjemsteder for å bygge opp husene og livene sine igjen i et landskap som besto av brannruiner. I denne oppgaven undersøkes det ... -
Erfaringer med endometriose blant kvinner i Norge: En studie om affekt og kroppen
(Master thesis, 2022-08-01)Denne masteroppgaven er tuftet på dyptgående intervjuer med kvinner i Norge diagnostisert med endometriose. Endometriose har flere ganger blitt regnet som en av ‘verdens mest smertefulle tilstander’ og forekommer som følger ... -
Civil war and the non-linearity of time: approaching a Mozambican politics of irreconciliation
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)At least 1 million people died during the Mozambican civil war (1976/7-92). Unfolding after gaining independence from Portugal (1975) and alongside experiments with Afro-socialism in the 1980s, the war, despite its brutality, ... -
Cracks in the System and Anthropology. A response to Bråten
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)We begin by thanking our colleague Eldar Bråten for taking the time to read and comment on our article with such thoroughness. We continue right away with a response. A key aspect of Bråten’s critique is his claim that it ... -
An Ethnography of Energy: Manifestations of Spirits in Norwegian Spiritualism
(Master thesis, 2022-06-01) -
“We are nothing without our Islands”: Challenges and Crises in the Marshall Islands
(Master thesis, 2022-06-01)Abstract: This thesis explores the themes of challenges and crises in the Marshall Islands. Through ethnographic data based on participant observation primarily in Majuro, the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI), I study ... -
Middleman Minority Nation : Globalization and Social Democracy in Singapore
(Doctoral thesis, 2022-05-06)The Singaporean state is a social democracy with middleman minority characteristics. This thesis argues that it is the fusion of these two – the culture of the middleman minority, and the statist corporatism of social ... -
Notes on a more equitable higher education
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The Human Version 2.0: AI, Humanoids, and Immortality
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)This article investigates new ethnography on AI development relating to imaginaries of technoscientific forms of immortality. As a Think Piece in Analytics, it engages in a somewhat experimental comparative endeavor as I ... -
The Instability of Values: Tradition, Autonomy and the Dynamics of Sociality in the Philippine Highlands
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)What can we learn about values and how they shape sociality by looking at a murder? In this article, I look closer at the different and conflicting values involved in the social events leading up to an accidental killing ... -
Violent masculinities: Gendered dynamics of policing in Rio de Janeiro
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Historically, policing in Rio de Janeiro has been shaped by the equation of racialized violence and masculinity. Attempts to reform the police have paradoxically drawn on forms of male violence that are centered on the ... -
The neo‐nationalist ascendency: further thoughts on class, value and the return of the repressed
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021) -
Ensomhetens kultur
(Master thesis, 2021-12-15) -
“The Streets Will Always be Ours:” Collective Action and Protest Practices in Barcelona
(Master thesis, 2021-12-15)By focusing on collective action in public space, and how it is used to organise collective actions, this thesis explores the streets in Barcelona's role in maintaining the political struggle between the Spanish State and ... -
God will reward you: Muslim practices of caring for precarious migrants in the context of secular suspicion
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)In recent years, Muslims have become more visibly invested in humanitarian work in France. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Marseille, this article examines local initiatives to care for precarious others whose lives are ...
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