Browsing Department of Social Anthropology by Title
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Negotiating Urban Spaces. Xhosa migrants' movement in and through Cape Town's social and spatical structures, South Africa
(Master thesis, 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 ... -
Negotiating World Views: Christian Koyas and their Environment
(Master thesis, 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 ... -
The neo‐nationalist ascendency: further thoughts on class, value and the return of the repressed
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Notes on a more equitable higher education
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Nye rom for kommunikasjon, inntrykk og meiningsytring. Ei studie av internett og mobiltelefonen sin innverknad i Zanzibar by
(Master thesis, 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 ... -
Nyliberal Transformasjon av Landskap i Appolonia, Ghana: Meningsskapende Fremtider og Produksjonen av Livsverdener
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Occupy Till He Comes – A Patriot Spirit An Ethnographic Study of Christian Nationalism, Culture War and the End Time Church
(Master thesis, 2024-06-03)This thesis examines the intricate interplay between religious faith and the dynamics of Christian nationalism within the context of the Patriot Church, a prominent religious community in the United States. Through ... -
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 ... -
On responsibility and humanity: Calling a colleague to account
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The ‘onto-logics’ of perspectival multi-naturalism: A realist critique
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)In this article, I argue for a realist anthropology based on the recognition of mind-independent reality; pitching this premise against concerted anti-dualist tendencies in contemporary anthropological thinking. I spell ... -
Order and contingencies: children's play in Australian child care centres
(Master thesis, 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 ... -
“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
(Master thesis, 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 ... -
Paradoxes of a Modern Viking. A Study of a Living History Museum and Reenactment
(Master thesis, 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 in ... -
Pass og citadell: franskbruk i Tunis
(Master thesis, 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 ... -
The Pastoral rehab: Drug addiction, therapeutic discourses and self-transformation
(Master thesis, 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 ... -
Pastoralists in Violent Defiance of the State. The case of the Karimojong in Northeastern Uganda
(Doctoral thesis, 2010-05-07)This thesis explores the issue of persistent violence between pastoralists andthe state in north eastern Uganda, probing why after many years of trying to settle theproblems of cattle raiding, armed violence and disorder ... -
Patronage, contextual flexibility and organisational innovation in Lebanese protected areas management
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 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 ... -
People as infrastructure An ethnographic study of urban inequality in the neighborhoods of Dakar
(Master thesis, 2024-06-03)This thesis explores the ways in which security, class and prestige, inequality and forms of housing is structured and lived in times of urbanization and development in urban Dakar. I view these topics in the different ... -
People vs. peoples: sacrifice and the foundations for sovereignty in 1640’s England and contemporary northeast Syria
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Engaging with state-centric perspectives on sovereignty, and particularly Giorgio Agamben's work, this article argues that despite sovereignty's permanence at the level of the state, the principles upon which it is built ... -
The Perfect Christian. An analysis of paradoxical aspects of charismatic christianity in the U.S.
(Master thesis, 2013-05-26)abstrakt skal ettersendes