Browsing Department of Social Anthropology by Document Types "Peer reviewed"
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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 ... -
‘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 ... -
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 ... -
Miku's Mask: Fictional Encounters in Children's Costume Play
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-11-03)Children’s engagement with Japanese toys and fictional characters has taken on new significance in the age of YouTube. Drawing on ethnographic research on technology-mediated play among 8- and 9-year-olds in Norway, this ... -
«Min haplogruppe» - Biologi, slektskap og kulturell identitet i lys av genetisk genealogi
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-03-20)Artikkelen omhandler genetisk genealogi, det vil si genetisk testing som gjør det mulig for slektsgranskere å spore «opprinnelse» i historisk og førhistorisk tid. Jeg drøfter hvordan de tre vanligste metodene som tilbys – ... -
The morality of mweki: Performing sexuality in the ‘Islands of Love’
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 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 ... -
The neo‐nationalist ascendency: further thoughts on class, value and the return of the repressed
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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 ... -
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 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 ... -
Praktfulle Emirer og Melkepatriotisme: Qatar i krise, forestilt fellesskap og hverdagsnasjonalisme
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 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 ... -
Re-analysing the Baining: The Mytho-Poetics of Race, Gender and Art
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)This article criticises primitivist caricatures of the Baining in Melanesia as a society that lacks exegesis, symbolic logics, religion, structures of power and control, and even an interest in play. The mytho-poetics of ... -
Returning to Nature. Post-carbon Utopias in Svalbard, Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)While industrial closures in past decades were legitimized through an emphasis on economic motives, current closures are often framed within an emphasis on ‘green transition’, that is, through prefigurative discourses about ... -
The River, the Water and the Crocodile in Marovo Lagoon
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Rooted flexibility: social reproduction, violence and gendered work in the Indian city
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Drawing on feminist marxist and feminist geography scholarship the article develops the concept 'rooted flexibility' to examine the latent frictions between flexible labour regimes and the rooted, gendered demands of social ... -
The Social Life of Economic Inequalities in Contemporary Latin America: Decades of Change
(Approaches to Social Inequality and Difference, Book; Peer reviewed, 2018)