Browsing Department of Social Anthropology by Title
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The Perfect Christian. An analysis of paradoxical aspects of charismatic christianity in the U.S.
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Performing us and the others. Latino identification through expressive culture in a Texan theater company
(Master thesis, 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 ... -
Permaculture on the Iberian Peninsula: Networks and praxis
(Master thesis, 2023-12-13)This thesis explores the networks of permaculture, those that are natural, social and a mix of the two. Permaculture design is one of several alternative agricultural practices, made in response to climate change and living ... -
Permanent Impermanence in the Anthropocene: The emergence of a guest-worker society in a Patagonian Mountain village
(Journal article, 2023)At a stage of capitalism where “the environment” emerges as an existential category, conservation policies become weaved into processes of expulsion. The idea that there is not enough for everyone reconfigures social ... -
Portals to the unseen Re-inventing ayahuasca practices, shamanism, and the anthropologist in the entheogenic field
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Porteño logics. The Meaning of Taste and Morality in Social Classification in Buenos Aires
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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 ... -
Primitivism prevails: The cultural problematization of Aboriginality
(Master thesis, 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 thesis, ... -
The Priviliged and the Poor. Being Rich amid the "lazy ignorant"
(Master thesis, 2009)The segregation of the privileged from the poor is found, produced and reproduced at several levels simultaneously. To notice who did what where, and with whom, was essential as I tried to learn the ways of my informants. ... -
Producing Desire: South Korea's Neoliberal Economy
(Master thesis, 2015-11-27)This thesis is an ethnographic exploration of contemporary processes of individualization and subjectification in relationship to how the South Korean economy is lived in social and cultural terms. The ethnographic material ... -
Projects, Donors, and Discourses: A Critical Look at Experiences and Representations in a Chinese Environmental NGO
(Master thesis, 2009-12-16)Why are there so many assumptions about NGOs and so fewattempts to describe the projects and procedures of specificNGOs? My thesis looks at the experiences of the leaders andworkers of a NGO in Yunnan, China, and seeks to ... -
Public education in latin america's lowest performing country. The Impact of inequality and violence among children and youth in Lima and Cusco in Peru
(Master thesis, 2014-08-01)Measurements of learning outcomes have found that too many children in Peru are graduating from primary school without having achieved competency in literacy or numeracy (Barrett, 2009). Results show that seven out of ten ... -
A Quest for Success in Urban China; a study of "young urban professionals" in Beijing
(Master thesis, 2013-12-16)In this thesis I examine how young urban professionals in Beijing relate to their experience of participating in the modern Chinese capitalist economy. Their experiences are seen along economic and social lines: from ... -
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 ... -
Rebel, rebel. Kvinner i Kairos liv og møte med seksuell trakassering of overgrep
(Master thesis, 2014-06-16)Seksuell trakassering og seksulisert vold varierer innenfor ulike etnografiske, kulturelle og sosioøkonomiske faktorer. Her forsøker jeg å forklare hvordan seksuell trakassering og overgrep må forstås i Kairo i 2012, og ... -
The remnants of colonial capital: Economic crisis and the social reproduction of alienation in a South Indian plantation belt
(Master thesis, 2010-06-14)This dissertation is concerned with the present-day situation of Tamil tea plantation workers in Kerala. The plantation Tamils, as they are known locally, belong to Dalits (ex-untouchable/outcaste) communities who have ... -
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 ... -
Revolusjon på la plaza, i hjemmet og i senga? Utfordring og reproduksjon av kjønnspraksis i Buenos Aires
(Master thesis, 2008)I denne teksten viser jeg hvordan kjønnspraksis og forestillinger om kjønn produseres, utfordres og reproduseres og endres blant unge mennesker i Buenos Aires, Argentina. Jeg ønsker å forstå hvilke forestillinger om kjønn ... -
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 ...