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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 ... -
Moving in spaces: young women's aspirations towards an Acholi post-war sociality in Northern Uganda.
(Master thesis, 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 ... -
Navigating Multiple Temporalities: Continuities, Ruptures and Rituals among Young Alteños in Morales' Bolivia
(Master thesis, 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 ... -
Navigering av grenser mellom vennskaps- og arbeidsrelasjoner på jobben - en utgreeing av to bedrifters sosiale arena.
(Master thesis, 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 ... -
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 ... -
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 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 ...