Blar i Department of Social Anthropology på tittel
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Fra knogler til kosmologier - et interview med Fredrik Barth
(Journal article, 2004-03) -
Fra tradisjon til attraksjon. Turismens påvirkning på autentisitet og tradisjoner på Gozo.
(Master thesis, 2016-05-26)Denne oppgaven tar for seg hvordan turisme påvirker tradisjonelle produkter og festivaler på Gozo. Gozo er en øy i øygruppen Malta. Gozo blir markedsført som et sted med tradisjonelle og kulturelle attraksjoner. Oppgaven ... -
Fracking Lancashire: The planning process, social harm and collective trauma
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)To date there have been very few studies that have sought to investigate the crimes, harms and human rights violations associated with the process of ‘extreme energy’, whereby energy extraction methods grow more ‘unconventional’ ... -
Frivillig arbeid med migranter. Kaffe, kunnskap og omsorg
(Master thesis, 2018-11-27)Denne oppgaven tar for seg en gruppe mennesker som jobber som frivillige ved tre organisasjoner i Norge. Oppgaven belyser fremveksten av frivillig arbeid på migrasjonsområdet i Norge, og hvilken betydning dette arbeidet ... -
From Clans to Co-ops: Confiscated Mafia Land in Sicily
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From Marikana to London. The Anti-Blackness of Mining Finance
(Doctoral thesis, 2019-06-14)On the 16th of August 2012, thirty-four striking mineworkers were shot dead by police forces in Marikana in South Africa during a strike against Lonmin, a British mining company. The massacre was reminiscent of the days ... -
From mice-eaten passports to fingerprint scanning: fluctuating state presence and 'entangled documents' along the Kyrgyz–Uzbek border
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)This article focuses on engagement with identity documents among the rural Uzbek population in the borderlands of Kyrgyzstan. By exploring the materiality of the documents and people’s concern with these material artefacts ... -
From Victim to Survivor: Healing and Recovery in a Drug Addiction Treatment Program in San Francisco
(Master thesis, 2008)In this thesis I explore clients’ participation in therapy groups at a drug treatment program in San Francisco. Based on six months of ethnographic fieldwork, following women in their daily attempts at “working the program”, ... -
Garden metaphysics: Myth and Ritual among the Awajun People of the Peruvian High Jungle
(Master thesis, 2019-09-21)This master thesis explores the intricate ways in which the Awajun people of the Peruvian high jungle practice subsistence gardening. The Awajun garden comprises a dazzling display of flora heterogeneity, though the most ... -
The Gaze. Unfolding Realms of Enquiry
(Doctoral thesis, 2008-06-27)This text probes into the phenomenon of seeking, as it is narrated by, and manifesting itselfamong, people who have visited Norwegian Buddhist groups to various extent. Seeking maymanifest itself in a multitude of activities, ... -
Gender and Ecological Dimensions of Oil in the L.Albert Region.
(Master thesis, 2012-08-10)Abstract The oil industry is extractive as well as capital intensive, and it often seeks to serve the interests of those controlling the means of production at the expense of other players/stakeholders. The activities of ... -
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 ... -
Goddesses of North Malabar. An anthropological study on kinship and ritual in North Malabar
(Master thesis, 2016-12-21)This study explores the relationship between kinship and the ritual theyyam worship of North Malabar region in the state of Kerala, India. Theyyam is a socio-religious ritual in which mythological, divine, ancestral, animal, ... -
Going to ‘Pentecost’: how to study Pentecostalism – in Melanesia, for example
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018-03)In this article, I question regional context as primary context in anthropological analyses. I argue that the idea of historical continuity in a geographical locality/region might prevent us from understanding not only ... -
Good Game, Well Played: A Ethnographic Study of Collegiate Esport in Southern California
(Master thesis, 2018-06-12)Anthropologists have previously engaged in virtual fieldwork in order to discover and document different large online worlds such as World of Warcraft (Nardi 2010), Everquest (Taylor 2006), Second Life (Boellstroff 2008). ... -
Goodness we a deal with! - En studie av jamaicanske artisters verbale kamp mot Babylon og jakten på suksess
(Master thesis, 2008-06-19)Denne studien tar utgangspunkt i noen uetablerte reggaeartister i konteksten av en fattigdoms- og voldspreget "inner-city community" utenfor Kingston, Jamaica. Feltarbeidet ble utført i perioden august 2005 t.o.m. februar ... -
Governing Rural Health: Making Manageable Citizens in Colca Valley, Peru
(Master thesis, 2017-04-26)This thesis is about public healthcare in the Andes and how women in the Colca Valley, an area located in the southern region of Arequipa, are made subjects by health-development projects Women in the Andes, especially ... -
Grassroots Politics and Oil Culture in Venezuela. The Revolutionary Petro-State
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Great expectations: Migrant parents and parent-school cooperation in Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)One long-standing characteristic of schools in Norway is inclusive education as a primary goal. The last years, the Norwegian government has emphasised increased parent-school cooperation as a way to limit risks, i.e. of ...