Blar i Department of Social Anthropology på tittel
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Mellom einskap og ulikskap. Eit studium av unge politisk aktive eksiltibetanarar i India
(Master thesis, 2009-06-10)Denne avhandlinga handlar om unge politisk aktive eksiltibetanarar og er basert på eit feltarbeid i byen McLeod Ganj i Nord-India våren 2008. Avhandlinga tek for seg korleis dei unge tibetanarane handterer den sterke ... -
Mellom flyktige og faste forbindelser : etableringer, vedlikehold og endringer av sosiale relasjoner via Internet Relay Chat
(Master thesis, 2004)In this paper I attempt I to explore aspects of the interaction between participants who meet by the means of Internet Relay Chat (IRC). IRC are channels through the Internet, where participants interact synchronously by ... -
Middleman Minority Nation : Globalization and Social Democracy in Singapore
(Doctoral thesis, 2022-05-06)The Singaporean state is a social democracy with middleman minority characteristics. This thesis argues that it is the fusion of these two – the culture of the middleman minority, and the statist corporatism of social ... -
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 – ... -
Modern boats in African greatlakes: Local ecological knowledge and the management of fisheries resources in Lake Victoria, Uganda.
(Master thesis, 2010-07-01)Abstract Traditional access to resource utilization and management in Lake Victoria is currently under attack. The customary system rules and regulations are being impaired through the adoption of conventional science, ... -
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 ...