Blar i Department of Social Anthropology på tittel
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Social exclusion of the Chepangs in the era of post political revolution of Nepal- A case study of Dhading District
(Master thesis, 2014-06-19)The main objective of the present work is to investigate the mechanisms and processes of social exclusion of the Chepang people, one of the highly marginalized ethnic groups of Nepal. To do so, I examined the Chepang's ... -
The Social Life of Economic Inequalities in Contemporary Latin America: Decades of Change
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The social meanings of hula - Hawaiian traditions and politicized identities in Hilo
(Master thesis, 2010)The social meanings of hula, the Hawaiian dance and tradition, are many and diverse. While originally having the function of preserving stories, legends and myths of the past, it has faced many interpretations and ascribed ... -
Social protection. A case study of Asante Mampong
(Master thesis, 2014-06-29)ABSTRACT Studies have shown that formal insurance in developing countries are rare. As a result, insurance in these countries are usually achieved through reciprocal support arrangement where there is risk-pooling among ... -
Socio, a mi me falta... - Kamerat, eg manglar... Eit studium av gåver, nettverk og kapital på Cuba.
(Master thesis, 2008)Cubanarane lever i ein usikker kvardag, der "kvar trivialitet kan forvandle seg til eit stort problem" (cualquier cosas puede convertirse en un problemón). Derfor vert dei sosiale relasjonane og det personlege nettverket ... -
The Socio-Econonomic Impact of Migration on The Livelihoods of Karamajong Women And Children: Katwe Slums. "A Woman is a Warrior"
(Master thesis, 2016-06-16)The emphasis of my research is on the socio- economic livelihoods of the Karamajong women and children. In this male-dominated and impoverished region of Uganda, the women's burden is particularly heavy in terms of the ... -
Solidarity, Motivation and Community: An ethnographic study about environmental activists in the climate justice movement in Montreal Canada
(Master thesis, 2024-06-03)The climate movement is, in many aspects, a global movement. I find it particularly intriguing and fascinating to see how this movement manifests locally and how environmental activists are motivated to participate in this ... -
Som i en boble. Velstående colombianere - vold, usikkerhet og kamp om rom
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Som olje og vann: Møtet mellom russere og kinesere i den russiske byen Blagovesjtsjensk
(Master thesis, 2012-06-15)Denne avhandlingen er et ledd i nyere antropologisk forskning på grenseområder og på hvordan menneskene som bor i et grenseområde forholder seg til, og samarbeider med, personene på andre siden av grensen. Hovedvekten av ... -
“Sometimes it feels like life is going on without me”: An ethnographic study of violence, power, and migration in a Mexican border town.
(Master thesis, 2018-05-01)In this thesis I seek to understand how migrants—both migrants from Mexico, Central-American countries and migrants deported from the United States— experience their stay in Mexicali- a city at the border between Mexico ... -
Spa Pilgrimage
(Master thesis, 2013-05-25)This Master project is about different understandings of health and illness. Fieldwork was conducted at a holistic spa in Thailand, where the spa clientele was primarily women from Western countries. Several of the women ... -
Spatial Reconfigurations and New Social Formations: the Contemporary Urban Context of Kerala
(Doctoral thesis, 2013-05-22)Urbanisation and global relationships have had deep historical impacts all along the western coast of Indian peninsula in general and Kerala in particular. It is both inadequate and inaccurate to invest everything ‘urban’ ... -
Spørsmål om «ontologi»: Momenter til en realistisk antropologi
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015)The Norwegian Research Council has evaluated Norwegian anthropology and concluded that the discipline is ethnographically strong, but defensive when it comes to theoretical contributions. Researchers are now actively ... -
Standardizing responsibility through the stakeholder figure Norwegian hydropower in Turkey
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Through a multi-sited study of the Norwegian state-owned renewable energy corporation Statkraft, this article explores how the increasing embedding of corporate social responsibility in international guidelines impacts the ... -
State and media influence on the drawing of ethnic boundaries : kurdish work migrants on the Black Sea coast of Turkey
(Master thesis, 2012-07-30)In the Turkish Black Sea Region Kurdish agricultural workers and other ethnic groups interact and form relations. This study is focused on the effects of ethnic difference in the formation of these relations, groups' ... -
A State of Corruption? An Anthropology of the South Asian State
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Stories among drug addicts in Bergen
(Master thesis, 2017-06-07)To live a life is a constantly evolving project, where we develop and change from being to becoming, something new or a different version of who we were or want to be. We are all some version of a storyteller, but there ... -
Strangers among kindred family
(Master thesis, 2015-12-11)This thesis is a study of stigma, identity and consumption among North Korean defectors living an urban life in Seoul, South Korea. I wanted to explore the challenges North Korean defectors face being integrated into South ... -
"Stuck in thorns". The effects of power on Liberian refugees in Guinea
(Master thesis, 2013-06-26)Abstract This thesis is about refugees who fled from Liberia to Guinea to join the miserable sea of humanity" (Malkki 1996) from January 1990 when the Charles Taylor led a rebel war that began in December 1989. Essentially, ...