Blar i Department of Social Anthropology på tittel
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Buddhism in Popular Culture. The case of Sri Lankan "Tovil dance"
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Bula, vavalagi! Turisme, møte, kategoriseringar og makt i Yasawa, Fiji
(Master thesis, 2010-06-18)Denne avhandlinga er basert på eit feltarbeid på Fiji våren 2008. Temaet sentrerer seg rundt møte mellom menneske i lokalsamfunnet på øya Waya Lailai. Denne øya har ein utstrekt lokaleigd turistindustri, noko som pregar ... -
The Care/Security Nexus of the Humanitarian Border: Assisted Return in Norway
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-08-25)While Assisted Return and deportation are frequently viewed as two different return policies, the first represented as humanitarian and the latter as enforcement, this article argues that there is a continuum between these ... -
Challenging the Gaze. The study of a Socially Conscious Photographic Initiative based in Dhaka, Bangladesh
(Master thesis, 2011-06-23)The aim of this thesis is to consider the real life interplay between ambitions and restrictions to aDhaka based photographic initiative, with the core objective to contest stereotypicalrepresentations of Bangladesh in ... -
The Children of Eve: change and socialization among sedentarized Turkana children and youth
(Master thesis, 2010-06-24)This thesis is a brief ethnographic account which investigates change among sedentarized Turkana people, drawing from ideas and observations of previous work. It focuses in particular on the socialization of the younger ... -
Christian Charity Work in the Contemporary United States -Volunteering as a practice in Houston, Texas
(Master thesis, 2009-06-19)In my thesis I have looked at the challenges and dilemmas facing volunteers at a Christian charity organizations located in Houston, Texas. Philanthropy and volunteerism, or the non-profit sector, are often used as an ... -
Civil war and the non-linearity of time: approaching a Mozambican politics of irreconciliation
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)At least 1 million people died during the Mozambican civil war (1976/7-92). Unfolding after gaining independence from Portugal (1975) and alongside experiments with Afro-socialism in the 1980s, the war, despite its brutality, ... -
Climate Change in the Islands and the Highlands: Melanesian Manifestations, Experiences and Actions
(Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2019)Pacific Islanders have often been portrayed as ‘helpless victims’ in the popular media because they suffer the consequences of climate changes mainly caused by other, larger nations. In terms of media attention and sheer ... -
Common dreams and individual goals - Negotiating identity across the Thai-Burma border
(Master thesis, 2013-09-27)Abstract Within a socio-historical framework of how modern nation-states and ethnic labels came to be in the Southeast Asian Mainland, this thesis sets out to explore how young individuals, currently engaging as cross-border ... -
‘The Community’ as a Multivocal Concept: Everyday Urban Life and Grassroots Politics in Caracas’ Informal Neighbourhoods
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)This article analyses the multivocal meanings of the concept ‘the community’ as embedded and employed in everyday- and political discourses in working class and shantytown neighbourhoods (barrios) in the capital city of ... -
Conditions and Identities of Young Migrant Workers in the City: An Ethnographic study of ‘Street Children’ in Kumasi, Ghana
(Master thesis, 2016-06-17)Abstract Earlier studies on streetism' or street children' have often focused exclusively on the economic causes and impacts. Economic considerations have often assumed a more prominent position in explaining why children ... -
Connecting Through Dance: The Multiplicity of Meanings of Kurdish Folk Dances in Turkey
(Master thesis, 2012-05-09)The thesis is unraveling a wealth of meaning in a widespread phenomenon amongst Kurds in Turkey; folk dances. I use Andriy Nahachewsky's categories participatory' and presentational' dances to distinguish folk dances as ... -
Cracks in the System and Anthropology. A response to Bråten
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)We begin by thanking our colleague Eldar Bråten for taking the time to read and comment on our article with such thoroughness. We continue right away with a response. A key aspect of Bråten’s critique is his claim that it ... -
Crafting Distinctions: Reinventing Work, Desire and Design Among the Petty Bourgeoisie of Paris
(Master thesis, 2015-12-08)The aim of this thesis is not to accurately map out the Bobos as a subculture. I rather seek to unearth this group's practices of aestheticization and commodification as part of their specific ethical values. The Bobos I ... -
Creating a Common Space in a Sectarian Landscape: Social Work andCohesive Action in Post-War Lebanon
(Master thesis, 2005)Through the course of this thesis I will portray and debate the make up, projects andmembers of a small organisation acting within a large context. Aiming to give a thoroughpresentation of Mouvement Social, and to illuminate ... -
Creating a future while waiting for a residence permit: temporary and irregular migrants in informal social infrastructures
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)In this article, we analyse how temporary and irregular migrants resist bureaucratically induced waiting for decisions on their residence permit applications in the unknown future [l’avénir] by engaging with the present. ... -
Crisis and retirement: Alienation in Kerala’s tea belt
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)The recent crisis in the tea industry has devastated the livelihood of the Dalit workforce in the South Indian state of Kerala. Retired workers were worst affected, since the plantation companies—under the disguise of the ... -
Critical realism in political ecology: An argument against flat ontology
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)This theoretical article takes issue with how 'new materialisms' have been employed in political ecology, and it explores the 'depth ontology' of critical realism developed by Roy Bhaskar as an alternative to the 'flat ... -
Crossing borders: The Case of ethnic Dagestani in Georgia
(Master thesis, 2014-08-01)The Anthropology of borders mainly developed from 1990's. As scholars have sought to grasp the changed configuration of borders brought about by the fall of the iron curtain, the enlargement of the European Union (EU), the ... -
Cuba, Santería & The Dances of The Orichas
(Master thesis, 2015-11-27)