Blar i Department of Social Anthropology på tittel
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Food Self-Sufficiency and Partnership in Agricultural Production in Ghana. A case study of the Fievie Rice Project
(Master thesis, 2016-06-18)Abstract Poverty eradication and food security issues are central to most international development policies and developing countries including Ghana. International and national policies encourage investments in the ... -
A foot in each camp. Health surveillance assistants as mediators in the social interface of child health in Malawi
(Master thesis, 2011-06-17)Malawi is a poverty struck nation placed in-between Tanzania, Mozambique and Zambia. The professional health care sector is struggling to meet the needs of its population with only two physicians per 100.000 populations. ... -
Fordi slik er tradisjonene våre: En etnografisk studie av tradisjon, endring og agens blant kvinner i innlandet av Oman.
(Master thesis, 2016-06-17)Denne oppgaven handler om kvinner i innlandet av Oman, og livene de lever. Oppgaven bygger på et ti måneder langt feltarbeid i byen Nizwa sommer og høst 2014. Fokus er rettet mot mine informanters opplevelser, og hvordan ... -
Forord
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Fra knogler til kosmologier - et interview med Fredrik Barth
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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’ ... -
Frå Barth sitt aktørperspektiv og Geertz sin kulturhistorie til Pfeilstetter sitt omgrep «entrepreneurialization». Ei drøfting av nyttige perspektiv til forståinga av politiske entreprenørprosessar i Sudan
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Artikkelen introduserer først to klassiske antropologiske analyser av entreprenørprosessar, Barth sin aktørorientering der entreprenøren starter sosiale endringsprosessar, og Geertz sitt kulturorienterte perspektiv der ... -
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 ...