Browsing Department of Social Anthropology by Title
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Heal, Pray, Prosper. Practice and Discourse within a Local Pentecostal Church in Vanuatu
(Master thesis, 2011-05-29)Pentecostal Christianity has been depicted as a leading globalizing force, while simultaneously opening up for the preservation of existing cultural forms. In this thesis I explore the relation between the local and the ... -
Heimfiske med Polaris. En studie av relasjoner mellom kystfiskere og deres omgivelser
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The Human Version 2.0: AI, Humanoids, and Immortality
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)This article investigates new ethnography on AI development relating to imaginaries of technoscientific forms of immortality. As a Think Piece in Analytics, it engages in a somewhat experimental comparative endeavor as I ... -
Hverdagsliv i en Vestlandsk Industribygd: En etnografisk undersøkelse av hverdagspraksiser i endring.
(Master thesis, 2021-08-02)Denne avhandlingen omhandler hverdagspraksiser i Høyanger kommunes tettsted. Tettstedet er lokalisert innerst i Høyangerfjorden i Sognefjorden, hvor kommunens sentrum ligger. Gjennom deltakende observasjon og samtaler har ... -
"Hvilken stemme har du?" Om lek og samhandling i en flerkulturell barnehage
(Master thesis, 2008)Oppgaven omhandler lek og samhandling i en flerkulturell barnehage -
Hvithetens semiosis - et antropologisk studie av hvithet som medium
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"I am a woman, I am Christian, and I am Palestinian." - En studie av identitet og roller blant kristne palestinske landsbykvinner på den okkuperte Vestbredden.
(Master thesis, 2009-04-02)Det overordnede fokuset mitt i denne avhandlingen ligger på identitet og samhandling blant de kristne innbyggerne i en liten landsby på Vestbredden, og det er spesielt kvinnenes situasjon i forhold til dette jeg ønsker å ... -
"I hope your mom gets cancer and dies!" An anthropological study of sociality within virtual worlds
(Master thesis, 2018-06-14)Virtual worlds serve as new digital spaces in which humans interact with each other but also with the machines and mechanics on which the virtual worlds are built, creating new frameworks for sociality. By questioning how ... -
I stedet for myter
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 1984) -
"I want my music to be my own": A contemporary music scene in Honiara, Solomon Islands
(Master thesis, 2010-06-20)My research was conducted in Honiara, the capital city of Solomon Islands, during the fall of 2008. I spent at total of five months in an urban environment, studying a music scene that has never before been studied. My ... -
'I want to improve myself'. Underemployed rural graduates in urban areas of China
(Master thesis, 2012-06-15)The thesis presents an ethnographic study of a phenomenon that was unknown of and even unthinkable fifteen years ago in China, underemployed and unemployed rural graduates living on the fringes of both the city and society ... -
Identity, migration and diaspora from the perspectives of French speaking West Africans in Bergen and Oslo – their thoughts and their stories.
(Master thesis, 2009)Identity, migration and diaspora from the perspectives of French speaking West Africans in Bergen and Oslo - their thoughts and their stories. The research for this thesis has been conducted among the French-speaking West ... -
Idrett som arena for integrering - en problematisering av organisert idrett i Norge med spesielt hensyn til integrering av etniske minoriteter i fotball
(Master thesis, 2014-06-05)Idretten blir idag tilegnet en rekke positive egenskaper, først og fremst gjennom dens egenart som produsent av aktivitet, men også gjennom dens samfunnsbyggende funksjoner. Deltakelse i idrett gir en økt helsegevinst, og ... -
If The Waters Were To Shrug: Extractive Violence, Erasure and the Politics of Resisting in the Settler Colonial Present
(Master thesis, 2019-10-11) -
"If you don't vote VMRO you're not Macedonian" A study of Macedonian identity and national discourse in Skopjee
(Master thesis, 2011-06-17)Abstract If you don't vote VMRO you're not Macedonian" In this thesis my aim has been to take a closer look at the connection between ethnicity, identity and political power in Macedonia. I have tried to achieve this by ... -
Imagining coherence. Local discourses about identities, tradition and religion in Pangani, Tanzania
(Master thesis, 2017-06-15) -
Indigenous life projects and extractivism. Ethnographies from South America
(Approaches to Social Inequality and Difference, Book; Peer reviewed, 2018) -
«Ingen hendelser er like». En studie av brannkonstablers forståelse av, og skapelse av, sikkerhet
(Master thesis, 2017-12-15)En vanlig tilnærming til begrepet «sikkerhet» er at «sikkerhet er evnen til å unngå uønskede hendelser». Med dette som utgangspunkt er det mulig å lage flotte matriser hvor man kalkulerer risiko, på mange måter «fravær av ...