Browsing Department of Social Anthropology by Title
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La cuidad de los reyes and los amigos policias. An anthropological approach to everyday practices of security and urban space in Lima
(Master thesis, 2010-06-09)"La Cuidad de los Reyes and los Amigos PoliciasAn Anthropological Approach to Everyday Practices of Security and Urban Space inLima" By Therese Landås In this master thesis, I discuss aspects of security in relation to ... -
La Habana - bak fasaden. Unge, urbane cubaneres opplevelse av dagens Cuba gjennom la lucha
(Master thesis, 2018)Denne teksten tar for seg unge cubanere og hvordan de opplever og overlever i en gråsone av Cubas offisielle økonomi, de menneskene som selv definerer seg som los jineteros og hvordan los jineteros selv opplever Cuba og ... -
Landskap med vindmøller. Om politiske prosesser, sted og mening
(Master thesis, 2007)Masteroppgaven gir en oversikt over den politiske og byråkratiske prosessen som settes i gang ved en offentliggjøring av planer om vindkraftutbygging. Oppgaven tar utgangspunkt i et halvt års feltarbeid på Jæren i Rogaland, ... -
Langturseilere i marina. En studie om kommunikasjon, nettverk og makt i seilbåtmiljø i Panama og Guatemala
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Lavaland : Vernacular Seismology in Volatile Volcanic Environments in Puna, Hawai'i
(Doctoral thesis, 2022-09-23)Vulkanen Kīlauea på Hawaiʻi’s Big Island er en av de mest aktive vulkanene i verden. Folk har bodd i høyrisikoområder i Punadistriktet, som ligger på nordsiden av denne vulkanen, i over 1000 år. Denne avhandlingen handler ... -
Learning danger: Cultural difference and the limits of trust in dangerous fieldworks
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Reflecting on personal experiences from conducting fieldwork in Iraqi and Turkish Kurdistan between 2015 and 2017, the article supplements existing literature on how to navigate dangerous fieldwork by considering the limits ... -
Learning to be Bad and Mexican. Management of Identities and Behavior in a Texan High School
(Master thesis, 2003)The material for this thesis has been collected through fieldwork among Mexican-American kids, Mexicans in this thesis, in Austin, Texas in the USA, during the period from June to December 1999. During this period I visited ... -
A lesser human? Utopian registers of urban reconfiguration in Maputo, Mozambique
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021-03-24)In the age of climate change, human life’s pliability is also re‐shaping anthropological debates. For debates centring on the urban domain, questions revolve around flexibility, adaptability and resilience, while in work ... -
Levende vann og tapte penger. Diskurs rundt naturforvaltning på lokalplan
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‘Like Playing a Game Where You Don't Know the Rules’: Investing Meaning in Intercultural Cash Transactions Between Tourists and Trobriand Islanders
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-08-20)When tourists visit cultural tourism destinations, the primary form of interaction between visitors and local residents is in the exchange of money for material objects and performances. While purchase of cultural commodities ... -
“Like playing a game where you don’t know the rules”: Investing meaning in intercultural cash transactions between tourists and Trobriand Islanders
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-08-20)When tourists visit cultural tourism destinations, the primary form of interaction between visitors and local residents is in the exchange of money for material objects and performances. While purchase of cultural commodities ... -
Liminality and the asylum process in Switzerland
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-06)The process of turning asylum seekers into refugees involves a complex management and bureaucratic machinery that often creates prolonged periods of uncertainty (social, legal and economic) as people are reclassified and ... -
Living in the Margins of the State
(Doctoral thesis, 2021-02-26)This thesis explores the various forms of state manifestation in the lives of the Uzbek population living in the borderlands of Kyrgyzstan. With a particular focus on the stateless persons amongst this group, the thesis ... -
Love and responsibility: an ethnography of masculinities and marriage in urban Egypt
(Master thesis, 2014-06-11)This thesis deals with masculinity in Cairo, Egypt. It argues that masculinity has an interactional basis, in the sense of G.H. Mead's theory of the self. (1934) The thesis is an ethnographic exploration of some interactional ... -
Love Taken for Granted. Relationships between Fathers and Adolescent Sons among Pakeha New Zealanders
(Doctoral thesis, 2005-06-03) -
Mahishi's rage: Communitas and protest at Sabarimala, Kerala
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)In September 2018, the Supreme Court of India lifted the ban on females of menstrual age entering the sacred site to Lord Ayyappan at Sabarimala in the Indian state of Kerala. Violent protests, for and against, engulfed ... -
Making and breaking alliances: on valuation in hegemonic projects
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)In public discourse, the polarizations that accompany the success of authoritarian populisms in recent years are often portrayed as the result of “culture wars” rooted in incompatible values. This article approaches the ... -
Making and managing femaleness, fertility and motherhood within an urban Gambian area
(Doctoral thesis, 2008-06-12) -
The Making and Unmaking of Kuttanad : Development and Transformations Below Sea Level
(Doctoral thesis, 2020-09-18)The aim of my research is to explore the transformation of the physical and social landscapes in Kuttanad, which is closely related to the political and economic dynamisms in Keralam, India and the rest of the world. By ...