Browsing Department of Social Anthropology by Title
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A Quest for Success in Urban China; a study of "young urban professionals" in Beijing
(Master thesis, 2013-12-16)In this thesis I examine how young urban professionals in Beijing relate to their experience of participating in the modern Chinese capitalist economy. Their experiences are seen along economic and social lines: from ... -
Re-analysing the Baining: The Mytho-Poetics of Race, Gender and Art
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)This article criticises primitivist caricatures of the Baining in Melanesia as a society that lacks exegesis, symbolic logics, religion, structures of power and control, and even an interest in play. The mytho-poetics of ... -
Rebel, rebel. Kvinner i Kairos liv og møte med seksuell trakassering of overgrep
(Master thesis, 2014-06-16)Seksuell trakassering og seksulisert vold varierer innenfor ulike etnografiske, kulturelle og sosioøkonomiske faktorer. Her forsøker jeg å forklare hvordan seksuell trakassering og overgrep må forstås i Kairo i 2012, og ... -
The remnants of colonial capital: Economic crisis and the social reproduction of alienation in a South Indian plantation belt
(Master thesis, 2010-06-14)This dissertation is concerned with the present-day situation of Tamil tea plantation workers in Kerala. The plantation Tamils, as they are known locally, belong to Dalits (ex-untouchable/outcaste) communities who have ... -
Rethinking “surplus populations” Theory from the peripheries
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Critical scholarship on twenty-first century capitalist development has called attention to certain structural limits on employment growth. Large populations excluded from formal employment are seen to eke out a precarious ... -
Returning to Nature. Post-carbon Utopias in Svalbard, Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)While industrial closures in past decades were legitimized through an emphasis on economic motives, current closures are often framed within an emphasis on ‘green transition’, that is, through prefigurative discourses about ... -
Revolusjon på la plaza, i hjemmet og i senga? Utfordring og reproduksjon av kjønnspraksis i Buenos Aires
(Master thesis, 2008)I denne teksten viser jeg hvordan kjønnspraksis og forestillinger om kjønn produseres, utfordres og reproduseres og endres blant unge mennesker i Buenos Aires, Argentina. Jeg ønsker å forstå hvilke forestillinger om kjønn ... -
The River, the Water and the Crocodile in Marovo Lagoon
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Rooted flexibility: social reproduction, violence and gendered work in the Indian city
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Drawing on feminist marxist and feminist geography scholarship the article develops the concept 'rooted flexibility' to examine the latent frictions between flexible labour regimes and the rooted, gendered demands of social ... -
Rota, kontrastenes landsby. Lokal stolthet i møte med intern og ekstern påvirkning
(Master thesis, 2011-06-22)Oppgaven baseres seg på 6 måneders feltarbeid i en andalusisklandsby ved Atlanterhavskysten. I likhet med mange andalusiskelandsbyer er Rota godt besøkt av turister, både fra utlandet ogspanjoler på innlandsferie. Det ... -
Rural - Urban Differentiation, Migration and Emerging Educational Inequalities.A case Study of Left-behind Children in Ganqiu Village, Yunnan
(Master thesis, 2010-06-28)Abstract After China's policy of reform and opening up to the outside world was carried out in the late 1970s, millions of farmers are flocking to China's cities, seeking work with a hope of improving the living standard ... -
Russian Greeks / Greek Russians: Parameters of Identity
(Doctoral thesis, 2015-08-28)This thesis investigates how the ex-Soviet Greek populations used the reforms in Russia and the re-patriation policy of Greece emerging in the 1990s in order to form a new discourse on Greek identity. This new understanding ... -
Samburu Youth Navigating Violent Terrains. Reconfiguring Samburu Masculinity in Northern Kenya
(Doctoral thesis, 2017-06-16)This thesis is part of the major research project The effects of violence and impoverishment on psychosocial health among pastoralist communities in Northern Kenya funded by The Research Council of Norway. Based on a ... -
Samfunnsansvar Is Not CSR: Mapping Expectations and Practices of (Corporate) Social Responsibility in Norway
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The sea is no longer sweet. Gender and kinship relations in Anomabu in times of dwindling fish stocks.
(Master thesis, 2016-11-30)Anomabu is a fishing community in the central regions of Ghana. In recent years, fisher families in this community have been experiencing dwindling fish stocks. Coupled with this is the fact that the seasons for fishing ... -
Seeing like a state vs. seeing like a local community: the case of dam construction in Nubian homeland, Sudan
(Master thesis, 2010-06-18)The Current research focuses on issue of proposed Kajbar Dam in the context of the Nile in the Sudan. The government of the country is involved in building dam on the part of the Nile that passes through the very north of ... -
Sier du ikke hva jeg hører? Utfordringer ved omsorgsarbeid for mennesker med psykisk utviklingshemming uten verbalt språk i en norsk småkommune
(Master thesis, 2003)Studien er basert på et seks måneder langt feltarbeid i en norsk småkommune. Hovedtema for oppgaven er hvordan det kommunale omsorgsarbeidet for mennesker med en sterk psykisk utviklingshemming utspiller seg i praksis. ... -
"Simbir botbot badan madax daj ayay kuistakta" ("Ein fugl som flyg omkring åleine vil til slutt lande med hovudet først", somalisk ordtak) Ein diskursiv analyse av relasjonar mellom somaliske familiar og lokalbefolkninga i ein vestnorsk bygdeby.
(Master thesis, 2002)Denne studien handlar om korleis eit nasjonalt og overnasjonalt stigma om somaliarane, får sitt uttrykk innan lokale sosiale prosessar i eit vestnorsk bygdebymiljø. Det dreier seg difor ikkje først og fremst om somaliske ...