Browsing Department of Social Anthropology by Document Types "Doctoral thesis"
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An Anthropology of Marketplace Behavior. Aspects of embeddedness in Norwegian entrepreneurship in the Baltics
(Doctoral thesis, 2012-03-16)Based on fieldwork undertaken between 2005 and 2008, this thesis provides an anthropological analysis of cross border Norwegian entrepreneurship in the Baltics in a timeframe that spans from the middle of the 1990s to 2008. ... -
Buddhism in Popular Culture. The case of Sri Lankan "Tovil dance"
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Death as Victory, Victory as Death : Violence, Martyrdom, and the Cosmology of Revolution in the Kurdish Freedom Movement
(Doctoral thesis, 2019-12-05)The central investigation of the thesis concerns the nature of revolution in the Kurdish freedom movement, i.e. the social movement affiliated with the guerilla organization, the PKK. The main argument forwarded is that ... -
"Different strokes for different folks" in egalitarian intentional communities: searching for the good life in practical utopias
(Doctoral thesis, 2021-10-22)This thesis explores egalitarian social experiments in a section within the Intentional Communities (ICs) movement in the United States of America. The central ethnographic investigation of the thesis concerns an analysis ... -
Donas da Terra (Female Owners of the Land). Decolonizing historical representations through an ethnography of memories of women of power and authority in Zambezia, Mozambique
(Doctoral thesis, 2021-11-24)This thesis discusses the missing or underrepresented women of power and authority within the written history of Mozambique’s Zambezi region. It argues that several generations of scholars, both within colonial and ... -
Facing the Future. Online Sociality and Emerging Forms of Play among Children in Norway
(Doctoral thesis, 2016-12-09)Young people in Norway have never experienced a world without the internet. This thesis explores uses of digital technology in children’s lives, and draws on fieldwork among eight- and nine-year olds in Kristiansand to ... -
The Fear of Fever: Epidemic Persistence and Medical Authority in a Kerala Village
(Doctoral thesis, 2015-12-16)This thesis examines the socio-medical order that formed around epidemic fevers in Kerala following the chikungunya and H1N1 outbreaks between 2007 and 2009. I study its political interfaces, embodied aspects, implications ... -
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 ... -
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, ... -
Iraqis on the Move: Displaced Professionals, Protection/ 'Aman Space in Jordan and Memories of a Destroyed State
(Doctoral thesis, 2020-10-22)Recent events of forced displacement in the Middle East are compelling millions of people to move within the borders of their country, while forcing many others to become strangers in other lands. In the modern era categorized ... -
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 ... -
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 Taken for Granted. Relationships between Fathers and Adolescent Sons among Pakeha New Zealanders
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Making and managing femaleness, fertility and motherhood within an urban Gambian area
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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 ... -
Middleman Minority Nation : Globalization and Social Democracy in Singapore
(Doctoral thesis, 2022-05-06)The Singaporean state is a social democracy with middleman minority characteristics. This thesis argues that it is the fusion of these two – the culture of the middleman minority, and the statist corporatism of social ... -
Pastoralists in Violent Defiance of the State. The case of the Karimojong in Northeastern Uganda
(Doctoral thesis, 2010-05-07)This thesis explores the issue of persistent violence between pastoralists andthe state in north eastern Uganda, probing why after many years of trying to settle theproblems of cattle raiding, armed violence and disorder ... -
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 ... -
Spatial Reconfigurations and New Social Formations: the Contemporary Urban Context of Kerala
(Doctoral thesis, 2013-05-22)Urbanisation and global relationships have had deep historical impacts all along the western coast of Indian peninsula in general and Kerala in particular. It is both inadequate and inaccurate to invest everything ‘urban’ ...