Department of Social Anthropology: Recent submissions
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Navigating Multiple Temporalities: Continuities, Ruptures and Rituals among Young Alteños in Morales' Bolivia
(Master thesis, 2014-12-12)At issue in this thesis is the lives of the first urban generation in an ex-miners' neighbourhood of El Alto, Bolivia. Previous studies on temporality and memory in the Andes have not focused specifically on the category ... -
"Keeping it real in Beijing"; Exploring identity, authenticity and music as a 'technology of the self' among urban middle-class youth
(Master thesis, 2014-11-27)Abstract: With this anthropological master-thesis I am exploring urban middle-class youth in Beijing, born during the 1980s, and how they navigate and express themselves as individuals and as part of collectives. I spent ... -
Miku's Mask: Fictional Encounters in Children's Costume Play
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-11-03)Children’s engagement with Japanese toys and fictional characters has taken on new significance in the age of YouTube. Drawing on ethnographic research on technology-mediated play among 8- and 9-year-olds in Norway, this ... -
‘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 ... -
Effervescence and Ephemerality: Popular Urban Uprisings in Mozambique
(Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-06-25)This article analyses the large-scale popular urban uprisings that shook Mozambican cities on 1 and 2 September 2010, following the government’s announcement of successive rises in the price of public transport fares and ... -
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 ... -
Mama, I wont't go to school. Conflictual relations between education and fishing among the children of Anomabo in the central region of Ghana
(Master thesis, 2014-06-20)It is on records that the Central region along the coastal stretch of Ghana was the first to have received formal education during the colonial period as early as the 18th century. This is evident by the fact that the ... -
"All they want is to be treated well": Public health care in the rural Ecuadorian Andes
(Master thesis, 2014-06-19)Abstract In thesis I describe the meeting between biomedical health care and indigenous patients in rural Ecuadorian Andes. I show how biomedical conceptualization of health and good treatment differs from local understandings. ... -
Social protection. A case study of Asante Mampong
(Master thesis, 2014-06-29)ABSTRACT Studies have shown that formal insurance in developing countries are rare. As a result, insurance in these countries are usually achieved through reciprocal support arrangement where there is risk-pooling among ... -
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 ... -
"Isso é nossa realidade" (This is our reality): Beyond images of Amazonia
(Master thesis, 2014-06-19)This thesis explores the images and representations of Amazonia as a tropical rain forest, and how they influence the way people tend to picture the area. Shaped through trajectories of history, national expansion and ... -
Public education in latin america's lowest performing country. The Impact of inequality and violence among children and youth in Lima and Cusco in Peru
(Master thesis, 2014-08-01)Measurements of learning outcomes have found that too many children in Peru are graduating from primary school without having achieved competency in literacy or numeracy (Barrett, 2009). Results show that seven out of ten ... -
"Work and Strengthening": Ontological dualism and the ethical treatment of mentally ill patients in Madagascar
(Master thesis, 2014-08-11)This thesis is based on fieldwork within a revival movement in Madagascar that treats mentally ill patients with exorcism. I explore the meaning of submission and the problem of ontological dualism based on my experiences. -
What are the gendered implications of neoliberal land grabs? A case study of Rufiji River Basin in Rufiji district, coast region in Tanzania
(Master thesis, 2014-06-19)Abstract This thesis explores the gendered implications of the neoliberal land grab in Rufiji River basin in Tanzania. I set out to deconstruct the taken for granted assumptions concerning the state/legal approaches in the ... -
Managing the threat of violence in Guatemala: Violence as part of women's everyday lives
(Master thesis, 2014-07-30)In this thesis I explore the prevalence of violence against women in Guatemala. Violence is considered a part of everyday life because it has become normalized. By normal" I refer to both the frequency of the act and its ... -
"Becoming urban". A study of post-relocation life and livelihood changes among former peasants in Chenggong, China
(Master thesis, 2014-06-19)This thesis presents an ethnographic study of post-relocation life and livelihood of the land-lost peasants" in Chenggong, China. The wider context for my study is the ongoing process of urbanization in the country. Drastic ... -
Expectations and realities: Living with a negative in a Norwegian reception centre
(Master thesis, 2014-06-19)Within the context of the imagined Norwegian way of life, this thesis aims to explore the lives and experiences of female asylum seekers with a negative asylum application. I intention is to examine whether living in one ... -
Verdiuttrykk i den tredje alder; selvstendighet, likhet, ansvarlighet og anerkjennelse i de sosiale fellesskapene
(Master thesis, 2014-06-20)Sammendrag Dette er en antropologisk studie, basert på mitt feltarbeid i Norge, av alderdom og hvilke verdier de eldre har i det jeg kaller den tredje alder; de «unge eldre». Fokuset i min studie har vært å studere hva ... -
The Pastoral rehab: Drug addiction, therapeutic discourses and self-transformation
(Master thesis, 2014-08-04)Abstract My research project involves ethnographic work focused on the culture and social relationships of drug addicts and their responses to different treatment practices. I conducted six months of fieldwork in San ... -
Islamic Revival in Georgian - Chechen Border Area
(Master thesis, 2014-07-31)Since the collapse of the Soviet Union all the former Soviet countries have been going through changes in social and religious life. Muslim states strongly tied their identities to Islam while countries with a majority of ...