Department of Social Anthropology: Recent submissions
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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’ ... -
To be unemployed is not to be dependent. The politics of narratives surrounding unemployment
(Master thesis, 2013-06-18)Based on six months of fieldwork in London in the first half of 2012, this thesis aims to understand how unemployment is a situation that is understood in different ways based on political understanding and moral categories. ... -
Taking It to the streets - Community events in Post-Katrina New Orleans
(Master thesis, 2013-06-16)This thesis concerns community events, especially those of festivals and parades, in Post-Katrina New Orleans. Based on my fieldwork of 2012, I have explored how participants in community events use these happenings as a ... -
Bløming: stedstilhørighet og tradisjoner i en bygd i Hardanger
(Master thesis, 2013-06-24)Abstrakt I denne masteroppgaven har jeg studert stedstilhørighet og reproduksjon av tradisjoner i en bygd i Hardanger. Ved å kontekstualisere bøndenes arv av odelsgård og overføringen av gården til neste generasjon, viser ... -
"Stuck in thorns". The effects of power on Liberian refugees in Guinea
(Master thesis, 2013-06-26)Abstract This thesis is about refugees who fled from Liberia to Guinea to join the miserable sea of humanity" (Malkki 1996) from January 1990 when the Charles Taylor led a rebel war that began in December 1989. Essentially, ... -
Yemeni Families in the Early History of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia ca. 1900-1950 : A Revisionist Approach in Diasporic Historiography
(Journal article, 2011)This article aims to bring into attention the hitherto undocumented history of Yemeni migration to Addis Ababa, the capital city of Ethiopia. Taking in to account a period which amount to half a century the article describes ... -
The Dynamics of changing perspectives: Identity politics, citizen rights and language among the deaf in Norway
(Master thesis, 2013-05-30)This thesis is centered around the two conflicting discourses on deafness. Deafness can be understood as both a medical and cultural terms. However, both these discourses are highly contested. This thesis aims at exploring ... -
Spa Pilgrimage
(Master thesis, 2013-05-25)This Master project is about different understandings of health and illness. Fieldwork was conducted at a holistic spa in Thailand, where the spa clientele was primarily women from Western countries. Several of the women ... -
The Perfect Christian. An analysis of paradoxical aspects of charismatic christianity in the U.S.
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Gender and Ecological Dimensions of Oil in the L.Albert Region.
(Master thesis, 2012-08-10)Abstract The oil industry is extractive as well as capital intensive, and it often seeks to serve the interests of those controlling the means of production at the expense of other players/stakeholders. The activities of ... -
"The Dar Hamid Sons' Union". Understanding Political Development Among The Dar Hamid Agro-Pastoralists In North Kordofan, Sudan
(Master thesis, 2012-07-16)The main theme In this thesis I explore the mobilization of a particular civil society organization among the Dar Hamid agro pastoralist people in northern Kordofan, western Sudan . The analysis is based upon information ... -
Is the 'New Man' dead? Tourism, self-perception and relative deprivation in Cuba
(Master thesis, 2012-07-28)This study is about the relationship between the growth of tourism in Cuba and the sense of relative deprivation experienced by many Cubans, and about the results of this relationship in the society at large. I argue that ... -
State and media influence on the drawing of ethnic boundaries : kurdish work migrants on the Black Sea coast of Turkey
(Master thesis, 2012-07-30)In the Turkish Black Sea Region Kurdish agricultural workers and other ethnic groups interact and form relations. This study is focused on the effects of ethnic difference in the formation of these relations, groups' ... -
Kamalari: Tharu girls in bonded labour (Kamalari) servitude in the era of post socio-cultural and political revolution in Nepal - A case study of Dang District
(Master thesis, 2012-06-22)The main aim of this thesis is to examine the situation of Kamalari girls in the post social and political revolution in Nepal. Kamalaris are the Tharu girls who are bonded in a contract to do the domestic work in the house ... -
Between a rock and a hard place: Undocumented migrants in Norway
(Master thesis, 2012-06-26)This thesis includes different aspects of living situation of undocumented migrants in Norway. It examines self-perception of undocumented migrants and the society's perception of them. It looks into the criminalisation ... -
Connecting Through Dance: The Multiplicity of Meanings of Kurdish Folk Dances in Turkey
(Master thesis, 2012-05-09)The thesis is unraveling a wealth of meaning in a widespread phenomenon amongst Kurds in Turkey; folk dances. I use Andriy Nahachewsky's categories participatory' and presentational' dances to distinguish folk dances as ... -
Where blessing and curse merge with life and death: Local beliefs in contemporary Lower Kuttanad
(Master thesis, 2012-06-22)The principal rationale behind the present research was to explore the relationship between the people and key resources, the land and the water, in the agrarian region known as Lower Kuttanad in the state of Kerala. In ... -
The ways of Maize: Food, Poverty, Policy and the Politics of Meaning among the Chewa of Malawi
(Doctoral thesis, 2012-06-29)This ethnographically grounded study of Chewa people’s foodways traces the involvement of the Chewa people in global development politics and policy processes. With the aim of understanding how development interventionist ... -
Utopian forestry in Nepal; Local governance and the production of new citizen
(Master thesis, 2012-08-24)A fieldwork of the Community Forest User Group and local society in the village of Bishanku Narayan, Ward 1, District of Godawari, Nepal. A study of how the CF model affects the local society of the people engaged in ... -
Defending what is ours: Territorial property rights, maps and indigeneity in the Peruvian central rain forest
(Master thesis, 2012-06-21)The aim of the thesis is to identify and analyse central dynamics in the encounter between the indigenous population and settlers in a Native Community in the Peruvian central Amazon. The indigenous residents are subsistence ...