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Moving in spaces: young women's aspirations towards an Acholi post-war sociality in Northern Uganda.
(Master thesis, 2012-06-21)Northern Uganda has gone through more than 20 years of insurgencies and unrest. On the ground, the war may be understood as a fight between the government army and the Lord's Resistance Army in which the civilians were ... -
It's May Pole time'. Public spectacles and Creole people at the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua.
(Master thesis, 2012-06-21)AbstractThis thesis concerns the importance of festivals in nation-building. Through a six-month period of fieldwork in the city of Bluefields at the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua, I explore how the Creole festival May Pole ... -
'I want to improve myself'. Underemployed rural graduates in urban areas of China
(Master thesis, 2012-06-15)The thesis presents an ethnographic study of a phenomenon that was unknown of and even unthinkable fifteen years ago in China, underemployed and unemployed rural graduates living on the fringes of both the city and society ... -
Som olje og vann: Møtet mellom russere og kinesere i den russiske byen Blagovesjtsjensk
(Master thesis, 2012-06-15)Denne avhandlingen er et ledd i nyere antropologisk forskning på grenseområder og på hvordan menneskene som bor i et grenseområde forholder seg til, og samarbeider med, personene på andre siden av grensen. Hovedvekten av ... -
"En må få hodet inn i soningen" Mestring og motstand i Bergen fengsel
(Master thesis, 2011-12-19)Denne avhandlingen omhandler menneskers relasjon til makt. Under et 6 måneders langt feltarbeid i Bergen fengsel undersøkte jeg informantenes hverdag ved å benytte meg av en kombinasjon av deltakende observasjon og intervjuer. ... -
Å ta det beste fra to kulturer - En studie av tamilenes hverdagsliv i Bergen
(Master thesis, 2011-12-20)Denne avhandlingen handler om hvordan tamilene lever sine liv i Bergen. Hvordan de ser på norske kulturelle normer og praksiser og hvordan de bevarer egne kulturelle normer og praksiser. Tempelet betyr mye for mine informanter ... -
Tatoveringspraksiser og meningsskaping. Tatoveringsmotivenes rolle i identitetshåndtering
(Master thesis, 2011-05-23)Abstract Hva har radiovertinnen Henriette Lien, presten Einar Gelius, tidligere LO leder Gerd Liv Valla og mange andre til felles? De har alle valgt å tatovere seg. Tidligere har tatoveringer stort sett vært brukt av sjømenn ... -
"There's no love here". Beach boys in Malindi, Kenya
(Master thesis, 2011-05-27)Although there has been various suggestions as to what would be the correct term to use on a phenomenon where Western female tourists travel to Third World countries; engaging in romantic relationships with local beach ... -
A foot in each camp. Health surveillance assistants as mediators in the social interface of child health in Malawi
(Master thesis, 2011-06-17)Malawi is a poverty struck nation placed in-between Tanzania, Mozambique and Zambia. The professional health care sector is struggling to meet the needs of its population with only two physicians per 100.000 populations. ... -
Challenging the Gaze. The study of a Socially Conscious Photographic Initiative based in Dhaka, Bangladesh
(Master thesis, 2011-06-23)The aim of this thesis is to consider the real life interplay between ambitions and restrictions to aDhaka based photographic initiative, with the core objective to contest stereotypicalrepresentations of Bangladesh in ... -
Heal, Pray, Prosper. Practice and Discourse within a Local Pentecostal Church in Vanuatu
(Master thesis, 2011-05-29)Pentecostal Christianity has been depicted as a leading globalizing force, while simultaneously opening up for the preservation of existing cultural forms. In this thesis I explore the relation between the local and the ... -
"If you don't vote VMRO you're not Macedonian" A study of Macedonian identity and national discourse in Skopjee
(Master thesis, 2011-06-17)Abstract If you don't vote VMRO you're not Macedonian" In this thesis my aim has been to take a closer look at the connection between ethnicity, identity and political power in Macedonia. I have tried to achieve this by ... -
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 ... -
Performing us and the others. Latino identification through expressive culture in a Texan theater company
(Master thesis, 2011-06-14)When represented in media, Latinos in the United States are often associated with immigration, border control, drug dealing, gangs or the rising use of Spanish in the U.S. The large and heterogeneous Latino population has ... -
Primitivism prevails: The cultural problematization of Aboriginality
(Master thesis, 2011-02-06)Contemporary Darwin is characterised by racial, that is socially constructed notions of culture, structures that are partly produced by stereotypes through misperceptions on the contents of cultural capital. In this thesis, ... -
Bula, vavalagi! Turisme, møte, kategoriseringar og makt i Yasawa, Fiji
(Master thesis, 2010-06-18)Denne avhandlinga er basert på eit feltarbeid på Fiji våren 2008. Temaet sentrerer seg rundt møte mellom menneske i lokalsamfunnet på øya Waya Lailai. Denne øya har ein utstrekt lokaleigd turistindustri, noko som pregar ... -
Order and contingencies: children's play in Australian child care centres
(Master thesis, 2010-11-15)In this thesis I explore children's play in two Australian child care centres. What is presented here is an analysis of children's experiences and some of the diverse ways in which children constitute their own ideas and ... -
"I want my music to be my own": A contemporary music scene in Honiara, Solomon Islands
(Master thesis, 2010-06-20)My research was conducted in Honiara, the capital city of Solomon Islands, during the fall of 2008. I spent at total of five months in an urban environment, studying a music scene that has never before been studied. My ... -
The social meanings of hula - Hawaiian traditions and politicized identities in Hilo
(Master thesis, 2010)The social meanings of hula, the Hawaiian dance and tradition, are many and diverse. While originally having the function of preserving stories, legends and myths of the past, it has faced many interpretations and ascribed ...