Department of Social Anthropology: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
Langturseilere i marina. En studie om kommunikasjon, nettverk og makt i seilbåtmiljø i Panama og Guatemala
(Master thesis, 2020-12-10) -
The Batswanas' encounter with Western medicine : cooperation or confrontation?
(Master thesis, 1988) -
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 ... -
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 ... -
The Faithful Servant: Practicing Science and Religion among PNG university students in Australia
(Master thesis, 2020-08-21) -
Ei ny tid for gamle gudar: ein etnografisk studie av Ásatrúarfélagið på Island
(Master thesis, 2020-08-21)I denne oppgåva tek eg for meg trussamfunnet Ásatrúarfélagið på Island. Dette er eit nypaganistisk trussamfunn som vart grunnlagt i 1972 og som fekk status som statleg anerkjent religion på Island i 1973. Dette inneber at ... -
Fracking Lancashire: The planning process, social harm and collective trauma
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)To date there have been very few studies that have sought to investigate the crimes, harms and human rights violations associated with the process of ‘extreme energy’, whereby energy extraction methods grow more ‘unconventional’ ... -
Climate Change in the Islands and the Highlands: Melanesian Manifestations, Experiences and Actions
(Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2019)Pacific Islanders have often been portrayed as ‘helpless victims’ in the popular media because they suffer the consequences of climate changes mainly caused by other, larger nations. In terms of media attention and sheer ... -
The River, the Water and the Crocodile in Marovo Lagoon
(Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2018) -
The Care/Security Nexus of the Humanitarian Border: Assisted Return in Norway
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-08-25)While Assisted Return and deportation are frequently viewed as two different return policies, the first represented as humanitarian and the latter as enforcement, this article argues that there is a continuum between these ... -
«Min haplogruppe» - Biologi, slektskap og kulturell identitet i lys av genetisk genealogi
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-03-20)Artikkelen omhandler genetisk genealogi, det vil si genetisk testing som gjør det mulig for slektsgranskere å spore «opprinnelse» i historisk og førhistorisk tid. Jeg drøfter hvordan de tre vanligste metodene som tilbys – ... -
Within and Beyond the Law: The Ethics of Collective Action in Urban Markets, Peru
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)This article focuses on collective action and leadership in processes of (in)formalizing market work. It examines ways in which semi-legal actors employ ‘modes of administration’ and suggests that market leaders enact a ... -
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 ... -
Liminality and the asylum process in Switzerland
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-06)The process of turning asylum seekers into refugees involves a complex management and bureaucratic machinery that often creates prolonged periods of uncertainty (social, legal and economic) as people are reclassified and ... -
Mahishi's rage: Communitas and protest at Sabarimala, Kerala
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)In September 2018, the Supreme Court of India lifted the ban on females of menstrual age entering the sacred site to Lord Ayyappan at Sabarimala in the Indian state of Kerala. Violent protests, for and against, engulfed ... -
Becoming 'Wild' at the Intersection of Knowledges : Coffee Rust Crisis in Costa Rica
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-08-18)This article explores the relationship between visualism, practice and knowledge through the specific case of the 2012–2013 coffee rust-epidemic and its repercussions among small-scale coffee farmers in Turrialba, Costa ... -
If The Waters Were To Shrug: Extractive Violence, Erasure and the Politics of Resisting in the Settler Colonial Present
(Master thesis, 2019-10-11) -
Garden metaphysics: Myth and Ritual among the Awajun People of the Peruvian High Jungle
(Master thesis, 2019-09-21)This master thesis explores the intricate ways in which the Awajun people of the Peruvian high jungle practice subsistence gardening. The Awajun garden comprises a dazzling display of flora heterogeneity, though the most ... -
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 ...