Browsing Department of Social Anthropology by Title
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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 ... -
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 ... -
Desperate Co‐wives. The illegality of polygamy in the new Mozambi‐can Family Law
(Master thesis, 2008)In 2004 Mozambique approved a new Family Law. The new law substituted a law instituted still during the Portuguese colonial rule. The new law is said to be more in line with the Mozambican Constitution, several international ... -
"Det sku bo folk i husan" - Minner og materialitet fra gjenreisningstiden på Sørøya
(Master thesis, 2022-08-01)Det har gått 77 år siden de første nordtromsværingene og finnmarkingene reiste tilbake til sine hjemsteder for å bygge opp husene og livene sine igjen i et landskap som besto av brannruiner. I denne oppgaven undersøkes det ... -
Det viktigste vi har er ord. Sikkerhet, disiplinering og tillit i det offentlige rom: Vektere på Bybanen i Bergen
(Master thesis, 2014-05-22)Det viktigste vi har er ord Sikkerhet, disiplinering og tillit i det offentlige rom: Vektere på Bybanen i Bergen Denne oppgavens fokuserer på sikkerhet og jeg hevder at sikkerhet som antropologisk forskningsobjekt kan være ... -
"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 ... -
Differentiation of rights in the Norwegian welfare state: Hierarchies of belonging and humanitarian exceptionalism
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018-08-30)Controlling mobility and borders has become a central, defining feature of the state today. Using the Norwegian welfare state as a case study, I argue that the differentiation of rights depending on status categories is ... -
Digital symbolic arenas. Reinventing youth identity and emerging forms of play.
(Master thesis, 2020-03-17)This thesis will ethnographically analyze the interrelationships between gender, class, and subcultural styles using different video gaming groups primarily located in Bergen, Norway. I will discuss the structures of the ... -
Dispossession and ethnic identity in expanding state space of Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh
(Master thesis, 2014-06-15)In the milieu of the global development and state' formation of Bangladesh, the Khyang people of the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) are in a situation of economic transition and marginalization. Bangladesh state's persistence ... -
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 ... -
Double devaluations: Class, value and the rise of the right in the Global North
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)This article builds on the contributions of anthropologists of Europe in discovering, tracing and explaining the neo-nationalist ascendancy of the last 20 years. It picks up on earlier publications to make a succinct case ... -
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 ... -
Dø for Brann, alle mann! En antropologisk studie av supportermiljøet rundt Sportsklubben Brann.
(Master thesis, 2008)Dø for Brann, alle mann! - en antropologisk studie av supportermiljøet tilknyttet Sportsklubben BrannAv Anita RøssevoldVeileder: Ståle KnudsenJeg gjorde i perioden januar-juli 2007 feltarbeid i supportermiljøet rundt ... -
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 ... -
The Egalitarian King? Abdullah Öcalan and his evolving role in the Kurdish Freedom Movement
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)The Kurdish movement has often been touted as an egalitarian struggle, and, in many ways, rightly so. However, the movement's relation to its undisputed leader, Abdullah Öcalan, has remained relatively unexamined. This ... -
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 ... -
«Ein må tole å bli skitten på fingrane» - Ein studie av identitet og fellesskap blant unge i industristaden Odda
(Master thesis, 2022-11-01)Denne masteroppgåva handlar om identitet og fellesskap blant ungdom i industristaden Odda i Hardanger. Odda er ein av stadane som på byrjinga av 1900-talet var ein del av industrialiseringa i Noreg. I dag er det framleis ... -
"Elles n'ont pas la volonté." Respektabilitet blant kristne kvinner i Ngaoundéré, Kamerun
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Embedded movement: Senegalese transcontinental migration and gender identity
(Master thesis, 2010-06-14)