Browsing Department of Social Anthropology by Title
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Valuable Subversions: Gendered Generativity and Sorcerous Production in Central Mozambique
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016-11-25)How is one to analyze the existence of a subterranean dwarfish couple (zwidoma) occupying the space underneath cooking places and whose central purpose is to reinforce a market woman’s sales—but simultaneously feeding off ... -
Venezuela’s oil specter: Contextualizing and historicizing the Bolivarian attempt to sow the oil
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Under the late Hugo Chávez’ rule in Venezuela, the country’s oil dependency was framed as a pernicious condition to overcome, at the same time as oil became a centerpiece for his social, political and symbolic nation-building ... -
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 ... -
Violent Becomings. State Formation, Sociality, and Power in Mozambique
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Violent masculinities: Gendered dynamics of policing in Rio de Janeiro
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Historically, policing in Rio de Janeiro has been shaped by the equation of racialized violence and masculinity. Attempts to reform the police have paradoxically drawn on forms of male violence that are centered on the ... -
The virtuous woman and the holy nation: Femininity in the context of Pentecostal Christianity in Vanuatu
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016-08)In this paper I connect an anthropology of Christianity to an anthropology of the body and an anthropology of the nation. I try to achieve this by looking at changing notions of femininity in the Pentecostal context of ... -
Viruses beyond epistemic fallacy
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"Visdom hører steder til" - En studie om landskap og stedliggjøring av islandskhet
(Master thesis, 2014-06-13)The thesis explores national identity in Iceland and the UNESCO World Heritage Site Thingvellir National Park. This is the place where the Icelandic Parliament was established in the year 930 AD. In addition to the unique ... -
Vold og Ære, hevn og forsoning. Om kulturell kontinuitet i et komparativt perspektiv
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017)This article is a slightly modified version of the honorary lecture I gave at the Annual Conference of the Norwegian Association of Anthropologists 2017. I am addressing the conference's central theme – cultural continuity ... -
Vulnerability governance as differential inclusion: the struggles of asylum seekers in Marseille
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Concerns with ‘vulnerability’ increasingly proliferate in global and regional pacts, international and domestic legislations, and policy discourses and practices regarding migration and international protection. Also in ... -
Wanem ia jenda? [What is Gender?]: Translations and (Mis)Understandings between Development Discourse & Everyday Life Experiences in Port Vila, Vanuatu
(Master thesis, 2016-06-17)Labelled as one of the Least Developed Countries, Vanuatu is a popular place for international Development agencies. The situation of women is particularly often targeted in the Development discourses and buzzwords like ... -
Water or Soda -Volunteers in a Kampala slum-
(Master thesis, 2006) -
Waterworn. Climate Change Resonance in the Shivalik Hills of North India
(Doctoral thesis, 2018-05-15)This dissertation aims to explore the idea of climate change as it appeared amongst villagers in the rural Shivalik hills of North India. I traced the discourse behind the practices of diverse local, regional and global ... -
Ways of Knowing, Ways of Life. Environment, Education and Climate Change in a Rural Samoan Village
(Master thesis, 2015-08-13) -
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 ... -
'We Rise By Lifting Others'
(Master thesis, 2015-08-03) -
“We started climate change”. A Multi-level ethnography of Pacific Climate Leadership
(Doctoral thesis, 2019-04-26)Based on fieldwork in multiple locations around the world but with a particular focus on the Pacific Islands region, this dissertation explores ethnographically the global phenomena of anthropogenic climate change and their ... -
Western movements in non-Western worlds: towards an anthropology of uncertain encounters
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019) -
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 ...