Browsing Sosialantropologisk institutt by Title
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)Abstract The ‘Africanization’ of science after decolonization was replete with dreams. Claims to Africa's place in the high-modern world, expectations of national technological and economic progress, and individual dreams ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2007)This thesis is based on fieldwork carried out in the Mexican city of San Miguel de Allende and its outlying communities. In this study I focus on the changing role of mother and wife in relation to family, community, and ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)Let us take a minute; look at our society. We will find a group of people who share different nationalities. We define them as immigrants. This is an ethnographic study of Bangladeshi women immigrants in Oslo, Norway. It ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)The Samoan Christian theologian Ama’amalele Tofaeono draws on Repetition; Christianity; diverse intellectual sources to articulate an ecological theology theology; Samoa; American both distinctively Samoan and self-consciously ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)This thesis is based on a 6 month ethnographic fieldwork conducted in 2018 in Hawler, Kurdistan. I explore the concept of agency of young urban middle class women within the structural frames of a patriarchal society in a ...
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Resilience as Practice - An Ethnographic Study of the Paradoxes Resulting from a Top-Down Implemented Vision of Climate Resilience in DominicaRestricted Access (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)Throughout my fieldwork on the Caribbean Island of Dominica, I gathered stories and perspectives from people’s experiences with Hurricane Maria that struck the island in 2017 and Tropical Storm Erica in 2015. This MA thesis ...
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Resilience Tactics of Istanbul’s Queer Communities: the Example of Lubunya Nightlife of IstanbulRestricted Access (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)This master’s thesis explores the nightlife socialization encounters of queer individuals in Istanbul before and during Covid-19 pandemic. Similar to LGBTI+ individuals in many other countries in the rise of right-wing ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)This master thesis in Social Anthropology is based on a literature study of the impact gentrification have had on Woodstock, South Africa. Woodstock is a neighbourhood in Cape Town, South Africa and have throughout history ...
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Rethinking the study of prayer: Narrative stories from Burundian migrant devotees.Restricted Access (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 1999)Oppgaven er en studie av 14 muslimske kvinners skilsmisseinitiativ i Norge. Etter norsk lov har menn og kvinner samme adgang til skilsmisse, og dette utgjør en kontrast til muslimske land, der kvinnen har en snevrere ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion, 2004)
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)Anthropological studies done on the subject of virtual worlds have covered immersive virtual spaces which tend to simulate traditional social networks. These spaces offer alternative ways of identity building and ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)Abstract: Reworking Homelessness – Dignity and Power at two Oahu Shelters What strategies does the homeless population of Oahu use to negotiate power difference and dignity at homeless shelters? This thesis is based on ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)Hva er «en rigtig grønlender», og hvordan blir grønlenderen til? I avhandlingen viser jeg noen arenaene for identitetskapelse i Nuuk, Grønland. Jeg tar for meg språk, rasisme, sosiale ulikheter og også bruken av natur, ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)The Rimba Raya Biodiversity Reserve is a private sector REDD+ project (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) in Central Kalimantan in Indonesia. Karandang is one of nine villages close to the ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2019)This paper explores the namata ritual, common among Tolai people in Papua New Guinea’s East New Britain Province. The namata is often presented as an event that contributes towards social order, both in the ethnographic ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2005)My fieldwork lasted for six months, from the summer 2002 to the end of that year. My original plan was to look at women and their relationship to their bodies, more specific their own breasts. As my fieldwork was an urban ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2010)Why do certain landscapes become contested sites for claims about identity? We approach landscapes as assemblages of human and non-human elements that reach beyond the confines of their immediate physical and temporal ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2006)This thesis deals with alternative medicine (referred to as CAM) in public health care. Fieldwork was conducted at the Royal London Homeopathic Hospital (RLHH) in London, England, in the fall of 2004. The goal of the thesis ...