Browsing Sosialantropologisk institutt by Author "Bratrud, Tom"

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  • Asserting Land, Estranging Kin: On Competing Relations of Dependence in Vanuatu 
    Bratrud, Tom (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
    This paper examines how the new material value of land in postcolonial Vanuatu intensifies people's shaping and re-shaping of claims to autonomy and dependence. Ahamb, like many other villages in Melanesia, originated as ...
  • Finding ways : community and its challenges on Ahamb, Vanuatu 
    Bratrud, Tom (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)
    The thesis is based on six months of fieldwork in Vanuatu in 2010. The objective of the study is to examine ways in which community is produced and challenged on the small island of Ahamb, where I based most of my ...
  • Hytta, bygda og byen: Forhandling om tilhørighet i krisetid 
    Lien, Marianne Elisabeth; Bratrud, Tom (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
    I denne artikkelen bruker vi «koronaåret» 2020 og hytteforbudet som empirisk inntak for å forstå mer generelle trekk ved norske forståelser av sted, tilhørighet og sosiale skillelinjer. Vi tar utgangspunkt i den økende ...
  • Spiritual War: Revival, Child Prophesies, and a Battle Over Sorcery in Vanuatu 
    Bratrud, Tom (Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
    Sorcery and Christianity have been in an intimate and seemingly opposing relationship on the small Ahamb Island in Vanuatu for more than a century. While sorcery is seen as the most potent threat to the good life as it ...
  • What is love? The complex relation between values and practice in Vanuatu 
    Bratrud, Tom (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
    The past decade has seen a renewed anthropological interest in values, morality, and ethics. This article engages with this field by demonstrating how values can be strategies as well as ideals, prone to destabilize social ...