Etter utbruddet av hva som senere er kjent som første verdenskrig møttes de skandinaviske utenriksministrene og de tre kongene i Malmø 18-.19 desember 1914. Dette møtet endte opp med å bli innledningen til en praksis hvor det jevnlig ble holdt møter mellom de skandinaviske landenes ledelse gjennom hele verdenskrigen og også etter krigen, der de skandinaviske stats- og utenriksministrene kunne drøfte ...

The establishment of the Norwegian Historical Data Centre, the 1801 project at the University of Bergen and the data transcriptions and scanned versions of the sources in the National Archives made Norwegian microdata much more available. A more detailed description of the digital techniques applied to the wealth of censuses, church records and other types of nominative data from the 18th century onwards, ...

This thesis takes a critical look at the boundaries established between the Middle and Upper Paleolithic, and how these have, and continue to affect the research on Neandertals. It deals with both the biological and the social material in order to gain an understanding of how these have affected each other when constructing theories. It seeks to understand why the Middle and Upper Paleolithic are ...

This thesis is about Ron’s Org and Dror Center, two independent Scientology groups. They schismed away from the Church of Scientology at different times and under different circumstances. Ron’s Org is the older of the two, and are spread over large parts of the world, with their main activity focused on Europe. I have visited the headquarter in Switzerland and some of the many Ron’s Orgs in Moscow, ...

This chapter explores the shift to ‘indigeneity’ and ‘indigenous religion’ among the Sámi, through a focus on Sámi activism at Alta (1979–1981, concerning a proposed power plant) and Standing Rock (2016–2017, concerning a proposed pipeline). It is based on a combination of multi-sited fieldwork, interviews and textual sources, and proceeds along the lines of ‘light comparison’, inspired partly by ...

Dette er den aksepterte manuskriptversjonen av artikkelen. Publisert versjon er tilgjengelig i <a href=https://www.idunn.no/heimen/2015/02/>Heimen Lokal og regional historie 2015; Volum 52.(2) s. 148-168</a>

This paper is one of a series of five studying the intergenerational transfer of infant mortality down the maternal line. All five studies share the same theoretical and methodological design, and use data derived from a standard database format: the Intermediate Data Structure (IDS). The data for the research reported in this paper were derived from a longitudinal dataset covering the 19th and 20th ...

It has previously been shown that infant mortality clusters in a subset of families, a phenomenon which was observed in historical populations as well as contemporary developing countries. A transmission of death clustering across generations has also been shown in Belgium, but it is unknown whether such effects are specific to the studied context or are also found in other areas. The current article ...

This article seeks to challenge what may seem to be an obvious assertion: that finitude is original in the sense that it must be presupposed that any possible meaning can only be thought beginning from this finitude. I do this through a rereading of Derrida’s epochal essay “Violence and Metaphysics,” which perhaps is the most decisive interpretation of the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas. In the ...

Fly ble første gang benyttet til kartlegning i Øst-Antarktis i 1929. De fleste Antarktis-ekspedisjonene det neste tiåret hadde fly om bord, noe som førte til at nesten hele kystlinjen mellom 100° øst og 20° vest på kort tid ble oppdaget og kartlagt. Etter at fotogrammetrisk metode ble tatt i bruk i 1936 ble kartene vesentlig forbedret. Oppgaven setter søkelys på den betydningen bruk av fly og ...