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  • The Wireless Set: Navigating Vulnerability and Resilience in environments of globalisation 

    Andrews, Esme (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2023-05-15)
    Both islands and the ageing experience are often understood in relation to globalisation processes. This project acknowledges ageing islanders as having an acute embodied experience of the - often-disembodied - way in which environment is dominantly conceptualised under globalisation. It thus seeks to understand Scotland’s non-linked isles’ experience of care provision under a national service, based ...
  • Tourism making places at the Norwegian–Russian border – Narratives amidst geopolitical change 

    Naukkarinen, Sanni (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2023-05-15)
    This thesis discusses the construction of place through place narratives on the Norwegian–Russian border in the town of Kirkenes, Northern Norway. Based on ethnographic fieldwork from April to July 2022, the study explores how tourism to the Russian border constructs three places: Russia, Kirkenes in relation to Russia, and the Norwegian–Russian border. Border tourism is analysed in light of ...
  • The Anthropologist’s Guide to the Female Experience of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder 

    Røv, Lise Cathrine S. (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2023-05-15)
    Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder – or ADHD – is a neurodevelopmental disorder that has been recognized in young boys for decades. Meanwhile, a significant part of the population has been suffering with it, often unknowingly, in silence. ADHD is one of the best-researched disorders in medicine, but only regarding boys, and there is a need for broader research on ADHD – especially in girls and ...
  • Biki Music in Kapsiki Society in Northern Cameroon: Socioeconomic Changes and Redefinition of Kareghé Identity 

    Leon, Sunday (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2023-05-14)
    This dissertation addresses the socio-economic changes in Kareghé, life through an ethnographic enterprise using participatory observation and visual data collection techniques. Therefore, as the main subject, I try to understand Biki music, how it has influenced the life of Kareghé, specifically Kafaché Sonday, my informant and his group of music. The main aim of this study is to examine the impact ...
  • Gardener’s confession A study of the botanical and communal garden in Tromsø 

    Boldižarová, Katarína (Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2023-05-15)
    During the three months of the summer 2022, the gardeners, interns, and volunteers of the botanical garden in Tromsø and the community garden Holt agreed on being filmed and participated in a project that examines the importance of these two gardens in the city of Tromsø located in Northern Norway. The botanical garden in Tromsø and the community garden Holt are different gardens with different ...
  • Ashes living in cracks and hollows 

    Fukao, Haruka (Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2023-05-15)
    In Japan in the spring of 2022, a couple, Asuka and Novi, scattered the ashes of a twelve-year-old boy under a tree. Through intimate conversations, I explored their philosophy behind using the alternative mortuary rite “scattering of ashes”. They invited me into their daily lives as a filmmaker and researcher. Daily life revealed another side of the communion with the deceased by “greeting them at ...
  • (In)voluntary entrepreneurs. A study of tradition usage as a departure for rural entrepreneurship 

    Fedoseev, Viktor (Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2018-05-15)
    People from Kenozerje ceased to be citizens of the Soviet state on December 26, 1991, and two days later received a citizenship of the Kenozersky National Park, a new incredible country stretched on the borders of the Arkhangelsk region in Russia. The Park uses traditions established on its territory as a departure for activities and constructing an everyday life in Kenozerje. The Park is constantly ...
  • Expansive Encroachments and Challenging Changes - Shifting landscapes and adaptive measures among reindeer- and sheepherders in a city-near environment 

    Westerlund, Minetta Saskia (Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2022-06-01)
    In the outskirts of Tromsø, the largest city in northern Norway, both reindeer herders and sheep farmers are trying to navigate through a changing landscape. The animal husbandries that have been practiced here since time immemorial, are experiencing increasing challenges as the city continues to grow and develop. This study aims to bring forth some of these challenges, such as land encroachment and ...
  • A girl, a dog & some boys - Identity and sense of belonging among Greenlandic youth in Nuuk 

    Maurtvedt, Tove (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2011-05-29)
    In classical anthropology and literature in general, the connection between nature and man was a way to perceive cultural adaption, where nature and skills in the Arctic often have received the most attention. Up to a few decades ago, the Greenlanders lived close to nature in rural areas spread around the island. Today most of the population live in towns. The main focus of this thesis looks into ...
  • A Journey towards Fatherhood: The importance of embodying a new role 

    Lafragua Salazar, Irati (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2018-05-15)
    This thesis explores the complex transformations involved in first-time fatherhood, when adult men undergo one of the most important changes of status in their lives. How is this new status reached? What are the stages of this transition? What other social factors influence the way this transition takes place? The study is primarily based on audiovisual material of my husband, a Spanish researcher ...
  • The survival of dugnad. Exploring the meanings and adaptabilities of dugnad as a concept and function in contemporary Norwegian society 

    Ługowska, Ewa Małgorzata (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2021-05-31)
    The thesis explores the concept of dugnad, its meanings, and functions in contemporary Norwegian society. Dugnad is a tradition of unpaid voluntary work that can be traced back to agricultural society. Despite Norway undergoing substantial social, political and economic changes, it did not lose its relevance. In my thesis, I attempt to answer why practice so old prevailed in the modern world and how ...
  • The Tourism of the Authentic in a Rural Idyll: The Case of a Family Organized Activity in the South of France 

    Charles-Herrou, Iman (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2021-05-18)
    Ethnography is a multi-method human-conducted examination of what humans do, say, think and believe. As Sherry Ortner flawlessly explains: “ethnography has always meant the attempt to understand another life world using the self – as much of it as possible – as the instrument of knowing.” (2006: 3) My thesis will be devoted to study how people experience alternative lifestyles and new ways of living ...
  • Individualization, Agency and Hope: Chronicle of a summer of four women in Tromsø, Northern Norway 

    Loaiza Pineda, Julián David (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2021-06-01)
    In the Covid-19 summer of 2020 in the arctic city of Tromsø, four women embarked on a research and film project about their lives. Elisa (a 28-year-old Italian woman), Sunniva (a 31- year-old Norwegian woman), Magalí (a 36-year-old Argentine woman) and Tove (an 85-year- old Norwegian woman), engaged through intimate conversations with me a researcher/filmmaker, where they exposed essential aspects ...
  • Adaptation and Staying Social: Ways of Coping and the Use of Virtual Spaces During the Covid-19 Pandemic as Observed in the USA 

    Matteucci, Dominic (Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2021-06-01)
    The Covid-19 pandemic has affected the entire world (Worldometer 2021). Some regions are worse off than others though. One of these areas is the United States of America which has been recorded having the highest number of Covid cases and deaths in the world, with 33,419,113 cases and 594,912 deaths from Covid-19 as of May 08, 2021 (Worldometer 2021). Despite its alarming numbers, citizens there ...
  • ”A living life” - Exploring Place attachment and ”The good life” on Sandøya, an island community in Southern Norway 

    Karayazgan, Aylin Desiree (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2016-05-18)
    The concept of lifestyle has become much more important in contemporary, and especially western, social life. This must be seen as part how individual are more free to choose who they want to be, and consequently how and where they want to live. Eith refers to lifestyle there is a growing number of people who relocate on the basis of a belief that there is a more fulfilling way of life available ...
  • Ethnodrama: The making of a dramatized ethnographic film to give collaborators a voice 

    Butinhão, Renato Duque (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2020-11-02)
    The production project of a fictional film through the collaboration between an ethnographer and a theater group from Ngaoundéré, Cameroon resulted in a film genre coined ‘ethnodrama’. This model of collaboration limits the authorship of filmmakers while preventing the ethnographic relevance of the film to be corrupted by them. This thesis describes the creative process behind the development of the ...
  • Search for Sustainability and Connection in The Finnish Forest. "Figuring out the new lifestyle" - Reconstructing nature in a time of ecological crisis 

    Cleve, Julie Alva (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2019-05-22)
    This thesis is a discussion of the data that arose out of the ethnographic fieldwork I conducted over the summer of 2018 in Finland. I took part in discussions and practices at various locations in the the Finnish forest about engaging with nature in particular ways, some of which I will present in this paper. These interactions have played a role in furthering my understanding of my research ...
  • Nous sommes ensemble. Uncertain contingencies and hope in urban Ngaoundéré 

    Varroni, Ascanio (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2020-06-02)
    Uncertainty is becoming a fundamental new conceptual tool for anthropologists in order to understand the complex ways in which the vulnerable people living at the margins of African fast- growing cities create meaning out of a routinized sense of crisis. Many studies (Cooper & Pratten 2015; Whyte 2009; McGovern 2012; Waage 2015; 2018; etc.) have highlighted the importance of hope and social contingency ...
  • Ancestral Medicine on the Rise. Reemergence of ancestral medicine and spirituality in Saraguro, and its transformative effects. 

    Døvigen, Magnus (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2020-06-01)
    The purpose of this thesis is to discuss the revival of pre-Columbian ancestral medicine and spirituality in Saraguro, Ecuador, catalyzed by a minority within the indigenous population of Saraguro. In the thesis, I look at how this resurgence is affecting and contributing to a meaning change towards their cultural identity by looking at local, global and historical influences. The methods I have ...
  • Egyptian Diaspora, Power, and Resistance. An ethnographic study of the Egyptian diaspora in Berlin and Paris, summer 2019. 

    Hussin, Mostafa Elsayed (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2020-06-02)
    The Egyptian revolution in 2011 ended dramatically in 2013 with the military taking control of the country in a coup. The current repressive government has forced many activists, journalists, professors, and other citizens to leave the country permanently, in fear of imprisonment and other penalties and harassment. Others left because of the deteriorating economic situation in the country. New ...

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