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The Vicissitudes of Becoming: Holding Space among a community in Tākaka
(Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2022-06-01)This thesis represents embodied practices in everyday life in an intentional community, facilitated by a visionary, feminist and a peace activist Sunshine Appleby in Aotearoa New Zealand. Established in 2018, the New Directions Connections Learning Centre is rooted towards spiritual awakening, community building, commensalities of healthy eating and zero-waste living. Holistic and utopian by its ... -
To know by Hands.
(Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2024-05-15)This thesis takes on a sensorial approach to discuss relations between uses of natural resources and connections between humans and nature. Through following three people making use of natural resources in different ways, I argue for a particular kind of knowledge that is tightly linked together with sensorial experiences. I argue that these knowledges require a understanding of the more-than-human ... -
A Home away from Home?
(Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2024-05-15)This thesis is part of a bigger project, and, together with the film A Home Away From Home (2024), illustrates different ways in which Dutch people experience living in northern Norway and how they engage in home-making practices. The study explores the ways in which they engage in home-making practices to create a home for themselves, while also reflecting on their sense of belonging. The research ... -
Dragging Chains - An anthropological study on Grenadian jab jab and collective identity formation in the post-colonial context.
(Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2024-05-15)This master’s thesis, together with the film that accompanies it, is based on four months of fieldwork done in Grenada from April to August 2023. The aim of this project is to explore the devil-masquerade jab jab, one of several traditional carnival masquerades played in Grenada, as a catalyst for the emergence of a Grenadian national identity. The participants that have taken part in the creation ... -
Ways of Sensing the Sacred: Spirituality and praxis in North India
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2024-05-22)This thesis is about spiritualism in North India and how spirituality is practiced in a town of Tapovan, Rishikesh. Sadhana is a term which refers to a spiritual practice and is at the core of Hinduism and everyday lives of people. This thesis aims to communicate ways of practicing religion, or spirituality, and has its focus on singular experiences of the protagonists and their ways of being in the ... -
The Reflection of An Empty Room – Sensorial Consumption of Monastic Architectural Spaces
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2024-05-15)The following research aims to explore architectural spaces, and the human presence therein, in a Benedictine monastic environment. The empirical material was collected during the spring and summer of 2023 over a period of twenty days during which I stayed as a guest in St. Benedictusberg Abbey in the south of the Netherlands, just a few kilometers away from the tripoint where the country borders ... -
Moving and exploring the world sensorially: Liv Hanne Haugen’s dance classes in Tromsø
(Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2024-05-15)This paper is part of a master's thesis project in visual anthropology, which includes also a short ethnographic film “Dance what you are”. The project is based on three months of fieldwork conducted in Tromsø, a city in Northern Norway. It focuses on a group of people who practice a dance which none of them can define or label. The dance does not have a choreography, a specific technique, or ... -
The Wireless Set: Navigating Vulnerability and Resilience in environments of globalisation
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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 ...
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