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Earth, Air, Fire, Water and the Big Smoke. Urban Paganism: Ritual performance, identity construction and meaning making within and without the city.
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2019-05-15)The dilution and/or disappearance of religious ideals throughout western societies has been identified as a result of the turn of the enlightenment, the advent and advancement of scientific rationale, processes of industrialization and fundamentally the political and societal separation between church and state (Nietzsche 1882, Jung 1964). Post-enlightenment philosophies have worked to distance ... -
Eating the old and the nature : experiencing authenticity through food in Alaska’s Little Norway
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2009-05-29)This thesis is about notions of authenticity in the Norwegian-American society Petersburg, Alaska. With the intention of gaining an understanding on why the Norwegian heritage keeps such a strong position in this society, I went into the field, and was surprised by the extensive role of food and the use of the term authentic in connection with it. I found that the idea of authenticity is closely ... -
Egyptian Diaspora, Power, and Resistance. An ethnographic study of the Egyptian diaspora in Berlin and Paris, summer 2019.
(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 ... -
Ethnodrama: The making of a dramatized ethnographic film to give collaborators a voice
(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 ... -
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 ... -
Expectations Thwarted. Support and conflict in an urban later life family, Guanajuato, Mexico
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2014-05-30)This research thesis is based on participant observation conducted with and without a movie camera with a family consisting of 94 year old Dolores, 54 year old Leticia and 27 year old Rodrigo from Guanajuato City in Central Mexico. By carrying out fieldwork in the months of April to August 2012 I have explored care-dynamics in the family and how their relationships unfold within the ever changing ... -
The Female Doorway : Minyanka women burdened and empowered by male out-migration
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2012-11-08)This thesis deals with the way women in Minyanka society are being forced to take on responsibilities that,in former times, were exclusively by their men. for the Minyanka people, control over productive resources has traditionally been centralized in the hands of the head of the household; almost always the husband. it'is been the man of the house who's been in charge of economics decisions and the ... -
Food stories. Globalization and social integration as an aspect of eating. Customer cases from Alanya Import in Tromsoe
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2016-05-12)Abstract thesis The purpose of this thesis is to discuss how the study of food relations can contribute to an insight in to the social dynamics of integration and globalisation processes. The empirical data is primarily based on a three-month fieldwork at Alanya Import, an international grocery shop at Storgata in Tromsø, Norway. I followed different customers and food commodities from Alanya ... -
Football and femininity. A phenomenological study of gender, football and motivation seen from a female perspective in a sociocultural context
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2016-05-18)Football is in Norway today the most popular sport across genders. Football is also a very male dominated arena because of its masculine features and because the masculine has for a long period been seen as a male trait. The females have since the day they entered this environment been exposed to the men’s embodiment of football and have therefore been working as the other. This again is shown through ... -
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 ... -
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 glove for two hands. Life history of a fisher-woman along the Adriatic coast
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2019-05-16)Abstract thesis The reflections contained in this thesis are a chronicle of my fieldwork in Italy. I explored a coastal community in a peculiar area called Trabocchi's Coast located in the Abruzzo Region, along the Adriatic Coast. My inquiry has been a video camera based fieldwork within and around the maritime area where I was born, thus identifying my fieldwork as a kind of anthropology at home. ... -
Grass. Understanding agro-based traditional knowledge of Sami indigenous group in northern Norway (Karasjok) and discovering a new way of making ethnographic film.
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2016-08-15)Nature plays a great role in every society. In many cases it shapes the form of a society in every direction possible. Therefore the essence of different societies are different according to their geographic location. Also there are many elements in a single society that can be worth to study. I chose nature, land and farming. It can be said that I tried to do visual anthropology of nature. As a ... -
The High Cybercafe: Internet in the Nepal Himalayas
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2012-06)The aim of this paper is to look more closely at the processes involving the adoption of internet in a Nepali mountain village. Two and a half months of fieldwork was performed at a primary school and a cybercafe in Namche Bazaar, Solukhumbu district, Nepal. My aim is to be informative about the processes revolving around the internet in a general global sense. Therefore my thesis is more concerned ... -
Housework and education of Fulani girls in Mbang-Fulbe, Northern Cameroon
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2014-07-24)This thesis focuses on housework, formal and domestic education in a Fulani community living in a small village located 37 km from Ngaoundere city, North part of Cameroon. By following a family of seven people, the study looks into the historical developmental of Fulani girls linked to the power relation and explains how power is changing in that area. To describe how social fields are connected ... -
Housing the City: Social Capital and House Agents in Accra, Ghana
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2014-05-30)Finding accommodation in Ghana’s capital Accra can be a tricky and daunting task. This situation has been attributed to rapid urban growth which has led many city dwellers to rely on middle men, known as house agents to help with their housing needs. Though popular among city folks, house agents activities remain unexplored area of research. As an emerging urban formm, this enterprise is unique in ... -
(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 ... -
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 ... -
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 knights of the road : creating a dignified identity on the margins of society
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2008-06-20)Vagabonds, “landstrygere” (tramps), “landevejsriddere” (Knights of the road), “farende svende” (journeymen); dear child has many names. The group I have been following this summer is walking the roads of the Danish countryside, living their lives without a stable home or at least periodically without a permanent residence, on the margins of the society. Most of them are alcoholics. But in spite of ...
