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    • "This is our land" : The good life in a Lebanese village 

      Svendsen, Rita Azar (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2013-06-07)
      Ebel Es Saqi is a village in Southern Lebanon, close to the border with Israel. Since 1978 UN peacekeeping troops have been placed here because of the tension in the area deriving from the Lebanese Civil War. This is a thesis about people’s everyday lives in this village: how they live there, how they perceive it, and how they apply meaning to it. People in Ebel Es Saqi are very loving of their ...

    • The tidy environment in Hirogawara 

      Koike, Atsushi (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2010-05-28)
      Hirogawara is a village with a long lasting tradition of forestry located in a mountain area of Kyoto prefecture, and is one of the typical under populated villages in the Japanese rural region. Although there are various elements which distinguish the village and urban area, one of the main elements which contribute to differentiate the behavior of each would be the environment surrounding the ...

    • 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 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 ...

    • Traditional beliefs in modern society : the case of the Kapsiki blacksmiths of Mogode, Northern Cameroon 

      Kodji, Gamache Thomas (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2009-05-29)
      This is an essay on the dynamics of the evolution of the Kapsiki blacksmiths group of Mogode. Among the Kapsiki, blacksmiths perform many trades and crafts calling for specialization as funeral, music, divination, magic and medicine, pottery, leatherwork, forging iron and casting brass crucial for people's life. But their position in the society is characterized by a big paradox between them and the ...

    • Traditional midwifery between tradition and modern expectations : case of some traditional midwives in Adjelhoc, a Tuareg community, East-Northern Mali 

      Diallo, Brahima Amara (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2011-05-29)
      In Adjelhoc, women, in most cases, prefer to stay at home throughout their entire pregnancy and to get help in childbirth only from traditional midwives, even if they live near a community health centre which could provide them with modern care. To lessen the gap between the community and the local health workers, DDRK is currently supporting six traditional midwives in Adjelhoc in acquiring modern ...

    • "Troublemakers in search for belonging" : newly arrived pupils in a Oslo school 

      Slaaen, Christian (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2011-06-07)
      The thesis is about immigrant pupils in Sogn School in Oslo, where my aim was to discover different form of belonging. The school’s role when it comes to integration, varied for the different actors, both in terms of establishing social relations, and in terms of acquiring knowledge. My general finding is that young immigrants establish social relations to other young immigrants. For most of the ...

    • We are all one. Kola, the nut which brings peace, joy and life in Nso’ society, Cameroon 

      Kilian, Lamtur Tanlaka (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2013-08-30)
      This thesis is about the consequences of kola nut use amongst the Nso' people. It offers an analysis of the socio-cultural context where kola is used and its cultural significance. The sense of unity, togetherness, and belonging is one of the issues that is connected to the production and reproduction of the social world we are engaged in. Thus, this study on kola nut practices is all about how ...

    • When the past becomes the future : aspects of cultural revitalization among the Gbaya in Bertoua, East-Cameroon 

      Ndanga, Dieudonné Ngnantare (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2007-10-22)
      This work is done in a context where groups and associations for culture revitalization flourish in Cameroon. By focussing on the actors, means and challenges of culture revival, I aim to describe the outcome of a process of de-tribalisation during which ethnic groups have had to relinquish their traditions in order to subscribe to modernisation as prescribed by states government and through ...

    • 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 ...