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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 ... -
”A living life” - Exploring Place attachment and ”The good life” on Sandøya, an island community in Southern Norway
(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 ... -
Living like kings? : migrants identity as parts of and in between two nations
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2010-06)The Estonian immigrants are within some settings such as taxation, hundred percent employed, little knowledge of Norwegian language, village, which limits them in some ways to reach their goal. They are conceived as having a residence in Norway so that they have the same amount money that a normal Norwegian but at the same time they have a home in another country. They cannot use much money and the ... -
Living the folklore. Memory, performance and identity construction. The case of Empi et Riaume
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2016-05-18)Modern folklore expression deals with the delicate balance between past and present, preservation of traditions and the constant change of the modernity. Folklore heritage is deeply incorporated to the societies way of being, in fact it shapes a large part of the social memory and identity of people in a very implicit way, that is often neglected. My study bring us in a little French town called ... -
Living where the grass is greener: Reflections on an alternative life in a mountain village in Romania
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2013-11-10)Nowadays there is an increasing number of people who invest (or would like to invest) in a second home in rural areas or who migrate (or would like to migrate) to rural areas. This thesis is about migration to rural areas; it addresses the question: “Which incentives and constraints do people weigh before migrating to a rural area and which challenges do they encounter once living there?” I ... -
Man of Nature and Me: Research on the Boundary between Anthropology and Art
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2013-11-10)This paper deals mainly with questions of methodology by presenting a creative approach to fieldwork. It presents the fieldwork as relative to art practice, and the film as relative to art work. The paper also presents the data obtained by this method: my informant, Bogdan’s vision on nature and society. His relationship to nature and Romania is one of respect and love, and as such it comes close ... -
Mater omnium. A study of belonging, care and social change in superdiverse Italy
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2017-05-16)Crisis can be considered a context in the modern European narrative, as economy, mass-migrations and environmental factors create a superdiverse, ever shifting social and cultural pavement. Set in Ostia, a suburban area of Rome, under the spotlight due to the influence of organized crime and the raising conflicts between socio political realities, this paper investigate how solidarity and belonging ... -
Mbororo migrant workers in Western Cameroon: Case study of Bahouan
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2014-10-24)This paper aims to analyze the daily life of some Mbororo migrant workers in Bahouan village. Due to some external and internal forces on their nomadic lifestyle, these Mbororo Muslims have decided to seek for livelihood in Bahouan, among the mainly agricultural Christian people. Since then, their strategy has been in attempting to rebuild their herd and provide for their relatives back home. This ...
