This article relates to the fast growing research literature on innovation by adopting a phenomenological perspective of change and how change comes about. We visited nineteen farms in Norway in a project on farm-based tourism. Results show highly differentiated products but similar routes in transforming a farm no longer seen as economically viable, into a way of doing life and doing work that ...

Artikkelen undersøker tidspunktet for nedgangen i antall tjenere i Norge. Det er manglende samsvar mellom de tall og den periodisering som har vært anvendt i historikernes framstillinger og de aggregerte tidsserier som er gjort tilgjengelige fra Statistisk sentralbyrå i etterkrigstida. Med utgangspunkt i transkriberte individdata fra folketellingene 1865, 1875 og 1900 undersøkes utviklingen ...

Comparisons between dialects tell us how a dialect relates to other dialects: how isolated it is, and which dialects it is most closely related to. Areal-linguistic studies also give information about the historical ties of the dialect and its speakers to other regions and about their cultural background. The present article discusses the relation of the Russian dialect of Varzuga, an old Pomor ...