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Why we marry our relatives

May 16, 2013 11:53 AM

Most of the residents of a small Gambian village are married to their relatives. Anthropologist Tone Sommerfelt has written a doctoral thesis on them.

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‘“Property” and “rights” in a South African land claim case May 15, 2013 03:07 PM

This chapter contributed by Knut Gunnar Nustad discusses notions of 'property' and 'rights' in the context of South Africa's land reform programme. Both concepts carry with them a heavy ideological baggage. This is evident in the policies on land reform, which have sought to reach a compromise between different and often contradictory histories of both rights and property.

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'She's My Sister-In-Law, My Visitor, My Friend' - Challenges of Staff Identity in Home Follow-Up in an HIV Trial in Western Kenya May 15, 2013 03:05 PM

Recent ethnographies of clinical research in Africa have described the impotance of "relatedness" to the successful conduct of trials. They have also revealed the tensions between such relatedness and the scentific and ethical rules of clinical trial work, and at the risks of mixing professional and private, erasing the "ordered separartions upon which formal ethics and scientific evidence rest". Among other colleagues, Ruthe Prince and Paul Wenzel Geissler participate in this overviewarticle of HIV science in western Kenya.

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‘Anthropologists are Talking’: About Islam, Muslims and Law in Contemporary Europe Apr 25, 2013 04:22 PM

In this article, Sindre Bangstad, Oddbjørn Leirvik and John R.Brown ask what anthropology can tell us about the multiple ways in which European Muslims engage with liberal and secular laws and the state.

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Disputas: Stian Overå Jun 27, 2013 12:15 PM
Bateson Symposium Sep 11, 2013 12:00 AM

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Anthropology and Human Rights: Prof. Richard Ashby Wilson visits Oslo and Norway May 13-18 2013. May 2, 2013
Behind the screen: Anthropologists work with film Apr 8, 2013
Arne Kalland has passed away Oct 25, 2012
Interview with Sindre Bangstad on Saba Mahmood Oct 15, 2011

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Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship in Social Anthropology

Avdeling: Sosialantropologisk institutt
Språk: English (UK)
Søknadsfrist: 8 August 2013

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