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Sep. 26, 2018 3:34 PM
Thomas Hylland Eriksen and Ramola Ramtohul are editing topics ranging from political leadership, language, religion and interactions to the materiality of multiculturalism from when Mauritius proclaimed independence in 1968, up to our time.
A preview of the book is available here.
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Sep. 25, 2018 10:10 AM
In this article published in Public Anthropologist Nefissa Naguib explores humanitarian shame among local providers of aid in Norway.
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Sep. 19, 2018 3:27 PM
Martin D.Frederiksen text is leading the reader back and forth between observations on a place in its non-existence and detailed being, references to and analysis of nothingness versus nothing and the importance of a counterpart of nothing in everything. Katharina Stadler
Publishers presentation
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Sep. 19, 2018 1:53 PM
Nefissa Naguib has contributed with a chapter that reviews the uses of family in the anthropology of Egypt. The chapter explains a shift from an anthropological critique of the discourse power of family toward the analytical treatment of family as a broader category of the ethnographic study.
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Aug. 31, 2018 3:18 PM
This text by Nefissa Naguib is a study of Syrian refugees who crossed the Russian-Norwegian border by bicycle. Nefissa Naguib is co-editor with Maria C. Inhorn on the anthology Reconceiving Muslim Men
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Aug. 30, 2018 11:34 AM
These texts, with a contribution from María A.Guzmán-Gallegos, are written 'from the epistemic space of communities and movements against forms of capitalist globalisation and extractive operations'.(cf.Machado et al.)
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Aug. 24, 2018 2:08 PM
Thomas Hylland Eriksen explores the ambivalence by telling the story of Gladstone, and relating it to the larger forces of economic globalization at the expense of vulnerable sea nature .
An extract from Boomtown can be accessed here.
Published
June 4, 2018 10:10 AM
In this book, edited by Nefissa Naguib and Marcia C. Inhorn, we get an intimate look at the everyday lives of muslim men that challenges common stereotypes.
Published
May 18, 2018 9:00 AM
In his chapter, Arnd Schneider argues for a hermeneutic approach to understand cultural appropriation.
Publishers presentation and chapter download (pp. 326 - 346)
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Feb. 14, 2018 10:29 AM
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Jan. 19, 2018 2:37 PM
Arnd Schneiderco-edited a new book on the 'field as staged' in performance, art and anthropology.
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Jan. 11, 2018 3:07 PM
Marianne Lien describes aquaculture and the relations between humans and nonhumans triggered by salmon farming.
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Dec. 1, 2017 12:58 PM
Theodoros Rakopoulos contributes to a broader debate about cooperativism, how labor might be salvaged from market fundamentalism, and to emergent discourses about the 'human' economy.
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Nov. 29, 2017 3:42 PM
Christianity has a long history of representing the morally good for the Ahamb people on the Island Vanuatu. Tom Bratrud refers to how Ahamb people understand their fellow human by using Christian moral standards.
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Nov. 8, 2017 5:40 PM
In her essay Nefissa Naguib shows the humanitarian encounter and how volunteer movement founded in response to the refugee crisis, despite Norwegian government policies.
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Sep. 29, 2017 2:43 PM
Signe Howell shows a special responsibility to consider how anthropologists may contribute to policies for alleviating the current ecological crisis in Malaysia
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Sep. 28, 2017 9:34 AM
In her study Signe Howell show the strong emotionality that accompanies the inability to become a mother biologically and the extreme joy experienced when adoption succeeds.
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Aug. 25, 2017 11:41 AM
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Aug. 25, 2017 11:03 AM
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June 15, 2017 2:05 PM
Astrid Stensrud discusses modes of precarity the mobile phone businesses created in the street economy of the Peruvian city of Cusco
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Apr. 21, 2017 2:34 PM
In Signe Howells analysis of the Lio, she has argued that hierarchical relations must be understood in the relationship between adat (cosmology) and the Catholic Church.
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20. apr. 2017 11:32
Henrik Sinding-Larsens drøfter hvordan individualitet dannes sett i lys av humanistiske versus de naturvitenskapelige tradisjonene, i antologien "Det skapende mennesket"
Forlagets presentasjon
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Apr. 7, 2017 12:56 PM
Jonas Kure Buer sheds light on a pivotal moment in the history of rheumatology, while modelling an anthropological approach to drug categories as meaning-making Devices
Open Access
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Mar. 22, 2017 2:08 PM
Arnd Schneider’s Introduction ‘Alternatives: World Ontologies and Dialogues between Contemporary Arts and Anthropologies’ sets a new global agenda for the relationship between anthropology and contemporary art. In this new book, Schneider has invited an impressive range of contributors, and provides vivid interviews with many of them.
Publisher's presentation
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Mar. 17, 2017 2:07 PM