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In his chapter «Appropriations across disciplines: The future of art and anthropology collaborations” Arnd Schneider explores possible dialogues and frictions across contemporary art and anthropology practices,  in various discursive fields of the senses, ethics, and experimentation.

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The scale of the mass movement of people from current conflicts recalls the two World Wars, both of which radically reorganized the world. This article by Nefissa Naguib reflects on new ways of thinking about human crisis and humanitarianism and how they are mobilized in different temporal and geographical settings.

In this book Paul Wenzel Geissler, Guillaume Lachenal, John Manton and Noémi Tousignant present a close look at the vestiges of twentieth-century medical work at five key sites in Africa. The result is unprecedented view of the lingering traces of medical science from Africa’s past.

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Elisabeth Schober's new book, Base Encounters, explores the social friction that US bases have caused in South Korea, where the entertainment districts next to American military installations have come under much scrutiny.

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In this article, Astrid B. Stensrud shows how climate change translates into insecure water provision and produces new uncertainties in Colca Valley, Southern Peru. Stensrud argues that a stronger ethnographic focus on material practices  that enact multiple versions of water, and multiple  water worlds, can contribute to a more nuanced understanding of climate change effects and water politics.

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Boka gir detaljerte og tidvis humoristiske og provoserende beskrivelser av nordmenns holdninger til og kunnskaper om ulike hvaler og hvalfangst så vel som gjennomgang av forskjellige fangstmetoder fra kysten av Vestlandet, fra 1600-tallet fram til 1910.

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This article written by Rune Flikke and Trine Kvitberg is based on research conducted under the Arctic indigenous peoples adaptation to contaminant problems and climate change at the University of Tromsø.

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Signe Howell shows in her chapter in Animism in Southeast Asia  how the Chewong (hunters and gatherers of Peninsular Malaysia), are prototypical animists in the conventional definition of ontologies which assign agency and personhood to human and non-human beings alike.   

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In  this collection of chapters on the little know societies of aboriginal people of Peninsular Malaysia, Signe Howell shows in her chapter  “Continuity through Change: Three decades of engaging with Chewong: Some issues raised by multitemporal fieldwork” how Chewong way of life have changed dramatically from the time of her first fieldwork until today. She argues that despite huge influences emanating from the external world they are still maintaining their egalitarian ethos and practices.

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In one form or another, water participates in the making and unmaking of people’s lives, practices, and stories. Astrid Stensrud has contributed "Chapter 3. Raining in the Andes: Disrupted Seasonal and Hydrological Cycles" in this new volume of  detailed ethnographic work analyzing the union and mutual shaping of water and social lives.

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Jon H. Z. Remme  demonstrates in his Chapter in Animism in Southeast Asia that Ifugao animism contains an inherent ontological dynamic. Remme argues that we can best understand how Ifugao animism operates by approaching it as a form of onto-praxis – i.e. through its practices which, in turn, are interpreted as actualizations of the potentiality of shared sociality between humans and non-humans. Remme concludes that the practices of Ifugao animism are fundamentally concerned with the management of this potential for shared sociality between humans and non-humans.

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Dispelling the illusion that Middle Eastern men can be fully understood through the lenses of domination and patriarchy, Nefissa Naguib looks at contemporary Egyptian foodways to better understand how men enact masculinity in displays of caregiving and love through Food.

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Thomas Hylland Eriksen has contributed chapter 15 Globalization and Its Contradictions in this companion which provides an indispensable overview of contemporary and classical issues in social and cultural anthropology.

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Thomas Hylland Eriksen has contributed the chapter  "What Everybody Should Know about Nature-Culture: Anthropology in the Public Sphere and “The Two Cultures” in this new collection.

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In this paper Arnd Schneider draws a distinction between an anthropology of the sea and an anthropology as sea travel (epitomized by Malinowski's and Lévi-Strauss's onboard journals) 

Marianne Elisabeth Lien and John Law have written the Chapter "What You Need to Know to Be a Fish Farmer in West Norway" in this new playful and accessible book, which looks at different types of work around the world and delivers a wealth of information and advice about a wide array of jobs and professions.

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This article by Arnd Schneider discusses collaborative projects and cooperations between artists and anthropologists as part of a hermeneutic field and argues that to be on speaking terms a mutual recognition of difference is crucially neccessary.

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This article by Arnd Schneider discusses collaborative projects and cooperations between artists and anthropologists as part of a hermeneutic field and argues that to be on speaking terms a mutual recognition of difference is crucially neccessary.

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This article by Ferdinand Moyi Okwaro (who will be soon be a post-doc at the Department, funded by the Norwegian research Council) and Paul Wenzel Geissler examines collaboration in transnational medical research from the viewpoint of African scientists working in partnerships with northern counterparts.

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In this article, published in Inflammopharmacology - Experimental and Therapeutic Studies, Jonas Kure Buer outlines a history of the drug category, from the emergence in the 1970s of the idea of drugs with decisive long-term effects on bone-erosion in rheumatoid arthritis, through the consolidation and popularisation of the term DMARD 1980s and 1990s.

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This is the first ethnographic account of salmon aquaculture, the most recent turn in the human history of animal domestication. Marianne Elisabeth Lien explores how the growth of marine domestication has blurred traditional distinctions between fish and animals, recasting farmed fish as sentient beings, capable of feeling pain and subject to animal-welfare legislation.

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In this essay Arnd Schneider comments on recent photographic and film works by artist and visual anthropologist, Cyrill Lachauer – shot in the ‘waste lands’ of urban and suburban Las Vegas, and in Paiute settlements.

Anthropos and the material is both a research project and a strategic plan for a research network targeting the thematic area People, Nature and Environments.Department of Social Anthropology is represented with article contributions from Rune Flikke, Knut Gunnar Nustad and Jon Rasmus Nyquist.

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With Ingjerd Hoëms article in Living Kinship in the Pacific she shows  how kinship and gender,and political and other aspects of existence, are orchestrated through ritual practices.

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Professor Signe Howell at the University of Oslo (UiO) and Professor Desmond MacNeill, Centre for Development and the Environment(UiO) participated from the norwegian side. Dr Pujo Semedi, Dr Nicolaas Warouw and Dr Anna Marie Wattie were contributors from the Indonesian side. Elna Bastiansen who has worked with the graphic design  and 29 master students from Indonesia and Norway have all been  pioneers  and enabled the project.

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