Publikasjoner - Side 4

Knut Nustad discusses the first UNESCO World Heritage Site in South Africa: the Isimangaliso (St.Lucia) Wetland Park. Here, conservation interests are pitted against those of industrial forestry, commercial farming, and the local communities struggling to have their land returned to them.

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In this new volume Marit Melhuus has written the chapter The Embryo, Sacred and Profane in which she attempts to untangle the conflicting meanings and interests people with different perspectives have for the human embryo.

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Through an ethnographically based study of local communicative practices in the Pacific atoll society of Tokelau, Ingjerd Hoëm adds to our understanding of how systems of governance are constituted by minute acts of social interaction, and are informed by our conceptions of the nature of sociality.

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In Para-States and Medical Science, P. Wenzel Geissler and the contributors examine how medicine and public health in Africa have been transformed as a result of economic and political liberalization and globalization, intertwined with epidemiological and technological changes.

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Gjesteredaktørene Odd Are Berkaak og Anne-Katrine Brun Norbye har satt sammen et bredt spekter av artikler som undersøker sansning som levd erfaring og kroppsliggjort praksis. SAIs ansatte har bidratt med hele fem artikler.

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This article written by Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme, argues further that contemporary anthropological theories inspired by ANT, material semiotics and the philosophy of Deleuze operate with an implicit notion of causality and that a notion of dispositional causality can be used to explicate the causal assumptions of these theories.

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Signe Howell gives a contribution with her article 'No RIGHTS-No REDD': Some implications of a Turn Towards Co-Benefits in the last special issue of Forum for Development Studies. Rune Flikke is represented with his article On the Fractured, Fragmented and Disrupted Landscapes of Conservation.

By means of ‘connective analysis’, this article by Knut Christian Myhre explores the multiple meanings of moongo among the Chagga-speaking people of Rombo district, Kilimanjaro region, which resemble neglected meanings of the vernacular terms translated as ‘lineage’ elsewhere.

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This article by Jonas Kure Buer published in the journal Inflammopharmacology: Experimental and Therapeutic Studies is an historical investigation of the term non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and its acronym NSAIDs.

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Thorgeir Kolshus is contributing with a chapter in "The Ethnographic Experiment.  A.M. Hocart and W.H.R. Rivers in Island Melanesia, 1908", which is based on historical and ethnographic sources. The article provides an critical evaluation of William Rivers' 'survey method', which has received much undeserved attention in globalization studies over the last few decades.

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The Ifugao of Northern Luzon, the Philippines, are famous for their extensive system of irrigated rice terraces, and previous anthropological accounts of the Ifugao have stressed their immense importance for social life. This book, written by Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme,  attempts to ‘go against the grain’ and approach Ifugao society through an often overlooked element, namely their pigs.

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This book which is edited by Arnd Schneider and Caterina Pasqualino urges a new dialogue between two seemingly separate fields. The book explores the practical and theoretical challenges arising from experimental film for anthropology, and vice versa, through a number of contact zones: trance, emotions and the senses, materiality and time, non-narrative content and montage. Experimental film and cinema are understood in this book as broad, inclusive categories covering many technical formats and historical traditions, to investigate the potential for new common practices. Arnd Schneider who has co-written the introduction also contributed the chapter "Stills that Move: Photofilm and Anthropology".

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This special issue of Social Analysis explores the value and limitation of concepts and approaches developed from Melanesia for the investigation of ethnography from different parts of contemporary Africa.

Based on Signe Howells ongoing comparative research project on the high profile global REDD+ initiative (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation) in developing countries, Signe Howell presents some findings from studies in the Amazon, Tanzania and Indonesia that show how a project, initially perceived by the financiers (UN, World Bank, Norwegian government etc.) as a straight-forward 'nature' (in this case forest) project, with technocratic solutions, has turned into a highly complex 'society' project.

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Signe Howell begins by telling an abbreviated version of Chewong myth about frog people, as part of the anthology The handbook of contemporary animism. Chewong is a small group of hunter-gatherers and shifting cultivators who, at the time of Howells first fieldwork in the late 1970s, lived deep inside the Malaysian tropical rainforest.

Signe Howell begins her chapter to the anthology The handbook of contemporary animism by narrating an abbreviated version of a Chewong myth about frog People. The Chewong are a small group of hunter-gatherers and shifting cultivators who, at the time of Howells first fieldwork in the late 1970s, lived deep inside the Malaysian tropical Rainforest.

While the In Search of Europe? project involves several academic disciplines, of the involved disciplines, anthropology in particular can lay claim to an important history as well as an ongoing engagement with art. Arnd Schneider would therefore like to start this brief intervention with a short observation on that history.

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While the In Search of Europe? project involves several academic disciplines, anthropology in particular can lay claim to an important history of study of, as well as an ongoing engagement with, art. Arnd Schneider starts his intervention with a short observation on that history.

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Ruth Prince is following the development in the city of Kisumu in western Kenya since the late 1990s in her article. She is listening to experiences from several local women  who tell us about the changing conditions of living through the decades.

Ruth Prince is following the development in the city of Kisumu in western Kenya since the late 1990s in her article. She is listening to experiences from several local women  who tell us about the changing conditions of living through the decades.

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This article written by Arnd Schneider represents an exercise in dialogical anthropology, based on a collaboration with contemporary visual artists in a specific fieldwork locale in Argentine

The article is open to the public in critical arts

This article written by Arnd Schneider represents an exercise in dialogical anthropology, based on a collaboration with contemporary visual artists in a specific fieldwork locale in Argentine

The article is open to the public in critical arts

The debate over the concept "mana" has been simmering ever since its launch as a Melanesian ethnographic term with the 1891 publication of Robert Henry Codrington’s The Melanesians. In this article, Thorgeir Kolshus  gives  a linguistic overview  of the concept of "mana" used in Polynesian cultures.

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The debate over the mana concept has been simmering ever since its launch as a Melanesian. ethnographic term with the 1891 publication of Robert Henry Codrington’s The Melanesians. In this article, Thorgeir Kolshus  gives  a linguistic overview  of the concept of "mana" used in Polynesian cultures.

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P. Wenzel Geissler compares the work and lives of local health workers in their everyday struggles to make a living and a meaningful life.

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