Publikasjoner - Side 4

Chapter by Arnd Schneider.

Forskningsformidling er i vinden. Likevel er det ofte uklart hva som er formålet, hvem som har ansvaret – og hva formidling egentlig dreier seg om. Ståle Wig og Henrik H.Svensen etterlyser nytenkning innen forskningsformidling.

Les hele artikkelen i Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift

Harald Beyer Broch baserer denne artikkelen på materiale fra et lengre etnografisk feltarbeid (2006-2007) og flere kortere opphold blant nordnorske fiskere.

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The world is overheated. Too full and too fast; uneven and unequal. It is the age of the Anthropocene, of humanity’s indelible mark upon the planet. In short, Thomas Hylland Eriksen refers to  globalisation - but not as we know it.

The book forms part of the ERC Advanced Grant project “Overheating”.

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Uttrykket «ikke-steroide antiinflammatoriske midler» kom i bruk i 1960-årene. I denne artikkelen i Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening forklarer Jonas Kure Buer opphavet til navnet.

Leas artikkelen på http://tidsskriftet.no/article/3486702/

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.

More info at the University of Chicago Press

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.

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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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.

More information at www.berghahnbooks.com

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.

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.

More information at www.berghahnbooks.com

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.

More information at cornellpress.cornell.edu

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.

 Read this open access article in full text here

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.

For more information visit www.ucpress.edu

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.

Fredrik Barth is one of the towering figures of twentieth-century anthropology. Written in an accessible style, this new intellectual history by Thomas Hylland Eriksen traces the development of Barth’s ideas and explores the substance of his contributions.

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.

More information at berghahnbooks.com

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.

More information at benjamins.com

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.

Mer informasjon og fulltekst for abonnenter på idunn.no

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.

For more information and the full article (UiO and other subscribers only) visit the website of InflammopharmacologyExperimental and Therapeutic Studies

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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