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    • Educational Status of Santhal Community. A study of a school dropout in Santhal Children of Eastern Nepal 

      Chamalagain, Sitaram (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2016-05-21)
      The government of Nepal has taken initiatives to increase the enrollment of the students and keep them in school by making tuition fee free up to secondary level, offering various scholarship schemes for girls, marginalized and indigenous children; however, the dropout rate of children in Nepal is still high and, in the case of Santhal children, it is even higher. In this context, the current study ...

    • Changing Ways of Marrying: A study of the Dhimal Marriage Ritual of Damak, Nepal 

      Koirala, Santosh (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2016-05-20)
      This thesis, entitled “Changing ways of marrying: A study of the Dhimal marriage ritual of Damak, Nepal” focuses on changes in the marriage patterns of Dhimal indigenous people. Dhimal represent one of the oldest indigenous groups of Nepal, residing in the easternmost lowland since time immemorial. For the study, the choice was made for Damak municipality, which is inhabited mainly by the Dhimal and ...

    • The New Scope: Forest Policy, Indigenous Involvement and Welfare Considerations. The case of Kyirayaso in the Ashanti Region of Ghana 

      Darku, Philomena Kafui (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2016-05-20)
      This study examines the Forest and Wildlife Policy of Ghana, how it involves the indigenous people of Kyirayaso in the management process of the forest reserve from which they derive their livelihood and how the forest policy takes into consideration the welfare of the people. The objective is to gain insight into the practicalities of managing the reserve based on the stories, views and reflections ...

    • Journeys to the Free World. Sámi and Norwegian border pilots during World War II in Nordland County 

      Pavall, Simon (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2016-05-18)
      The Second World War had a great impact on. For Norwegians, the War contributed to create a national identity, based on a shared oppression from a military invasion and resistance. Because of the war, many people fled to Sweden. Most of those refugees needed help from border pilots. In some areas Sámi border pilots was important because they knew the area very well indeed. Some of them were closely ...

    • (Post) Colonial Relations on Display. Contemporary Trends in Museums and Art Exhibitions depicting Greenland 

      Brune, Vanessa (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2016-05-17)
      This study describes how Greenlandic culture is represented in the arts sector of Greenland and Denmark, and furthermore analyses the political processes that those representations relate to. Greenland has been talked about a lot recently in the discussions about climate change, and also in the light of a possible independency of the country in the future. I therefore wanted to find out whether ...

    • Traditional medicine and healing among the Dagomba of Ghana 

      Kwame, Abukari (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2016-05-12)
      Traditional medicine and healing (TMH) is a major contributor to the healthcare needs of citizens of many countries, especially in developing countries and among the rural poor. This study of traditional medicine and healing among the Dagomba of Ghana seeks to answer the following questions: How is traditional medicine and healing practiced among the Dagomba of Ghana? What influences people to choose ...

    • Bark Food. The Continuity and Change of the Pine Inner Bark Use for Food by Sámi People in Northern Fennoscandia 

      Bogdanova, Sandra (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2016-05-11)
      This thesis is a cultural document, a study of the Scots pine (Pinus Sylvestris L.) inner bark use, as a source of food and medicine among the Indigenous Sámi people of Northern Fennoscandia. The questions that drove this research centered on the methods and reasons people have developed over time for using Scots pine inner bark. It is still largely considered a ‘food taboo’ and is mostly associated ...

    • The role of the new Evenkiness in the Evenki language revitalization: the case of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia) 

      Sivtseva, Mira (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2015-05-20)
      This thesis is devoted to the awakened indigenous identity of the Evenki people and its role in the Evenki language revitalization in the Sakha Republic (Yakutia), Russia. My personal experience of being an indigenous person in a multiethnic and multilingual society has become the main driving force for writing this thesis. I have personally experienced a rediscovery of my ethnic identity during the ...

    • Health Discourse in Chittagong Hill Tracts in Bangladesh 

      Tuhin, Md. Ahesanul Ameen (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2015-05-21)
      The present study is about health discourse in Chittagong Hill Tracts; this research shows how different health intervention programs are conducted in Chittagong Hill Tracts in Bangladesh after the peace accord in 1997. This research also revealed how health becomes a development issue in Bangladesh especially in Chittagong Hill Tracts. Here, health discourse means how different agents, both government ...

    • The Changing Livelihood of the Karamojong People of North-Eastern Uganda and its impact on the Survival of their Traditional Gender Roles 

      Ssenkaaba, John (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2015-05-19)
      This thesis discuss the changing livelihoods of the Karamojong people of North-Eastern Uganda and how the changes impacts the survival of their traditional gender roles. For various reasons Karimajong people have been historically marginalized and subjugated which treatment is evident since the rule of colonialists and even extended to the post –independence governments of the Republic of Uganda. ...

    • “Taking our language back home” - Motivation and challenges in the South Sami area 

      Steinfjell, Risten Birje (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2014-11-25)
      The South Sami language was the daily language of the South Sami before Norwegianisation and assimilation made it less used among the South Sami themselves and useless in the Norwegian society. The language was then not transmitted to the next generation anymore and UNESCO listed the language as severely endangered. The topic of this thesis is the revival that has taken place in the South Sami area ...

    • Sami traditions: Márkomeannu`s contribution to the revitalization of Sami food traditions 

      Berg, Elisabeth (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2014-11-27)
      This thesis focuses on the Márkomeannu festival’s contribution to the revitalization of food traditions. The study was conducted on the Márkomeannu festival in Skånland in Troms County, specifically in the Markasami areas in the rural hills of Skånland. The festival was chosen because it is an important arena for expression of indigeneity and culture. Many areas within the Sami community have suffered ...

    • The silence in Sápmi - and the queer Sami breaking it 

      Løvold, Ane Hedvig Heidrunsdotter (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2015-01-26)
      This thesis is an investigation of the silence of queerness in Sápmi, and is empirically based on three fieldworks and eight interviews. The thesis will question the silence within a historical perspective, and explore different aspects of the silence in Sápmi today. The main focus will be on queer Sami in Norway, but will also voice queer Sami from Sweden and Finland. I will therefore include a ...

    • Beaivváš – an institution for Sámi culture management or mainstream entertainment? : The Sámi National Theatre’s role in the Sámi community of Norway 

      Kvernmo, Marie (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2014-10-08)
      After the Sámi awakening movement in the 1970’s which culminated in the Alta conflict in 1981, the Sámi theater Beaivváš was created to highlight the Sámi language and culture in Norway. The theater became a success and was at first one of the main spokesmen for the Sámi people in the political and cultural contexts. As Sámi rights were recognized, Beaivváš and several Sámi institutions were established ...

    • Traditional camel management as an adaptation strategy to ecological changes: the case of Karrayyuu Oromo of Ethiopia 

      Amante, Debela Goshu (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2014-05)
      This thesis is concerned primarily with Karrayyuu camel husbandry. Camel husbandry has flourished recently as an adaptation mechanism in response to ecological change. Karrayyuus have for centuries herded cattle, but recently, owing to ecological change, this has become unviable. Continued desertification, repeated drought and loss of land, has diminished the cattle herd size to a level that cannot ...

    • The role of affirmative action in higher education for indigenous people: the case of Yakutsk (Russia) and Tromsø (Norway) 

      Nikanorova, Liudmila (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2014-05-21)
      This thesis is dedicated to the issue of affirmative action in higher education for indigenous people. It includes two case studies that cover the research topic in two areas Yakutsk in Far-East Russia (The North-Eastern Federal University) and Tromsø (The Arctic University of Norway) in Northern Norway. The motivation for the study and for the choice of the cases comes from my personal experience. ...

    • MIND THE GAP Greenland: Is there a gap between educational goals of the government and the aspirations of young people in Narsaq? 

      Fridfinnsdottir, Elin Thora (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2014-05-23)
      Mind the gap is a thesis based on fieldwork conducted in Narsaq, Greenland in July 2013 and compares the rationale behind the government’s high priority to increase educational standards of the population with the reluctance of young people in Narsaq to answer that call. Young people in Narsaq, like the population of rest of Greenland are going through a period of great changes, both environmentally ...

    • Consequences of Monological and Dialogical Dialogue in Reciprocal Indigenous Research Relationships - Doing Research at Standing Rock Reservation 

      Francett-Hermes, Eva Michelle (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2014-05-26)
      This thesis has as its starting points an experience of rejection and ethical challenges met in the course of conducting research within the field of indigenous research. The attempted research took place during the Lakȟótiyapi Summer Institute of 2013 at Sitting Bull College at Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota, U.S., and was interrupted by the local Institutional Review Board. Due to the ...

    • Trapped in the net of circumstances. Nature use practices of the Sami people of Lovozero in the changing socio-economic, administrative and environmental settings. 

      Shavrina, Olga (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2014-05-21)
      This thesis is a local community study, which examines the issues of nature use by the Sami people in the settlement of Lovozero – a community situated in circumpolar Russia, where nature use is mainly presented by reindeer herding, fishing, hunting, and gathering. Leaning on the extensive list of references and combining information from various information sources, this interdisciplinary research ...

    • X'atsull Heritage Village: A case study in indigenous tourism. 

      Jennings, Helen (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2014-05-21)
      This thesis is an anthropological case study of the work of the X’atsull Heritage Village in British Columbia, Canada. The village is run by members of the Shuswap Nation and is accredited by the Aboriginal Tourism of British Columbia (AtBC). The research is based on fieldwork conducted at the site for a short period in the summer of 2013; the author was essentially a participant observer. The ...