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Prescott, Christopher & Larsen, Kjersti
(2017).
Introduction, Beyond Our Crisis: Towards Archaeological Time and Anthropological Space.
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From the European to the global crisis of values and democracy
Contemporary developments, also in the humanities, are heavily influenced by what can broadly be termed “globalization”. This situation, along with the very nature of academia, promotes a need for internationalization in research and education. The questions that arise span issues from how international research funding will influence research design and productivity, via questions concerning what the humanities contribution in our contemporary world should be (and to what extent we should feel obliged to contribute?) to how we can secure a future for historical, cultural and anthropological scholarly knowledge production and dissemination.
This raises issues, on the one hand, concerning the responsibilities we hold towards local societies and their traditions – as well as engaging local societies. On the other hand, the fundamental nature of research and academic training transcends national borders. Political and bureaucratic forces pull research in both directions.
Most funding bodies – above all those administered by the EU – require applicants to meet bureaucratically and politically determined requirements. Commonly cited as a source of practical frustration, these programs are also political and ideological, influencing choices and priorities in research.
Economic recession, disparate access to wealth, shifts in global centers of power, conflict, environmental problems as well as ensuing migration have generated political unrest. In Europe, especially migration is seen as contentious - and the ensuing debate polarized. The cultural, historical and anthropological perspectives in a number of our disciplines cannot offer roadmaps and solutions, and indeed should not even strive to speak in agreement with a single voice. However, we are obliged to provide perspectives in an informed discussion.
The narratives of a number humanistic disciplines have appealed to identity and been generated within in stable small-scale, regional or national frameworks. With the shift in demography, should we be more consistently generating narratives experienced as relevant and challenging by all groups in contemporary society? And more than any other academic fields, humanities should be able to socially, historically and anthropologically explore the mechanisms, experiences and issues involved in migration, and perceptions of spatial and social mobility
Political, economic and demographic shifts are potentially creating a new context for research and academic practices (if nothing else with cuts in funding, references to experienced relevance and demands for utilitarian value). In light of most social theory of research, this evolving social situation creates a context of academic practice and content – how do we engage it with the well-being of academia in mind?
So we believe that the seminar may address a scale of questions:
- What do demands to international, “big-is-better” collaboration entail for the humanities?
- What should disciplines like ancient history, archaeology, anthropology and studies of religion offer in relation to the contemporary world?
o What are our contributions to the contemporary social and political debate and policy-making?
o Perspectives on migration and regimes of mobility.
o If the established identity narrative discourses of homogeneous western societies have run their course, how do we produce new reliable and relevant narratives incorporating methodological reflexivity?
o Are we even obliged to engage contemporary issues?
- What challenges to the humanities does the evolving societal context pose in terms of their continued working conditions?
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Larsen, Kjersti
(2016).
Qur'an and the Dramaturgy of Healing: The significance of literacy and ritual contextuality in contexts of healing in Zanzibar Town.
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Larsen, Kjersti
(2015).
Multifaceted Identities, Multiple Dwellings: Connectivity and Flexible Household-configurations in Zanzibar Town.
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Larsen, Kjersti
(2013).
Ritual Imagination: A study of Tromba Possession among the Betsimisaraka in Eastern Madagascar.
Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift.
ISSN 0802-7285.
s. 276–277.
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Larsen, Kjersti
(2012).
Katharina Wilkens: Holy Water and Evil Spirits. Religious Healing in East Africa. Berlin: LIT.
Anthropos: Internationale Zeitschrift für Völker- und Sprachenkunde.
ISSN 0257-9774.
107(1).
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Larsen, Kjersti
(2011).
Adornment Outside and In -- Estetisk kraft: Jewellery from Central- and East Africa.
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Larsen, Kjersti
(2011).
Good, Evil and Human Capacity: Reflections on the complexity of words in a Zanzibari context.
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Larsen, Kjersti
(2011).
By way of the Qu'ran: Soothing emotional and mundane matters in Zanzibar.
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Larsen, Kjersti
(2009).
Preface.
I Larsen, Kjersti (Red.),
Knowledge, Renewal and Religion. Repositioning and changing ideologies and material circumstances among the Swahili on the East African Coast.
Nordiska Afrikainstitutet.
ISSN 978-91-7106-635-0.
s. 9–10.
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Larsen, Kjersti
(2009).
Glossary Swahili - English.
I Larsen, Kjersti (Red.),
Knowledge, Renewal and Religion. Repositioning and changing ideologies and material circumstances among the Swahili on the East African Coast.
Nordiska Afrikainstitutet.
ISSN 978-91-7106-635-0.
s. 5–7.
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Larsen, Kjersti
(2009).
A Ceremonial Event:The Materiality of Ramadan and Observations of Society in Zanzibar.
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Larsen, Kjersti
(2009).
Possessing Spirits and Bodily Transformation in Zanzibar.
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Larsen, Kjersti
(2009).
A Body of Spirits: Problems of Identity and Shared Realities among Humans and Spirits in Zanzibar.
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Larsen, Kjersti
(2009).
A Body of Spirits. Problems of Identity and Shared Realities among Humans and Spirits in Zanzibar.
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Larsen, Kjersti
(2008).
Remedies of Recreation: Knowledge, Sorcery and Society in Zanzibar.
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Larsen, Kjersti
(2008).
Cultural Exchange across the Indian Ocean: Kibuki Spirits in Zanzibar Town.
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Larsen, Kjersti
(2008).
Regime Change, TV, Video Films and Ethnicity in Zanzibar.
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Larsen, Kjersti
(2007).
Mektige gjenstander eller estetiske utrykk?
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Larsen, Kjersti
(2006).
Familierelasjoner, hekseri og (andre) moralske dilemmaer.
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Larsen, Kjersti
(2006).
Kultursensitivitet og kulturelle koder i muslimske samfunn.
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Larsen, Kjersti
(2006).
Alison Shaw og Shirley Ardener (RED) Changing Sex and Bending Gender.
Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift.
ISSN 0802-7285.
s. 305–307.
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Larsen, Kjersti
(2006).
Remedies of Recreation and Multiple Sources of Knowledge: Negotiations, Sorcery and Society in Zanzibar.
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Larsen, Kjersti
(2006).
Uheldige omstendigheter, sosiale relasjoner og forandelighet. En diskusjon omkring helbredelsesritualer og teknologiske hjelpemidler på Zanzibar.
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Larsen, Kjersti
(2004).
Adaptations in rural livelihoods: Sedentarization policies and nomadic pastoralists in Northern Sudan.
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Larsen, Kjersti
(2004).
Women,Gender and Gender Socialization: Sub-Saharan Africa.
I Joseph, Suad (Red.),
The Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures, vol.2.
Brill Academic Publishers.
ISSN 9004128182.
s. 204–205.
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Larsen, Kjersti
(2004).
Christian Spirits in a Muslim Society. Intercultural Exchanges and Multicultural Experiences in Zanzibar.
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Larsen, Kjersti
(2004).
The Power of Ritual Language: Dialogues between Humans and Spirits in Zanzibar Town.
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Larsen, Kjersti
(2003).
Gifts, rewards and corruptive practices: Anthropological approaches to relationships and institutions.
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Larsen, Kjersti
(2003).
The phenomenon of embodiment.
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Larsen, Kjersti
(2003).
Religion, identitet og multikulturalisme i swahili samfunn.
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Larsen, Kjersti
(2003).
Christian spirits in Muslim societies: Multiculturalism, religion and identity in Zanzibar.
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Larsen, Kjersti
(2002).
Perceptions of Sedentarisation of Nomads. The Case of the Hawawir in Um Jawasir, Northern Sudan.
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Larsen, Kjersti
(2002).
Forced to Stay- Forced to Migrate: Ways and Meanings of Mobility among the Hawawir of Northern Sudan.
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Larsen, Kjersti
(2001).
Initiation rituals, supression and power:Re-searching gender in Zanzibar.
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Larsen, Kjersti
(1998).
Islam, spirit possession and trance in Zanzibar.
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Larsen, Kjersti
(1997).
Identity, locality and notions of place: The case of Zanzibar.
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Larsen, Kjersti
(1994).
Self, body and spirits in Zanzibar.
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Wæhle, Espen & Larsen, Kjersti
(1981).
Frankrike tester atombomber i Stillehavet: Når båtene kommer vet vi at det smeller .
Miljømagasinet.
9(1).
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Øien, Maria; Ween, Gro Birgit & Larsen, Kjersti
(2015).
"Our art comes from our Dreaming" Exploring the Becoming of Ngan'gi Art from Nauiyu, Australia.
Universitetet i Oslo.
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“Our art comes from our Dreaming”
Exploring the Becoming of Ngan’gi Art from Nauiyu, Australia
This thesis is an ethnographic study of the art produced by Ngan’gi artists who are members of Merrepen Arts, an art centre located in Nauiyu, a rural Aboriginal community in Northern Australia. Ngan’gi art in itself, but also the art’s origin, circulation and the artistic production practices performed by Ngan’gi artists, makes up the thematic focus of this thesis. Drawing on 18 months of ethnographic fieldwork among the Ngan’gi artists in Nauiyu and in many fine art galleries and museums in the main cities of Australia, this thesis is moving between local art production and international art world scenes. Øien shows how Ngan’gi art is characterised by a translation of sacred Ngan’gi cosmological imagery into commercial paintings and prints. Taking a critical look at the intercultural confrontations involved with this symbolic transformation Øien found inspiration in the analytical term “the becoming of art” introduced by Morphy (2008). Drawing on Morphy’s work Øien combines detailed descriptions of the art’s origin, cosmological foundation, and kinship based art production practices, with a symbolic analysis of Ngan’gi designs, as well as exploring representations surrounding Ngan’gi art circulation and artistic intention. Øien aims at uncovering how all these elements are mutually constitutive to the “becoming” of Ngan’gi art. This study spans the complexities embedded in Ngan’gi art by following the complete path from origin to production, to distribution among consumers. This approach provides a fruitful outset for understanding how art circulation and the interconnectedness between local Ngan’gi artists and other art world participants facilitate dynamic transformations in the art’s value, status and meaning. Øien reveals how the Ngan’gi artists chose to create commercialised creative extension of sacred designs due to a fundamental wish to share the stories of Ngan’gi culture, cosmology, society and history. Art has for Aboriginal artists facilitated public visibility, cultural recognition, and provided income, as well as a mean to communicate cross-culturally and educate their audience of the sacred value embedded in their art.
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Larsen, Kjersti & Hassan, Manal
(2003).
Sedentarisation of nomadic people: the case of the Hawawir in UmJawasir.
Drylands Coordination Group.
ISSN 82-7634-540-9.
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Larsen, Kjersti & Hassan, Manal
(2002).
Perceptions of knowledge and coping strategies in a nomadic community, Northern Sudan.
Drylands Coordination Group.
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Larsen, Kjersti
(2001).
Forced to migrate, told to return: The case of the Hawawir of Northern Sudan.
Noragric.
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Larsen, Kjersti
(1999).
Unyago - fra jente til kvinne. Utforming av kvinnelig kjønnsidentitet i lys av overgangsritualer, religiøsitet og modernisering.
Oslo Occasional Papers in Social Anthropology.
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Larsen, Kjersti
(1995).
Where humans and spirits meet: Incorporating difference and experiencing otherness in Zanzibar Town.
Sosialantropologisk institutt.