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Picturing Pity
Picturing Pity is the first full length monograph on missionary photography. Empirically, it is based on an in-depth analysis of the published photographs taken by Norwegian evangelical missionaries in Northern Cameroon from the early nineteen twenties, at the beginning of their activities in this region, and until today. Being part of a large international movement, Norway sent out more missionaries per capita than any other country in Europe. Marianne Gullestad's main contention is that the need to continuously justify their activities to donors in Europe has led to the creation and maintenance of specific ways of portraying Africans. The missionary visual rhetoric is both based on earlier visualizations and has over time established its own conventions which can now also be traced within secular fields of activity such as international development agencies, foreign policy, human relief organizations and the mass media. Picturing Pity takes part in the present "pictorial turn" in academic teaching and research, constituting visual images as an exciting site of conversation across disciplinary lines.
The Art of Social Relations
Social life in Norway, as in other Scandinavian welfare states, may in very broad terms be characterized by 'individualism'. The author interprets the significance of this in relationship to the terms of some of the implicit understandings that people in Norway bring to social encounters. In particular, she focuses on the social practices and cultural categories that people use in order to build personal relationships of various kinds, like marital love, family life, friendship and neighbourhood relations.
Everyday Life Philosophers
Autobiography in Norway. Eng. Universitetsforlaget, 1996. 346 s. ISBN 82-00-22605-0 Det er stigende interesse for å lese eller skrive selvbiografier. Forfatter-en, som er sosialantropolog, mener at det hverdagsmennesker ikke er mindre reflekterte enn vitenskapelige forskere, og det å skrive en selvbiografi er en måte å reflektere livets erfaringer. I dagens Norge godtas og feires kulturelle variasjoner, så vel som tradisjon og nasjonalisme. Det har skjedden verdiforandring, og forfatteren argumenterer overbevisende for at skriv- ing av selvbiografier er en måte å ta kulturell avstand på.
Plausible Prejudice
In contrast to most studies of minority, majority relations, the author does not focus on minority groups but on the conventional wisdom of the politically dominant majority population. The essays cover a range of themes, from individualised identification and the struggle to achieve a 'sustainable self-image' to national belonging and 'race thinking'. She argues that social actors construct racial and national boundaries by drawing on everyday-life experiences. This is how racial prejudice can become 'plausible prejudice?'.
Kitchen-table Society
Through two years of anthropological fieldwork in the suburbs of Bergen, Norway's second largest city, the author has listened carefully to the conversations of young working class women. In this intimate study, she examines how the lives of these women are shaped, what dignity and self-respect means to them, and how they define their identities as women. She discusses such topics as the rising rate of divorce, women's culture, and how these women play a crucial role in creating and maintaining a cultural life style for their families.
Afro-Nordic Landscapes
Afro-Nordic Landscapes: Equality and Race in Northern Europe challenges a view of Nordic societies as homogenously white, and as human rights champions that are so progressive that even the concept of race is deemed irrelevant to their societies. The book places African Diasporas, race and legacies of imperialism squarely in a Nordic context. How has a nation as peripheral as Iceland been shaped by an identity of being white? How do Black Norwegians challenge racially conscribed views of Norwegian nationhood? What does the history of jazz in Denmark say about the relation between its national identity and race? What is it like to be a mixed-race black Swedish woman? How have African Diaspora...
Family and Kinship in Europe
This collection of essays considers the current significance of kinship in various Western European countries along with manifestations of its cultural diversity. How do nations vary in the value they attribute to the family in this wider sense? How do the different generations communicate with one another? In what ways have questions relating to the legacy of the past and to the role of memory been rehabilitated, in order for the continuity of the family to be assured? This book declines to accept predictions made, on the basis of a common population projection, that European family life will display a common pattern. Further, across a comparison of a number of case studies, it points to a degree of diversity in European family values as revealed when one looks closely at the ways in which these values are transmitted.
Controlling Time and Shaping the Self
This book gives answers to questions surrounding the rise of autobiographical writing from the sixteenth to the twentieth century by analyzing texts varying from the time of the Spanish Inquisi tion to post-war Japan.
Other People's Anthropologies
Anthropological practice has been dominated by the so-called 'great' traditions (Anglo-American, French, and German). With contributions from anthropologists and social scientists from different countries and anthropological traditions, this text gives voice to scholars outside these 'great' traditions.
