Completed PhD Projects

The Following PhD theses have been completed and defended since the establishment of the Research School in September 2001. Copies are available from the Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen, the Department of Anthropology and Ethnography, University of Aarhus and the Centre for Comparative Cultural Studies University of Copenhagen.

Completed PhD projects - Aarhus

Completed PhD procects - Centre for Comparative Cultural Studies

Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen

Herbert Muyinda
Limbs and Lives
Disability, Violent Conflict and Embodied Sociality in Northern Uganda, 23. Jan 2009

Jens Kofod
Becoming a Nursing Home Resident
An Anthropological Analysis of Danish Elderly People in Transition, 30. Sep 2008

Soori Nnko
Malaria, Modernity and the State
Ambivalence towards Public Health Interventions in Tanzania, 8. Sep. 2008.

Hans Lucht
Darkness before Daybreak
Existential Reciprocityin the Lives and Livelihoods of Migrant West African Fishermen, 22. august 2008

Kristin Rande
The Quest for Legitimacy among Nouveaux Riches in Lithuania, 20. juni 2008

Christina Bækkelund Jagd
Medborger eller Modborger: Dansksomalieres kamp for at opbygge en meningsfuld tilværelse i det danske velfærdssamfund – gennem et arbejde, 2008

Mette Line Ringsted
Den forkerte graviditet
For tidligt moderskab i Tanzania,11. april 2008

Dorthe Brogaard Kristensen
Patient, Medicine and Cultural Identity.A Study of the Relationship between Illness, Cultural Classifications, Social Relations and Treatment among Mapuche Indians in the South of Chile, 22. April 2008.

Steffen Jöhncke
Treatment trouble. On the Politics of Methadone and Anthropology, 2008

Helle Max Martin
Professional formation and survival: Dealing with contradictions in Ugandan nursing, 2007.

Charlotte Jakobsen 
Etnografiske analyser af samspillet mellem plejepersonale og patienter i dansk retspsykiatri, 2007.

Peter Hansen
Revolving Returnees. Meanings and Practices of Transnational Return among Somalilanders, 2006.

Erick Nyambedha
Children and HIV/AIDS: Questioning Vulnerability in western Kenya, 2006. 

Sofie Danneskiold-Samsøe
The moral economy of suffering. Social exchange among Iraqi Refugees in the Danish Welfare State, 2006.

Katrine S. Johansen
Kultur og Psykiatri. En antropologi om transkulturel psykiatri på danske hospitaler, 2006.

Kåre Jansbøl
Passion and Power - An Ethnographic Study of the Danish Gambling Environment.
Tilfældighed og kontrol: En etnografisk undersøgelse af det danske spillemiljø, 2005.

Mark Vacher
Urban Transit – en etnografisk analyse af gennemrejse og tilhørsforhold i den moderne storby Marseille, 2005.

Perle Møhl
The Formation of Cultural Identity as Political Process among Emerillon Indians in French guyana: Issues of Anthropological Method

Pia Sten Lundberg
The Life World of the Blind. An Anthropological Approach.
Blindhed  Antropologisk analyse af de blindes verden fra renæssancen til i dag, 2005.

Ruth Prince
Struggling for growth in a time of loss: challenges of relatedness in Western Kenya

Christian Boehm
Change and Continuity in Natural Resource Management in Lesotho

Lotte Meinert
The Quest for a Good Life: Health and Education among Children in Eastern Uganda

Karen Valentin
The Paradox of Schooling - The Possibilities of Formal Education for Squatter Families in Kathmandu, Nepal

Peter Henriques
Peace without Reconciliation: War, Peace and Experience among the Iteso of East Uganda

Tina Gudrun Jensen
In Between Contradictons: A White Invention of an African Tradition in Southeast Brazil

Sally Anderson
Civilizing Children: Children's sport and civil sociality in Copenhagen, Denmark

Henrik Vigh
Navigating Terrains of War: Yough and Soldiering in Guiné Bissau

Anders Holm Stefansson
Reintegration of Returned Bosnian Refugees in Sarajevo

Mette Nordahl Svendsen
The Space in the Gap; A Study of the Social Implications of Cancer Genetic Counselling and Testing in Denmark

Charlotte Baarts
Viden og Kunnen – en antropologisk analyse af sikkerhed på en byggeplads

Katrine Nørgaard
Tillidens teknologi. Den militære ethos og viljen til dannelse

David Kyaddondo
Rice is a Jealous Crop - Subsistence, Markets and Morality in a Changing Economy in Eastern Uganda

Birthe Lindeskov Nautrup
Gender, Society and Religion - Changing Everyday Life Among the Hadendowa-Beja of the Gash Delta, Eastern Sudan

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Department of Anthropology and Ethnography, University of Aarhus

Mads Daugbjerg
A SITE TO DIE FOR
Practices of nationalism at a Danish heritage site, 3. Oct. 2008

Gitte Wind
Stiltiende fortællinger - Livet med kronisk sygdom i et antropologisk perspektiv, 19. Sep. 2008

Anke Tonnaer
Tourism Dreaming
A study of the encounter culture in Indigenous cultural tourism in Australia, 30. juni 2008

Aase Krogh Mortensen
At leve med livstruende sygdom
en antropologisk analyse af udvalgte danske kræftsyges narrative selvfremstilling med særlig fokus på forandringer i definitionen af ”patienten”, 30. Nov 2007

Bodil Birkebæk Olesen
Crafting Selves, Circulating Images: Engagement, Transformation, and Relationality in Malian Bògòlan Cloth, 2007.

Anja Stokholm
Anbragte børn mellem kammerater og pædagoger: En antropologisk analyse af socialitet og identitetsdannelse på døgninstitution, 2007.

Trine Dalsgaard
”If only I had been in a wheelchair” - An anthropological analysis of narratives of sufferers with medically unexplained symptoms, 2006.

Jakob Krause-Jensen
Flexible Firm Cultural Discourse and social Practice in a Danish hi-tech Corporation, 2005.

Jens Kjærulff
Internet and Change. A Generative Approach to Cultural Variation In Practices of Telework, 2005.

Adriënne Heijnen
Dream sharing in Iceland, 2005.

Maria Louw
The heart with God. The hand at work. Being Muslim in post-Soviet Bukhara, 2005.

Lone Grøn
Winds of change, bodies of persistence Health promotion and lifestyle change in institutional and everyday contexts, 2005.

Sine Agergaard 
Ethnographic field analyses of Danish physical education.

Susanne Højlund
Barndom mellem børn og professionelle: En antropologisk undersøgelse af sammenhænge mellem 8-10 årige børns erfaringer og professionelle fortolkninger af barndom i en skole, en skolefritidsordning og på en hospitalsafdeling.

Andreas Roepstorff
Facts, Styles and Traditions: Studies in the Ethnography of Knowledge.

Mette Bech Risør
Den gyldne middelvej: Sundhedsfremme i Hverdagen - en Antropologisk Analyse af Gravide Kvinders Praktiske Ræsonnement i Relation til Rygevaner.

Marie Konge Nielsen
Norms, Values and Hopes for the Future among University Students today - An ethnographic account

Michael Dupont
Biomedicinske videnstransformationer: Epistemologi, praksis og ideologi i den neurovidenskabelige og psykiatriske klinik

Martin Lindhardt
Power in Powerlessness: A Study of Pentecostal Life Worlds and symbolic
Resistance in urban Chile

Torsten Kolind
Post-war Identifications, Counterdiscursive Practices in a Bosnian Town
Steffen Bohni Nielsen
Civilizing Kwakiutl. Contexts and Contents of Kwakiutl Personhood,
1880-1999

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Centre for Comparative Cultural Studies University of Copenhagen

Daniella Kuzmanovic
Civilization and political identity in Turkey - Historical and socio-cultural (de)legitimization practices with regard to EU-membership among political activists in Turkey, 2009