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Cicilie among the Parisians
It was hard picking a photo for this post. So many of my photos evoke memories from my many slam nights in Paris, but how to find a photo that can convey some of theses feelings to the readers of ...
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10:51
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Cicilie among the Parisians
Anthropology is just one way among many fields that try to make sense of and represent social life. A post ago I stated that it probably isn’t even the most superior at it. Funnily, in the days after I wrote ...
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Cicilie among the Parisians
Souleymane Diamanka at Café Culturel in Saint Denis in the suburbs outside Paris
Haven’t I claim that French slam poetry can be seen as a commentary on and/or a representation of French society? Yes, certainly I have. From my very ...
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12:05
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Cicilie among the Parisians
The reason why I became an anthropologist is that anthropology can include anything. Early in my studies, when I still aimed in an other direction, a professor told me that until her MPhil she had had a very broad field ...
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10:46
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Cicilie among the Parisians
My previous research project followed a typical comedy structure. It was a difficult but steady upward struggle, with hard work overcoming challenges and a quite happy ending. The present one, however, staggered right from the outset into a maze of ...
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11:08
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Cicilie among the Parisians
All of a sudden, people I knew from different circles in France started appearing on Facebook, about two years after the craze hit Norway. It reminded me of a question brought up in a seminar preparing graduate students for fieldwork ...
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22:16
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Cicilie among the Parisians
From the artist squat La Générale in Belleville
…that I went to Paris for the second time, but this time on my own with friends. Perhaps Paris ...
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23:02
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Cicilie among the Parisians
Tomorrow is my first day in my “home office” (a Norwegicism for working from home). The little lion turns three months this week, and the progress he has made recently makes life with him far more joyous as well as ...
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15:32
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Cicilie among the Parisians
…not today, but this spring, at least. The students were protesting in Tiananmen square, my favourite teacher was soon to give me a poem saying something like “when I was 18 I knew everything…” and I was going to Paris ...
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23:42
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Cicilie among the Parisians
The roar is not really loud, it’s rather tiny, but with a high pitch. He learns and develops new sounds at the moment, the books say and we’ve certainly noticed that. On the brighter side; he’s also learning to laugh. ...
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22:59
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Cicilie among the Parisians
A friend who checks my blog on a regular basis and know me well in “real time” commented jokingly that “style, voice and perspective” wasn’t really what concerned me at the ...
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18:35
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Cicilie among the Parisians
For a long time, I’ve been certain in which style and voice I wanted to write my thesis. I did not want it to be too academic this time, but rather write in a more prose-like style, trying to convey ...
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15:40
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Cicilie among the Parisians
The writing of my thesis has moved into a new phase. Today is the first day that I spend at home of my six month’s leave. I’m supposed to change focus from what has occupied my mind more or less ...