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og Friheden. Forhandling af regler på Christiania Utopiske
horisonter. Fristaden Christiania - Alternativ eller spejlbillede? En
antropologisk introduktion til utopibegrebet AnthroBase can now offer two field-based essays on the "free city" Christiania in Copenhagen. Christiania was founded in 1971, as a large-scale, hippie-style alternative community, on former military grounds, ten minute’s walk away from the Danish Parliament - and has existed since then in an uneasy truce with city and national authorities, receiving formal recognition only in the 1990’s. The two essays we present here are based on anthropological fieldwork by three students at the Institute of Anthropology in Copenhagen. The first, written for a field methods course in 2000, discusses processes of decision-making and conflict resolution in this community (which is founded on egalitarian and anarchistic ideals), with empirical focus on the relationship between two groups within the community: "pushers" and "activists". The second paper continues the argument of the first, within a framework of a discussion of the concept ot "utopia" in anthropology. To see Christiania's homepage on the net, click here. |
 
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and power. Reflections around a community history museum in Shetland This Norwegian Masters (Cand.Polit.) thesis from the University of Tromsø (1997), is based on 6 months of fieldwork centered on a community history museum in Northmavine, Shetland. The thesis offers a sophisticated theoretical discussion of history, power, modernization and globalization, in a context where a local community constructs and expresses its identity through a museum of local historical documents and objects. |
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