Ole Bjørn Rekdal
Biographic Data
| ID | 86479 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ole Bjørn Rekdal |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ole Bjørn |
| FAMILY NAME | Rekdal |
| SIGNATURE | REKDAL O B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bergen |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 108 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Questionable Research Practices and Misconduct Among Norwegian Researchers
This article presents results from the national survey conducted in 2018 for the project Research Integrity in Norway (RINO). A total of 31,206 questionnaires were sent out to Norwegian researchers by e-mail, and 7291 responses were obtained. In this paper, we analyse the survey data to determine attitudes towards and the prevalence of fabrication, falsification and plagiarism (FFP) and contrast this with attitudes towards and the prevalence of t…
Academic urban legends
Many of the messages presented in respectable scientific publications are, in fact, based on various forms of rumors. Some of these rumors appear so frequently, and in such complex, colorful, and entertaining ways that we can think of them as academic urban legends. The explanation for this phenomenon is usually that authors have lazily, sloppily, or fraudulently employed sources, and peer reviewers and editors have not discovered these weaknesse…
Monuments to Academic Carelessness: The Self-fulfilling Prophecy of Katherine Frost Bruner
In 1942, Katherine Frost Bruner published an article titled "Of psychological writing: Being some valedictory remarks on style." It was published in Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, the journal for which she served as editorial assistant between 1937 and 1941. Her collection of advice to writing scholars has been widely quoted, including by several editions of The Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association. The most fr…
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Seclusion, Protection and Avoidance: Exploring the Metida Complex among the Datoga of Northern Tanzania
This article deals with metida avoidance practices as they emerge in daily and ritual practice among the agro-pastoral Datoga-speaking peoples of Tanzania. The elaboration of the avoidance practices varies starkly between and within Datoga segments, but these practices are commonly particularly elaborate in connection with death or death-like events, and with birth or birth-like events. In the study area women may spend years of their lives with …
Experiences of orphan care in Amach, Uganda: Assessing Policy Implications
Uganda is estimated to have around two million orphans constituting approximately 19% of all the children in the country. This paper presents findings from a study on the experiences of orphan care among Langi people of Amach sub-county in Lira District, northern Uganda, and discusses their policy implications. The study utilised the following methods in data collection: eight months of ethnographic fieldwork; 21 in-depth interviews with communit…
Bokomtaler
The Varying Vulnerability of African Orphans: The case of the Langi, northern Uganda
This article is based on a qualitative study carried out in Lira District, northern Uganda, to assess the situation of orphans cared for in extended families. The objective of the article is to bring attention to the varying vulnerability of different categories of orphans. The methods employed in data collection included ethnographic fieldwork, qualitative interviews and focus group discussions. The study found that the decision-making process t…
When the obvious brother is not there: Political and cultural contexts of the orphan challenge in northern Uganda
Datoga
Cross-Cultural Healing in East African Ethnography
Examples of cross-cultural therapeutic relations have been mentioned frequently in ethnographic accounts from East Africa but have rarely been the object of in-depth description and analysis. Colonialist ideology, structural-functionalist anthropology, and a number of more recent medical anthropological contributions have been biased in ways that have drawn attention away from what is a prominent feature of African traditional medicine: the searc…
When Hypothesis Becomes Myth: The Iraqi Origin of the Iraqw
The now-rejected Hamitic hypothesis, depicting Caucasoid peoples from the north as responsible for a number of precolonial cultural and technological achievements in Africa, served to legitimize European intervention and colonization on the continent, This article discusses how the Hamitic hypothesis was modified and revived as the origin myth of the Iraqw of Tanzania, Written sources and the oralization of written sources have significantly prom…
Money, milk and sorghum beer: Change and continuity among the Iraqw of Tanzania
This article focuses on the symbolic qualities of sorghum beer and milk among the Iraqw of northern Tanzania. The author illustrates how the villagers in a southern Mbulu village handle and make use of these two products, and seeks to illuminate the manner in which they both become associated with qualities that are perceived as positive and desirable. With the spread of the market economy, and of money as a medium of exchange, the symbolic conte…
When the obvious brother is not there: Political and cultural contexts of the orphan challenge in northern Uganda
Cross-Cultural Healing in East African Ethnography
Examples of cross-cultural therapeutic relations have been mentioned frequently in ethnographic accounts from East Africa but have rarely been the object of in-depth description and analysis. Colonialist ideology, structural-functionalist anthropology, and a number of more recent medical anthropological contributions have been biased in ways that have drawn attention away from what is a prominent feature of African traditional medicine: the searc…
Academic urban legends
Many of the messages presented in respectable scientific publications are, in fact, based on various forms of rumors. Some of these rumors appear so frequently, and in such complex, colorful, and entertaining ways that we can think of them as academic urban legends. The explanation for this phenomenon is usually that authors have lazily, sloppily, or fraudulently employed sources, and peer reviewers and editors have not discovered these weaknesse…
The Varying Vulnerability of African Orphans: The case of the Langi, northern Uganda
This article is based on a qualitative study carried out in Lira District, northern Uganda, to assess the situation of orphans cared for in extended families. The objective of the article is to bring attention to the varying vulnerability of different categories of orphans. The methods employed in data collection included ethnographic fieldwork, qualitative interviews and focus group discussions. The study found that the decision-making process t…
Money, milk and sorghum beer: Change and continuity among the Iraqw of Tanzania
This article focuses on the symbolic qualities of sorghum beer and milk among the Iraqw of northern Tanzania. The author illustrates how the villagers in a southern Mbulu village handle and make use of these two products, and seeks to illuminate the manner in which they both become associated with qualities that are perceived as positive and desirable. With the spread of the market economy, and of money as a medium of exchange, the symbolic conte…
When Hypothesis Becomes Myth: The Iraqi Origin of the Iraqw
The now-rejected Hamitic hypothesis, depicting Caucasoid peoples from the north as responsible for a number of precolonial cultural and technological achievements in Africa, served to legitimize European intervention and colonization on the continent, This article discusses how the Hamitic hypothesis was modified and revived as the origin myth of the Iraqw of Tanzania, Written sources and the oralization of written sources have significantly prom…
Fakta på ville veier og henvisninger hinsides fornuften
Money, milk and sorghum beer: Change and continuity among the Iraqw of Tanzania
This article focuses on the symbolic qualities of sorghum beer and milk among the Iraqw of northern Tanzania. The author illustrates how the villagers in a southern Mbulu village handle and make use of these two products, and seeks to illuminate the manner in which they both become associated with qualities that are perceived as positive and desirable. With the spread of the market economy, and of money as a medium of exchange, the symbolic conte…
When Hypothesis Becomes Myth: The Iraqi Origin of the Iraqw
The now-rejected Hamitic hypothesis, depicting Caucasoid peoples from the north as responsible for a number of precolonial cultural and technological achievements in Africa, served to legitimize European intervention and colonization on the continent, This article discusses how the Hamitic hypothesis was modified and revived as the origin myth of the Iraqw of Tanzania, Written sources and the oralization of written sources have significantly prom…
Cross-Cultural Healing in East African Ethnography
Examples of cross-cultural therapeutic relations have been mentioned frequently in ethnographic accounts from East Africa but have rarely been the object of in-depth description and analysis. Colonialist ideology, structural-functionalist anthropology, and a number of more recent medical anthropological contributions have been biased in ways that have drawn attention away from what is a prominent feature of African traditional medicine: the searc…
Datoga
When the obvious brother is not there: Political and cultural contexts of the orphan challenge in northern Uganda
Bokomtaler
The Varying Vulnerability of African Orphans: The case of the Langi, northern Uganda
This article is based on a qualitative study carried out in Lira District, northern Uganda, to assess the situation of orphans cared for in extended families. The objective of the article is to bring attention to the varying vulnerability of different categories of orphans. The methods employed in data collection included ethnographic fieldwork, qualitative interviews and focus group discussions. The study found that the decision-making process t…
Seclusion, Protection and Avoidance: Exploring the Metida Complex among the Datoga of Northern Tanzania
This article deals with metida avoidance practices as they emerge in daily and ritual practice among the agro-pastoral Datoga-speaking peoples of Tanzania. The elaboration of the avoidance practices varies starkly between and within Datoga segments, but these practices are commonly particularly elaborate in connection with death or death-like events, and with birth or birth-like events. In the study area women may spend years of their lives with …
Experiences of orphan care in Amach, Uganda: Assessing Policy Implications
Uganda is estimated to have around two million orphans constituting approximately 19% of all the children in the country. This paper presents findings from a study on the experiences of orphan care among Langi people of Amach sub-county in Lira District, northern Uganda, and discusses their policy implications. The study utilised the following methods in data collection: eight months of ethnographic fieldwork; 21 in-depth interviews with communit…
Fakta på ville veier og henvisninger hinsides fornuften
Academic urban legends
Many of the messages presented in respectable scientific publications are, in fact, based on various forms of rumors. Some of these rumors appear so frequently, and in such complex, colorful, and entertaining ways that we can think of them as academic urban legends. The explanation for this phenomenon is usually that authors have lazily, sloppily, or fraudulently employed sources, and peer reviewers and editors have not discovered these weaknesse…
Monuments to Academic Carelessness: The Self-fulfilling Prophecy of Katherine Frost Bruner
In 1942, Katherine Frost Bruner published an article titled "Of psychological writing: Being some valedictory remarks on style." It was published in Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, the journal for which she served as editorial assistant between 1937 and 1941. Her collection of advice to writing scholars has been widely quoted, including by several editions of The Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association. The most fr…
Questionable Research Practices and Misconduct Among Norwegian Researchers
This article presents results from the national survey conducted in 2018 for the project Research Integrity in Norway (RINO). A total of 31,206 questionnaires were sent out to Norwegian researchers by e-mail, and 7291 responses were obtained. In this paper, we analyse the survey data to determine attitudes towards and the prevalence of fabrication, falsification and plagiarism (FFP) and contrast this with attitudes towards and the prevalence of t…
Sociology (8 works) · Political science (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Tanzania (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Child Nutrition and Water Access (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Ethnography (3 works)