Jan Ovesen
Biographic Data
| ID | 95884 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jan Ovesen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jan |
| FAMILY NAME | Ovesen |
| SIGNATURE | OVESEN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Uppsala University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Symbiosis of Microcredit and Private Moneylending in Cambodia
Microcredit's potential for poverty reduction is a highly contested issue. In Cambodia, the dramatically increasing commercial microcredit coexists with widespread private moneylending. These two practices are rooted in different economic world views: neoliberalism on the one hand, and the traditional Khmer economic sociality permeated by patronage on the other. The ethnography shows that far from competing with each other, microcredit and privat…
Mendel, Tommi & BrigitteNikles. Bunong's birth practices
Cambodge
French colonial medicine in Cambodia
Studies of colonial medicine, mostly from former British colonies, have shown that colonial medical interventions mostly benefited the European colonisers and often had very little positive effects on the health of the native populations at large. A common assumption is that this was also the case for French colonial medicine in general, and for colonial medicine in Cambodia in particular, and that the unsatisfactory contemporary state of the med…
Indigenous Peoples and Development in Laos
This article deals with the epistemological status of the notion of Indigenous People and its applicability in Laos. Based on fieldwork among indigenous Mon-Khmer groups in southern Laos, it argues that, due to ideological incompatibility between the Lao government and major development-financing organizations, this notion is as unhelpful for the practical purpose of promoting equal development as it is epistemologically muddled. The government’s…
Thomas Hylland Eriksen
Thomas Hylland Eriksen: Små steder, store spørsmål. Innføring i sosial-antropologi Anmeldes af Jan Ovesen
Anthropology by (re)capture? A consideration ofrecapturing anthropology
The voice of prophecy
The Voice of Prophecy and Other Essays. Edvin Ardener. Edited by Malcolm Chapman. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1989. xxvii + 288 pp.
In memoriam
Man or beast? Lycanthropy in the Naga Hills
Symbiosis of Microcredit and Private Moneylending in Cambodia
Microcredit's potential for poverty reduction is a highly contested issue. In Cambodia, the dramatically increasing commercial microcredit coexists with widespread private moneylending. These two practices are rooted in different economic world views: neoliberalism on the one hand, and the traditional Khmer economic sociality permeated by patronage on the other. The ethnography shows that far from competing with each other, microcredit and privat…
French colonial medicine in Cambodia
Studies of colonial medicine, mostly from former British colonies, have shown that colonial medical interventions mostly benefited the European colonisers and often had very little positive effects on the health of the native populations at large. A common assumption is that this was also the case for French colonial medicine in general, and for colonial medicine in Cambodia in particular, and that the unsatisfactory contemporary state of the med…
Man or beast? Lycanthropy in the Naga Hills
In memoriam
Man or beast? Lycanthropy in the Naga Hills
The voice of prophecy
The Voice of Prophecy and Other Essays. Edvin Ardener. Edited by Malcolm Chapman. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1989. xxvii + 288 pp.
Thomas Hylland Eriksen
Thomas Hylland Eriksen: Små steder, store spørsmål. Innføring i sosial-antropologi Anmeldes af Jan Ovesen
Anthropology by (re)capture? A consideration ofrecapturing anthropology
Indigenous Peoples and Development in Laos
This article deals with the epistemological status of the notion of Indigenous People and its applicability in Laos. Based on fieldwork among indigenous Mon-Khmer groups in southern Laos, it argues that, due to ideological incompatibility between the Lao government and major development-financing organizations, this notion is as unhelpful for the practical purpose of promoting equal development as it is epistemologically muddled. The government’s…
French colonial medicine in Cambodia
Studies of colonial medicine, mostly from former British colonies, have shown that colonial medical interventions mostly benefited the European colonisers and often had very little positive effects on the health of the native populations at large. A common assumption is that this was also the case for French colonial medicine in general, and for colonial medicine in Cambodia in particular, and that the unsatisfactory contemporary state of the med…
Cambodge
Mendel, Tommi & BrigitteNikles. Bunong's birth practices
Symbiosis of Microcredit and Private Moneylending in Cambodia
Microcredit's potential for poverty reduction is a highly contested issue. In Cambodia, the dramatically increasing commercial microcredit coexists with widespread private moneylending. These two practices are rooted in different economic world views: neoliberalism on the one hand, and the traditional Khmer economic sociality permeated by patronage on the other. The ethnography shows that far from competing with each other, microcredit and privat…
Sociology (7 works) · Cambodian History and Society (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Citation (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Geography (2 works)