Blystad, Astrid

Title: RN, PhD
 

Present position: Associate Professor, Department of Public Health and Primary Health Care/ Centre for International Health, University of Bergen, Norway
 

Institution where degree(s) were taken:
RN - Arendal Nursing College, Norway, (1984)
Cand.Polit. - Department of Social Anthropology, University of Bergen, Norway (1992)
PhD – Department of Social Anthropology, University of Bergen, Norway (2000)
 

Previous research done in Haydom area (Title of thesis):
Cand. Polit thesis: Blystad, Astrid 1992 The pastoral Barabaig: Fertility, recycling and the social order. Cand. Polit. thesis in social anthropology, University of Bergen.
PhD thesis: Precarious procreation: Datoga pastoralists at the late 20th century, Department of Social Anthropology (p. 292), University of Bergen (2000).
 

  • Current research or planned research in Haydom area or related to Haydom:
  • Supervising Neema Jimmy Kyamba, MA candidate. “Exploring experiences of living with diabetes in resource poor settings: a qualitative study from Haydom, Tanzania.”
  • Supervising NUFU PhD candidate Bodil Bø Våga from CIH and University of Stavanger, Norway. “Exploring challenges of infant feeding in prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) programme: The case of Babati and Haydom, Tanzania”
  • Blystad’s present research is primarily related to the inter-disciplinary research venture with Project title: ‘Searching for effective HIV-prevention and care in sub-Saharan Africa: Focusing on local contexts’ with the specific component in the Haydom area: ‘Interpretation and practice in relation to emerging regimes on HIV prevention and treatment: The case of Mbulu/Hanang’. NFR sponsored project (2005-06, Blystad)
  • - Main supervisor of Bodil Bøe Våga with the project: ‘The search for cure and care: Health seeking behaviour in Mbulu District, Tanzania’. MA - project in Health Sciences, University of Bergen. Completed December, 2004.
  • - Main supervisor of Karin Bell with the project: ‘Nursing care in an African context: a qualitative study from Haydom Lutheran Hospital, Tanzania’. MA -project in Health Sciences, University of Bergen. Completed December, 2004
  • - Main supervisor of Ragnhild Flasnes Mellingen with the project: ‘Assessing knowledge, attitudes and practices in an HIV context: the case of Haydom village, Tanzania (working title). MA project in Health Sciences, University of Bergen.
  • - Co-supervising medical students Marie Grytdal Eilertsen and Maria Øyasæther on study of HIV information in the Haydom area. Student thesis: Øyasæter M, Grytdal Eilertsen M. “Locally provided HIV-information - a study from Haydom, Manyara Region, Tanzania, 2003. Centre for International Health, University of Bergen. 2006.”
     

Contact information:
e-mail: astrid.blystad(a)isf.uib.no
Postal address: Furudalen 22, 5089 Bergen
 

Publications:

  • Oleke, C. Blystad A, Moland KM, Rekdal, OB and Heggenhougen K.: “Responding to the orphan challenge: The relevance of ethnographic information in policy making.” Submitted to Social implications of HIV/AIDS
  • Oleke, C. Blystad, A., Fylkesnes, K. & Tumwine JK. Constraints to educational opportunities of orphans: a community-based study from northern Uganda. AIDS Care. 2007 Mar;19(3):361-8.
  • Oleke, C., Blystad, A., Moland, K.M., Rekdal, O.B., & Heggenhougen, H.K. (2006).
    The varying vulnerability of African orphans: The case of the Langi, northern
    Uganda. Childhood - a Global Journal of Child Research, 13(2), 267-284.
  • Oleke C, Blystad A, Rekdal OB. "When the obvious brother is not there": political and cultural contexts of the orphan challenge in northern Uganda. Soc Sci Med. 2005 Dec;61(12):2628-38. Epub 2005 Jun 27.
  • Blystad, A. (2005). Fertile mortal links: Reconsidering Datoga violence. In V. Broch-Due (Ed.), Violence and belonging (pp. 112-130). London: Routledge.
  • Blystad, A., & Rekdal, O.B. (2004). Datoga. In C.R. Ember, & M. Ember (Eds.), Encyclopedia of medical anthropology: Health and illness in the world's cultures (pp. 629-638). New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers.
  • Blystad, A. (2004). On HIV, sex and respect: Local-global discourse encounters among the Datoga of Tanzania. African Sociological Review, 8(1), 47-66.
  • Rekdal, O.B., Blystad, A., Malleyeck, H., & Gasheka, P. (2004). Eshageada UKIMWI Datoga! (Datoga, let's beware AIDS!): A culture specific HIV prevention film targeting Datoga communities in Tanzania. Bergen: Centre for International Health (Published as GeGCA-NUFU Publications, vol 4, version 2 completed November 2006) For booklet on the project, se also: https://bora.hib.no/bitstream/10049/117/1/Rekdal2006Eshageada+%283%29.pdf
  • Blystad, A. (2005). Romantisering og positivisme i fortolkende tilnærminger. In B. Ellefsen, & C. Foss (Eds.), Kritiske blikk på helsetjenesteforskningen: Perspektiver, metoder og muligheter. Oslo: Gyldendal norsk forlag.
  • Blystad, A. (2000). Challenging encounters: Datoga lives in independent Tanzania. In L. Manger, & A.G.M. Ahmed (Eds.), Pastoralists and environment: Experiences from the Greater Horn of Africa (pp. 157-180). Addis Ababa: OSSREA.
  • Blystad, A. (2000). Precarious procreation: Datoga pastoralists at the late 20th century, Department of Social Anthropology (p. 292).[PhDthesis] Bergen: University of Bergen.
  • Rekdal, O.B., & Blystad, A. (1999). "We are as sheep and goats": Iraqw and Datooga discourses on fortune, failure, and the future. In D.M. Anderson, & V. Broch-Due (Eds.), "The poor are not us": Poverty and pastoralism in Eastern Africa (pp. 125-146). Oxford: James Currey.
  • Blystad, A. (1999). "Dealing with men's spears": Datooga pastoralists combating male intrusion on female fertility. In H.L. Moore,T. Sanders, & B. Kaare (Eds.), Those who play with fire: Gender, fertility and transformation in East and Southern Africa (pp. 187-223). London: The Athlone Press.
  • Blystad, A. (1999). Exploring the utility of the "embodiment" concept in anthropology, Institutt for sosialantropologi. Bergen: University of Bergen.
  • Blystad, A. (1995). Peril or penalty: AIDS in the context of social change among the Barabaig. In K.-I. Klepp,P.M. Biswalo, & A. Talle (Eds.), Young people at risk: Fighting AIDS in northern Tanzania (pp. 86-106). Oslo: Scandinavian University Press.
  • Blystad, Astrid (1992) The pastoral Barabaig: Fertility, recycling and the social order. Cand. Polit. thesis in social anthropology, University of Bergen. 

Professional presentations:
 

Work dissemination:

Some examples:

  • Blystad, Astrid (2005): On Sex, Seclusion, Fecundity and Fate: The Dynamics of Sexual Prohibitions within the Metida/Meeta Complex among Peoples in Hanang/Mbulu, Tanzania. Abstract and paper presentation, Oslo Meeting of Rescheduled AAA-Panel: Beyond Magic and Science: Sexual Prohibitions in Sub-Saharan Africa, March, 30, 2005
  • Blystad, Astrid (2005): Voldsutøvelse blant øst-afrikanske pastoralister: liv-død dynamikk i ny kontekst. Abstract and paper presentation, workshop: Vold og stat’ at the Annual meeting of the Norwegian Anthropological Association, May 20-22.
  • Blystad, Astrid (2005): 'Vanishing tombs, barren wombs': Gendered confrontations between state forces and Datoga women, Tanzania': Abstract and paper presentation, ‘Gender, state, body’ conference, Centre for Women and Gender Studies, University of Bergen, January 20-21.
  • Blystad, Astrid (2005): ‘Searching for blessing’: On metaphors, music and movement in ghadoweeda, a religious ritual of pastoral Datoga of Tanzania. Abstract and paper presentation, 2nd Christina Conference: ‘Gender, religion and theory in dialogue’. Helsinki University, March 3-5, 2005.

 

 

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