Title: RN, Cand. Polit., PhD
Present position: Associate Professor, Bergen University College, Bergen, Norway
Institution where degree(s) were taken:
RN, Aust-Agder Nursing College, Norway (1984)
Cand.Polit. University of Bergen, Norway (1991)
PhD, University of Bergen, Norway (1999)
Previous research done in Haydom area (Title of thesis):
- 1989-1990 ethnographic fieldwork leading to Cand.polit. degree.
- Rekdal, Ole Bjørn. Kulturell kontinuitet og sosial endring. En studie av iraqw-folket i det nordlige Tanzania/ Cultural continuity and social change among the Iraqw of northern Tanzania.[Cand.Polit thesis] Bergen: University of Bergen; 1994.
- 1993-1994 ethnographic fieldwork, 1995 2 months ethographic fieldwork leading to Dr. Polit degree. Title of thesis:
- Rekdal OB. The invention by tradition: Creativity and change among the Iraqw of northern Tanzania [Dr. Polit. thesis]. Bergen: University of Bergen; 1999.
Current research or planned research in Haydom area or related to Haydom:
The relevance of culture in health intervention
Contact information:
e-mail: obr@hib.no, ole.rekdal@cih.uib.no
Postal address: Furudalen 22, 5098 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., 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.
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.
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
Rekdal OB, Blystad A. "We are as sheep and goats": Iraqw and Datooga discourses on fortune, failure, and the future. In: Anderson DM, Broch-Due V, editors. "The poor are not us": Poverty and pastoralism in Eastern Africa. Oxford: James Currey; 1999. p. 125-146.
Rekdal OB. Cross-cultural healing in East African ethnography. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 1999;13(4):458-482.
Rekdal OB. When hypothesis becomes myth: The Iraqi origin of the Iraqw. Ethnology 1998;37(1):17-38.
Rekdal OB. Money, milk, and sorghum beer: Change and continuity among the Iraqw of northern Tanzania. Africa 1996;66(3):367-385.
Rekdal OB. The invention by tradition: Creativity and change among the Iraqw of northern Tanzania [Dr. Polit. thesis]. Bergen: University of Bergen; 1999.
Rekdal, O. B. (1994). Kulturell kontinuitet og sosial endring. En studie av iraqw-folket i det nordlige Tanzania (Cultural continuity and social change among the Iraqw of northern Tanzania) Bergen Studies in Social Anthropology, vol. 48. Bergen: Norse.
Professional presentations:
Work dissemination:
Various lectures primarily at University of Bergen and Bergen University College (1990-2006)
Various presentations at scientific conferences and workshops (1993-2006)