Sökning: "Ethnology"
Visar resultat 21 - 25 av 366 avhandlingar innehållade ordet Ethnology.
21. Typographic Man : Medielandskap i förändring - Studier i provinsens tryckkultur
Sammanfattning : The aim of the present thesis is to study how the media landscape of northern Sweden was shaped and transformed in the final years of the 18th century and first half of the nineteenth. This slowly-emerging new landscape brought with it new thoughts and new voices. LÄS MER
22. The body in pain and pleasure : an ethnography of mixed martial arts
Sammanfattning : Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) is a sport on the rise within the field of martial arts in which competitors fight in a cage and utilize full-contact movements using their fists, elbows, and knees as well as kicks, other strikes, and submission techniques to defeat their opponents. MMA has become a modern social movement in combat sports that has become globalized in a short time and is the fastest growing sport in the world. LÄS MER
23. Det autentiska Andra : Om etnografi, etik och existens
Sammanfattning : The point of departure for the dissertation is the problem of representing other people and other cultures from a modern scientific and ethnographic standpoint. This concerns, above all, a problem based on a power relationship, on various forms of subordination and marginalization of the Other(s), who are contrasted with normality and a modern "us". LÄS MER
24. Under the cloak : [the acceptance of Christianity in Iceland with particular reference to the religious attitudes prevailing at the time]
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25. Fäderneslandets kännedom : om svenska ortsbeskrivningsprojekt och ämbetsmäns folklivsskildringar under 1700- och 1800-talet
Sammanfattning : During the period c. 1720-1900 a large quantity of descriptions of rural areas in Sweden were set down on paper. Some 700 local descriptions were printed at the time or have appeared in print during the twentieth century. The most common geographical unit for local descriptions is the parish. LÄS MER