Sökning: "Ethnology"

Visar resultat 31 - 35 av 367 avhandlingar innehållade ordet Ethnology.

  1. 31. En bonadsmålare och hans värld. Johannes Nilsson i Breared

    Författare :Elisabeth Berglin; Avdelningen för etnologi; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; painted wall hangings; folk art; imitation; change; hermeneutics; historical reconstruction; biographical method; contextualization; social memory; illiteracy; narratives; genre analysis; revivalist ideas; Kulturantropologi; text; etnologi; ethnology; Cultural anthropology;

    Sammanfattning : The aim of this dissertation is to find relationships between folk art, an artist's personal life and influential factors originating in the context. Christmas wall hangings by the peasant painter Johannes Nilsson (1757­1827) are the focus of the study. LÄS MER

  3. 32. Livet äger rum : Försörjning och platstagande i norrländska sågverkssamhällen

    Författare :Håkan Berglund-Lake; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Ethnology; integrity; pattern of subsistence; place making. sawmill workers; Etnologi; Ethnology; Etnologi; Etnologi; Ethnology;

    Sammanfattning : This study is concerned with the people who settled permanently near the sawmills of Västernorrland during the expansion of the sawmill industry in the latter half of the 19th century. The basis of, and a prerequisite for this resettlement and the life thus built up was the permanent employment and wages earned by the men at the sawmills. LÄS MER

  4. 33. Vägen till vinnarcirkeln. Travhästen och dess människor mellan sport och spel

    Författare :Sara Berglund; Avdelningen för etnologi; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; harness racing; trotting; horse; gambling; competition; sport; training; breeding; pedigree; sportification; totalizator; quantification; organisation; cloning; insemination; etnologi; Kulturantropologi; Cultural anthropology; naming; ethnology; kinship;

    Sammanfattning : The way we understand and treat our horses, like the purpose for which they are bred, is culturally conditioned. The transition between differing social formations involves not only new life circumstances for people and animals, but also changed social modes of relating between them. LÄS MER

  5. 34. Liv, lust och mening : om krukväxters kulturella betydelser

    Författare :Clas Bergvall; Britta Lundgren; Hildur Kalman; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; discourse; everyday life; life-trajectory; personal self; possessions; existential meaning; gender; home; identity; imagined relations; indoor plants; Ethnology; Etnologi;

    Sammanfattning : This study is about the way people describe thoughts and feelings in connection with indoor plants. Adopting a broader perspective it could be said that it is a study of the relation between people and their material surroundings. LÄS MER

  7. 35. The Power of Being : A Study of Poverty, Fertility and Sexuality among the Kuria in Kenya and Tanzania

    Författare :Ann-Britt Bernhardsdotter; William E. Arens; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Ethnology; Kuria; Kenya and Tanzania; power; abuse of power; poverty; stratification mechanisms; sexuality; prostitution; woman marriage; justice; Etnologi; Ethnology; Etnologi; Kulturantropologi; Cultural Anthropology;

    Sammanfattning : The study is concerned with power based on ‘being’, which is the thread running through the entire thesis. The extended family is the focal point and three themes, interrelated in Kuria society, are explored, namely, poverty, sexuality and fertility. LÄS MER