Sökning: "cognitive anthropology"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 12 avhandlingar innehållade orden cognitive anthropology.

1. 1. Creating Safety in Air Traffic Control

   Författare :Johan M. Sanne; Boel Berner; Jane Summerton; Dave Randall; Linköpings universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Risk; safety; air traffic control; ethnography; schemes; rules; resources; cognitive; social; interaction; coordination; socio-technical systems; Social anthropology ethnography; Socialantrolopologi etnografi;

   Sammanfattning : Is flying safe? Indeed it is -- statistics tell us that it is far more dangerous to drive a car or take the train. But flight safety does not just happen. Instead, as it is argued in this book, it is created by a well-developed air traffic control system that continues to be highly effective -- despite increasing volumes of traffic. LÄS MER

3. 2. Shell Age Economics : Marine Gathering in the Kingdom of Tonga, Polynesia

   Författare :Thomas Malm; Humanekologi; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; chieftainship; cosmology; demography; marine tenure systems; tragedy of the commons ; seaweeds; marine invertebrates; gender roles; indigenous knowledge; maritime anthropology; Tongans; Tonga; Oceania; Polynesia; totemism; Cultural anthropology; ethnology; Kulturantropologi; etnologi;

   Sammanfattning : This monograph analyses marine gathering in the Polynesian Kingdom of Tonga from ecological, social and cognitive perspectives. The overarching issues explored are (1) the significance of marine gathering in the past and present, (2) how seaweeds and marine invertebrates have been perceived, classified, named and used, (3) how they have been implicated in social relations, and (4) how the integration of the islands into the modern world system has affected the marine environment and the exploitation of its resources. LÄS MER

4. 3. Distributed cognition in home environments : The prospective memory and cognitive practices of older adults

   Författare :Mattias Forsblad (Kristiansson); Nils Dahlbäck; Corinna Kruse; Fredrik Stjernberg; Oskar Lindwall; Linköpings universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Distributed cognition; intelligent use of space; cognitive aging;

   Sammanfattning : In this thesis I explore how older people make use of, and interact with, their physical environment in home and near-by settings to manage cognitive situations, specifically prospective memory situations. Older adults have in past research been shown to perform better on prospective memory in real-life settings than what findings in laboratory-like settings predict. LÄS MER

5. 4. Becoming Muslim: Meanings of Conversion to Islam

   Författare :Anna Månsson; Avdelningen för konsthistoria och visuella studier; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; ethnology; Cultural anthropology; person-centered ethnography; psychological anthropology; Muslims in the U.S.; Muslims in Sweden; Islam in the West; conversion narrative; conversion to Islam; Muslim identity; identity-making; cognitive models; Kulturantropologi; etnologi; Non-Christian religions; Världsreligioner ej kristendom ;

   Sammanfattning : "Becoming Muslim: Meanings of Conversion to Islam" is an ethnographic study analyzing the identity-making of female Muslim converts. It is based on eighteen in-depth interviews with six women in Sweden and three women in the U.S. LÄS MER

7. 5. Sälen och Jägaren : De bottniska jägarnas begreppssystem för säl ur ett kognitivt perspektiv

   Författare :Ann-Catrine Edlund; Jan Nilsson; Nils Storå; Kerstin Norén; Umeå universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Scandinavian languages; Swedish dialects; cognitive semantics; cognitive anthropology; conceptual system; cultural model; knowledge system; categorization of seals; seal hunting; Swedish language; Svenska språket; Scandinavian Languages; nordiska språk;

   Sammanfattning : In the North Scandinavian area of investigation, which is in focus in this dissertation, seal-hunting has been an important means of livelihood from prehistoric times up to the present. The Swedish-speaking seal-hunters' conceptual system for seal during the 20th century is analysed here. LÄS MER