Sökning: "cultural boundaries"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 132 avhandlingar innehållade orden cultural boundaries.

  1. 1. Bodily Practices and Medical Identities in Southern Thailand

    Författare :Claudia Merli; Ing-Britt Trankell; Jan Ovesen; Rosalind C. Morris; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Cultural anthropology; biopolitics; minorities; Muslims; Southern Thailand; childbirth; medical practices; circumcision; embodiment; Kulturantropologi; Kulturantropologi; Cultural Anthropology;

    Sammanfattning : This study explores contemporary practices concerning women’s and children’s bodies, with a special focus on postpartum practices, the treatment of the afterbirth and its cosmological dimensions, and male and female circumcision. At the intersection between traditional midwifery and modern medicine, Muslim women cross the boundaries between different cosmologies and medical systems. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Att göra vänskap : En kultursociologisk analys av högstadieelevers sociala relationer

    Författare :Lina Lundström; Anna Lund; David Cardell; David Wästerfors; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Upper secondary school students; doing friendship; peer relations; children s perspectives; childhood; inclusion exclusion; social power; popularity; cultural sociology; meaning making; social boundaries; cultural elements; video ethnography; barn- och ungdomsvetenskap; Child and Youth Studies;

    Sammanfattning : This doctoral thesis explores how secondary school students perform friendship in a Swedish school. The thesis aims to describe and explain how cultural elements, such as an audience of peers, stages for friendship performances (e.g. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Boundaries, believers and bodies : a cultural analysis of a multidisciplinary research community

    Författare :Helena Pettersson; Britta Lundgren; Erik Stolterman; David Hakken; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Culture; ethnographic method; research; technology; boundary object work; symbolic capital; technoromanticism; future; speed; creativity; reality; dystopia; focal things; trading; multidisciplinary; gender; reflexivity; Ethnology; Etnologi;

    Sammanfattning : The aim of this study is to analyze the construction of research culture and collaboration within the research studio Tools for Creativity, one node in the larger Interactive Institute. This studio is an arena that in today’s society is associated with boundary crossing, dynamics and variability: An environment with high-tech equipment, a staff equipped with diverse skills, and a flexible approach with the ambition of developing innovative tools based on ICT to strengthen human creativity. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Modernitet i det traditionella : kulturbyggen och gränser inom ett nordsvenskt område

    Författare :Lars Olov Sjöström; Kurt Genrup; Alf Arvidsson; Solveig Sjöberg-Pietarinen; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; basal and variable modernity; local collectivity; identity; cultural boundaries; bourgeois society; banquets; symbolic capital; Ethnology; Etnologi;

    Sammanfattning : This doctoral thesis examines how modernisation affects and is affected by existing local culture and identity. It is about the relation between the social and mental barriers experienced, expressed and manifested in the social culture of local community, and modernisation’s dynamic powers over time. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Rättens iscensättning : rum, framträdanden, gränser

    Författare :Erik Mattsson; Willmar Sauter; Leif Dahlberg; Dirk Gindt; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; performance; power; theatre; ritual; space; trial; law; kulturella iscensättningar; makt; teater; ritual; rum; tingsrätt; rättegång; Theatre Studies; teatervetenskap;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation studies legal practice and representation from the perspective of Theatre- and Performance Studies. It aims to describe and analyse the theatrical, ritualistic and spatial aspects of law, its practices, representations and buildings. More specifically, the dissertation explores the trial as a performance. LÄS MER