Sökning: "Cultural dimensions"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 201 avhandlingar innehållade orden Cultural dimensions.
1. Bodily Practices and Medical Identities in Southern Thailand
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
2. Kulturspezifische Interaktionsstile oder Wenn schwedischsprachige und deutschsprachige Arbeitskollegen im Restaurant zu Mittag essen : Eine Studie zur Einbettungskultur in kommunikativer Praxis
Sammanfattning : Interactions are formed and shaped differently from culture to culture. This thesis focuses on this phenomenon and in the first part deals with (from a theoretical view) the question, how the interplay between language-use and culture can be described. LÄS MER
3. Iranians in Sweden : economic, cultural and social integration
Sammanfattning : This study explores three dimensions in the integration of Iranian immigrants in Sweden: economic, cultural and social. To test the generalisability of the ideas presented, and to place them in a wider framework the integration of Iranians has been compared with those of three other minorities: Chileans, Poles, and Finns. LÄS MER
4. Bridging Gaps: Sustainable Development and Local Democracy Processes
Sammanfattning : This thesis examines the relation between the notion of sustainable development and broad public participation in local decision-making local democracy processes. The empirical part of the thesis is comprised of a field investigation with the purpose of exploring the potential of the interviewed local professionals to work as transformers of the notion of sustainable development at the local level. LÄS MER
5. Tre städer, två broar och ett museum : minne, politik och världsarv i Bosnien och Hercegovina
Sammanfattning : The thesis deals with ritual remembrance ceremonies enacted in the three towns of Mostar, Jajce and Višegrad in BiH. The Old Bridge in Mostar, the Bridge over the Drina in Višegrad and the AVNOJ Museum in Jajce all carry a material presence that influences everyday life in these localities. LÄS MER