Sökning: "Don Kulick"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 9 avhandlingar innehållade orden Don Kulick.
1. Having head and showing knowledge : language shift, Christianity and notions of self in a Papua New Guinean village
Sammanfattning : In the swampy jungles of northern Papua New Guinea lies an isolated little villagepopulated by about 100 people called Gapun. The majority of the villagers of Gapun are biormultilingual, but their mother tongue is a vernacular language which they call Taiap. LÄS MER
2. Shortchanged : Elderly Women Street Vendors in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea
Sammanfattning : Normative assumptions regarding reciprocity between adult children and elderly parents continue to dominate narratives on later life in sub-Saharan Africa. Yet strenuous socioeconomic conditions make it difficult for families to meet expectations of care and support. LÄS MER
3. Time Warps : Refugees and the Experience of Waiting in Rural Sweden
Sammanfattning : This thesis explores the ways in which refugees’ experience of time is warped when they come to Sweden. It is based on fourteen months of ethnographic fieldwork in Avesta, a small municipality in rural Sweden. LÄS MER
4. Ett fåfängt arbete : Möten med modeller i den svenska modeindustrin
Sammanfattning : This thesis is a study of the working life of fashion models in the Swedish Fashion Industry based on 18 months of ethnographic fieldwork among a network of female and male models in Stockholm. It charts the development of the modelling business in Sweden and locates it within the changing labour market of late capitalism. LÄS MER
5. Blatte betyder kompis : Om maskulinitet och språk i en högstadieskola
Sammanfattning : This thesis deals with masculinity and language among a group of teenage boys. Based on a year’s fieldwork at a middle school in a Stockholm suburb, the study focuses on how language is used to “perform” masculinity and how the stereotype of the “immigrant youth” emerges in daily communication in school. LÄS MER