Sökning: "Historical Anthropology"
Visar resultat 6 - 10 av 61 avhandlingar innehållade orden Historical Anthropology.
6. Konsten att leva längre : Föreställningar om livets förändring i handböcker 1700-1930
Sammanfattning : The aim of this thesis is to explore discursive changes in conceptions of life course and ageing. I am particularly concerned with the relationship between knowledge and power in the distribution of prolongevity and body- technologies, and as referential frame in the definition of normal and deviant bodies and behaviour. LÄS MER
7. Heterosexual Havana : Ideals and hierarchies of gender and sexuality in contemporary Cuba
Sammanfattning : Drawing on two periods of ethnographic fieldwork in Vedado, Havana, in 2004–2007, this dissertation analyses the interconnections between gender, sexuality, and heterosexuality. With theoretical inspiration from the works of Stevi Jackson and Beverley Skeggs, it discusses how the logics underlying heterosexual relations also regulate hierarchical gendered ideals. LÄS MER
8. Huis Ten Bosch: Mimesis and simulation in a Japanese Dutch town
Sammanfattning : With the advance of capitalism, new communication technology and expansion of mass media, places and culture increasingly tend to be deterritorialized, time and space arrangements are renegotiated, social and cultural relationships are commercialized and commodified. Simulated and themed environments have attracted considerable attention as concrete expressions of "culture in motion". LÄS MER
9. Making a life: Meanings of migration in Cape Verde
Sammanfattning : This anthropological study examines the meanings and practices associated with migratin in Cape Verde, and the social an historical space in which these are produced. More specifically, it analyses an ideology of migration that concerns collective experiences of Cape Verde's history, political economy, ecology and geography as well as notions about the life of the person. LÄS MER
10. Images of a Forest People : Punan Malinau – Identity, Sociality, and Encapsulation in Borneo
Sammanfattning : This is a study of groups of forest foragers and horticulturalists in the Malinau River basin in northeast Borneo. These groups are known to themselves and others as Punan, or more specifically – in order to distinguish them from other groups of Punan (or Penan) living in other parts of Borneo – as Punan Malinau. LÄS MER