Sökning: "Hokkaido"
Hittade 4 avhandlingar innehållade ordet Hokkaido.
1. Rule by Association : Japan in the Global Trans-Imperial Culture, 1868-1912
Sammanfattning : Criticizing one-empire approaches, calls to apply much-needed transnational perspectives and methodologies to colonial history have recently emerged. This groundbreaking scholarship has already revealed that the competition between different European empires after 1850 has typically been overemphasized; in fact, a transnational perspective reveals extensive cooperation between the “great powers” of the age, along with myriad examples of exchanges and transfers of colonial knowledge. LÄS MER
2. Mr. Ainu - cultural mobilization and the practice of ethnicity in a hierarchical culture
Sammanfattning : This thesis discusses cultural change among the Ainu, Japan's indigenous people, its specificity and the circumstances that have led to it. Fieldwork was conducted in Hokkaido, the main territory of the Ainu, during a period of 12 months, stretching from 1985 to 1988. LÄS MER
3. Bringing home animals : Final-stage Jomon and Okhotsk Culture food technologies
Sammanfattning : In this thesis, organic residues preserved in ancient pottery are used to reconstruct diversity andchange in the foodways of Late Holocene hunter-gatherer communities in coastal northern Hokkaido(1750 BCE–1250 CE). The Late Holocene period of this region is very dynamic, and characterised by numerous migrations and cultural replacements. LÄS MER
4. Taxonomy, phylogeny, and secondary sexual character evolution of diving beetles, focusing on the genus Acilius
Sammanfattning : Sexual conflict can lead to antagonistic coevolution between the sexes, but empirical examples are few. In this thesis secondary sexual characters in diving beetles are interpreted in the light of sexual conflict theory. LÄS MER
