Sökning: "Indigenous peoples"

Visar resultat 16 - 20 av 55 avhandlingar innehållade orden Indigenous peoples.

  1. 16. "Vildrenen är själv detsamma som en gud" : "gudar" och "andar" i sovjetiska etnografers beskrivningar av samojediska världsåskådningar

    Författare :Olle Sundström; Håkan Rydving; Hanna Zipernovszky; Anna-Leena Siikala; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Soviet ethnography; Marxism-Leninism and religion; scientific terminology; indigenous religions; Samoyedic peoples; Nganasan; History of religion; Religionshistoria;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis examines strategies and practices, in Soviet ethnographic research, concerning terminologies for and classifications of what in research texts are conventionally called “supernatural beings” in the world views of the Samoyedic peoples. The question is put whether there are any general rules for the terminology used by scholars for these kinds of beings. LÄS MER

  3. 17. To be or not to be American : Statehood and Peoplehood in Native American Self-identification during the Self-determination era

    Författare :Ingela Sjögren; Bo Persson; Gunlög Fur; Rani-Henrik Andersson; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Native Americans; Indigenous peoples; national identity; tribal identity; nationhood; peoplehood; world view; History; historia;

    Sammanfattning : As colonized peoples Native Americans have had a complicated relationship to the United States. They have faced the question of whether they should demand tribal independence or embrace American citizenship. LÄS MER

  4. 18. Mayan suffering, Mayan rights: Faith and citizenship among Catholic Tzotziles in Highland Chiapas, Mexico

    Författare :Heidi Moksnes; Kaj Århem; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Maya; Chiapas; Tzotzil; Chenalhó; Las Abejas; Acteal; liberation theology; ethnicity; citizenship; indigenous peoples;

    Sammanfattning : The aim of this dissertation is to investigate the construction of citizenship by a group of highland Mayas in Mexico. The ethnographic focus is on liberation theological Catholics in the Tzotzil-speaking municipality of San Pedro Chenalhó in highland Chiapas. LÄS MER

  5. 19. Towards the Limits – Climate Change Aspects of Life and Health in Northern Sweden : studies of tularemia and regional experiences of changes in the environment

    Författare :Maria Furberg; Maria Nilsson; Anders Johansson; Lars Weinehall; Peter Friberg; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :Climate change; public health; Indigenous peoples; Sami; reindeer herding; resilience; tularemia; mixed-methods; infectious disease; seroprevalence; ELISA; outbreak investigation; risk factor; ecology; Francisella tularensis; Epidemiology; epidemiologi; folkhälsa; Public health;

    Sammanfattning : BackgroundIndigenous peoples with traditional lifestyles worldwide are considered particularly vulnerable to climate change effects. Large climate change impacts on the spread of infectious vector-borne diseases are expected as a health outcome. LÄS MER

  7. 20. At the Tail of the Buffalo : Van Gujjar pastoralists between the forest and the world arena

    Författare :Pernille Gooch; Humanekologi; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; indigenous peoples; environmental justice; forest management; the Himalays; nature conservation; forest pastoralism; nomads; phenomenology; Cultural anthropology; ethnology; Kulturantropologi; etnologi;

    Sammanfattning : This study is about how the 'global' becomes localized and how the 'local' is articulated through the 'global'. It deals with the Van (forest) Gujjars, a people of nomadic forest pastoralists who inhabit the Central Himalayas of India. LÄS MER