Sökning: "Living history"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 366 avhandlingar innehållade orden Living history.
1. Historyscapes in Alor : Approaching indigenous history in Eastern Indonesia
Sammanfattning : This thesis deals with history and history-making practices in Alor, a small island in southeastern Indonesia. As in all of Indonesia, the people of Alor have experienced European colonialism, and after independence, a period of centralised, authoritarian rule under the New Order (1965-1998). LÄS MER
2. Dress Matters : Clothes and Social Order in Tallinn, 1600-1700
Sammanfattning : This dissertation explores the relationship of clothes and social order in early modern Europe. The period has often been characterised as inert and immobile, with especially middling and poorer people living in a sartorially drab world, but a number of historians have demonstrated that it was also a period of profound material change, with consumer demand, democratisation of fashion and global trade engendering cosmopolitan sensibilities earlier than thought. LÄS MER
3. Författarröst och lärobokstradition : en historiedidaktisk studie
Sammanfattning : The present dissertation deals with the writers of high-school history textbooks and their way of writing history. Questions concerning who has written these books, why and how they have done so, and what they have written, are posed from a didactic perspective.In order to answer these questions, the author has employed the method of oral history. LÄS MER
4. På den tiden, i dessa dagar : Föreställningar om och bruk av historia vid Medeltidsveckan på Gotland och Jamtli Historieland
Sammanfattning : The aim of my thesis is to see what kinds of ideas people have about history and how they make use of it. How do people believe life was in the old days? What kind of past do they like? What do they want history for? Questions like these are answered through interviews with visitors at the Medieval Week on Gotland and at Jamtli Historieland, an open-air museum in Östersund. LÄS MER
5. Soviet People with Female Bodies : Performing Beauty and Maternity in Soviet Russia in the mid 1930-1960s
Sammanfattning : The everyday practices of maternity and beauty are important for the enactment of femininity. This dissertation deals with femininities created in the context of changing ideas about “normality” in Soviet Russia during the mid 1930s-1960s and explores a diversity of norms, discourses and rituals. LÄS MER
