Sökning: "alternative ideology"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 39 avhandlingar innehållade orden alternative ideology.
1. Kinesernas vänner : en analys av missionens berättelse som ideologi och utopi
Sammanfattning : This thesis intends to answer the question: How was the narrative of the mission in China formulated and used to engender and sustain the fervour of the friends of the mission in the 1890s? It was at this time, with growing unemployment, lack of housing, and of poverty – a time when new and challenging ideas emerge – that the interest in the missions to China awoke. The context of the missionary narrative in this thesis is the Swedish town of Jönköping, a place with a strong religious image and therefore often called “Småland’s Jerusalem”. LÄS MER
2. Technology, Ideology and Environment : The Social Dynamics of Iron Metallurgy in Great Zimbabwe, AD 900 to the Present
Sammanfattning : This thesis provides insights into the nature and organization of iron technology associated with past and present communities of Great Zimbabwe in southern Africa. Written accounts, ethnographic enquiries and, results of archaeological field surveys and excavations are combined to provide the first detailed account of Great Zimbabwe’s iron production technologies. LÄS MER
3. Distorted natures : Shifting ideologies of nature in Swedish geography school textbooks 1866-2012
Sammanfattning : Historically, nature has worked and functioned as a powerful idea. Therefore, this thesis provides a historical account of how ideologies of nature have been articulated and transformed in Swedish geography school textbooks (secondary and upper secondary level) from 1866 to 2012. LÄS MER
4. Luci e ombre : Fantastico e sovversivo nella prosa narrativa di Massimo Bontempelli
Sammanfattning : Bearing in mind that the literary fantastic may function as a subversive mode of writing that questions the dominant society’s hierarchy of norms and values as well as its notions of truth and reality (Jackson), this dissertation studies the forms and functions of the fantastic in four narratives by Massimo Bontempelli’s (1878 – 1960). This is an argument that hitherto has not been the subject of any more thoroughgoing study by critics of this Italian author. LÄS MER
5. Ariska idoler : Den indoeuropeiska mytologin som ideologi och vetenskap
Sammanfattning : By using ancient texts, medieval documents, philological observations, and archaeological artifacts, scholars have reconstructed a prehistorical world and religion. The people who upheld this culture have been named, inter alia, "Indo-Europeans", "Aryans", "Japhetites" and "Wiros". LÄS MER
