Sökning: "body and soul"
Visar resultat 6 - 10 av 26 avhandlingar innehållade orden body and soul.
6. Personhood and human-spirit relations among the Yuracaré of the Bolivian Amazon
Sammanfattning : This anthropological dissertation is based on fieldwork carried out among Yuracaré people in the Bolivian Amazon. The study explores local conceptions of personhood and human-spirit relations by looking into Yuracaré life cycle practices and associated ideas, particularly in connection with birth, girls’ initiation (menarche), illness and death. LÄS MER
7. A Multiform Desire : A Study of Appetite in Plato’s Timaeus, Republic and Phaedrus
Sammanfattning : This dissertation is a study of appetite in Plato’s Timaeus, Republic and Phaedrus. In recent research is it often suggested that Plato considers appetite (i) to pertain to the essential needs of the body, (ii) to relate to a distinct set of objects, e.g. food or drink, and (iii) to cause behaviour aiming at sensory pleasure. LÄS MER
8. Att ha eller vara kropp? : En textanalytisk studie av skolämnet idrott och hälsa
Sammanfattning : The overall aim of this study is to analyze how the body is understood in the compulsory school subject physical education during the period 1976-2002. With pragmatism as the point of departure the texts of curricula, syllabi and articles from the physical education teacher's specialist press are analyzed. LÄS MER
9. From Her Point of View : Woman's Anti-World in the Poetry of Anna Świrszczyńska
Sammanfattning : This book is a monograph about Anna Świrszczyńska’s poetry. It may be described as one woman’s attempt to read another woman’s literary work by taking into account established canons as well as the tools of feminist literary analysis. Part One begins with a discussion of Świrszczyńska’s biography (Chapter One). LÄS MER
10. Läkare och läkande : läkekonstens professionalisering i Sverige under medeltid och renässans
Sammanfattning : This doctoral thesis examines the arts of healing in the area of present-day Sweden dur¬ing the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (ca. 1100–1600 AD). It focuses on secular arts of healing for the body, rather than magical and religious healing or the cure of the soul. LÄS MER