Sökning: "commodity form"

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  1. 1. Travelling objects : modernity and materiality in British Colonial travel literature about Africa

    Författare :Nicklas Hållen; Heidi Hansson; Stefan Helgesson; Tim Youngs; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; travel literature; Africa; modernity; materiality; material objects; things; commodity form; commodity culture; postcolonialism; Homi Bhabha; museums; exhibitions; colonialism; geography; space; trade; ethnography; the book; ambivalence; subject-object relations; fetishism; John Speke; Verney Cameron; Henry Stanley; Mary Kingsley; Ewart Grogan; Constance Larymore; Mary Hall; English language; Engelska språket; Literature; litteraturvetenskap; English literature; Comparative literature; Historia;

    Sammanfattning : This study examines the functions of objects in a selection of British colonial travel accounts about Africa. The works discussed were published between 1863 and 1908 and include travelogues by John Hanning Speke, Verney Lovett Cameron, Henry Morton Stanley, Mary Henrietta Kingsley, Ewart Scott Grogan, Mary Hall and Constance Larymore. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Framkallning : Skrift, konsumtion och sexualitet i Karin Boyes Astarte och Henry Parlands Sönder

    Författare :Caroline Haux; Ulf Olsson; Mats Jansson; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; writing; commodity; consumption; media analysis; gender; sexuality; Karin Boye; Henry Parland; skrift; varuform; konsumtion; medier; genus; sexualitet; Karin Boye; Henry Parland; Literature; litteraturvetenskap;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis is a comparative study in two novels which both try to understand modern life. The novels were both written between 1929 and 1930 as entries for the same major Nordic novel contest – Astarte in Sweden by Karin Boye, Sönder [To Pieces ]in Finland by the Finno-swedish author Henry Parland. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Romanen som vardagsvara : Förläggare, författare och skönlitterära häftesserier i Sverige 1833-1851 från Lars Johan Hierta till Albert Bonnier

    Författare :Gunnel Furuland; Johan Svedjedal; Marie-Christine Skuncke; David Gedin; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :Literature; Sociology of literature; Publishing history; Publisher; Bookseller; Book history; Popular reading; History of authorship; Female novelists; Typography; Lars Johan Hierta; Niklas Hans son Thomson; Carl Erik Östlund; Frans Theodor Berling; Albert Bonnier; Litteraturvetenskap; Literature; litteraturvetenskap;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation is a study of four Swedish publishing houses and the serialized fiction they published between 1833 and 1851. The focus is on Lars Johan Hierta’s Läsebibliothek (Readers’ Library) 1833–1851, N.H. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Entropy, information theory and spatial input-output analysis

    Författare :David F. Batten; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Commodity flows; dynamic analysis; entropy; information theory; input-output analysis; probability distributions; regional and interregional modelling;

    Sammanfattning : Interindustry transactions recorded at a macro level are simply summations of commodity shipment decisions taken at a micro level. The resulting statistical problem is to obtain minimally biased estimates of commodity flow distributions at the disaggregated level, given various forms of aggregated information. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Ett paradis för alla. Epa mellan folkhem och förförelse

    Författare :Cecilia Fredriksson; Institutionen för tjänstevetenskap; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; intimization; commodity aesthetics; gender; class; cultural learning processes; shoplifting; mass sales; modernity; Department store; consumption; cultural epithet; Cultural anthropology; ethnology; Kulturantropologi; etnologi;

    Sammanfattning : A Paradise for All. Epa between the People's Home and Seduction. This dissertation is about the Epa department store chain, which existed in Sweden from 1930 to 1977. For many people, Epa was an arena for meeting modernity. LÄS MER