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Visar resultat 6 - 10 av 23 avhandlingar innehållade ordet emic.
6. The Legacy of the Jaguar Prophet : An Exploration of Yucatec Maya Religion and Historiography
Sammanfattning : This thesis deals with Maya religion and history. The Books of Chilam Balam is the collective title of a body of texts ascribed to the Jaguar Prophet. LÄS MER
7. “And I don’t know who we really are to each other” : Queers doing close relationships in Estonia
Sammanfattning : This dissertation explores the ways in which queers understand and practice close relationships in the political, economic and cultural circumstances of contemporary Estonia. The study draws on qualitative methods from sociology and anthropology and is situated at the intersection of queer studies, de/post-colonial studies, family and kinship studies. LÄS MER
8. Heterosexual Havana : Ideals and hierarchies of gender and sexuality in contemporary Cuba
Sammanfattning : Drawing on two periods of ethnographic fieldwork in Vedado, Havana, in 2004–2007, this dissertation analyses the interconnections between gender, sexuality, and heterosexuality. With theoretical inspiration from the works of Stevi Jackson and Beverley Skeggs, it discusses how the logics underlying heterosexual relations also regulate hierarchical gendered ideals. LÄS MER
9. I tweet like I talk : Aspects of speech and writing on Twitter
Sammanfattning : This dissertation investigates linguistic and metalinguistic practices in everyday Twitter discourse in relation to aspects of speech and writing. The overarching aim is to investigate how the spoken–written interface is reconfigured in the digital writing spaces of social media. LÄS MER
10. The materiality of serial practice : a microarchaeology of burial : (Materialitet i seriell praktik. En mikroarkeologisk gravanalys)
Sammanfattning : The main concern of the thesis is the question of how to deal with matters of social heterogeneity in prehistory. A social reading of psychoanalytic theory of e.g. Jacques Lacan suggests that social heterogeneity generally is more likely than homogeneity in most social formations. LÄS MER