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Hittade 3 avhandlingar som matchar ovanstående sökkriterier.

  1. 1. Expeditioner i det förflutna : etnologiska fältarbeten och försvinnande allmogekultur under 1900-talets början

    Författare :Karin Gustavsson; Avdelningen för etnologi; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; building culture; ethnology; history of discipline; fieldworks; technology;

    Sammanfattning : In the first decades of the twentieth century there were fieldwork expeditions in rural Sweden, documenting archaic buildings and villages in words and pictures. These documentation efforts were part of a larger context, where the ambition was to survey and collect all aspects of what was presumed to be a vanishing peasant culture. LÄS MER

  2. 2. The Political Economy of Structural Adjustment. The Case of Cotton, Coffee and Maize Production in Arumeru and Geita District, Tanzania

    Författare :Jonas Ewald; Björn Hettne; Sweden University of Gothenburg; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Structural Adjustment Program; International Political Economy; development; development theory; inclusive growth; rural development; agricultural development; local level; globalization; Tanzania; Geita; Arumeru; Cotton; coffee; Maize; Freds- och utvecklingsstudier; Peace and Development Studies;

    Sammanfattning : This licensiate thesis is based on a number of fieldworks in Arumeru and Geita district during the years 1992-1996, as well as on national level in Tanzania. The aim was to study how the SAPs have affected local level economies, with a specific focus on cash crop (coffee and cotton) vs food crop production, as well as social service provision on local level with a focus on the quantity and quality of health and education. LÄS MER

  3. 3. Lovers of Muhammad : A Study of Naqshbandi-Haqqani Sufis in the Twenty-First Century

    Författare :Simon Stjernholm; Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Sufism; Islam; Britain; Naqshbandi-Haqqani; Shaykh Nazim; Hisham Kabbani; Sufi Muslim Council; transnationalism; discursive tradition; narrative; hagiography; dhikr;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis aims to contribute, both empirically and theoretically, to the field of study within Islamology that concerns contemporary Sufism in non-Muslim majority societies. It does so by investigating how activities and narratives provide meaning and identity for participants in the transnational Sufi movement Naqshbandi-Haqqani. LÄS MER