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Visar resultat 11 - 15 av 42 avhandlingar innehållade ordet folklore.
11. Revoicing Sámi narratives : north Sámi storytelling at the turn of the 20th century
Sammanfattning : Revoicing Sámi narratives investigates the relationship between storytellers, contexts and collective tradition, based on an analysis of North Sámi narratives published in the early 1900s. This dissertation “revoices” narratives by highlighting the coexistence of different voices or socio-ideological languages in repertoires and by considering Sámi narratives as utterances by storytellers rather than autonomous products of tradition. LÄS MER
12. Studier över nordsvenska ortsboöknamn
Sammanfattning : This thesis deals with collective nicknames denoting the inhabitants of a place (parish, village etc.) in northern Sweden, i.e. names of the type arnästjuvar (denoting the inhabitants of the parish of Arnäs; tjuv 'thief') and tynderötuppar (denoting the inhabitants of the parish of Tynderö; tupp 'cock'). LÄS MER
13. Mors Dag och Halloween : Festseder i förändring
Sammanfattning : This dissertation strives to describe and analyse two celebrations imported from USA in the 20th century, namely Mother's Day at the beginning of the century and Halloween towards the end. What were the reasons for their succesfull introduction and, in the case of Mother's Day, continuous life in Sweden? My objective is to analyse this using the tool "spirit of the age". LÄS MER
14. Straffansvar och modern brottslighet. En idékritisk studie av straffansvar för juridiska personer
Sammanfattning : This thesis seeks to explore critically the idea of corporate criminal responsibility. The criminal responsibility of corporations is constructed as a criminal responsibility of legal persons. LÄS MER
15. Slippery paths : The performance and canonization of Turkic literature and Uyghur muqam song in Islam and modernity
Sammanfattning : In the past forty years the fluid Uyghur muqam song tradition has been transformed into a cultural canon used to represent the Uyghur ethnic group within China and on the world stage. Traditional muqam performers have provided the magma of songs that scholars and politicians have edited into an invented "great tradition" which supports a Uyghur claim to an important piece world cultural history. LÄS MER