Sökning: "initiation stories"

Hittade 3 avhandlingar innehållade orden initiation stories.

  1. 1. Identity through the other : Canadian adventure romance for adolescents

    Författare :Clarence Larsson; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Adventure romance; quest for identity; unit of the monomyth; Canadian North; polarized worlds; myths; first and second-order system; psychological discourse; cultural critique; vicarious rite of passage; Hughes; Monica Hughes; Houston; James Houston; Markoosie; Kanadensisk barn- och ungdomslitteratur; Kanadensiska äventyrsromaner; historia;

    Sammanfattning : This study of Canadian adventure romance for adolescents seeks to demonstrate the cultural significance of the genre through close readings of James Houston's Frozen Fire and The White Archer, Monica Hughes's Hunter in the Dark and Ring-Rise, Ring-Set, as well as Markoosie's Harpoon of the Hunter. By means of a semiotic-structuralist approach I examine the texts as a signifying system conveying discourses that constitute a code of connection to the social context of contemporary young-adult readers. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Dihte gievrie – det vi möter i respekt : Berättelser om en sydsamisk trumma

    Författare :Åsa Virdi Kroik; Nils Billing; Mikael Kurkiala; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :Indigenous Studies; Indigenous Methodologies; Religion; Sami; Samer; urfolksmetodologi; Kulturantropologi; Cultural Anthropology; Religionshistoria; History of Religions;

    Sammanfattning : In 2010, five people made an unusual find: an old gievrie, a South Sami drum. They found it in the landscape near the village of Røyrvik, in the Norwegian part of Saepmie, close to the national border with Sweden. According to Norwegian law, such a find should be reported, and the item handed over to the authorities. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Listening to the story of the rock mass : The integration of conventional and unconventional data to understand rock mass behaviour at the Kiirunavaara Mine

    Författare :Jessica Vatcher; Stephen D McKinnon; Jonny Sjöberg; Dick Stacey; Luleå tekniska universitet; []
    Nyckelord :TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Mining and Rock Engineering; Gruv- och Berganläggningsteknik;

    Sammanfattning : The need to understand rock mass behaviour has never been greater; as mining globally progresses deeper to extract the precious resources humankind needs to maintain and forward our lives, we encounter rock behaviours associated with deep mining. These environments typically experience seismicity (including fault slip), rock bursting, strain bursting, spalling, aseismic movement along pre-existing discontinuities, and ground falls. LÄS MER