Sökning: "legal anthropology"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 19 avhandlingar innehållade orden legal anthropology.
1. Politik med andra medel : En antropologisk betraktelse av rättens politiska och ideologiska förhållanden
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2. Call for Protection : Situating Journalists in Post-Cold War Romania in a Global Media Development Discourse
Sammanfattning : This study deals with the development of journalism in post-Cold War Romania, and it does so with a particular interest in the transnational dimension this entails.Many NGOs and international organizations are currently seeking to monitor journalists’ situations in countries around the world, while at the same time aiming at having the whole world aligned with international standards of the journalistic profession. LÄS MER
3. Det förgångna är framtiden : Ursprungsfolk och självbestämmande i Hawai´i
Sammanfattning : The sovereignty- and self-determination movements of indigenous peoples are a salient factor on the political agenda in many western world countries. Indigenous peoples in Hawai´i and elsewhere have become increasingly politicised in hope of changing their relationship with the states within which they are located. LÄS MER
4. The Burden of Responsibility : Predicaments of Environmental Life in the Caraballo Mountains, Northern Philippines
Sammanfattning : Indigenous people are not obviously, or naturally, stewards of the environment. But when the idea that they are such custodians gains legal traction, and when indigenous land-use practices are codified to reflect environmental principles, they become a burden of responsibility that has significant consequences for the lives and the livelihoods of indigenous communities. LÄS MER
5. Multiple meanings of female initiation. "Circumcision" among Jola Women in Lower Casamance, Senegal
Sammanfattning : This anthropological study examines the meanings and practices of female "circumcision" and initiation in relation to identity and social change in contemporary Muslim Jola society, Senegal, West Africa. During the 20th century, clitoridectomy spread - allegedly as part of Islam - and became essential for a Jola woman's identity as a "real" woman and mother, and an important aspect of the women's initiation ritual. LÄS MER