Sökning: "nature culture anthropology"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 15 avhandlingar innehållade orden nature culture anthropology.

  1. 1. Konsten att leva längre : Föreställningar om livets förändring i handböcker 1700-1930

    Författare :Janicke Andersson; Kenneth Petersson; Inga Sanner; Linköpings universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Ageing; normality; historical sociology; deviance; technologies of the self; nature; culture; science; medicine; health; prolongevity; Åldrande; normalitet; avvikande; självtekniker; natur; kultur; vetenskap; medicin; hälsa; prolongevitet; historisk-sociologi; Social anthropology; Socialantropologi;

    Sammanfattning : The aim of this thesis is to explore discursive changes in conceptions of life course and ageing. I am particularly concerned with the relationship between knowledge and power in the distribution of prolongevity and body- technologies, and as referential frame in the definition of normal and deviant bodies and behaviour. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Huis Ten Bosch: Mimesis and simulation in a Japanese Dutch town

    Författare :Staffan Appelgren; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; anthropology; Japan; mimesis; simulation; simulated environments; ikukan; other space; material culture; modernity; tourism; regional development; Holland; Huis Ten Bosch;

    Sammanfattning : With the advance of capitalism, new communication technology and expansion of mass media, places and culture increasingly tend to be deterritorialized, time and space arrangements are renegotiated, social and cultural relationships are commercialized and commodified. Simulated and themed environments have attracted considerable attention as concrete expressions of "culture in motion". LÄS MER

  4. 3. Natives and their nature : essays on marine mammal conservation, fishing and the anthropology of Iceland

    Författare :Niels Einarsson; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Iceland; fishing; culture; environmentalism; marine mammals; environmental perceptions; fisheries policy; Ethnology; Etnologi;

    Sammanfattning : .... LÄS MER

  5. 4. Constructivism, Essentialism, and the Between : Human Being and Vulnerability in Judith Butler, Steven Pinker and Colin Gunton

    Författare :Joseph Sverker; Mattias Martinson; Katarina Westerlund; Stephen R. Holmes; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Judith Butler; Steven Pinker; Colin Gunton; theological anthropology; social constructivism; social constructionism; biologism; essentialism; biologist essentialism; evolution; school; differentiation; christology; doctrine of the Trinity; interpellation; evolutionary psychology; nature nurture; vulnerability; body; individual; person; individualism; personalism; kenosis; self-giving; recognition; feminism; relational ontology; weak ontology; relations; relationality; time; freedom; performativity; culture; environment; dependence; independence; Systematisk teologi med livsåskådningsforskning; Systematic Theology and Studies in Worldviews;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation explores the division between biology and the social by means of Christian theology. The question is approached by reading and interacting critical theorist Judith Butler, psycholinguist Steven Pinker and theologian Colin Gunton.With Gunton the author argues that a relational, but ‘weak’, ontology is needed. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Nature and Culture in Prehistoric Amazonia : Using G.I.S. to reconstruct ancient ethnogenetic processes from archaeology, linguistics, geography, and ethnohistory

    Författare :Love Eriksen; Humanekologi; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Amazonia; archaeology; linguistics; anthropology; geography; ethnohistory; Arawak; GIS; ethnogenesis; terra preta; pre-Columbian; ethnicity; regional exchange system; material culture;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis investigates the socio-cultural and linguistic development of pre-Columbian Amazonia, with a particular focus on the period between 500 BC and AD 1500. In assembling and analyzing data from archaeology, linguistics, ethnohistory, ethnography, and geography in a Geographical Information System (G.I.S. LÄS MER