Sökning: "physical anthropology"

Visar resultat 21 - 25 av 36 avhandlingar innehållade orden physical anthropology.

  1. 21. Göra gatan. Om gränser och kryphål på Möllevången och i Kapstaden

    Författare :Elisabeth Högdahl; Avdelningen för konsthistoria och visuella studier; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Michel Foucault; Hannah Arendt; Michel de Certeau; powerlessness; power; loophole; third world; first world; situation; media; narrative; space; place; multi-cultural; apartheid; practice; discourse; Long Street; Woodstock; Cape Town; Malmö; Möllevången; Cultural anthropology; ethnology; Kulturantropologi; etnologi;

    Sammanfattning : The dissertation is an ethnographic study focusing on two cities, Malmö in Sweden and Cape Town in South Africa. More specifically it focuses on three areas; the neighbourhoods Möllevången and Woodstock close to the respective city centres, and the street Long Street in the very heart of Cape Town central business district. LÄS MER

  3. 22. Jeg vet jeg er annerledes - men ikke bestandig : En antropologisk studie av hverdagslivet til fem personer med psykisk utviklingshemming : [an anthropological study of the everyday life of five persons with intellectual disability]

    Författare :Marit Sundet; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Ethnology; disability; culture; institution; normality; social values; classification; individual and group; Etnologi; Ethnology; Etnologi; Kulturantropologi; Cultural Anthropology;

    Sammanfattning : This is an anthropological study of the everyday lives of five individuals with intellectual disability.A particular period of their lives has been investigated through participant observation and interviews. LÄS MER

  4. 23. Vägen till vinnarcirkeln. Travhästen och dess människor mellan sport och spel

    Författare :Sara Berglund; Avdelningen för etnologi; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; harness racing; trotting; horse; gambling; competition; sport; training; breeding; pedigree; sportification; totalizator; quantification; organisation; cloning; insemination; etnologi; Kulturantropologi; Cultural anthropology; naming; ethnology; kinship;

    Sammanfattning : The way we understand and treat our horses, like the purpose for which they are bred, is culturally conditioned. The transition between differing social formations involves not only new life circumstances for people and animals, but also changed social modes of relating between them. LÄS MER

  5. 24. Preserving Impermanence : The Creation of Heritage in Vientiane, Laos

    Författare :Anna Karlström; Paul Sinclair; Frands Herschend; Beverley Butler; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Vientiane; Laos; heritage; impermanence; preservation; restoration; destruction; immateriality; materiality; narrativity; Buddhism; animism; Archaeology subjects; Arkeologiämnen; arkeologi; Archaeology; kulturantropologi; Cultural Anthropology; Ethnology; etnologi; historia; History;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis is about the heritage in Vientiane. In an attempt to go beyond a more traditional descriptive approach, the study aims at bringing forward a discussion about the definition, or rather the multiplicity of definitions, of the concept of heritage as such. LÄS MER

  7. 25. En bonadsmålare och hans värld. Johannes Nilsson i Breared

    Författare :Elisabeth Berglin; Avdelningen för etnologi; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; painted wall hangings; folk art; imitation; change; hermeneutics; historical reconstruction; biographical method; contextualization; social memory; illiteracy; narratives; genre analysis; revivalist ideas; Kulturantropologi; text; etnologi; ethnology; Cultural anthropology;

    Sammanfattning : The aim of this dissertation is to find relationships between folk art, an artist's personal life and influential factors originating in the context. Christmas wall hangings by the peasant painter Johannes Nilsson (1757­1827) are the focus of the study. LÄS MER