Sökning: "place and tradition"

Visar resultat 11 - 15 av 158 avhandlingar innehållade orden place and tradition.

1. 11. The Kakure Kirishitan of Ikitsuki Island : The End of a Tradition

   Författare :Kristian Pella; Lena Roos; Kentaro Miyazaki; Mark Teuween; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Acculturation; Christianity; folk religion; gozensama; Ikitsuki; Japan; Kakure; Kakure Kirishitan; Kirishitan; Kirishitanism; Maria-Kannon; Senpuku; syncretism; tradition; tsumoto; underground Christian; Virgin Mary; Xavier.; Religionshistoria; History of Religions;

   Sammanfattning : The organization of the Kakure Kirishitan of Ikitsuki Island remained relatively intact until the end of the 1990s. Today it seems that this tradition is approaching its end. The Kakure Kirishitan have become a rapidly vanishing minority since much of the organized activities on the island have ceased to take place during the last decade. LÄS MER

3. 12. Från järnvägsstation till kommunikationsnod

   Författare :Aram Bakerson; Chalmers tekniska högskola; []
   Nyckelord :NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

   Sammanfattning : AbstractIn organizational terms train stations were for a long period of time a component of railway transportation. Therefore during the crisis period for railways after the Second World War the stations did not often receive the attention and the resources they deserved. LÄS MER

4. 13. Power, Person, and Place : Tradition, Modernity, and Environment in the United Arab Emirates

   Författare :Pernilla Ouis; Humanekologi; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; ecological modernization; environmentalism; phenomenology; Bedouin identity; camel pastoralism; dependency; theories of value; unequal exchange; extractive economy; oil; pearls; social constructionism; Islam; modernization; United Arab Emirates; Human Ecology; glocalization; reflexivity.; Social geography; Socialgeografi;

   Sammanfattning : The thesis investigates human-environmental relations in the rapidly modernizing United Arab Emirates, a federation of seven Arabian Gulf sheikhdoms. Since its establishment in 1971, the UAE has been transformed from a subsistence society based mainly on pastoralism and maritime activities (fishing, pearling, and trade) into an ultramodern society, with an economy based on the export of fossil fuels. LÄS MER

5. 14. Singular ortnamnsböjning i fornsvenskan : Starkt böjda namn med utgångspunkt från sörmländskt material

   Författare :Eva Brylla; Svenska ortnamnsarkivet (SOA); []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Scandinavian languages; Old Swedish; morphology; proper names; place-names; ortnamn; fornsvenska språket; Name Care and Name Planning; Namnforskning; Place Names; Ortnamn;

   Sammanfattning : This study focuses primarily on the inflection of singular place-names belonging to strong declensions and how their inflection developed in the Old Swedish period. It is based mainly on sources from Södermanland. LÄS MER

7. 15. Att berätta i tid och rum : människans unika värde och dess upplösning i Dostoevskijs och Petrusevskajas berättarkonst

   Författare :Johanna Lindbladh; Språk- och litteraturcentrum; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; literary theory; literature criticism; General and comparative literature; time and space; Dostoevskij and Petruševskaja; dialogue; narrative; Unique centre of worth; irrevocable chain of events; Allmän och jämförande litteratur; litteraturkritik; litteraturteori; Baltic and Slavonic languages and literatures; Baltiska och slaviska språk språk och litteratur ;

   Sammanfattning : Taking Fëdor Dostoevskij’s and Ljudmila Petrusevskaja’s writings as its starting point, this dissertation explores two different forms of disintegration of worth. In both cases, a world is described where human beings have lost contact with a unique centre of worth – a position in space linked to an irrevocable course of events in time. LÄS MER