Sökning: "reciprocal ethnography"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 6 avhandlingar innehållade orden reciprocal ethnography.
1. Performing Numbers : An Ethnography of Numbers in Everyday Organisational Life
Sammanfattning : This thesis presents a study of the interplay between what numbers do and what people do with numbers in everyday organisational life. Couched in an ethnographic perspective, the study draws on rich empirical material crafted from participant observations conducted at a Scandinavian hospital. LÄS MER
2. Gift and Exchange in the Reciprocal Regime of the Miskito on the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua, 20th Century
Sammanfattning : This dissertation is a historical-comparative analysis of a conflict that has developed in the economic system of the Miskito in the 20th century, concerning the use of common property resources. The study is based on empirical material collected in a Miskito/Creole village on the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua in the 1990s. LÄS MER
3. Elderly South Africans' in transition : the daily life circumstances, beliefs concerning health and illness and the influences on caring and family structure
Sammanfattning : The overall aim of this thesis was to shed light on different aspects of elderly South Africans experiences in a transitional period in order to reach culturally contextual knowledge within gerontological care. The research objectives were to: identify and describe daily life and related concerns and interests as expressed by a group of elderly (I), illuminate how a group of elderly South Africans experience being old in a transitional period (II), study how a group of aged South Africans and their family members describe their intergenerational relations in a transitional period i. LÄS MER
4. Schartauansk kvinnofromhet i tjugonde seklet : En religionsetnologisk studie
Sammanfattning : This dissertation analyzes how a Christian belief affects and is expressed in thedaily lives of laywomen. Material exists, which covers the theological and priest'sperspectives and gives insight into the teachings of Schartauanism. No researchabout the laypeople was to be found. To find information about laywomen I gathered biographical material. LÄS MER
5. På spaning i Stockholm : En etnologisk studie av polisarbete
Sammanfattning : This thesis forms a study of the work of an investigative intelligence group within the Stockholm police during the 1990s. The aim is to research how a group of detectives worked out their assignments and created a meaningful work situation given the conditions and scope of the police organisation. LÄS MER