Sökning: "tragedy"

Visar resultat 11 - 15 av 46 avhandlingar innehållade ordet tragedy.

1. 11. Shell Age Economics : Marine Gathering in the Kingdom of Tonga, Polynesia

   Författare :Thomas Malm; Humanekologi; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; chieftainship; cosmology; demography; marine tenure systems; tragedy of the commons ; seaweeds; marine invertebrates; gender roles; indigenous knowledge; maritime anthropology; Tongans; Tonga; Oceania; Polynesia; totemism; Cultural anthropology; ethnology; Kulturantropologi; etnologi;

   Sammanfattning : This monograph analyses marine gathering in the Polynesian Kingdom of Tonga from ecological, social and cognitive perspectives. The overarching issues explored are (1) the significance of marine gathering in the past and present, (2) how seaweeds and marine invertebrates have been perceived, classified, named and used, (3) how they have been implicated in social relations, and (4) how the integration of the islands into the modern world system has affected the marine environment and the exploitation of its resources. LÄS MER

3. 12. Environmental Research as a Tool for Change : Theoretical and methodological implications from two case studies producing knowledge for environmentally sustainable housing

   Författare :Susanna Elfors; Örjan Svane; Per G. Berg; KTH; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Action Research; housing; environmental sustainability; Situation of Opportunity; Tragedy of the Commons; Settlement studies; Bebyggelseforskning;

   Sammanfattning : The theme of this thesis is environmental research as a tool for change. In the first part of the thesis a “Situation of Opportunity” is studied, i.e. a situation when the opportunities to reduce negative environmental impacts are larger than usual. LÄS MER

4. 13. Gift and Exchange in the Reciprocal Regime of the Miskito on the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua, 20th Century

   Författare :Christopher Kindblad; Sociologi; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; analogic code; digital code; tragedy of the commons; egalitarian norms; entrepreneurship; symbolic transformations; long-term gift; short-term exchange; reciprocal regime; Tasbapauni; Nicaragua; Miskito; paradox; Sociology; Social and economic history; Sociologi; Ekonomisk och social historia; Miskito; Social anthropology ethnography;

   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

5. 14. Studien zu Jacob Baldes Jephtias. Ein jesuitisches Meditationsdrama aus der Zeit der Gegenreformation

   Författare :Heidrun Führer; Intermediala studier; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Dramatic art; Latinska språket; Latin language; meditation drama; emblem; counter reformation; Jesuit schools; baroque drama; Jesuit drama; Teatervetenskap;

   Sammanfattning : The German poet Jacob Balde (1604-1668) chose a biblical human sacrifice as subject for his tragedy "Jephtias" intended to be performed at a Jesuit school. Jephthah, the judge, had to sacrifice his own daughter due to a vow given before the war against the Ammonites. LÄS MER

7. 15. Tecknets tragedi : Symbol och allegori i Atterboms sagospel Lycksalighetens ö : [symbol and allegory in Atterboms fairytale play The Island of Felicity]

   Författare :Otto Fischer; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Literature; romanticism; symbol; allegory; F.W.J. Schelling; Karl Philipp Moritz; new mythology; german idealism; semiotics; romantic drama; poetics; aesthetics; Litteraturvetenskap; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap; Literature; litteraturvetenskap;

   Sammanfattning : This study deals with the concepts of symbol and allegory in Idealist/Romantic aesthetic doctrine, with special consideration given to one of the principal works of Swedish Romantic literature, P.D.A. Atterbom's fairytale play Lycksalighetens ö (The island of Felicity). LÄS MER