Sökning: "world mastery"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 8 avhandlingar innehållade orden world mastery.

  1. 1. Staging the world. Rome and the other in the triumphal procession

    Författare :Ida Östenberg; Antikens kultur och samhällsliv; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; world mastery; kings; barbarians; conquest; aerarium; wealth; triumphator; representations; captives; spoils; enargeia; spectators; display; role-playing; processional sequence; self-definition; the other; ritual; performance; Rome; triumphal procession; oikumene.; Ancient history; Antikens och forntidens historia;

    Sammanfattning : The triumphal procession staged Roman conquest and supremacy, featuring the defeated ‘other’ as opposed to the victorious ‘self’ in a rather fixed role-playing. This thesis takes as its theoretical premise that these ritually recurrent and visually emphatic processions both conveyed and constructed Roman views of the self and the other, and that they can be studied as formative expressions of such conceptions. LÄS MER

  2. 2. "Det är månen att nå- " : en studie i några datorintresserade pojkars språk och föreställningsvärld

    Författare :Eva Erson; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Wittgenstein; philosophy of language; the moving example; computers; mastery; masculinist language game; hierarchization; dichotomization; power; control; Wittgenstein; Ludwig; 1889-1951; Programspråk;

    Sammanfattning : The aim of this thesis is to describe some central conceptual ideas expressed in the language of six computer interested boys. The starting-point is the philosophy of language of Ludwig Wittgenstein, where language is seen as something deeply integrated in our practices, traditions and culture. The use of our language shows its meaning. LÄS MER

  3. 3. Learning to live with diabetes : as experiencing an expanding life world

    Författare :Åsa Kneck; Birgitta Klang; Ingegerd Fagerberg; Regina Wredling; Karolinska institutet; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
    Nyckelord :MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Illness experience; Transition; Learning; Diabetes mellitus; Life world; Phenonenological hermeneutic; Lived body; Patient perspective; Illness and disease; Chronic illness; Lived experience; illness experience;

    Sammanfattning : Introduction: Chronic illness, such as diabetes, results in a transition process involving a variety of changes in both bodily function and conditions for living, and requiring broad knowledge and understanding in order to meet new demands. The outcomes of a healthy transition are described as well-being and mastery, in contrast to vulnerability and dependency. LÄS MER

  4. 4. Shunters at work : creating a world in a railway yard

    Författare :Birgitta Edelman; Tim Ingold; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Social anthropology; Socialantropologi; Social Anthropology; socialantropologi;

    Sammanfattning : Skills, and particularly manual skills, are often seen as acquired through unquestioning practice and drill. This is an ethnographic account of a group of railway workers, called shunters, who are occupied with the manual task of assembling carriages into trains. LÄS MER

  5. 5. Avatar : saving lives in virtual worlds

    Författare :Johan Creutzfeldt; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
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    Sammanfattning : In medicine, education and recurrent training is fundamental for efficient and safe care. In emergency situations one has to rely on robust protocols that reduce the risk for errors. LÄS MER