Search for dissertations about: "Kulturantropologi"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 90 swedish dissertations containing the word Kulturantropologi.

2. 6. Just Labor : Labor Ethic in a Post-Soviet Reindeer Herding Community

   Author : Vladislava Vladimirova; Hugh Beach; Piers Vitebsky; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : Cultural anthropology; labor ethic; reindeer herding; ethnic obshchina; postsocialism; sovkhoism; Kola Peninsula; Russian Sami; Kulturantropologi; kulturantropologi; Cultural Anthropology;

   Abstract : This book explores the main ethical norms that influence labor in reindeer herding in the European part of the Russian North (Murmansk Region). It is based on the assumption that Soviet ideological discourse of labor has been reinterpreted in practice, and has shaped specific patterns of work that may seem contradictory to their official source. READ MORE

4. 7. Negotiating Involuntary Resettlement : A study of local bargaining during the construction of the Zimapán dam

   Author : Inga-Lill Aronsson; Jan-Åke Alvarsson; Lucia Ann McSpadden; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Ethnology; Mexico; resettlement; displacement; peasants; negotiations; time; space; development; Etnologi; Ethnology; Etnologi; Kulturantropologi; Cultural Anthropology;

   Abstract : This dissertation seeks to present and analyze the negotiation process between the Mexican Power Board (CFE) and the peasants of Ejido Vista Hermosa, who were displaced by the building of the Zimapán dam in central Mexico. I use these negotiations as a focal point to identify the strategies, the reasoning, the priorities, and the conflicts of interest of the two main actors in the resettlement project. READ MORE

5. 8. Bad Guys, Good Life : An Ethnography of Morality and Change in Kisekka Market (Kampala, Uganda)

   Author : Anna Baral; Sverker Finnström; Filip De Boeck; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Morality; Ethics; Urban planning; Informality; Bayaaye; Everyday life; Agency; Masculinity; Uganda; Buganda; Kulturantropologi; Cultural Anthropology;

   Abstract : Based on ethnographic data gathered over a period of almost three years, this dissertation scrutinizes the everyday lives of informal workers selling auto parts in Kisekka Market, central Kampala. Its ambition is to understand how the workers navigated a highly moralized environment in today’s Uganda, where the supposed moral deterioration of society is passionately discussed in public and in private. READ MORE

6. 9. The Power of Being : A Study of Poverty, Fertility and Sexuality among the Kuria in Kenya and Tanzania

   Author : Ann-Britt Bernhardsdotter; William E. Arens; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Ethnology; Kuria; Kenya and Tanzania; power; abuse of power; poverty; stratification mechanisms; sexuality; prostitution; woman marriage; justice; Etnologi; Ethnology; Etnologi; Kulturantropologi; Cultural Anthropology;

   Abstract : The study is concerned with power based on ‘being’, which is the thread running through the entire thesis. The extended family is the focal point and three themes, interrelated in Kuria society, are explored, namely, poverty, sexuality and fertility. READ MORE

7. 10. Diaspora at Home? : Wartime Mobilities in the Burkina Faso-Côte d'Ivoire Transnational Space

   Author : Jesper Bjarnesen; Sten Hagberg; Mats Utas; Joseph Hellweg; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Wartime mobilities; home; transnational space; diaspora; urban anthropology; West Africa; conflict; return; migration; youth; intergenerational relations; Kulturantropologi; Cultural Anthropology;

   Abstract : In the period 1999-2007, more than half a million Burkinabe returned to Burkina Faso due to the persecution of immigrant labourers in neighbouring Côte d’Ivoire. Ultranationalist debates about the criteria for Ivorian citizenship had intensified during the 1990s and led to the scapegoating of immigrants in a political rhetoric centred on notions of autochthony and xenophobia. READ MORE