Search for dissertations about: "Cultural tradition"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 108 swedish dissertations containing the words Cultural tradition.

2. 1. Bodily Practices and Medical Identities in Southern Thailand

   Author : Claudia Merli; Ing-Britt Trankell; Jan Ovesen; Rosalind C. Morris; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Cultural anthropology; biopolitics; minorities; Muslims; Southern Thailand; childbirth; medical practices; circumcision; embodiment; Kulturantropologi; Kulturantropologi; Cultural Anthropology;

   Abstract : This study explores contemporary practices concerning women’s and children’s bodies, with a special focus on postpartum practices, the treatment of the afterbirth and its cosmological dimensions, and male and female circumcision. At the intersection between traditional midwifery and modern medicine, Muslim women cross the boundaries between different cosmologies and medical systems. READ MORE

4. 2. Cognition and Cultural Context : An Inquiry into Gadamer's Theory of Context-Dependence

   Author : Anders Odenstedt; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Context-dependence; presupposition; tradition; historicism; hermeneutics; Gadamer; Dilthey; Heidegger; Theoretical philosophy; Teoretisk filosofi;

   Abstract : This study deals with the problem of the context-dependence of thought, as dealt with by the German philosopher Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900-2002). Gadamer stresses what he sees as the difficulty of bringing to awareness and criticising influences which preserve such dependence, and the role of traditions (Überlieferungen) in this regard. READ MORE

5. 3. The performance of tradition : An ethnography of Hira Gasy popular theatre in Madagascar

   Author : Ingela Edkvist; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Ethnology; Etnologi; Ethnology; Etnologi; Kulturantropologi; Cultural Anthropology;

   Abstract : This study deals with the popular theatre performance of Hira Gasy, and its actors andaudiences in the central highland regions of Imerina and northern Betsileo in Madagascar. The Hira Gasy has developed from a court to a rural performance during the last two centuries, a period influenced by first the British and then by the French presence in the country. READ MORE

6. 4. A Landscape of Left-Overs : Changing Conceptions of Place and Environment among Mi'kmaq Indians of Eastern Canada

   Author : Anne-Christine Hornborg; Religionshistoria och religionsbeteendevetenskap; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; animism; traditional ecological knowledge; biocentrism; ecological ethics; environmental relations; being-in-the-world; lifeworlds; phenomenology; power; oral tradition; Kluskap; culture hero; tradition; Canada; Mi’kmaq Indians; Nova Scotia; sacred places; landscape; nature vs. culture; Cultural anthropology; ethnology; Kulturantropologi; etnologi; Canadian Mi kmaq Indians; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

   Abstract : This dissertation seeks to explore historical changes in the lifeworld of the Mi’kmaq Indians of Eastern Canada. The Mi’kmaq culture hero Kluskap here serves as a key persona in discussing issues such as traditions, changing conceptions of land, and human-environmental relations. READ MORE

7. 5. (Un)bearable freedom : Exploring the becoming of the artist in education, work and family life

   Author : Sofia Lindström; Erling Bjurström; Marita Flisbäck; Stephanie Taylor; Linköpings universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Cultural work; visual artists; subjectivity; discourse analysis; narrative analysis; Konstnärligt arbete; bildkonstnärer; subjektivitet; diskursanalys; narrativ analys;

   Abstract : The aim of this dissertation is to explore and understand three important social contexts for the becoming of an artistic subjectivity: education, work and family life. The empirical data consist of interview material with alumni from the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm, staff of the institute, and a survey material from the Swedish National Artists Organization (KRO/KIF). READ MORE