Search for dissertations about: "Etnologi"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 155 swedish dissertations containing the word Etnologi.

2. 16. Tinkering Care Moves : Senior Home Care in Practice

   Author : Peter A. Lutz; Mats Utas; Klaus Lindgaard Hoeyer; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; care moves; tinkering; senior home care; Sweden; United States; Vårdvetenskap; Caring Sciences; Kulturantropologi; Cultural Anthropology; Etnologi; Ethnology; Health Care Research; Hälso- och sjukvårdsforskning; Human-Computer Interaction; Människa-dator interaktion; Medical Informatics; Medicinsk informatik;

   Abstract : This dissertation builds on the current anthropological studies of care relations in practice. It draws inspiration from science and technology studies (STS) and postfeminist technoscience. A qualitative ethnographic approach grounds the empirical data collection and analysis. READ MORE

4. 17. An Unpredictable Past : Guerrillas, Mayas, and the Location of Oblivion in War-Torn Guatemala

   Author : Staffan Löfving; Kay B. Warren; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Ethnology; cosmology; Guatemala; guerrilla warfare and indigeneity; historicity; Maya resurgence; neutrality; politicization of memory; the anthropology of war; theories of social and political violence; Etnologi; Ethnology; Etnologi; kulturantropologi; Cultural Anthropology;

   Abstract : The concept of resistance is analytically outdated. In an emergent anthropology of contemporary warfare and the experience of political violence, concepts like coping and negotiation are adopted to encompass the pragmatics of human agency in times of social unrest, flight, and militarily monitored mass destruction. READ MORE

5. 18. War within : Everyday life in Sarajevo under siege

   Author : Ivana Macek; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Ethnology; Bosnia and Hercegovina; Sarajevo; war; ethnic conflict; ethnic relations; nationalism; identity; anthropology of war; former Yugoslavia; Etnologi; Ethnology; Etnologi; Kulturantropologi; Cultural Anthropology;

   Abstract : In this ethnography of the war in Bosnia, the author examines the ways in which thepeople of Sarajevo negotiated the meaning of normality in their everyday lives, which became dominated by the war situation and the siege of the town. The study explores the ways of dealing with everyday threat to life, ways of providing the subsistence, changes in social relations, and the role of religion and ethnic traditions in the process of constituting national identities. READ MORE

6. 19. No peace of mind : The Tibetan diaspora in India

   Author : Åsa Tiljander Dahlström; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Ethnology; belonging; conflict; diaspora; home; migration; narrative; Tibet; Etnologi; Ethnology; Etnologi; Kulturantropologi; Cultural Anthropology;

   Abstract : The study deals with senses of collective and individual belonging among Tibetans, in relation to 'home', 'homeland' and 'diaspora'; it discusses how conflicting ways of constructing notions of collective identity makes it relevant to see the Tibetan diaspora as a Geography of conflict. The point of departure is that the diaspora is affected by many internal conflicts. READ MORE

7. 20. Painful legacy of World War II: Nazi forced enlistment : Alsatian/Mosellan Prisoners of War and the Soviet Prison Camp of Tambov

   Author : Florence Fröhlig; Mats Lindqvist; Barbro Blehr; Susanne Nylund Skog; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Legacy of World War II; forced conscription; prisoners of war; Alsace Moselle; Soviet prison camp; internment; captivity; Tambov; traumatic experiences; construction of silence; family of remembrance; master narrative; pilgrimage; dark tourism; Ethnology; etnologi;

   Abstract : This dissertation concerns the legacy of the Nazi forced enlistment during World War II and focuses more precisely on the case of Alsace/Moselle. Many of these French men, enlisted by force from 1942 in the German army, were sent to the Eastern Front and experienced Soviet prison camps. READ MORE