Search for dissertations about: "SOCIAL SCIENCES Social sciences Social anthropology ethnography"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 42 swedish dissertations containing the words SOCIAL SCIENCES Social sciences Social anthropology ethnography.

  2. 21. Only for You! : Brazilians and the Telenovela Flow

    Author : Thaïs Machado-Borges; Ruth Mandel; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Social anthropology ethnography; Socialantrolopologi etnografi; Media and communication studies; Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap;

    Abstract : Only For You! Brazilians and the Telenovela Flow is an anthropological study of the reception of a popular and commercial mass-media product – Brazilian "soap-operas," or telenovelas. Telenovelas are broadcast throughout Brazil six days a week, at prime-time. They attract an audience of more than forty million viewers, every day. READ MORE

  4. 22. Twenty Girls : Growing Up, Ethnicity and Excitement

    Author : Helena Wulff; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; ungdomskultur ; etnicitet ; vänskap ; tonårsflickor ; mikrokultur ; Social anthropology ethnography; Socialantrolopologi etnografi;

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

    Author : Christopher Kindblad; Sociologi; []
    Keywords : 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;

    Abstract : 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. READ MORE

  6. 24. The Failure of Civil Society? : An Ethnography of NPOS and The State In Comtemporary Japan

    Author : Akihiro Ogawa; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Social anthropology ethnography; Socialantrolopologi etnografi; Japanology; Japanologi;

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  7. 25. Family theme parks, happiness and children’s consumption : From roller-coasters to Pippi Longstocking

    Author : David Cardell; Anna Sparrman; Tom O’Dell; Cook Daniel Thomas; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Happy; emotions; childhood; time; money; value; amusement park; leisure; tourism; mesh; ethnography; Nöjespark; temapark; glädje; nöje; känslor; etnografi; fritid; turism; värde; konsumtion; barn; barndom; familj;

    Abstract : This book provides an ethnographic contribution to research on children’s consumption, family life and happiness. Various and shifting notions of happiness are explored, as well as conditions for and challenges to happiness, through an analysis of video-recorded interviews and mobile ethnography conducted in two of the most popular theme parks in Sweden. READ MORE