Search for dissertations about: "Village"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 151 swedish dissertations containing the word Village.

  2. 21. Ambiguous Hopes : An Ethnographic Study of Agricultural Modernisation in a Rwandan village

    Author : Anna Berglund; Socialantropologi; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Rwanda; poverty; cooperatives; subsistence agriculture; policy implementation;

    Abstract : Since 2006, Rwanda has been implementing policies to modernize the agricultural sector, with the aim of moving from small-scale subsistence farming to modern, market-oriented farming. Under these policies, small-scale farmers have been compelled to abandon their traditional farming practices and adapt to monocropping of state-approved crops on consolidated land. READ MORE

  4. 22. From nobody to somebody : Women’s struggle to achieve dignity and self-reliance in a Bangladeshi village

    Author : Annika Forsslund; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Empowering women; development education; rural development; self-reliance; dialogue; life history approach; Bangladesh;

    Abstract : This study concerns a rural development project in a village in Bangladesh,initiated in 1973 and followed up regularly until 1991. The original project included the development of a jute handicraft cooperative for women, started and supervised by the authorThe aims of the thesis are: to describe and analyze the process of change in the lives of some women, engaged in the cooperative, to shed light on this process from the women's perspective, and to discuss what can and should be a target for development education for rural women, coming from the lowest social stratum of society. READ MORE

  5. 23. The state in the village: Leadership and the New Order on Java

    Author : Hans Antlöv; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; förvaltning Indonesien; socialantropologi etnologi Indonesien;

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  6. 24. Having head and showing knowledge : language shift, Christianity and notions of self in a Papua New Guinean village

    Author : Don Kulick; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Socialantropologi; Etnografi; Papua; Nya Guinea;

    Abstract : In the swampy jungles of northern Papua New Guinea lies an isolated little villagepopulated by about 100 people called Gapun. The majority of the villagers of Gapun are biormultilingual, but their mother tongue is a vernacular language which they call Taiap. READ MORE

  7. 25. A Field of Seed. Social Mobility and Social Change in West Bengal Hill Village

    Author : David Muga; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

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