Search for dissertations about: "Wednesday ritual"

Found 1 swedish dissertation containing the words Wednesday ritual.

2. 1. Promised Soils : Senses of Place Among Yezidis in Dalarna and Sheikhan

   Author : Maria Lindqvist; Lena Roos; Simon Sorgenfrei; Göran Larsson; Södertörns högskola; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Yezidi; Yezidi cemetery; Dalarna; Borlänge; Zahmanê Êzîdîa Li Dalarna; Iraq; Iraqi Kurdistan; Sheikhan; Lalish; transfer of ritual; social memory; jema’iyye; Çarşema-sor; Wednesday ritual; berat; diaspora; funeral rituals; mortuary practices; Historical Studies; Historiska studier;

   Abstract : This is an ethnographic study that focuses on Zahmanê Êzîdîa Li Dalarna, the Yezidi cemetery, in Borlänge. The Swedish town of Borlänge has one of the largest Yezidi diaspora communities in Western Europe; a majority emigrated from the Northern Iraqi region of Sheikhan during the 1990s and early 2000s. READ MORE