Search for dissertations about: "cultural influence"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 278 swedish dissertations containing the words cultural influence.

2. 16. Just Labor : Labor Ethic in a Post-Soviet Reindeer Herding Community

   Author : Vladislava Vladimirova; Hugh Beach; Piers Vitebsky; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : Cultural anthropology; labor ethic; reindeer herding; ethnic obshchina; postsocialism; sovkhoism; Kola Peninsula; Russian Sami; Kulturantropologi; kulturantropologi; Cultural Anthropology;

   Abstract : This book explores the main ethical norms that influence labor in reindeer herding in the European part of the Russian North (Murmansk Region). It is based on the assumption that Soviet ideological discourse of labor has been reinterpreted in practice, and has shaped specific patterns of work that may seem contradictory to their official source. READ MORE

4. 17. Culture, Conflict and Crises in the Icelandic Fisheries : An Anthropological Study of People, Policy and Marine Resources in the North Atlantic Arctic

   Author : Níels Einarsson; Hugh Beach; Rob van Ginkel; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; environmental perceptions; fisheries governance; fishing culture; common property resources; economic crisis; human and animal rights; Iceland; marine-mammal conservation; privatization; whale watching; Cultural anthropology; Kulturantropologi; Kulturantropologi; Cultural Anthropology;

   Abstract : This thesis is offered as a contribution to studies of social and cultural change in the Icelandic fisheries and fishing communities. Such changes may be seen as a result of the interplay of internal dynamics with both national and global forces and processes, not least with regard to the impacts of fisheries governance. READ MORE

5. 18. Managing Laponia : A World Heritage Site as Arena for Sami Ethno-Politics in Sweden

   Author : Carina Green; Hugh Beach; Thomas Thornton; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Laponia; World Heritage; Swedish Sami; ethnic mobilization; articulation; indigeneity; nature conservation management; Cultural anthropology; Kulturantropologi; Kulturantropologi; Cultural Anthropology;

   Abstract : This study deals with the implications of implementing the World Heritage site of Laponia in northern Sweden. Laponia, consisting of previously well-known national parks such as Stora Sjöfallet and Sarek, obtained its World Heritage status in 1996. READ MORE

6. 19. Medicine for Uncertain Futures : A Nigerian City in the Wake of a Crisis

   Author : Ulrika Andersson Trovalla; Jan Ovesen; Sten Hagberg; Rachel Spronk; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Cultural anthropology; Kulturantropologi; Kulturantropologi; Cultural Anthropology;

   Abstract : The Nigerian city of Jos used to be seen as a peaceful place, but in 2001 it was struck by clashes that arose from what was largely understood as issues of ethnic and religious belonging. The event, which would become known as ‘the crisis’, was experienced as a rupture and a loss of what the city had once been, and as the starting point of a spiral of violence that has continued up to today. READ MORE

7. 20. I Am Tsunki : Gender and Shamanism among the Shuar of Western Amazonia

   Author : Marie Perruchon; Jan-Åke Alvarsson; Kenneth Kensinger; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Cultural anthropology; Shuar; gender; shamanism; Amazonia; missionaries; spirits; animism; anthropology of the everyday; complementarity; discourses; entheogenic experience; Kulturantropologi; Cultural anthropology; Kulturantropologi; Kulturantropologi; Cultural Anthropology;

   Abstract : In this work, Perruchon brings together what is generally treated as two distinct domains of analysis: gender and shamanism. She investigates the relationship between gender and achievement of power through the shaman’s role in Shuar society. READ MORE