Search for dissertations about: "eastern"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 443 swedish dissertations containing the word eastern.

  2. 1. Collective memory and competition over identity in a conflict zone: the case of Dersim

    University dissertation from London : School of Economics and Political Science

    Author : Pinar Dinc; Lunds universitet.; Lund University.; Lunds universitet.; Lund University.; Lunds universitet.; Lund University.; [2016]
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

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  4. 2. Just like Couscous: Gender, Agency and the Politics of Female Circumcision in Cairo

    University dissertation from School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg

    Author : Maria Frederika Malmström; Nordiska Afrikainstitutet.; Göteborgs universitet.; Gothenburg University.; Lunds universitet.; Lund University.; Lunds universitet.; Lund University.; Lunds universitet.; Lund University.; [2009]
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; anthropology; identity; gender; agency; embodiment; senses; body; sexuality; female circumcision; politics; social change; performativity; practice; political Islam; Egypt; Middle East; North Africa;

    Abstract : This dissertation explores how female gender identity is continually created and re-created in Egypt through a number of daily practices, of which female circumcision is central. In order to do so, the study inquires into the lived experiences and social meanings of female circumcision and femininity as narrated by women from lower class neighbourhoods in Cairo. READ MORE

  5. 3. The Arabic Dialect of Tillo in the Region of Siirt : (south-eastern Turkey)

    University dissertation from Semitiska språk: Arabiska, Arameiska/Syriska, Etiopiska, Hebreiska

    Author : Ablahad Lahdo; Uppsala universitet.; [2003]
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Arabic language; qǝltu-dialects; intermarriage; linguistic dominance; cultural influence; devoicing; pausal position; spontaneous imāla; copula; ḥāl-sentence; second borrowing; Arabiska; HUMANITIES and RELIGION Languages and linguistics Other languages Arabic language; HUMANIORA och RELIGIONSVETENSKAP Språkvetenskap Övriga språk Arabiska;

    Abstract : This study is in many respects a traditionally descriptive one which places special emphasis on socio-linguistic and language-contact phenomena. It concerns, however, a relatively unfamiliar example of involuntary cultural assimilation and probable extinction, which is not without relevance to current politics among great powers. READ MORE

  6. 4. Alcohol-Related Problems in Eastern Europe A Comparative Perspective

    University dissertation from Stockholm : Department of Sociology, Stockholm University

    Author : Jonas Landberg; Stockholms universitet.; [2010]
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Eastern Europe; alcohol consumption; alcohol-related harm; time-series analysis; SOCIAL SCIENCES Social sciences Sociology; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP Socialvetenskap Sociologi; Sociology; sociologi;

    Abstract : This thesis investigates the association between alcohol consumption and alcohol-related harm in Eastern Europe. The main aim was to estimate to what extent changes in per capita alcohol consumption have an impact on different forms of alcohol-related mortality, and to put the results in an international comparative perspective. READ MORE

  7. 5. Contacts and Trade at Late Bronze Age Hazor Aspects of Intercultural Relationships and Identity in the Eastern Mediterranean

    University dissertation from Umeå : Department of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies, Umeå University

    Author : Kristina Josephson Hesse; Umeå universitet.; [2008]
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANITIES and RELIGION History and philosophy subjects Archaeology subjects Archaeology; Non-European; HUMANIORA och RELIGIONSVETENSKAP Historisk-filosofiska ämnen Arkeologiämnen Arkeologi; utomeuropeisk; Archaeology; Arkeologi; Hazor; Canaan; Eastern Mediterranean; Late Bronze Age; contacts; trade; temple architecture; Mycenaean pottery; Cypriote pottery; interregional interaction networks; emulation; peer polity interaction; centre-periphery approach; HUMANITIES and RELIGION History and philosophy subjects Archaeology subjects Archaeology; HUMANIORA och RELIGIONSVETENSKAP Historisk-filosofiska ämnen Arkeologiämnen Arkeologi; Near Eastern Archaeology; Mediterranean Archaeology;

    Abstract : Hazor’s role in an international Late Bronze Age context has long been indicated but never thoroughly investigated. This role, I believe, was more crucial than previously stressed. READ MORE