Search for dissertations about: "ethnicity"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 249 swedish dissertations containing the word ethnicity.

  2. 1. Heterological Ethnicity Conceptualizing Identities in Ancient Greece

    University dissertation from Uppsala : Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis

    Author : Johannes Siapkas; Pontus Hellström; Gullög Nordquist; Björnar Olsen; [2003]
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Classical archaeology and ancient history; theory; ethnicity; classical archaeology; ancient history; primordialism; instrumentalism; Messenia; helots; heterology; de Certeau; Antikens kultur och samhällsliv; HUMANITIES and RELIGION History and philosophy subjects Historical cultures Classical archaeology and ancient history; HUMANIORA och RELIGIONSVETENSKAP Historisk-filosofiska ämnen Historiska kulturer Antikens kultur och samhälle;

    Abstract : In accordance with the heterological tradition, this study emphasises the determining effect of theoretical assumptions on our conceptualizations of the past. This study scrutinises how classical archaeologists and ancient historians have conceptualized ethnic groups, in particular the Messenians. READ MORE

  4. 2. Catholicity Challenging Ethnicity : An Ecclesiological Study of Congregations and Churches in Post-apartheid South Africa

    University dissertation from Uppsala : Uppsala University, Department of Theology

    Author : Erik Berggren; Sven-Erik Brodd; Kajsa Ahlstrand; Daniel Louw; [2015]
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Catholicity; Democratisation; Ecclesiology; Ethnicity; Faith and Order; Operative Ecclesiology; Post-apartheid; Practices; South Africa; World Council of Churches.; Kyrkovetenskap; Ecclesiology;

    Abstract : This thesis deals with the relationship between the catholicity of the Church and ethnicity. South African congregations and churches have been studied two decades after the advent of democracy to discern their ecclesiological practices. READ MORE

  5. 3. Heterological Ethnicity : Conceptualizing Identities in Ancient Greece

    University dissertation from Uppsala : Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis

    Author : Johannes Siapkas; [2003]
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; antikens kultur och samhällsliv; Classical Archaeology and Ancient History;

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  6. 4. The Politics of Ndebele Ethnicity : Origins, Nationality, and Gender in Southern Zimbabwe

    University dissertation from Uppsala : Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologi

    Author : Björn Lindgren; Richard Werbner; [2002]
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Cultural anthropology; conflict; ethnicity; gender; identity; masculinity; media; nationalism; Ndebele; politics; Zimbabwe; Kulturantropologi; HUMANITIES and RELIGION History and philosophy subjects Ethnology Cultural anthropology; HUMANIORA och RELIGIONSVETENSKAP Historisk-filosofiska ämnen Etnologi Kulturantropologi; kulturantropologi; Cultural Anthropology;

    Abstract : The thesis examines the politics of Ndebele ethnicity and, by extension, how this politics is related to present-day national politics in Zimbabwe. The author applies two approaches to ethnicity. On the one hand, he outlines the historical processes through which subjects have been created as Ndebele over time. READ MORE

  7. 5. The impact of ethnicity on type 2 diabetes

    University dissertation from Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University

    Author : Forouzan Glans; [2009]
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Type 2 diabetes; ethnicity;

    Abstract : Abstract Type 2 diabetes mellitus is among the fastest growing diseases in the world. The reported prevalence of T2D appears to differ among various ethnic groups. READ MORE