Search for dissertations about: "historical culture"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 165 swedish dissertations containing the words historical culture.
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1. Caught in Culture? : Cultural Transformation through HIV/AIDS Prevention Education in Zambia
Abstract : The study explores the role and contribution of education in developing a localized and relevant HIV/AIDS prevention strategy through a multi-voiced approach, involving the educational institutions, as well as the traditional leaders, community-members, including parents. The study comprised all public schools in one Zambian province from 2002-2008. READ MORE
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2. Varieties of Supernatural Experience : the Case of High-Functioning Autism
Abstract : It is argued in the cognitive science of religion (CSR) that the empathic ability to ‘mindread’ others underpins the experience of supernatural communication with gods, ghosts, and spirits. As autism is characterized by mentalizing difficulties, CSR scholars have expected autistic individuals would find supernatural agency incomprehensible. READ MORE
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3. The Quest for Recognition : The Holocaust and French Historical Culture, 1945–65
Abstract : This thesis investigates the development of Holocaust remembrance in France, taking the activities of the Centre de documentation juive contemporaine in Paris as its focus. By looking at the construction, function, and reception of Holocaust narratives in the twenty years following the end of the War, it shows how remembrance took shape within French historical culture, and, conversely, how representations of the genocide influenced France’s national-historical culture. READ MORE
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4. Battlefields of memory : The Macedonian conflict and Greek historical culture
Abstract : In 1991, a diplomatic controversy arose between Greece and the newly independent Republic of Macedonia, regarding naming, minority rights and the use of historical symbols. The claims of the new state to the name Macedonia and the historical heritage associated with it were perceived as a threat against Greek national identity and history itself. READ MORE
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5. Making Sense of Suffering : Holocaust and Holodomor in Ukrainian Historical Culture
Abstract : This study deals with the problem of how Ukraine has incorporated and made use of the Holocaust and the 1932?1933 famine (Holodomor) in its new national history and historical culture. The investigation departs from the increased interest in and attention devoted to the Holocaust in recent years. READ MORE