Search for dissertations about: "history of play"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 188 swedish dissertations containing the words history of play.

2. 1. Between Old and New Rome : Armenian and Bulgarian Contacts with the Papacy around 1204

   Author : Jonas Thungren Lindbärg; Helena Bodin; Linn Holmberg; Alexander Beihammer; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Bulgaria; Cilician Armenia; Cultural Semiotics; Cumans; Empire; Ethnicity; Frontier; Innocent III; Rome; Symbolic Power; The Byzantine Commonwealth; The Fourth Crusade; The Latin East; Vlachs; idéhistoria; History of Ideas;

   Abstract : The aim of this thesis is to examine the use of symbolic power at the establishment of the Second Bulgarian Empire and the Cilician kingdom of Armenia, and to further explore and discuss problems of language, translation, ethnography, legitimacy, culture and distinctions between “East” and “West” through these cases. Despite their geographical distance and diverse histories, these regions are united through a past of Byzantine domination and by their entering into unions with the Roman Papacy at this time. READ MORE

4. 2. Writing History in a Propaganda Institute : Political Power and Network Dynamics in Communist Romania

   Author : Francesco Zavatti; Per Bolin; Heiko Droste; Kim Salomon; Södertörns högskola; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; historiography; history-writing; Romania; history and power; sovereignty; communism; national-communism; resources; narrative canon; networking; Historical Studies; Historiska studier; Östersjö- och Östeuropaforskning; Baltic and East European studies;

   Abstract : In 1990, the Institute for Historical and Socio-Political Studies of the Central Committee of the Romanian Communist Party was closed, since the Party was dissolved by the Romanian Revolution. Similar institutions had existed in all countries belonging to the Soviet bloc. READ MORE

5. 3. People of reliable loyalty… : Muftiates and the State in Modern Russia

   Author : Renat Bekkin; Jenny Berglund; Mark Bassin; Galina M. Yemelianova; Södertörns högskola; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Muftiate; spiritual administration of Muslims; mufti; the economics of religion; the institution of the muftiate; Islam in Russia; Islam in the USSR.; History of religion; Religionshistoria; Historical Studies; Historiska studier; Östersjö- och Östeuropaforskning; Baltic and East European studies;

   Abstract : This dissertation presents a full-fledged portrait of the muftiate (spiritual administration of Muslims) in modern Russia. Designed initially for the purpose of controlling religious activity, over time the institution of the muftiate was appropriated by Muslims and became a key factor in preserving national identity for different ethnic groups of Tatars. READ MORE

6. 4. Sensing Traditional Music Through Sweden's Zorn Badge : Precarious Musical Value and Ritual Orientation

   Author : Karin Eriksson; Lars Berglund; Dan Lundberg; Rachel Beckles Willson; Martin Stokes; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : traditional music; Sweden; folk music; music auditions; ritual; orientation; sensory ethnography; ethnomusicology; Musicology; Musikvetenskap;

   Abstract : This thesis investigates the multiple and contested spaces of belonging that may be evoked by ritualised musical performance. It makes an ethnographic case study of the Zorn Badge Auditions in Sweden, in which musicians play before a jury in the hope of being awarded a Zorn Badge and a prestigious but also contested title: Riksspelman. READ MORE

7. 5. Saving the child : regional, cultural and social aspects of the infant mortality decline in Iceland, 1770-1920

   Author : ӓlöf Garðarsdóttir; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; infant mortality; neonatal mortality; breastfeeding; infant feeding; midwives; physicians; hygiene; neonatal tetanus; measles; fertility; literacy; history of medicine; Iceland;

   Abstract : The dissertation deals with the infant mortality decline in Iceland during the 19th and early 20th Century. It shows that despite its low degree of urbanization, pre-transitional Iceland displayed higher infant mortality rates than most other European countries. READ MORE