Search for dissertations about: "tradition"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 512 swedish dissertations containing the word tradition.

  2. 6. The Kakure Kirishitan of Ikitsuki Island : The End of a Tradition

    Author : Kristian Pella; Lena Roos; Kentaro Miyazaki; Mark Teuween; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Acculturation; Christianity; folk religion; gozensama; Ikitsuki; Japan; Kakure; Kakure Kirishitan; Kirishitan; Kirishitanism; Maria-Kannon; Senpuku; syncretism; tradition; tsumoto; underground Christian; Virgin Mary; Xavier.; Religionshistoria; History of Religions;

    Abstract : The organization of the Kakure Kirishitan of Ikitsuki Island remained relatively intact until the end of the 1990s. Today it seems that this tradition is approaching its end. The Kakure Kirishitan have become a rapidly vanishing minority since much of the organized activities on the island have ceased to take place during the last decade. READ MORE

  4. 7. Tradition och horisont : vårdkulturens betydelse för vårdens praxis

    Author : Patrik Rytterström; Maria Arman; Mitra Unosson; Elisabet Cedersund; Ingegerd Fagerberg; Linköpings universitet; []
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    Abstract : The main aim of this thesis was to illuminate and understand aspects of care culture as a meaning–making process that influences the care praxis. In health care there is increasing recognition of the impacts on organizational culture of health-related matters. READ MORE

  5. 8. Tension and tradition : a study of late Iron Age spearheads around the Baltic Sea

    Author : Kristina Creutz; Bergljot Solberg; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Archaeology; Arkeologi; arkeologi; Archaeology;

    Abstract : This thesis discusses spearheads and individuals in Estonia, Latvia, eastern Sweden, Finland and western Russia during the 11th century. The source material consists of 335 spearheads of type M according to the typology of Petersen from 1919. READ MORE

  6. 9. Tradition and Translation : Maciej Stryjkowski's Polish Chronicle in Seventeenth-Century Russian Manuscripts

    Author : Christine Watson; Ulla Birgegård; Ingrid Maier; Michael Moser; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Slavic philology; history of the Russian language; 17th century; Polish historiography; chronicles; Polish-Russian translation; Maciej Stryjkowski; Slaviska språk; Slavic Languages;

    Abstract : The object of this study is a translation from Polish to Russian of the Polish historian Maciej Stryjkowski’s Kronika Polska, Litewska, Żmódzka i wszystkiej Rusi, made at the Diplomatic Chancellery in Moscow in 1673–79. The original of the chronicle, which relates the origin and early history of the Slavs, was published in 1582. READ MORE

  7. 10. The Politics of Tradition : Examining the History of the Old English Poems The Wife's Lament and Wulf and Eadwacer

    Author : Berit Åström; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; English language; anamorphosis; feminism; identity; literature; metaphor; metonymy; Old English; Old English literature; Old English poetry; philology; theory; tradition in literature; Engelska; English language; Engelska språket; engelska; English;

    Abstract : Old English literary studies is a fascinating field of research which spans many various approaches including philology and linguistics as well as literary and cultural theories. The field is characterised by a certain conservatism, what in this thesis is referred to as tradition. READ MORE