Essays about: "Ritualer"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 11 essays containing the word Ritualer.

  1. 6. Cross-cultural analysis of Death perception

    University essay from Högskolan i Skövde/Institutionen för hälsa och lärande

    Author : Rita Coelho; [2016]
    Keywords : death; culture; blogs; quantitative; qualitative; social psychology; uncertainty avoidance; död; kultur; bloggar; innehållsanalys; socialpsykologi; osäkerhetsundvikande;

    Abstract : This study aims to gain a deeper understanding of the culturally-specific meanings of death, manifested in personal stories presented in social media. Content analysis is used to analyse 140 posts, in three languages and from authors from 12 national affiliations. READ MORE

  3. 7. The Ritual Construction of Fetal Personhood : A Voyage through the Gendering of the Unborn in Peruvian Baby Showers

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Genusvetenskap

    Author : Cecilia Byström; [2015]
    Keywords : baby shower; rituals; rite of passage; doing gender; fetal personhood; Peru; the Andes; Cusco; baby shower; ritualer; rite of passage; doing gender; fetal personhood; Peru; Anderna; Cusco;

    Abstract : The purpose of this research is to analyse how gender is ‘done’, represented and reproduced in a Peruvian baby shower ritual. The study is situated geographically in the urban Andean setting of Cusco, and theoretically, in a feminist framework combining an ethnomethodological ‘doing gender’ perspective, anchored in social interactions, with a linguistic performativity approach, as formulated by Judith Butler. READ MORE

  4. 8. Opus Alchemicum : Of myths and affects

    University essay from KTH/Arkitektur

    Author : Beatrice Orlandi; [2014]
    Keywords : Alchemy; prussian blue; Myths; affect; Romania; gold; metamorphosis; tower; fountain; garden; horses; honey; music and space; performance; gipsy; nomadic; diaspora; traditions; ritual; ritual objects; girl and built envinronment;

    Abstract : Opus Alchemicum explores the fabrication of “reality” upon imagination, and the affective relation between ideas and matter in the built environment. Like an alchemic experiment, through the manipulation of real facts and their transformation into myth, stories, rituals and objects, the project tries to demonstrate how myths are not just produced but also produce “real” by creating a collective understanding and a pattern of relations, roles and ideas. READ MORE

  5. 9. Spatiotemporal competition patterns of Swedish roe deer and wild boar during the fawning season

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Ecology

    Author : Staffan Melberg; [2012]
    Keywords : Sus scrofa; Capreolus capreolus; interspecific competition; predation; spatiotemporal;

    Abstract : Abstract This study was performed on Bogesund research area, Sweden, in order to determine whether wild boar (Sus scrofa) predates on fawns of roe deer (Capreolus capreolus) and if the spatial and temporal patterns of roe deer are related to wild boar activity. A behav-ioural response is beneficial for many organisms when they are exposed to interspecific competition. READ MORE

  6. 10. En plats att minnas : om att involvera ungdomar i en skapandeprocess

    University essay from SLU/Landscape Architecture (until 121231)

    Author : Sabina Johnsen; [2011]
    Keywords : minnesplats; ritualer; skapandesprocess; deltagande; ungdomar;

    Abstract : This Master thesis is about how to involve young people in a creative process. The aim is to see what methods can be applied to make them reach the kind of knowledge they need to be able to contribute to the creation of a memorial place. READ MORE