Sökning: "American Indians"

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  1. 1. Dans och framtid. 1890 års Ghost Dance-rörelse och de nordamerikanska ursprungsfolkens religiösa praktiker i svensk-amerikanska tidningar, 1857-1891

    Master-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för litteratur, idéhistoria och religion

    Författare :Fredrik Jansson; [2020-09-01]
    Nyckelord :American history; colonial history; cultural encounters; ethnic press; Ghost Dance; Indians; Native Americans; Native American religion; Native American ritual; settlers; Swedish-American history; Swedish-American newspapers; Wounded Knee;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis examines how Swedish-American newspapers portrayed the Ghost Dance movement of 1890 and the aftermaths following the associated Wounded Knee massacre on December 29th the corresponding year. The period of the investigated aftermaths has been delimited to the subsequent year of 1891. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Cross-cultural Analysis of Congratulations in American English, Indian English and Peninsular Spanish

    Magister-uppsats, Högskolan Dalarna/Engelska

    Författare :Kimia Avazpour; [2020]
    Nyckelord :Cross-cultural; speech acts; congratulations; DCTs; Elwood;

    Sammanfattning : To gain a better understanding of intercultural communication, it is relevant to study speech acts not only in different languages but also across different language varieties. Seeing as speech act studies are said to have suffered from Anglocentrism there is a necessity to include nonwestern cultures (Wierzbicka, 1985:145). LÄS MER

  4. 3. En satt bild är inte given : En källkritisk studie av källor kring forskningen och bilden av Kiowatolken Joshua H Given.

    L3-uppsats, Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper (KV)

    Författare :Johan Erlandsson; [2019]
    Nyckelord :Joshua H Given; Kiowa. Jerome Commission; Cherokee Commission; intermediaries; go-between; cultural broker. Colonialism.;

    Sammanfattning : The acquisition of the Indian land by the Cherokee Commission between 1890 to 1892 was a series of events that changed the future of many indian nations and parts of american history. In the midst of these great changes, Kiowa interpreter for the Cherokee commission: Joshua H Given, ended up in a controversial position. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Transcultural Zone: Hybridity and Frontier Theory in Callahan’s Wynema: A Child of the Forest.

    Kandidat-uppsats, Södertörns högskola/Institutionen för kultur och lärande

    Författare :Caroline Browé; [2015]
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    Sammanfattning : The terms “Indian” and “Native American” do not only signify the indigenous peoples of America, but also includes stereotypical features and descriptions that are created by the Euro-Americans. The aim of this essay is to investigates what Indian identity is in Alice Callahan’s novel Wynema: A Child of the Forest (1981), and whether it promotes Indian stereotype or not. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Powwow, fra revitalisering til museumsudstilling

    Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Socialantropologi

    Författare :Joachim Heyde Debell; [2013]
    Nyckelord :minority; majority; us and them; the self and other; fieldwork; ethnographic collections; national museum; museums; revitalization; syncretism; traditions; structuralism; symbols; ethnicity; identity; North American indians; social anthropology; powwow; Cultural Sciences;

    Sammanfattning : Powwow is a gathering of North America`s native people. North American native people meet to dance, sing, socialize and honor Native American culture. The thesis seeks to understand why the North American natives uses powwow as a way of manifesting their identity and cultural affiliation. LÄS MER