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1. "Det är ingen punkt, det är ett kommatecken.." : En hermeneutisk intervjustudie om kristna och borgerliga begravningsritualer
Kandidat-uppsats, Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humanioraSammanfattning : The purpose of this thesis has been to contribute with an increased understanding of how funeral rituals can contribute to relatives' grief work as a coping strategy and to see what distinguishes and what unites Christian and civil funerals. This has been investigated using qualitative, semi-structured interviews that have been analyzed with a hermeneutic approach. LÄS MER
2. First blood: Menarche as the foundation for women's self-realisation
Master-uppsats, Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humanioraSammanfattning : Goddess-based civilisations worshipped the divine as a parthenogentic primordial creative force. Parthenogensis a Greek word that derives from parthenos “virgin” and genesis “from the beginning” was the path of liberation or rebirth into one’s divine nature. LÄS MER
3. Tager du denna klänning? : En kvalitativ studie om bröllopsritens koppling till konsumtion.
Uppsats för yrkesexamina på grundnivå, Karlstads universitet/Fakulteten för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap (from 2013)Sammanfattning : This paper examines if the wedding rite today can be considered as a rite of consumption rather than a rite of passage, with base in the wedding gown. The method used is a qualitative text and content analysis, this method has been applied to three articles and one book whom discuss the wedding and consumption related to the bride gown. LÄS MER
4. Ett diadem och dess ikonografi : En studie av kejsarinnan Josephines pärl- och kamédiadem i porträtt mellan 1812 och 2010
Kandidat-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Konstvetenskapliga institutionenSammanfattning : The main purpose of this study of a pearl and cameo diadem, given by Napoleon to his first wife Josephine in 1809, is to follow its representation in portraiture from Paris in 1812 to Stockholm in 2010, and explore how the iconography develops during these 200 years. From the earlier years, the diadem is found only in miniatures, then after coming to the new royal family in Sweden, the Bernadottes, it is given a role of an heirloom representing history and families in grand paintings, arriving to the present well-known wedding hairpiece, covered by modern media, where the diadem is more of a crown than the open, forehead-covering piece of fashion jewellery it was during the Napoleonic era in France. LÄS MER
5. Abolishing Female Genital Mutilation by Cultural Renewal? : An assessment of Alternative Rites of Passage in Kenya
Magister-uppsats, Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS)Sammanfattning : Many attempts have been made to eradicate female genital mutilation over the past decades, yet the sustained practice continues to be a risk for women’s health and agency. In Kenya, an intervention with increasing proliferation is the alternative rites of passage. LÄS MER
