Søkt på: Søkeresultat
totalt 96 treff
Phenomenology of the everyday
The everyday is what is closest and most familiar to everyone, and yet it tends to escape our attempts to seize it. The everyday is daily routine, but it may also open for …
Whaling at Godthul South Georgia
Whaling at Godthul, South Georgia started in 1908. The whaling company Bryde & Dahls Hvalfangerselskab, founded in Sandefjord, Norway by Thor Dahl and Ingvald Martin Bryde, was …
The power of faiths in global politics
What is the .power of faiths. in the world today? How does religion influence politics in different national contexts such as Turkey, Palestine, Israel, Cuba, Mexico and Norway? …
A little lost village
A study of William Faulkner's The Hamlet (1940), offering extensive discussions of the work's textual history, a survey of previous criticism, an understanding of the book as a …
The formative past and the formation of the future
Recent decades have seen a steady flow of scholarship on collective remembering and formation of shared identities. This volume contributes to this conversation in four ways. …
From Bhakti to Bon. Festschrift for Per Kværne
Per Kværne has made an inestimable contribution to the study of Indo-Tibetan Buddhism, Tibetan art and, above all, the Bon religion. This volume contains scholarly articles by some …
Hybrid spaces
The book presents a research project which is a first attempt at a thorough and inter-disciplinary approach to understanding the so-called multi-room houses, a complex and …
Opening up the wardrobe
This book presents a unique collection of 50 methods for exploring the actions, relationships and material contents of wardrobes. Organised as a practical guide to gathering …
The pearl of the kingdom
It should be apparent that this little gem of a poem richly rewards close reading from a variety of perspectives. In its deft references to both the Humanist and Reformation …
Cultural studies on folk religion in Scandinavia
The present volume opens with a chapter on folk religion as a field of cultural research in Scandinavia. A major portion of my research has been concerned with conditions in the …
Literary sinews
This book seeks to honour Professor Bjørn Tysdahl's contribution to literary studies in particular, and, more generally, to the academic communities of several countries. It does …
Each other's yarns
The book consists of a collection of essays in tribute to the literary critic and theorist Jeremy Hawthorn.