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Topic: Hilma Granqvist


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  Tiedenaisia - Vetenskapskvinnor - Women of Learning
Granqvist broke the prevailing research tradition of perceiving of foreign peoples as mere proof of the versatility of the human race and the subjects of research as anonymous objects.
Hilma Granqvist's desire to understand the status of religion in the modern world inspired her to pursue a career in research.
Riina Isotalo: "Edward Westermarck and Hilma Granqvist in the field of Orientalist discourse in Finland".
www.helsinki.fi /akka-info/tiedenaiset/english/granqvist.html   (486 words)

  
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Hilma Granquist was a pioneering anthropologist and among the first proponents of modern women studies.
Halime’s work provides a unique starting point and background information for continuing research with a well-defined time aspect, such as family distribution, immigration and emigration, building activities, continuity of the traditions at the age of the TV etc.
Currently there are no active research projects going on and the Institute is involved in publishing the proceedings of the first international conference on Hilma Granquist held in Talitha Kumi, Beit Jala in 1998 by the Halime network under the direction of Prof.
personal.inet.fi /tiede/middleeast.instit/artas/hilma.htm   (177 words)

  
 NMB32
Another is to to bring together researchers who have in their work considered the work of Hilma Granqvist who worked in the area between 1925-1931 and consequently wrote 5 monographs on the life of peasants in the village of Artas near Bethlehem.
Hilma Granqvist focused her writings on the lifecycle of Muslim peasants and wished to produce a realistic appreciation of the everyday life of real people, based on observations and interviews conducted in the field.
Granqvist wished to appraise the lives of Palestinian peasants in the modern anthropological sense - through efforts to see the world from the point of view of the people themselves.
www.hf.uib.no /i/smi/nsm/NMB32.html   (3002 words)

  
 Oriental and African Books - General, Authors G-H
Granqvist (Hilma) Birth and childhood among the Arabs: studies in a Muhammadan village in Palestine.
Granqvist (Hilma) Child problems among the Arabs: studies in a Muhammadan village in Palestine.
This volume continues and completes Dr. Granqvist's study of the Arab child begun in Birth and Childhood among the Arabs in which she dealt with pre-natal customs, childbirth and post-natal customs, nursing and lullabies, children's play and work, education, character and circumcision.
www.africana.co.uk /collections/lpcoll/cat0_6.shtml   (4492 words)

  
 The Minna Project
Some Aspects of the photography of Hilma Granqvist”.
Text for Touring Exhibition on photographs taken by Hilma Granqvist and Mia Gröndahl, sponsored by the Finnish Institute in the Middle East.
Keynote address in the Meeting of the Nordic Sociological Association held in Bergen, June 1999.
www.minnaproject.net /java/Index?oid=32   (814 words)

  
 Intro   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The exhibition of the photographs of the anthropologist Hilma Granqvist was produced with the support of 100 000 FIM from the Finnish Cultural Foundation and with the foundation's own contribution.
In 1920's Hilma Granqvist studied and photographed the people and their everyday life in the Artas region.
Photographs from Artas, purchased from the Granqvist-archive of the British Museum, have now been on display in the exhibition.
personal.inet.fi /tiede/middleeast.instit/Instituutti/granqvist_eng.htm   (151 words)

  
 Jerusalem Quarterly File and the Institute for Jerusalem Studies
Among these foreign writers, only the works of Gustav Dalman and Hilma Granqvist, both contemporaries of Canaan and the Oriental Society, show a similar sensitivity to the complexities of peasant society at the turn of the century.
Canaan’s work on the architecture of the peasant house, for example, is a masterwork on the evolution of building styles, and their response to both environmental factors and peasant cosmology of the habitat.
Both Gustav Dalman and Hilma Granqvist were well known to Canaan’s circle and their works regularly reviewed in the JPOS.
www.jerusalemquarterly.org /2004/jqf20/lepers.html   (9015 words)

  
 Acta Sociologica, 2000; 43 (4)
Mentality is Half of Perception: Guomundur Finnbogason - Icelandic Pioneer in Sociology / Hauksson, Jóhann
Hilma Granqvist: A Scholar of the Westermarck School in its Decline / Suolinna, Kirsti
Theodor Geiger: Pioneer of Sociology in Denmark / Agersnap, Torben
www.ucm.es /BUCM/compludoc/W/10101/00016993_1.htm   (149 words)

  
 AEI home page - projects
In their own, sometimes biased ways, anthropologists and missionaries had brought alive this little place south of Bethlehem, decades ago, in the Turkish and British times.
I remember that some eight years ago, with the help of the Directorate of Archeology, a drama was developed in Artas in which youths re-enacted the coming of the anthropologist Hilma Granqvist.
Students played out the encounter in the open air, based upon the assumption that the Holy Land is a land of encounters between strangers who can also become neighbours.
www.aeicenter.org /aei/resources/writings/IMAGINING_PALESTINE.htm   (3496 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Hilma - Nonfiction: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Birth and Childhood Among the Arabs by Hilma N. Granqvist (Hardcover - Jun 1947)
Hilma af Klint: Målningarna till templet, 30 oktober 1999-9 januari 2000, Liljevalchs = Temppelimaalaukset, 26.
Portrait of a Palestinian village: The photographs of Hilma Granqvist by Hilma Natalia Granqvist (Unknown Binding - 1981)
www.amazon.com /s?ie=UTF8&rh=n:53,p_27:Hilma&page=1   (211 words)

  
 Index-Toine
Several major anthropological studies have been conducted in Artas by the Finnish anthropologist Hilma Granqvist, who stayed in the villages, with intervals, for some thirty years from the 1920s on, and whose monographs are well-known in academia since a long time.
Due to the traditional anthropologists’ habit to use pseudonyms for the small communities they study, it was not known that her four works about topics like marriage, burial and birth customs, related to Palestine, let alone that they were about Artas.
I walk together with Musa and Jamal, a local teacher and land owner, to a plot of land on and nearby the hill of Etam, or Khirbet al-Khookh.
www.lpj.org /Nonviolence/Toine/Diary21.html   (1688 words)

  
 The Study of Religion in Finland
Third research tradition is that of social anthropology and Orientalists with Edward Westermarck as one of its founding fathers.
The Finnish disciples of Westermarck were mainly anthropologists of religion who made important contribution to the study of South American Indians (Rafael Karsten), the Kiwai Papuans of New Guinea (Gunnar Landtman) and the popular traditions in Palestine (Hilma Granqvist).
Fourth research tradition can be traced from the theological faculty of the University of Helsinki.
www.abo.fi /comprel/history.htm   (3494 words)

  
 Sossie Andezian - The Significance of Sufism in Algeria in the aftermath of Independence - PASSIA
I discovered a network of Algerian Sufi women among them, and after two years of fieldwork in France, I needed to go further into the topic and embarked on a study in Western Algeria in the area of Tlemcen, the hometown of most of them.
My relationship with Palestine came after being invited to a conference in Beit Jala in memory of Hilma Granqvist (A Finnish Anthropologist who did long years research in Artas), where I was invited to speak about the French travel-writer Isabelle Eberhardt, who lived in Algeria in the beginning of the twentieth century.
A visit to the old city of Jerusalem arose in me the desire to undertake a new fieldwork there after ending my book about Algeria.
www.passia.org /meetings/rsunit/2002/Sufism-minutes3.htm   (5247 words)

  
 Links - History of Nordic anthropology - AnthroBase
[Hilma Granqvist's house in the Palestinian village Artas]
Tiedenaisia / Women of Learning: Hilma Granqvist ethnologist 1890-1972
Amina Elbendary: Al-Ahram Weekly: Other Palestines [with passage on Hilma Granqvist]
www.anthrobase.com /Browse/home/hst/nordic-links.htm   (547 words)

  
 Find in a Library: Portrait of a Palestinian village : the photographs of Hilma Granqvist
Find in a Library: Portrait of a Palestinian village : the photographs of Hilma Granqvist
Portrait of a Palestinian village : the photographs of Hilma Granqvist
WorldCat is provided by OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. on behalf of its member libraries.
www.worldcatlibraries.org /wcpa/ow/03230d34aaed7279.html   (93 words)

  
 Arab-Israeli Politics Archive 1997: Palestine Report (part 2) (fwd) 22 Oct 1997
Artas-It was back in 1925 that Dr. Hilma Granqvist, a Finnish
Over the course of six years, Granqvist, the first foreign scholar to
For the duration of her stay in Artas, Granqvist lived with Louisa
www.la.utexas.edu /chenry/aip/archive/palrep97/0047.html   (5610 words)

  
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On Tuesday, 29 May they visited the Swedish Institute which is situated on the Grand Corniche and were received by Dr. Inga Brandell, the Deputy Director.
They also received a preview of the Institute's current exhibition "Artas: Portrait of a Palestinian Village - Then & Now in Photos" and met Mia Grondahl, a freelance journalist and photographer who has renewed a photograph biography of the village and its people begun by the distinguished Finnish-Swedish anthropologist Dr. Hilma Granqvist in 1925.
From here they visited the magnificent Graeco-Roman Catacombs at Kom El Shogafa and the Acropolis of the Ptolomies, where they viewed Pompey's Pillar and the Temple of Serapis, which had been sacked by Christians in 391 A.D. On Wednesday, 30 May they travelled back to Cairo, where the temperature had fallen slightly.
www.britishorthodox.org /104g.shtml   (3020 words)

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