Search for dissertations about: "collecting"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 373 swedish dissertations containing the word collecting.

2. 1. The Soapstone Birds of Great Zimbabwe : Archaeological Heritage, Religion and Politics in Postcolonial Zimbabwe and the Return of Cultural Property

   Author : Edward Matenga; Paul Sinclair; Aron Mazel; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : soapstone Birds; Great Zimbabwe; archaeological heritage; cultural property; return of cultural property; cultural symbols; cultural rights; postcolonial theory; western hegemonic discourse; authorized heritage discourse AHD ; nationalism; fait accompli; natural justice; collecting; materiality theory; Archaeology; Arkeologi;

   Abstract : At least eight soapstone carvings of birds furnished a shrine, Great Zimbabwe, in the 19th century. This large stonewalled settlement, once a political and urban centre, had been much reduced for four centuries, although the shrine continued to operate as local traditions dictated. READ MORE

4. 2. Material Worlds : Queen Hedwig Eleonora as Collector and Patron of the arts

   Author : Lisa Skogh; Peter Gillgren; Mårten Snickare; Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; patronage; collecting; political culture; 17th century; portraiture; pretiosa; libraries; knowledge; wonders; Kunstkammer; Gottorf; Dresden; Germany; Sweden; Hedwig Eleonora; absolutism; royal collections; networks; Klöcker Ehrenstrahl; Ulriksdal; Drottningholm; Gripsholm; konstvetenskap; Art History;

   Abstract : The thesis portrays the role of Hedwig Eleonora (1636-1715) dowager queen of Sweden, born princess of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf, as a patron and collector. Her role is analysed as to have played a great part in the Swedish cultural political visual production before and during the age of absolutism in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth-century. READ MORE

5. 3. Human Interactions on Online Social Media : Collecting and Analyzing Social Interaction Networks

   Author : Fredrik Erlandsson; Johnson Henric; Martin Boldt; Piotr Bródka; S. Felix Wu; Sune Lehmann; Blekinge Tekniska Högskola; []
   Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Social Media; Social Networks; Crawling; Complex Networks; Information Cascade; Seed Selection; Privacy;

   Abstract : Online social media, such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn, provides users with services that enable them to interact both globally and instantly. The nature of social media interactions follows a constantly growing pattern that requires selection mechanisms to find and analyze interesting data. READ MORE

6. 4. Garbage collecting reactive real-time systems

   Author : Martin Kero; Luleå tekniska universitet; []
   Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Dependable Communication and Computation Systems; Kommunikations- och beräkningssystem;

   Abstract : As real-time systems become more complex, the need for more sophisticated runtime kernel features arises. One such feature that substantially lessens the burden of the programmer is automatic memory management, or garbage collection. However, incorporating garbage collection in a real-time kernel is not an easy task. READ MORE

7. 5. Roman Vocal Music in England, 1660-1710 : Court, Connoisseurs and the Culture of Collecting

   Author : Ester Lebedinski; Stephen Rose; University of London Royal Holloway; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES;

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