Search for dissertations about: "indigenous archaeology"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 25 swedish dissertations containing the words indigenous archaeology.

  2. 1. From Roman to Native : Colonialism and the archaeology of rural water management in the Maghreb

    Author : Lena Johansson de Château; Peter Örsted; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Archaeology; colonialism; postcolonialism; archaeology; historiography; Roman; native; indigenous; landscape; land use; water management; Maghreb; North Africa; Arkeologi; Archaeology subjects; Arkeologiämnen; Classical Archaeology and Ancient History; antikens kultur och samhällsliv;

    Abstract : This thesis considers the archaeology of rural water management in the Maghreb in relation to modern colonialism. An attempt is made to recover the attitudes to people and landscape expressed in the archaeological literature, and to analyse them in a colonial/postcolonial context. READ MORE

  4. 2. Conducting Archaeology in Swedish Sápmi : Policies, Implementations and Challenges in a Postcolonial Context

    Author : Charina Knutson; Cornelius Holtorf; Carl-Gösta Ojala; Linnéuniversitetet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Sámi; Sápmi; Indigenous Archaeology; Contract Archaeology; Postcolonial Archaeology; Community Archaelogy; Archaeology; Arkeologi;

    Abstract : Since the 1980s, there has been a growing consciousness among heritage workers and policy makers about the management of indigenous heritage. Museums, universities, and other cultural institutions around the world have acknowledged that old work practices must be exchanged for new ones, where the indigenous peoples are allowed influence, stewardship, and interpretative prerogative. READ MORE

  5. 3. Sámi Prehistories : The Politics of Archaeology and Identity in Northernmost Europe

    Author : Carl-Gösta Ojala; Kjel Knutsson; Noel D. Broadbent; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Sámi; Sápmi; Sweden; Norway; Finland; Russian Federation; Soviet Union; history of archaeology; ethnogenesis; origins; South Sámi prehistory; ethnicity; nationalism; indigeneity; indigenous archaeology; ethnopolitics; cultural heritage management; repatriation; reburial; ethics; actor-network theory; Archaeology; North European; Arkeologi; nordeuropeisk; arkeologi; Archaeology;

    Abstract : Throughout the history of archaeology, the Sámi (the indigenous people in northern Norway, Sweden, Finland and the Kola Peninsula in the Russian Federation) have been conceptualized as the “Others” in relation to the national identity and (pre)history of the modern states. It is only in the last decades that a field of Sámi archaeology that studies Sámi (pre)history in its own right has emerged, parallel with an ethnic and cultural revival among Sámi groups. READ MORE

  6. 4. Cattle for beads : The archaeology of historical contact and trade on the Namib Coast

    Author : Jill Kinahan; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Archaeology; Historical archaeology; contact; indigenous response; glass trade beads; commercial ceramics; nineteenth century; Namib coast; Arkeologi; Archaeology subjects; Arkeologiämnen; arkeologi; Archaeology;

    Abstract : Early contacts between indigenous pastoralists at Walvis Bay on the Namib Coast and Western seafarers are poorly documented and little understood. Trade augmented regional exchange networks with a range, of archaeologically visible and easily identifiable objects. READ MORE

  7. 5. People in Between : Ethncity and Material Identity, a New Approach to Deconstructed Concepts

    Author : Charlotta Hillerdal; Frands Herschend; Johan Rönnby; Neil Price; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; ethnicity; materiality; cultural identity; cultural practice; Viking Age; Varangians; Russia; Métis; Canada; colonialism; post-colonial; Romantic philosophy; indigenous; Ruhnu; Estonia; authenticity; national identity; Viking Age towns; Scandinavia; town formation; discontinuity; Archaeology; Arkeologi; arkeologi; Archaeology; Östersjö- och Östeuropaforskning;

    Abstract : In questions concerning ethnicity and cultural identity in prehistory, there is a great divide between the conclusions maintained on a theoretical level of discussion and the interpretations given to material remains, when these theories are practiced on the archaeological material. Inherited scientific and political structures, usage and ideas contribute to our understanding of ethnicity and the everyday use of the concept, and influence archaeological interpretations. READ MORE