Search for dissertations about: "DEAD"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 322 swedish dissertations containing the word DEAD.

  2. 6. The Good, the Bad, and the Dead : An Essay on Well-Being and Death

    Author : Karl Ekendahl; Jens Johansson; Erik Carlson; Chris Heathwood; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; death; well-being; Epicureanism; deprivation account; the timing argument; fission; temporal well-being; extrinsic value; prudence; Filosofi; Philosophy;

    Abstract : This book examines some central arguments in the debate about the value of death. The first main chapter, Chapter 2, begins with an introduction to the debate and a clarification of Epicureanism, i.e. the view that it is not bad to die. READ MORE

  4. 7. Disposal of the dead among Australian aborigines : archaeological data and interpretation

    Author : Laila Haglund; Stockholms universitet; []
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  5. 8. Practices for the Living and the Dead : Medieval and Post-Reformation Burials in Scandinavia

    Author : Kristina Jonsson; Anders Andrén; Stefan Brink; Jes Wienberg; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Burial; burial customs; burial practices; grave; death; churchyard; cemetery; social identity; medieval; post-Reformation; Archaeology; Arkeologi; arkeologi; Archaeology;

    Abstract : The main themes of the thesis are burial customs and social identities, and how medieval and post-Reformation graves can provide information on such as age structures, phases in life, gender relations and social organization. The study is based on nine groups of Scandinavian material, and it comprises four case studies. READ MORE

  6. 9. Dead Landscapes – and how to make them live

    Author : Katherine Burlingame; Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; landscape; heritage; heritagescapes; phenomenology; tourism; human geography; landscape geography; storytelling; enchantment; affect; emotion; Vikings; heritage management; presence;

    Abstract : Certain deadening forces including disneyfication, museumization, and the standardization of heritagescapes have led to the loss of embodied, lived experiences. In an effort to (re)enchant how these landscapes are developed, managed, and encountered, a new landscape model is introduced that combines the more practical components of heritage management (locale and story) with strategies that explore the emotional and affective dimensions of phenomenological landscape experience (presence). READ MORE

  7. 10. Microbial Metagenomics : A Tale of the Dead and the Living

    Author : Katarzyna Zaremba-Niedźwiedzka; Siv G.E. Andersson; Jeroen Raes; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; single-cell genomics; single cell; fossil metagenome; freshwater metagenome; LD12;

    Abstract : It is a microbial world we live in: microbes outnumber other organisms by several orders of magnitude, and they have great importance for the environment. However, environmental microbes are notoriously difficult to grow in the laboratory, and using culture independent techniques is necessary to expand our view. READ MORE