Search for dissertations about: "Ritualised Violence"

Found 2 swedish dissertations containing the words Ritualised Violence.

  2. 1. Remaking Iraq: Neoliberalism and a System of Violence after the US invasion​, 2003-2011

    Author : Thomas Sommer-Houdeville; Vanessa Barker; Jens Rydgren; Derek Gregory; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Iraq; US; Civil War; Neoliberalism; Neoliberal Rationality; Muhasasah; Sectarian Cleansing; Culturalisation of Politics; Depoliticisation; Space; Market State; Sectarianism; Identity Politics; Essentialisation; Ritualised Violence; State Building; Sociology; sociologi;

    Abstract : After the invasion of Iraq and the destruction of Saddam regime in 2003, the US administration undertook the complete remaking of Iraq as a national-state. The initial steps of the US administration were the quasi eradication of the old Iraqi State. READ MORE

  4. 2. The Viking Way : Religion and War in Late Iron Age Scandinavia

    Author : Neil Price; Martin Carver; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Archaeology; Viking Age; Vikings; Óðinn; seiðr; sorcery; shamanism; warfare; Norse religion; Norse mythology; Sámi; Arkeologi; Archaeology subjects; Arkeologiämnen; arkeologi; Archaeology;

    Abstract : The social role of magic is a prevalent theme of the medieval Icelandic sagas that claim to describe life several centuries earlier in the Viking Age, and indeed also saturates the Eddic poetry that is our primary source for the mythology and cosmology of the time. However, little archaeological or historical research has been done to explore what this aspect of ritual may really have meant to the men and women of late Iron Age Scandinavia. READ MORE