Search for dissertations about: "Scandinavia"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 297 swedish dissertations containing the word Scandinavia.

  2. 11. Cretaceous palynofloras of southwestern Scandinavia

    Author : Vivi Vajda; Berggrundsgeologi; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES;

    Abstract : Cretaceous palynofloras of southwestern Scandinavia.... READ MORE

  4. 12. Decolonizing the Viking Age 1

    Author : Fredrik Svanberg; Engelska; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; death rituals; burial; grave; society; post-colonial; nationalism; deconstruction; Orientalism.; Arkeologi; Archaeology; community; Scandinavia; Viking Age;

    Abstract : Decolonizing the Viking Age 1 argues that the Scandinavian “Viking Age” can be seen as a system of knowledge constructed in the late 19th century and in its basic structures maintained up to the present day. This system of knowledge was heavily influenced by the nationalistic and evolutionary ideas of its time of making and may be described as a colonialism of the past. READ MORE

  5. 13. Creating Holy People and Places on the Periphery. A Study of the Emergence of Cults of Native Saints in the Ecclesiastical Provinces of Lund and Uppsala from the Eleventh to the Thirteenth Centuries : Att skapa heliga personer och platser i periferin: en studie om uppkomsten av inhemska helgonkulter i de lundensiska och uppsaliensiska kyrkoprovinserna, ca 1000–1300

    Author : Sara Ellis Nilsson; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; cults of saints; native saints; hagiography; liturgy; parchment fragments; conversion; Christianization; loca sanctorum; Middle Ages; Scandinavia; Micro-Christendom; unilocal; multilocal;

    Abstract : Holy people have been venerated in various forms by all religions and ideologies throughout history. Christianity is no exception with the development of the cults of saints beginning shortly after its formation. By the time Christianity reached Scandinavia, saints’ cults had been fully integrated into the Roman administrative structure. READ MORE

  6. 14. Daggers, knowledge & power

    Author : Jan Apel; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Archaeology; Daggers; flint; technology; social complexity; agency; social structure; transfer of knowledge and know-how; Late Neolithic and Bronze Age societies; Scandinavia; Europe; Arkeologi; Archaeology subjects; Arkeologiämnen; arkeologi; Archaeology;

    Abstract : This dissertation investigates how far the organisation of a traditional technology corresponds to the degree of social complexity in a sedentary, agrarian society. An examination of the production of flint daggers during the Late Stone Age and Early Bronze Age of Scandinavia indicates the presence of formal apprenticeship systems based on corporate descent groups. READ MORE

  7. 15. Locating Inter-Scandinavian Silent Film Culture : Connections, Contentions, Configurations

    Author : Anne Bachmann; Jan Olsson; Mark Sandberg; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; film history; silent film; Scandinavia; transnational film; film discourse; location; censorship; film adaptation; Cinema Studies; filmvetenskap;

    Abstract : The thesis revisits film and film-culture history in Sweden, Denmark and Norway with a view to discourses and practices of the inter- and trans-Scandinavian in the silent era. Excluding the earliest films, but including the transition to synchronised sound, it covers the period of the 1900s to 1930 with emphasis on the 1910s and 1920s. READ MORE