Search for dissertations about: "archaeological theory"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 26 swedish dissertations containing the words archaeological theory.

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. Embodied Rituals and Ritualized Bodies : Tracing Ritual Practcies in Late Mesolithic Burials

   Author : Liv Nilsson Stutz; Timothy Taylor; Arkeologi; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; archaeothantology; mortuary archaeology; ritual theory; body theory; practice theory; mesolithic; Archaeology; Arkeologi; anthropologie de terrain; mortuary practices; ritual; Mesolithic; practice theory; Archaeology; Arkeologi;

   Abstract : This thesis explores the ritual dimensions of the mortuary practices in the late Mesolithic cemeteries at Skateholm in Southern Sweden and Vedbæk-Bøgebakken in Eastern Denmark. With a combination of methods and theories that all focus on the ritual practices as action, a new approach to burials in archaeology is proposed. READ MORE

5. 3. Positioning the Bronze Age in Social Theory and Research Context

   Author : Anna Gröhn; Arkeologi; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; social theory; practice theory; landscape; European cultural heritage; Stora Köpinge; Archaeology; longhouses; Arkeologi; Scandinavia; Bronze Age;

   Abstract : The thesis investigates the theoretical background and the research context within which interpretations of the Nordic Bronze Age have been formed in Scandinavian archaeology. A theoretical analysis that emphasises theories of social practice and phenomenological perspectives is presented. READ MORE

6. 4. The Archaeological Encounter in British Fiction, 1880–1940

   Author : Leonard Driscoll; Stephen Donovan; Matthew Rubery; Roger Luckhurst; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Late-Nineteenth-Century Fiction; Modernism; Archaeology; Thing Theory; Thomas Hardy; H. Rider Haggard; Virginia Woolf; English; Engelska; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap;

   Abstract : Ancient artefacts appeared frequently in late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century British fiction. Prehistoric stone circles, enigmatic potsherds, Egyptian mummies, and other such antiquities featured in everything from fin de siècle adventure narratives to the major works of High Modernism. READ MORE

7. 5. Storied lines : using historical documentation to characterize archaeological connectivity

   Author : Gísli Pálsson; Philip I. Buckland; Carl Knappett; Sören Sindbæk; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; archaeology; iceland; history; 18th century; network analysis; postgis; cidoc-crm; assemblage theory; archaeoinformatics; network;

   Abstract : As the title suggests, this thesis applies historical documentation as a connective tissue to link together the main conceptual classes in Iceland’s largest SMR, Ísleif. These are the roughly 6000 historic farmsteads used as a classification scheme in Johnsen’s 1847 land census Jarðatal Johnsens. This thesis has three main components. READ MORE