Search for dissertations about: "colonialism"
Showing result 11 - 15 of 74 swedish dissertations containing the word colonialism.
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11. Kalaureia 1894 : A Cultural History of the First Swedish Excavation in Greece
Abstract : The excavation of the Sanctuary of Poseidon at Kalaureia in 1894 marks the beginning of Swedish archaeological fieldwork in Greece. During a couple of hot summer months, two philologists from Uppsala University, Sam Wide (1861-1918) and Lennart Kjellberg (1857-1936), worked in the sanctuary together with the architect Sven Kristenson (1858-1937), the Greek foreman Pankalos and around twenty local workmen. READ MORE
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12. Anglo-French Relations and the Acadians in Canada's Maritime Literature: Issues of Othering and Transculturation
Abstract : Ph.D. dissertation at the University of Gothenburg, 2008 Title: Anglo-French Relations and the Acadians in Canada s Maritime Literature: Issues of Othering and Transculturation. READ MORE
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13. Governing Black and White : A History of Governmentality in Denmark and the Danish West Indies, 1770-1900
Abstract : This dissertation explores and compares the rationalities through which Danish state officials sought to govern the colonized Afro-Caribbean population in the colony of the Danish West Indies and the state’s Danish subjects living in the metropole of Denmark in the period 1770-1900. Theoretically, it relies upon Michel Foucault’s conception of ’governmentality’ and the way this approach to governing, and to state power more generally, has been employed in various colonial and European settings, particularly within the field of colonial governmentality studies. READ MORE
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14. People in Between : Ethncity and Material Identity, a New Approach to Deconstructed Concepts
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
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15. Relations of Absence : Germans in the East Indies and Their Families c. 1750–1820
Abstract : In the early modern period thousands of Germans, mostly men but also a few women and children, travelled to the Indian Ocean world in the service of the Dutch and British East India companies (VOC and EIC). Family played a key role for these Ostindienfahrer (East Indies travellers). READ MORE
