Search for dissertations about: "museums"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 51 swedish dissertations containing the word museums.

  2. 6. Lighting candles before a headless Jesus : sacred heritage, heritagized sacredness, and the many journeys between categories

    Author : Helena Wangefelt Ström; Anna Foka; Federico Barbierato; Sabina Brevaglieri; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; sacred heritage; religious heritage; heritage; heritagization; material religion; early modern Italy; early modern Rome; early modern Venice; collections; Catholic history; early modern travelers; religious conflict; post secularism; museums; museology; heritage studies; uses of heritage; religiöst kulturarv; sakralt kulturarv; kulturarv; kulturarvifiering; materiell kultur; materialitet; tidigmodern historia; tidigmoderna Italien; Rom; Venedig; samlingar; samlande; katolsk historia; postsekularism; museologi; kulturarvsstudier; museer; tidigmodernt resande; religionskonflikt; kulturarvsbruk; museology; museologi;

    Abstract : The overarching aim of this thesis, situated within Museology and Heritage Studies, is to investigate the different modes and devices of transfer between sacredness and heritage. The research question, 'What happens in the transfer between heritage and sacredness?', is investigated as production of sacred heritage in early modern Europe and specifically Sweden, Rome, and Venice (Part I), and as uses of the sacred as heritage in different times and contexts (Part II). READ MORE

  4. 7. Mediated Post-Soviet Nostalgia

    Author : Ekaterina Kalinina; Johan Fornäs; Staffan Ericsson; Vlad Strukov; Södertörns högskola; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; structure of feeling; nostalgia; memory; past; Russia; Post-Soviet; mediation; television; fashion; internet; theatre; museums; restaurants.; Kritisk kulturteori; Critical and Cultural Theory; Östersjö- och Östeuropaforskning; Baltic and East European studies;

    Abstract : Post-Soviet nostalgia, generally understood as a sentimental longing forthe Soviet past, has penetrated deep into many branches of Russian popular culture in the post-1989 period. The present study investigates how the Soviet past has been mediated in the period between 1991 and 2012 as one element of a prominent structure of feeling in present-day Russian culture. READ MORE

  5. 8. From Curiosa to World Culture. The History of the Latin American Collections at the Museum of World Culture in Sweden

    Author : Adriana Muñoz; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Archeology; Ethnography; Collections; Museums; Practices; National-States; World Culture; Latin America; Gothenburg; Sweden;

    Abstract : This thesis discusses the history of the Latin American collections stored today at the Museum of World Culture in Sweden, emphasizing the relationship between the political ideological context of society and the signifi cance that the objects have been given over time. When the fi rst collections started to come to Sweden they meant a cosmopolitan touch to the upcoming bourgeoisie of the city of Gothenburg. READ MORE

  6. 9. Different Images of Science - A study of how science is constituted in exhibitions

    Author : Eva Davidsson; Utbildningsvetenskap; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; learning in informal settings; science exhibitions; staff members; exhibition design; exhibition contents; museums; Science centres; informal learning;

    Abstract : Within the science and technology centre (STC) movement there exists explicit aims and ambitions to enhance visitors’ interest in and knowledge about science. Meanwhile, several researches question the choice of the scientific content in exhibitions when arguing that a too unproblematic view of science commonly is presented. READ MORE

  7. 10. Travelling objects : modernity and materiality in British Colonial travel literature about Africa

    Author : Nicklas Hållen; Heidi Hansson; Stefan Helgesson; Tim Youngs; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; travel literature; Africa; modernity; materiality; material objects; things; commodity form; commodity culture; postcolonialism; Homi Bhabha; museums; exhibitions; colonialism; geography; space; trade; ethnography; the book; ambivalence; subject-object relations; fetishism; John Speke; Verney Cameron; Henry Stanley; Mary Kingsley; Ewart Grogan; Constance Larymore; Mary Hall; English language; Engelska språket; Literature; litteraturvetenskap; English literature; Comparative literature; Historia;

    Abstract : This study examines the functions of objects in a selection of British colonial travel accounts about Africa. The works discussed were published between 1863 and 1908 and include travelogues by John Hanning Speke, Verney Lovett Cameron, Henry Morton Stanley, Mary Henrietta Kingsley, Ewart Scott Grogan, Mary Hall and Constance Larymore. READ MORE