Sökning: "the afterlife"

Visar resultat 6 - 10 av 10 avhandlingar innehållade orden the afterlife.

  1. 6. Fester, platser och visuell kultur i Stockholm under den gustavianska epoken

    Författare :Christopher Landstedt; Anna Bortolozzi; Peter Gillgren; Johanna Ilmakunnas; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; visual culture; 18th century; neoclassicism; festivities; masquerade; divertissement; illumination; Stockholm; architecture; medal; sculpture; antiquity; the Burghers of Stockholm; Gustav III; Gustav IV Adolf; konstvetenskap; Art History;

    Sammanfattning : The dissertation is a study of festivities, masquerades and divertissements in Stockholm between 1772 to 1808 of the Gustavian era. The study focuses on the locations of these events, their conditions, use, and transformation. LÄS MER

  3. 7. Peasants and Stock Markets : Pathways from Collective Farming in the Post-Soviet Grain-Belt

    Författare :Brian Kuns; Anders Wästfelt; Mats Widgren; Jennifer Clapp; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Agrarian change; environmental history; Ukraine; Russia; U.S.S.R.; large-scale agriculture; agroholdings; financialization; smallholders; peasants; irrigation; uneven development; actor network theory; multi-sited and mixed methods; Geography with Emphasis on Human Geography; geografi med kulturgeografisk inriktning;

    Sammanfattning : What happened in the post-Soviet, European grain-belt after collective farms were dissolved and in what way can we say that collective farm legacies influence agrarian developments in this region today? These are the main questions of this thesis, which is a work of critical human geography, but is also inspired by theories, methods and approaches from the social sciences, broadly defined. Territorially, the focus is Ukraine, but several articles in this thesis take a wider geographic perspective beyond Ukraine, in particular taking into account the role of Nordic investors in the agrarian sector in Ukraine and Russia. LÄS MER

  4. 8. Gallery Experience : Viewers, Screens and the Space In-Between in Contemporary Installation Art

    Författare :Olivia Eriksson; Malin Wahlberg; Anu Koivunen; Ilona Hongisto; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; gallery film; film installation; artists film; archival art; film experience; film phenomenology; embodied experience; relational aesthetics; participation; site specificity; Olafur Eliasson; Fiona Tan; Akram Zaatari; Richard Mosse; Jesper Just; filmvetenskap; Cinema Studies;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation explores gallery experience as an embodied and site-specific occurrence. Using an interdisciplinary approach that bridges art historical research with film theoretical perspectives, it offers contextualized, in-depth analyses of a limited number of contemporary installation works exhibited in Scandinavia during 2014–2016. LÄS MER

  5. 9. Soul and Self in Vedic India

    Författare :Per-Johan Norelius; Nils Billing; Jens Wilhelm Borgland; Joel Brereton; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Vedic religion; Brāhmaṇas; Upaniṣads; ritual interiorization; soul; personhood; Religionshistoria; History of Religions;

    Sammanfattning : The study employs the analytical concept of “soul” as an umbrella term under which, it is argued, a variety of conceptions pertaining to life, personality, consciousness, and afterlife may be usefully grouped to-gether and analyzed. A survey is conducted of the various Vedic con-cepts which fall within this category, their development being traced from the earliest times to the close of the Vedic era. LÄS MER

  7. 10. "Tired of weeping" : child death and mourning among Papel mothers in Guinea-Bissau

    Författare :Jónína Einarsdóttir; Susan Reynolds Whyte; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; socialantropologi; Social Anthropology;

    Sammanfattning : The study examines the assumption that mothers in poverty stricken areas with high rates of fertility and child mortality will, as a survival strategy, neglect their children, sometimes with a fatal outcome and then fail to mourn their death. The thesis is based on anthropological fieldwork conducted in 1993-98 among the Papel people in Guinea-Bissau, West-Africa. LÄS MER