Sökning: "Afrikansk"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 26 avhandlingar innehållade ordet Afrikansk.

1. 1. Nqabayo’s Nomansland: San Rock Art and the Somatic Past

   Författare :Geoffrey Blundell; Paul Sinclair; Knut Helskog; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Archaeology; San; Bushman; southern Africa; Nomansland; Eastern Cape; Storm Shelter; rock art; shamanism; Kalahari revisionist debate; body; embodiment; somatic past; postcolonial; colonial; Arkeologi; Archaeology subjects; Arkeologiämnen;

   Sammanfattning : The most significant challenge facing modern southern African rock art research is the integration of rock paint­ings into the construction of San history. This challenge is made all the more difficult because of poor chronologi­cal control over the images. LÄS MER

3. 2. Changing Landscapes : An Environmental History of Chibuene, Southern Mozambique

   Författare :Anneli Ekblom; Paul Sinclair; Louis Scott; João Morais; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Archaeology; environmental history; archaeology; archaeobotany; paleoecology; vegetation history; pollen analysis; environmental management; environmental insecurity; resource utilisation; landscape; paleclimatology; trade; oral tradition; Mozambique; Vilanculos; Arkeologi; Archaeology subjects; Arkeologiämnen;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis analyses the dynamics of environmental change and its embeddedness in the long term interactions of social history and rainfall variability through the building of an environmental history of the Chibuene locality, the coastal plain of southern Mozambique, 5 km south of the town Vilanculos, from 400 AD to present day. Land-use practices over time are discussed on the basis of vegetation and land-use history based pollen analysis, charcoal influx and diatom analysis. LÄS MER

4. 3. Unguja Ukuu on Zanzibar : An archaeological study of early urbanism

   Författare :Abdurahman Juma; Paul Sinclair; Chapurukha M Kusimba; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Archaeology; cultural complexity; cycles; early urbanism; and urban characterization; Arkeologi; Archaeology subjects; Arkeologiämnen;

   Sammanfattning : This study describes archaeological excavations carried out at Unguja Ukuu on the main island of Zanzibar, Tanzania. The site has long remained obscure, oral histories do not mention it and no particular group among the living community of the island describes its origin from the site. LÄS MER

5. 4. Preserving Impermanence : The Creation of Heritage in Vientiane, Laos

   Författare :Anna Karlström; Paul Sinclair; Frands Herschend; Beverley Butler; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Vientiane; Laos; heritage; impermanence; preservation; restoration; destruction; immateriality; materiality; narrativity; Buddhism; animism; Archaeology subjects; Arkeologiämnen; arkeologi; Archaeology; kulturantropologi; Cultural Anthropology; Ethnology; etnologi; historia; History;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis is about the heritage in Vientiane. In an attempt to go beyond a more traditional descriptive approach, the study aims at bringing forward a discussion about the definition, or rather the multiplicity of definitions, of the concept of heritage as such. LÄS MER

7. 5. Transitions : a landscape approach to social and cultural changes in southern Mozambique 5000 BC-1000 AD

   Författare :Marjaana Kohtamäki; Paul Sinclair; Anneli Ekblom; Stephanie Wynne-Jones; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; hunter gatherers farmers african archaeology ceramics lithics iron landscape; Archaeology; Arkeologi;

   Sammanfattning : The discussion of interactions between foragers and farmers in southern Africa has conventionally been linked to the migrations of Bantu-speaking farmers and their associated material culture. Further, the transition from foraging to farming has typically been interpreted as a rapid replacement of the former lifestyle by the latter, allegedly superior socio-economic package. LÄS MER