Sökning: "Archaeology of the contemporary past"
Visar resultat 11 - 15 av 43 avhandlingar innehållade orden Archaeology of the contemporary past.
11. Medeltider : samtida mobiliseringsprocesser kring det förflutnas värden
Sammanfattning : Den här studien använder en bred förståelse av begreppet medeltider för att visa hur värden och handlingsnormer skapas och omförhandlas i samtida historiebruk. Den bidrar till analysen och diskussionen kring minnespolitikens centrala spänningsförhållanden där representativa demokratiska och nationella mål ställs mot direkt demokratiska och mångkulturella tankemönster. LÄS MER
12. Tilling Nature - Harvesting Culture. Exploring Images of the Human Being in the Transition to Agriculture
Sammanfattning : Archaeology is about human beings – in the present and in the past. When we concern ourselves with archaeology we have to imagine prehistoric human beings thinking, feeling and acting. This imagining is the very precondition for the creation of meaning from the fragments and traces of human lives that we choose as our data. LÄS MER
13. Rum utan utsikt : Fönster och ljus i medeltida byggnader
Sammanfattning : Windows, light and a view are self-evident parts of contemporary interiors. This was not the case in Scandinavia during the Middle Ages (c. 1050–1520 CE), when closed spaces without wall openings were standard. LÄS MER
14. Vikingaskeppet Ormen Friskes undergång : Ett drama i det kalla krigets skugga
Sammanfattning : This dissertation consists of three separately published parts, all dealing with problems involving reconstructions of Viking Age ships, travelling experiments with such ships and people’s relations and attitudes to them. The Ormen Friske, a Swedish replica of the Norwegian Gokstad ship, sank in the North Sea in June 1950, drowning all 15 on board. LÄS MER
15. Displaying Loot: The Benin objects and the British Museum
Sammanfattning : This study deals with the objects, now in the British Museum, that were looted from Benin City, present-day Nigeria, in 1897. It looks at how the museum represents the Benin objects, the Edo/African, the British/Westerner, and the British Museum. LÄS MER