Sökning: "British Museum"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 7 avhandlingar innehållade orden British Museum.

  1. 1. Terrakottaföremål från Ghana på British Museum : Materiella och immateriella assemblage

    Författare :Mari Granath Lagercrantz; Hedvig Brander Jonsson; Camilla Flodin; Mårten Snickare; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :akan terracottas; Ghana; British Museum; musealization; Appadurai and Kopytoff; Deleuze and Guattari; DeLanda; the social life of things; rhizome; agency; assemblage theory; Robert P. Wild; El Anatsui; Konstvetenskap; History of Art;

    Sammanfattning : The purpose of the thesis is to identify, describe and interpret two series of terracotta objects from southern Ghana originally donated by Robert P. Wild to the British Museum in London between 1933 and 1936. LÄS MER

  2. 2. Displaying Loot: The Benin objects and the British Museum

    Författare :Staffan Lundén; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Benin; Benin bronzes; Benin objects; Britain; British Museum; colonialism; cultural property; Edo; heritage; loot; museums; museum studies; Nigeria; repatriation; representation; restitution; war booty; Westernness; Kulturföremål historia; Beninsk konst historia; Plundringar historia; Återlämning av kulturföremål; Kulturarvsbrott; Great Britain History; Cultural property Repatriation; Beninriket; Storbritannien;

    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

  3. 3. A late Middle English version of the gospel of Nicodemus : edited from British Museum MS Harley 149

    Författare :Bengt Lindström; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; English language; Engelska språket;

    Sammanfattning : .... LÄS MER

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

    Författare :Nicklas Hållen; Heidi Hansson; Stefan Helgesson; Tim Youngs; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :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;

    Sammanfattning : 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. LÄS MER

  5. 5. Theseus de Cologne, édition partielle d'une chanson de geste du XIVe siècle

    Författare :Mari Bacquin; Franska; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; moyen francais; la reine faussement accusée; romance; chanson de geste; motifs stéréotypés; epic genre; littérature médiévale; édition critique;

    Sammanfattning : BACQUIN, MARI, Theseus de Cologne, édition partielle d’une chanson de geste du XIVe siècle. Études romanes de Lund, 81, 355 pages. Written in French. Monograph. LÄS MER