Sökning: "Mortuary rituals"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 11 avhandlingar innehållade orden Mortuary rituals.

  1. 1. Embodied Rituals and Ritualized Bodies : Tracing Ritual Practcies in Late Mesolithic Burials

    Författare :Liv Nilsson Stutz; Timothy Taylor; Arkeologi; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; archaeothantology; mortuary archaeology; ritual theory; body theory; practice theory; mesolithic; Archaeology; Arkeologi; anthropologie de terrain; mortuary practices; ritual; Mesolithic; practice theory; Archaeology; Arkeologi;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis explores the ritual dimensions of the mortuary practices in the late Mesolithic cemeteries at Skateholm in Southern Sweden and Vedbæk-Bøgebakken in Eastern Denmark. With a combination of methods and theories that all focus on the ritual practices as action, a new approach to burials in archaeology is proposed. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Att berätta en senneolitisk historia : Sten och metall i södra Sverige 2350-1700 f. Kr

    Författare :Eva Stensköld; Mats Burström; Björn Magnusson Staaf; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Late Neolithic; Flint daggers; Neolithic metal; Mortuary houses; Gallery graves; Passage rituals; Mortuary rituals; Initiation rites; Body modification; Decarnation; Narrative; Archaeology subjects; Arkeologiämnen;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis discusses aspects of how the Late Neolithic society in southern Sweden changed through the use of metal. Particular focus is on how the different categories of the material culture were utilized in this process – the Late Neolithic flint daggers and objects of stone imitating objects of metal. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Gotländska stenåldersstudier : Människor och djur, platser och landskap

    Författare :Helena Andersson; Anders Carlsson; Björn Nilsson; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Gotland; Stone Age; Middle Neolithic; Early Neolithic; Mesolithic; Pitted Ware culture; Battle Axe culture; Funnel Beaker culture; landscape; places; material culture; animals; mortuary practices; burials; rituals; identity; practice; arkeologi; Archaeology;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis deals mainly with the Middle Neolithic period (ca. 3200-2300 BC) on the island of Gotland in the Baltic Sea. The aim is to deepen the understanding of how the islanders related to their surroundings, to the landscape, to places, to objects, to animals and to humans, both living and dead. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Breaking and Making Bodies and Pots : Material and Ritual Practices in Sweden in the Third Millennium BC

    Författare :Åsa Maria Larsson; Anders Kaliff; Jan Storå; Joanna Sofaer; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Middle Neolithic; Late Neolithic; Pitted Ware culture; Battle Axe culture; Corded Ware culture; pottery; pottery technology; craft; chaîne opératoire; mortuary archaeology; mortuary house; burial; ritual; defleshing; cremation; secondary mortuary practice; osteology; ethnoarchaeology; culture; culture change; identity; ethnicity; practice; cognition; body; embodiment; Archaeology; North European; Arkeologi; nordeuropeisk; arkeologi; Archaeology;

    Sammanfattning : In South Sweden the third millennium BC is characterised by coastal settlements of marine hunter-gatherers known as the Pitted Ware culture, and inland settlements of the Battle Axe culture. This thesis outlines the history of research of the Middle Neolithic B in general and that of the pottery and burial practices in particular. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Gränser i livet - gränser i landskapet : Generationsrelationer och rituella praktiker i södermanländska bronsålderslandskap

    Författare :Susanne Thedéen; Bo Petre; Stig Welinder; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Bronze Age; East Central Sweden; Landscapes; Cosmology; Life Course; Gender; Children; Passage Rituals; Mortuary Practices; Cultural Construction of Age; Cairns; Heaps of Fire-Cracked Stones; Razors; Pins; Archaeology subjects; Arkeologiämnen;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis deals with issues relating to the cosmological dimensions of landscapes, the cultural construction of age and the long-term changes in passage rituals and mortuary practices in the Bronze Age societies of Södermanland in East Central Sweden. A gender perspective forms the underlying theoretical framework, while the study as a whole is particularly interested in power relations between generations as an impetus for societal change. LÄS MER