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1. 6. Medeltiden materialiserad – om etablerandet, aktiverandet och bevarandet av minnesplatser i Ranrike

   Författare :Henrik Alexandersson; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; memory; churchyard; cemetery; archive; medieval; material culture; maritime history; itineraries; Bohuslän; Ranrike;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis revolves around medieval material culture and the way it has been activated, circulated and used in arrangement and creation of memories in a long-term perspective. Focus is on medieval churches, church sites and the furnishings of churches in Ranrike, which is the medieval name of the northern parts of the province of Bohuslän on the west coast of Sweden. LÄS MER

3. 7. Practices for the Living and the Dead : Medieval and Post-Reformation Burials in Scandinavia

   Författare :Kristina Jonsson; Anders Andrén; Stefan Brink; Jes Wienberg; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Burial; burial customs; burial practices; grave; death; churchyard; cemetery; social identity; medieval; post-Reformation; Archaeology; Arkeologi; arkeologi; Archaeology;

   Sammanfattning : The main themes of the thesis are burial customs and social identities, and how medieval and post-Reformation graves can provide information on such as age structures, phases in life, gender relations and social organization. The study is based on nine groups of Scandinavian material, and it comprises four case studies. LÄS MER

4. 8. The Presence of the Absent. Memorials and Places of Ritual

   Författare :Anna Petersson; Institutionen för arkitektur och byggd miljö; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; memorial; death; cemetery; space; profane; praesentia; symbol; place; private; sacred; public; ritual; body;

   Sammanfattning : Memorials and places of ritual, such as funeral monuments, roadside memorials and cemeteries, can be said to reveal the politics of religious space as in the tension between sacred and secular and between private and public interests. At the same time they also reflect a given society’s religious structures, cultural differences and social orderings, as well as the changes in these matters over time. LÄS MER

5. 9. Promised Soils : Senses of Place Among Yezidis in Dalarna and Sheikhan

   Författare :Maria Lindqvist; Lena Roos; Simon Sorgenfrei; Göran Larsson; Södertörns högskola; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Yezidi; Yezidi cemetery; Dalarna; Borlänge; Zahmanê Êzîdîa Li Dalarna; Iraq; Iraqi Kurdistan; Sheikhan; Lalish; transfer of ritual; social memory; jema’iyye; Çarşema-sor; Wednesday ritual; berat; diaspora; funeral rituals; mortuary practices; Historical Studies; Historiska studier;

   Sammanfattning : This is an ethnographic study that focuses on Zahmanê Êzîdîa Li Dalarna, the Yezidi cemetery, in Borlänge. The Swedish town of Borlänge has one of the largest Yezidi diaspora communities in Western Europe; a majority emigrated from the Northern Iraqi region of Sheikhan during the 1990s and early 2000s. LÄS MER

7. 10. De svenska städernas begravningsplatser 1770-1830 : Arkitektur, sanitet och det sociala rummet

   Författare :Hedvig Schönbäck; Carina Jacobsson; Anders Åman; Marta Edling; Tomas Björk; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :Art history; architecture; cemetery design; town planning; garden design; sanitation; social history; Board of Public Works and Buildings; Konstvetenskap; Överintendentsämbetet;

   Sammanfattning : The second half of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth centuries meant a reform of burial practice across Europe. Urban graveyards were criticised as unsanitary and socially deficient and the authorities therefore urged towns to establish cemeteries on the urban periphery. LÄS MER