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Visar resultat 11 - 15 av 60 avhandlingar innehållade orden contexts of death.
11. I ritens rum - om mötet mellan tyg och människa : In a Room of Rites – Cloth Meeting Human
Sammanfattning : The project In a Room of Rites – Cloth Meeting Human is an artistic research project on textiles, rites and death, where I create textile art in the form of a funeral pall (in the artwork: Kortedalakrönika (Kortedala Chronicle) and infant wrapping cloths (in the artwork: I sin linda/Wrapped in Cloth). The initial aim of the project is to explore what textiles can mean at farewells and in funeral rituals, as well as to reflect on the experiences I gain in my art making. LÄS MER
12. End of Life Stroke Care : perspectives of health-care professionals and family members
Sammanfattning : IntroductionEven though medical improvements have reduced the mortality rates for patients afflicted by stroke, mortality during the first few days at hospital is significant. Today, there is an increasing recognition that the principles of palliative and supportive care are important components of meeting the needs of patients severely afflicted by stroke even in acute settings. LÄS MER
13. Ryktbarhetens ansikte : Verner von Heidenstam, medierna och personkulten i sekelskiftets Sverige
Sammanfattning : Ryktbarhetens ansikte behandlar en tidigare outforskad aspekt av svensk litteraturoch kulturhistoria: författaren som celebritet. Kändisskap är ingen senmodern företeelse kopplad till uppkomsten av medieformer som film eller television. LÄS MER
14. Heder på liv och död : Våldsamma berättelser om rykten, oskuld och heder
Sammanfattning : This dissertation discusses how reputation, virginity and honour are made topical in the stories of the lives of Arab and Kurdish women and connected with understandings of culture and religion. The dissertation is composed of five articles, which contain the principal analysis, and five chapters that discuss the project as a whole; the development of the main topics, and choices concerning methodological, ethical and theoretical approaches. LÄS MER
15. Promise, Protection, and Prosperity. Aspects of the "Shield" as a Religious Relational Metaphor in an Ancient Near Eastern Perspective. An Iconographical and Textual Analysis
Sammanfattning : This thesis discusses the religious metaphorical use of different words for "shield" in the Hebrew Bible and Egyptian and Assyrian literature. The literary contexts in the analysis are delimited based on the observation that they share a similar view of divine intervention in war and an analogous view of the enemy. LÄS MER
