Sökning: "places of death"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 32 avhandlingar innehållade orden places of death.
1. End-of-life care in a Swedish county : patterns of demographic and social conditions, clinical problems and health care use
Sammanfattning : There is broad consensus in both international and national policy statements that care provided at end-of-life should be different from care provided during other periods of life. There is a need for comprehensive knowledge about the broad population of individuals who access the public health care system during the last period of life. LÄS MER
2. On Death in the Mesolithic : Or the Mortuary Practices of the Last Hunter-Gatherers of the South-Western Iberian Peninsula, 7th–6th Millennium BCE
Sammanfattning : The history of death is entangled with the history of changing social values, meaning that a shift in attitudes to death will be consistent with changes in a society’s world view.Late Mesolithic shell middens in the Tagus and Sado valleys, Portugal, constitute some of the largest and earliest burial grounds known, arranged and maintained by people with a hunting, fishing, and foraging lifestyle, c 6000–5000 cal BCE. LÄS MER
3. The Presence of the Absent. Memorials and Places of Ritual
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
4. Livets scener och dödens platser : Om bronsålder i södra Bohuslän utifrån en gravläggning i Faxehögen, Kareby socken
Sammanfattning : This thesis addresses the importance of regional variation in prehistory. In Kareby parish, in southern Bohuslän, western Sweden, a large burial mound was partially excavated in the 1960’s. A person in the Faxe mound, was buried with a belt plate, a dagger and arm rings. LÄS MER
5. Places of Rest in Worlds of Ruin : Havens in Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
Sammanfattning : In the inhospitable and ruined landscapes of post-apocalyptic fiction there are often found havens, places of rest that provide contrast to the desolation of the wasteland. This study explores the generic functions of such havens. LÄS MER
