Sökning: "the maya culture"

Hittade 4 avhandlingar innehållade orden the maya culture.

  1. 1. The Elders and the Hills: Animism and Cosmological Re-Creation among the Q'eqchi' Maya in Chisec, Guatemala

    Författare :Stefan Permanto; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Animism; Cosmology; Rituals; Environment; Q’eqchi’; Maya; Guatemala; Latin America.;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis is based on fieldwork conducted in the municipality of Chisec in the department of Alta Verapaz in Guatemala. Within the context of post-war Maya cultural emergence and the recent introduction of non-indigenous elements this study examines the cosmological notions and ritual practices among a group of elderly Q’eqchi’ men and women. LÄS MER

  3. 2. The roads in-between : causeways and polyagentive networks at Ichmul and Yo'okop, Cochuah Region, Mexico

    Författare :Johan Normark; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; agency; architecture; becoming; Bergson; causeway; Cochuah; culture critique; Deleuze; difference; duration; event horizon; evolution; humanocentrism; Ichmul; ideology; in-between; index; materialtiy; Maya; Mexico; multiplicity; neo-materialism; network; polyagency; polyagent; posthumanism; practice; rhizome; road; sakbe; settlement archaeology; technoscience; temporality; Terminal Classic; virutality; Yo okop;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation has two aims: (1) To characterize and abandon the humanocentric archaeology that relies upon quasi-objects and to develop the polyagentive archaeology that relies upon actualizations of the virtual. (2) To exemplify the latter approach by studying how causeways (sakbeob) in the Maya area relate to temporality and materialtiy at, and around, the two neighbouring sites of Ichmul and Yo'okop in the Cochuah region of southeast Yucatan and west-central Quintana Roo in Mexico. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Film på konstmuseum : Nationalmuseums möten med filmmediet 1945–1950

    Författare :Jimmy Pettersson; Jessica Sjöholm Skrubbe; Peter Gillgren; Maria Görts; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; History of media; Film; Avant-garde film; Experimental film; Art film; Non-theatrical film; Educational film; Film exhibition; Art museum; Nationalmuseum; Viking Eggeling; Hans Richter; Museum of Modern Art; Iris Barry; FIAF; Film society; konstvetenskap; Art History;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation presents a number of previously-forgotten practices and ‘expected opportunities’ which surrounded film at the Swedish National Museum of Fine Arts (Nationalmuseum), between 1945 and 1950. The dissertation is structured around three projects and each project has its own chapter. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Churches, Chapels, and Maya Dwellings of Colonial Yucatán and Belize. A Postcolonial Approach

    Författare :Teobaldo Ramirez Barbosa; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Hybridity; Churches; dwellings;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis was conceived as an attempt to use the terms hybridity and third space in historical archaeology with a comparative analysis of early colonial churches and Maya dwellings on the Yucatán Peninsula and Belize. This analysis was aimed at reconsidering the influence of the indigenous societies in colonial encounters represented as hybrid material culture. LÄS MER