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Visar resultat 21 - 25 av 459 uppsatser innehållade ordet Ritual.
21. Bog Bodies in a Macro Perspective. A Spatial Study of Early Iron Age Scanian Bog Skeletons and Their Cultural Roles as Seen Through the Liminality Perspective
Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/ArkeologiSammanfattning : This thesis was written with the aims to better understand the spatial relation between the Scanian iron Age bog bodies and the archaeological remains within the surrounding landscape, which in turn would lead to a new theory of understanding the cultural and social aspects of the bog body phenomenon, specifically by applying the liminality perspective. This was done by approaching the material through a wider macro perspective, as opposed to the normally individual-focused micro perspective most used in the bog body research. LÄS MER
22. Living among gods – The Capacocha children : A hermeneutic analysis of the Chakana philosophy
Master-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/ArkeologiSammanfattning : This thesis aims to study the Capacocha, which is an Inca ritual where children were offered to their gods in the sacred places called Huacas (places of origin) and offered artefacts together with the children links to the Inca's sacred symbol, the Chakana, which in turn it is the life philosophy of the Inca culture. This thesis uses this philosophy to understand the phenomenon and the elements that define Huacas and the Capacocha ritual. LÄS MER
23. A Place of Passage : Disturbed burials and dispersed human bone remains from the Mid-Neolithic burial ground at Ajvide on Gotland
Master-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historiaSammanfattning : The Mid-Neolithic site of Ajvide on the Baltic Island of Gotland comprises the burials of 89 individuals within 85 separate burial contexts (Österholm 2008). Some of these individuals were detected with absent skeletal elements, such as the cranium, which have been believed to be represented by the considerable number of dispersed human bone fragments discovered from the site (Burenhult 2002: 33, see also Lundén 2012). LÄS MER
24. Floating Thresholds – On the Idea of the Portal in Architecture
Uppsats för yrkesexamina på avancerad nivå, KTH/ArkitekturSammanfattning : This project investigates a specific concept within architecture: the portal. Divided into eight independent chapters, all possible to read as stand-alone parts, the thesis – a hybrid essay consisting of text, images, drawings and models – uses the portal as a springboard, or tool, for approaching existing theories on the invisible forces that shape the world and our built environment. LÄS MER
25. A Gotlandic Picture Stone Tradition Reconsidered : An analysis and reclassification of the so-called kerbstones
Master-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historiaSammanfattning : In 1941/42, Sune Lindqvist published his seminal work on the Gotlandic picture stones (Gotlands Bildsteine I & II) in which he included a category of stones that he interpreted as kerbstones. However, Lindqvist’s kerbstones have not received further examination or contextualization to determine the validity of his categorization. LÄS MER
