Faculty of Humanities / Humanistiska fakulteten: Recent submissions
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Att inventera ett folk. Populariseringar av vetenskaplig släktforskning i Sverige i början av 1900-talet
(2022)This licentiate-thesis aims to describe and analyse the popularisation of what was called “scientific genealogy” in Sweden during the early 20th century. The study is constructed around two case-studies where I describe ... -
Termer och begrepp – både nytta och nöje! Rapport från ett pågående forskningsprojekt
(2022)Termer, begrepp och begreppsdefinitioner är centrala resurser när experter inom fackområden kommunicerar med varandra, experter kommunicerar med icke-experter och icke-experter kommunicerar med andra icke-experter. Exempel ... -
Stone Age Companions: Humans and animals in hunter-gatherer burials in north-eastern Europe
(2022-05-17)This thesis examines the relationships between humans and animals in their mutual environment and how these relationships were expressed in the burial practices of northern foragers. The empirical research material consists ... -
Confluence and Divergence of Emancipatory Healthcare Ideals and Psychiatric Contextual Challenges
(2022-05-09)Person-centered care (PCC) is generally understood to involve shaping healthcare processes, decisions, and plans according to the individual values, preferences, or goals of each patient. This is in contrast to more ... -
Resources and Applications for Dialectal Arabic: the Case of Levantine
(2022-05-03)This is a thesis about the computational study of Dialectal Arabic (DA). In particular, the thesis studies DA, with a special emphasis on Levantine Arabic, and develops tools and resources for the computational study of ... -
Beastly Lessons: Natural Utopias in Seventeenth-Century England
(2022-04-06)The present study investigates the motif of virtuous animal instructors in three selected English texts from the second half of the seventeenth century: James Howell’s The Parly of Beasts (1660), Margaret Cavendish’s The ... -
Assembling the Historic Environment: Heritage in the Digital Making
(2022-03-02)The historic environment is a formulation of the cultural past as experienced and documented in space. Traditional approaches to the historic environment tend to favour conservational and preservational paradigms, such as ... -
In Search of the Self: A Study of the International Scene of Modern Advaitic Satsang in Present-Day Rishikesh
(2022-02-10)The north Indian pilgrimage town Rishikesh has since the late 1990’s become something of a center for the international scene of Modern Advaita. An increasing number of teachers and adherents from mainly Western countries ... -
Settlement Scaling and Urban Infrastructure: A Comparative Approach to Settlements from the Ancient Indus society
(2022-01-17)The scope of the present thesis is to analyze the major variabilities among Indus settlements and urban infrastruc ture of the ancient Indus society during 2600-1900BCE. This includes the process of urbanization in relation ... -
Fadern, sonen och världsalltet. En nytolkning av runinskriften på Rökstenen. Volym 2
(Meijerbergs institut för svensk etymologisk forskning Göteborgs universitet, 2021-12-17) -
Fadern, sonen och världsalltet. En nytolkning av runinskriften på Rökstenen. Volym 1
(Meijerbergs institut för svensk etymologisk forskning Göteborgs universitet, 2021-12-17) -
Wicked women and witches. Subversive readings of the female monster in Mexican and Argentinian horror film
(2021-11-19)This thesis accrues to the growing field of Latin American horror scholarship in relation to gender and sexuality, discussing the implications of the representation of the feminized, racialized and/or impoverished monster ... -
Giving Executives Their Due: Just Pay, Desert, and Equality
(2021-11-19)Before, during, and after the global financial crisis of 2008, executive pay practices were widely debated and criticized. Economists, philosophers, as well as the man on the street all seem to have strong feelings towards ... -
Iron Age Keys, Locks, and Chests: Exploring Locking Practices and Social Identities at Birka, Helgö, Lovö, Sanda, and Vallhagar
(2021-11-08)The use of keys, locks, and chests in the Scandinavian Iron Age is a subject overshadowed by the assumed connection between keys and the housewife with her administrative role on the farm. The key is sometimes even seen ... -
Mobility, Subsistence and Mortuary practices. An interdisciplinary study of Neolithic and Early Bronze Age megalithic populations of southwestern Sweden
(2021-11-02)The main objective of this thesis is to gain new knowledge of the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age societies constructing and using megalithic graves in inland southwestern Sweden. The aim is addressed with an interdisciplinary ... -
The Multiple Functions of the Reflexive Prefix in Hehe, Sukuma, Nilamba, and Nyaturu
(2021-10-21)This dissertation describes and analyses the multiple functions of the reflexive prefix in four North Eastern Bantu languages, Hehe, Sukuma, Nilamba, and Nyaturu, all spoken in Tanzania. Apart from encoding the reflexive ... -
Le sommeil dans À la recherche du temps perdu de Marcel Proust: une étude intertextuelle
(2021-10-05)This thesis examines the intertextual aspects of the sleep motif in À la recherche du temps perdu by Marcel Proust. Literary scholars and theorists have generally iden- tified two dominant ways of depicting sleep in ... -
Ich kan – ich könne – ich kann. Eine Reise schwedischer Schüler durch die Welt der deutschen Verben
(2021-09-28)Wenn man Deutsch als Fremdsprache unterrichtet, geschieht es häufig, dass man als Lehrkraft neue Formen erklärt und Lerner diese in verschiedenen Übungen verwenden lässt, um kurz darauf feststellen zu müssen, dass sich die ... -
Encountering Environments. Natural conditions for subsistence and trade at Monte Polizzo, Sicily, 650-550 BC.
(2021-08-30)The overall aim of this thesis is to deepen our knowledge about indigenous western Sicilians commonly called the Elymians and, ultimately, to recognise them as independent actors in Sicilian history. A vital part of this ...