Department of Historical Studies / Institutionen för Historiska studier: Recent submissions
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Out of Sight, Out of Mind. The ‘Social Death’ of Institutionalized Women and Children and the ‘Social Amnesia’ of Irish Society in the Twentieth Century, Depicted in Forensic Evidence from the Children's Mass Grave at a former Mother and Baby Home in Tuam, Co. Galway.
(2021-02-26)The twentieth century was a time of social and political changes. Victims of trauma, genocide, massacres and abuse in a largely Post-Colonial era would increasingly gain recognition and places of suffering, death and pain ... -
Explorativ graffiti. Flerdimensionalitet och polyagenter
(2021-02-26)Graffiti is a widespread term, often referring to illicit or troublesome imagery practices. In this essay graffiti from four independent locales has been explored through a polyagentive multidimensional approach. How changes ... -
Så skapades bilden av en kejsarinna Bilden av kejsarinnorna Plotina och Sabina som en del av kejsarnas maktutövning
(2020-12-08)The official images of the empresses Plotina and Sabina were changed during the period of the adoptive emperors Trajan and Hadrian. A central focus in this thesis is how Trajan and Hadrian exercised their power by letting ... -
Närliggande Megalitgravar på västkusten - En jämförelse av grupper med närliggande gravar
(2020-11-19)During studies of the megalithic graves on western Orust, I noticed that some of the graves were located in the vicinity of each other, in one case less than 100m. These graves must have some sort of relation to each ... -
Utställningens tredje rum En komparativ analys av två svenska museers avkoloniseringsstrategier centrerad kring föremåls framställning i utställningar
(2020-11-17)This study aims to compare two exhibitions to find out the decolonizing strategies and how they are affecting the material culture that they exhibit. ñseums around the world are in the midst of decolonization. This process ... -
Hur vi tolkar ritual - om tolkningen av arkeologiskt material som ritualiserat
(2020-11-11)This essay aims to analyse how different archaeologists interpret archaeological remains as ritualistic. It compares different definitions of rituality in archaeology as well as Catherine Bells definition of ritualisation ... -
Hjälte eller antihjälte? En analys av maskuliniteter i Euripides dramer
(2020-09-09)Syftet med uppsatsen är att undersöka maskuliniteter hos hjältarna i tre av Euripides dramer, Ifigenia i Aulis, Trojanskorna och Hekabe. De frågeställningar som behandlas är om hjältarna kan anses representera en hegemonisk ... -
Urval av arkeologiskt fyndmaterial i fält: en studie av gallringspraxis i Västsverige
(2020-08-04)This essay focuses on the disposal of archaeological material within archaeological fieldwork in Sweden. It explores how archaeological finds are valued and treated in the field with reference to current Swedish regulatory ... -
Make Great Zimbabwe Great Again A study of the political usage of Great Zimbabwe 1980–2020
(2020-08-04)The purpose of this master’s thesis is to show how Great Zimbabwe was politically used during the period 1980-2020. This work was also carried out with the aim to examine and nuance how archaeology is used within the ... -
The Site of an Unidentified Greek Settlement? New Surveys in Coda Volpe on Eastern Sicily
(2020-06-30)This study examines Greek colonisation’s potential for archaeology in relation to Coda Volpe district on eastern Sicily where necropoleis indicate the existence of unidentified both Greek and Roman settlements. Recent ... -
Ur ett annat perspektiv - Arkeologi och kulturarv ur jordbrukares synvinkel.
(2020-03-11)Farmers and archaeologists have one particular thing in common, they both play an important role in the management and preservation of our common physical cultural heritage in the landscapes. But is there any cooperation ... -
Mosslikens liv och död Encounters i norra Europa under förromersk järnålder
(2020-01-21)Abstract The purpose is to examine 17 bog bodies in the north-west of Europe, from the perspective of encounters. All bog bodies are considered as deviants from the social consensus. Focus will be on clothing, hair ... -
Lust och plåga
(2019-10-16)Kvinnliga hämnare är vanligt förekommande i grekiska tragedier. I uppsatsen görs en analys av tre kvinnliga hämnare, Medea, Klytaimnestra och Elektra, vad avser deras känslor, drivkrafter, makt och agerande beträffande d ... -
Talkin' New York
(2019-10-03)This thesis deals with aspects of femininty and masculinity in Greenwich Villages folk music movement during it's heyday in the 1960s. The purpouse of the study is to challenge the common image of the folknik movement as ... -
Vår vän och kamrat
(2019-10-03)This study deals with the Swedish Marxist-Leninists view on time and authoritarian leaders, in particular, Josef Stalin and Mao Tse-tung 1968-1972. In order to do that this study survey three different categories; criticism ... -
Det politiska äktenskapet
(2019-06-27)Pompeius Magnus fem äktenskap är ett mycket tydligt exempel på hur iden med det politiska äktenskapet kunde te sig under senrepubliken och bildar därmed bakgrund till denna uppsats. Jag har två syften med uppsatsen: ... -
Tacksamma, ödmjuka och arbetsamma
(2019-06-27)Denna undersökning bygger på textanalys av nyhetsartiklar och småannonser i Dagens Nyheter åren 1945 till 1949. Syftet är att utifrån texternas beskrivning av flyktingar och utlänningar få en bild av svenskarnas inställning ... -
Vem hyllas i romerska laudationes riktade till kvinnor?
(2019-06-26)In this thesis I will discuss questions concerning the possibilities for women to reach power and influence. My investigation is based on Roman funeral speeches laudationes and adressed to five women, Popilia, Julia, ... -
”liksom Cato om Cartagos murar”: Erfarenhet och förväntan i Samfundet I.I: Judiska Intresset 1841–1875
(2019-06-24)This thesis examines the secret Samfundet I.I: Judiska Intresset (Society I.I: the Jewish Cause) which was founded in 1841 in Stockholm and opened a chapter in Gothenburg the same year. Its goal was to fight for emancipation ... -
Hällristningar och graffiti ur ett flerdimensionellt perspektiv
(2019-06-18)This essay compares Scandinavian rock carvings, from the bronze age (1700-500 BC) with modern day graffiti. The rock carvings are found in northern parts of Bohuslän and western parts of Västra Götaland on the Swedish west ...