Essays about: "Afterlife"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 17 essays containing the word Afterlife.

  1. 6. The Self: Towards A Method for Queering Death : An Identity Testament

    University essay from Konstfack/Industridesign

    Author : Lisa Berkert Wallard; [2019]
    Keywords : Speculative; Method; Design; Master Project; Death; Burial; Ceremonies; Sculpture; Scenery; Film; Wax; Moulding; Testament;

    Abstract : “The Self: Towards A Method for Queering death” is an identity testament, a speculative method for designing the space of your own funeral before you die. It is a format to create a fair memorial of a person’s identity that does not feel welcome or fits in the current formats of burial ceremonies we have in Sweden today, usually connected to Christianity or other religious traditions. READ MORE

  3. 7. Children's Representations of Death : A Thematic and Visual Discourse Analysis of Children's Drawings in a Mexican Primary School

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Tema Barn

    Author : Dulce Karenina Téllez Duval; [2018]
    Keywords : children’s drawings; representations of death; Mexico; thematic analysis; visual discourse analysis;

    Abstract : This study focuses on analysing Mexican children’s representations of death inasmuch as children are perceived as social actors that have an active role in constructing and giving meaning to social reality. The importance of analysing children’s representations about death is that it provides an opportunity to know how children give meaning to a notion that intersects with personal experiences, emotions, religious beliefs, and a sociocultural context. READ MORE

  4. 8. Amid otherworld stages

    University essay from Konstfack/Ädellab

    Author : Qingqing Zhang; [2018]
    Keywords : Ghosts Fear
Afterlife Supernatural beings Spiritualism Animal magnetism
Ectoplasm Communication Laboratory Interaction Talisman;

    Abstract : Where does the soul go after death? This question is based on my ‘fear of ghosts’ and became the starting point of my degree project, which most obviously stems from our fear of the unknown.   In the age of technology, many people claim that they are atheists and think that everything has or will have a physical explanation. READ MORE

  5. 9. Framing the Black Pages of Dutch History : Depictions of the Indonesian Decolonization War and its Afterlife in Dutch Opinion Journals and Dutch Social Memory

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Hugo Valentin-centrum

    Author : Micha Knoester; [2018]
    Keywords : Framing; Decolonization; Netherlands; Indonesia; Collective Memory;

    Abstract : This thesis presents the ways in which four major Dutch opinion journals have depicted the war of decolonization between the Netherlands and Indonesia and its afterlife in the years 1994, 1995, 2005, 2008, 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2016. More specifically, through a textual analysis of 99 articles, it investigates which frames were attributed to the war by the four journals and which arguments were used to support these evaluations. READ MORE

  6. 10. Animals in burial contexts : an investigation of Norse rituals and human-animal relationships during the Vendel Period and Viking Age in Uppland, Sweden

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historia

    Author : Hannah Strehlau; [2018]
    Keywords : human-animal relationships; burial ritual; Scandinavia; Vendel Period; Viking Age;

    Abstract : The deposition of animals in graves was an essential aspect of burial practice in Scandinavia during the Vendel Period and Viking Age (550–1050 AD). While this rite occurs in many different regions, it is most clearly observed in the boat-graves from the famous cemeteries in Swedish Uppland, such as Vendel and Valsgärde, as well as in a number of high-status cremation graves. READ MORE