Essays about: "object biography"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 essays containing the words object biography.

  1. 1. Chronicled in metal : The biography of a trefoil brooch and the importance of object modification in Viking Age Sweden

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Arkeologi

    Author : Isac Löfgren; [2023]
    Keywords : Trefoil brooch; Vikings; Viking Age; object biography; ornamentation;

    Abstract : Trefoil brooches are one of the most abundant types of Viking Age jewellery in Scandinavia. This thesis delves into the journey of one such brooch, known as 555783, discovered in Birka, Sweden. READ MORE

  3. 2. Me minus me: Self-Effacement in Autofiction by Christopher Isherwood, Rachel Cusk and J. M. Coetzee

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Author : Jim Callderyd; [2022-11-24]
    Keywords : Autofiction; Christopher Isherwood; Goodbye to Berlin; Rachel Cusk; Outline; J. M. Coetzee; Summertime; sexuality; gender; auto biography;

    Abstract : Autofiction is one of the most popular genres in contemporary Anglophone literature. Yet the self-fashioning, outwardly hybrid genre merging autobiography with fiction is also the object of frequent contestation and derision, the source of which is nearly singularly rooted in authors’ perceived self-absorption. READ MORE

  4. 3. Model Dialogues: 3D models as active resources – an experiment in data enrichment of 3D modelled lithic artefacts

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Arkeologi

    Author : Michael Harris; [2020]
    Keywords : Digitisation; Visualisation; Illustration; Slow Archaeology; Photogrammetry; Digital Archaeology; Agisoft Metashape; Meshlab; Blender; 3DHOP; Metadata; Formation Processes; Use-Wear Analysis; Chaîne opératoire; History and Archaeology;

    Abstract : This thesis seeks to explore the potential for 3D archaeological datasets to become the ‘living resources’ advocated by Morgan and Wright (2018). This process is examined through lenses of object agency, object biography, Chaîne opératoire, formation processes and posthumanist theory with an aim to assess the capacity of digital approaches for enabling the self-reflexive ‘slow archaeology’ idealised by Caraher (2016). READ MORE

  5. 4. The object biography of Breakfast-Piece by Nicolaes Gillis : The reception of Netherlandish art in Sweden during the 19th century

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för kultur och estetik

    Author : Kenne Filippa; [2020]
    Keywords : Nicolaes Gillis; Tidö Castle; provenance; collection history; Netherlandish painting;

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  6. 5. Yugoslavia Revisited : Contested Histories through Public Memories of President Tito

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologi

    Author : Ana Cicic; [2020]
    Keywords : collective memory; politics of memory; nostalgia; remembering; forgetting; nationalism; ethnicity; Josip Broz Tito; Yugoslavia;

    Abstract : In the thesis, I aim to analyze how people remember their past in changed political circumstances, what and who affect that memory, and why and how does rapture between social memory and historical narratives come about. My subject of inquiry is the personality of Josip Broz Tito and above that the period of socialism and the years of his reign. READ MORE