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The picture “Iron in clouds” (above) is a photomontage of an idea by El Lissitzky. It has become known for its structurally daring and futuristic aesthetics. El Lissitzky began the project in 1925. Eight identical horizontal skyscrapers were planned to be centrally located in Moscow. Each skyscraper would consist of a flat three-story, 180-meter-wide L-shaped slab raised 50 meters above the street

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I studiet av den norska kulturhistorien så som den framträder under andra halvan av 1800-talet och 1900-talets två första decennier är Yngvar Nielsen (1843-1916) en person som förekommer i imponerande många sammanhang. Han agerar som historiker och arkivforskare, professor i geografi, museiföreståndare, kulturhistorisk författare, föreningsgrundare och i politiken. Fenomenet med verksamhet på en l

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The purpose of this thesis is to investigate different scales of mobility and social networks in Southern Scandinavia around 7000 BC. An essential basis for this work is the hypothesis that the conical core pressure blade technology, a specific method for producing lithic blades, reached Scandinavia from the east. The process has been discussed and verified in several earlier studies.The study is

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Drawing from Swedish press history in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the present article argues for further historical investigation into three aspects of Jürgen Habermas’ theory of the public sphere. The first concerns actual media participation, the second the representative features of media institutions, and the third media systems. These routes of analysis can and should be combined

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The designation of World Heritage Site overcomes a serious of events in the life of each location. The social life of the sites that are designated brings a discussion about the characters that are responsible for the maintenance and preservation of the physical and ontological characteristics of the data and knowledge originated in it. Archaeology today involves certain characteristics that overc

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Swedish museums curate numerous objects made by indigenous peoples of North America. Collected already in the seventeenth century, their numbers increased in the nineteenth and early twentieth century. While some of them were collected systematically by scientific expeditions, majority of these objects were obtained as personal mementoes. Scrutinizing examples of North American souvenirs collected

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Ecocriticism tends to acknowledge anthropomorphisms as a possible tool to create empathy for nonhumans, but in doing so mostly labels said tool as too sentimental for serious environmental literature. This paper aims to establish a categorisation of anthropomorphisms in media that allows a more diverse and detailed analysis of humanised nonhumans. It seeks to overcome the prevailing idea that anth