Faculty of Humanities: Recent submissions
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Nordic noir som kritisk fremstilling av maktdiskurser - Stieg Larssons Millennium-trilogi og Michel Foucaults filosofi
(Master thesis, 2023-12-04)Denne mastergradsavhandlingen tar for seg spørsmålet om hvorvidt den triviallitterære sjangeren Nordic noir kan bidra til å gi leseren en forståelse av makt. Selv om fortellingene har sitt utgangspunkt i den skandinaviske ... -
Byrgskap og byrde. Framstillingar av maskulinitet i tre islendingesoger
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Lyrikkundervisning på ungdomsskolen – mål eller middel? En kvalitativ undersøkelse av to ungdomsskolelæreres undervisning
(Master thesis, 2023-11-20)Masteroppgave i nordisk fagdidaktikk. Universitetet i Bergen, Institutt for lingvistiske, litterære og estetiske studier. Høsten 2023 Forfatter: Berit Marie Hepsø Tittel: Lyrikkundervisning på ungdomsskolen – mål eller ... -
An interdisciplinary approach to the study of kiln firing: a case study from the Campus Galli open-air museum (southern Germany)
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Pottery kilns are a common feature in the archaeological record of different periods. However, these pyrotechnological installations are still seldom the target of interdisciplinary investigations. To fill this gap in our ... -
Truths from Morocco: Knowledge Production and Danish-Moroccan Encounters in the Eighteenth Century
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)In the 1750s the Danish kingdom and the Moroccan Empire came into contact, and concluded a bilateral treaty. As part of the accord, a Danish chartered company was established. The company was short-lived and the “special ... -
An analysis and environmental interpretations of wood charcoal from the Later Stone Age deposit at Klasies River cave 1, Tsitsikamma Coast
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)In this article, we present the results for an analysis of charcoal remains from Klasies River main site cave 1. The analysis was done to understand the environmental conditions of the Tsitsikamma Coast during the late ... -
Distal tephra reveal new MIS 5e Kos eruptions: Implications for the chronology and volcanic evolution histories in the Eastern Mediterranean region
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)The Kos Plateau Tuff (KPT), was an enormous caldera forming eruption originating from a vent within the Kos/Nisyros/Yali volcanic complex, occurring at 161 ka. It is the largest recognised Late Quaternary eruption in the ... -
A 39,600-year-old leather punch board from Canyars, Gavà, Spain
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Puncture alignments are found on Palaeolithic carvings, pendants, and other fully shaped osseous artifacts. These marks were interpreted as abstract decorations, system of notations, and features present on human and animal ... -
The Blurry Third Millennium. "Neolithisation" in a Norwegian Context
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)In this article, we critically review recurrent tropes, implicit frameworks, and unexplained concepts in current research on the process of “Neolithisation” in the western part of southern Norway. Two models are on offer, ... -
The Milky Way: Mobility and Economy at the Turn of the 3rd Millennium in Southern Central Europe
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)In the light of discussions surrounding the social changes attributed to the arrival of the Corded Ware culture in central Europe, here we investigate the economic strategies of one of the cultural complexes of the immediately ... -
Does a Mamluk Sultan Hold Religious Authority? Quranic Exegesis and ḥadīṯ Scholarship in Late Mamluk Courtly maǧālis
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)The article critically reexamines the notion of Mamluk rulers being uninterested in religious affairs and the authority a supreme religious status could bestow. It shows that, with the late Mamluk ruler Qāniṣawh al-Ġawrī ... -
The Platonism of Modern Physical Science: Historical Roots and “Rational Reconstruction”
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Perhaps the most influential historian of science of the last century, Alexandre Koyré, famously argued that the icon of modern science, Galileo Galilei, was a Platonist who had hardly performed experiments. Koyré has been ... -
Evidence for large land snail cooking and consumption at Border Cave c. 170–70 ka ago. Implications for the evolution of human diet and social behaviour
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Fragments of land snail (Achatinidae) shell were found at Border Cave in varying proportions in all archaeological members, with the exception of the oldest members 5 WA and 6 BS (>227,000 years ago). They were recovered ... -
The Partially Impartial Spectator
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)According to Adam Smith, we appeal to the imagined reactions of an ‘impartial spectator’ when justifying moral judgements of others and aspire to be impartial spectators when making judgements of ourselves. However, ... -
Practicing and Managing Foreign Toponyms in China: Cultural Politics and Ideologies
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)This study examines the vogue of adopting foreign-origin place names in Chinese cities and the Chinese governments’ endeavors to regulate the toponymic landscape. The place naming practices, management, and public attitudes ... -
Aspectuality in Norwegian and Greek
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Personargumenter mot stortingspolitikere
(Master thesis, 2024-02-01)Sammendrag Denne oppgaven handler om bruk av personargumenter mot stortingspolitikere. Argumentasjonsteoretisk regnes personargumenter vanligvis som feilslutninger, fordi de forkaster en uttalelse på grunn av den som ... -
Performing Bias : Conceptions of Machine Vision Bias in Digital Art
(Doctoral thesis, 2024-04-26)Gjennom tidene har produksjon og reproduksjon av bilder gradvis blitt mekanisert, digitalisert og automatisert, men persepsjon styrt av kunstig intelligens (AI) har hatt stor innvirkning på moderne maskinsyn-teknologier. ... -
Kyrkjeleg biletbruk. Eit studium av den norske kyrkjesalmen
(Doctoral thesis, 2024-04-12)Kva skjer med dei språklege bileta i ein salme som blir revidert og teken med frå tid til tid og salmebok til salmebok? Dette spørsmålet ønskjer avhandlinga «Kyrkjeleg biletbruk. Eit studium av den norske kyrkjesalmen» å ... -
På sporet av fiksjon- en nærlesning av Tomas Espedals roman Imot naturen med søkelys på allusjon
(Master thesis, 2024-02-01)I denne masteroppgaven undersøker jeg hvordan allusjoner i Tomas Espedals roman Imot naturen (2011), kan påvirke hvordan romanen kan leses. Romanen handler om karakteren Tomas og hans to store kjærlighetsforhold, om hans ...