Publications
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Red Scare:FBI and the Origins of Anticommunism in the United States
(2004)
The anticommunist crusade of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and its legendary director J. Edgar Hoover during the McCarthy era and the Cold War has attracted much attention from historians during the last decades, but ...
Une fois ne compte pas (Vol. 56):Nihilisme et sens dans L’insoutenable légèreté de l’être
(2006)
Nihilism as it was defined by Nietzsche has not ceased to be a challenge for the literature of the 20th century. With significance and originality quite out of the ordinary Milan Kundera has inquired into the existential ...
Estudio diacrónico y sincrónico del objeto indirecto en el español peninsular y de América (Vol. 57)
(2007)
This work is a contribution to the understanding of some diachronic and synchronic aspects of the grammatical relation Indirect Object hitherto not studied: (i) grammaticalization (from the 12th to the 21st century) of ...
Johan Nicolai Madvigs dannelsestanker (Vol. 337):En kritisk humanist i den danske romantik
(2006)
() encircles the notion of education which has influenced the self-perception of the Danish elite up to the present day. Madvig (1804-1886) has occupied a special position in Danish educational tradition since he in the ...
Jean de Saintré | Barnegidslet (Vol. 14):To franske ridderfortællinger
(2006)
The two translated stories date from the 15th century and deal with chivalry and chivalrous ideals in the late Middle Ages. The first story is a novel which describes an example of courteous love that ends up with the ...
The Southernmost People of Greenland - Dialects and Memories (Vol. 337):Qavaat - Oqalunneri Eqqaamassaallu
(2006)
During the mid-20th century, old South Greenlanders still spoke their genuine dialects when Mâliâraq Vebæk, herself a South Greenlander, born 1917, collected on tape stories and descriptions of pre-modern daily life from ...
Nipisat - a Saqqaq culture site in Sisimiut, central West Greenland (Vol. 331)
(2004)
d on immature individuals caught primarily
during their first summer on the breeding grounds. The inhabitants at Nipisat also
hunted caribou on the mainland. The age structure and sex distribution of the caribou
remains ...
The Northernmost Ruins of the Globe (Vol. 329):Eigil Knuth's Archaeological Investigations in Peary Land and Adjacent Areas of High Arctic Greenland
(2003)
An important part of the heritage of Count Eigil Knuth (1903-1996) is his archaeological archive including contextual information on prehistoric sites gathered during six decades of research in High Arctic Greenland. The ...
Denmark-Greenland in the twentieth century (Vol. 341)
(2007)
This book traces Danish-Greenlandic relations over 100 years and is the first publication to cover
the period 1900-2000. The main trend is the development from a colonial situation in 1900 with a
state owned company runnig ...
The Domain of Language
(2004)
This book is intended as counter-evidence to the perception that Linguistics is a domain of dusty schoolroom grammar. It follows that linguistics can be characterised differently than as proponents of theoretical orientations ...
Ironiens tænker, tænkningens ironi (Vol. 12):Kierkegaard læst retorisk
(2004)
Kierkegaard is not only a thinker writing about and practising irony. He is also conscious of the irony of the very notion of thinking. Taking his departure in Kierkegaard's (), Bøggild shows how style is the constituting ...
The Stone Age of Qeqertarsuup Tunua (Disko Bugt) (Vol. 336):A regional analysis of the Saqqaq and Dorset cultures of Central West Greenland
(2006)
suup
Tunua, however the archaeological evidence for such a development has yet to be found. When the cultural history of Qeqertarsuup Tunua is compared with that of Peary Land, the dwelling
types and chronological units ...
Modernitet eller åndsdannelse? (Vol. 339):Engelsk i skole og samfund 1800-1935
(2006)
Today, English is the predominant foreign language in Denmark and it is so widely spread that many people are concerned for the Danish language. But this is a recent development. As late as a hundred years ago, one could ...
Smag for etik (Vol. 4):På sporet efter fødevareetikken
(2006)
The interest in healthy food is ancient, and healthy eating habits have often been emphasized as a condition for a good life. No earlier ethics, however, contain deliberations as to man’s attitude to the origin of the foods ...
Nuussuarmiut (Vol. 345):Hunting families on the big headland
(2008)
This book describes life in a small hunting community in Northwest Greenland. It is based on fieldwork carried out by the author from 1966 to 1968 and documents in detail the traditional material culture, ways of hunting ...
L'uomo inquieto (Vol. 58):Identità e alterità nell'opera di Antonio Tabucchi
(2006)
The work of A. Tabucchi, one of Italy’s greatest contemporary writers, is imbued with the topic of individual identity. His texts query the self-perception, the relation with the Other and the relation with the historical ...
Animaux domestiques dans la littérature narrative française au Moyen Âge
(2006)
After a presentation of horses including a long line of proper names and of the remaining mammals and birds on the farm in the Middle Ages, follows an examination of the lives of these domestic animals and their exploitation ...
Historia Norwegie
(2006)
The fragmentary medieval chronicle, , is the oldest piece of historical writing from Norway, and probably our first specimen of Norwegian literature. It was composed in Latin in the second half of the twelfth century, ...
Om breve:Ni essays om brevformen i hverdagen, litteraturen og journalistikken
(2006)
The letter is the most widespread literary genre at all. For several hundred years letter books containing model letters for lovers have been published, while today they have been camouflaged as "manuals" for internet ...
Ethnologia Europaea (Vol. 42-2)
(2012)
Special issue: Though a seemingly stable concept in ethnological work,
“family” as a lived reality took and takes on innumerable forms
shaped by economic pressures, mobility and attendant social
transformations, and ...
Ancient harp seal hunters of Disko Bay (Vol. 330):Subsistence and settlement at the Saqqaq culture site Qeqertasussuk (2400-1400 BC), West Greenland
(2004)
The Saqqaq Culture site Qeqertasussuk (2400-1400 BC) is situated in the south eastern
corner of Disko Bay, West Greenland. The site was excavated between 1983 and 1987 by
Qasigiannguit Museum. The stratified cultural ...
The European Productivity Agency and Transatlantic Relations 1953-1961 (Vol. 4)
(2003)
A study of European co-operation and transatlantic relations in the 1950s as well as on the changes these relations underwent during the early postwar period. The European Productivity Agency (EPA) was created in 1953 as ...
Litterær erfaring og dialogisme
(2006)
In this book the author reflects on the role of the reading of literature in the cultural processes of identity formation. The book forms an argument for the contention that the aesthetic approach to literary texts is not ...
Tvivl og tolerance (Vol. 15):Et skrift om Pierre Bayle, en milepæl og et paradoks i oplysningens historie
(2006)
The philosopher Pierre Bayle (1647-1706) is one of the most enigmatic figures in the history of the European Enlightenment. He was persecuted by the Catholics for his Calvinist beliefs. He was seen as a heretic by his ...
Karin Michaëlis - en europæisk humanist (Vol. 338):Et portræt i lyset af hendes utopiske roman Den grønne Ø
(2006)
The writer Karin Michaëlis was one of the best known Danish writers outside of Denmark in the first half of the 20th century, especially in Germany and Austria. Her novels primarily convey the lives of women at the ages ...
Litterære verdensbilleder (Vol. 8):Menneske og natur hos Solvej Balle, Merete Pryds Helle og Niels Lyngsø
(2004)
() is about a natural philosophy tendency in three striking contemporary Danish writers of the 1990s, Solvej Balle, Merete Pryds Helle and Niels Lyngsø, who all circle about boundaries and connections between man, culture ...