The diploma thesis presented deals with an overall assessment of the Great Moravian burial ground in Rajhrad (Brno- venkov), which was excavated in the years 1972 to 1976. The work is based on a catalogue of this burial ground and the neighbouring one in Rajhradice published by Čeněk Staňa. It follows individual aspects of funeral rites at a necropolis and evaluates the inventory of the graves. Based on the findings, the work dates the burial ground, compares with burial ground in Rajhradice and puts they into context of all Great Moravian burial grounds. Key words Rajhrad and Rajhradice - Great Moravian Empire - funeral rite - chronology

, Habil--Julius-Maximilian-Universität Würzburg, 2004.

Zugl.: Halle (Saale), Univ., Diss., 2007

La tesis doctoral explora sobre las manifestaciones culturales juveniles en una casa ocupada en Santiago de Chile. Allí se reunieron jóvenes que formaron su identidad mediante algunos ritos de paso. La música, el vestuario, el lenguaje y la experiencia de vida cotidiana fueron elementos que los congregaron. La casa la Marraketa fue el territorio en donde desarrollaron sus inquietudes y convivieron alrededor de 5 años. La tesis es una narración de la juventud que se completa con información proveniente de fuentes jurídicas e históricas. El aporte de estas disciplinas está relacionado con los diversos estudios que se han llevado a cabo en torno a la juventud en las diferentes épocas, y teniendo en consideración contextos urbanos occidentales. Asimismo, es un relato sobre las ciudades contemporáneas. En este sentido hay una descripción de los problemas por los que atraviesa la juventud en Latinoamérica en los últimos treinta años. La investigación describe el tribalismo urbano haciendo especial hincapié en ciertas manifestaciones de estilo. Hay referencias sobre el movimiento punk, skins y heavy metal. Del mismo modo se establece como hipótesis de trabajo que estas manifestaciones de estilo son importantes en los ritos de pasaje de los jóvenes en su tránsito hacia la etapa adulta. Siguiendo a Clifford Geertz se intenta demostrar que las expresiones culturales juveniles son “programas extragenéticos” que sirven para desarrollar sus identidades dotándolas de un marco amplio de posibilidades simbólicas. / This investigation explore about the cultural manifestations of the squatting in a house of Santiago de Chile. In this place they meet and created an identity by means rites of passage. The music, costumes, language and the experiencie of the daily life were elements for to do possible the comunity of the young people. “La Casa la Marraketa” it was the territory where the young people developed interests. They lived about five years in this place. This investigation is an account of the youth, and is completed with information from juridical and historical sources. The contribution of this disciplines is connected with a many studies about the young people in a different age, and whereas occidental urbans contexts. Also is a report over the contemporary citys. In this senses there is a description of the problems of the young people in Latinoamérica in the last thirty years. The investigation describe the urban tribalism and the style manifestations. There is references about the punk, skins and heavy metal movements. As well it establishes how hypothesis of work that this cultural manifestations between the young people are rites de passage for to pass to the adult stage. In correspondence with the propositions of Clifford Geertz, the doctoral thesis try to prove that the cultural expressions in a young people are “extragenetics programs” that serve for to develop identity in a wide setting of symbolic posibilities.

Zugl.: Bayreuth, Universiẗat, Diss., 2005.

Univ., Diss./2000--München, 1999. / Literaturverz. S. [205] - 219.

This thesis deals with the available sources, organizations and form of state funerals of important political figures, which were held between the years 1948-1968. Whole thesis is divided into five separate chapters, includes also a list of sources of literature on the subject and image attachments. The first chapter deals with theoretical description of the evolution of the burial rite. The second chapter deals with the death of the personalities and its impact on the general public. The third part describes the organization of the funeral and other rituals that took place in the period between death and burial. The fourth chapter deals with its own day of the funeral, and especially the process of mourning and remembrance ceremony funeral procession. Last fifth part focuses on the development of the personality cult and other forms of worship of deceased persons. At the end of the thesis, all acquired knowledge to this issue.

Univ., Diss.--Würzburg, 2002.

An increase in the diversity of Early Bronze Age (EBA) burial practices is well documented in central and southern Moravia between 2200-1500 BC. Apart from scarce cremations and pithoi burials, two more frequent parallel burial types appear. One is the standard burials in cemeteries, the other burials in settlement pits, the latter considered a deviation until recently. Thanks to recent excavations and new quantification procedures, however, abundance of settlement burials as well as uniformity and predictability of body deposition and grave equipment in pit burials has been shown. My intention is to show the existence of two parallel burial rites on the basis of bioarchaeological and archaeological evidence. I focus on the reconstruction of health and social status of individuals buried in settlement pits and graves. I observe the amount of demographic variability, diseases and trauma within each group. I suppose the distribution of diseases according to age, sex and archaeological record will be similar within each of the groups. As a result, we may speak about two equivalent burial practices. If deviations are encountered within settlement pits, however, we should speak about deviations or burials determined for a minority and homogeneous segment of population. Skeletons originate in two...

An increase in the diversity of Early Bronze Age (EBA) burial practices is well documented in central and southern Moravia between 2200-1500 BC. Apart from scarce cremations and pithoi burials, two more frequent parallel burial types appear. One is the standard burials in cemeteries, the other burials in settlement pits, the latter considered a deviation until recently. Thanks to recent excavations and new quantification procedures, however, abundance of settlement burials as well as uniformity and predictability of body deposition and grave equipment in pit burials has been shown. My intention is to show the existence of two parallel burial rites on the basis of bioarchaeological and archaeological evidence. I focus on the reconstruction of health and social status of individuals buried in settlement pits and graves. I observe the amount of demographic variability, diseases and trauma within each group. I suppose the distribution of diseases according to age, sex and archaeological record will be similar within each of the groups. As a result, we may speak about two equivalent burial practices. If deviations are encountered within settlement pits, however, we should speak about deviations or burials determined for a minority and homogeneous segment of population. Skeletons originate in two...