Sökning: "Cultural anthropology"

Visar resultat 6 - 10 av 170 uppsatser innehållade orden Cultural anthropology.

  1. 6. Entering the Hosh House: A Study of a Vanishing Baghdadi Dwelling Typology

    Uppsats för yrkesexamina på avancerad nivå, KTH/Arkitektur

    Författare :Karin Allvin; Jimmy Ibrahim; [2023]
    Nyckelord :Baghdad; traditional architecture; climate regulating architecture; preservation; historic documentation; dwelling; decline; typology research;

    Sammanfattning : This research project explores the Hosh house typology, a historic dwelling type in Baghdad facing rapid decline and extinction. The study critically examines historic documentation and employs a wide range of methods to expand knowledge and understanding of the Hosh house. LÄS MER

  3. 7. A Study of Ayahuasca Documentary Film

    Magister-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Filmvetenskap

    Författare :Gwendoline Nalvarte Nunez; [2023]
    Nyckelord :Keywords: Ayahuasca; Documentary film; Interdisciplinary; Western society; Sub-genre; Vine of the Soul; Aya-Awakenings; Culture; Consciousness; Ancient knowledge.; Languages and Literatures;

    Sammanfattning : This master thesis invites the reader to acquire and examine new evidence about an emerging and growing sub-genre type of documentary film called Ayahuasca documentary. This study bases its definition of the Ayahuasca documentary sub-genre on a current work in the progress catalogue of over 50 documentary films, two of which were selected as case studies. LÄS MER

  4. 8. Nairobi on Board: Skateboarders' Sensory Experiences of Community, Body, and Space

    Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Socialantropologi

    Författare :Emmi Zittel; [2023]
    Nyckelord :social anthropology; skateboarding; Kenya; collective effervescence; ritual performance; Social Sciences;

    Sammanfattning : In this paper, I argue skateboarding to be a ritualizing performance that acts as a catalyst for transformative energies and heightened emotional states. Aided by the sensory experience of riding a board, powerful feelings of connectedness and unity arise amongst those who practice skateboarding, so intense that they transgress day-to-day social boundaries and temporarily overcome the socioeconomic segregation of ordinary urban life. LÄS MER

  5. 9. A CHANGING SCENE: COVID-19 pandemic impacts on lives of travel economy stakeholders in Goa

    Kandidat-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studier

    Författare :Petra Nilsson; [2022-08-24]
    Nyckelord :Anthropology; Covid-19; Goa; crisis management; travel economies; hippie culture; Antropologi; krishantering; rese-ekonomier; hippiekultur;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation is based on two months of ethnographic fieldwork in North Goa, India. It concerns impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on travel economy stakeholders, in relation to their perception of their living situations, both present and future. LÄS MER

  7. 10. En arkeologihistorisk studie kring synen på Bronsålderskrigföring

    Kandidat-uppsats,

    Författare :Anneli Eriksson; [2022-05-17]
    Nyckelord :arkeologihistoria; bronsålder; krigföring;

    Sammanfattning : A study of the history of archaeology shows that in the earlier times of archaeological science emphasis was put into collecting, counting, categorizing, and keeping activities. In the latter half of the twentieth century, a search for contexts with a holistic interest in greater understanding for the individual and its cultural interactions on different levels gradually develops. LÄS MER