Sökning: "existential anthropology"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 9 uppsatser innehållade orden existential anthropology.

  1. 1. Meningsskapande och våld: En antropologisk studie om svenska frivilliga soldater i Ukraina

    Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Socialantropologi

    Författare :Melissa Stoltze; [2023]
    Nyckelord :social anthropology; existentialism; volunteer soldiers; meaning-making; violence; Social Sciences;

    Sammanfattning : This study examines the process of meaning-making among Swedish volunteer soldiers who engage in the conflict in Ukraine, exploring the role of violence in their decision and experience. The research is grounded in an existentialist perspective, focusing on individual reasoning and worldview. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Mbusa-Making : An Artistic Practice of Well-being Among the Bemba of Zambia

    Master-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologi

    Författare :Ariadni Christopoulou; [2021]
    Nyckelord :emotional well-being; agency; personhood; imagination; well-being practice; intimacy; belonging;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis is a contribution to a broader interdisciplinary exploration of the ways in which emotional well-being manifests in communal contexts. Using the artistic practice of Mbusa-making among the Bemba of Zambia as a case study, it understands emotional well-being as a relational practice and a dynamic process, not as an attained goal, an affective state, or a static situation. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Sanfolkets transformativa kunskapsprocesser : En kvalitativ analys av sanfolkets existentiella riter ur ett dramapedagogiskt perspektiv

    Kandidat-uppsats, Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

    Författare :Ottilia Söderström; [2021]
    Nyckelord :San people; Ju ’hoansi; Drama as education; Transformative knowledge processes; Ritual studies; Performance studies; Anthropology of religion; Sanfolket; Ju ’hoansi; Dramapedagogik; Transformativa kunskapsprocesser; Ritualstudier; Performancestudier; Religionsantropologi;

    Sammanfattning : Studien syftar till att analysera sanfolkets existentiella riter och transformativa processer ur ett dramapedagogiskt perspektiv. Bakgrunden avgränsas till att undersöka och redogöra för Ju/’hoansifolkets etnografi, kosmologi samt riter med fokusering på de transformativa processerna. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Diversifying The Single Path: The Existential Dilemmas of the Taiwanese Student Elite

    Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Socialantropologi; Lunds universitet/Sociologiska institutionen

    Författare :Mathias Wiklöf; [2017]
    Nyckelord :Social Anthropology; Moral Anthropology; Taiwan; Confucianism; Self-Cultivation; Aporia; Social Sciences;

    Sammanfattning : In this thesis I set out to investigate how Taiwanese elite students experienced their upbringing. I do so by developing my own concept, Single Path, and use Susanne Bregnbaek’s utilization of the concept Aporia. I apply them in order to answer how Taiwanese elite students negotiate their self-cultivation process in relation to the single path. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Navigating Protracted Liminality - An anthropological study of the experiences of Syrian refugees in Istanbul in re-establishing livelihoods after displacement

    Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Graduate School

    Författare :Nicoline Alletorp; Naya Marie Nord; [2016]
    Nyckelord :Social anthropology; Syrian refugees; Turkey; livelihoods; liminality; Social Sciences;

    Sammanfattning : On the basis of ethnographic fieldwork, this thesis sheds light on the experiences of urban Syrian refugees in re-establishing livelihoods in Istanbul after displacement. The first part of the thesis identifies social exclusion mechanisms, including lack of access to a stable legal status, education and permission to work legally, as well as extensive discrimination and harassment as constituting central challenges in the pursuit of livelihoods. LÄS MER