Sökning: "visual anthropology"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 7 uppsatser innehållade orden visual anthropology.
1. Care and the Potential of Genetic Counseling: A Clinical Fieldwork
Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Sociologiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/SocialantropologiSammanfattning : Recent decades have witnessed an innovation in genetics and biomedical practices, shifting the practice from treatment to prevention. Testing healthy individuals for genetic inherited diseases has now become increasingly common, preventing potential disease by offering early screenings, medication, or potentially surgery, reducing the genetic risk from developing into disease. LÄS MER
2. A Study of Ayahuasca Documentary Film
Magister-uppsats, Lunds universitet/FilmvetenskapSammanfattning : 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
3. Becoming Raggare: Materiality Through the Car : A Sensory Exploration of Car Phenomenology Within the Raggar Subculture
Master-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Socialantropologiska institutionenSammanfattning : Raggare is a unique and rather understudied subculture within Scandinavia that emerged in the 1950s and has been vibrant since. They are noted for their affection towards 1950s American aesthetics and, most importantly, American vintage cars. LÄS MER
4. Museer som et spejl og talerør for deres samtid – udvikling i de etnografiske museers rolle og funktion som folkeopdrager og skaber af national identitet fra 1800-tallet til i dag
Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/SocialantropologiSammanfattning : This Bachelor’s thesis examines the ever-changing educational role of the museum in our society. With a specific focus on the ethnographic museum, especially the Danish National museum’s ethnographic collection, I will try to illustrate the constant discussions on the topic of how one in the best way can represent or create exhibitions in the present day. LÄS MER
5. Occupied Peripheries: Rethinking Landscape in the Anthropocene Visuality
Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för konsthistoria och visuella studierSammanfattning : Although landscape representations in the US-European culture have traditionally been acknowledged as a peaceful ordering of the world or the tool of imperialism, nationalism and private property (sometimes all simultaneously), a new shift in the landscape scopic regime seems to be happening. Produced by the current rise of concerns around climate change and environmental crisis, this shift seems to be related to a specific attention to land use and land value. LÄS MER