Essays about: "Lars Malmqvist"

Found 4 essays containing the words Lars Malmqvist.

  1. 1. RapiCSF - A fast test of spectral contrast

    University essay from

    Author : Lars Malmqvist; [2013]
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  3. 2. The Objects of Modernity: an Investigation of Material Culture and Mass Consumption

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Socialantropologi

    Author : Lars Malmqvist; [2007]
    Keywords : consumption; modernity; material culture; anthropological theory; ritual studies; speech act theory; Social sciences; Samhällsvetenskaper; Cultural anthropology; ethnology; Kulturantropologi; etnologi; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis examines the impact of the objects that surrounds us and the practices of consumption in which we engage on the cultural constructions we live and vice versa taking its point of departure in an examination of the objects and consumption practices that have been used in the definition of the construct of modernity in various cultures. Theoretically it develops a framework based on speech act theory and ritual studies, which is then applied to a range of case studies coming from all over the world. READ MORE

  4. 3. Essentially Constructed : On Anti-Essentialism and Social Constructionism in Contemporary Anthropological Theory

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Socialantropologi

    Author : Lars Malmqvist; [2005]
    Keywords : socialantropologi; socialantropologi - teori; filosofi; kulturteori; socialkonstruktionism; social anthropology; essentialism; anti-essentialism; social constructionism; Cultural anthropology; ethnology; Kulturantropologi; etnologi; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Essentialism is an unpopular word in contemporary anthropology. One would probably be hard pressed to find an anthropologist who would adopt any traditional essentialist position. Indeed, uses of the word "essentialism" occasionally seem little different from the uses of a derogative. READ MORE

  5. 4. Optical Trapping.

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Atomfysik

    Author : Lars Malmqvist; Lars Rymell; [1991]
    Keywords : Physics and Astronomy;

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