Essays about: "Victor Turner"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 essays containing the words Victor Turner.
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1. Where Boundaries are Drawn
University essay from Lunds universitet/SocialantropologiAbstract : In this paper I will be analyzing a Scottish political party and their collective identity. This includes the party’s history and how their collective identity is created by drawing boundaries, as well as showing solidarity. I will be using an anthropological approach and anthropological theory to help define their collective identity. READ MORE
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2. White faces and black masks: The Dutch Sinterklaas tradition – A colonial hangover or a children’s tradition meant for everyone?
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologiAbstract : Open-minded attitudes and an international environment are two terms that describe Amsterdam and the Netherlands well. Yet, in contradiction, the Sinterklaas tradition and, especially, the ritual of dressing up as Zwarte Piet takes annually place in the Dutch society. READ MORE
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3. Liminal life at railway stations: An ethnographic investigation of commuters' everyday rituals
University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för etnologiAbstract : Building functional and effective railway station infrastructures has become a strategy to encourage sustainable mobility. Addressing on commuters, this thesis aims to investigate how station infrastructures frame commuters' commuting experience. READ MORE
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4. The Ritualistic Nature of Business Incubation: An example from Northern Sweden
University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för etnologiAbstract : This thesis opens up the “black box” of business incubation and analyses how this process works in an incubator for cultural and creative ventures in Northern Sweden. The theoretical framework of the rites of passage by Arnold van Gennep and Victor Turner was adopted to guide the analysis. READ MORE
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5. Performance at the Edge of Apocalypse : An ethnographic study of collective identity construction in a neo-nationalist social movement in Sweden
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Socialantropologiska institutionenAbstract : In several countries of the Global North, right-wing parties are successfully mobilizing public support, influencing political debates and introducing arguments and rhetorics that draw on xenophobia, populism and ethnocentrism, ostensibly with a purpose to amplify the “national order of things” (Malkki 1992). This thesis addresses this development by providing an ethnography, based fieldwork, of the Swedish social movement Folkets Demonstration, which arranges anti-government manifestations on squares most usually in Stockholm. READ MORE
