Essays about: "anthropology of religion"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 19 essays containing the words anthropology of religion.

1. 6. Cultivating Critique in Folds and Pleats - Posthuman Enactments in the Dress of Rick Owens

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för etnologi

   Author : Wiktor Hansson; [2019]
   Keywords : Posthuman; Fashion; Anthropocene; Intra-Relationality; Rick Owens; Avant-Garde; Deleuze; Queer; MACA; Arts and Architecture; Cultural Sciences; Philosophy and Religion; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Taking as its epistemological starting point the proposed geological era of the Anthropocene, this thesis enquires the affective potential of avant-garde fashion in criticising, improving or transforming the supposed givenness of The Human as a historical concept. In order to do so, it inflects and departs from the tightly held onto-epistemological cannon of fashion studies and anthropology of dress, in which fashion is understood primarily through representation, signification and performance of identity. READ MORE

3. 7. Give us this day our daily bread : The moral order of Pentecostal peasants in South Brazil

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologi

   Author : Leonardo Marcondes Alves; [2018]
   Keywords : peasantry; Peasant Pentecostalism; peasantness; moral order; moral economy; multiple livelihood strategies; economic anthropology; anthropology of religion; Brazil; campesinato; pentecostalismo camponês; campesinidade; ordem moral; economia moral; múltiplas estratégias de subsistência; antropologia econômica; antropologia da religião; Brasil;

   Abstract : This ethnography aims to identify the role of the Pentecostal beliefs that peasants in South Brazil use in justifying their life situations. Anthropological data were collected in the Sertão region of Jaguariaíva, in the Brazilian State of Paraná. READ MORE

4. 8. Art as Infrastructure

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Socialantropologiska institutionen

   Author : Justas Pipinis; [2016]
   Keywords : art; infrastrukture; social cohesion; Actor-Network Theory; Alaska;

   Abstract : This paper seeks to describe and explain the social efficacy of art by addressing it as contemporary western infrastructure for social cohesion. Social cohesion refers here not to teleological status quo, but to pluralistic, yet fairly peaceful co-habitation, allowing for gradual change while preserving continuity of the group identity. READ MORE

5. 9. Sufiland - Everyday life with the living dead in Upper Egypt

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Avdelningen för mellanösternstudier

   Author : Frédéric Brusi; [2015]
   Keywords : Sufism; Upper Egypt; Islam; Sanctity; Baraka; Everyday religion; Anthropology of religion;

   Abstract : This paper describes how everyday muslims with no formal (or weak) affiliation to sufi brotherhoods in Upper Egypt practice and relate to sufism as a grand scheme or larger islamic tradition. The thesis highlights the importance of islamic sainthood in everyday religion, whereby the saintly dead are regarded as acting intermediaries between the divine and the worldly realms. READ MORE

6. 10. Witchcraft And Development Among The Giriama: Understanding How Witchcraft And Development Can Work Side By Side.

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Socialantropologi

   Author : Robin Öberg; [2015]
   Keywords : Causation; Culture Theory; Development; East Africa; Giriama; Grid; Group; Luck; Mystical Participation; Rationality; Social Anthropology; Social Control; Witchcraft; Philosophy and Religion; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : A bulk of research states that witchcraft is an antithesis to development. This thesis finds that that is an assumption, which cannot explain the case of the Giriama. READ MORE