Essays about: "existential anthropology"

Found 4 essays containing the words existential anthropology.

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

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologi

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

    Abstract : 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. READ MORE

  3. 2. Diversifying The Single Path: The Existential Dilemmas of the Taiwanese Student Elite

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Socialantropologi; Lunds universitet/Sociologiska institutionen

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

    Abstract : 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. READ MORE

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

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School

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

    Abstract : 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. READ MORE

  5. 4. The Rebellion of the Chicken: Self-making, reality (re)writing and lateral struggles in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologi

    Author : Adelaida Caballero; [2015]
    Keywords : self-making; lateral struggles; Equatorial Guinea; politics of the belly; the practice of everyday life; existential anthropology; creativity; agency; narrativity; display; enunciative procedures; Obiang Nguema; Macías Nguema; postcolonial states; suicides; Mamí Watá; construcción del yo; conflictos laterales; Guinea Ecuatorial; política del vientre; la práctica de la vida cotidiana; antropología existencial; creatividad; agencia; narratividad; display; procedimientos enunciativos; Obiang Nguema; Macías Nguema; estudios poscoloniales; suicidios; Mamí Watá;

    Abstract : Historical sources suggest that the bad reputation of Bioko island ―a product of mixed exoticism, fear of death and allure for profit— might have started as early as the first European explorations of sub-Saharan Africa. Today, the same elements seem to have been reconfigured, producing a similar result in the Western imagination: cultural exoticization, fear of state-sponsored violence and allure for profit are as actual as ever in popular conceptions of Equatorial Guinea. READ MORE