Essays about: "importance of ethnology"

Found 2 essays containing the words importance of ethnology.

1. 1. Diffractive Assemblies and Invertebrate Spaces: Communal Struggle in the Mexican Anthropocene

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för etnologi

   Author : Talia Velez; [2020]
   Keywords : Latin-America; subaltern; postcolonial; decolonial; ethnology; cultural analysis; original peoples; Indigenous peoples; Cultural Sciences;

   Abstract : The importance of spaces of resistance lies in their ability to subvert and even change the hegemonic discourse. However, and despite extensive research on geopolitics and space-making processes, little has been said on the power that subaltern spaces can have in this area. READ MORE

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