Essays about: "ritual objects"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 11 essays containing the words ritual objects.

  1. 1. Cooperation and Friction: The Sustainable Development Goals as a system of belief within a United Nations specialized agency

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för etnologi

    Author : Emily Nuckolls; [2023]
    Keywords : SDGs; Ritual; Cooperation; United Nations; capacity building; institutional culture; Cultural Sciences;

    Abstract : Across the world are small local agencies connected to the United Nations. Unlike the larger bureaucratic organs that make up the UN, these smaller specialized agencies do not work to frame the founding ideals of the UN which are decided on at the highest levels within the institution, but to interpret, carry out, and monitor different mandates or programs at the local level. READ MORE

  3. 2. From Hospitium to Hybridisation: The acquisition, adoption, and transformation of Roman zoomorphic forms in Barbaricum

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Arkeologi

    Author : David Stuart Parker; [2022]
    Keywords : Zoomorphism; Romans; Roman imports; Romanisation; hybridisation; Barbaricum; hospitium; dona militaria; spoils of war; gift-giving; Roman provinces; Roman Iron Age; Iron Age societies.; History and Archaeology;

    Abstract : This text is an attempt to re-evaluate the significance of Roman imports in Scandinavian contexts as well as to answer overarching questions concerning frontier zones, and the building of core-periphery relationships. This is achieved by applying the Roman concepts of hospitium and dona militaria as well as theoretical frameworks such as provincial ritual practices and cultural hybridisation to a predefined group of material culture. READ MORE

  4. 3. Kehrä/Kehrae : A moment in between

    University essay from Stockholms konstnärliga högskola/Institutionen för cirkus

    Author : Myrsky Rönkä; [2022]
    Keywords : Circus; ritual; liminality; communitas; play; animism; gift; rope; circus practice; nature; intimacy orientation; regenerative; sustainability;

    Abstract : First of all, my research is not only my research but our research. It has been made together with my long-time art companion Marjut Hernesniemi. The starting point for our research was our experience of the western modern circus, what it does, and how it cares for the cosmos. READ MORE

  5. 4. Water Talks : Rewilding craft: restoring relationship through making objects entangled with place

    University essay from Konstfack/Keramik & Glas

    Author : Elin Sundström; [2021]
    Keywords : performativity; place; water; animism; site-responsive; relational; intraaction; natureculture; Rewilding craft; interdisciplinary;

    Abstract : On the brink of a sixth mass extinction, I renegotiate, through crafting, some basic assumptions on which our economy-culture is built, those of separation and dominance. The project Till Källan / Water Talks is based on a method where I ask various places what they would want me to do on site. READ MORE

  6. 5. Emotional Energy and Group Membership on Twitch.tv

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Sociologiska institutionen

    Author : Henrik Jodén; [2020]
    Keywords : Twitch.tv; emotional energy; group membership;

    Abstract : With the rise of the commercial gaming industry the phenomenon of watching others play has become more and more common. One platform that has made this accessible is Twitch.tv. This paper investigates the interaction taking place on Twitch between streamers and viewers from the perspective of interaction ritual theory (IR theory). READ MORE