Essays about: "western culture in the world"

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  1. 1. Crafting Textile Knowledges : A decolonial study of the Iku/Arhuaco material culture in the archives of the National Museum of World Cultures in Gothenburg (Världskulturmuseet)

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Modevetenskap

    Author : Stefanía Castelblanco-Pérez; [2023]
    Keywords : material culture; indigenous heritage; object-based research; ethical stewardship; decoloniality; arhuaco; Iku; cultura material; patrimonio Indígena; investigación objetual; administración ética; decolonialidad; arhuaco; Iku;

    Abstract : The return of objects that belong to ethnographic collections to their places of origin is one of the topics of discussion that, despite not being new, has been gaining more and more relevance today. Taking the Iku indigenous craft collection in the archives of the National Museum of World Cultures in Gothenburg as a case study, I pursue to develop an object-based methodology that increases and deepens the understanding of the notion of ethical stewardship, while joining current debates on indigenous heritage and decoloniality. READ MORE

  3. 2. Cultural Sustainability : Influence of Traditional craft on Contemporary craft cross-culturally

    University essay from Konstfack/Textil

    Author : Bhumika Sethi; [2023]
    Keywords : Culture; Tradition; Regional craft; Circulation; Hand-made; Sustainability; Perspective;

    Abstract : Among the four dimensions of sustainability (environmental, economic, social, and cultural), it is the latter aspect that is least examined. However, understanding how culture contributes to the long-term sustainability of communities and societies is one key to a holistic understanding of sustainability itself, and further how it can impact the textile in different cultures. READ MORE

  4. 3. A Study of Ayahuasca Documentary Film

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Filmvetenskap

    Author : Gwendoline Nalvarte Nunez; [2023]
    Keywords : Keywords: Ayahuasca; Documentary film; Interdisciplinary; Western society; Sub-genre; Vine of the Soul; Aya-Awakenings; Culture; Consciousness; Ancient knowledge.; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : This master thesis invites the reader to acquire and examine new evidence about an emerging and growing sub-genre type of documentary film called Ayahuasca documentary. This study bases its definition of the Ayahuasca documentary sub-genre on a current work in the progress catalogue of over 50 documentary films, two of which were selected as case studies. READ MORE

  5. 4. The Ghost of Orientalism : Case Study of Historical Representations, History Culture and Orientalism in the Video Game Ghost of Tsushima

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Historia

    Author : Willy Malmquist; [2022]
    Keywords : bushidō; orientalism; self-orientalism game; history; historiebruk; historiekultur; datorspelsanalys; Japan; Japanese; History and Archaeology;

    Abstract : This thesis explores how history is represented in the video game Ghost of Tsushima from 2020. The game is set on the island of Tsushima off the coast of Japan during the Mongol invasion of 1274. Players are placed into this world as the fictive samurai Jin Sakai, fighting to free the island from the Mongol yoke. READ MORE

  6. 5. Who can “I” or “we” be without Gender? An online ethnographic study to understand identity inside the alchemy of agender

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för tema

    Author : Felicity Markdal; [2022]
    Keywords : Agender; Non-binary; Phenomenology; Genderqueer; Alchemy; Eidetic reduction; Queer theory; Husserl; Braidotti; Irigaray;

    Abstract : This research is a curiosity for the spaces outside the gender binary, the spaces where an “I” and a “we” could manifest unencumbered by this hierarchical binary[1]. The binary is often in gender research considered a system of understanding sexed peoples in this world based on their differential position in relation to one another. READ MORE