Essays about: "Applied Anthropology"

Showing result 16 - 19 of 19 essays containing the words Applied Anthropology.

  1. 16. Accountability, Sovereignty, Friendship : Inter-cultural Encounters in a Ugandan-Swedish Municipal partnership

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Kulturantropologiska avdelningen

    Author : Sofia Sörner; [2015]
    Keywords : Anthropology of development; cultural difference; social space; municipal partnership; anti-homosexuality legislation; corruption.;

    Abstract : The interest for international development partnerships has increased within the discipline of cultural anthropology hand in hand with growing globalisation. Through the study of how actors that have engaged in a Ugandan-Swedish Municipal Partnership experience, express and utilise cultural difference, this thesis aims to make a contribution to this research by examine activities that took place in a specific context of cultural intersection. READ MORE

  3. 17. Constructing music culture

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Högskolan för scen och musik

    Author : Mikko Jokela; [2013-06-19]
    Keywords : composition; worldbuilding; culture; anthropology; ethnomusicology;

    Abstract : This essay explores the creative possibilities of worldbuilding applied to music. It presents anthropological approaches to analysing music culture, and settles upon four main factors (meaning – situation – performance – content) as a basis for a creation of a fictional culture. READ MORE

  4. 18. Film for Change, Communication Rights and Social Change in Tanzania

    University essay from Malmö högskola/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Soren Sonderstrup; [2011]
    Keywords : film for change; right to communicate; theatre for development; applied visual anthropology; participatory methods; social innovation; documentary film; ethnography; politics of representation; ICT4D; discourse analysis; imaginative leeway;

    Abstract : The thesis presents a view of film for change set against the manifold approaches, practices or ideologies influencing it, and analysis it as a tool for the self-representation, self-determination and mediation of marginalised people in the face of globalization and the democratization of communication. It seeks to find an answer to the question of how film for change works as a method to empower the disadvantaged inhabitants of three villages in Tanzania, where fieldwork was carried out. READ MORE

  5. 19. 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