Essays about: "Cultural Anthropology"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 81 essays containing the words Cultural Anthropology.

1. 6. Entering the Hosh House: A Study of a Vanishing Baghdadi Dwelling Typology

   University essay from KTH/Arkitektur

   Author : Karin Allvin; Jimmy Ibrahim; [2023]
   Keywords : Baghdad; traditional architecture; climate regulating architecture; preservation; historic documentation; dwelling; decline; typology research;

   Abstract : This research project explores the Hosh house typology, a historic dwelling type in Baghdad facing rapid decline and extinction. The study critically examines historic documentation and employs a wide range of methods to expand knowledge and understanding of the Hosh house. READ MORE

3. 7. 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

4. 8. Nairobi on Board: Skateboarders' Sensory Experiences of Community, Body, and Space

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Socialantropologi

   Author : Emmi Zittel; [2023]
   Keywords : social anthropology; skateboarding; Kenya; collective effervescence; ritual performance; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : In this paper, I argue skateboarding to be a ritualizing performance that acts as a catalyst for transformative energies and heightened emotional states. Aided by the sensory experience of riding a board, powerful feelings of connectedness and unity arise amongst those who practice skateboarding, so intense that they transgress day-to-day social boundaries and temporarily overcome the socioeconomic segregation of ordinary urban life. READ MORE

5. 9. A CHANGING SCENE: COVID-19 pandemic impacts on lives of travel economy stakeholders in Goa

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studier

   Author : Petra Nilsson; [2022-08-24]
   Keywords : Anthropology; Covid-19; Goa; crisis management; travel economies; hippie culture; Antropologi; krishantering; rese-ekonomier; hippiekultur;

   Abstract : This dissertation is based on two months of ethnographic fieldwork in North Goa, India. It concerns impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on travel economy stakeholders, in relation to their perception of their living situations, both present and future. READ MORE

6. 10. Comparison of Japanese and Finnish Gift GivingBehavior

   University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och lärande

   Author : Nora Ulkuniemi; [2022]
   Keywords : Cultural anthropology; Japan; Finland; gift giving; motives; functions; cultural values;

   Abstract : Gift exchange is at the heart of many social relationships and interactions. Various studies haveimplied that gift-giving is often based on the obligation to reciprocate, thus creating an economicexchange. The common components of gift-giving are the gift, the giver and the receiver, and theoccasion. READ MORE