Essays about: "Mauss"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 12 essays containing the word Mauss.

  1. 1. Materialising a Black Belt: A cultural analytical approach to clothing and capital in martial arts

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för etnologi

    Author : Rebecca van der Steen; [2021]
    Keywords : material culture; martial arts; capital; Bourdieu; affect; mana; social hierarchy; global-local identity; karate clothing; Cultural Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis analyses the material culture of karate clothing in Sweden, namely the karate belt(obi) and the karate uniform (gi). It employs ethnographic methods to observe how these objects reveal themselves in observation and interview in the karate practise hall (dojo), and uses a Bourdieuan framework to analyse the different types of capital which emerge; cultural, social and symbolic. READ MORE

  3. 2. Fashioning Socialism At Home : Exploring the smock-dress in Soviet-Estonia

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Modevetenskap

    Author : Rasmus Olsson; [2020]
    Keywords : Women; Home; Smock-Dress; Soviet-Estonia; Nostalgia; Uniform; Phenomenon;

    Abstract : This thesis aims to highlight the smock-dress within the context of Soviet-Estonia during the post-war epoch, ca. 1950s until 1990s. Through Mauss’s socio-anthropological tripoint view, the concepts and identities of the smock-dress are studied from the angles of biology, sociology and psychology. READ MORE

  4. 3. Giving, receiving and reciprocating : A qualitative reanalysis of articles studying disaster aid through gift exchange 

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Malin Hedenskog; [2020]
    Keywords : Mauss; gift exchange; disaster aid; reanalysis;

    Abstract : The impact of international aid is debated in the scholarly literature. One of the theoretical frameworks used to study aid is developed in the Gift [1925] by Marcel Mauss. However, overall there is a lack of knowledge concerning the understanding of Mauss, and how it can be connected to the distribution of aid. READ MORE

  5. 4. Fashioning Socialism at Home : Exploring the smock-dress in Soviet-Estonia

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för mediestudier

    Author : Rasmus Olsson; [2020]
    Keywords : Women; Home; Smock-Dress; Soviet-Estonia; Nostalgia; Uniform; Phenomenon;

    Abstract : This thesis aims to highlight the smock-dress within the context of Soviet-Estonia during the post-war epoch, ca. 1950s until 1990s. Through Mauss’s socio-anthropological tripoint view, the concepts and identities of the smock-dress are studied from the angles of biology, sociology and psychology. READ MORE

  6. 5. What is a Food Bank?: A cultural analytical exploration of the paradoxes and potentials of stakeholder definitions and interrelations

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för etnologi

    Author : Hannah Brown; [2019]
    Keywords : food bank; gift-economy; dramaturgy; philanthropy; altruism; volunteering; donations; food waste; MACA; Cultural Sciences;

    Abstract : Summer 2018 I worked with a recycling coalition in the United States to investigate food waste as a topic essential in promoting environmental sustainability. We banded together with QFB, a large food bank, to focus on the problem of food waste in their food rescue process. READ MORE