Essays about: "Social Anthropology"
Showing result 16 - 20 of 167 essays containing the words Social Anthropology.
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16. ‘We do what we can with what we have’ - The daily life of people with disabilities and the long and complicated road to improve it in Pando Bolivia
University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/SocialantropologiAbstract : In the search for grasping how the everyday life experience for people with a disability is shaped in relation to the local social and political complexities in Cobija/Pando four themes are crucial to understand. Firstly, illustrating how the rhetorical definition of disability removes the wrongfulness or responsibility from the shoulders of the individual to an exclusive social environment. READ MORE
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17. Looking for Sápmi: Navigating representations of Sámi history and Sámi culture in Southern Sweden
University essay from Lunds universitet/Socialantropologi; Lunds universitet/Sociologiska institutionenAbstract : In Skåne, Southern region of Sweden, where the idea that no Sámis live in the area is largely spread across the Swedish population, the few Sámis living there find themselves navigating their ethnic identity, between performativity, agency, and making use of the policies implemented at a national level. In a context of ongoing decolonisation of the Sámis and their lands, official institutions such as public libraries and museums, following the laws and regulations they are subjected to, are working towards an evolution of their structure, their actions, and a wider inclusion of Sámi people in their institutions. READ MORE
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18. Nairobi on Board: Skateboarders' Sensory Experiences of Community, Body, and Space
University essay from Lunds universitet/SocialantropologiAbstract : 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
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19. A CHANGING SCENE: COVID-19 pandemic impacts on lives of travel economy stakeholders in Goa
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studierAbstract : 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
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20. Comparison of Japanese and Finnish Gift GivingBehavior
University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och lärandeAbstract : 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
