Essays about: "cultural identity in india"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 15 essays containing the words cultural identity in india.

  1. 6. Cultural Differences in Fashion Magazines : Targeting Vogue

    University essay from Högskolan i Borås/Akademin för textil, teknik och ekonomi

    Author : Elin Alexandersson; Rasha Matlak; [2017]
    Keywords : Culture; Identity; Clothing; Fashion; Vogue; Diversity; Visual communication; Visual aesthetic; Fashion magazines; Cross-cultural;

    Abstract : The purpose of this study is to examine how different cultures within clothing and fashion are featured in the magazine Vogues fashion reportages. The aim is to enlighten editors with infashion media of these cultural differences in order to increase diversity. READ MORE

  3. 7. Embodying the Other - A Cross-Cultural Understanding of Misrepresentational Oppression

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Filmvetenskap

    Author : Eva-Marie Elg; [2016]
    Keywords : Embodiment; trans; the Other; embodying; crip; cinema; cripface; transface; blackface; Europe; Asia; Otherface; reversal; US; voyeuristic; gaze; phenomenology; imperial; colonial; male; critical whiteness; queer; monster; grotesque studies; gender; post-Darwanism; post-colonial; posthumanism; post-humanism; elite; culture; homogenous; industry; star; ableism; ableist; transphobic; show; freak; representation; misrepresentation; traditions; phenomena; bodies; morphing; hijra; Tamil; global; katoey; third gender; invisibility; visibility; uglyface; mediatedness; media; transing communication; animalizing; infantalizing; funny bodies; immoralizing; sexualizing; comedy; as; comparison; social; transing; queering; self-reflection; relations; looking; progressive; progression; freakery; mockery; awards; Academy; ridicule; Sensationalization; Trivialization; Stabilization; Rationalization; exorcized; bounderies; portrayals; violent; hetero-domesticity; violence; India; drag; faux; pathologised; tomboi; Thailand; character; deviant; Non-Normative; Normative; whitewashing; old age; identity; years; 102; monstreous; 2017; 1915; fantasy; stardom; Little Mermaid; figures; non-human; super-human; actor; exploitation; exclusion; transsexual; transversal; transman; transwoman; transgender; funkis; experiments; transperson; misrepresentational; psychology; oppression; North America; patriarchal; Frozen; films; isolated; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : This thesis offers a holistic perspective on the phenomenon of embodying Otherface. It provides a deeper insight into the categories Transface and Cripface, the latter being a term for an able person depicting a person with visible or invisible disabilities, also referred to as cripping up. READ MORE

  4. 8. The Second Generation of Swedish Indians: the Development of Ethnic Identity

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School; Lunds universitet/Master of Science in Development Studies; Lunds universitet/Sociologi

    Author : Kristina Kveselyte; [2016]
    Keywords : Ethnic identity; Swedish Indians; second generation; acculturation.; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The purpose of the study was to examine how the second generation Swedish Indians (I use "the second generation" to refer to the children of immigrants, born in Sweden) developed their ethnic identity while analysing their self-identification, cultural preferences, social interactions and daily practices. This qualitative study was based on ten in-depth interviews with second generation Swedish Indians (seven females and three males). READ MORE

  5. 9. Selfies, dolls and film stars : a cross-cultural study on how young women in India and Sweden experience the use of digital images for self-presentation on social network sites

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för informatik och media

    Author : Anna Wrammert; [2014]
    Keywords : Self-presentation; selfie; structuralism; tradition; SNS; identity;

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  6. 10. The Kabir Project. Bangalore and Mumbai (India)

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

    Author : Itziar Ancín; [2013]
    Keywords : Kabir Project; arts for peace building; folk music; oral traditions; poetry; Gujarat 2002; identity; Kabir festival Mumbai; Bangalore; India;

    Abstract : The Kabir Project (K.P.) was born in Bangalore, India, in 2002, after the Gujarat pogrom, which occurred in the same year. READ MORE