Essays about: "economic anthropology"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 30 essays containing the words economic anthropology.

  1. 16. Insight Cuba : A Reflection Rapport and Three Features Connected to Cuban Economy

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för journalistik, medier och kommunikation (JMK)

    Author : Sara Charlotte Wahlström; [2019]
    Keywords : economy; Cuba; informal markets; prostitution; jinterism; bicycles; embargo; slow news journalism; practice theory economic anthropology;

    Abstract : Cuba! The name alone connotes many things for people be it rum & cigarrs, old Chevys & colonial buildings, Hemingway & Daquires, Castro & communism, Salsa & Reaggaton, parties & calm life, blue oceans & white sandy beaches, poverty & oppression.  As a tourist destination Cuba is sold as a country caught up in a time capsule. READ MORE

  3. 17. Mining the City : Urban Transformation and the Loss of City Space in Kiruna, Sweden

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Socialantropologiska institutionen

    Author : Richard Karlsson; [2018]
    Keywords : Urban anthropology; mining; space; place; urban planning; affect;

    Abstract : This thesis examines the urban transformation and deformation caused by the expansion of the local Kiirunavaara mine in Kiruna, Sweden. In 2004, the local mining company, LKAB, announced that rapid ground deformations had been discovered in central Kiruna and that buildings and residents would have to be relocated in order for production to continue. READ MORE

  4. 18. Give us this day our daily bread : The moral order of Pentecostal peasants in South Brazil

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologi

    Author : Leonardo Marcondes Alves; [2018]
    Keywords : peasantry; Peasant Pentecostalism; peasantness; moral order; moral economy; multiple livelihood strategies; economic anthropology; anthropology of religion; Brazil; campesinato; pentecostalismo camponês; campesinidade; ordem moral; economia moral; múltiplas estratégias de subsistência; antropologia econômica; antropologia da religião; Brasil;

    Abstract : This ethnography aims to identify the role of the Pentecostal beliefs that peasants in South Brazil use in justifying their life situations. Anthropological data were collected in the Sertão region of Jaguariaíva, in the Brazilian State of Paraná. READ MORE

  5. 19. In search of 'a chosen community': A study on self-initiated co-housing projects in Berlin

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Socialantropologi

    Author : Helena Hede; [2017]
    Keywords : social anthropology; social sustainability; co-housing; cohousing; Baugruppen; gentrification; Berlin; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This study explores Baugruppen co-housing communities in Berlin. In comparison to the general focus on economic and environmental development objectives, socially sustainable goals remain unclear. This thesis focusses on how co-housing residents initiate and fulfil their co-housing goals. READ MORE

  6. 20. Air pollution and social inequality in the European Union

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School; Lunds universitet/Master of Science in Social Studies of Gender

    Author : Maria Gelotte; [2017]
    Keywords : Air pollution; anthropology; environmental policy; the European Union; sustainability.; Law and Political Science; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Commonly, air pollution is treated by the European Union (EU) and its member states as a structural problem with technical, one-size-fit-all solutions. The EU has the ambition to follow the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals , Agenda 2030 , in which, for example, gender equality is highlighted. READ MORE