Essays about: "ritual performance"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 10 essays containing the words ritual performance.

  1. 1. 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

  3. 2. Dressed like a bride : Being utklädd - performativity and etiquette in the Swedish wedding dress

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Modevetenskap

    Author : Isabelle Jansson; [2021]
    Keywords : Wedding dress; Goffman; performance; femininity; Tsëelon; etiquette; modesty; tradition; ritual clothing; tulle;

    Abstract : This thesis investigates the wedding dress in the 21st century in Sweden. Interviews provided the main material for the analysis of the wedding dress and its connotations. READ MORE

  4. 3. '...and just set that body on fire!'. Posthuman perspectives on the body, becomings, and sticky encounters in vogue femme.

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för konsthistoria och visuella studier

    Author : Christina Tente; [2020]
    Keywords : voguing; vogue femme; posthuman theory; affect theory; becoming; stickiness; Performing Arts;

    Abstract : This thesis explores aspects of vogue femme as a highly aestheticised, performative, and radically subversive visual phenomenon. The focus lies on the posthuman characteristics of this dance and the possibilities it opens up for becoming-other. Vogue femme first appeared as a competition category at balls during the 1990s. READ MORE

  5. 4. Talking through the body. Creating of common world and changing the community through a theatrical performance, a case study.

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologi

    Author : Vanina Rossetti; [2019]
    Keywords : art; communication; community; disability; sexuality; theatre performance; ritual; liminality; embodied knowledge; dissensus; dialogical aesthetic; relational aesthetic; disability arts; disability aesthetic;

    Abstract : This thesis aims to present a practical example of how art can become an instrument capable of investigating, showing and facing a social problem. For doing so, art can overcome communication issues; secondly, it can create a “common world” of shared values that leads to changes in society. READ MORE

  6. 5. “Close Enough”: A Cultural Analysis of Plant-Based Meat Consumption in Everyday Food Practices

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för etnologi

    Author : Sahra Rosenkvist; [2019]
    Keywords : meat; meat substitutes; animal-based meat; plant-based meat; performance; practice; commensality; narrative theory; semiotics; memory; food memory; ritual; myth; embodied memory; mocked meat; meat analogs; plant-based eating; MACA; food; food studies; cultural analysis; cultural habits; Law and Political Science; Earth and Environmental Sciences; Agriculture and Food Sciences; Business and Economics; Social Sciences; Philosophy and Religion; Cultural Sciences; Arts and Architecture;

    Abstract : Et binlerce yıl insanoğlunun ortak gıdalarından biri ve günlük yemek uygulamalarıyla ilgili olarak farklı kültürlerde gıda hafızasının önemli bir parçası olmuştur. Günümüzde hayvan bazlı etin (ABM) ikamesi olan bitki bazlı et (PBM), çevre sorunları, hayvan refahı ve insan sağlığı gibi çeşitli motivasyonlarla Kuzey Avrupa'da yaşayan tüketiciler arasında popüler ve yaygın hale gelmiştir. READ MORE