Essays about: "ritual structure"

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

  1. 1. Cooperation and Friction: The Sustainable Development Goals as a system of belief within a United Nations specialized agency

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för etnologi

    Author : Emily Nuckolls; [2023]
    Keywords : SDGs; Ritual; Cooperation; United Nations; capacity building; institutional culture; Cultural Sciences;

    Abstract : Across the world are small local agencies connected to the United Nations. Unlike the larger bureaucratic organs that make up the UN, these smaller specialized agencies do not work to frame the founding ideals of the UN which are decided on at the highest levels within the institution, but to interpret, carry out, and monitor different mandates or programs at the local level. READ MORE

  3. 2. Kehrä/Kehrae : A moment in between

    University essay from Stockholms konstnärliga högskola/Institutionen för cirkus

    Author : Myrsky Rönkä; [2022]
    Keywords : Circus; ritual; liminality; communitas; play; animism; gift; rope; circus practice; nature; intimacy orientation; regenerative; sustainability;

    Abstract : First of all, my research is not only my research but our research. It has been made together with my long-time art companion Marjut Hernesniemi. The starting point for our research was our experience of the western modern circus, what it does, and how it cares for the cosmos. READ MORE

  4. 3. Hjärtat av en sann student : First curators, performativity and reproducing tradition at an Uppsala Student Nation

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologi

    Author : Kaitlin May; [2022]
    Keywords : Student nations; student life; nation life; first curators; performativity; embodiment; tradition; ritual; ritualization; repetition; norms; generational continuity; Uppsala; Sweden;

    Abstract : In the city of Uppsala, Sweden the experiences of the student population are very connected to the world of the student nations. This study explores the position of first curator at a student nation as the leader of the student societies hierarchy and how their position influences the production of community and tradition. READ MORE

  5. 4. Death's reflection in the water : Mortuary ritual, ancestral worship and the cosmological significance of water on the island of Gotland during the Pitted Ware culture

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Arkeologi

    Author : Maja Hed; [2021]
    Keywords : ritual; neolithic; grave goods; cosmology; flowing water; divinity; death; Pitted Ware culture; ritual; neolitikum; gravgåvor; kosmologi; rörligt vatten; gudomlighet; död; Gropkeramisk kultur;

    Abstract : The Pitted Ware culture on Gotland presents a multitude of material that allow archeologists to re-construct and visit the socio-economic structure of a middle-neolithic settlement in the Baltic sea. I will be analyzing the archaeological material in accordance to the ocean, and to what we can interpret as ritual and cosmological variables at the site through ritual theory, and with a method of comparative analogy and research. READ MORE

  6. 5. 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