Essays about: "self-making"

Found 3 essays containing the word self-making.

  1. 1. Prescribed ego-death: the therapeutic effects found in the psychedelic-Induced absence of self

    University essay from Högskolan i Skövde/Institutionen för biovetenskap

    Author : Klara Wellander; [2022]
    Keywords : ego-dissolution; psychedelics; anxiety; depression;

    Abstract : Depression and anxiety are two of the world’s most common neuropsychiatric conditions. There has been some success in treating depression and anxiety by using classic psychedelic drugs to cause positive changes in psychological well-being. READ MORE

  3. 2. A Better Version of Yourself: Sweat, Smiles and Muay Thai Tourism

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för etnologi

    Author : Max Yasmine Gonen; [2019]
    Keywords : transformation; Muay Thai; self-improvement; tourism; Thailand; masculinity; sweat; experience economy; performance ethnography; MACA; Cultural Sciences;

    Abstract : This ethnographic study investigates the functions of BestFighter Muay Thai and Mixed Martial Arts training camp in Koh Samui, Thailand, as a successful actor in a booming self-improvement economy. In this thesis I explore the entanglements with locality and power which enable what satisfied participants refer to as augmented experiences of self-improvement. READ MORE

  4. 3. The Rebellion of the Chicken: Self-making, reality (re)writing and lateral struggles in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologi

    Author : Adelaida Caballero; [2015]
    Keywords : self-making; lateral struggles; Equatorial Guinea; politics of the belly; the practice of everyday life; existential anthropology; creativity; agency; narrativity; display; enunciative procedures; Obiang Nguema; Macías Nguema; postcolonial states; suicides; Mamí Watá; construcción del yo; conflictos laterales; Guinea Ecuatorial; política del vientre; la práctica de la vida cotidiana; antropología existencial; creatividad; agencia; narratividad; display; procedimientos enunciativos; Obiang Nguema; Macías Nguema; estudios poscoloniales; suicidios; Mamí Watá;

    Abstract : Historical sources suggest that the bad reputation of Bioko island ―a product of mixed exoticism, fear of death and allure for profit— might have started as early as the first European explorations of sub-Saharan Africa. Today, the same elements seem to have been reconfigured, producing a similar result in the Western imagination: cultural exoticization, fear of state-sponsored violence and allure for profit are as actual as ever in popular conceptions of Equatorial Guinea. READ MORE