Essays about: "sensuous anthropology"

Found 2 essays containing the words sensuous anthropology.

  1. 1. Becoming Raggare: Materiality Through the Car : A Sensory Exploration of Car Phenomenology Within the Raggar Subculture

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Socialantropologiska institutionen

    Author : Sandra Gidlöf; [2021]
    Keywords : raggare; raggarbilar; materiality; sensore anthropology; Alfred Gell; enchantment; agency; anthropomorphism; embodiment; automobiles;

    Abstract : Raggare is a unique and rather understudied subculture within Scandinavia that emerged in the 1950s and has been vibrant since. They are noted for their affection towards 1950s American aesthetics and, most importantly, American vintage cars. READ MORE

  3. 2. Food: A Sensuous Matter of the Everyday : A sensorial exploration of material and bounded natures of mundane food practices

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Socialantropologiska institutionen

    Author : Elin Linder; [2018]
    Keywords : Food; sensuous anthropology; boundaries; the everyday; materials; actor-network theory;

    Abstract : This thesis examines everyday food practices such as sensed by seven households in the city ofStockholm, Sweden. By sensuously exploring the acts of acquiring, preparing, cooking, eating,and wasting food, I analyze how food is a matter of olfactory, gustatory, auditory, tactile, andvisual significance, as much as matter per se. READ MORE