Search for dissertations about: "primitivism"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 swedish dissertations containing the word primitivism.
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1. Taking Time and Making Journeys : Narratives on Self and the Other among Backpackers
Abstract : This work addresses the phenomenon of long-term, so-called ‘independent’ travelling, or backpacking, often to destinations described as the ‘third world’. It regards backpacker journeys as arenas for identity work, for expressing individuality and a ‘strong character’. READ MORE
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2. Haloed Objects on Mental Parade : Myth and Magic in Post-War Surrealist Cinema
Abstract : Following the end of World War II, the surrealist founder André Breton organized the exhibition Le Surréalisme en 1947. In conjunction with it, he announced a “change in direction” for surrealism, towards the search for a new myth, replete with magic. READ MORE
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3. Tilling Nature - Harvesting Culture. Exploring Images of the Human Being in the Transition to Agriculture
Abstract : Archaeology is about human beings – in the present and in the past. When we concern ourselves with archaeology we have to imagine prehistoric human beings thinking, feeling and acting. This imagining is the very precondition for the creation of meaning from the fragments and traces of human lives that we choose as our data. READ MORE
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4. Electronic Potlatch : A study concerning new technologies and primitive economic behaviors
Abstract : Economy - the very idea. In an age where the market economy seems to have achieved a total and omnipresent hegemony, there would seem to be little to discuss anymore. Going against this, the book argues for a sensitivity to other forms of economies,and the hybrids existing in our postindustrial society. READ MORE
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5. "There's a bad time coming" : Ecological Vision in the Fiction of D. H. Lawrence
Abstract : This study aims to shed new light on the relation between humankind and nature in D. H. Lawrence's fiction. While this may seem like well-trodden ground in Lawrence criticism, my reading is ecocritical and re-examines his texts through the perspective of today's environmental awareness. READ MORE