Search for dissertations about: "art anthropology"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 17 swedish dissertations containing the words art anthropology.
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1. In conversation with the Kolam practice: Auspiciousness and artistic experiences among Women in Tamilnadu, South India
Abstract : This anthropological study explores the kolam, a South Indian practice where women daily draw geometrical images in front of their homes to invite the deities. Through this practice, women engage in social and religious processes. They generate an auspicious atmosphere and become constructed as feminine beings. READ MORE
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2. Paths to Adulthood: Freedom, Belonging, and Temporalities in Mbunda Biographies from Western Zambia
Abstract : In this study, Michael Barrett explores the relationship between adulthood and historical processes in a rural district of Western Zambia. Approaching the life cycle from a perspective of social practice, the potential and limits of conditioning is illuminated through ethnography and life histories of Mbunda people in Kalabo District of Western Province. READ MORE
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3. The Medal in Early Modern Sweden : Significances and Practices
Abstract : This thesis analyses medals issued between 1560 and 1792 in Sweden and studies the practices and roles related to these objects. It aims to contribute to the understanding of the varying uses and functions of early modern medals by applying a long-term perspective that connects Renaissance, Baroque, and Neoclassical medals. READ MORE
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4. Fibre Formations : Wool as an anthropological site
Abstract : Contemporary debates on sustainability usually relies on standardised and normative categories, such as ‘social’ and ‘nature’, and on linear notions of time. This study explores a more complex perspective on the delicate borderlands between the ‘un-sustainable’ and the ‘sustainable’. READ MORE
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5. Lesbian Lives : Sexuality, Space and Subculture in Moscow
Abstract : This study is an exploration of the lesbian subculture in Russia focusing in particular on the subculture as a unique heterogeneous space of social interaction and cultural production that is not self contained or isolated from mainstream society, but incorporates a variety of cultural flows and traditions that are a part of Russian mainstream culture, other Russian subcultures, or global cultural flows. Some of these cultural flows and traditions are more compatible than other ones. READ MORE