"Recent decades have seen an upsurge in visitation to rock art sites, as well as an increase in commercial reproduction of rock art and attempts to understand the meaning and function of that art within the indigenous cultures that produced it. What motivates this growing intere…
"Recent decades have seen an upsurge in visitation to rock art sites, as well as an increase in commercial reproduction of rock art and attempts to understand the meaning and function of that art within the indigenous cultures that produced it. What motivates this growing intere…
"Composed of essays from academics, farmers, Indigenous Knowledge keepers, and others, Free Knowledge introduces readers to those who are creating spaces where knowledge can be shared for the public good."--Publishers website
This thesis project explicates the proliferation of “authentic” goods in urban millennial consumer culture. Whether a product makes appeals to its historicity, uses labels such as “Ethically Sourced” and “Fair Trade,” or advertises with cinema verité aesthetics, the production o…
This study investigates the contemporary culture of sound baths through an oral history project consisting of interviews with practitioners from a small community in New York City. Contributing to current Sound Studies discourses on listening practices and sound culture, this di…
This thesis examines how select participants came to be involved in DiY punk culture, what they do in it, and how, if they do, they exit from the culture. Underpinning this will be an ethnographic examination of how the ethics of punk informs their views of remaining authentic a…
The collecting of “erotic” artifacts in 19th century Egyptology reveals the ways in which museums constructed knowledge around sex and grappled with sexual content in relation to the perceived value of artifacts. By looking at two types of artifacts, those with an overt sexual n…
Osnovni predmet ovog teorijski usmerenog istraživanja sastoji se u problematizaciji socioloških aspekata neoliberalizma . Zbog navodne „poznatosti“ i sveopšte „razumljivosti“ neoliberalizma kao globalno proučavanog fenomena, neretko dolazi do toga da se njime kao opštim mestom m…
This dissertation is based on a two year ethnographic fieldstudy and analysis of the practice, political economy, gender identity, and ritual processes surrounding traditional forms of Turkish wrestling and their relationship to and influence on contemporary Turkish culture and …
This dissertation explores culture, particularly that of religion, arguing that religion transitioned its role as an historical authority structure to its current status as a marketplace for the production, distribution, consumption and investment of "god products", which it is …
