Sökning: "commodity culture"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 15 avhandlingar innehållade orden commodity culture.

1. 1. Travelling objects : modernity and materiality in British Colonial travel literature about Africa

   Författare :Nicklas Hållen; Heidi Hansson; Stefan Helgesson; Tim Youngs; Umeå universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; travel literature; Africa; modernity; materiality; material objects; things; commodity form; commodity culture; postcolonialism; Homi Bhabha; museums; exhibitions; colonialism; geography; space; trade; ethnography; the book; ambivalence; subject-object relations; fetishism; John Speke; Verney Cameron; Henry Stanley; Mary Kingsley; Ewart Grogan; Constance Larymore; Mary Hall; English language; Engelska språket; Literature; litteraturvetenskap; English literature; Comparative literature; Historia;

   Sammanfattning : This study examines the functions of objects in a selection of British colonial travel accounts about Africa. The works discussed were published between 1863 and 1908 and include travelogues by John Hanning Speke, Verney Lovett Cameron, Henry Morton Stanley, Mary Henrietta Kingsley, Ewart Scott Grogan, Mary Hall and Constance Larymore. LÄS MER

3. 2. “Woke” Authenticity in Brand Culture : A Patchwork Ethnography

   Författare :Jonatan Södergren; Jacob Östberg; Nishant Kumar; Shona Bettany; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; authenticity; consumer research; cultural branding; deconstruction; marginalized consumers; marketing communications; Business Administration; företagsekonomi;

   Sammanfattning : Authenticity is often considered the holy grail in marketing. Prior research has focused on authenticity in consumption and marketing communications based on countercultural images of personal freedom, including mythologies based on resistant rebels and social outlaws. LÄS MER

4. 3. Mjölk - en kulturanalys av mejeridiskens nya ekonomi

   Författare :Håkan Jönsson; Avdelningen för etnologi; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; dairy; milk; food culture; new economy; cultural economy; material culture; consumption; functional foods; Cultural anthropology; Øresund; etnologi; Kulturantropologi; ethnology;

   Sammanfattning : This dissertation is to be regarded as a contribution to the discussion about a "cultural economy". The aim of the study is to gain a perspective as to how a new economy can be shaped and take its place in everyday life, as well as identify the cultural values and ideas created in the process, by analysing the production and consumption of dairy products. LÄS MER

5. 4. Framing the Feature Film : Multi-Reel Feature Film and American Film Culture in the 1910s

   Författare :Joel Frykholm; Jan Olsson; Richard Abel; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; multi-reel feature film; cinema in the 1910s; early cinema; United States; film culture; Philadelphia; The Spoilers; transitional cinema; journalism; trade press; Film; Filmvetenskap; filmvetenskap; Cinema Studies;

   Sammanfattning : This dissertation addresses the breakthrough of the multi-reel feature film in the United States, and the significance of this process within the wider context of the American film industry and culture in the 1910s. The purpose is to provide a new, and more comprehensive analytical framing of the topic, and to enhance our understanding of how a new central commodity, i. LÄS MER

7. 5. "Take a Taste" : Selling Isak Dinesen's Seven Gothic Tales in 1934

   Författare :Moa Matthis; Heidi Hansson; Claire Squires; Umeå universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; marketability; Book-of-the-Month-Club; consumer culture; commercialism; colonial Kenya; feudal ideal; aristocracy; identity; malleability; Literature; litteraturvetenskap;

   Sammanfattning : This study explores the marketability of Isak Dinesen's Seven Gothic Tales, published in the US in 1934. The term marketability is used to refer to the book as a potentially desirable object for sale on the market, successfully promoted by the Book-of-the-Month-Club whose members were intent on educating themselves and refining their taste. LÄS MER