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Visiting Cultures: A Critique of Tourism and Anthropology

Kraft, Jessica Carew (1999)

What is a tourist? Some would say tourists are simply the “eyes and wallet” visiting a nation. In fact, tourism is the largest industry in the world and, therefore, the most important mode for contemporary cultural exchange. ...
Broken Windows and Silver Bullets: Interrogating Theories of Community Development

Ashmore, Katie (2011)

This research focuses on the Chester Housing Coalition (CHC), a community-based nonprofit in Chester, PA that seeks to revitalize the city by increasing opportunities for homeownership. Specifically, this project explores ...
Sounding Blackness: Affect and the Sonic Unconscious

Elysee, Bertolain (2011)

This paper interrogates the relationship between the histories of black musical production in the United States and the evolution of sound recording technology since the late 19th century through its successive mediations. ...
Bourdieu, Kant, and the Dialectics of Aesthetic Experience

Goodman, Matthew Shen (2011)

This thesis focuses on the opposing accounts of aesthetic experience presented by Immanuel Kant in the Critique of the Power of Judgment and by Pierre Bourdieu in Distinction. Using close textual analysis, I will detail ...
Contested, and Contestable: AIDS, Pseudoscience, and the Formulation of Scientific Policy

Morrison, Connor (2011)

AIDS, like so many other epidemics before it, has posed a tremendous challenge to the global public-health establishment, but it has also s a uniquely tortured history that has been riddled with missed opportunities and ...
Work of the Heart and the Mind: Authenticity of Self in Psychotherapy

Wong, Madrianne (2011)

This thesis examines psychotherapists’ emotional regulation and conceptions of authenticity in their work and personal lives. Psychotherapy complicates emotion work as previously studied, by adding additional layers of an ...
Where are the Women? A Feminist Sociological Critique of the Literature on Strategic Nonviolent Conflict

Novotnak, Devon (2011)

Strategic nonviolent action has been a means of resisting conflict and overcoming authoritarian dictatorships used by the masses for centuries. Through examining the foremost literature in the field, it was hypothesized ...
Staking an e-Claim: Contesting Bias & Creating Identity in the Blogosphere

Abell, Jane (2011)

My honors thesis in Sociology & Anthropology is an ethnographic study of five Arab-American bloggers and their posts about the Park51 Islamic Center in New York City. Just as conservative, anti‐Muslim activists blog to ...
The Student-Volunteer: The Making of a Swarthmore Subject: An Ethnographic Study of Swarthmore College, Chester, and the Volunteerism that Connects the Two

Meng, Angela (2012)

In my Sociology/Anthropology thesis, I explore the role of Swarthmore College and Swarthmore students volunteering in Chester, city nearby to the College. Drawing from various theories, I argue that Swarthmore students ...
Urban Spaces, Homelessness, and the Public Sphere: The Urban Homeless Counterpublic

Forrest, Andy (2012)

This paper is an ethnography of homeless and formerly homeless activists who participate in a member-led grassroots organization in New York City named Open City. The ethnography is based on interviews with the members ...
Painting Identity: The Disconnect Between Theories and Practices of Art by the LGBTQ Community

Long, Meg (2012)

Control over sexuality is a way to maintain a social, political and economic power structure. While progress has been made, artists who are self-identified as gay, lesbian or queer continue to face hurdles in the art world ...
The Securitization Machine and 2007 Financial Crisis: How the Shareholder-Value Ideology of Corporate Bureaucracy Fooled Us Again

Leonard, Zach (2012)

In this thesis I will argue that the major investment banks, by virtue of being bureaucratic corporations, not only allowed, but also required and trained, their individuals to convince themselves that self-interested and ...
Societal Perceptions of the U.S. Drug Trade Culture

Mensah, Gloria (2012)

I would like to call into question the labelization of African Americans as prime drug trade actors by the American public, media, and political parties despite African Americans’ infrequent involvement in the drug trade. ...
South Asian Politics and the Politics of Being South Asian: (Re)Conceptualizing South Asian Diasporic Organizing in the U.S.

Wijeyeratne, Sasha (2012)

This simple question: "so, why are you going?" makes visible two of the key themes from which this project was imagined. The first is a question of South Asian identity – what does it mean to identify as South Asian? Is ...
Beyond Castration: Recognizing Female Desire and Subjectivity in the Oedipus Complex

Davis, Jenna (2012)

In this thesis, I argue that while Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, proposes a compelling theory of gender, his model of the pre-Oedipal and Oedipal stages of psychosexual development does not adequately address ...
"A Skillful Breaking of Expectations": Embodied Knowledge, Communication, and Connection in West Coast Swing Dance

Cox, Nicole (2012)

West Coast Swing dancers use an embodied language to create a space in which definitions of social relationships and cultural norms are redefined. What results, is a network of individuals who feel a particular connection ...
Moral Voices: Liminality and Communitas among Peace and Justice Workers in Minnesota

Stuewe, Allison Taylor (2012)

Drawing on the work of Victor Turner, especially the overlapping and related concepts of ritual, liminality, communitas, and social drama, this thesis argues that the group of peace activists I worked with in the Twin ...
Holy Tongues: The Preservation of Classical Languages by Religious Communities

Small, Jacqueline M. (2013)

Latin and Hebrew are often called dead languages, but the fact is that they have endured for centuries without native speakers, in the form of religious ceremonies, prayers, and texts used in Roman Catholicism and Judaism. ...
Birthing Doulas: A Meditation on the Liminality of Birth Workers

Ross, Alexa (2013)

This thesis is premised on the argument that three subjects are born in the process of childbirth-baby, mother, and doula. If childbirth is seen as a rite of passage, or a ritual that accompanies some kind of transition ...
A Virtual and Actual Subculture: The Independent Music Scene in the Digital Age

Jensen, Patrick Dylan (2013)

The independent music scene is comprised of a collection of artists, label owners, promoters, and fans that maintain a strict appreciation for music that operates outside of the corporate music framework. With this study, ...

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