Browsing Thesis (BSS in Anthropology) by Author "Department of Economics and Social Sciences, BRAC University"
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Being with the ‘Other’: inter-religious marriages in Bangladesh
Rahman, Fahmida (BRAC Univeristy, 2016-08)Inter-religious marriage is one of the rarest research topics seen in Bangladesh till today. However, „rare research‟ does not mean that such marriages are not taking place. In Bangladesh, inter-religious marriage is ... -
An ethnography on the Maizbhandar: locating within cultural, religious and political dimensions
Awal, Arefin Noman Bin (BRAC University, 2016-05)With the rise of modernity and worldwide expansion of secularism as the principle of most of the modern states, many presumed that religion and its corollaries will become irrelevant by the twentieth century. But right at ... -
Experiences of minorities in a secular country like Bangladesh
Nicholas, Turzo (BRAC Univeristy, 2017-04-19) -
Identity in flux: a comparative study of Manta and Beday
Shejuty, Nosin Nahian (BRAC Univeristy, 2018-07-11)Manta is one of the oldest traditional occupational communities who live in the southwest region of Bangladesh. This traditional occupational community lives on a boat which is severed as their own residence where they ... -
Impact of climate change: a study of people living at char
Saleh, T.M Abu (BRAC Univeristy, 2016) -
Insight into decision of marriage by late teens and early-twenties women in Dhaka middle class: their agency, respectability and role of external factors
Sharar, Raad (BRAC University, 2018)Women in the 21st century have made an insurmountable amount of progress in terms of education, employment, decision making power and overall autonomy over themselves. In the context of Bangladesh where this paper is ... -
The millennium development goals: its impact on the achieving primary education
Khan, Rayaan Ullah (BRAC University, 2016-04-16) -
Minority politics of Bengal muslims in late colonial era and their understanding of Pakistan
Joy, Shafiul Aziz (BRAC Univeristy, 2018-01)This thesis reviews how the idea of Pakistan was accepted and explicated by the Bengali Muslims in late colonial era. The question of cultural autonomy was resolved by them based on linguistic, cultural and religious aspects ... -
Ontological formation of the Otaku subculture and subjects in Bangladesh
Yameen, Syed Ibtesham (BRAC University, 2016-04) -
Revisiting women empowerment: a retrospect on the other side of readymade garment industry
Qadir, Humayra Binte (BRAC Univeristy, 2016-12)Empowerment in the garments industry is the pivot of a seesaw, where at one end there are women and then there’s the other end that carries all the obstacles. This study works with women empowerment concentrating on ... -
Sense of community a weapon of survival: an ethnographic study on Korail
Alam, Aftab (BRAC University, 2016)Korail, from other side of the lake might seem as an inadequate piece of land which is occupied by ‘illegal settlers’ or from the research of the NGOs, people may assume that Korail is just a plot for manufacturing different ... -
Tea workers movement: for land & for identity
Ahmed, Jawad (BRAC University, 2016-12)A burst out such as Chunarughat tea workers reminds us about the struggle against the anti-colonial oppression from the below much of which remained hidden or ignored in the mainstream media. The slogans carried out by the ...