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Enden, Anne Van der (2024)

Creative Communities: Birthday Cafés in Seoul

Master thesis | Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology (MSc)

Birthday cafés in Seoul consist of a multi-layered circulation of goods that is mediated through a fascinating type of gift economy in which there are varying types of distributer-recipient relations. Within these economies I focus on value in the sociological sense and value in the economic sense, as I explore to what extent the sociological understanding of value informs the economic sense of value and vice versa. Furthermore, I discuss the prominent role that the value of creativity plays and how this interacts with both the sociological understanding of value as well as the economic one. With this focus, I aim to tease out the tangled network of values that make up the economy of a birthday café in Seoul.

Value

Creativity

Sociological understanding of value

economic understanding of value

Community

Meaningfulness

Novelty

Intentionality

Author

Enden, Anne Van der

Faculty

Faculty of Social & Behavioural Sciences

Specialisation

Visual Ethnography

Supervisors

Hölsgens, S

ECTS Credits

20

Language

en