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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Anthropological analysis"”.
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Scéalta Dharach Uí Dhireáin: A linguistic and anthropological analysis
… Co. Galway, and offers an interdisciplinary analysis of the material from both a linguistic and anthropological perspective. The material was collected in 1933 by renowned scholar Robin Flower from local Aran Island storyteller Darach Ó Direáin. The collection contains 56 components — the …
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The Story of How the World Began: An Anthropological Analysis of Creation Mythology
… be revealed. The cultures discussed within this analysis are the Iroquois Nation, the Aztec, the Inca, the Norse, the Mesopotamian, the Yoruba, the Chinese, and the Maori. These cultures were chosen since they are spread throughout the world both geographically and chronologically, which provides …
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Brokering Culture and Labor: An Anthropological Analysis of IT Offshore Labor between Japan and India
… of work function smoothly. Through the analysis of the interviews with Indian software engineers and liaison officers between companies and within companies, in combination with observations of their workplaces, this dissertation highlights the corporate demands for flexibility in two …
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CAPITALISM, CONTRACEPTION AND CHEMICALS: A MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF THE PREMATURE SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT EPIDEMIC IN PUERTO RICAN FEMALES
… The purpose of this study was to argue for an anthropological approach in the investigation of the world’s highest recorded prevalence of precocious puberty and premature thelarche that occurred in Puerto Rico in the late 1970s. After 30 years of biomedical research, definite etiologies of …
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CAPITALISM, CONTRACEPTION AND CHEMICALS: A MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF THE PREMATURE SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT EPIDEMIC IN PUERTO RICAN FEMALES
… The purpose of this study was to argue for an anthropological approach in the investigation of the world’s highest recorded prevalence of precocious puberty and premature thelarche that occurred in Puerto Rico in the late 1970s. After 30 years of biomedical research, definite etiologies of …
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Contesting Victimhood: A Linguistic and Legal Anthropological Analysis of Defendant Experiences in New York’s Human Trafficking Intervention Courts
… did not need or want. Through textual discourse analysis and ethnographic observation, this paper explores the contestation of victimhood in HTICs by focusing on the experiences of defendants and how they are perceived by the police, judges, and other agents of the HTICs. Before entering the …
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"Send only your serious cases" : delivering flu to Toronto: an anthropological analysis of the 1918-19 influenza epidemic in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
… throughout the city. Grounded in the anthropological frameworks of evolutionary medicine, political economy and syndemics, this dissertation is designed to present a qualitative historical account of the pandemic in one of Canada's largest cities. This piece adds to the growing body of …
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Η ΚΟΙΝΩΝΙΚΗ ΣΗΜΑΣΙΑ ΤΟΥ ΔΗΜΟΤΙΚΟΥ ΤΡΑΓΟΥΔΙΟΥ ΣΤΟΥΣ ΠΡΟΣΦΥΓΕΣ ΤΗΣ ΚΥΠΡΟΥ. ΕΘΝΟΜΟΥΣΙΚΟΛΟΓΙΚΗ ΠΡΟΣΕΓΓΙΣΗ
… IN 1974). THE AIMS ARE TWOFOLD: A) FORMAL ANALYSIS OF THE MUSIC ITSELF AND B) ANTHROPOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF THE COLLECTED MATERIALS. THE WORK IS PRESENTED IN TWO PARTS; THE FIRST, WHICH IS A HISTORICAL-MUSICOLOGICAL STUDY OF THE FOLK MUSIC AND THE REGION OF THE RESEARCH UNTIL 1974 AND THE …
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A cultural analysis of information technology offshore outsourcing: an exercise in multi-sited ethnography of virtual work
… study is an exploration of how ethnography and anthropological analysis can provide new understanding of transnational, multi-sited research phenomena. Research focused on the work activities of one American client organization and its Indian IT service provider situated in the global virtual …
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Modernist cultural critique: The visual arts and anthropology
… to its 'other' as well as its own society. An anthropological analysis of the arts reveals their 'native' hermeneutic tradition and thus challenges anthropology to engage with realms of social discourse where it is not a privileged locus of interpretation. The crisis of representation faced by …
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In search of the myth in history : the narrative of the quest from sacred to secular
… West, are now fundamental concepts for much anthropological analysis. Through examining the Western narrative of "the quest" as it appears in three different periods of Western history, this paper examines the emergence of literary tropes from mythological narratives. In so doing the paper …
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The body, health, and healing in alternative and integrated medicine: An ethnography of homeopathy in South London
… changing belief systems. This thesis provides an anthropologically informed analysis of one alternative therapy in depth - homeopathy- explored from the multiple perspectives of biomedical and lay homeopaths, users and students of homeopathy. The ethnography comprised 18 months participant …
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Setting the Childless Free: An Ethnographic Study of the Practice of the Childfree Identity
<p>Heeding Sherry Ortner’s call to turn anthropological analysis inward, toward one’s own culture, the following dissertation seeks to understand the identity and practice of the voluntarily childless (hereafter “childfree”) movement in the United States. How do these individuals practice their …
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Chase the feeling: making meaning in an autistic theatre company
… a play script and performance. This creative analysis of the research seeks then to find a tangible path linking the rigor of creative practice, academic research and writing culture. Fieldwork was conducted with the COMPANY @ which operates in Adelaide, South Australia. This analysis is …
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Skins, scars, blankets and blood : a pictorial response to the tensions and conflicts that arise from the representation and the practice of Ulwaluko in contemporary South Africa
… should be understood that this study is not an anthropological analysis of the Xhosa society and their cultural practices. Rather, it is a combination of autobiography and social commentary in which emphasis on first-hand experience is of primary importance for better understanding of the …
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VIRTUAL ANTHROPOLOGY AND COMMINGLED SKELETAL REMAINS. RESOURCES AND POTENTIAL FOR PERSONAL IDENTIFICATION IN HUMANITARIAN FORENSIC CONTEXTS
… paved the way to novel research avenues for the analysis of skeletal remains and for personal identification both of the living and the dead, as well. Foremost, research has extensively explored the quantification of similarities and differences between 3D models of anatomical structures as a …
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‘Action through non-action’: self-transformation and social transformation at the PRC grassroots
… People’s Republic of China (PRC). I ground my analysis in a long-standing ethical-political tradition, dating from the Warring States Period (475-221 BCE), which sees societal political progress as predicated on prior individual self-transformation. My overarching argument is that in …