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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"Anthropological perspective"”.
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Aging and residence in an urban environment : an anthropological perspective
This study investigates the nature and meaning of the aging process for old people in the urban environment of Cafe Town. It employs methods of participant observation, interviews and life-histories. The study particularly emphasises the role of different residential settings ('normal' housing, …
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Health and disease in two villages in South-Eastern Lesotho : a social anthropological perspective
Macro morbidity and mortality data identify major disease and health trends for large populations. It is also well known that high infant mortality rates, high incidence of infectious fevers, as well as the variety of diseases commonly associated with malnutrition, are correlated with social …
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Facing Japan While Living in the United States: The Study Abroad Experiences and Expectations of Japanese Women
"My research contributes an anthropological perspective to the nascent social science literature on students studying abroad by illustrating how the home culture permeates and directs the students' study abroad experience. I aim to dismantle the often monolithic portrayal of the ""international …
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An Ethnographic Study of Employee Absences: The Impact of Uncertainty, Negotiation and the Employment Relationship
… generation plant located in the mid-west. An anthropological perspective and methodology was employed for the purpose of "getting close" to the daily rhythms of organizational life in order to develop a new perspective on why employees do not attend. Data was collected through six months of …
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Anthropneuma
… ideas surrounding spirituality from a Cultural Anthropological perspective, an Art Historical perspective, as well as through the studies of intuitive art-making and emotional interpretations of current spiritual experience. References include Hugo Ball, Wassily Kandinsky, Marina Abramavic, Bill …
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Archaeological Perspectives On Partisan Communities: Francis Marion At Snow'S Island In History, Landscape, And Memory
… examines Marion's partisan community from the anthropological perspective of community theory. It also examines the archaeological landscape of the partisan community around Snow's Island. Finally it discusses how this partisan community was remembered or re-imagined in Antebellum Period …
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Blood, Mud, and Money: Place and Public Land Conflicts in the Shawnee Hills
… purposes in Southern Illinois from an anthropological perspective. These conflicts are examined in terms of place, western ideas of nature and culture, and the debate concerning conservation versus preservation. The beginning point for this work was the question of whether or not place …
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Lincoln's Conservatives: Conservative Unionism and Political Tradition in the Civil War Era
… conservatism in the Civil War era from an anthropological perspective, treating it as a tribal identification shared by American lawmakers. Nineteenth-century conservatives identified themselves according to their subscription to certain common principles of governance, the ideals of which …
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Scéalta Dharach Uí Dhireáin: A linguistic and anthropological 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 majority of which are stories — and is preserved in …
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"It's not a Collective; It's a Personal Experience that Happens to be Shared": How Philosophical Systems of Individualism are Sustained through Masonic Collaboration.
… and through Masonic literature, from an anthropological perspective. The Freemasons are a fraternal society with a global presence. In this work, the experience of Freemasonry, as both an individual/personal journey and a shared/collective activity is discussed. The work utilizes a number …
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Knowledge, Power, and International Development: Beyond Critique
… of the international development agenda. From an anthropological perspective, CRVS documents such as birth and death registrations represent a mutual relationship between nation-states and citizens, conferring rights and obligations (Gray and Bedford, 2016; Simpson, 2018). Nation-states use birth …
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Die wetenskapsteoretiese grondslae van die verkeersveiligheidsopvoedkunde
… basically covers three sections, Le. the anthropological foundation of traffic safety education (and its science), the subject-philosophical, and the scientific-theoretical bases of traffic safety education. The above-mentioned three facets are distinguishable (although in continuous …
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The Vernacularisation of Indigenous Peoples' Participatory Rights in the Bolivian Extractive Sector: Including Subgroups in Collective Decision-Making Processes
… standards and ethnographic research, a legal anthropological perspective informs this piece of research. Firstly, insights are gained by understanding individual or ‘subgroup’ rights in relation to collective claims in international and regional legal standards. Secondly, this relationship is …
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A Comparative Analysis of Theological Anthropologies in Selected Christian Counseling Models
… coherency. Specifically, I discuss the anthropological issues of the spiritual nature and sin and their implications for what I call theo-anthropological holism. The epistemology of the three counseling models is summarized to establish background context in examining their anthropology …
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Aspirations of university graduates: an ethnography in New York and Los Angeles
This thesis adopts an anthropological perspective and an ethnographic approach to explore the following research question: ‘What do university graduates aspire to do with their lives, and how are such aspirations produced, negotiated, and revised over time?’. The research examines the aspirations …
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Structure and Mission Effectiveness: a Study Focused on Seventh-day Adventist Mission to Unreached People Groups Between 1980 and 2010
… theory base includes structure from an anthropological perspective; structure, mission, and effectiveness from an organizational perspective; and church structure and mission effectiveness in Christian history.</p> <p>The impact of structure on mission effectivenessis evaluated in the …
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The transformation of land tenure in Lesotho
… argues for a reconsideration of kinship in anthropological history, in view of the historical rather than synchronic anthropological perspective adopted in this study.
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The threshold of 'normality' : transformation in theatre for adults with learning disabilities and recovering from mental illness
… illness. Termed 'transformation' through an anthropological perspective of theatre and subsequent links with ritual theory, the thesis asks how and why this change (and the potential for it) can be identified through the fictive situation offered by participation in drama or theatre. This …
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die sah man weinen. The Representation of Emotion and Dispute in Middle High German Heroic Epic
… in Middle High German heroic epic from an anthropological perspective, thereby establishing the norms and practices that obtain within the fictive societies the texts present. I argue that these epic narratives problematize the anxieties of medieval aristocratic society, critique those …
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