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Showing 1 to 20 of 2722 for “"Anthropology"”.
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Ionesco's Absurd Anthropology
<p>Eugène Ionesco's plays are often thought of only as absurd. This thesis explores another possible interpretation of his plays, including <em>Rhinocèros</em>, <em>Le Roi se meurt</em>, <em>Jeux de massacre</em>, <em>Les Chaises</em>, <em>Victimes du devoir</em>, <em>La Jeune fille à marier</em>, …
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An Anthropology of Conservation
An Anthropology of Conservation has been devised to determine the different approaches to conservation developed by cultural groups throughout time. The research questions that this thesis addresses are as follows : • Are there common threads associated with approaches to the care of material …
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Sound Received: immersion, listening and anthropology
Immerse yourself in a world of sound and approximations. This practice-led research is concerned with critically examining the roots and contemporary significance of immersion within sonic art and everyday life. This body of work has resulted from research into key issues repositioning the term …
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The Spiritual Anthropology of John Cassian
… thesis is an investigation into the spiritual anthropology of John Cassian, who composed two monastic works, the Institutes and the Conferences. Although Cassian transmits the teachings of the Egyptian desert fathers living in the later fourth century, many polemical mind-sets, from his Latin …
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The Philosophical Anthropology of Paul Tillich
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-04T21:18:16Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6101643.pdf: 12358468 bytes, checksum: ca9e311aa4bed24070afed2ab8d29f02 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1961
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Creation in the Image of God: Human Uniqueness From the Akan Religious Anthropology to the Renewal of Christian Anthropology
… human beings.</p> <p>Through the use of Akan anthropology, we identify creation "in the image of God" to mean that every human being is created through the agency of parents, who also share in the image of God through their birth. Our interpretation is that the okra is the soul and is …
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Clark Wissler, a forgotten influence in American anthropology
… obscure figure in the history of American anthropology after a period of considerable impact on the discipline. Primary data for this study were several pieces of correspondence and personal papers in the collection of "Wissler Papers" at the Department of Anthropology, Ball State …
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Radical Quakerism: a political anthropology of postmodern religion
… an ethnographic case study into the political anthropology of contemporary religion. By exploring the ‘liquid’ faith of participants in the Religious Society of Friends (‘Quakers’), it carefully examines the social and political practices that constitute the ‘postmodern’ religious subject. …
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On the edge-peripheral communities and marginal anthropology
… archipelago.' This is also a work of marginal anthropology (Fox, 1975) that discusses both conventional and more experimental "ways of telling" in an attempt to interpret human social behaviour.<br/>
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Modernist cultural critique: The visual arts and anthropology
… art of Joseph Beuys, with that of cultural anthropology with regard to the role of each as cultural critique. This juxtaposition also examines the multiple layering suggested by the relationship between art, art history and art criticism to both, each other and to broader social and cultural …
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The Soul and the Body in Hegel's Anthropology
… provide a close exegetical reading of Hegel's "anthropology," his doctrine of the human body and soul, located in the first part of the Philosophy of Spirit, volume three of the Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences. In the course of this exegesis I show how Hegel demonstrates that all of …
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Reimagining anthropology: towards an anti-racist, feminist ethnography
… methods and its uses in the discipline of anthropology to reimagine an accountable and collaborative ethnography. The standard of ethnographic research methods relies on neo-colonial and exploitative practices to create knowledge and data. This thesis reinserts the work of many researchers …
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Social Anthropology and British Society, c. 1920-1975
At the beginning of the twentieth century anthropology was a discipline marked by an interest in measuring skeletons, collecting ornamental curios and speculating about the evolution of society. From the 1920s onwards, however, anthropologists were increasingly urged to leave their armchairs and …
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Investment of migrant remittances : some evidence from anthropology
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1984.
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Producing Humans: An Anthropology of Social and Cognitive Robots
… I also contribute to contemporary debates in anthropology and posthumanist theory, which question the foundational assumptions of humanism. While contemporary scholarship has attempted to move beyond the nature/culture binary by articulating a multitude of reconfigurations and boundary …
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Bodies of Evidence: An Anthropology of the Health Claim
How can a food or food ingredient be proven healthy, without calling it a drug? In this thesis, I make an attempt at understanding the stakes of a heated debate involving scientists from the food industry, academia, and the European regulatory authorities. The centrality and importance of 'science' …
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