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Showing 1 to 20 of 264 for “"Anthropology, Cultural."”.
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The Festival in the Meta-system of Culture
Crossing the borders of various disciplines – anthropology, cultural studies, cultural theory, sociology of culture, sociology of art, art history, art criticism, events management and tourism – festival studies are slowly attracting academic attention in their search for independent status among …
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Experience of menstrual symptoms among Bahraini women.
Experience of menstrual symptoms among Bahraini women.
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Health behaviors of African American eighth graders attending urban public schools.
Health behaviors of African American eighth graders attending urban public schools.
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The aesthetics of solo bagpipe music at the Glengarry Highland Games.
… and attitudes that are inherent in this cultural activity.
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Living in an Artistic Labour Market: The Experiences of Gig Musicians in Calgary
… musicians are able to sustain themselves as cultural workers.
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Grenades & gravy: an ethnographic study of food in the canadian forces
The importance of feeding soldiers is frequently evoked using Napoleon’s oft-quoted aphorism, “an army marches on its stomach”. While the biological necessity of fueling troops is well documented there remain many questions about the social aspects of military feeding and the individuals who …
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The I and the Me(dia): Social Hermeneutics, Media Audiences, and Cultural Theory
… theoretical perspective. The first analyzes the cultural dynamics of a local underground cinema culture and examines the uniquely hybrid character of this social formation. The second study examines the community of fans which surrounds the widely popular rock band Kiss, illustrating the struggle …
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Netizenship Politics: Youth, Anti-Americanism, and Rhetorical Agency in South Korea's 2002 Candlelight Vigils
"This study offers a rhetorical analysis of the 2002 South Korean Candlelight Vigils [ch'otpul siwi] with a focus on the role of the Internet in public opinion building, the rise in anti-American sentiment in South Korea, and rhetorical agency residing in the collective. In 2002, two South Korean …
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Babes, Balls, and Babies: A Working Ethnography of Motherhood
… the relationship of women to the global socio-cultural matrix. In American women's sports, particularly team sports, women's bodies and their representations operate as shorthand for the shifting gendered landscape of America. At this junction, we find that even as Chaka Kahn sings, ""I'm every …
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The Iconography of Kee -Chung Sohn in Korean Cultural Memory
… and people through economic, military and cultural crisis. The dissertation makes a call to the Korean government that Sohn be better memorialized, suggesting that the use of the image of Sohn in Korean culture may be a key stimulus to South and North Korean unification.
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Encountering Globalization: An Ethnographic Study of Women and Television in China
In post-Mao China, television has become an embodiment of struggle and negotiation between diverse forces in society. In the wake of the penetration of global capital and media culture, state discourse and popular culture images have been redefining an ideal Chinese womanhood in the context of …
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Cultural Values Reflected in Chinese Advertisements: Self -Construal and Persuasion Implications
… the role of advertising in reshaping Chinese cultural values. First, the content of advertising promotes individualism and modernity values. Second, individualistic advertisements shift individuals' cultural orientations (self-construals). And third, such value-shifting influences individuals' …
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"Producing ""Local"" Repertoire: Czech Identity, Pop Music, and the Global Music Industry"
… study considers the politics and complexity of cultural production, consumption, and exchange by examining how cultural identity and the specific social and economic relations of symbolic creativity relate to the corporate production of music transnationally. Utilizing a multi-sited ethnography …
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"""Is My Honor Not Honor?"": Women's Narratives of Marriage, Violence and Culture in Lahaul, India"
… understand the operations of culture. I examine cultural processes that cut across multiple social movements and communication practices to articulate local women's understandings of violence in their lives. I argue that these experiences need to be considered in shaping the policies that …
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History, Ethics, and Emotion in Ndau Performance in Zimbabwe: Local Theoretical Knowledge and Ethnomusicological Perspectives
"This dissertation is an ethnography of the dance/drumming practices of Ndau communities in Zimbabwe along the Mozambique border. I attend to the specific drumming practices of the spirit possession ceremonies central to local cosmological understanding, as well as the secular muchongoyo drumming …
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Will the Two-Day Weekend Bring More Leisure (Yutori) to Japanese Adolescents
What are the main barriers to the increase of yutori experiences? This researcher believes that there are two. One is inadequate leisure opportunities for adolescents resulting from delayed development of the leisure service system. The second is inadequate programs for educating for leisure …
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"The ""Popol Vuh"" and the Dominican Friar Francisco Ximenez: The Maya -Quiche Narrative as a Product of Religious Extirpation in Colonial Highland Guatemala"
… that encompasses the fields of literature and anthropology. I challenge traditional approaches to this manuscript by placing it within the historical, cultural, and religious context of colonial contact. My study addresses the fundamental question of what the manuscript was originally and what …
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Within the Walls: War, Trauma, and Recovery in Dubrovnik
The siege of the Croatian city of Dubrovnik that began on October 1st, 1991 was among the earliest military aggressions of the Yugoslav army in response to the breakup of the republics of the former Yugoslavia. The thriving tourist economy of the 1400 year old city collapsed the moment the first …
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Categories Have Consequences: Street Children as Humanitarian Objects
… move in tandem. By using theories developed by cultural studies researchers and scholars of classification and infrastructure, it is possible to show how the classification of street child functions through humanitarian infrastructure. Attention to classification and infrastructure has the …
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Households and Hegemony: An Analysis of Historic Creek Culture Change
… for themselves at the expense of existing cultural institutions. Such changes represented significant challenges to the power of social elites and the principle of hereditary social inequality, threatening the basis of traditional chiefly authority. Escalating reliance upon strategies …
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