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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Boundary construction"”.
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Silent Sentinels: Archaeology, Magic, and the Gendered Control of Domestic Boundaries in New England, 1620-1725
… spiritual, and environmental dangers. Such boundary construction was paramount in the seventeenth-century battle between good and evil epitomized by the belief in and struggle against witchcraft. This dissertation sought to answer three interrelated research questions: 1) What constitutes …
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Silent Sentinels: Archaeology, Magic, and the Gendered Control of Domestic Boundaries in New England, 1620-1725
… spiritual, and environmental dangers. Such boundary construction was paramount in the seventeenth-century battle between good and evil epitomized by the belief in and struggle against witchcraft. This dissertation sought to answer three interrelated research questions: 1) What constitutes …
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The Edge of Glory: The ʿAbbāsid Turkic Guard in Third/Ninth-Century Praise Writing
… the study of the Turkic guard and to consider boundary construction and group formation under the ʿAbbāsids.
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Game-Theoretic Approach with Cost Manipulation to Vehicular Collision Avoidance
… will be an almost analytic representation of a boundary between a "safe" set and a "unsafe" set. We will generalize the research in [27] to non-identical players and begin the setup of the boundary construction. Then we will consider the advantages and disadvantages of manipulation of the cost …
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Colonoware, Creolization, and Interactions Between African Americans and Native Americans During the Colonial Period in the South Carolina Lowcountry
… information about the interactions and social boundary construction, maintenance and shifts between Native Americans and African Americans at these occupations. This research reveals that the interactions between Native Americans and African Americans varied through the Colonial period and were …
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Boundaries, spaces and dialogue: learning to lead in an English primary school
… develops a conceptual framework that examines boundary construction, performance spaces and genres of organizational talk. This framework draws on Hernes (2003) to assess organizational boundaries, sociological and psychological concepts which take account of space and a Bakhtinian theory of …
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Deconstructing Sexual Harassment: An Analysis of Constructions of Unwanted Sexual Attention and (Un)resistance in Participant and Policy Accounts
… as key to victim resistance against normalising constructions of unwanted sexual/gendered attention as ‘just sex’ and as a ‘trivial’ part of everyday life. The act of labelling unwanted conduct as sexual harassment has been constituted as an important political step in reframing normalised …
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Deconstructing sexual harassment: an analysis of constructions of unwanted sexual attention and (un)resistance in participant and policy accounts
… as key to victim resistance against normalising constructions of unwanted sexual/gendered attention as ‘just sex’ and as a ‘trivial’ part of everyday life. The act of labelling unwanted conduct as sexual harassment has been constituted as an important political step in reframing normalised …
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Factors in the persistence or decline of ethnic group mobilisation: a conceptual review and case study of cultural group responses among Afrikaners in post-apartheid South Africa
… commitment, co-ordinating agencies and ethnic boundary-construction interact as defining and integrating elements.