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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Community history."”.
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Songs On the Water: Stories
… post-apocalyptic vignette--to examine themes of community, history, and faith. Linking them all is the lake, which binds them geographically and becomes a symbol of their many different lives, all flowing together from the primordial, swampy headwaters, through the residential calmness, to the …
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On the Distribution of Genetic Variation in Ecological Communities
… and data that tend to focus on only one axis of community scale data (e.g. phylogenies, relative abundances, and/or trait information). Yet we know that there are feedbacks among processes that respond on short, medium, and long time scales (local changes of abundance, accumulation of population …
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Saberes e fazeres da cultura alimentar tradicional da comunidade remanescente quilombola Lagoa Torta dos Pretos
… observation and semi-structured interviews on community. The research identified crops, traditional foods and related knowledge and skills. Quilombo Lagoa Torta dos Pretos food culture is not limited only to culinary practices, but reflects community history, culture and identity, including …
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Freight warehouse to architecture school: a representation of ideas in hardline, sketch, and text
… the question of the reconciliation of personal history and community history, how an architect intervenes in a location fraught with tradition. As a result, there is "a condition of a space evolving from within, not an insertion, from without.... So what is interesting about this space is we set …
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Identity, Memory, Compassion and Competition: Mass-Participation Photography and Everyday Life
… photography and its role in the making of community history, national identity and social memory, while testing existing theoretical assumptions about the form. Arguing that existing writing on amateur photographic practice lacks empirical substance, this thesis extrapolates findings from a …
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Recovering evicted memories : an exploration of heritage policies, intangible heritage, and storytelling in Vancouver, BC
… become obsolete, leaving a selective history in Vancouver’s everyday landscape. (2) At the same time, Vancouver has also hosted a number of community history projects. These recent projects have been able to recover fading memories of this landscape through storytelling, a form of …
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Productive Diversity: Which Companies are Active and Why?
… include the interacting factors of locality, community, history and leadership. The lack of government policy compliance requirements is also a significant factor in the low level of productive diversity adoption. These factors combine variously and inconsistently to create the conditions for …
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Mobile retrospective : shrinking the digital divide
… do not. The resultant outcome is a marginalized community left behind - a polarized urban system socially, spatially, and technologically. Low-income communities become devalued, disadvantaged, and dis-empowered. Left behind is a community that is not computer literate, lacks skills to attain …
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Tapes and testimony : making the local history of Italians in the Western Cape in the first half of the 20th century
The history of long distance immigrant communities, particularly those with few or no written documentary records, is often cited as an obvious example for oral historical enquiry. Such groupings would be represented by the Greek, Portuguese and Jewish as well as the Italian population in South …
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Hands-On-History: An Alternative Approach to Teaching Social Studies In High School
… student-involved approach called Hands-on-History which the investigator developed to replace conventional instructional methods which remain relatively unchanged in recent American public education. The case study explored the utilization of community resources such as artisans, museums, …
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Going up Bell's Hill : a social history of a diverse, Waco, Texas, community in the industrial new south.
… Waco, Texas, 1885-1955, reveals a complex community characterized by social/cultural, ethnic/racial, and economic diversity. From its early history when artesian wells attracted investors, Bell's Hill became a working-class community where industries located adjacent to the nearby railroad, …
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From the Individual to the Collective: Community in August Wilson and Tony Kushner
… while positing very different definitions of "community," offers a similar critique of an American tendency toward a kind of misguided, dangerous individualism that precludes "interconnection." I begin with a look at how "community" is defined by each author through interviews and personal …
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Producing an Islamic institution: a London case study
… state representatives, and journalists. A ‘community’ chapter explores local productions of meaning: specifically, how the community’s internal complexity shapes understandings of the institution. Finally, the ‘history’ thread comprises two explorations: perspectives on the meaning of its …