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Showing 1 to 20 of 177 for “"Cultural Identities"”.
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National Identities Versus Cultural Identities: Beta Israel Community
… focuses on the structure of the national and cultural identities of the Beta Israel community. It primarily focuses on people over thirty-five who were born and lived in Ethiopia at least until the age of twelve and then left for Israel, which is the first generation. Beta Israel, the Falasha, …
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Invoking heterogeneous cultural identities through Thokoza sangoma spirit possession
This thesis has been indefinitely embargoed, as per the Senate Executive Committee decision on 10 May 2016.
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Borders, Bridges, and Beer: Performances of Cultural Identities in the Washington Birthday Celebration
… U.S.-Mexico border region, make sense of their identities through their experiences in the Washington Birthday Celebration (WBC). By focusing on communication as means for creating cultural identities, this study provides insight into how communication is used in the construction and performance …
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Practices of linguistic and cultural identities of Korean American students in the Korean church
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2026-08-01
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The quest for belonging: Arab Muslim ESOL students' (re)-construction of linguistic and cultural identities
… study describes the educational, social, and cultural experiences of three Arab Muslim high school students in the ESL program of a southeastern state of U.S. During the fall of 2009, the researcher spent an average of two days a week with the participants and their families and friends as a …
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ON THE ROAD: STRUGGLING, SEARCHING AND OPPORTUNITIES YOUNG ASIANS IN MISSOULA SEEK THEIR CULTURAL IDENTITIES
… two questions are easy for people from a single cultural background, but may not be so simple for those young Asians who have grown up and lived in the U.S. but aren¡¯t sure where they belong. This project includes two stories of two young women from Missoula. They have been searching for their …
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ON THE ROAD: STRUGGLING, SEARCHING AND OPPORTUNITIES YOUNG ASIANS IN MISSOULA SEEK THEIR CULTURAL IDENTITIES
… two questions are easy for people from a single cultural background, but may not be so simple for those young Asians who have grown up and lived in the U.S. but aren¡¯t sure where they belong. This project includes two stories of two young women from Missoula. They have been searching for their …
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Performing cultural identities and transnational ‘imaginaries’: fashion and beauty practices as diasporic spaces among young London Congolese
… and collective racial, ethnic and gender identities. It investigates how they re-think and narrate their cultural heritage through forms of body performances and how these are shaped by the multicultural context of London. The ways in which these cultural practices are received by the …
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Africa Fashion Week London 2011-2020: Exploring African Cultural Identities and the Transnational Practices of Nigerian Fashion
… the construction and representation of African cultural identities through the dress and design practices of Nigerian fashion designers at African Fashion Week London (AFWL) 2011-2020. AFWL was established in 2011 by Olori Aderonke Ademiluyi Ogunwusi, a Yoruba, Nigerian-British entrepreneur. …
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NEGOTIATING INTERSECTING CULTURAL IDENTITIES, DIALECTICAL TENSIONS, AND STATUS RELATIONSHIPS: INTERCULTURAL RELATIONSHIPS IN TWO NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS IN THE SOUTHWEST
… overlooked, phenomenon of communication in intercultural relationships in the context of nonprofit organizations (NPOs) with attention to the role of intersecting cultural identity positions and status relationships. Specifically, I examined discourses of how members across three status positions …
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Cultural identities as reflected in the literature of the Northern and Southern dynasties period (4th-6th centuries A.D.)
… foreign religion. He constructed many different identities in addition to the Buddhist one for the monks in his book Gaoseng zhuan, (Lives of Eminent Monks), a collection of biographies of Buddhist monks, to bring Buddhism closer to Chinese tradition and more acceptable by Confucian standards. …
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Soviet Bodies in Canadian Dancesport: Cultural Identities, Embodied Politics, and Performances of Resistance in Three Canadian Ballroom Dance Studios
… in Canada. I investigate the processes of cultural cross-pollination within this population through an analysis of first and second generation Soviet-Canadian ballroom dancers experiences with cultural identity within the dance milieu. My study is guided by questions such as: What are the …
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Cultivating religious, racial, and cultural identities: Opportunities and challenges at a Muslim homeschool co-op in the U.S. Midwest
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2024-12-01
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2+2 Doesn't Always Equal 4: A Mixed Methods Approach to U.S.-Born Children of Immigrants' Cultural Identities and Belonging
… growing demographic limited their experiences to cultural identity, as it pertains to belonging. Simply put, the literature supposes that children of immigrants’ cultural identities define their sense of belonging. Moreover, the literature lacks insight into the lived experiences of children of …
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Social Stratification, Cultural Identities, and Politics of Leadership: The Consolidation of a National Culture at a Papua New Guinean University
… obligations to their kin, how different cultural identities are forged and strengthened at university, and how contemporary politics of leadership become manifest in student strikes. The thesis draws on eighteen months of fieldwork, centred at the University of Goroka in the PNG …
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Encuadres espaciales en la representación de las identitades étnico-culturales en La teta asustada, Zona Sur y Nosilatiaj. La Belleza.
… aim of the present work is to examine how ethnic-cultural identities –indigenous and ‘criolla’– are shaped in relation to the represented spaces: landscapes, houses, gardens and the courtyard. In order to study how ethnic-cultural identities are shaped in interaction with the spaces represented in …
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For the Love of "Home": The Transnational Lives of 1.5 and Second-Generation Ghanaian-Canadians
… experience and how are 1.5 and second generation identities, senses of belonging and of home articulated and/or contextualized in the homeland? Through qualitative interviews with 32 young adults, the project determined that Ghanaian diaspora youth are engaged in a cross-border transnational …
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Transnational Space and the Discourse of Multiculturalism: Contemporary Canadian Fiction
… the investigation of the “multiple” and “fluid” cultural identities in the four examples of contemporary Canadian fiction under scrutiny.
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