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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Cultural Mechanisms"”.
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Nature and Culture in Prehistoric Amazonia : Using G.I.S. to reconstruct ancient ethnogenetic processes from archaeology, linguistics, geography, and ethnohistory
This thesis investigates the socio-cultural and linguistic development of pre-Columbian Amazonia, with a particular focus on the period between 500 BC and AD 1500. In assembling and analyzing data from archaeology, linguistics, ethnohistory, ethnography, and geography in a Geographical Information …
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Linearly Stressed To Death: Consideration Of Early Childhood Stress As A Main Contributor To The Regional Variability In Classic Maya Mortuary Profiles
… were differentially affected or had different cultural mechanisms to buffer threats to health. Macroscopic examination of non-occlusal surfaces was conducted on 206 teeth from a total of 67 individuals from the three sites. Both the age of occurrence and the number of stress episodes were …
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Reproduction of Gender Ideology in Russian Consumer Culture: the Iconography of the ‘Russian Mother’
… (for example, in advertisements) construct cultural norms through which we form our identities and ultimately, our consumption preferences. They produce and reproduce gender ideologies, ideas and ideals of motherhood practice that shape everyday lives. Nevertheless, the whole process of this …
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The Political economy of the Film Industry in Tanzania: From Socialism to an Open Market economy, 1961-2010
… how government policies, legislation, and cultural institutions have impacted filmmaking in Tanzania. By employing a critical political economy theoretical framework, the study explores succeeding administrations, from President Julius Kambarage Nyerere (1961-1985) to President Mrisho …
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Dynamics of National Morality: Negotiating Values and the State
… of values in these relations is examined using a cultural sociology lens combined with concepts from the sociology of morality and of organizations. In these dynamic processes, I argue, a new national morality is constructed, manifesting changes in power structures, social practices, and state …
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A social realist study of the mechanisms that condition lecturers emerging assessment practices
… study sought to illuminate the structural and cultural mechanisms that enabled or constrained medical lecturers' assessment practice. Margaret Archer's social realist theory was used to theorise assessment by using analytical dualism and giving powers and properties to structure, culture, and …
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The Scotiabank Giller Prize: How Canadian
… are now a major part of the “social-commercial-cultural mechanisms” that, as James F. English asserts, shape national literatures. The Scotiabank Giller Prize is a Canadian instance of the economy of prestige, and, as the dissertation argues, an institution that exercises broad cultural …
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Outness Through a Cultural Lens: Self-Construal Impacts Disclosure Among Diverse Sexual Minority Individuals
… et al, 2007; Ragins, 2008). Recognizing cultural worldviews (e.g., collectivism and individualism) as deeply embedded within the self-concept, the present research considered cultural constructions of the self-concept to be at the crux of SMIs’ tendencies to disclose or conceal their …
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Modelización de redes virtuales de fabricación global en la industria aeronáutica
… la importancia de una serie de mecanismos culturales como elementos dinamizadores de las relaciones diádicas en la red. Por último, se aplicará un enfoque cuantitativo donde se analizarán todas las colaboraciones que existen entre sus actores como Rolls Royce, SNECMA, MTU, GE Aero, Pratt & …