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Showing 1 to 20 of 408 for “"Cultural anthropology"”.
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Missiology Meets Cultural Anthropology: The Life and Legacy of Paul G. Hiebert
… examines the relationship between missiology and cultural anthropology in the life and published works of Paul Gordon Hiebert. Chapter 1 introduces the overall research question which investigates the interface of cultural anthropology and missiology. Key terms are introduced and defined in order …
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The Loss of Integration Vs. Unity in Diversity: American Anthropology in the 1970s and 1980s and the Founding of the Society for Cultural Anthropology
… institutional, and intellectual changes in anthropology as a discipline in a dual sense of the relation of disciplinary changes with outside social and political context. It charts changes in the discipline of anthropology and the outside world by chronicling generational conflicts between …
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Biocapital : the constitution of post-genomic life
… intervenes in conceptual debates within cultural anthropology regarding methodological questions that surround the undertaking of comparative ethnographic projects of powerful sites of knowledge production and value generation in a globalized world.
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“The Taste of This Country”: Jefferson’s Legacy of Cultural Production and The Formation of American Identity
<p>This paper uses three fundamental elements of cultural anthropology, food, customs, and language, to examine Jefferson’s diplomatic strategy as president and understanding how he forged a new culture rooted in republicanism. The legacy of tyrannical British rule spurred Jefferson to establish …
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The anthropological pastor: navigating the culture of an established church by implementing anthropological tools and resources
… and implement many of the tools and resources of cultural anthropology within their ministry context in order to enhance understanding and communication between the pastor and his congregation, resulting in healthier pastor-congregation relations, healthier churches, and greater Kingdom …
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Ethnomathematics : new approaches to its theory and application
… of mathematics, its history and education, and cultural anthropology, ethnology, ethnography and ethnoscience. Two innovating field researches, undertaken separately in Mozambique and Brazil, are presented by the author. These contribute to the consolidation of the supplementary …
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Modernist cultural critique: The visual arts and anthropology
… performance art of Joseph Beuys, with that of cultural anthropology with regard to the role of each as cultural critique. This juxtaposition also examines the multiple layering suggested by the relationship between art, art history and art criticism to both, each other and to broader social and …
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Understanding the role of culture in the post disaster reconstruction process: the case of tsunami reconstruction in Tamilnadu, Southern India
… context on the premise that integrating cultural aspects in development produces sustainable ways of living for communities affected by natural disasters. It employs a conceptual framework to validate the argument that cultural dimensions of the affected communities are not effectively …
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Music in Haiti: An Annotated Bibliography and Research Guide
… ethnomusicology, musicology, sociology, and cultural anthropology. Generally, the topics covered relate primarily to the role of music in the shaping of the history of Haiti, though scholarly analysis of pieces composed by Haitian composers and of international composers drawing upon Haitian …
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Bringing characters alive: sensory development in the Fourth Gospel’s characterisation
… construction drawing from biblical studies, cultural anthropology and semiotics. It surveys how the author of the Fourth Gospel alludes to the human senses to build his characters to impact his readers. The research proposes the methodological joint approach to survey the sensory development …
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Literary Dimensions of National Identity: The Historical Novel of the Late Soviet Period (1960s--1980s)
… only minor roles. The theoretical tools of cultural anthropology highlight the possibilities that are offered by such an approach for the study of popular literary genres, particularly historical fiction. This methodology provides the basis for the main argument that historical novels in …
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Transnational networks and nation-building: the protest of Barágua and the transition from plantation societies to the modern nation-state in Cuba and the Americas
… is often interpreted as a late twentieth century cultural phenomenon. This work challenges that supposition by examining the cultural practice of transnationalism during the last quarter of the nineteenth century in Cuba and other parts of the Americas. The historical process of nation-building, …
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Visually Re-membering the Eastside: Trajectories of Belonging and Displacement in Austin
… explores the value of these visual methods to cultural anthropology, as they may serve to complement more established ethnographic research methods, such as informal interviews. This research examines the complex, ambivalent experiences of long-term residents living a gentrifying space, where …
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Towards a Roman Catholic Soteriology for the Sinned-Against Creature: An Intercultural Dialogue between the Soteriology of Edward Schillebeeckx and Korean-American Theologies of 'Han'
… main areas--Roman Catholic soteriology and intercultural theological dialogue--due to their growing importance in the 21st century in which globalization continues to be the driving force that organizes the economic, social, cultural, and political structures of the world, for the benefit of some …
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'Body work' : a history of sport and physical culture in colonial and postcolonial Laos
… the rich variety of twentieth-century events and cultural forces that have shaped the colonial territory and nation, including pre-colonial cosmogonies, colonialism, the Second World War, the First and Second Indochina Wars, nationalism, the Cold War, revolutionary socialism, market-based …
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'Body work' : a history of sport and physical culture in colonial and postcolonial Laos
… the rich variety of twentieth-century events and cultural forces that have shaped the colonial territory and nation, including pre-colonial cosmogonies, colonialism, the Second World War, the First and Second Indochina Wars, nationalism, the Cold War, revolutionary socialism, market-based …
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Cognitive Fictions: The Evolution of Identity in Late-Nineteenth Century Fiction and Science
… metaphors in such fields as pragmatism and cultural anthropology (as Sami Ludwig and George Hutchinson have demonstrated). During the 1880s and 90s, however, a group of diverse American writers had begun to re-conceptualize embodied identity in ways that displaced this dichotomy. These …
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Plasticity Against Plastic: Synthetics In The Practice, Theory, And Conservation Of Art Since The 1960s
… plastic are containers for social meanings and cultural values. Plastic is a challenging material to think about because its many iterations can assume varying degrees of shape, texture, hardness, density, or color, and because the term “plastic” is used to denote the quality of being shaped or …
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Beyond the material : rethinking the limits of reality through philosophy, science, and anthropology : is there something else?
… medicine, illustrate how lived practices and cultural systems reflect dimensions of reality that extend beyond the physical. The thesis concludes by reframing science as a methodology rather than an ideology to preserve its success, and materialism as one theory among many. It advocates a …
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