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Showing 1 to 20 of 59 for “"Cultural construction"”.
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Cultural construction of psychiatric illness : a case of amafufunyane
The purpose of this study was to explore definitions of an illness condition amafunyane and the subsequent help-seeking behaviour amongst Black Psychiatric patients who were attending a psychiatric community clinic in Guguletu, a residential area for Blacks in Cape Town). Psychiatrists have always …
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Cultural construction of Jakarta : design, planning, and development in Jabotabek, 1980-1997
… within, and subordinate to, long-standing culturally-defined structures of power, as but one of a long history of syncretically adapted forms imported from foreign sources. With culture defining the goals and means of the controlling elite, the restructuring of architecture, urban design, …
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What Are We Protecting Here? The Cultural Construction of Gender in Obscenity Law
… protection of women as a reason to censor texts. Culturally, this helped empower women to become agents of their sexuality.
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Five children and a paradigm: The cultural construction of romantic and utilitarian concepts of childhood
… ease of reference Romantic and Utilitarian as culturally constructed during the Enlightenment are no longer capable of containing the meaning of childhood within a rapidly changing technological environment. Furthermore, it is argued that the adherents to these two modes perpetuate a continuous …
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Damaged goods? Clinical conversations and the cultural construction of cocaine-exposed children in foster care
"Early on in the ""crack era""--beginning roughly in 1985--a ""cocaine-baby syndrome"" characterized by jitteriness, inconsolability and poor social bonding was reported as were various birth defects, in the children of multiply addicted women who used cocaine. By the early 1990s, the reality of …
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A White Slave in America: Hiram Powers's <em>Greek Slave</em> and the Cultural Construction of Race
… study examines the creation, exhibition and cultural influence of Hiram Powers's <em>Greek Slave</em> (first version, c. 1843), a marble sculpture that depicts a white female figure with shackled wrists. During the mid-nineteenth century, the statue appeared in exhibitions throughout Europe …
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The Private Life of the Nation: Christmas and the Invention of Modern Germany
… public ritual as tremendously important for the cultural construction of social communities and the dramatic display of power relationships, yet for the most part they have ignored domestic festivity, including Christmas, Germany's most popular holiday. This is the first full-length study that …
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The Traditional Wilderness Conception, Postmodern Cultural Constructionism and the Importance of Physical Environments
… those who believe that this concept is merely a cultural construction. The traditional wilderness conception viewed wilderness as an objective place separate from humans that is defined by being primarily shaped by natural forces, possessing natural origins and being free of human inhabitants and …
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The Traditional Wilderness Conception, Postmodern Cultural Constructionism and the Importance of Physical Environments
… those who believe that this concept is merely a cultural construction. The traditional wilderness conception viewed wilderness as an objective place separate from humans that is defined by being primarily shaped by natural forces, possessing natural origins and being free of human inhabitants and …
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Interrogating tweendom online: ‘Fangirl as Pathology’, gender/age, and iCarly fandom
… in fan studies scholarship and their stereotyped construction has remained largely unchallenged. This thesis seeks to address this imbalance as it offers a timely examination of the cultural construction, circulation and pleasures of fangirl fandom, seeking to challenge and expose the tenacity of …
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Reading the gendered body in contemporary culture, 1980-1990
… the body, gender, and sexuality as complex cultural constructions. As a contribution to the broader feminist project to rethink the body as a cultural construction rather than a nature ""given,"" this dissertation examines the different ways in which bodies are gendered through interactions …
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Jews Behind Glass: The Ethnographic Impulse in German-Jewish and Yiddish Literature, 1900-1948
… of exploration in the study of the literary and cultural construction of Jewish identity in European modernity.
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How do self-guided trails contribute to the creation of tourist spaces?
… trails within the wider concept of the socio-cultural construction of place and their contribution to the formulation of static, themed settings is contrasted with their potential to encourage a more fluid and embodied approach to space where visitors are engaged with the places they visit. …
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Buddhist Philosophy and the Epistemological Foundations of Conflict Resolution.
… the understanding of human mind to social/cultural orientations and left a comprehensive and qualitative analysis of the potential of individual human mind underdeveloped. Buddhist epistemology, the central theme of which is to address human suffering that is mainly psychological and …
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Metaphysics of Mania: Edgar Allan Poe's and Herman Melville's Rebranding of Madness during the American Asylum Movement
… Allan Poe and Herman Melville drew upon the cultural construction of mental abnormality during their time and formulated mad characters that worked to destabilize the medical perceptions of madness as behavioral deviations from social normalcies, and instead portrayed madness as a …
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Bodily risks, spiritual risks: contrasting discourses on pregnancy in a rural Tanzanian community
"In this dissertation I examine the cultural construction of risk in the context of pregnancy and childbirth in a small, rural community in the Shinyanga Region of west-central Tanzania. My argument is that there are ""official"" and ""unofficial"" definitions of these risks, and that although both …
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Psychological explanations in HIV/AIDS counselling
… who are affected. Medical anthropology and constructionist theory provided theoretical frameworks to explore the significance and meaning of explanations as well as implications for counselling objectives. A qualitative methodology, drawn from theoretical models which emphasize the cultural …
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"The Case of Mary Phagan,'A Story About the Story of a Murder': Constructing a Crime"
… her death. By examining personal identity as a cultural construction, I re-evaluate the manner in which we define and describe crime. Phagan's murder became a cautionary tale, a narrative of sexual danger within the model city of the New South. My thesis illustrates the importance of …
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Brujería and the Boundaries of Power: Transgression and Punishment in Fernanda Melchor's <em>Hurricane Season</em>
… Drawing on the specter of feminicide and the cultural construction of monstrous femininity, the novel underscores how spiritual and bodily agency can be co-opted, distorted, and weaponized. Rather than idealize brujería as inherently liberatory, this project argues that its power is always …
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