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Showing 1 to 20 of 50 for “"Cultural tradition."”.
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Psychological skills training for elite coaches in the cultural tradition of Thailand
The purpose of this thesis was to examine the knowledge, interest, and use of sport psychology by elite coaches in Thailand and the effect of a psychological skills training program on knowledge, interest, and use. The thesis involved three linked studies, the first investigated initial knowledge, …
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The Commodification of Polynesian Tattooing: Perrsistence, Change and Reinvention of a Cultural Tradition.
ABSTRACT Micro-Polynesia is the cultural center of the art form of tattooing. Although there was a period of almost complete absence of this art (colonialism until the mid-1900s), this is being revived in the contemporary era. An exception to this decline is found in New Zealand where the practice …
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Architectural Tectonics: A Shift Between the Cultural Tradition of Making to Contemporary Building Processes
… practices. However, looking outside of the cultural main stream works of architecture, there exists some built structures with such purity around how they were constructed and a form of honesty deeply embedded within their material usage. Having been idealized in such a locally specific …
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Individualism and religion : the impact of the individualist cultural tradition on religious beliefs and practices.
… In examining the effect that an individualist cultural tradition has on religious attitudes and behaviors this study reveals that the shift in authority that takes place within this cultural tradition has a large influence on the subsequent religious behaviors and attitudes of the person.
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Raw Material Usage and Stone Tool Manufacture in the Elwha River Valley
… these sites within the Old Cordilleran/Olcott cultural tradition that has been widely observed in the Salish Sea. This study is focused on the variation in raw materials used in the production of stone tools in the Elwha River Valley to understand if similar stone tool production strategies and …
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Vijayanagara in foreign eyes: a study of travel literature and ethnology in the Renaissance (1420-1600)
… of the human sciences in the European cultural tradition, in particular the empirical assumption that dominates the production of practically-oriented narratives based on the creative use of everyday language. The argument then goes on to focus on various descriptions of the South …
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Religion and social intervention : towards a model for Islamic counselling and psychotherapy
… Counselling systems should therefore consider cultural paradigms and encourage the notion of diversity in its approaches. This thesis attempts to contribute to this position by examining the role of lslam in counselling and psychotherapy. It argues that Islam as a religious and cultural …
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Determinants of International Terrorist Group Formation, 1968-1999
… the availability of low-cost refuge, and a cultural tradition of terrorism all have a positive impact on the number of new terrorist group formations, while a higher degree of governmental durability has a negative impact.
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The Empire of Fashion: Taste, Gender, and Nation in Modern Japan
… and national culture through the ""invention of tradition."" In this way, they constructed an aesthetic of everyday life as a cultural tradition to reinforce a shared sense of national identity. My analysis thus centers on a process of contesting nationalisms, whereby the cultural nation was …
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Nikájské císařství - basileus ton Romaion a jeho říše po ztrátě
… units and their relation to the political and cultural tradition of the Byzantine Empire as well as to determinate main elements of the Byzantine statehood. The significant amount of both continuity of social processes and cultural traditions within the Byzantine society is emphasized. The …
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The myth of national unity: President George W Bush's rhetorical reconstruction of America
… subtly promoting narrower ideology disguised as cultural tradition. Through analysis of Bush's three major speeches of 2001, this critique demonstrates how a seriously fractured audience can be rhetorically reconstructed, while simultaneously suggesting how rhetors may co-opt mythic images to …
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Individualism in education reform
… used will show that individualism is a powerful cultural tradition in dominant U.S. culture. As well, the analysis will show that reformers utilizing business-model reforms and legislation desire national institutions nationally that will, to an ever-increasing extent, perpetuate a neoliberal …
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She ain't no mammy: African American midwives' utilization of Ma'at in the preservation and continuation of African epistemology
… day. These midwives were gatekeepers of a rich cultural tradition grounded in an African matriarchal episteme. There is a long history of debasement of the African women’s body built on a false racial hierarchy where Black women were at the bottom, the lowest tier of society. She has had to …
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Tailoring a Web-Delivered Health Intervention for Northern Plains American Indian Public University Students
… a web-delivered health-maintenance tool, to be culturally relevant to Northern Plains AI (AI) public university students. Methods: Focus groups (N=15) and in-depth interviews (N=11) were conducted with self-identified AI college students on the campus of South Dakota State University. …
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Ak Jang in the context of Altai religious tradition
… Shamanism, which was considered to be the “core” tradition of Altaians. The initial persecution of the movement by the Russian colonial administration did not stop its spread and development. It was widely practiced in Altai until 1930 when it was eradicated by the Soviet regime. During the period …
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Representing lobola : exploring discourses of contemporary intersections of masculinity for Zimbabwean men in Cape Town : lobola, religion and normativity
… and simultaneously may homogenize the notion of 'cultural tradition'. The research uses qualitative methods which seek to uncover the way in which Zimbabwean men who identify as Christian negotiate aspects of masculinity in relation to their lived experience of undertaking marriage through lobola. …
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Seasonal House-Visiting in South Yorkshire
… aims to examine in depth a specific genre of cultural tradition within a defined geographical area. It differs from most previous investigations in this country which have focussed on particular customs in isolation from their social context. The selected tradition is seasonal house-visiting …
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Maintaining rainwater harvesting practices in southern Lebanon : the kaza of Tyre
… resources in southern Lebanon have fostered a cultural tradition of rainwater harvesting in the area. Rain is collected on both the household and the community level through rooftop and runoff collection systems (i.e. birkis), respectively. Rainwater harvesting has the potential to play a major …
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Americhicano
… titled, “On Narrative Poetry” I explore the tradition of narrative in poetry and culture and how the two come together within my own poetry. “Uncertainty and Possibility” talks about the duality of creation and the writer. Do we view the unknown as something scary or as an opportunity to be …
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Intersection : public place in a new Jamaica
… legacy. While she benefits from a unique cultural tradition brought in part through colonialism, she suffers from the nihilistic tendency to imitate colonial socio-economic practices. The society thus becomes more and more polarized, and is poorer for it. The condition is a paradigm for …
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