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Showing 1 to 20 of 382 for “"Ethnographic Research"”.
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Learning Constellations--a multimedia ethnographic research environment using video technology for exploring children's thinking
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1990.
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Production Process as a Site of Critique. Ethnographic Research into the Mediated Interactions during (Documentary) Film Productions.
n this research I deliberately shift the attention from analyses focusing exclusively on the end result of (Documentary) Film Productions that might be a film, a documentary, a performance, towards an examination of the context of interaction in which this result is submerged. I investigate the …
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Reimagining anthropology: towards an anti-racist, feminist ethnography
<p>The aim of this thesis is to address ethnographic research methods and its uses in the discipline of anthropology to reimagine an accountable and collaborative ethnography. The standard of ethnographic research methods relies on neo-colonial and exploitative practices to create knowledge and …
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"Appropriate for School": Childhood, Relationships, and Intimacy in a U.S. Middle School
… childhood, and the path to adulthood. Based on ethnographic research at a middle school in urban Nevada with students, teachers, and staff members, I study how young people navigate school policies, practices, and regulations as they form relationships and come to understand themselves as sexual …
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HIV/AIDS, food insecurity and the burden of history: An ethnographic study from North-eastern Tanzania
The main argument in this study draws on ethnographic research conducted in Maramba, a rural community in north eastern Tanzania, with poor people living with HIV/AIDS who struggled to obtain food, care and support in spite of the availability of free treatment.
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Martinican Women and the French State: Race and Gender in the Construction of the Colonial Relation
… This dissertation is based on twelve months of ethnographic research in Fort-de-France, the capital of Martinique.
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Performing ethnography in a contemporary workplace : Disability discourse and the university administrator.
… Although there is a developing body of research that relates to the work of administrators in general, their work in relation to disability remains largely unexplored. As such, empirical enquiry is overdue. The fieldwork for this study was undertaken in an English university. An …
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Protocol and beyond: experiment and care during a TB vaccine clinical trial in South Africa
… substantial increase in the amount of biomedical research being conducted in resource-poor regions of the world since the 1980s, particularly clinical trials involving human subjects. With a particular focus on public-sector clinical trials, a number of anthropologists have recently conducted …
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Exploring the Effect of Digital Brand Engagement in Self-Concept (BESC) on the Continued Usage of Branded Digital Possessions
… digital possessions is significantly under-researched. This research focused specifically on consumer brand engagement with branded Smartphone Applications to study the effect of users’ self-concept on the continued usage of digital possessions. The exploratory research approach involved two …
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Embodying The Hyphen: An Ethnography On Korean Adoptees
… adoptees living in the U.S. the potential for ethnographic research is profound. Past studies have favored adoptive parents’ perspectives over that of Korean adoptees. This study aims to address that limitation in hopes of contributing to the growing trend of Korean- adoption ethnographic …
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Three Miles Apart ... and Beyond: School Inequalities in Dublin 15
This ethnographic research, carried out in 2010-2011, looks at how two secondary schools deal with increasing numbers of international students. Both located in Dublin 15, the area with the highest percentage of migrants in Ireland, and located only three miles apart from each other, the two …
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Shooters : culture and consumption in Australian gun clubs
… clubs. It is the culmination of nine years of ethnographic research commencing in 1999 and finishing in 2008. Initially one gun club, The Pine Valley Pistol Club was chosen for the indepth study; however as the result of an iterative methodological process three more clubs of different types …
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Doing Dignity at the Grace Café: An Ethnographic Exploration of a Homeless Outreach Program
… food is secondary to serving with dignity. This research explores dignity as an ideal of client treatment at the Grace Café. Based on ethnographic research, this paper explores how dignity is communicated to volunteers, implemented in service, and challenged at the Grace Café.
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“Renovating” Moscow’s Soviet-era Standardised Housing: The Creation and Destruction of Anachronistic Space
… Russian-language media analyses, and extended ethnographic research among local residents in a soon-to-be-demolished *khrushchevka* neighbourhood in Moscow's Northern Izmailovo district in 2019. My research has uncovered the highly-localised experiences of urban change that are idiosyncratic to …
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The Pixelated Jolly Roger: an Ethnographic Analysis of Online Pirates
… content industries world-wide. This piece of ethnographic research was directed towards studying one of the groups that are under the ire of these content industries. Roughly a month and a half was spent on an online discussion board with this group of pirates in an attempt to understand their …
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La dirección de centros y sus metáforas: Símbolo, acción y ética. Estudio de un caso
… and (e) the management tasks. For all this, an ethnographic research has been carried through a case study, which was done in a Primary School, in Cadiz.
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Religious Conversion and Nenets Bricolage: Making Modernity in the Polar Ural Tundra
… usually represented both in public discourse and ethnographic research as a stronghold of ‘traditional culture’, who have successfully resisted ‘the coming modernity’. Based on ethnographic research of a Nenets religious community in the remote village of Beloyarsk and the surrounding tundra, this …
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Changing Places, Creating Spaces: Santali Women in Local Level Politics in Rural India
… on a tribal population in India. It is based on ethnographic research in a majority Santali village in northern Odisha, India. Using Marxist and Foucauldian categories, I assess the manner in which state imposed systems of governance interact with tribal governance structures and analyse how …
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Campfires in context hunter-gatherer fire technology and the archaeological record of the South High Plains, USA.
… recorded phenomenon during archaeological research. Despite the apparent ubiquity of such features, only limited research has been devoted to understanding the anthropogenic activities that generated them. In response, a research programme is initiated which focuses on the archaeological …
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Ethnography and Industrial Design
… is among the many tools used in social research. It refers to a set of methods and techniques used primarily by anthropologists in their fieldwork. It is about observing people during specific periods of time or while performing particular actions and writing about what was observed. …
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