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Showing 1 to 20 of 131 for “"Ethnographic data"”.
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CORRELATING ETHNOGRAPHIC DATA WITH SPATIAL ANALYSIS OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES: A CASE STUDY FROM CA-ORA-507 AND THE ALISO CREEK REGION
… peoples.</p> <p>This study aimed to correlate ethnographic data with methods of spatial archaeology and GIS analysis to test if the privately owned resource collecting areas and tribal boundaries described in the ethnographies could be seen archaeologically. Centered on CA-ORA-507 (an ancient …
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An evolution of creativity and ritual: The immortalizing craftmenship of the Chinchorro morticians
… twenty-seven individuals, radiocarbon dates and ethnographic mortuarial data of ten other maritime cultures, this thesis builds a base for both supporting and opposing the sedentary proposition. It is suggested that the Chinchorro were sedentary during the black period (ca. 5050-3000 B.C.) but …
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Women With Hypertension: An Ethnographic Inquiry
… dissertation documents the results of a 12-month ethnographic study of middle-aged black and white women (N = 45, aged 32-61), who had been diagnosed with essential hypertension and who were identified through one of two participating Champaign-Urbana, Illinois health care agencies. The …
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Classifying Christians: Ethnography, Discovery, and the Limits of Knowledge in Late Antiquity
… C.E.) used to array, historicize, and polemicize ethnographic data. A study of late antique heresiological literature (orthodox treatises about heretics) demonstrates how the religious practices, doctrinal beliefs, and historical origins of heretics served to define Christian schematizations of …
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Intimate Allies: Identity, Community, and Everyday Activism Among Cisgender People with Trans-Identified Partners
<p>This dissertation blends traditional ethnographic data from interviews and observations with digital ethnographic data from blogs and YouTube videos to present stories of identity, community, and activist-oriented experiences from white cisgender women who are partnered with trans-identified …
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Cultural intimacies of Irish country music: dancing, performance, and aesthetics
… in the Western counties of Ulster. Using ethnographic data it considers the processes allowing an individual to take part, the experiences of the professionals involved, and the aesthetics of the scene as portrayed in televisual and social media, and analyses how the scene exhibits and …
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A folk theory of personality types: Gods and their symbolic representation by members of Sango cult in Recife, Brazil
… months, I was concerned with gathering general ethnographic data and music from the Sango cult, as well as from other groups of musicians practising different folk-styles in the interior of the Northeastern region of Brazil.
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Ornamenting Fingernails and Roads: Beautification and the Embodiment of Authenticity in Post-War Eastern Sri Lanka
… sometimes contested—spaces. I draw on my ethnographic data from Eastern Sri Lanka and explore ‘color’ as negotiated through personal and public ornaments and notions of beauty with a material culture focus. I argue for a broad view of ‘public,’ which includes often marginalized and …
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Leading while being led: developing the developer at a Catholic NGO in Cape Town, South Africa
… development scholarship. The dissertation uses ethnographic data about the religious ethics undergirding the discourse, and practices of development agents in Catholic Welfare and Development (CWD), a faith-based NGO in Cape Town, South Africa. It explores how the particular modalities for the …
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Glancing the city : a story of six refugees in Cape Town.
… xenophobia more broadly. This thesis draws on ethnographic data gathered over 18 months in Muizenberg and Retreat, to make numerous theoretical claims about the nature of personal and national identity, community and the making of social space.
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Conflicted cure: explorting concepts of default and adherence in drug resistant tuberculosis patients in Khayelitsha
… in Khayelitsha, Cape Town, South Africa. The ethnographic data is drawn from three and a half months of participant-observation, illness-narrative interviews, in-depth interviews, focus groups, support-group sessions and creative methodologies such as collage and emotional mapping. The various …
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A comparative study of visual elements in traditional art images and computer graphics
… a literature search, a domain analysis, and ethnographic data. This study employs qualitative research methodology. Data is presented in a comparative taxonomy of elements and principles in art education and computer graphics, and a componential analysis of the visual structure of …
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Mortars to malls: Analyzing the relationship between peacebuilding and urban regeneration through a comparative study of place
… This is followed by a presentation of the ethnographic data, including observations and analysis of visual evidence, and the drawing out of common themes.In the third section, the data of the previous section (contextual analysis, peace agreement analysis, and ethnographic data) are …
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Rules of Disengagement: 'Low Skill' Migrant Workers, Law and the Social Dimensions of Exclusionary Inclusion
… in producing social exclusion, and applies it to ethnographic data collected through interviews with migrant justice advocates and migrant workers in Brandon, Manitoba. This thesis ultimately establishes that migrant workers need not face spatial separation, discrimination from the community, or a …
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Stoking the Flames of Wellness: An Exploration of Factors that Influence West Virginia Firefighters' Health Behaviors
… a qualitative approach with multiple sources of data, the current study sought to answer the question, "what impacts the health of firefighters in West Virginia?" Eight focus groups, and Photovoice data from nine participants were inductively analyzed using guidelines from consensual qualitative …
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TO THRIVE, WORK, AND LIVE: PROGRESS TOWARD AND CHALLENGES TO SUSTAINABILITY ON THE FREI GONDIM SETTLEMENT, PERNAMBUCO, BRAZIL
… and ecological sustainability. I submitted ethnographic data I collected on the settlement to the Netting Model, a test of family farmer success. An important part of my data was derived from an ethnobotanical study of native Atlantic Rainforest medicinal plants on the settlement.'
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A Critical Exploration of Permaculture’s Global Role in Sustainable Development
… future. Alternatively, this paper draws on ethnographic data to focus attention upon the ‘mainstreaming’ of ‘regenerative activism’, arguing that guiding core principles (and the associated impacts of these principles) alongside the foundational value ethics within Permaculture are important …
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"In My Heart I Had a Feeling of Doing It": A Case Study of the Lost Boys of Sudan and Christianity
… Boys resettled in Denver, and historical and ethnographic data, this research seeks to explain why the Lost Boys converted to Christianity and the role that it played in their identity in refugee camps in Ethiopia and Kenya, and continues to play in their lives in Denver. Findings include the …
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The theater of innovation : developing skills to perform hybridity
… inside a hybrid organization, this paper uses ethnographic data to document how an organization successfully sustains its hybridity despite challenges associated with making multiple identity claims. The paper analyzes how the organization socializes individuals to perform its particular hybrid …
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The effects of teacher training in Madeline Hunter's instructional effectiveness model on teacher performance and selected student variables on the secondary school level
… and student interviews was supplemented by ethnographic data. The findings indicated that the teachers in the experimental group did not teach differently than teachers in the control group. The findings also indicated that the selected secondary students of teachers in the experimental …
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