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Showing 1 to 20 of 148 for “"Ethnology"”.
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Ethnology of Older People Living in RV Parks
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Indexing androgyny: The transgendered phenomenon and its challenge to ethnology
This thesis will focus on the life experiences of transsexual individuals living in the Las Vegas community. This is an ethnographic study that includes field research, extensive interviews, and library research; Through this study I hope to gain better insight as to what motivated these …
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Richard Thurnwald and the Transimperial Fate of German Colonial Ethnology, 1896-1926
… revolution of a unique form of German colonial ethnology – of a distinct “Mandate *Ethnologie*”. Following the loss of their colonial laboratories in 1919, “imperial piggybacking” German ethnologists found ready employment throughout the Anglophone world as a “reservoir of knowledge” in a …
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Vijayanagara in foreign eyes: a study of travel literature and ethnology in the Renaissance (1420-1600)
… the fundamental assumptions of Renaissance ethnology as the understanding of human diversity in natural and historical terms, albeit in the limited form of descriptions of social behaviour which avoided the open discussion of religious beliefs.
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The Use of Computer-Based Instruction in Foreign Language Teaching: An Ethnographically - Oriented Study (Naturalistic, Evaluation, Policy, Comparative, Ethnology)
Using ethnographic methods, this study examines the relationship between state, district, and school policies on computer-based instruction and the actual teaching practices of foreign language instructors. Four language teachers from two large high schools in the suburbs of Chicago agreed to …
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Cosmopolitan Visions and Municipal Displays: Museums, Markets, and the Ethnographic Project in Germany, 1868--1914
… in material culture, shaped the science of ethnology and German ethnographic museums. It explores the appeal of ethnology in Germany and seeks to explain why Germans, more than a decade before they began seizing colonial territories, created the world's largest ethnographic museum, and why …
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Dispute Negotiations Among the Guajiro of Colombia and Venezuela: Dynamics of Compensation and Status
… contributes to process approaches in the ethnology of law. The revelation of a go-between-as-mediator law process from lowland South America contributes to a field dominated by African and Middle-Eastern studies. And the innovative incorporation of status into the negotiation model …
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Principi di una antropologia della persona nell'opera di Ernesto De Martino
… rather than those moments of dialogue between ethnology, politics and philosophy in his work certainly present; then we wonder not so much who was de Martino as a scholar (problem still treated in this work) but what kind of scientific-philosophical proposal is his and if this proposal, given …
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Expeditioner i det förflutna : etnologiska fältarbeten och försvinnande allmogekultur under 1900-talets början
… significant in the museum system and in early ethnology in Sweden. The study can be read as a contribution to the disciplinary history of ethnology and museum history, viewed through the fieldwork practice rather than through the texts written by the early ethnologists or the biographies …
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Nem nobre, nem selvagem: reflexões sobre arte indígena contemporânea de Abya Yala
… in transdisciplinarity, navigates through art, ethnology, anthropology, history, museology and curatorship, aiming, through the cartographic method, to identify discourses in artistic productions, curatorial and expographic activities, proposing actions through art and exhibitions that have in …
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Ethnomathematics : new approaches to its theory and application
… 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 interdisciplinarity of this field of …
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Visualizing the Cherokee Homeland through Indigenous Historical GIS: An Interactive Map of James Mooney's Ethnographic Fieldwork and Cherokee Collective Memory
In 1887, the Bureau of American Ethnology appointed James Mooney to work among the Eastern Band of Cherokee. From 1887 to 1916, Mooney documented the sites and stories of the Cherokee homeland as shared with him by members of the community. Mooney's working maps and field notes were recently …
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A metallurgical study of West African iron monies from Cameroon and Liberia
… of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University. The selection of objects from the collection includes five distinct types, representing different sizes and shapes that have been identified as monies/exchange mediums. All of these object types were originally part …
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MIGRATIONS INTERCONTINENTALES D¿OBJETS VERS LA CARAÏBE D¿EXPRESSION FRANÇAISE
… and Haiti. Drawing on research in anthropology, ethnology and sociology, we highlight the active role played by cultural objects within the social dynamics of the Caribbean. In particular, by situating literary production within its historical context, we were able to examine the material …
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The Shape of Kubler: George A. Kubler in Peru, 1948-49
… a seminar on the use of archival sources in ethnology at Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos in Lima; during this time, Kubler also engaged in the construction of an archive of his own. Drawing from correspondence and other records from the period in question, a series of lost episodes …
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BURIED CONTRIBUTIONS: UNCOVERING THE ROLE OF THE LIVING MAYA IN EARLY MAYANIST ARCHAEOLOGY
… University’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, and the Carnegie Institute of Washington acted as a form of epistemic colonization. Early anthropological and archaeological research co-opted and distorted the ancient Maya past by filtering it through the desires, anxieties, and social …
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Dr. Augustin Krämer: a German ethnologist in the Pacific
… but also in a lifelong interest in Völkerkunde (Ethnology) in general. The latter eventually saw him become Scientific Director of the Linden Museum in Stuttgart in 1911 and later lecturer for Völkerkunde and founder of the Ethnologisches Institut (Ethnological Institute) at the University of …
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Analyse thematique de quelques contes Nkundo-Mongo
… to another. The first chapter deals with the ethnology of the NKUNDO-MONGO people, to contextualize the tales. We shall try to give a partial analysis of their crisis of cultural identity. The second chapter compares folktales to other oral genres, such as proverbs, poems, ect., witch they …
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Scars of an Empire: A Juxtaposition of Duncan Campbell Scott and Jacques Soustelle
… history of French anthropology, archaeology and ethnology during Soustelle’s lifetime. Employing a transnational approach in comparative intellectual history this dissertation puts Canada into a global conversation about legacies of settler colonialism and European imperialism. It argues that …
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