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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"GN Anthropoleg"”.
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A feminist anthropological study on women's mediumship in Florida
Throughout history women have faced (and continue to face) marginalization in religious settings, exhibited through such power plays as control over their bodies (rules for dress and behavior in church and home) and prohibitions from formal leadership positions. It is now the role of feminist …
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An Investigation of Current Rural Household Furniture in East Hebei (Jidong) Province, China
… considering socio-cultural dynamics. Another significant finding is the classification of rural household yard layouts, including pre-earthquake yards, contemporary residential yards, and a newly identified functional-type yard, which reflects adaptive responses to socio-economic …
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Unearthed: A Multidisciplinary Exploration of the Romano-Celtic Temple on Hayling Island.
Despite acknowledgement of its socio-political importance during the Roman conquest, the temple site on Hayling Island has limited literature regarding the rituals or experience of patrons to the site. This dissertation sought to explore the possibility of understanding the experiences of those in …
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Making the Maldives: exploring how the body holds cultural knowledge
… in other disciplines - such as heritage - to recognise these intangible elements and the importance of documenting culture for the purpose of preserving and safeguarding it.
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A production of alterity: The Wayãpi of the Upper Oyapock and isolated groups
This study was carried out amongst the Wayãpi Amerindians of French Guiana, who have been made sedentary by governmental ‘francisation’ policies since the 1970s. Based on geographic location, ethnohistorical literature and Ameridian discourse, it proposes the definition of three “zones” near the …
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Collecting the past : aspects of historiography and lithic artefact analysis for the creation of narratives for the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic archaeology of Wales.
This submission for a PhD BY published work examines archaeological historiography and lithic artefact studies concerning aspects of the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic archaeology of Wales. The critical analysis connects the published works through the theoretical approach of biography. It draws out …
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Mortality and regeneration: Bebelibe understandings of life after death.
… importance it has gained in the area cannot be ignored. Especially younger people are attracted to Christianity as it is associated with being modern. Despite this, many churchgoers still accept reincarnation, although their understanding of it may be modified as people appropriate the parts of …
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Unangax̂ Mummies as Whalers: A Multidisciplinary Contextualization of Human Mummification in the Aleutian Islands
This thesis provides an analysis of Unangax̂ (Aleut) mummification in the context of their other methods of body deposition. It explores the hypothesis that whalers and their families belonged to an ancient shamanistic whaling complex that existed throughout coastal regions that practiced whaling. …
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Orbs in the skyscape: An exploration of spiritual experiences with anomalous light phenomena
This thesis examines orbs, conventionally regarded as luminous orbital digital imaging artefacts, in their capacity to generate narratives evolving from active participatory engagement with them during the photographic process. Given the current dichotomy between the optical and paranormal …
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Exploring the Social Lives of Cylinder Seals in Late Cypriot Society
This thesis examines how cylinder seals became socially embedded in Late Bronze Age Cyprus. Although these objects appear throughout the Near East and Mesopotamia at the time, their use in Cyprus appears unique. To explore this, cylinder seals are studied according to funerary, sanctuary and …
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Radical Quakerism: a political anthropology of postmodern religion
… Conditioned by contingency, its spatial and signifying practices are a movement towards meaning that does not claim the finality of a ‘truth’. It produces instead a gathered ‘sense’ of what can be said and of what may be. The spiritual practice of political action is therefore the articulation …
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You Didn’t Have To Be There: Evidence of Humour in the Creation and Use of Material Objects From the Near East, Eastern Europe and Mediterranean, From the Neolithic to the Middle Bronze Age
… and interpret using such theories as 'Benign Violation’ by McGraw & Warren (2010) and Apter’s ‘Reversal Theory’ from 1982. My aim is to explain why objects could have been funny and may have acted as powerful social tools, catering to our strong psychological drive to laugh. Drawing upon a …
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The Bedouin of the Fatimid Empire: Faith vs. Politics in a Medieval Islamic Empire
The Fatimid Empire was initially established in 296/909 in North Africa. The capital was later shifted to Cairo from where the Fatimid imams controlled vast areas of the Islamic world, each with its own unique set of ethnicities. Powerful Arab Bedouin tribes were concentrated on the fringes of the …