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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"GN Anthropology"”.
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Development discourse and the Batwa of South West Uganda: representing the 'other' : presenting the 'self'
This thesis focuses on a group of former forest based hunter-gatherers, the Batwa of South West Uganda, whose livelihoods and situations have been dramatically affected through their recent interactions with non-Batwa peoples. Once inhabitants of the rainforests of South West Uganda, the Batwa …
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Indigenous modernity and its malcontents: family, religion and tradition in highland Ecuador
A growing body of work on modern indigenous culture in the Andes has focused on various aspects of an urban, transnational and cosmopolitan identity. However, what does indigenous modernity mean in the poorest region of highland Ecuador, where indigenous identity continues to be associated with …
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Palaeoepidemiological study of the post-medieval Gloucester 13/83 Skeletal Assemblage.
… of Southgate Congregational Church (SCC). Significant differences were identified between the known age at death of the individual in the register and the age estimations of the church burials. This may be due to age bias in techniques applied in biological anthropology specifically as there …
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The Analysis Of Preserved And Degraded Human Skeletal Material: Understanding Relationships Between Bone And The Soil Environment
… Ca and Mg with time, and depth, as well as a significant difference between these components and the control samples. The levels of Fe and K, demonstrated significant trends through two time periods at 50-110 cm, with peaks during initial decomposition and the war years (70-90 years). P …
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‘Ni kubahatisha tu!’-‘It’s just a game of chance!’ Adaptation and resignation to perceived risks in rural Tanzania
… on behaviour. This ethnographic study was designed to provide a holistic account of risk perception in order to inform our understandings of how HIV risk is perceived. Through qualitative methods it is both a deductive testing of the risk theories of Douglas and Giddens and an inductive, …
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The cypro-geometric horizon, a view from below: identity and social change in the mortuary record
… centering on the origins and modes of foreign interaction on Cyprus at the end of the Bronze Age, towards a focus on all aspects of the emergence of the social and political institutions of the Cypro-Archaic period. The CG played a seminal role in these developments, yet the mortuary …
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Identity, work, and mobility amongst Bolivian market vendors in El Alto and São Paulo
This thesis follows the narratives of Bolivian market women to explore how their real and aspired processes of social and spatial mobility articulate different identities in the intersections of gender, race, and class. The thesis draws on a multi-sited ethnographic research, carried out over a …
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A cross-sectional study of radial and tibial ultrasonography between different ethnic and physically active groups
… Radial and tibial ultrasound were not significantly different between any of activity groups (p>.05), attributed to lack of difference in fat free mass. A second aim was to determine a main effect or interaction between exercise and ethnicity. Significant ethnic differences were found …
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Cranial remains from the graveyard to the laboratory: restoration, conservation and craniometric analysis of medieval British skeletal samples
… samples are determined by the migration of foreign people from other European areas. A further difference is demonstrated between British and Howells’ samples, with a clustering based on geographical affinity. The European groups (including the British) resemble each other, while the others …
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Sociolinguistic constructions of identity among adolescent males in Glasgow
The city of Glasgow, Scotland, is typically associated with violence, criminality, and aggression, and these negative associations impact on the social meaning of Glaswegian Vernacular as used by working-class adolescent males. There have been, however, no studies which have made a systematic …
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Palaeoenvironmental and palaeogeographic reconstruction of the Tequixquiac Basin, Central Eastern Mexico: Mid to late Pleistocene environments
… that the Tequixquiac Basin has undergone a significant hydrological change from perennial lacustrine to ephemeral fluvial conditions between MIS15 – MIS 1 controlled by a combination of; climatic fluctuations, expressed as depositional cyclicity driven by precessional fluctuations to …
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Governing Indigenous Knowledge? A Study of International Law, Policy, and Human Rights
The story of indigenous peoples’ knowledge systems, also known as indigenous knowledge (hereafter IK), is a complex one tangled with different and sometimes conflicting interests, values, and interpretations from a variety of disciplines, or specialized fields. A number of international treaty and …
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A Comparative Study of Vertebral Pathologies and Anomalies in Two Medieval British Populations
… intra-population differences. Although some significant differences were observed, both skeletal samples had similar types and anatomical locations of the pathological conditions observed. St Owen’s Cemetery exhibits higher frequencies of degenerative conditions and vertebral fractures, whereas …
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Facial anthropometry as an evidential tool in forensic image comparison
Anthropometry can be used in certain circumstances to facilitate comparison of a photograph of a suspect with the potential offender portrayed in video surveillance crime footage. Anthropometry does not have the same success rate in identification as DNA or fingerprinting. However, these types of …
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Big Brains and Small Teeth: a primate comparative approach to dental and mandibular reduction in hominins
… size and mandibular robusticity correlate significantly with diet proxies in non-human extant catarrhines and with neurocranium shape changes in the neurocranium in Homo sapiens. In non-human African apes, the elongation of the neurocranium influences postcanine tooth size. In Homo, body size …
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Etnoentomologi dalam kalangan kaum Orang Asli dan Melayu di Semenanjung Malaysia
Traditional Knowledge (TK) is an inherited practice of specific ethnic communities related to the unique way of life of the ethnic. These included the use of natural resources in their daily life and the practice of using insects is known as ethnoentomology. There is lack of documentation of …
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Towards a re-reading of Colossians from an African American postcolonial perspective
Essential information is often lost when in reading a piece of work the identity of an audience or the recipients is overlooked. The first hearers of the letter to the Colossians were a diverse group of people in a colonized country under the imperial rule of Rome in the first century. The writer …
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Gender, migration and rural livelihoods in Ghana: a case of the Ho district
… making on migration and livelihood, tends to ignore gender as a critical issue in development planning. The study suggests that effective development policy interventions should take into consideration the dynamics of gender relations because men and women experience migration differently. …
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Developing a framework for researching ethnicity and multiculturalism in New Zealand
This thesis examines a variety of theoretical issues relating to ethnicity, multiculturalism and racism in New Zealand. It is argued that whilst the country’s history has been replete with anti-Asiatic racisms, it is necessary to transcend the timeless notion of racism as colour discrimination and …
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