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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Guyanese"”.
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Guyanese comfa: arts of imagination
… practices. There has been little research on Guyanese religious and cultural practices. Kean Gibson's Comfa Religion and Creole Language in a Caribbean Community (2001) appears to be the most complete study of Guyanese Comfa. Comfa is the generic term used for the manifestation of spirits. …
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Remote Sensing and Spatial Distribution Patterns of Guyanese Resource Palms
Arecaceae (palms) are an essential resource for indigenous communities as well as fauna populations in the Amazon. The present study conducts an extensive examination of the application of remote sensing imagery for the detection of Arecaceae at both regional and local scales within the previously …
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Ethnic Minorities and Family Health History: An Autoethnography of Guyanese Americans and Kidney Disease
… barriers to effective prevention and treatment. Guyanese Americans are an understudied community that has high prevalence of CKD.</p> <p>This analytic autoethnography investigated the meaning of FHH within the Guyanese American population, with a particular attention to CKD. With four family …
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The Dark Underbellies of the Littles: A History of the Indo-Guyanese Diaspora, Race and Identity
<p>This historical analysis explores Guyanese immigration to the United States as well as the development of the Indo-Guyanese ethnic enclave, “Little Guyana,” located in Queens, New York. This thesis moves beyond the romanticized image of ethnic enclaves in New York City and argues that while …
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No sovereign remedy: distress, madness, and mental health care in Guyana
… diverse care pathways and practices utilized by Guyanese to address and ease distress; (iii) and the histories, legacy of empire, and socio-politico-economic factors that inform and spring from this exploration. This research commenced in response to deaths and incidents of violence against women …
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Preparing the young offender for return to society: A theoretical evaluation of Guyanese juvenile delinquents' narratives based on general treatment models
<p>The site of the study is a co-educational detention center known as the New Opportunity Corps (NOC), located in a former British colony of South America, now known as Guyana. Forty- eight detainees of this institution, which is also legally designated a training school, were interviewed about …
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Between a Promise and a Trench: Citizenship, Vulnerability, and Climate Change in Guyana
… claims of Indo-, Afro-, and Amerindian Guyanese to land and self-determination. The dissertation is based on seventeen months of fieldwork and archival research conducted between, 2009-11 in coastal Guyana. It brings together three conflicting perspectives: of engineers, who drew upon …
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The Migration of South Asians from India to Guyana: The Journey, Struggles in a New Land, Reasons for Changes Over Time and Their Cultivation of a New Culture.
… allowed them to develop a culture unique to Indo Guyanese heritage.</p> <p>This thesis focuses on the history of Indian diaspora in Guyana. It evokes the struggles they faced on the ships, and during and after indentureship. It also touches on the political and racial issues they had to withstand …
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Vers une représentation textuelle du déplacement et du voyage dans la littérature francophone antillaise et guyanaise: l’exemple de Joseph Zobel, Guy Tirolien et René Maran
… translocal discourses produced by Caribbean and Guyanese writers from the first waves of transatlantic migration are still neglected. Their writing, however, is strongly imbued with notions of (dis)placement and flux. This thesis aims to address these lacunae by exploring the textual …
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The 1935 Labor Rebellions and the Politics of African-Indian Solidarity in British Guiana
… was enacted, and by interpreting its legacy for Guyanese realities today. Divided by colonial racism and subject to the needs of capital, plantation workers experienced a shared sense of suffering and subordination, although their circumstances and positionality differed. Their alliance neither …