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Showing 1 to 20 of 52 for “"Indigenous Culture"”.
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Indigenous culture and nascent tourism in Muanenguba, Cameroon
… on the emerging relationship between local culture and nascent tourism. The research was carried out through a fieldwork process that can best be described as being sensibly native, through ethnographic interactions with the hosts - indigenes (villagers and elites), developers (councils, …
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Microbial CR(VI) reduction in indigenous culture of bacteria: characterization and modelling
… to be economical and ecologically friendly. Indigenous chromium(VI) reducing bacteria (CRBs) were isolated from a dried sludge consortium collected in the Brits Wastewater Treatment Plant, North-West Province (South Africa). Characterisation using 16S rRNA fingerprinting followed by taxonomic …
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Empowering Indigenous Culture Through Benefit Sharing Agreements: Study of Companies and Communities in the Alaskan Arctic
… and maintaining corporate partnerships with indigenous communities through equitable benefit sharing. Benefit sharing constitutes a legal resource for local communities and a ‘social license’ for companies looking to operate on indigenous land (Wilson, 2016). Previous research on benefit …
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Indigenous culture, heritage and tourism : an analysis of the official tourism policy and its implementation in the Province of KwaZulu-Natal
… of the population of the province. Second, indigenous Zulu culture remains under-packaged for tourism purposes. The little that is packaged generally lacks cultural authenticity and the dignity associated with it. This research study has therefore, identified that Zulu culture is one of the …
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One Church, Two States: Ethnicity Among the Toba Bataks in a Transnational Christian Community
… dilemmas derived from incompatibility of their indigenous culture with Christianity. Both the Indonesian and the Singaporean development ideologies support Christianity and represent it as appropriate for modernization while Toba Batak indigenous culture includes elements conflicting with …
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A voice through media for minorities : an analysis of Taiwan Indigenous TV
Taiwan Indigenous Television (TITV) was established on December 1, 2004. TITV is the first ‘indigenous television station’ in Asia and broadcasts programs 24 hours daily for indigenous audiences. Nevertheless, a newly established station has many operational and management difficulties especially …
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Nakum tu Kuanitap: Influences on Indigenous Men's Resource Seeking at Tribal Community Colleges
Understanding the experiences of Indigenous students, especially Indigenous men is crucial to their academic journeys within higher education. Indigenous men walk similar journeys to other students when we arrive on college campuses, choosing to pursue higher learning and reimagine new futures for …
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Combatting Anti-Indigenous Prejudice Through Imagined Contact: A Mixed-Methods Investigation
Anti-Indigenous prejudice is a pervasive, enduring phenomenon in Canada, drawing on a heavily-entrenched legacy of colonialism. To date, no social psychological studies have examined techniques that could reduce this prejudice and its correlates in a Canadian context. To address this gap, an …
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Chicana /O Murals of California: Indigenist Aesthetics and the Politics of Space, 1970--2000
By depicting images of indigenous culture and history from the Americas, these artists embraced an aesthetic that rewrote their place in U.S. history and society. Indigenism, as an ideology and aesthetic, emerged during the early decades of the twentieth century in various parts of Latin America, …
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The Dark Duo: Exploring Change and Tokenism in Colonial Ideologies
Inequality between coloniser and Indigenous groups in settler colonial contexts is reinforced by two colonial ideologies—historical negation, which relegates the responsibility to address colonial injustices to the past, and symbolic exclusion, which marginalises the Indigenous culture from the …
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Changing communal habitat patterns in the Tzotzil region of the Chaipas highlands in Mexico
… government. These recent changes are altering indigenous culture through changes introduced without serious consideration of the consequences of such national integration. The survival of traditional settlement patterns is a major problem for the cultural continuity of these societies during …
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Behind the Exhibit: Exploring the Processes of Indigenous Rights Representation at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights
<p>Focusing on the representation of Indigenous human rights at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR) in Winnipeg, Manitoba, this study examines how museums can represent, educate, and advocate for Indigenous human rights. The study is based on ethnographic fieldwork carried out at the museum …
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Stó:lō Relationalities: Exploring Infrastructures of Climate Adaptation along the Fraser River
… All of which is imposed onto a rich landscape of indigenous life and history. This paper's approach follows three phases—encountering, entangling, and engaging—of indigenous culture from a non-indigenous (Chinese Canadian) perspective. The process analyzes, practices, and builds on connected …
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University student indigenous intercultural sensitivity and short-term study abroad
There is an extreme underrepresentation of indigenous peoples within American study abroad programs, and student participants rarely gain an authentic experience, awareness, and intercultural sensitivity towards such groups. This case study seeks to address this disparity through the creation of a …
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From Self-Determination to Decolonization: How American Indian Activism Reshaped Museum Spaces
… transformations in how museums represent Indigenous cultures, histories, and peoples. Through analyzing the demands for tribal sovereignty, cultural authority, and equitable representation during this pivotal era, I show how these principles were applied in contemporary museum practice …
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My Brother, My Slave: The Social and Cultural Role of Slavery among the Navajo
… comparative slavery analysis with another global indigenous culture. Further, through the use of Navajo oral tradition, language and cultural philosophical concepts; this work will lay the foundation for understanding the cultural background necessary to understand the lives of captives. And …
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The Rhythm of My Heart
… looked at two drummers; one is a traditional Indigenous drummer who learned to drum within traditional Indigenous culture. The second drummer learned to play percussion in a western music education setting. The co- participants took very different paths through the learning process. However, …
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A comparative study of how to avoid stigma in uncompetitive political systems: HIVself-testing in China and South Africa
… systems, religion, gender, and traditional cultures, HIV/AIDS policy was established by uncompetitive governmental policies, indigenous culture, and social structure that led to outbreaks of the disease and consequent public crises. As a contagious, global disease without a cure, HIV/AIDS is …
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Seeds of Passage
… of a colonizing power clashed with those of the indigenous culture. I use found (repurposed) objects to create many of my works. Three primary concepts guide my work: 1) latent energy - the memory or accumulative consciousness of the object, 2) the Sieving Process - the selection of individual …
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Brinquedos e brincadeiras na educação infantil e a cultura afro-indígena brasileira
… GamesInChildren’s Education and Brazilian Afro- Indigenous Culture. In view of the deficiency of a large number of schools in the municipal network, which favor traditional formalism and tendencies,there is a need to include or their pedagogical teaching procedures playfulness, whose objectives …
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