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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Knowledge traditions"”.
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Re-mapping the Arctic: contemporary approaches to practising cartography across diverse knowledge traditions
… debates surrounding the way in which knowledge traditions interact in the Arctic. This is done through examining the theoretical and practical history of cartography, both as a discipline, and as applied to the Arctic. In doing so, I make the argument for an inextricable link between …
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Pathways to the Eighth Fire: Mapping Indigenous Knowledge in Toronto
… affirming the ongoing importance of Indigenous knowledge for the health and wellness of contemporary Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples and their environments. Yet, while much research has examined Indigenous knowledge and traditions in more natural or rural contexts, there has been to date …
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The Embers of Allah: cosmologies, knowledge, and relations in the mountains of central Bosnia
… of the scales of relatedness and the domains of knowledge traditions that assemble Muslims’ lifeworlds as tangible, coherent and meaningful social forms. In doing so, the thesis draws inspiration from the Barthian anthropology of knowledge to shed light on ‘what a person employs to interpret and …
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Knowing fish: a cultural case study and portrait of resource understandings in Caspian Eurasia
… to certain interpretations of the natural world, knowledge traditions, and a development history specific to western societies. It did so by recording resource meaning-making processes within Caspian cultural life, and how these were reflected in modernized aquaculture production in Azerbaijan, …
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Colonial Theology: John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Charles Darwin and the Emergence of the Colonial-Capitalist World System, 1500-1900
… system that produces and locates Western knowledge, cosmology and spirituality over non-Western forms. This dissertation, therefore, outlines a methodological trajectory that does not instrumentalize the theological to a materialist rendition of capitalist accumulation, colonial expansion …
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Georg Joseph Kamel (1661-1706): A Jesuit Pharmacist at the Frontiers of Colonial Empires
… confronts persistent questions about how knowledge travelled across geographic and socio-cultural spaces and about how diverse local knowledge traditions came to shape global knowledge in the age of colonialism. I explore these issues through the lens of the career of the Jesuit pharmacist …
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Leveraging cultural capital : a single case study of refugee service providers’ navigation of social and systemic barriers.
… a more holistic framework that recognizes the knowledge, traditions, and skills refugees bring as critical tools for resilience and adaptation. The purpose of this single-case study was to explore how resettlement service providers in Nebraska, many of whom were themselves refugees, experience …
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De la escucha atenta a la escucha visual. Aproximación teórica a los modelos de percepción de la música
From various branches of knowledge we have wondered about the where, when, what and who of listening to music, but we have done little research on how we do it. It is only since the 1980s, with the so-called "auditory turn", that we have been trying to build an account that has listening as the …
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Projeto Saboreia a tua Terra : estudo pós-facto de uma investigação-ação
O presente estudo de investigação que aqui é apresentado leva-nos à descoberta e conhecimento do Património Cultural do concelho de Mafra. A problemática e objeto de estudo da pesquisa centram-se na compreensão da razão do Património Cultural do concelho de Mafra não ser mais conhecido, ou pelo …