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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Levi Strauss"”.
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Team work, piece work, or both : work reform at Levi Strauss
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1993.
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Making Museums Fashion Forward and Forward Thinking: A Proposal for a Rotating Exhibit Program at the Levi Strauss & Co. Museum
… exhibit program that was developed for the Levi Strauss & Co. museum in San Francisco, California. It was conceived with the intent to help eradicate some of the stigmas associated with museum fashion exhibitions. This capstone explores the complicated history of the museum field’s …
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An interdisciplinary study of an aesthetic particularism: the ‘Split representation in the Art of Asia and America’
… particularism mentioned by anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss as “The split representation in the Art of Asia and America” in his 1944 eponymous essay. Most researchers include in this group the Ainu and Jōmon People from Japan, tribes from the Amur Basin, Haida people from the Northern West …
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Music-theatre as music: A practical exploration of composing theatrical material based on music-centric conceptualisation of myth
… models. Initially based on the connection that Levi-Strauss draws between myth and music, the research explores alternative ways that the affinity between the two domains can be used in the creation of 'music-theatre as music' performances. In the first performance Clastocysm (2007), the project …
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Playing with technology - an approach to composition
… of bricoleur and engineer as found in Claude Levi-Strauss' "The Savage Mind". This paper begins by arguing that the engineer approach is of more importance to the future of technology in music composition. It then documents the creation of five pieces, each intimately entwined with the use of …
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Η ΜΟΡΦΗ ΤΟΥ ΗΡΩΑ ΣΤΗΝ ΤΡΙΛΟΓΙΑ ΤΟΥ ΒΕΝΕΖΗ. ("ΤΟ ΝΟ 31328", ΓΑΛΗΝΗ ΑΙΟΛΙΚΗ ΓΗ)
… ACCORDING TO WHAT R. JAKOBSON AND CLAUDE LEVI STRAUSS HAVE CONTRIBUTED BASED ON THE FREUDIAN STUDY OF THE TEXT WITH THE AIM OF LOCATING THE POINTS OF CONVERGENCE AND DIVERGENCE IN THEHEROES' ATTITUDE AND FINDING THE POINTS OF ACCORD IN THE BEHAVIOUR AND IN THE WHOLE PSYCHOLOGICAL REACTION …
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The myth of the Black male beast in postclassical American cinema: ‘Forging’ stereotypes and discovering Black masculinities
… film invents Black male characters. It uses Levi-Strauss and Barthes’ methods of analyzing myth and critiques hegemonic authorship through Jung’s work on archetypes in the collective unconscious and the ‘shadow’. Using Othello as a prototype character, I examine how he became an archetype …
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The contribution of international school linking partnerships to the provision of global education
… bricoleur approach, drawing on the work of Levi Strauss (1966) and Kincheloe and Berry (2004) and has employed a wide range of methods and data collection techniques as and when needed in the developing dynamic of the research journey. These have included survey, case study, interviews, …
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Paintings and their irreducibility to explanation : myth and multiform aesthetic experience
… Joseph Campbell (1949), Carl Jung (1966) and Levi Strauss (1963/1968), before finally considering Wittgenstein's (1979) remarks on myth. Key contemporary artists include American Pop Surreal painters. The focus of this thesis is not explicitly about the war in Bosnia. It is not necessarily …
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A THEORY OF ENTREPRENEURIAL WORK: ART, CRAFT, ENGINEERING, BRICOLAGE, AND BROKERAGE
… Proceeding from observations made by Claude Levi-Strauss (1962), who identified distinct modalities in which people of all cultures interact with the world around them, which are engineering, art, bricolage, and to a lesser degree craft, this research uses grounded theory to build a typology …
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Detective/text/critic
… problematise the notion of the law. Claude Levi-Strauss' work on kinship structures helps to point to the aporetic and contradictory position that incest can be seen to occupy in the formation of human society. Criminal anthropology provides an interesting frame for this discussion. Thomas …
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Die Einheit interkultureller Jugendhilfe : Strukturbestimmung und Rekonstruktion
… und der Adoleszenz andererseits (HEGEL, LEVI-STRAUSS). Aus der Perspektive der Interkulturellen Jugendhilfe erscheinen die Strukturen von Sozialität als die »ethnische Ordnung« einer Gesellschaft. Unter Rückgriff auf die Studien von EMMANUELL TODD wird ein Begriff von den objektiven …
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Can Education Help Me Now?
… as sought by displaced employees from the Levi Strauss Johnson City, Tennessee plant that was closed in 1999. Data was collected through personal interviews, focus group meetings and a standardized questionnaire with a total of 18 participants. All of the participants had successfully …
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Toba Batak Marriage and Alliance: Family Decisions in an Urban Context (Kinship, Sumatra, Indonesia)
… writings on asymmetric alliance by Needham, Levi-Strauss, Dumont, and Leach, for failing to accommodate the "play" and variation in actual situations, I do not oppose behavior and individual decision to structure. I simply introduce a different conceptualization of structure, a less limiting …
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THE LOAN OF A LOOKING GLASS: SHAKESPEARE, MYTH, AND PARADIGMATIC STRUCTURES
… of Ferdinand de Saussure, Sigmund Freud, Claude Levi-Strauss, and the Russian Formalists. The remaining five chapters focus upon living myths still viable today: Twelfth Night and the myth of corporeal immortality, Romeo and Juliet and the myth of law and order, Titus Andronicus and the myth of …
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El personaje mítico en los cuentos “La casa de los cuatro vientos”, “El cazador de venados”, “La leyenda del árbol de morro” y “El hombre que volvió por su cabeza” de Matilde Elena López
… Para ello nos apoyamos en autores clásicos como: Levi-Strauss, Mircea Eliade, Roland Barthes, entre otros. Con esto buscamos explicar las funciones que cumplen los personajes de los mitos. Para el estudio del cuento y el personaje literario, se parte desde la narratología, siguiendo las ideas …
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Making Do for the Masses: Imperial Debris and a New Russian Constructivism
… anthropological models borrowed from Claude Levi-Strauss, I show how his mythmaker typologies—the “engineer” and “bricoleur”— illustrate, respectively, the canonical Constructivists and Russian artists on the margins that deployed a wide range of clever “make-do” tactics. I show how specific …
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A process perspective on legitimacy for public administration: refocusing the national long-term care policy debate
… Working from Saussure’s writings, Claude Levi-Strauss "treats all forms of cultural expression as language and he assumes that like language it is all [structured] by unconscious laws that constitute a grammar for each" (White, 1983:12). In a similar vein, the structuralist undertaking in …
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Myths Of The House Theatre Of Chicago (2002-2007): A Dramaturgical Study Of Chicago's "next Big Thing"
… that incorporates the myth theory of Claude Lévi-Strauss, Vladimir Propp and Joseph Campbell to identify and analyze the presence of elements of myth and the patterns in which they occur. These patterns can be potentially identified by examining five of The House's most significant performance …
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Seeking the other shore : myth and history in the films of Terrence Malick
… 'Manufacturing Myth' I use definitions by Claude Levi-Strauss and Richard Slotkin to begin the conversation between history and myth, finding that myth is constructed, laid claim to, and used continuously, and whose claims and uses are inevitably contested. Myths based in history, are, in Richard …
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