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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Other Anthropology"”.
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Toward a Holistic Interdisciplinary Model of Human Being: a Hebraic-Christian Perspective of the Human Observer and its Beneficial Impact on the Theology-and-Science Dialogue, Society, and the Environment
… especially those that consist of hate crimes and other types of abuses against other humans. Thus human being serves as a fruitful common ground for the theology-and-science dialogue.</p>
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The Politics of Contagion
… for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and other agencies across the globe pour millions of dollars each year into eliminating the risk of contagions and making the world a safer place. However, while more resources are dedicated to fighting contagion events than ever before, risk remains …
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Doing Ethnography In An Urban Hospital Emergency Department Setting: Understanding How Culture Was Related To Emergency Physician Habitus
<p>This hospital ethnography focused on the relationship between culture and emergency physician habitus. The habitus of these physicians was defined as those routine, patterned forms of behaviors and practices performed by the physicians while in the emergency department and while interacting with …
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Comparison of Chimpanzee (Pan Troglodytes) Behavior on Tour and Non-Tour Days at Chimpanzee Sanctuary Northwest
… My data may also serve as a case study for other sanctuaries.
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Bioarchaeological Analysis of Oak View Landing (40Dr1): An Archaic Population in the Kentucky Lake Reservior
… the results from this study were congruent with other foraging groups. However, they may have experienced hardships due to harsh seasonal conditions resulting in increased competition for resources as shown by the morbidity observed in males, and the high rate of violent trauma, especially in …
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The Impact of Web-Based Visitor Education on Human-Tibetan Macaque (<i>Macaca thibetana</i>) Interactions at Mt. Huangshan, China
<p>Daily visitor-macaque interactions lead to higher rates of macaque aggression (macaque-human, intragroup), macaque self-directed behaviors (SDBs), and zoonotic disease transfer. At the Valley of the Wild Monkeys in Mt. Huangshan, China, I made an educational website with site-specific …
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Hate Speech, Habitus, and Identity Signaling on 4chan’s Politically Incorrect Board
<p>Websites, such as 4chan, have provided a place for extremism and hate speech to flourish through anonymous discourse. One group that has been especially important to this growth has been the alt-right. The alt-right is a far-right white nationalist movement that is known for engaging in …
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Killin' it on Corporate Ground: The Cultural Politics of Street Performance in a Gentrified Space
On a weekend evening in San Diego’s historic Eclipse district, several buskers capture the attention of passersby as they make their way through the bustling crowds to the nearest restaurant or nightclub. These buskers represent various subcultures within a gentrified entertainment district of …
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Werewolves: A Three-Dimensional Content Analysis of Films from 1980-2014
… teach social norms. They are often portrayed as “other”, but more recently the werewolf has appeared in media as more sympathetic (Brannon 2016, 21; Gilmore 2008, 362; Hughes 2009, 97). Limited research has systematically studied how werewolves are represented in the media. This content analysis …
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Reaction to Stimulus Figures in Chimpanzee Drawings
Seven captive chimpanzees (<em>Pan troglodytes</em>) produced drawings at the University of Oklahoma between November 1971 and November 1972. Chimpanzees drew on sheets of paper that were either blank or had a stimulus. The stimulus was located in the center or offset from the center. These …
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Putting It Gently: The Other Side of a Peace Corps Volunteer Experience
<p>The Peace Corps is a transformative experience for many young Americans. The majority of volunteers have worthwhile services they remember fondly; however, these experiences are not always positive. The Peace Corps is a Cold War initiative that uses soft power techniques to further American …
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Evaluating compassion satisfaction and the risk of compassion fatigue among those working at non-human primate sanctuaries and wildlife centers
… of developing compassion fatigue compared to other animal-care worker samples. Correlational and multiple regression analyses revealed that continent of residence, perceived workplace support, gender, and career length were all important predictors for burnout, secondary traumatic stress, and …
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Remembering Together: Native Boarding School Stories on Display
… exhibits, old and new, was engaged with the anthropology and museum theory of the time. The two current exhibits offer updated scholarship and multivocal narratives but designed for and aimed at audiences of very different backgrounds.</p>
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Comparison of Semi-Captive and Wild Gray-Shanked Douc Langurs’ (Pygathrix Cinerea) Activity Budgets
… intended to prepare members of this species and other endangered primates for potential release into the wild. In my study, I assessed the group members' activity budgets and feeding behaviors and compared my data to that obtained in a study of wild GSD langurs. I collected data using …
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Identity Shifts Among Cis- and Trans- Females Who Sell Sex on the Streets of New York City
<p>The Deviant Identity Shift (DIS) Model that is introduced in this dissertation provides a framework for making sense of how sex workers come to understand their own place in the world, including the experiences of violence that often accompany their lives, and it shifts our attention away from …
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Mommy Issues: Do Differential Rearing Histories Affect the Social Behavior of Captive Chacma Baboons (<i>Papio ursinus</i>)
… both back into the surrogate’s troop. Mother-reared individuals were also observed in this study. Mother-reared individuals are individuals who were born into the troop and raised by their mothers. I used a David’s Score to assess rank and generalized linear mixed models to assess the …
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The Human—Long-Tailed Macaque (<i>Macaca fascicularis</i>) Interface at Don Chao Poo Forest, Phana, Thailand
… toward men; a result contrary to reports at other sites and, perhaps, due to the long history of provisioning at this location, the fact that men and women provision, and visitors’ familiarity with the macaques. Immature macaques appeared to be more reactive than adults, possibly due to …
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Effect of Group Size on the Activity Budget of Two Captive Chimpanzees (<i>Pan troglodytes</i>)
… and after their move to a sanctuary with 11 other chimpanzees. Data coders recorded the behavioral context of both chimpanzees during each condition. The results supported the hypothesis that upon relocation to an environment with additional conspecifics, social behaviors such as grooming and …
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The Core Relation Between Hospitality (Philoxenia), Dignity and Vulnerability in Orthodox Christian Bioethics: A Contribution to Global Bioethics
… foundational principles of Orthodox Christian anthropology. To identify this middle ground the analysis discusses the core relation between hospitality, dignity, and vulnerability as a contribution to global bioethics.</p> <p>In general, based on Orthodox Christian theology and hermeneutics, an …
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XRF and the Corrosion Environment at Camp Lawton: A Comprehensive Study of the Archeological Microenvironment of a Civil War Prison Camp
<p>Author's abstract: Handheld X Ray Fluorescence (XRF) technology is a new and emerging method in the field of archeology. This thesis discusses the results of XRF comparative analysis and comparative chemical analysis between a given ferrous metallic artifact's corrosion environment (the …
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