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Showing 1 to 20 of 51 for “"Political Organization"”.
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The Meru of Tanzania: A Study of Their Social and Political Organization
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Mass Analysis and Raw Material Sourcing as Metrics of Poverty Point's Socio-Political Organization
<p>Hypotheses about the socio-political organization of Poverty Point have each attempted to answer the procedures that led to the site’s construction and continued use. Mass analysis and raw material sourcing of the North Three excavation units offer an enhanced examination of the lithic …
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Classic Maya Political Organization: Epigraphic Evidence Of Hierarchical Organization In The Southern Maya Mountains Region Of Belize
… University Carbondale. TITLE: CLASSIC MAYA POLITICAL ORGANIZATION: EPIGRAPHIC EVIDENCE OF HIERARCHICAL ORGANIZATION IN THE SOUTHERN MAYA MOUNTAINS REGION OF BELIZE MAJOR PROFESSORS: Dr. Charles A. Hofling and Dr. Don S. Rice This project investigates the nature of Classic Maya (A.D. 300-900) …
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Patterns of Politics and Kinship in a Greek Cypriot Community, 1920-1980
… 1920 and 1980. It seeks to show that patterns of political organization in the periphery can only be properly understood with reference to the role of kinship and the nature of property transmissions within the family. In analysing the political organization of Mediterranean communities and their …
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Transformation Of Early Nineteenth Century Chickasaw Leadership Patterns, 1800-1845
… a time that hinges on the remnant Chickasaw political leadership offices of previous centuries, such as the Minko and Tisho Minko, combined with the formation of newer offices such as district chiefs. It ends in 1845 after the Chickasaws were forced to remove from their Mississippi homelands …
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Games in culture: a contextual analysis of the Swahili board game and its relevance to variation in African Mankala.
… a simple correlation exists between the socio-political organization of any given society and the type of game played there: in particular 'simple' societies are deemed incapable of inventing and unlikely to borrow games of strategy. The thesis scrutinizes these findings, finds them naive and …
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Patterns in Seal Iconography: A Frequency Model
… of the Preclassic period in terms of large scale political organization and seals as tools in social interaction and ritual. Next, I describe sites and seal assemblages included in this study. Analysis includes examining the frequencies of basic motifs, iconographic interpretations and …
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To Plow a Lonely Furrow: Indigenismo and Mapuche Politics in Chile, 1920-1960
<p>This study examines Mapuche political organization in Chile from 1920-1960 through the lens of transnational indigenismo. In that period, politicians, academics and social reformers across the Americas were questioning how to incorporate indigenous populations into modern national states. While …
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NATO : Network Architecture Tensile Organization : mending Berlin through public interface
NATO: Network Architecture; Tensile Organization is a project that seeks to create a lighter public forum where architecture mediates a space of metaphor, yet looks towards a hopeful future, in a place laden with the immensity of a dark past. This project exploits the emblematic condition of …
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The Palestinian Liberation Organization: Is Reform Possible?
… thirty-five years the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) has internationalized its agenda by acts of terrorism worldwide. The hijacking of an Israeli passenger airline flying from Rome to Tel Aviv took place in July of 1968 and marked the beginning of a systematic campaign using …
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Sou porque faço, faço porque sou: agência sociopolítica e identidade de uma ativista comunitária do Bairro da Paz, Salvador
… distinct dynamics, movements, and forms of sociopolitical mobilization that emerge in Brazil’s peripheral territories have, in recent decades, aroused growing interest within Sociology and Anthropology, especially in urban studies. The debate surrounding the various forms of political …
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"Marimba, por tí me muero": Region and Nation in Costa Rica, 1824-1939
… and the creation of regionalist discourse and political organization in Costa Rica from the early twentieth century to 1939, this dissertation studies the historical dynamics between region and nation. The concept of region employed here is not focused on an economic, geographical, or …
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Impactos territoriais da criação do assentamento rural Dona Helena-Cruz do Espírito Santo/PB.
… aims to discuss about the social, economic and political transformations arising from the creation of the Dona Helena rural settlement, located in Cruz do Espírito Santo (Paraíba), which is located in the mesoregion of Zona da Mata, a region where traditiona lly predominate a monocultivated …
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Planning for Sustainable Development in Senegal
… Furthermore, a tension exists because the political organization is based on a social vision, while development actions are derived from a liberal policy. In addition, planners and decisions-makers do not share the same understanding of sustainable development. The situation is made more …
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The early historic landscape of Strathearn: the archaeology of a Pictish kingdom
This study concerns the social and political organization of the early medieval kingdom of Fortiu which occupied present day Strathearn in eastern Scotland. Archaeological and historical sources are used to examine the develoent of the administrative structure at the root of the Medieval state of …
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Migrant Itinerancy: The Hemispheric Politics of Contemporary Undocumented Migration
… undocumented migration problematizes forms of political subjectivity premised upon notions of identity and belonging. Rather than merely reflecting on the effects of the exclusionary logics of immigration discourse in the region, Migrant Itinerancy asks how the tensions and contradictions at …
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The Nature of Iowa Territorial Politics
… of this thesis is to examine the nature of political development, the strength of political activity, the nature and influence of partisan politics, the specific development of politics on the various levels of government, and the relationship between territorial politics and national …
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Post-Capitalist Struggles in 21st Century Latin America: Cooperation, Democracy and State Power
… democracy, and their ability to develop the political capacities to formulate clear demands and strategies through the state, these four cases can indeed be considered examples of post-capitalist struggles. However, as mere glimpses of the future, these struggles display number of …
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Community Development in Dublin. Political Subjectivity and State Cooption.
… community struggles raised implicit and explicit political questions which differed substantially from those previously raised by the ‘official’ republican and socialist left. These questions concerned the lives of miscounted people, their place in the city and the resources available to them. …
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