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Showing 1 to 20 of 48 for “"Social Complexity"”.
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The social complexity of woman and child valuation in rural Bangladesh
… development, occurs at the intersection of social and economic institutions at a time when agricultural modes of production are being replaced by wage labor within a globalizing labor market. The lived experiences of this change are structured by family and kinship arrangements, ideology, …
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Pottery Production, Mortuary Practice, and Social Complexity in the Majiayao Culture, NW China (ca. 5300-4000 BP)
… the Majiayao Culture as static and simplify the social and economic complexity of the people who composed this society. Although scholars commonly assume that Majiayao painted pottery vessels were made by specialized craftspeople, the social and economic processes behind the production of these …
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Unmasked equalities: An examination of mortuary practices and social complexity in the Levantine Natufian and Pre-pottery Neolithic
… "group" oriented society with well defined social boundaries with respect to outside groups. Internal differentiation, however, was slight: some difference based on age is present but differentiation based on sex is not reflected in burial practices. Skull removal practices accelerated …
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Product and program management : battling the strangler trees of system and social complexity in the software market jungle
… field facing unprecedented problems with product complexity and motivating the need for Product Management. The role of Product Manager is explored in detail using both extant literature and interviews conducted with current practitioners in industry. The related role of Program Manager is briefly …
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Along The Mountain Passes: Tracing Indigenous Developments Of Social Complexity In The Zagros Region During The Early Bronze Age (ca. 3500-2000 Bce)
… changed power relationships and indigenous social structures.
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An integrative, community-collaborative approach to investigating health, diet, and the oral microbiome in ancestral and descendant coast Tsimshian communities
… have experienced two significant periods of social transition: increasing social complexity during the transition from the Middle Pacific period (3500-1500BP) to the Late Pacific period (1500-500BP) and 19th century European contact, with subsequent ongoing colonization and increasing …
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Tracing hydrosocial change: the social constellations of water access and allocation for oil and gas development in Colorado
… development in Colorado suggests a change in the social constellations of water governance. Colorado's water allocation institutions, practices and policies relationally shape and are shaped by water's biophysical movement over space and time through a hydrosocial cycle. The hydrosocial cycle …
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The Archaeology of an Ancient Seaside Town: Performance and Community at Samanco, Nepeña Valley, Peru Volume 1
Studies of social complexity increasingly recognize the role of maritime communities in the development of large sociopolitical systems. The Central Andes present an ideal region for understanding maritime aspects of ancient social complexity, due to one of the most productive sea biomasses in the …
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Behavioral Reconstruction of the Kerma Era Nubians
… with an increase in agricultural intensity/social complexity, as both the urban and rural populations had much more intensive agriculture and were more socially complex than the subsistence based population. This increase in workload with the advent of agriculture (Cohen and Armelagos, 1984; …
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The steps of kings: terraced landscapes in the Lake Pátzcuaro Basin, Michoacán, México
… 1979) which is linked to the development of social complexity in middle range societies, and states and empires (Fisher et al. 2003). For Mesoamerica, terraces are a fundamental characteristic of ancient social complexity, and continued to be used post-Conquest (A.D. 1520). In the Lake …
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A cross-cultural study of coping
… of cultural factors, such as self-construal, and social beliefs, on coping for U.S. and Chinese college students. Data from 325 U.S. and 321 Chinese college students were used for the analyses. It was found that independent self-construal, beliefs in reward for application and social complexity …
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The Neolithic Settlement of the Yorkshire Dales
… as evidence of a growing population, increasing social complexity, and an associated wider world view.
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Aba té Home: Journey to Robben Island
… My understanding is that our contemporary social imaginary in Africa is influenced by the remnants of colonial archives. The form of this project is therefore inspired by the need for an alternative perspective, that is rooted in indigenous sensibilities (Harris, 2002:84). As an artist, …
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Resource-based view of social media as a source of sustained competitive advantage
Executive summary: Social Media is increasingly becoming prevalent and firms are increasingly adopting social media. Managers are concerned about the value social media provides and how it can be used for competitive advantage. The resource-based-view of a firm suggests that resources that are …
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Becoming Chacoan: The archaeology of the Aztec North Great House
… of Chacoan construction. Drawing on theories of social complexity, landscape archaeology and materiality, I argue that this great house was a site of rapid transition and of a community drawn into the Chacoan world in very short order, and perhaps with unintended consequences.</p>
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How do clinicians work with the shift between stabilisation-work and exposure-work in PTSD-treatment? Interviewing clinicians - a grounded theory study
… stabilisation-work due to the psychological and social complexity of PTSD-clients. 2. Clinicians view that treatment needs to be more integrative as opposed to solely conducting trauma-therapies in order to meet clients’ complex needs. 3. Clinicians advocate that the concept of exposure-readiness …
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Revealing intangible assets and archetypes for organisational change
… to cope with, especially in the context of social complexity; for people see things differently, according to their assumptions, values, rationales or objectives. Adopting the complex adaptive character of human systems, this dissertation argues that non-linear change methodologies are more …
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The evolution of social traits and biodiversity in the ants.
… ants are the most numerically diverse of the eusocial Hymenoptera, and display wide variation in social complexity. This positions the ants as an ideal taxon in which to study social evolution in a comparative framework. Social evolution theory has generated many hypotheses that are testable in …
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Moche social boundaries and settlement dynamics at Cerro Castillo (c. AD 600-1000), Nepeña Valley, Peru Volume 1
… from circa AD 100 to 850. Its high levels of complexity are materially expressed in the archaeological remains of urban centres, monumental temples, irrigation systems, funerary practices and fi nely made artefacts. This work builds on decades of previous research to assess the nature of Moche …
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