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Showing 1 to 20 of 269 for “"Social and Cultural Anthropology"”.
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Numbers And Neighborhoods: Seeking And Selling The American Dream In Detroit One Bet At A Time
… offers an important perspective on the concept and performance of community cohesion within the urban fabric of the United States. Research is limited concerning the role numbers gambling has played in community cohesion. This dissertation expands the knowledge and understanding of numbers …
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Queering Ghana: Sexuality, Community, And The Struggle For Cultural Belonging In An African Nation
… this dissertation, I provide an analysis of the social practices of a queer community in southern Ghana known as Saso people. Drawing on in-depth interviews with indigenous religious priests, I focus specifically on practices of leadership and kinship, sexual initiation, and engagement and …
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"Something You Love And Something More Practical": Undergraduate Anthropology Education In The Neoliberal Era
… ethnographic case study attempts to understand how neoliberalism, which emphasizes education for employment, contradicts, complements, or coexists with the values of the liberal arts discipline of anthropology. Liberal arts education, the broader type of education that anthropology fits …
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Creative Expression Through the Gift of God: The Intertwining of Creativity and Religion of the Poor Clares in New Orleans, Louisiana
<p>This thesis looks at the relationship of art and creativity among the Poor Clares in New Orleans, Louisiana. Through the six sisters, the project addresses the way that religion influences the art that each sister produces. While each sister has had a different experience that drew them to …
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The Power of the Hula: A Performance Text for Appropriating Identity Among First Hawaiian Youth
<p>Hawaii is an exotic land with a rich history and a culture imbued with meaning, including the performing arts. Such facets of any land need to be understood and preserved for future generations. The most significant aspect of Hawaiian arts is the hula kahiko, a text in motion, which when …
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Setting the Childless Free: An Ethnographic Study of the Practice of the Childfree Identity
… the following dissertation seeks to understand the identity and practice of the voluntarily childless (hereafter “childfree”) movement in the United States. How do these individuals practice their identity, and how does the identity of “childfree” interact with other roles in their lives? …
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Festivals, Function and Context: An Ethnographic Study of Three Festivals at Holden Village
… to provide a community for healing, renewal, and refreshment of people through worship, intercession, study, humor, work, recreation, and conversation in a climate of mutual acceptance under the Lordship of Jesus Christ. The purpose of this community is to participate in the renewal for the …
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COVID-19’s Effects on Mortality Salience, Death Anxiety, and Worldview Defense
… reminded of their own death people take part in culturally appropriate activities and defend their own culture as ways to alleviate this increased death anxiety. The current study aims to identify whether 1) reminders of COVID-19 prime death thoughts, 2) reminders of COVID-19 increase death …
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Becoming kin: Modernity, authenticity, and the construction of spiritual relatedness in an evangelical parachurch ministry
… dissertation explores how families are formed and spiritual kinship is created by members of the Body of Christ evangelical parachurch ministry at one public university in the United States. Spiritual relatedness is used to conceptualize members' social relationships and demonstrate the diverse …
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A Joining Of Hands: Form, Function, And Diversity At A Buddhist Monastery In Batesville, Mississippi
… is a religious tradition that spans the globe, and has erupted in popularity in the United States since the 1960s. This is a study of Thãch Nhat Hanh's "mindfulness" practice center, Magnolia Grove Monastery, in Batesville, Mississippi. Participant observation and interviews are implemented to …
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Investigating the built environment of Fort George Wright, Spokane, Washington: a historic archaeological approach
… Sisters of the Holy Names in 1960, renovated, and turned into Fort George Wright College (Meyer, 1994, p.99). In 1990, Mukogawa Women’s College bought it and turned it into a satellite campus for English language instruction and immersion (Nilsson, 2019). This thesis developed a quantitative …
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Claiming Space, Redefining Politics: Urban Protest and Grassroots Power in Bolivia
… protests by primarily left grassroots social movements in Bolivia's current political transformation. <em>Space claiming</em> includes mass protests that physically control or symbolically claim urban space through occupations of plazas and roads, sit-ins, blockades, and other measures. …
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Co-creating Agency, Remaking Worlds: Socially Engaged Participatory Art in Hong Kong and Taiwan
Focusing on socially engaged co-creative participatory art, this thesis expands international scholarship by chronicling exemplary cases from East Asia. In addition to offering contextualised exegeses of contemporary projects from Hong Kong and Taiwan between 2000 and 2018, the thesis responds to …
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Konflik pengambilan tanah Orang Asli: kajian kes di Johor dan Selangor
Orang Asli merupakan golongan minoriti yang terdapat di Semenanjung Malaysia. Sistem Torrens yang diamalkan oleh Malaysia melalui Kanun Tanah Negara 1965 hanya memberi kepentingan terhadap tanah yang didaftarkan di Pejabat Pendaftaran Tanah, manakala tanah saka Orang Asli yang diwarisi dari …
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Etnoentomologi dalam kalangan kaum Orang Asli dan Melayu di Semenanjung Malaysia
… dan Orang Asli di Semenanjung Malaysia serta membandingkan hasil kajian dengan maklumat etnoentomologi di Sabah. Di samping itu, kajian ini juga untuk mengenalpasti penggunaan serangga oleh etnik di kedua-dua kawasan tersebut. Objektif seterusnya ialah membandingkan maklumat etnoentomologi di …
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The history of Spokane Falls W.T. 1871-1891, an example of a colonial built environment
… exemplifies the Pacific Northwest's resettlement and reconstruction in the nineteenth century. The initial benefit of Spokane Falls' geography existed within the primary natural advantage of the waterpower of the falls on the Spokane River. The secondary natural advantage in human-induced …
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Hospitality Versus Patronage: an Investigation of Social Dynamics in the Third Epistle of John
… This investigation focuses on social dynamics in the third epistle of John. In the context of 3 John hospitality and patronage seem to be opposed as two non-compatible models of behavior. In what sense they are different and what makes them non compatible in a church setting is …
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Mais Bonito Da Região: the Cacao-Producing Region of Cachoeira Alta, Bahia, and the Transition From Wage Labor to Small Farming
<p>The support needed for upward social mobility within the field of agriculture, from a laborer to a self-sufficient, small farmer, requires an agricultural and market-based knowledge to which few wage laborers are privy. Small-scale farmers suffer shortcomings within regional and global markets …
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