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The Tale of Tribes
The Bilad al-Sham, or the Eastern Levant, is a region of land located in the eastern Mediterranean. The Bilad al-Sham culture, referred to as Shammi culture, has an emphasis on self image and resents the tribal culture. The narrative in Jordan is that of a country built on tribal culture and …
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Tribes, Memory and Politics in Iraq
… a wider net of legitimate actors such as the tribes.
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Psychological distress among two American Indian tribes
… study indicate that resiliency factors among the tribes such as cultural-spirituality, reservation community and social support are protective, but the findings also encourage further understanding of mechanisms and utilization of the resources available.
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Communicating Culture: the Termination and Restoration of the Klamath Tribes
… Government assimilation efforts. The Klamath Tribes were officially restored in 1986. Termination was a major event in the history of the Klamath Indians. Through repeatd telling, termination became a part of Klamath culture (Geertz, 1973 & Barth, 1989). With a grant from the Graduate College, …
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Festival Worlds: A Sociology of Culture, Collective Experience and Temporary Tribes.
This thesis contains an exploration of the contemporary, and highly social, leisure worlds of music festivals. It is concerned with the continued collective production of a culture and cultural practice which is no longer constitutes a sub-cultural gathering. Instead the research proposes that …
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Tales of the tribes: animation as a tool for indigenous representation.
… of short animation films, Tales of the Tribes through participatory film-making practice presents case studies of the process of collaborating with indigenous artists and cultural practitioners from selected communities to examine these issues of representation and to investigate how …
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Jackpot! The Employment Effects of Gaming Revenue Allocation Plans on Native American Tribes
… to every member of the tribe. This study matches tribes with approved RAPs to their respective “treatment” counties. These treatment counties are then matched and compared to control counties of similar geography and population through difference-in-difference analysis. Through this analysis, it …
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The Systematics and Phylogeny of the Plant Bug Tribes Felisacini and Monaloniini (Insecta: Heteroptera: Miridae: Bryocorinae)
The Monaloniina and Odoniellina are plant bug subtribes within the subfamily Bryocorinae (Insecta: Heteroptera: Miridae: Dicyphini) that have been considered to be sister-taxa. Prior to my study they comprised 41 genera and about 250 species, mostly in the palaeotropics. There has been no modern …
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The Un'Gathering of the Tribes: performing, writing, and remaking masculine identity at 1990s alternative rock festivals
… masculinity. When these various alternative "tribes" reunited at the Woodstock '99 festival in Rome, NY, at the end of the decade, the event devolved into rape, riot, and arson. My investigation found that as journalists attempted to make sense of these tragic events, many blamed out of …
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A Principal’s Journey: The Impact of the Tribes Process in the Development of Positive Teacher-Student Relationships
… correlation between the implementation of the Tribes Learning Communities process as it relates to developing student-teacher relationships, impacting student achievement, and student discipline. The study involved teachers and students from an urban middle school in Houston, Texas grades six …
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Engaging Men for Gender Justice: Overcoming Barriers to Girls’ Education in the Pashtun Tribes of Northern Pakistan
… issues is most clearly visible in the Pashtun tribes of Pakistan bordering Afghanistan, where recent reports estimated enrolment of only 3 to 13 percent of primary school-aged girls in primary schools (UNICEF, 2010; UNDP, 2011). The majority of studies and efforts have been focused on …
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The inclusion of Indian tribes in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's policy decisions that affect tribal lands
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1994.
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Federal perceptions and tribal sovereignty: consultation and relations between the Bureau of Land Management and federally recognized tribes
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is an institution of settler colonialism. Its origins lie in Western expansion and the dispossession of land from Indigenous communities. Today it administers the largest collection of public lands in the country and must maintain relationships through …
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Selected Tales from Georgia Indian Tribes with Suggested Application in Junior High School English and Social Studies Curricula
… Indian folk-tales include tales from three tribes, Cherokee, Creek, and Yuchi, selected because of their importance and proximity to Columbus. Twenty-three tales were chosen based on criteria established by the author.</p> <p>The resulting collection of stories and instructional suggestions …
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The role of old women in Zulu culture : with special reference to three tribes in the district of Nkandla
Old age is a neglected area of anthropological research despite the widespread interest in the human life cycle that has characterized much work within the discipline.- With the notable exception of the early pioneering work of Simmons, the anthropological literature on old age in preliterate …
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The sickle-cell trait: A study of its distribution and effects in some Bantu tribes of South Central Africa
rhe scope of this work needs some explanation. I first became interested in the sickle-cell anomaly in 1951, while employed as a medical officer to an asbestos r::iining group in Southern .Rhodesia. Here I had :for investigation a population of several thousand adult male Bantu, very mixed as to …
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The sickle-cell trait: A study of its distribution and effects in some Bantu tribes of South Central Africa
rhe scope of this work needs some explanation. I first became interested in the sickle-cell anomaly in 1951, while employed as a medical officer to an asbestos r::iining group in Southern .Rhodesia. Here I had :for investigation a population of several thousand adult male Bantu, very mixed as to …
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