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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Witz"”.
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Change and stability: Agta kinship in a history of uncertainty
… I use a formal theory of kinship (Lehman and Witz 1974, Witz and Lehman 1979, Lehman 1993) to illustrate how Agta society operates through kinship. This study demonstrates that social relations are not necessarily products of economic systems.
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Science Teachers Teaching Socioscientific Issues (Ssi): Four Case Studies
… approach is based on essentialist methodology (Witz, Goodwin, Hart, & Thomas, 2001; Witz, 2006a) with its focus on ""the participant as ally"" and ""essentialist portraiture."" The primary data source is four to six in-depth interviews with individual teachers (about 40-90 minutes for each …
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Successful Management of Bipolar Disorder and the Role of Social Support
… were informed by essentialist methodology (Witz, Goodwin, Heart, and Thomas, 2001) and involved the creation of a portrait for each case---the person with Bipolar I Disorder and the person(s) who support(s) them. Analysis also involved identifying themes within cases and between cases. …
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Commemorations and conflicts in the production of South African national pasts : the 1952 Jan van Riebeeck tercentenary festival
This thesis investigates how the icon of Jan van Riebeeck acquired a position of prominence in South African public pasts through the government sponsored festival organised in 1952 to commemorate his landing three hundred years previously. From the seventeenth to the midtwentieth centuries van …
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Psicanálise e velhice
… cas cliniques, spécialement dans la lecture d'un Witz produit en analyse.
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Using portraiture to understand going into teaching in K-8 after another career
… the “participant as ally-essentialist approach” (Witz, 2007) to understand the participants’ stories. The primary data source was focus groups and one to three 1-on-1 in-depth follow-up interviews (90 minutes for each interview) with 9 participants who were second-year nontraditional elementary or …
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Humor i romantisk text : om Jean Pauls estetik i svensk romantik: C.F. Dahlgrens Mollbergs epistlar (1820), C.J.L. Almqvists Amorina (1822) och C. Livijns Spader Dame (1825)
… ways is close to the discussion of humor and of Witz to be found in Jean Pauls Vorschule der Ästhetik. A fruitful result of this analysis is the important place Christianity takes in this humoristic aesthetic. This partly opens new fields for research in the functions of allusions in these …
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What's in a laugh? Humour, jokes and laughter in the conversational corpus of the BNC
The work investigates humour, laughter and joke performances in natural spontaneous conversations recorded in the UK for the British National Corpus (BNC) and the Bergen Corpus of London Teenage Language (COLT). It is a broad-based study that aims to elucidate how humour and laughter function in …