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Showing 1 to 20 of 96 for “"anthropologist"”.
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The Sorcerers' Apprentice: A life of Reo Franklin Fortune, Anthropologist
Between the two World Wars, the two main schools in world anthropology were the American and the British. The former was dominated by Franz Boas and his graduate students, while in Britain and its Empire the dominant figures were A. R. Radcliffe-Brown and Bronislaw Malinowski. These leaders acted …
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Looking Through the Trees: An Anthropologist, a Museum, and the Sasquatch
<p>The Sasquatch is incredibly popular in American society. This project explores the impact of the Sasquatch phenomenon on those that live in and visit Bailey, Colorado. It focuses on how the Sasquatch Outpost museum contributes to this impact, especially through outdoor activities, visiting the …
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How to Participate: A Multi-Genre Coming-of-Age Story of a Student Anthropologist
In this dissertation I explore the role of the relational self in ethnographic research. The dissertation stems from ethnographic fieldwork that I conducted in Barcelona between 2018-2020 among anarchist community organizers who participated at an occupied courtyard in the center of the city. …
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The French Expatriate Assignment: Helping Accompanying Spouses to Adapt by Assuming the Role of Anthropologist
… This mindset involves assuming the role of anthropologist—just as an actor would assume a role in a play. The benefits of this approach are twofold: firstly, imagining oneself as an anthropologist provides excellent motivation to get out and explore a new culture rather than avoiding it and …
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Research and experiential learning: an understanding of the Australian Aborigines relationship to their environment
… perspectives were that of an archaeologist, an anthropologist, the Australian Aboriginal, and the journal I wrote while participating on a Songline walk. An archaeologist digs into the past and finds clues into the behavior patterns of contemporary Aborigines. An anthropologist, through first …
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A Revision of Family and Domesticity in Michael Cunningham's A Home at the End of the World, Flesh and Blood, and The Hours
… examine families of the 1950s, and the work of anthropologist Kath Weston, I argue that Michael Cunningham represents domesticity in ways that promote readers' appreciation of and support for alternative family models.
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A Revision of Family and Domesticity in Michael Cunningham's A Home at the End of the World, Flesh and Blood, and The Hours
… examine families of the 1950s, and the work of anthropologist Kath Weston, I argue that Michael Cunningham represents domesticity in ways that promote readers' appreciation of and support for alternative family models.
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Parts of Women
… monologues. "Controlled Burn" involves a woman anthropologist who discovers asbestos in her office. "Tango Lessons" is about a middle-aged woman who's always in search of her true self. "Expatriates" concerns a man who enters the lives of his Hare Krishna neighbors, and "Rio" involves a …
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Psychiatric disorder in Xhosa-speaking men following circumcision
… describes my qualitative research as an anthropologist into the mental illness histories of five young Xhosa-speaking men who, within a year of their circumcision, suffered psychotic breakdowns. The study took place in Valkenberg Hospital for the Mentally Unwell and the surrounding …
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Sophie D. Aberle and the United Pueblos Agency, 1935-1944
… Aberle was a medical researcher and applied anthropologist who brought several years of field experience among the Pueblos to the UPA. Some opposition arose over her appointment, in part because she was a woman. More important, many Pueblos opposed the consolidation of several Pueblo agencies …
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Games in culture: a contextual analysis of the Swahili board game and its relevance to variation in African Mankala.
… Culture hypothesis of Roberts et alia (American Anthropologist 1959) according to which 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 …
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Understanding the Holocaust: Ernest Becker and the "Heroic Nazi"
… I offer the work of Ernest Becker, a social anthropologist, whose work provides a framework for understanding history as a succession of attempts by man to create societies that generate meaning through various heroic quests that defy man's finite existence, yet often result in carnage. …
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A Train Passing Over Water
… becomes an assistant to a mysterious Bavarian anthropologist. She faces new challenges when her mother's brother returns from America to take her father's place.
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Lured by the Mythic: Pursuit of the Primordial in Saul Bellow's Henderson the Rain King and Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano
… the Rain King. Drawing on studies by French anthropologist Lucien Lévy-Bruhl and on the myth-oriented philosophical texts of Ernst Cassirer, I investigate, in depth, mythological frameworks that exhibit distinctly "premodern" characteristics--involving self-immersion in myth and, most …
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Borders, space, and liminality in Dorothy West's The living is easy and Rudolf Fisher's The walls of Jericho
… cultural borders in Borderlands: La Frontera. Anthropologist Arnold Van Gennep's observations of tribal rites of passages are accepted patterns of human social behavior, and the middle stage of this process is the liminal passage. This study identifies and analyzes inter- and intra-racial …
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CONCEPTUALISING THE INTERFACE BETWEEN ENGLISH FURTHER AND HIGHER EDUCATION
… science, economic sociology and the work of anthropologist Mary Douglas to analyse these cross-sector transactions. In part one of the thesis, the context for the research is outlined and the rationale for a conceptual approach is explained. In part two, an analytical framework is developed …
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In reality meager: eluding death anxiety in Walt Whitman and Federico Garcia Lorca's poetics of the body
… imitative. Using the writings of the American anthropologist Ernest Becker as a methodology, I propose that further similarities between Whitman and Lorca can be found in their psychological reactions to death anxiety, as exemplified in their poems on the body. While Whitman imagines achieving …
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Political Mavens: Ruth Underhill, Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin, Gene Weltfish, Ella Deloria, and the Politics of Culture
… the Politics of Culture,' centers on how female anthropologists shaped political discourses in the twentieth century. The anthropologist has long been considered the handmaiden of imperialism, made most apparent in Vine Deloria's Custer Died for Your Sins (1969). Although partially true, my work …
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HUNTERS IN THE GARDEN: YUP’IK SUBSISTENCE AND THE AGRICULTURAL MYTHS OF EDEN
… Wendell Berry, to critiques supplied by Canadian anthropologist Hugh Brody, who asserts that “Western” discourse carries traces of the myths of Eden and the curses of the book of Genesis. Chapter 3 returns to the geography and stories of Nunivak Island before detailing the contributions that …
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