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Showing 1 to 20 of 79 for “"cannibalism"”.
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Cannibalism: A Failure to Be Satisfied.
<p>This thesis supports the Master of Fine Arts exhibition at the Tipton Gallery, East Tennessee State University, from March 23<sup>rd</sup> through April 3<sup>rd</sup>, 2009. To comment on the title of my thesis, it describes an invented process created to re-contextualize failed paintings into …
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The Discourse of Cannibalism Within Christianity
… of this thesis is to present the dialogue of cannibalism within the realms of Christianity; more so this thesis will focus on how cannibalism is relevant to Christianity. The paper will introduce the reader with two distinct versions of cannibalism, endocannibalism and exocannibalism, …
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Anthropophagy and cannibalism in ancient Greek literature
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2024-08-01
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States of savagery : cannibalism and the political in postwar fiction
… than just the consumption of individual bodies, cannibalism figures the political struggle to define the boundaries between self and other, as well as the dangers inherent in this struggle--the possible eradication of the personal and social body. Cannibalism thus registers the interrelationship …
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Neo-Victorian Cannibalism: A Reading of Contemporary Neo-Victorian Fiction
… be theorised in terms of aggressive eating, even cannibalism. Cannibalism operates on different levels throughout many works, and there is a sense of surreptitious insistence about it in the genre as a whole. Not only is the imagery of eating repeatedly used by critics to comprehend neo-Victorian …
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Cannibalism in contact narratives and the evolution of the wendigo
… the relationship between colonization and cannibalism, beginning with cannibalism as represented in colonial contact narratives. I address the tendency of the colonizers to presume cannibalism of the indigenous people with whom they come into contact, and how the assumption dictates the …
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Egg cannibalism by anchovy in the Southern Benguela Current Region
… rate, number of eggs eaten and feeding time, cannibalism was estimated to account for about 62%-70% of the egg mortality. The rate of cannibalism was shown to be consistent with a density-dependent functional response.
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BITING OFF MORE THAN YOU CAN CHEW: GERMAN-BRAZILIAN CULTURAL CANNIBALISM
Cultural cannibalism is an aesthetic practice and an analytical tool that can be used to look closely at (trans)cultural encounters that happen in the arts. From its modernist roots, the term inherited a bold spirit, a playful self-assertion in the face of the other, a refusal to submit to the …
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To eat or not to eat: an ethical analysis of cannibalism through a bioethical framework
Cannibalism, or anthropophagy, has been dubbed the “ultimate taboo” within our current society even though there is significant evidence supporting that this act has been an integral part of human culture for over thousands of years. This is in part due to the subliminal teachings in literature …
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A comparative study of cannibalism in six populations of the calanoid copepod, Diaptomus leptopus (Forbes)
Cannibalism is common in species which have overlapping and discrete life stages. Copepods are a typical example of the type of species which exhibit adult cannibalism of juvenile life stages. The scale of observation typically used in cannibalism studies may allow misinterpretation of the results. …
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Modelling cannibalism and inter-species predation for the Cape hake species Merluccius capensis and M. paradoxus
… of food webs. In the case of Cape hake, however, cannibalism and inter-species predation form a very large component of hake mortality and food consumption, thus making a multi-species model not only more feasible but also likely more reliable. A comprehensive multi-species model incorporating …
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Effects of cannibalism, maternal age and varying fish selectivity in age structured models of deep water hake populations
… develop in which dynamic and density-dependent cannibalism was included as a top-down control on a modeled population of M. paradoxus which used spawner biomass and maternal based recruitment. The ASM was used to evaluate the effects cannibalism had on age structure, recruitment and spawner …
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Abundance and mortality of anchovy eggs caused by cannibalism and intraguild predation, and the potential effect on anchovy recruitment and clupeoid fluctuations
This thesis is structured in the form of five main chapters, each written in the form of an independent paper and supported by a general conclusion and one previously published paper on the same general theme. The central theme is the dynamics, ecology and evolution of intraspecific and intraguild …
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‘They all looked such good meat’: Cannibal Metaphors in Early Twentieth Century English Fiction
… and informed much of their imagery. I read cannibalism as a complicated trope: as both a symptom of imperial racism and as an unstable configuration that boomerangs back on the British and works to undermine firm oppositions between coloniser and colonised. This thesis goes further by …
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Conflict & Communication: Consequences Of Female Nest Confinement In Yellow-Billed Hornbills
… unlike other populations. Widespread filial cannibalism by females of both eggs and chicks was observed for the first time. The possible proximate causes of cannibalism are explored. Egg cannibalism allowed females to recoup some of their energetic investment, while cannibalism of chicks …
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The Effects of Stocking Density and Feeding Frequency on Aggressive and Cannibalistic Behaviors in Larval Hatchery-Reared Spotted Seatrout, <i>Cynosion nebulosus</i>
… has proven difficult due to aggression and cannibalism during the larval stages. </p> <p>The manipulation of stocking density as well as feeding frequency might be used to reduce aggression and cannibalism. The goal of this study was to determine the effects of stocking density and feeding …
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Pathos : a metaphoric exploration of cannibalistic, gluttonous and consumptive impulses in fiction writing
… I focus on three specific aspects of my self ― cannibalism, of self (autophagia) and others, gluttony and consumption ― and demonstrate how these three nouns, when used as metaphors, operate within fictional writing, by examining them in relation to my thesis novel Pathos. To conduct this …
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Between work : Michel Foucault, Louis Althusser and Jacques Martin
… can be seen as process of subjectivation, even cannibalism, which blurs the boundary between self and other.
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Desire for Transformation: The Actualization of Self-identity Through Change In the Films <em>Raw</em> and <em>Titane</em>
… Ducournau explores themes of cannibalism, the linking of desire and violence, and transformation in order to disrupt hegemonic conceptions of sex and gender binaries. the disruptions to these binaries are initially perceived as monstrous, due to the implementation of genre …
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