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Consuming Trade in Mid-Eighteenth Century Albany
An analysis of mid-eighteenth century trading centers reveals a distinct pattern different from that of earlier seventeenth century trading communities. Consumable items comprised the majority of internal and external commerce for many of these trading port cities. Albany, New York, a hinterland …
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Consuming Talk: Youth Culture and the Mobile Phone
The growth in mobile phone use over the past decade and the commensurate advent of mobile phone culture can be seen as interrelated with contemporary youth culture. This thesis addresses how young people make use of the mobile phone in their everyday lives, and how these practices demonstrate forms …
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Consuming online communities : computer operating systems, identity and resistance
A defining feature of the modern era of computer technologies has been a massive reliance upon the mass consumption of personal operating system software. Currently three products dominate how the world experiences computer operating system – Microsoft‘s Windows, Apple‘s Mac, and Linux. The near …
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(Inter)nationalizing Taiwanese Women's Magazines: Birth of Consuming Women
"My thesis engages in understanding how the media defines femininity. Using Taiwanese women's magazines as a site of analysis, my dissertation offers a history of the changing articulations of femininity from the 1950s to the present, with an emphasis on the relationships among gender identity, …
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Nitrogen Utilization in Ruminants Consuming High Quality Fresh Forages
Experiments were conducted to study crude protein (CP) and dry matter (DM) composition of fresh forages of different species and maturities, and to determine the effect of supplementation on forage CP and OM digestion by steers. Experiment 1, a randomized complete block (RCB) design, utilized four …
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Constructing and consuming "Heritage" : Humayun's Tomb in popular perception
A host of political and spiritual associations were constructed around Humayun's Tomb that established it as the most important political and spiritual site in the city during the sixteenth century. After an initial phase of importance, the tomb began to slip into physical decrepitude and neglect. …
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Consuming Mutilation : Affectivity and Corporeal Transgression on Stage and Screen.
This thesis suggests the possibility that psychoanalytic frameworks may prove insufficient to apprehend the workings of post-millennial horror. Through a sustained exploration of how affect theory may be applied to horror, I propose a new affective corporeal model that accounts for the impact of …
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Commodifying and Consuming Endocrine Drugs in Republican China (1920s–1940s)
… scholarship on the dynamics of advertising and consuming hormones in China, this article examines specifically the discourses around the production and science of hormones. The circulation of hormones was informed by ideas of traditional Chinese medical cosmologies and enrolled in a nationalist …
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Consuming Japan: Cultural Relations and the Globalizing of America, 1973-1993
This dissertation explores the U.S. encounter with Japanese goods in the 1970s and 1980s. It argues that this encounter transformed social and cultural life in the United States by ideologically and materially introducing Americans to their first intense, sustained engagement with the processes of …
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Consuming Brazil: Afro Brazilian Religion as a Base for Actor Training
… anthropophagy, the notion of cannibalizing or consuming one culture by another; and, more specifically, the digestive tract. The anthropophagy movement in Brazil framed the country's thought throughout much of the 20th century; the digestive tract is a closer examination of the consuming …
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Consuming cultures: the cultinary poetics of Francophone women's literature
Anthropologists, sociologists and students of culture study food, eating and cuisine because they can provide insight into gender, power and even economic relations that structure a society. The way that people react to, think about and write about this most basic form of consumption can be very …
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Effects of consuming thermally abused frying oil on breast cancer metastasis
… on BC progression. However, the effects of consuming TAFO on BC metastasis remain unclear. Deaths from BC are not attributed to primary tumors; metastasis to visceral tissues is typically the primary cause of death. Thus, the impact of diets containing significant quantities of deep-fried …
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Consuming Lifestyles: Transforming the Body and the Self in Postfeminist America
My inquiry revolves around three case studies of American celebrity-fitness and celebrity-feminist icons constituted during 1980s and 1990s America: actress Jane Fonda, infomercial queen Susan Powter, and talk show host Oprah Winfrey. I point to the troubling effects of the articulations between …
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Transmedia consumption experiences: consuming and co-creating interrelated stories across media
Marketers and consumers alike are experiencing immense changes in the way entertainment is conceived, consumed, produced, distributed, and marketed as a result of intensifying socio-cultural, technologic, and economic convergence (Jenkins 2006, Dena 2004). Transmedia storytelling, aesthetic and …
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Consuming capitalism: food, migration and urban life in twentieth-century Kenya
This dissertation examines how capitalism, migration and urbanization changed the ways in which East Africans provisioned, prepared and consumed their food during the twentieth century. This study explores these themes through the experiences of Africans from the interior of the region who migrated …
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Consuming, producing, defining halal : halal authorities and Muslim consumers in South Africa
Nineteen eighty-five was the year in which the first halal-certified non-meat product appeared in South African stores. The certifying authority was the Muslim Judicial Council of Cape Town and the product was Flora-margarine. The certification of a non-meat product signaled a major shift in halal …
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Consuming democracy : local agencies and liberal peace in the Democratic Republic of Congo
This thesis focuses on liberal peace building in the DRC. The thesis takes a critical approach which emphasises local agencies and their engagements with liberal peace building. However, it seeks to bring this critique back to the institutions with which liberal peace building is preoccupied, by …
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