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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"contact zones"”.
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Communicating Performance: First-Year Writing Syllabi as Rhetorical Contact Zones
… Using Mary Louise Pratt's idea of the "contact zone" as well as Rhetorical Genre Theories and Actor-Network Theory, I argue that beginning with an understanding for how the genre of syllabi function rhetorically will also help us understand how the genre can be communicative, in the …
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Contact Zones and Elsewhere Fields: The Poetics and Politics of Environmental Sound Arts
How is agency distributed “in the field” and how can the practice of field recording critically manifest the relationship between humans and non-humans? This thesis posits an original art practice of field recording based on a perspective I am calling “Inter-agential”. Employing the self-reflexive …
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Electron Microprobe Study of Diabase-Granite Contact Zones in Composite Dikes, Mount Desert Island, Maine
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Narratives Of Southern Contact Zones: Mobility And The Literary Imagination Of Zora Neale Hurston And Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
… oppression and segregation but as a type of contact zone where people with different cultural backgrounds meet and interact. Pairing the representative work of Hurston and Rawlings in each chapter, I examine how each text depict different shades of cultural contact zones found and created in …
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Diet and Feeding-Related Morphometrics of the Blackstripe Topminnow, <i>Fundulus notatus</i>, in Allotropic and Syntopic Populations with the Blackspotted Topminnow, <i>Fundulus olivaceus</i>
… populations being found within and outside of contact zones. Contact zones are generally found in midreaches with <em>F. olivaceus</em> dominating headwaters and <em>F. notatus</em> in larger rivers downstream. Both species share similar ecological niches so the mechanism allowing for stable …
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The Initial Events of T-Cell Activation in Realistic Model Systems
… T-cell activation is crucially cell-cell contact dependent. The exact molecular mechanism that allows T cells to detect antigens with unprecedented selectivity and sensitivity remains controversial. This work investigates the T-cell decision-making in response to antigens. It focuses on …
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Speciation Genomics in Australian Meliphagoid Birds
… populations. While sampling across hybrid zones provide insight for an intermediate stage of speciation, comparative studies of multiple contact zones between populations at different stages of speciation would expand our broader understanding of the process itself. Suture zones provide …
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Speciation Genomics in Australian Meliphagoid Birds
… populations. While sampling across hybrid zones provide insight for an intermediate stage of speciation, comparative studies of multiple contact zones between populations at different stages of speciation would expand our broader understanding of the process itself. Suture zones provide …
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MOLECULAR AND MORPHOLOGICAL CONSEQUENCES OF POST-GLACIAL CONTACT AMONG LINEAGES OF NORTHERN SHORT-TAILED SHREWS (Blarina brevicauda) IN EASTERN NORTH AMERICA
… between these phylogroups across the contact zones where they meet. Using a genetic and morphological approach, I evaluated evidence for hybridization between historically isolated phylogroups of <em>B. brevicauda</em> by quantifying the distribution of genetic and morphological …
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Writing in the 'Contact Zone' : the problem of post-colonial translation. A study of the 'Afrikanissmo-Project' and Tsitsi Dangarembga's novel Nervous Condtions in German
Post-colonial translations are located in 'contact zones'. They mediate in the interface of disparate cultures and languages. The multiple determinations and effects of this decisive mediation process are examined in a close reading of the Afrikanissimo-project and the translation of Tsitsi …
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Voces, Silencios, Ambigüedades y Fantasmagorías en el Espacio Transafricano de la Narrativa de Viajes del Siglo XIX
… seeks to explore this ambivalence within the contact zones as well as the discursive patterns used to depict them during the interaction. These and other issues are problematized through the exploration of travel accounts written by twelve travelers around four main components: power relations …
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Manifestations: Displays of Internal Beliefs and Perspectives
… by new and critical museology, entanglement, contact zones, museum as method, and a queer mezclando (mixing) perspective, this research employs museum ethnography as a way of exploring relations and meanings among museum staff, beliefs, and manifestations. In the chapters to follow, I describe …
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Petrogenesis of hybrid porphyry pipes and evolution of alkaline magmas in the Kanabeam Igneous Complex, Southern Namibia
… rich porphyry pipes were emplaced, exploiting contact zones between earlier plutons. Xenolith types include gabbro possibly derived from unexposed deeper parts of the KIC, syenites (more proximal components of the KIC), trachytes from an inferred overlying volcanic edifice, basement granites, …
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MATING COSTS, MALE CHOICE DISPLACEMENT, AND THE EFFECTS ON HYBRIDIZATION AND SPECIATION IN THE HAWAIIAN CRICKET LAUPALA (SUBFAMILY:TRIGONIDIINAE)
Contact zones between two closely-related species provide unique laboratories for studying the processes of speciation. This is because, within these zones, species barriers will be reinforced and speciation will reach completion, or the barriers will break down, causing the two species to become …
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Imaginaries of the Asian modern
… cultural indigenization, may be understood as contact zones where asymmetries of historical power battle. Examining the mismatch of Korean form and Japanese narrative in this television melodrama, the narrative traversal of modern spaces, and the reparative capacity of nostalgia in fiction, I …
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Female Preference and Prezygotic Isolation In the Fundulus Notatus Species Complex
… hybridize at varying rates across replicate contact zones. Using a free-choice design, behavioral trials were conducted with individuals from populations characterized by high and low hybridization rates, along with <em>F. notatus</em> crosses produced from the divergent populations. During …
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A comparative display analysis of three sibling species of Anolis lizards from Hispaniola
… for contrasting dewlap color at the species contact zones, they are identical in physical appearance. Behavioral mechanisms have been implicated in the reproductive isolation of the species. Because the head bob displays consistently incorporate the dewlap and are important in anoline …
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Troubling Literacy in the "Contact Zone" of a Rural High School English Class
… hybridized literacy practices exist in the "contact zone" of the classroom, a "social space where cultures meet, clash, and grapple, with each other, often in contexts of highly asymmetrical relations of power, such as colonialism, slavery, or their aftermaths as they are lived out in many …
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How the soul slips in: Virginia Woolf's (un)natural history of dogs
… nature of the human world is exposed in contact zones associated with problems of sexuality, class, and gender, as these internal and external distinctions are able to evade human social typologies, especially in relation to the political and cultural metamorphosis of the interwar period. …
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Writing the Indigenous: Contemporary Mayan Literature in Chiapas, Mexico and Palestinian Literature in Israel
… borders, hybridity, internal colonialism and contact zones, in order to identify the elements that inform the development of indigenous minority literature as `alternative texts'. Finally, this dissertation aims at contributing to the project of New Comparative Literature and World Literature. …
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