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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"cultural biography"”.
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Flying' Female Sex Workers in Kolkata, India: Using "Cultural Biography" to Understand HIV Risk Perceptions
… data exists about the ways of life, socio-cultural contexts, sexual practices and risk perceptions of these women, and particularly those in non-brothel based or flying sex work in India. In addition, the differential risk of HIV incidence among different types of sex workers based on …
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A cultural biography of an acclaimed Queen of Xhosa music, Madosini Manqineni, and her contributions to Xhosa cultural music
… Manqineni, a prominent individual in African cultural music today, with an established reputation abroad, but who has not yet been given any attention in scholarship. This study was motivated by my great admiration and respect for Madosini, who is recognized as a "specialist musician", a …
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The Hybrid Apostle: A Religious and Cultural Biography of Father Isaac Hecker's Early Life and the Origin of American Catholicism, 1837-1858
… of this study traces the intellectual and cultural movements within Transcendentalism that led Hecker in the direction of joining the Catholic Church. This study demonstrates how he used paradigms, personalities, languages, and literary tropes within Transcendentalism as an account for …
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The Stockbridge-Munsee Tote at the National Museum of the American Indian
This thesis constructs the cultural biography of the National Museum of the American Indian’s Stockbridge-Munsee tote, a twentieth-century souvenir craft, in order to examine the tote’s cultural and cross-cultural associated meanings and how these associated meanings shift from one context to …
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'Flea-ting' Markets: Commodities, Consumption and Value in a Flea Market in Singapore
… 1986) in the social life (Appadurai, 1986) and cultural biography (Kopytoff, 1986) of the things sold at the flea market, and reveals the role they play in influencing consumption practices in such a retail space, amidst the vast landscape of more formal retail spaces in Singapore.
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Essays in the Theory and Practice of the Suzuki Method
… </p> <p>Chapter 2 examines the Suzuki Method's cultural relationship to Japanese and Western educational traditions. Taking a historical look at Suzuki's philosophy and pedagogy, this chapter aims to correct an unbalanced view that circulates in the American music-education and Suzuki …
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Changing Landscapes and Persistent Places : An Exploration of the Bjäre Peninsula
… and Persistent Places is a study of the cultural landscape on the Bjäre peninsula in northwest Skåne. The many Bronze Age remains that give the landscape its distinctive character are the starting point for an attempt to increase our understanding of the historical depth of today’s …
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Neighbours at Puhoi River: A cross-cultural dual biography of Te Hemara Tauhia(1815-1891) and Martin Krippner(1817-1894)
… Focussing on three main objectives, this cross-cultural dual biography provides an original contribution to historical scholarship: Firstly, it looks behind the myths that have been created around Te Hemara Tauhia and Martin Krippner; it thoroughly examines what both men did and how social, …