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Showing 1 to 20 of 58 for “"cultural boundaries"”.
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Boxing the Boundaries: Prize Fighting, Masculinities, and Shifting Social and Cultural Boundaries in the United State, 1882-1913
… My dissertation understands prize fighting as a cultural text, structured in conjunction with social relations and power struggles. In so doing, the dissertation details how agents used a sport to construct, reinforce, blur, multiply, and shift social and cultural boundaries for the construction …
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Extending the physical and cultural boundaries of affordable housing : a reconfiguration of the Franklin Field Public Housing Development
… in the life of the development, extending the boundaries of the residents' environment and, hopefully, bringing the larger neighborhood within the environs of the development.
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The role of ecological barriers in the development of cultural boundaries during the later Holocene of the central Alaska peninsula
… eruptions to effect widespread ecological and cultural change. It focuses on the proximal and distal effects of the Aniakchak volcanic eruption that took place approximately 3400 rcy BP on the central Alaskan Peninsula. The research is based on archaeological and ecological data from the Alaska …
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Catlow Twine Basketry through Time and Space: Exploring Shifting Cultural Boundaries through Prehistoric and Ethnographic Basketry Technology in the Northwestern Great Basin
In this dissertation, I focus on Catlow Twine basketry and address several questions about connections between prehistoric and ethnographic groups in the Great Basin and how and when prehistoric populations moved across the landscape. My results suggest that: (1) diagnostic basketry types in the …
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Negotiating With Imperialism: Japan and the Unequal Treaty Regime, 1858--1872
… of the treaty ports, where seemingly concrete cultural boundaries were transgressed, leading to new understandings and deeper interaction between Japanese and Westerners. Chapter 4 turns to the years 1862--67, and traces the bakufu's defense of this balance of interests even in the face of the …
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Networks and Cultural Bridges: A Case Study with the Tarahumara of Northern Mexico
<p>Network and cultural bridge theories predict the source and durability of cultural boundaries, including how cultural boundaries are overcome in order for differing groups to have meaningful exchanges. Ethnographic interview data with three research subjects in Northern Mexico reveals the …
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The boundary between "us" and "them": readers and the non-English word in the fiction of Canadian Mennonite writers
… the novels of Canadian Mennonites perpetuates a cultural binary, and concludes that it does not. The use of the non-English word, rather than enforcing a binary between "us and them", ultimately reveals that cultural boundaries are permeable and unstable. Recent reader-response theory, which sees …
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Changing media, changing cultural values - Chinese young adults' micro-blog usage and cultural values
… young adults' usage of micro-blog and their cultural values. Data was collected from a group-administered survey, which was constituted by 484 students aged from 17 to 30 in variety majors in five colleges in Beijing. Results answered two research questions, indicating that there is a strong …
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J-Horror : A discourse in cross-cultural communication and cinematic hybridity
… a genre's recognizable iconography can transcend boundaries, understanding a film's intended message still requires a certain amount of foreknowledge. J-Horror, the common term for Japanese horror among fans, is a sub- genre of Horror that has been catapulted into Hollywood's limelight due to …
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Programs and precedents : future prospects of housing theory and practice in Lebanon
… that models cannot be replicated across cultural boundaries, piecemeal lessons can be learnt, and ideas can be appropriated, in the context of local norms, procedures, physical constraints, and broader urbanization issues.
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Over the River and Through the Woods: Examining the Relationship between Network Structure, Collaboration and Geography
… creates interorganizational political and cultural boundaries. Third, many food security organizations view geography as a barrier to collaboration in terms of its relationship between the organization and its clients. Organizations that saw value in collaboration between organizations …
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U.S. AND INDIAN MANAGERIAL BOUNDARY SPANNING BEHAVIORS IN GLOBALLY DISTRIBUTED SOFTWARE TEAMS
This paper explores the construct of Boundaries and Boundary Spanning in software development teams that consist of members located in both the U.S. and in India. Drawing on literature pertaining to boundaries in business, global boundaries, cultural boundaries, virtual team boundaries, and …
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The Impact of Computers , The Internet and the World-Wide Web on Human Communication
… borders and beyond traditional linguistic and cultural boundaries is redefining contemporary culture, and is the most recent outgrowth of society's continuing evolution.</p>
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Architecture as Connector to Nature
… of the natural world cross geographical and cultural boundaries? Perhaps, architecture can connect us to our environments by revealing the universal passing of time through natural daylighting by way of structure, materiality, and texture. As the primary instrument, daylighting will be used …
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The specter of Salem in American culture
… examines this persistent interest by tracing the cultural memory of Salem witchcraft in the nineteenth century.</p><p>This thesis argues that by examining the use of Salem witchcraft as a metaphor, we can see the cultural work of history in nation building. By its invocation within a variety of …
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Social exclusion and cultural dissonance as salient risk factors in the engagement and retention of Gypsy traveller students in secondary education
… from the dominant population by defending cultural boundaries have also featured prominently in the literature and in professional discourses. The thesis is grounded in a social constructionist approach, which critically analyses psychosociocultural forces and their impact on relationships …
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American family entertainment and the only child generation in contemporary urban China
… two objects emerged within their own social and cultural boundaries, the thesis will first tackle how the connection between the audience and the media was established. Then, the only child generation will be approached as a social creation. Findings on their social sophistications that are able …
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The Complex Journey of Biracial (Korean plus Other Racial/Ethnic Backgrounds) Youth in the Southwest
… identity when they encounter linguistic and cultural boundaries at the societal and personal level. Findings will inform educators and parents about the complex factors that influence biracial adolescents' and emerging adult's identity formation. I do hope that the data and subsequent …
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Underlying ideologies of language medium policies in multilingual societies with particular reference to Southern Africa
… bear little relation to linguistic or cultural boundaries. Furthermore, the colonial period has left behind it a legacy of the colonial languages. As these states gained independence, the new political hierarchy has defined its language policy in accordance with its political ideology. …
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