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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"cultural performance"”.
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“Face” as Cultural Performance in Chinese: Cases of Requesting and Declining
… member of a society seems to care about, is a cultural performance. Performance refers to situated behaviors that define an individual’s successful functioning in a society. Face can be as explicit as defending yourself in a debate or as implicit as denying a request from a friend. This …
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Folklórico Testimonios: Identity, Community, and Agency as Social Justice Cultural Performance for Dancers of Mexican Folklórico
… are analyzed through Yosso’s (2005) community cultural wealth and a hybrid of key literature about the performance of cultural memory and imagination. I refer to this framework as social justice cultural performance (Haiven and Khasnabish, 2014; Rich, 2006; Taylor, 2011).</p> <p>The testimonios …
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Saudi Women's Self-Identity or Self- Awakening constructing between conservatism and modernization - social and cultural performance in Saudi Arabia
… by emphasizing the influence of social and cultural performance on the steps and process of formation of female identity in Saudi Arabia, analyzing the historical, cultural, and social contexts of Saudi women from the 20th to the 21st century across various literary domains, including …
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The Price Tag of a 5-Star Culture: Cultural Performance and the Politics of Luxury in Oʻahu’s Hotel Industry
<p>This thesis examines the intersection of cultural tourism and luxury branding with settler colonial dynamics in Oʻahu’s high-end hospitality industry. Focusing on Disney’s Aulani Resort, the Royal Hawaiian Hotel, the Sheraton Princess Kaiulani, and the Moana Surf Rider, the study investigates …
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Kinship with country : acts of translation in the cross-cultural performance space : a case study on the Aṉangu Pitjantjatjara Lands of Central Australia
… Western and Indigenous perceptions and values of cultural and natural resource management (CNRM) in the practice of tourism on Anangu Pitjantjatjara (AP) Lands of Central Australia. The central question for the thesis is whether Indigenous knowledge of the complex interrelationships of kinship …
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Kinship with country : acts of translation in the cross-cultural performance space : a case study on the Aṉangu Pitjantjatjara Lands of Central Australia
… Western and Indigenous perceptions and values of cultural and natural resource management (CNRM) in the practice of tourism on Anangu Pitjantjatjara (AP) Lands of Central Australia. The central question for the thesis is whether Indigenous knowledge of the complex interrelationships of kinship …
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Between horses: An ethnographic study of communication and organizational culture at a harness racetrack
… the notion of ""organizational communication as cultural performance"" (Pacanowsky & O'Donnell-Trujillo, 1983) by pursuing questions such as What types of communicative performances occur in organizations? How do different contexts affect communicative performances? and How might organizational …
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Towards an anthropology of childhood sickness : an ethnographic study of Danish schoolchildren
… in particular the notion of sickness as cultural performance. The study focuses on children as individual and collective actors in interaction with other children and with adults during everyday illness and minor accidents. The cultural performance approach allows illness to become a lens …
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Froggy People: Anthropomorphism and Slice-of-Life in Autobiographical Comics
… Slice-of-life comics are indicative of cultural performance. And, autobiographical comics communicate a sense of trust between the reader and author about what is true. I examine these attributes by analyzing the work of comic artists who play in between these genres, with the help of …
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Women's Textile Graffiti: An Aesthetic Staging of Public/Private Dichotomies
<p>The cultural performance of textile graffiti, or yarnbombing, dramatizes women’s contested relationship to the public/privates dichotomies that constitute neoliberal capitalism as well as liberal democracies. Across both of these institutions, privatized matters are problematically excluded from …
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‘What’s the news? Nothing but bonfires’: the Eleventh Night bonfire: tradition and change
… of July bonfires are examined as a ritualized cultural performance in the context of its nominal historical narrative and against the backdrop of Northern Ireland’s tumultuous history and within its current policy landscape.<br/><br/>Utilizing various social science research methods, both …
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Echoes of Africa: Cosmological Continuities in Contemporary Bahamian Junkanoo
Junkanoo is recognised as the national cultural festival of The Bahamas and is commonly understood as a celebration imported from Africa. While its African origins and historical ritual foundations are well established, scholarly debate persists over whether contemporary Junkanoo is as secular …
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Broken contract : the autobiographical performance or producing 'self' in the act of writing a life
… 'The Autobiographical Contract', this study uses performance-based research to instigate a number of theoretical propositions which aim to test the boundaries of what is understood as autobiography. While the area under investigation is tightly focussed on the margins of autobiographical …
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Tradwives: The Housewifization of the Girl Boss
… thesis examines the reemergence of a particular performance of domesticity in the post-pandemic era, focusing on the rise of the "tradwife" (traditional wife) movement alongside the normalization and spread of Alt-Right ideology through popular social media platforms. It argues that the tradwife …
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The performance of control and the control of performance: Towards a social anthropology of defecation
… as personal and biological rather than social or cultural. The few references that exist enable one to argue that it always has significance as a repetitive daily activity needing careful social management and which is crucial to the definition of personhood. Its praxis reveals much about social …
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Socioeconomic Status and Youth Participation in Extracurricular Arts Activities
… of, investment in, and mobilization of certain cultural resources are significant predictors of children's advantageous social development in both institutional settings and interpersonal relationships. Several theories and empirical analyses illustrate the importance of children's leisure-time …
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Performative Riffing: Theory, Praxis, and Politics in Movie Riffing and Embodied Audiencing Rituals
… text-reading practices, and the roles mediated cultural texts play in the lives of readers have long been at the center of enduring debates among Critical, Cultural, Performance, and Rhetorical Studies scholars. One salient ongoing dialogue among scholars and critics questions the degree to …
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Working Whiteness: Performing And Transgressing Cultural Identity Through Work
… this dissertation. I argue that whiteness is a culturally constructed identity and that work serves as a performative space for defining and transgressing whiteness. To this end, I examine work and its influence on the performance of middle class and working class whiteness, as well as how those …
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A Museum of Bottled Sentiments: the ‘beautiful pain syndrome’ in twenty-first century Black South African theatre making
… the 'beautiful pain syndrome', and through performances of uncomfortable attachments and rites of passage, generates and dwells in the syndrome. Uncomfortable attachments are unsettlement and anxiety wrought by the difficulty of the 'now moment'. These manifest in the work of Black South …
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Not a Joke: Women's Work and Feminist Laughter in Stand-Up Comedy
… it generates, is a potent form of popular cultural performance that has become increasingly politically relevant and commercially successful in contemporary North America. In this thesis, I take an interdisciplinary, mixed-method approach to studying the cultural and political work done by …
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