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Showing 1 to 20 of 89 for “"ethnographic interviews"”.
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Class and Gender in the Phillippines: Ethnographic Interviews with Female Employer-Female Domestic Dyads
<p>This study is an ethnographic analysis of the relationship between female employers and female domestics in the Philippines focusing on how it maintains and reproduces the intersecting class and gender relations of power that brought the two women together. It also explores relationality - how …
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Crops or Crafts? Changes in Land Use in the Imbabura Valley of Ecuador
… techniques were employed: repeat photography, ethnographic interviews, and archival research. Repeat photography involves re-photographing historic photographs from the original site. A combination of 35 historic photographs taken in the 1950s were re-photographed during the summer of 2015. The …
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Making meaning out of high tech: A critical ethnographic retelling of personal stories about the information age
… or ""high-tech society."" Based primarily on ethnographic interviews, the research attempts to elicit and to analyze narrative expressions of how people may connect these purportedly global phenomena with their own life stories, or personal biographies."
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Toward the Development of Roman Catholic Teaching About Contraception in Light of the Experience of South Korean Catholic Women
… to lay the context for my interpretations of my ethnographic interviews with ten participants, in Chapter Three I explore South Korean sexual culture and heterosexual, married South Korean Catholic lay people's sexuality in particular. In Chapter Four I present ten personal stories from South …
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An ethnographic analysis of the mental frameworks of elementary principals: Mexican-American and Anglo perspectives
… basis of majority or minority group membership. Ethnographic interviews were conducted with five male informants from each of two ethnic groups (Mexican-American and Anglo) concerning their views of the following: typical duties, role relationships, problems, decision-making, changes, and …
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5-star (by local norms) : group dynamics in a luxury Sub-Saharan resort
… resort. It is based on 22 loosely structured ethnographic interviews, field notes, a series of artifacts and pictures, all collected during a 10-day field trip to the given location. After describing the various workplace activities at the resort, the study focuses on interactions between …
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Understanding Death in Cultural Context: A Study of Mexican Children and Their Families
… participant observation in the local scene, ethnographic interviews with parents and children, and standard cognitive development protocols for assessing children's understanding of death.
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Addressing Food Insecurity and Developing Social Resources Through Community Garden Projects In Low-Income Areas: Qualitative Interviews with Outreach Coordinators From Three Urban Agriculture Organizations
… This latter discussion will be based on ethnographic interviews done with urban agriculture organization outreach coordinators who work with low-income communities.
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Addressing Food Insecurity and Developing Social Resources Through Community Garden Projects In Low-Income Areas: Qualitative Interviews with Outreach Coordinators From Three Urban Agriculture Organizations
… This latter discussion will be based on ethnographic interviews done with urban agriculture organization outreach coordinators who work with low-income communities.
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In the realm of the Kob Kings : rethinking knowledges and dialogue in a small-scale fishery
Emerging from seven months of ethnographic fieldwork and participant observation conducted in the small-scale commercial handline fishery of Stilbaai, this dissertation examines and rethinks knowledges in a bid to open dialogue between experts (academic researchers, fisheries managers and fishers). …
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Gender and Citizenship in the Constitution of Nepal, 2015
… close reading of the citizenship provision and ethnographic interviews of those Nepalese who are directly affected by the provision. Results are drawn through rhetorical and textual analysis of the collected data. The results show that the current citizenship provision disempowers women of Nepal …
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Merchant Marine Deck Officer Agency Through Performative Acts
I bring together ethnographic interviews with deck officers, studies in actor-network theory, explicit and tacit knowledge theory, and performativity theory in this work. I prove that bridge technologies produce what are called mimeomorphic (repeatable with some variation) actions that contain no …
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The Caribana Parade: Storming and Issues of Power and Control
… in and outside the parade. The study draws on ethnographic interviews with stormers and female masqueraders, in addition to participant observation, informal conversations and archival research to complete this analysis. Through the lens of Carnival and Performance Theory, it interrogates …
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Contextually driven messages about gender : an ethnographic study on messages concerning traditional gender behaviors within work, education, romantic relationships, friendships, and exercise
… U.S. society. Research consisted of twelve ethnographic interviews with students between the ages of nineteen and twenty-seven from the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California. Society is ever changing and individuals learn rules and either comply, resist or try to change …
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Casa Samba: Twenty-One Years of Amerizilian Identity in New Orleans1
… Orleans music scene. This work seeks, through ethnographic interviews with long term members, to identify what makes Casa Samba attractive to New Orleanians who choose to join this musical troupe as opposed to the myriad of other musical organizations available. Finally, this thesis looks at …
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Beyond the paint and ink: ASAR Oaxaca resistance and getting up Arte Pal Pueblo
… frame alternative realities within art and interviews about their art. Asamblea de Artistas Revolucionarios de Oaxaca or ASARO, is a revolutionary artist collective that currently works in Oaxaca Mexico. They place their art in publically accessible areas and comment on local, national and …
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Community journalism as ritual: A case study of community and weekly newspapers in Laurel, Maryland
… in central Maryland. The case study utilizes ethnographic interviews with 40 stakeholders, including journalists, advertisers, city officials and readers. Using James W. Carey's theory of ritual communication as its theoretical foundation, the study examines the role of Laurel's two weekly …
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Characteristics of four highly-regarded literacy teachers in rural and urban elementary schools
… (1980) Developmental Research Sequence and ethnographic interviews of four classroom teachers within rural and urban schools are the primary methods utilized throughout this inquiry. The participants are selected based on their school-wide reputation for being highly regarded literacy …
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Haitian Linguistic and Cultural Practices: Critical Meaning-Making Spaces for Haitian Learners
… Moreover, a series of focus groups and ethnographic interviews were conducted with Haitian adolescents and Haitian parents with school age children living in New York. These interviews revealed that Haitians deeply value their cultural knowledge, and view them as resources for knowledge …
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A contrastive analysis of individual ESL writing conferences: theory, practice, and perceptions
… conferences, their goals and desired outcomes, ethnographic interviews were conducted. This study provides an account of their self-reported understanding of these individual and group ESL writing conferences. This project compares the data examined according to conversation analysis methodology …
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