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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"indigenous practices"”.
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Re-Membering Our Nations: Indigenous Custom Adoption and Determining Belonging Beyond the Indian Act
This is a study and analysis of Indigenous membership and belonging. Specifically, this thesis takes up the historical and contemporary harms of colonialism and the Indian Act (1876) have had on First Nations band membership codes and Indigenous practices of determining belonging. The central task …
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Exploring indigenous knowledge practices concerning health and well-being: a case study of isiXhosa-speaking women in the rural Eastern Cape
… thesis explores, analyzes and conceptualizes the indigenous knowledge practices concerning health and well-being held by different generations of women and how they are reproduced cross-generationally in a rural isiXhosa-speaking community. It also explores how the relationship between concepts of …
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Two Waters: Warburdar & Wai
… the cultural significance of water for Indigenous peoples. Using an Indigenous storytelling approach, this creative research blends film, story, projection, sound and design to create a new immersive sensory experience that raises consciousness of the sacred nature of water and our …
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African religion and religion education
… religion, the state has suppressed African indigenous religion at every level of society, but especially in the schools. The thesis examines the indigenous beliefs and practices of the black people in South Africa which were suppressed by Western culture and Christianity. It reveals all the …
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Wrapped in Meaning: Chumash Cache Caves
… California, have yielded a unique collection of indigenous artefacts. The xeric environmental conditions in these caves have resulted in exceptional preservation of perishable materials; and the assemblage contains items such as wooden bullroarers, feather bands, deer bone whistles, basketry and …
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The Changing Value of Food: Localizing Modernity among the Tsimané Indians of Lowland Bolivia
… contemporary relationships between livelihood practices and food among the Tsimané Indians of the Bolivian Amazon. Because of the multitudinous properties of food, I use it as both a tool and a metaphor to focus my discussion on how a history of development in the region coalesces into new …
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Safeguarding Indigenous Heritage in the Anthropocene: A Transnational Comparative Study of the Northwest Territories, Canada, and Northern Chile
… of a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene. Indigenous peoples are disproportionately affected by natural and human-induced changes to the environment. Their vulnerability is exacerbated by centuries of cultural and territorial disenfranchisement within settler-colonial nations. This …
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Cultural-historical investigations into the dialectics of skills development implementation and occupational identity in the informal construction Small and Micro Enterprise workplace
… through, labour relations and skills development practices, via the daily struggles of the workplace participants. Ethnographic data are collected from the small and micro enterprise (SME) contractors and their workers; the work-seekers, who daily line the roadside identifying their skills via …
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Tabi. Tabbi. Tabique. Tabby.
… Americans years prior, holding a record of indigenous practices and colonial erasure. The introduction of Portland cement and the end of slavery completely changed the prevalence of tabby which relied on free labor to produce the time intensive process of burning and collecting oyster …
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An investigation of the acquisition, transfer and preservation of indigenous knowledge by traditional healers in Chibombo district of Zambia.
Indigenous Knowledge on healing is in danger of diminishing because of modern medical facilities and yet there are inadequate efforts from national and organizational institutions to capture this knowledge. Therefore, this study aimed at investigating the acquisition, transfer and preservation of …
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An investigation of the acquisition, transfer and preservation of indigenous knowledge by traditional healers in Chibombo district of Zambia.
Indigenous Knowledge on healing is in danger of diminishing because of modern medical facilities and yet there are inadequate efforts from national and organizational institutions to capture this knowledge. Therefore, this study aimed at investigating the acquisition, transfer and preservation of …
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Fofola e Kakala: Weaving a Culturally Resonant Tongan Leadership Framework
… leadership frameworks that authentically embed indigenous Tongan values. Rather than applying Western-centric leadership models, the study seeks to bridge the tension between Western military structures and Tongan cultural protocols, examining how Tongan organisations can develop effective …
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Culture of flooding: Significance of landscape adaptation techniques of Majuli Island’s indigenous tribe in the context of a dynamic river ecosystem
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-03-28 without embargo terms
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Cultural Beliefs and Practices Influencing the Health Seeking Behaviour of Women During Pregnancy in Ota, Southwest Nigeria
… provides little information about beliefs and practices in relation to other factors within the human environment. Yet these factors are considered an essential part of ANC that cannot be ignored due to their impact on pregnancy outcomes. While healthcare stakeholders in different countries …
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The Institutional Contingencies of Business Innovation In Low-Income Markets: The Global Growth and Commercialization of Microfinance, 1998-2008
… research that studies the transfer of business practices usually examines the flow of practices from advanced to less-developed countries. In contrast, my model looks at the transfer of indigenous practices created within less-developed countries themselves, a topic rarely examined in the …
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Los Delivreros: Labor, Platforms, and Transnational Flows of lnformation in Latin American Gig Workers
… about how delivery workers are adapting older indigenous practices to a context of urban cities and technology. I argue that migration moves ideas, memories, knowledge, stories, and forms of organization. I finish by thinking about migration as a medium and the way the social forms of …
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Cultural and traditional practices and the implementation of the right of the child to be heard under Article 12 of the UNCRC
… the influence of culture, values and practices in children's rights discourse, the thesis considers the implementation approach of Article 12(1) of the UNCRC in the domestic children's rights legislations of specific State Parties such as Nigeria, South Africa and Australia. In these …