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Showing 1 to 20 of 78 for “"material objects"”.
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Material Objects, Meaning and Workplace Identity
This thesis explores the impact of material objects on people’s identity at work. I address the significance of this question, arguing that materiality, particularly the place it holds in the lives of individuals, has been less considered in relation to people at work than in other disciplines such …
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The Use of Material Objects as a Secure Base
… research presents the first evidence that material objects can serve as a secure base, increasing felt security and the willingness to explore. Priming a valued object prevented a loss of exploration intentions following threat (Study 1). Consistent with prior research, objects effectively …
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Calling All Cast Members: Elevating Material Objects and Ambient Environments to Non-Human Rhetorical Actors in Arden of Faversham
Material rhetoric and ambient rhetoric frameworks offer a unique lens to view the materiality in early modern drama. Using these principles, as well as Actor-Network Theory and Affect Theory, objects and environments can be elevated to non-human actors in a play’s rhetorical situation. Arden of …
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You Didn’t Have To Be There: Evidence of Humour in the Creation and Use of Material Objects From the Near East, Eastern Europe and Mediterranean, From the Neolithic to the Middle Bronze Age
… found in ancient examples of ritual and/or art objects, a thought process facilitated by humour and perhaps even motivated by it. Therefore in this dissertation I seek to identify ancient examples of humour which I will explain and interpret using such theories as 'Benign Violation’ by McGraw & …
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The unity of action: reviving a neo-Aristotelian case for hylomorphism
… of human action using Aristotle’s theory of material constitution. According to these neo-Aristotelian accounts, material objects serve as the paradigm cases for analysing the concept of action. As composites of matter and form, material objects—and, in particular, biological …
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Archaeological collections as a prime research asset: objects and Great Zimbabwe's past
… of Great Zimbabwe through the analyses of material objects housed in museums. Great Zimbabwe comprises walled stone enclosures and non-walled settlements covering approximately 720ha. A number of data acquisition techniques, such as desktop survey, analyses of museum collections, …
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The Materiality of Memory: Everyday Objects in Post-Socialist Literatures and Cultures
This dissertation argues that material objects—narrated and exhibited—play a crucial role in acts that question and maintain historical divisions. This project showcases numerous adaptations and obfuscations of material objects for coming to terms with divisions, ruptures, and changes after 1989 in …
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Consciousness and intentionality
… can be--and usually are--directly aware of material objects.
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Transforming structured descriptions to visual representations. An automated visualization of historical bookbinding structures
… transform automatically verbal descriptions of material objects, with a focus on bookbinding structures, into standardized and scholarly-sound visual representations. In the last few decades, the recording and management of documentation data about material objects, including bookbindings, has …
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The Significance of 'Traditional' Clothing To Children of Ghanaian Immigrants in Germany
… well is the relevance of culture, especially material artifacts such as clothing relating to their parents' places of origin in their everyday lives. Migrants carry with them various material objects including clothing from their places of origin to their places of destination for varied …
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Walkabout: 2009 - 2011
… however it involves no walking and there are no material objects in the gallery to which the discussion directs. Rather, the artwork to which Walkabout refers occupies an essentially mental space of ideas and thought - immaterial and constantly in flux.
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A Collaboration Between Imagination and Reality
… man developed symbolism which he applied to material objects and objects that make up his environment. As man developed his ability to control his surroundings through construction, symbolism entered his architecture. Through the application of anthropological relationships with the …
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Contemporary Kitsch: An examination through creative practice
… in the kitsch experiences, possessions and material objects people covet and collect, offer a way of the individual moving from disembeddedness to a state of being re-embedded; and locates the ways in which the artist can facilitate the re-embedding experience. Through this lens it is …
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Chicana Sartoriality: Self-Fashioning Towards Decolonial Futures
… of Chicana identity-formation. By analyzing material objects in written and visual texts, this project uncovers a lengthy history of sartorial, affective practices as Chicanas deploy fashion and fashion accessories to strategically counter and/or comply with multiple colonialities. I use the …
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The Spirit of Stuff: What I Learned When I Sold (Almost) Everything
… spiritual connection that people have with their material objects. The report is comprised of a project proposal and a post-production report. The proposal discusses the theoretical underpinnings of the project, and offers a plan for the film's production. The post-production report discusses my …
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Pottery is king: bevel rim bowls and power in early urban societies of the ancient Near East
<p>This thesis is about how material objects, specifically ceramics, are used to create and perpetuate political power of the ruling class. My research will demonstrate how bevel rim bowls were a form of structural violence in the Uruk/Protoliterate period Mesopotamia by forcing the people to …
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The Talking of Objects: Migratory Experiences and Subjectivities of British Chinese Women in Contemporary Britain
… women, this study adopted visual ethnography and material culture as a strategy to bring forward their personal, intimate and creative voices. Through the approaches found in visual ethnography and material culture, the women were given a context where they are at the forefront of expressing their …
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Exploring the impact of (im)materiality on the literacy and meaning-making practices of first year students at a South African distance education institution: implications for support
… use these technologies. The affordances of the objects that distance education students utilise as they engage in key literacy practices, as well as the spaces within which these practices take place, has not been given much empirical attention as a constituent aspect of distance education. The …
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K E E P E R : online conversation support scaffolding modeled after ancient and modern social technologies
… sense meaning techniques, processes, and material objects to produce goods, provide services, and connect people) to help groups reach those moments more easily, technologies I define as ancient social technologies (ASTs). Some ASTs, such as narrative coaching, circle practice, and …
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The immanent life of things : embodiment, materiality, and agency in Virginia Woolf’s “A sketch of the past,” and To the lighthouse
This report explores the agency of material entities in Virginia Woolf's autobiographically-influenced works, "A Sketch of the Past," and To the Lighthouse. It argues that Woolf's stream-of-consciousness aesthetics underscores the agency that material objects hold in, and via, human actions, …
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