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Showing 1 to 20 of 135 for “"possessions"”.
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Design for Relationship Break Ups: Curation of Digital Possessions
… typically have a substantial number of digital possessions associated with that relationship. With online dating services becoming a more mainstream way of meeting a potential partner, sometimes individuals begin creating digital possessions connected to their relationship before even meeting in …
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Persons, Houses, and Material Possessions: Second Spanish Period St. Augustine Society
… and allowing them to utilize their material possessions to display and reinforce their status. Likewise, their choice of residential design and location allowed them to make statements in regards to their place in the social order. St. Augustine was a unique city in the Spanish Empire; the …
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Carefully hidden away: excavating the archive of the Mapungubwe dead and their possessions
Ever since Jerry Van Graan first stumbled upon golden artefacts in 1933, Mapungubwe - an Iron Age civilisation that existed in the confluence of the Shashe and Limpopo rivers between 900 and 1300 AD - has been the subject of contestation. Initially knowledge production about Mapungubwe was informed …
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The Everyday Life Experiences of Three to Six-Year-Old Children with Comforting Possessions
… was to explore the phenomenon of comforting possessions in order to develop descriptive theory based on the perceptions, beliefs, values, symbolic meanings, and feelings of young children regarding comforting possessions. Using ethnographic methods, children with comforting possessions were …
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Poverty, possessions and proper living : constructing and contesting propriety in Soweto and Lusaka City
… material culture theory points out how material possessions are woven into the fabric of lives, shaping social relations and texturing people's meanings and interpretation of their world. This study embarks on exploring aspects of this objected fabric, in the context of urban working black South …
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Exploring and Conceptualising the Interrelationships between Self and Possessions, through Hong Kong Chinese Consumers' Narratives.
… of the self and consumer research about possessions and the extended self, this study investigates and conceptualises each informant's pattern of self-configuration in terms of the personal, relational and collective dimensions of the self, and examines each informant's self-possession …
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The consumer and consumption in South Westmorland, circa 1700 to 1750: a Yeoman family's possessions and acquisitions
… century consumer in south Westmorland, and his possessions and acquisitions. It is based on a family case study of the Brownes, a yeoman family of Troutbeck, a scattered township situated in south Westmorland. Benjamin Browne (1664-1748) is central, because he amassed a wealth of documentation …
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Exploring the Effect of Digital Brand Engagement in Self-Concept (BESC) on the Continued Usage of Branded Digital Possessions
… self. Yet, self-extension through digital possessions is significantly under-researched. This research focused specifically on consumer brand engagement with branded Smartphone Applications to study the effect of users’ self-concept on the continued usage of digital possessions. The …
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Motivation for the Sharing of Material Possessions in Acts, Philo's De Vita Contemplativa and the Didache: A Comparative Study
… in the book of Acts, depicts the sharing of possessions as a practice in the Jerusalem community of the first century. Several pericopes, occurring primarily in the first part of the book of Acts, embody the idea of shared property and seem to have important parallels to other sources of the …
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Conceptualizing Hoarding Behavior Among Elderly Women: A Mixed-Methods Approach
… of objects, and a reluctance to discard possessions—as a sociocultural phenomenon. The mixed methods methodology entailed a quantitative study involving a survey completed by 134 adult protective services workers throughout Virginia and a qualitative study of five randomly-selected adult …
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Our Hiding Places
… interact and utilize our every day valuable possessions. These would consist of personal items such as our keys, wallets and purses, As well as how well we are able to hide them from strangers, insofar as to where we personally choose to place them. It's interesting how many of us can be …
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The attacking process in football: a taxonomy for classifying how teams create goal scoring opportunities
… Hughes and Frank, 2005) or duration of team possessions (Jones et al., 2004; Bloomfield et al., 2005; Lago and Martin, 2007; Lago, 2009) to determine playing styles of team. Although these methods identified different team playing styles, based on overall match statistics, the authors have …
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The cost of new ideas
… serve as upward counterfactuals to experiences, possessions, or organizations, which then make those experiences, possessions, or organizations seem worse by comparison. I conclude by discussing the theoretical and practical implications of these findings for future research on the consequences …
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The management of malaria and leprosy in Hong Kong and the International Settlement of Shanghai, 1880s-1940s
… geo-political contexts. By focusing on British possessions in coastal China, this project explores the production of colonial medical knowledge within a transnational context, presents new and original analyses of the local history of the disease, and bridges the historiography of the British …
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Make it Mine, Technology's affordance for self-expression
… primarily by each individual's need for personal possessions to reflect one's self. Aesthetics and performance are a given in today's narcissistic lifestyle. The proliferation of personalized electronic devices among Generation Y has pushed e-media to where product value has been supplanted by …
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New methodological approaches to better understanding the attacking process during open play moments in football
Attacking team possessions in football has been classified in terms of the number of passes, duration or using descriptive labels such as build up and direct play. However, little consideration has been given to the fact that teams probably utilise all possession types at various times and can be a …
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The Role of Amache Family Objects in the Japanese American Internment Experience: Examined Through Object Biography and Object Agency
… meaning of Japanese American families' personal possessions associated with internment through the concepts of object biography and object agency. It uses material culture analysis to help anthropologists understand the Japanese American internment experience, specifically through a case study at …
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