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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"regionality"”.
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Health in the medieval world: Regionality and the bioarchaeology of Ireland and Britain
This study assesses regional health patterns in early medieval Ireland and Britain by analysing and interpreting palaeopathological indicators of stress. This was achieved by incorporating the results of demographic and palaeopathological study into the specific historical contexts. Although …
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A Regional Approach to Rock Art Interpretation
… (Rossouw 2018). In the eastern Free State, regionality or regionalism has not been applied in the analysis of therianthropes. My research thus focused on aspects, such as the need to establish which antelopes have been incorporated in the therianthropes of this region as well as the …
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Twenty-First Century Working-Class Girls' Imagined Futures: A Child-Centred Socialist Feminist Research Project
… allowing for other vectors of identity, such as regionality to be explored. This explores how working-class girls imagine their futures, whilst understanding how they perceive media as a “norm” shaping agent of socialisation. The child-centred feminist standpoint epistemology focuses on hearing …
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Fantastic hillforts and where to find them: a region-based landscape analysis of the Iron Age in Britain and the methods we use to assess the past
… understand the past – investigating concepts of regionality – and assess the suitability of these approaches in two regions, Cornwall and East Anglia. These two methods are rooted in different theoretical approaches in archaeology – processualism and post-processualism respectively, and as such …
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Algorithmic Hypnosis
… love of sameness; commonality), I observe the regionality of standard critiques of capital and feel out new modes of resistance which do away with the discourse of the “commons” so very prevalent in philosophical critiques of political economy and technology. Turning to thinkers like Wendy H.K. …
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Borders, space, and liminality in Dorothy West's The living is easy and Rudolf Fisher's The walls of Jericho
… intra-racial divisions of class, color, and regionality. Latina writer Gloria Anzaldua has establishes theory addressing the effect of spatial, psychological and cultural borders in Borderlands: La Frontera. Anthropologist Arnold Van Gennep's observations of tribal rites of passages are …
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Muzejní knihovny a regionální literatura na příkladu Muzea Mladoboleslavska a Muzea Českého ráje v Turnově
… It also includes an investigation into how regionality as a concept is understood in relation to the public as a means of creating or strengthening the community's relationship to its region. Methodologically, the research part of the paper relied on a qualitative method in the form of a …
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Multicultural education & perceptions of racial inequity among White Americans: a cohort analysis
… between ME cohort, educational attainment, and regionality. I conduct a thorough evaluation of the age-period-cohort dilemma in relation to racial attitudes and determine a year fixed-effects model the most empirically consistent model with the data. The multivariate analysis confirms that …
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Animals, Identity and Cosmology: Mortuary Practice in Early Medieval Eastern England
… human biological identity (age & gender); regionality; and changing expressions of belief and status in the 7th century. The funerary role of animals is argued to be based around broadly consistent cosmologies which are locally contingent in their expression and practice.
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Bioregions and future state visioning: a visually integrative approach to the presentation of information for environmental policy and management.
… to introduce the arguments of sustainability and regionality on the other. Easter Island is isolated, with almost no external inputs, like the Earth, but on a different scale. However, it is also a part of the Earth. From many sources, there is agreement that the natural environment of the Earth …
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Non-elite mortuary variability in the Early Dynastic Memphis region
… or tertiary local centre (Turah). The smallscale regionality observed at Memphis should serve as a springboard for future research on Early Dynastic Egypt. Finally, the study has highlighted the research potential of statistical analyses to extract vital information from old data, alongside the …
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Country town growth in South-eastern Australia : three regional studies, 1861-1891
… in the towns' rural hinterlands. The concept of regionality is introduced, and differences between the towns in each colony elucidated. In Chapter Five, the general occupational structure of each town - for which the materials are unsatisfactory after 1871 - is first noted, both generally and in …
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Country town growth in South-eastern Australia : three regional studies, 1861-1891
… in the towns' rural hinterlands. The concept of regionality is introduced, and differences between the towns in each colony elucidated. In Chapter Five, the general occupational structure of each town - for which the materials are unsatisfactory after 1871 - is first noted, both generally and in …
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Attitudes Toward Standard and Non-Standard Dialects in Linguistically Stigmatized and Linguistically Prestigious Regions in the United States and Germany
… linguistic attitudes to a greater extent than regionality, i.e., whether they come from a linguistically stigmatized or linguistically prestigious region. This result demonstrates that the unique history of participants' respective countries have a greater influence on their linguistic beliefs …
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Spatial analysis and the late Medieval Tower-Houses of Britain and Ireland
… design across Britain and Ireland, with the regionality of some of the values showing the potential for further research.<br/>
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Industry and Society: A Study of the Home Front in Barrow-in-Furness during the First World War
… met the demands of the war, a focus on the regionality of the home front highlights more precisely the impact on specific places and how the war effort was sustained in practice. The experience of the town of Barrow throughout the period of the First World War is therefore invaluable for …
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Independent Local Radio Drama: A Cultural, Historical And Regulatory Examination Of British Commercial Radio Drama.
… Original plays and comedies embraced their regionality, complementary to radio’s secondary position. This thesis comprises case study analyses, archival research, recollections of former practitioners and theoretical perspectives on radio drama. It addresses the following considerations: an …
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Enclosed Edens, Contested Waters & Failed Utopias: An Ecocritical Reading of Epistemic Land Claims in Okanagan Literature
… 2; 2-3). Building on Frank Davey’s neologism “regionality” (15), this dissertation observes the region as an ideologically diverse space where many voices communicate what Laurence Buell terms “a terrain of consciousness,” through which humans may ponder their relationships with the region and …
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The Expansion of Higher Education for Kenyans, With Special Emphasis on Women, From 1959--1969
… education. It utilizes the categories of regionality, ethnicity, and gender to better understand access and equity. Early historical studies tended to silence and disempower African women because of a focus on what others did for them instead of how women, themselves impacted their …
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An Analysis of the Social and Political Elements Influencing the Emerging Kelp Aquaculture Industry in British Columbia
… context of the blue economy. Understanding the regionality of these elements is critical to translating good intentions into positive actions. This research concludes that, without renewed regulations, integrated spatial management plans, and incentives that allow socio-ecological priorities to …
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