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Showing 1 to 20 of 52 for “"weavers"”.
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Patterns of primary moult in the Weavers, Ploceidae
… I have ringed several thousand Southern Masked Weavers Ploceus velatus and many other species. Les Underhill and Walter Zucchini developed a statistical model to analyse timing and duration of primary moult in a standardized way in 1988. Primary moult was analysed in the southern African …
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CREATING A WEAVING URBANISM FOR THE WEAVERS WHO WEAVE FOR LIVELIHOOD
… holistic traditions and ancient way of life of weavers in the village of Sualkuchi, Assam, India are a forward-thinking model for sustainable urbanism. And will explore strategies to revitalize the traditional weaving heritage of a village (Sualkuchi, Assam, India) by providing a more robust …
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Nishijin Weavers: A Study of the Functions of Tradition in Modern Japanese Society
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T23:54:57Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7405583.pdf: 17612476 bytes, checksum: 05d76252c59d090a97b3550c68369be7 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1973
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The silk weavers of Kanchipuram: a case study of the Indian co-operative movement
… whom these policies have been devised. The silk weavers of Kanchipuram, a city located in Madras State, are the group selected for study. The research is directed toward answering four questions: (1) what is weaving as a way of life; (2) how, or to what extent, does the occupation itself …
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Unconventional story-weavers and their "Ecstatic Truth": An analysis of voice-overs in documentary film
… study. It argues that the unconventional story-weavers in documentaries like those of Marshall and Herzog‘s can inadvertently marginalise their subjects. It looks at Buñuel‘s Land Without Bread as an extreme example of an (intentionally) manipulative narrator. It suggests that a voice-over …
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The Story Weavers: Collective Counter-Story Sharing and Māori women’s experiences with Crown education, healthcare, and criminal justice systems
This thesis asks what Māori women’s stories tell about the ways in which harm is perpetuated through the state-run healthcare, education, and criminal justice systems. By engaging with multiple forms of storytelling ranging from pūrākau to personal narratives this study centres those stories often …
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Mutualism benefits and the evolution of an interspecific sentry call in associations between Sociable Weavers and Fork-tailed Drongos
… socius). While drongos apparently gain and weavers lose from this association, we investigated whether weavers derive foraging and predator protection benefits, and whether drongos increase foraging opportunities through sentry call behaviour. When with drongos, weavers increased their …
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The labour response of handloom weavers in Papua New Guinea : a study of money-leisure choice in a transitional Melanesian economy
… effective work effort supplied by the sampled weavers. The elasticity of the effective labour time supplied to weaving with respect to variations in weaving earning rates (nw ) is calculated from the parameter estimates. The values obtained indicate that the labour response of the …
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The labour response of handloom weavers in Papua New Guinea : a study of money-leisure choice in a transitional Melanesian economy
… effective work effort supplied by the sampled weavers. The elasticity of the effective labour time supplied to weaving with respect to variations in weaving earning rates (nw ) is calculated from the parameter estimates. The values obtained indicate that the labour response of the …
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Sociable weaver nests as a resource to local animal communities
… interactions with the host engineer. Sociable weavers (Philetairus socius) are a colonial passerine endemic to the semi-arid and arid Kalahari in the western parts of southern Africa. This species builds massive colonies that appear to form a focal point for the animal community in this system, …
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“Picb’il”: digital repatriation and textile production as cultural revival in the Alta Verapaz of Guatemala.
… Contemporary groups and communities of Maya weavers often remain unaware that historic textile objects from their culture and communities are being held in museums in the United States, Europe and elsewhere. This PhD research hinges on encounters between contemporary indigenous weavers in the …
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An archaeology of artisan identities and global relationships: Case studies of 19th and early 20th century weavers and carvers from Pohnpei and Kosrae, Micronesia
… on the experiences of Pohnpeian and Kosraean weavers and carvers of 19th and early 20th century. It unites over 500 under-studied textiles, warping benches, dancing paddles and carved panels from over 30 museums. Each museum collection is conceptualised as an archaeological cache, and together …
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The tin chok textile and weaving tradition of Mae Chaem, Thailand
… the culture and tradition of the Mae Chaem hand weavers, one that analyses and contextualises their art and provides a comprehensive digital resource. It examines the critical and analytical context of the tin chok tradition, the economic and social influences which have affected it, and its …
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Weaving Culture and Mathematics: An Evaluation of Mutual Interrogation as a Methodological Process in Ethnomathematical Research
… of food cover (tudung saji) weaving among the weavers of Malaysia. These conical-shaped covers are woven using a specific technique called triaxial or hexagonal weave, where the strands are interlaced in three directions. A three-phase dialogue between several weavers and mathematicians was …
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Dominance, social organisation and cooperation in the sociable weaver (Philetairus socius)
… remains poorly understood (Chapter 1). Sociable weavers Philetairus socius are highly social, cooperative passerines. The species is particularly prone to conflicts because of their year-round coloniality and thus year round sharing of resources. Using extensive field-data on individual …
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Women at the Loom: Handweaving in Washington County, Tennessee, 1840-1860.
… tax materials to determine the identities of the weavers, the equipment and raw materials available to them, and the kinds of textiles that women wove. The author discusses the reasons many women continued to weave cloth at home although commercially woven textiles were available in local …
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Handweavers' enduring product involvement with craft yarns and selected information processing variables
… of craft yarns of most interest to handweavers, sources of information used by handweavers to learn about craft yarns, and methods used by handweavers to communicate information about handwoven textiles to ultimate consumers. In addition, the extent of the sample group of handweavers’ …
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Weaving Subjects at the Obraje de Chincheros: Indigenous Contributions to the Colonial Aesthetic
… the colonial Peruvian aesthetic. Peruvian weavers were seen as superior weavers at the time of the Spanish invasion and obrajes were established to salvage this skill while they were simultaneously subjected to colonial control strategies. At the Obraje, rural indigenous and mestizo textile …
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