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Watson, Tania Maree. "A Study of the Relationship between Trust, Authority and Leadership within the Cultural Context of Churches of Christ in Western Australia." Thesis, Nyack College, Alliance Theological Seminary, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10982380.
Full textThis researcher considers that confusion observed amongst church leadership teams within Churches of Christ in Western Australia (COCWA) may be explained, in part, as a reflection of an Australian cultural phenomenon: “The Australian Authority Paradox” as described by social researchers, Aigner and Skelton. The effects of this paradox appear to limit the effectiveness of leadership exercised in the Australian context.
The researcher conducted a study of church leaders, sourced within two clusters of COCWA Churches between February and August 2017. The researcher found attitude indicators consistent with the proposition of an authority paradox.
A key outcome of the project, is the presentation of a theoretical model (TALC). The model offers a way of understanding how the dynamic relationship between trust and authority may have an influence on the way that leadership functions in the Australian cultural context.
Whilst it is hoped that the findings of this study may have immediate and important applications for COCWA, this researcher believes that this project provides some important insights that have the potential to be quite useful in other organizational contexts in Australia.
Ho, Dan. "Fa'nague| A Chamorro Epistemology of Post-Life Communication." Thesis, University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10785651.
Full textThe primary aim of this dissertation is to analyze a spiritual aspect of Chamorro cosmology known as fa’ñague, or visitations from the deceased, to shed light on how and why it exists in Guam, and how it differs among Chamorro Natives who experience it in the island and abroad. A secondary aim of the dissertation is to expand upon the scholarly documentation of Native Chamorro epistemologies concerning life and death, and the role of the spiritual realm in daily life of the people of the Marianas.
The dissertation is structured as follows: Part I offers an in-depth exploration and personification of Guam, the place, the culture, and the people in order to balance longstanding and erroneous conceptions about the Island. Part II includes the rationale for the research, a methodological framework, and a literature review. In addition, a full chapter on Chamorro epistemology is included to reinforce the elements of the Native worldview and way of knowing to provide context for the research findings. In Part III — the fruits of data gathering and analysis — are offered using both quantitative and qualitative methods.
Finally, this dissertation hopes to argue and position a new model of Indigenous research methodology, which I am calling Neo-Indigenous Methodology. Essentially, it is an evolution from the de-colonizing approach borne by founding Indigenous scholars who sought to break from Western scholarly dialect to express and inform Native wisdom. Instead, Neo-Indigenous Methodology proposes that Indigenous scholars embrace the dialect of all Western humanistic discourse to further clarify and magnify pure Indigenous knowledge.
Kaise, Unia. "Towards a Biblical Theology of Gutpela Sindaun in the Kamea Context." Thesis, Fuller Theological Seminary, School of Intercultural Studies, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10814660.
Full textIn this dissertation I matched gutpela sindaun, the ‘highest value’ in Melanesia, represented by the cognitive schema of Kamea people through their brand, with the Biblical schema of shalom. The purpose of my dissertation was to show how a Kamea understanding of gutpela sindaun enables them to appreciate Biblical shalom.
I used cognitive studies as it pertains to valuing a perspective of human wellbeing which is all about gutpela sindaun. I did a literature search to understand the schema of gutpela sindaun from a Melanesian perspective. This relates to a scriptural presentation of shalom using the analogy of a tree, which I call Shalom Tree. Understanding ‘human wellbeing’ from the Melanesian world and the Hebraic world helped me to enter the Kamea world to identify their brand of gutpela sindaun (which is yapmea awarmangardi) and helped them make adjustments only as the Biblical input challenges their understanding.
Using ethnographic methods, I had my participants discuss their experiences and then used that to derive their cognitive schema which, in turn, reveals their “understanding” about what they had to know in order to manifest/experience gutpela sindaun appropriate to their cultural expectations. Applying Grounded Theory in my data analysis, assisted me to present their brand of gutpela sindaun through the analogy of the Kamea creation tree, which I called the Haogka Code Tree.
Guided by the principles of Cognitive Theory, I then assisted I my participants to match shalom tree, what God’s view is of shalom (intent) with the haogka code tree, how they understand gutpela sindaun in light their understanding of shalom (inferences). What emerges from this exercise is their development of a hybrid schema, a new hybrid tree which I called the Kamea Kristen Tree.
I have done this dissertation from a methodological perspective that helps me understand the cognition of the Kamea group of people in respect to this topic. I am developing a methodology of helping Kamea people develop their own theology. This methodology can be used for other people groups in Melanesia to research Christian truths dynamically informed by cultural insights.
Barton, Karen Samantha. ""Red Waters": Contesting marine space as Indian place in the United States Pacific Northwest." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/289228.
Full textLima, Ieti. "Tafesilafa'i: exploring Samoan alcohol use and health within the framework of fa'asamoa." Thesis, University of Auckland, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/2292/2171.
Full textPyrek, Cathleen Conboy. "The Vaeakau-Taumako Wind Compass: A Cognitive Construct for Navigation in the Pacific." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1302542228.
Full textShute, Jonathan W. "Cultural Adjustment Factors of Senior Missionaries on Assignment in the South Pacific for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2000. http://patriot.lib.byu.edu/u?/MTNZ,22810.
Full textGreen, Valerie Joyce. "Tupulaga Tokelau in New Zealand (the Tokelau younger generation in New Zealand)." Thesis, University of Auckland, 1998. http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/fullcit/9928380.
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Dietzler, Karl Matthew 1970. "Pattern on National Forest Lands: Cultural Landscape History as Evidenced Through the Development of Campgrounds in the Pacific Northwest." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/11985.
Full textHistoric campgrounds on National Forest Service lands are a key location where the public experiences the intersection of natural and cultural resources. In the Pacific Northwest Region, the majority of historic Forest Service campgrounds date from the Civilian Conservation Corps/New Deal era of the 1930s; however, some existed previous to this period. Overall, these campgrounds were envisioned, designed, and evolved in an era of rapid technological change, when increasing industrialization, urbanization, and rural accessibility facilitated a cultural need for both preservation of and accessibility to natural resources. In order to understand how these campgrounds evolved over time, existing campground conditions were documented using a case-study approach, based on historic integrity, range of geographic accessibility, and historical data availability. In order to understand what changes have occurred over time, existing and historic conditions were compared. Based on the results, broad cultural landscape stewardship recommendations are made.
Committee in charge: Robert Z. Melnick, FASLA Chairperson; Donald Peting, Member
Hannula, Gustaf. "Monkey see, monkey do? An intercultural exploration of the dynamics between humans and non-human primates in a professional animal research setting." Scholarly Commons, 2007. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/677.
Full textMorrell, Alicia Montana. "Assessing the development of intercultural sensitivity gained through the domestic experiences of first year students." Scholarly Commons, 2008. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/698.
Full textHogan, Terry. "Global leadership and the development of intercultural competency in U.S. multinational corporations." Scholarly Commons, 2008. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/709.
Full textSimmons, Stephanie Catherine. "Exploring Colonization and Ethnogenesis through an Analysis of the Flaked Glass Tools of the Lower Columbia Chinookans and Fur Traders." Thesis, Portland State University, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1560956.
Full textThis thesis is an historical archaeological study of how Chinookan peoples at three villages and employees of the later multicultural Village at Fort Vancouver negotiated the processes of contact and colonization. Placed in the theoretical framework of practice theory, everyday ordinary activities are studied to understand how cultural identities are created, reinforced, and changed (Lightfoot et al. 1998; Martindale 2009; Voss 2008). Additionally uneven power relationships are examined, in this case between the colonizer and the colonized, which could lead to subjugation but also resistance (Silliman 2001). In order to investigate these issues, this thesis studies how the new foreign material of vessel glass was and was not used during the everyday practice of tool production.
Archaeological studies have found that vessel glass, which has physical properties similar to obsidian, was used to create a variety of tool forms by cultures worldwide (Conte and Romero 2008). Modified glass studies (Harrison 2003; Martindale and Jurakic 2006) have demonstrated that they can contribute important new insights into how cultures negotiated colonization. In this study, modified glass tools from three contact period Chinookan sites: Cathlapotle, Meier, and Middle Village, and the later multiethnic Employee Village of Fort Vancouver were examined. Glass tool and debitage analysis based on lithic macroscopic analytical techniques was used to determine manufacturing techniques, tool types, and functions. Additionally, these data were compared to previous analyses of lithics and trade goods at the study sites.
This thesis demonstrates that Chinookans modified glass into tools, though there was variation in the degree to which glass was modified and the types of tools that were produced between sites. Some of these differences are probably related to availability, how glass was conceptualized by Native Peoples, or other unidentified causes. This study suggests that in some ways glass was just another raw material, similar to stone, that was used to create tools that mirrored the existing lithic technology. However at Cathlapotle at least, glass appears to have been relatively scarce and perhaps valued even as a status item. While at Middle Village, glass (as opposed to stone) was being used about a third of the time to produce tools.
Glass tool technology at Cathlapotle, Meier, and Middle Village was very similar to the existing stone tool technology dominated by expedient/low energy tools; however, novel new bottle abraders do appear at Middle Village. This multifaceted response reflects how some traditional lifeways continued, while at the same time new materials and technology was recontextualized in ways that made sense to Chinookan peoples.
Glass tools increase at the Fort Vancouver Employee Village rather than decrease through time. This response appears to be a type of resistance to the HBC's economic hegemony and rigid social structure. Though it is impossible to know if such resistance was consciously acted on or was just part of everyday activities that made sense in the economic climate of the time.
Overall, this thesis demonstrates how a mundane object such as vessel glass, can provide a wealth of information about how groups like the Chinookans dealt with a changing world, and how the multiethnic community at Fort Vancouver dealt with the hegemony of the HBC. Chinookan peoples and the later inhabitants of the Fort Vancouver Employee Village responded to colonization in ways that made sense to their larger cultural system. These responses led to both continuity and change across time. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Binder, Heidi A. "Cultural fluency in the eye of the storm : a mediation case study." Scholarly Commons, 2012. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/800.
Full textKies-Ryan, Samantha L. "Water is life: Using creative visual methods to facilitate community cultural engagement in water management in the Solomon islands." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2022. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/228031/1/Samantha_Kies-Ryan_Thesis.pdf.
Full textChristian, Ronning Evelyn Gail. "THE WORLD WHERE YOU LIVE - ENVIRONMENTAL LITERACIES, CLIMATE CHANGE, AND YOUNG PEOPLE IN AMERICAN SĀMOA." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2015. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/299179.
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This dissertation examines the production of knowledge around global climate change and the character of environmental literacy among youth in Tafuna, on Tutuila, American Samoa. I analyze this production of environmental knowledge across multiple social fields (i.e. status hierarchies, governance structures, etc.) and subjectivities (school-specific, village-based, and Samoan cultural identities) during a period of social, political, economic, and environmental transformation. I interrogate the emerging forms of control that have come to structure the formal educational system in American Samoa, such as standardized or "containerized" curriculum, assessment and accountability measures, and the assignation of risk/creation of dependency on funding, deployed by American governmental agencies such as the Department of Education, and utilized by state actors such as the American Samoa Department of Education. Of particular concern is the how these structures create contradictions that affect the possibilities of teaching, learning, and the integration of youth into meaningful social roles. Informal learning about the environment includes village-based forms of service, church initiatives concerning the environment, governmental agency programming, such as that provided by the American Samoa Environmental Protection Agency, and youth-serving non-profit programs concerned with engaging youth as leaders. In both these formal and informal contexts for environmental education, American Samoan youth dynamically co-create knowledge within and outside the parameters of the socialization processes in which they are embedded. This research encompassed four trips to American Samoa over the course of three years, and utilized ethnographic fieldwork, including participant observation, interviews, questionnaires, archival research, and demographic data analysis, as the primary forms of data gathering. What this data reveals is the disengagement American Samoan youth feel for school-based environmental education because their science classes, as structured, do not integrate the co-relatedness of the social, the political, and the environmental fields that youth encounter. I discovered that youth are largely ambivalent about their future aspirations because they lack some of the cultural, linguistic, and educational tools necessary for local participation as well as for opportunities to study and work on Hawaii or the mainland United States. Lastly, I found that American educational ideals continue to be contradictory in the American Samoan context; whereas schools value and promote individually-oriented goals and responsibility, youth are also embedded in the values of communal identification and practice known as fa'a Samoa. I conclude that young people lack social integration and plan for a future away from American Samoa.
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Mutu, Margaret. "Aspects of the structure of the Ùa Pou dialect of the Marquesan language." Thesis, University of Auckland, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/2292/2086.
Full textThesis now published as a book. Margaret Mutu with Ben Teʻikitutoua (2002). Ùa Pou : aspects of a Marquesan dialect. Canberra, ACT: Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies. ISBN 0858835266.
Liang, Minqian. "Perceptions of public relations among Chinese and American college students : a comparative analysis." Scholarly Commons, 2011. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/794.
Full textCalderon, Kristen Naylor. "The impact of cross-cultural transition on intercultural relationships using a strengths-based approach." Scholarly Commons, 2012. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/825.
Full textRecabarren, Anna Collier. "Shared native language, different national cultures : an exploratory study of assumptions about communication styles among nationals of three south American countries." Scholarly Commons, 2012. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/804.
Full textDeso, Gaëtan. "Entre émergence et affirmation de l’art contemporain au sein du Triangle Polynésien : étude comparée de la Polynésie française et d’Aotearoa – Nouvelle Zélande." Thesis, Montpellier 3, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016MON30067/document.
Full textThis PhD thesis, in contemporary Art History, aims to resituate Pacific contemporary art of French Polynesia and Aotearoa – New Zealand as much into their own history as international history. Through an Art History and Anthropological approach, the purpose of this research is to highlight the historical and artistic specificities of these two territories often paired up due to a common past. When the concept of international art is transposed and applied to Pacific islands, it appears ethnocentric and Western. The aim of this study is to show that contemporary societies, and thus also art, are the result of cultural hybridization. With a thorough examination of the emancipation attempts towards the Western model and postcolonial gaze, this research compares the positions of actors involved in the affirmation and integration of Oceania within the international art field
Koller, Brenda Joyce. "Practitioners' insights on intercultural predeparture training : design and practices." Scholarly Commons, 2009. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/723.
Full textGilkes, Brian Eric, and pharoseditions@bigpond com. "The lion and the frigate bird: visual encounters in Kiribati." RMIT University. Media and Communication, 2010. http://adt.lib.rmit.edu.au/adt/public/adt-VIT20100304.105048.
Full textBunk, Aylin. "An Exploration of Effective Community College Instructors' Use of Culturally Competent Pedagogies." PDXScholar, 2017. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/3481.
Full textBergdahl, Sarah Sayner. "More than tolerance: development through dialogue on race and cultural differences : a guide to learning in facilitated small groups." Scholarly Commons, 2006. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/638.
Full textCirino, Gina. "American Misconceptions about Australian Aboriginal Art." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1435275397.
Full textNiatu, A. L. "Dosalsal, the floating ones : exploring the socio-cultural impacts of cruise ship tourism on Port Vila, Vanuatu residents, and their coping strategies." Lincoln University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10182/1383.
Full textLeisey, Robert. "Globally competent leadership : comparison between U.S. American and mainland Chinese conceptualization of effective leadership." Scholarly Commons, 2010. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/760.
Full textMartin, Damion R. "Culture and crisis communication : the use of intercultural communication in public relations crisis management planning." Scholarly Commons, 2011. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/787.
Full textFisher, David. "The socio-economic consequences of tourism in Levuka, Fiji." Lincoln University, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10182/1284.
Full textRoy, Brandy L. "An exploration of the role of intercultural training in developing intercultural competency among exchange students : a case study of rotary youth exchange." Scholarly Commons, 2012. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/815.
Full textCassini, Mark. "An examination of Kenyan and U.S. American communication styles and value orientations in a U.S. American organization in Nairobi, Kenya." Scholarly Commons, 2012. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/834.
Full textJones, Stephen W. "Intercultural development in global service-learning." Scholarly Commons, 2011. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/789.
Full textScott, Camille R. "“Outside People”: Treatment, Language Acquisition, Identity, and the Foreign Student Experience in Japan." Ohio University Honors Tutorial College / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1400619243.
Full textFinau, Lynette Suliana Sikahema. "Teachers of Color's Perception on Identity and Academic Success: A Reflective Narrative." Antioch University / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1629127636689077.
Full textGardner, Kasey Christopher. "Ideology in California : the role of oppositional interaction as a strategy in the campaign for Proposition 8." Scholarly Commons, 2009. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/718.
Full text"Exploring Cross-cultural Issues in Information Studies Education in Southeast Asia and the Pacific." 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105382.
Full textReddy, Narendra. "General managers in the South Pacific: managerial behaviour and the impact of culture on decision making in the island nations of the South Pacific." 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/2292/2088.
Full textNote: Thesis now published as a book. General managers in the South Pacific / Narendra Reddy. Published: Aalborg, Denmark : Aalborg University Press, 2001
Bae, Michelle Suehyun. "Trans-Pacific popular mediascape : in search of girlhood through Korean immigrant teenage girls' image-production and webculture /." 2009. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3362721.
Full textSource: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-06, Section: A, page: . Adviser: Paul Duncum. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 209-226) Available on microfilm from Pro Quest Information and Learning.
Taumoefolau, Melenaite L. "Problems in Tongan Lexicography." 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/2292/475.
Full textMatisoo-Smith, Lisa. "No hea te kiore : MtDNA variation in Rattus exulans : a model for human colonisation and contact in prehistoric Polynesia." 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/2292/597.
Full textFelgate, Matthew Walter. "Reading Lapita in near Oceania : intertidal and shallow-water pottery scatters, Roviana Lagoon, New Georgia, Solomon Islands." 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/2292/997.
Full textMacdonald, Judith. "Women of Tikopia." 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/2292/2243.
Full textPistacchi, Ann Katherine. "Spiraling Subversions: The Politics of Māori Cultural Survivance in the Critical Fictions of Patricia Grace, Paula Morris, and Kelly Ana Morey." 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2292/4528.
Full textWilkinson, Peter Francis. ""Who needs money when you can go windsurfing?" : the paradox of resisting consumerism through consumption in a lifestyle sport subculture : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Philosophy in Visual and Material Culture at Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand." 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10179/1639.
Full textSlatter, Claire. "The politics of economic restructuring in the Pacific with a case study of Fiji : a thesis presented in fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Department of Social Policy and Social Work, School of Social and Cultural studies, Massey University, Albany Campus, Auckland." 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10179/1646.
Full textKeady, Joseph. "A Translation of Dominik Nagl’s Grenzfälle with an Introductory Analysis of the Translation Process." 2020. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/masters_theses_2/881.
Full textWenstob, Stella Maris. "Canoes and colony: the dugout canoe as a site of intercultural engagement in the colonial context of British Columbia (1849-1871)." Thesis, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/5971.
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