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Denesiuk, Tania L. ""Uncharted Lands"." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ29488.pdf.
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Nazroo, Jacques Yzet. "Ethnicity, class and health." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.312884.
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Connolly, Anne Caroline. "Antipsychotics prescribing and ethnicity." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2018. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/antipsychotics-prescribing-and-ethnicity(9c4c9ca1-9663-40c5-ade2-a5a0188fd137).html.
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Treatment of mental illness differs between races. Many reports, investigations, public enquiries and surveys have been conducted documenting differences in referral to specialist mental health services, admission rates to hospital, detention under the Mental Health Act and seclusion whilst in hospital. These differences are particularly marked for black patients compared with white. Concerns about these differences, in addition to research (predominantly from the United States) showing differences in prescribing of antipsychotics for ethnic minorities, have prompted United Kingdom studies investigating any prejudicial prescribing of antipsychotics. Identified differences include use of high doses, more frequent use of older drugs and depot formulations, especially for black compared with white patients. Most of these UK studies were older, had small sample sizes and controlled for few, if any, confounding factors affecting antipsychotic prescribing. A large, multi-centre, cross-sectional survey of antipsychotic prescribing by ethnicity, collecting over 20 potential confounding factors, was undertaken to measure dose, high dose, polypharmacy, type of antipsychotic, cost of antipsychotic, clozapine use and route of administration. The null hypothesis was that black patients receive antipsychotic drug treatment of equal dose, type, number, cost and route to white patients. Data were analysed (using regression methods) for black and white patients alone (as these are the two ethnicities with the most reported differences in medication use), for all ethnicities (to see if any differences for other ethnic groups not only black and white), by individual centre (to determine if prescribing by ethnicity differs by location) and also to determine which factors predicted outcomes. Medical prescriber attitudes to prescribing by ethnicity were assessed using a case vignette and questionnaire method. Analysis by ethnicity did not find differences between black and white patients (n=938) in dose (adjusted percentage difference 0.97 [95% confidence interval (CI) -4.28, 6.22], p=0.72); high dose (adjusted odds ratio [AOR] 0.98 [CI 0.63, 1.51], p=0.92); use of first generation antipsychotics (AOR 1.25 [CI 0.87, 1.79], p=0.22); polypharmacy prescribed (AOR 1.15 [CI 0.87, 1.51], p =0.33); polypharmacy administered (AOR 1.08 [CI 0.78, 1.49], p=0.66); or cost of antipsychotic treatment (adjusted effect size 1.75 [CI -9.81, 13.31], p=0.77). Re-analysis including all ethnicities and inclusion of two other outcomes (route of administration and clozapine use), also did not find differences by ethnicity although many variables were associated with the outcomes. Some of these relationships were unexpected, for example the use of lower doses and first generation antipsychotics, but most could be explained rationally. Analysis of data by the different sites involved revealed differences in prescribing by ethnicity, particularly for one centre. These effects included higher doses, polypharmacy, greater use of 1st generation antipsychotics and higher costs predominantly for black compared with white patients. Unfortunately for some of these outcomes it was not possible to adjust results for potential confounders because of some centres’ small sample sizes and missing data. After dissemination of findings, ethnic minority prescribers reported that they were very surprised with the results of these studies on antipsychotics and ethnicity. They said they purposely prescribed higher doses for black patients as they were more severely ill on admission to hospital. To test the validity of these comments all medical prescribers at one NHS trust were surveyed using a case vignette and questionnaire. Differences were not found in antipsychotic prescribing by ethnicity for percentage maximum dose (47.7% black, 50.9% white, p=0.57), high dose (1.67% black, 3.33% white, p=0.68), type (1.6% black, 2.5% white, p=0.10), polypharmacy (3.3% black, 6.5% white, p=0.37) and route of administration (intramuscular 0.8% black, 0% white; oral black 44.7%, white 45.5%; oral or intramuscular black 3.3%, white 5.7%; p=0.53) outcomes. The study was, at the time it was undertaken, the largest UK study of antipsychotic prescribing in black and white patients and the most geographically diverse. Overall clinical and theoretical studies described in this thesis did not show differences in antipsychotic prescribing by ethnicity. Some individual centres may have poorer prescribing by ethnicity that requires remedial action, although such differences were infrequently observed. Nevertheless, for all of these studies significant limitations, including in design and analysis, may have affected these results.
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Ulerie, Jodell Mathieu. "The Virtues of Ethnicity." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/90895.
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Error theorists about race face a challenge from the occurrence of diseases and other health ailments that, appear, to be tracked by groups that are carved out by racial terms. If race does indeed allow us to make useful medical distinctions, then it would seem foolish or even a form of medical injustice to deny its reality. This paper provides a response to the stated challenge. First, by primarily using the work of Anthony Appiah, I will describe the error theorist position and its arguments for the non-reality of race. From here, I demonstrate the extent to which medical professionals grant the race is a scientifically arbitrary term and give arguments for accepting race as an alternative that may even be more medically useful. Finally, I advance an eliminativist argument to further motivate the notion that race, if it is truly not necessary, should be eliminated from use.Master of Arts
Error theorists about race face a challenge from the occurrence of diseases and other health ailments that, appear, to be tracked by groups that are carved out by racial terms. If race does indeed allow us to make useful medical distinctions, then it would seem foolish or even a form of medical injustice to deny its reality. This paper provides a response to the stated challenge. First, by primarily using the work of Anthony Appiah, I will describe the error theorist position and its arguments for the non-reality of race. From here, I demonstrate the extent to which medical professionals grant the race is a scientifically arbitrary term and give arguments for accepting race as an alternative that may even be more medically useful. Finally, I advance an eliminativist argument to further motivate the notion that race, if it is truly not necessary, should be eliminated from use.
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Cornet, Candice. "Ethnicity in China : reviewing ethnicity in light of ethnic tourism in Southwest China." Thesis, McGill University, 2002. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=29496.
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This thesis reviews the anthropological approaches to the study of the ethnic minorities in Southwest China. It sets out to demonstrate the limitations engendered by studies focusing on the process of ethnicity and the relative absence of 'ordinary local peasants' (villagers not involved in the dialogue of ethnicity) in anthropological research of villages in Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan. Furthermore, this paper reveals the need for in-depth local studies in order to understand the impact of ethnic tourism on local identity construction.
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Corlett, Stephanie A. "Maintaining ethnicity, a case study in the maintenance of ethnicity among Chilean immigrant students." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/MQ57702.pdf.
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Corlett, Stephenie (Stephanie A. ). Carleton University Dissertation Sociology and Anthropology. "Maintaining ethnicity: a case study in the maintenance of ethnicity among Chilean immigrant students." Ottawa, 2000.
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Racin, Liat. "Ethnicity, nature, and community gardens." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2013. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/ethnicity-nature-and-community-gardens(92875f95-3e3b-4f05-9816-f9514ebc422a).html.
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This thesis explores the use and design of New York City (NYC)’s community gardens, and how the social processes that characterise community gardening influence gardeners’ notions of ethnicity. The study examines the dialectical relationship between nature and culture in community gardens from the theoretical perspectives of debates over ethnicity, the social construction of nature, and political ecology. The study’s analytical position directs attention to the rhetoric and behaviours of community gardeners as well as the socio-ecological and political-economic processes operating at broader and multiple scales. The three main aims of this dissertation are: first, to explore the influences of community gardening on how gardeners understand and express their ethnicity, second, to identify the main motivations for (re)configuring nature in gardens, and third, to understand how the elision between nature and culture in gardens shape and is shaped by societal power struggles. This dissertation draws empirically on a cross-case comparison of Puerto Rican gardeners across three community gardens in the South Bronx. Narrative and semi-structured interviews enabled gardeners to directly voice their sentiments of self and community, and in conjunction with active-participant observations and garden-related discourse analysis, the ‘triangulation’ of these qualitative research methods colours a rich picture of the ideological and political markers of ethnicity and nature in NYC. The study also incorporates state and non-state actors active in the community garden movement and in the provision of one or more of the case studies. I argue that community gardeners’ notions of ethnicity and nature are animated by questions of politics, resistance, class, and social positions.
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Wyatt, Madeleine. "Ethnicity and differential career success." Thesis, City University London, 2011. http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/3356/.
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Despite evidence that the representation of minority-ethnic employees in the workforce is improving, many are concentrated at lower organisational levels and experience more difficulties reaching senior positions than their majority-ethnic (i.e. white) colleagues (ONS, 2011). The percentage of minority-ethnic individuals entering the workplace is continually rising (ONS, 2011) meaning differential career success is a topic of increasing importance. However, thus far, very little research in organisational psychology has focused on ethnicity (Cox, Nkomo & Welch, 2001; Kenny & Briner, 2007). Therefore this thesis presents three studies designed to enhance our knowledge of minority-ethnic career experiences and the processes that contribute towards differential career success. All studies took place in a large U.K. public sector organisation. The first study compared the causal attributions that minority-ethnic (n=20) and majority-ethnic (n=20) managers made when recalling significant positive and negative career experiences during semi-structured interviews. In the second study, template analysis was used to examine the interview transcripts for career experiences identified as important for career success by minority- and majority-ethnic managers. An important difference between the groups was their perceptions of informal organisational processes. Researchers have argued that political skill may enhance individuals' power and control over informal processes (e.g. Ferris, Davidson & Perrewe, 2005) and have also suggested, but not yet tested, that minority groups may be disadvantaged in developing these skills (Ferris, Frink & Galang, 1993). Therefore, study three built on the findings of study two, and tested the 'political skill deficiency' hypothesis, by determining whether minority-ethnic employees (n=114) rated themselves lower on political skill than majority-ethnic employees (n=197), and whether this was associated with differential career success. Overall findings suggested that there were important differences in the way minority- and majority-ethnic managers made sense of their career experiences. Minority-ethnic employees' lower ratings of political skill were also associated with differential career success. Implications of these findings and practical initiatives to address differential career success are discussed in the final chapter, as well as directions for future research.
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Vaughan, Sarah. "Ethnicity and power in Ethiopia." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/605.
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This thesis explores why ethnicity was introduced as the basis for the reconstitution of the Ethiopian state in 1991, examining the politicisation of ethnic identity before and after the federation of the country’s ‘nations, nationalities and peoples’ was instituted. The establishment of the modern Ethiopian empire state in the nineteenth century, and the processes of centralisation and bureaucratisation which consolidated it in the mid twentieth, provide a backdrop to an emerging concern with ‘regionalism’ amongst political circles in the 1960s and 1970s. Ethnicity operated as both resource and product of the mobilisation by which the major movements of armed opposition to the military regime of the 1970s and 1980s, later the architects of ethnic federalism, sought control of the state. Under federalism through the 1990s, political representation and territorial administration were reorganised in terms of ethnicity. A stratum of the local elite of each ethnic group was encouraged to form an ethnic organisation as a platform for executive office. Meanwhile ethnic groups and their elites responded to these new circumstances in unanticipated but calculative ways, often radically reviewing and reconstructing not only their sense of collective interest, but also the very ethnic collectives that would best serve those newlyperceived interests. The architects of ethnic federalism are influenced by a Marxist formulation of the ‘National Question’ which incorporates contradictory elements inherent in the notion of ‘granting self-determination’: the conviction that self-selected communities respond better to mobilisation ‘from within’, in their own language, by their own people; and the notion that ethnic groups are susceptible to identification, definition, and prescription ‘from above’, by a vanguard party applying a checklist of externally verifiable criteria. These two sets of assumptions correlate with tenets of instrumentalism and primordialism respectively, which are, as they stand, equally irreconcilable. An investigation of theoretical approaches to ethnicity and collective action suggests that many conflate the ‘real world’ and ‘socially constructed’ referents of the ethnic profile of an individual (the constituents of the individual state of being an ethnic x), with the fully constructed collective accomplishment which creates members of an ethnic group (conferring the social status of being an ethnic x, of which those referents are markers). Differentiating the two, and exploring the recursive relationship between them, by means of a consideration of calculative action within the framework of actors’ categories (emerging from emic knowledge systems) and shared social institutions (premised, whether their referents are ‘natural’ ‘social’ or ‘artificial’, on collective processes of ‘knowledge construction’), may improve analysis of the causes and operation of collective action associated with ethnicity and ethno-nationalism. Ethnic federalism in Ethiopia offered the prospect of a shift away from the ‘high modernism’ of that state’s past projects to ‘develop’ its people, apparently in favour of the collective perspectives of groups of its citizens. The coercive and developmental imperatives of the state that guided its implementation, however, have militated against the substantive incorporation of locally determined social institutions and knowledge.
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Baker, J. E. "Ethnicity and cardiovascular disease prevention." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2015. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/6524/.
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Background Public health interventions need to both improve health and reduce health inequalities, whilst using limited health care resources efficiently. Well-established ethnic differences in cardiovascular disease (CVD) raise the possibility that CVD prevention policies may not work equally well across ethnic groups. The aim of this thesis was to explore whether there are ethnic differences in the potential impact of two CVD prevention policy choices – the choice between mass and targeted screening for high cardiovascular risk, including the use of area deprivation measures to target screening, and the choice between population and high-risk approaches. Methods Cross-sectional data from the Health Survey for England 2003 and 2004 were used. Three sets of analyses were carried out – first, calculation of ethnic differences in the utility of area deprivation measures to identify individual socioeconomic deprivation; second, investigation of ethnic differences in the cost-effectiveness of mass and targeted screening for high cardiovascular risk; third, analysis of ethnic differences in the potential impact of population and high-risk approaches to CVD prevention. Results Area deprivation measures worked relatively effectively and efficiently at identifying individual socioeconomic deprivation in ethnic minority groups compared to the white group. In ethnic groups at high risk of CVD, cardiovascular risk screening programmes were a relatively cost-effective option, screening programmes targeted at deprived areas were particularly cost-effective, and population approaches were found to be an effective and equitable way of preventing CVD despite potential underestimation of their impact. Discussion This thesis found that ethnic minority groups in the UK are unlikely to be systematically disadvantaged by a range of CVD prevention policies that have been proposed, or implemented, for the general population. Additional CVD prevention policies, in particular those based on the population approach, should be implemented.
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Campbell, Robin Rhodes. "Images of ethnicity in pornography." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1993. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/695.
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Goebel, Zane. "Enregistering Ethnicity and Hybridity in Indonesia." School of Letters, Nagoya University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2237/10572.
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Beer, Linda. "Ethnicity and reaccumulation : an ecological analysis." FIU Digital Commons, 1994. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/1464.
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This study looks at the process of reaccumulation of resources in Miami following Hurricane Andrew. Emphasis is on differences between four major ethnic groups: Anglos, African- Americans, Cubans and non-Cuban Hispanics. Secondary data is used to analyze measures of housing recovery on a census block group level. Results indicate that, while there are ethnic consequences on a block groups level, support for enclave hypotheses are equivocal.
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Che, Afa Anwi Ma Abo. "Democratization, politicised ethnicity, and conflict proclivity." Thesis, Swansea University, 2015. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.678371.
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Taylor, Liam Kenneth. "Sport, ethnicity and sense of community." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ34918.pdf.
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Woudhuizen, Frederik Christiaan. "The ethnicity of the sea peoples." Rotterdam : Rotterdam : Erasmus Universiteit ; Erasmus University [Host], 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1765/7686.
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Uddin-Khan, Evelyn Angelina. "Gender, ethnicity and the romance novel /." Access Digital Full Text version, 1995. http://pocketknowledge.tc.columbia.edu/home.php/bybib/11848650.
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Thesis (Ed.D.) -- Teachers College, Columbia University, 1995.Includes tables. Typescript; issued also on microfilm. Sponsor: Florence McCarthy. Dissertation Committee: Allayne Sullivan. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 155-164).
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Grimes, Janice. "Cultural capital, ethnicity and early education." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.282941.
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Rahman, Mohammad Atiar. "Ethnicity, gender and cardio-respiratory function." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.253065.
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Belton, Brian. "The social generation of traveller ethnicity." Thesis, University of Kent, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.327440.
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Carter, John. "Ethnicity, equality and the nursing profession." Thesis, University of Bristol, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.336835.
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Matthews, Bob. "Mixed ethnicity, health and healthcare experiences." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2001. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/1796/.
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The ethnic composition of Britain's population continues to change. This thesis explores the health and healthcare experiences of the fastest-growing sector of our population; people of mixed ethnicity. The thesis contextualises the research with reference to 'race' and ethnicity, immigration, demography and statistics. This research is based within a Foucauldian theoretical framework and utilises narrative data collection methods and an innovative analysis process, based on the construction of a series of metanarratives, to investigate the manner in which people of mixed ethnicity construct their identifies. It also seeks to explain how their ethnicity impacts both on health status and the nature of the mixed ethnicity healthcare experience in the NHS, particularly within the doctor/patient relationship. The findings from the research are discussed in relation to existing health policy initiatives and recommendations made for changes in the way in which the needs of people of mixed ethnicity are assessed, concluding that the present analytical categorisation are inadequate and in need of review. The research also concludes that doctors use their powerful position to suppress the discourse of health and mixed ethnicity.
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Bell, James. "Economic Statecraft and Ethnicity in China." Wright State University / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1527196412862614.
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Malik, Muhammad Omar. "Insulin resistance, ethnicity and cardiovascular risk." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2015. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/6517/.
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Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality. The literature supports a series of established risk factors for CVD: age, gender, family history of CVD, ethnicity (un-modifiable); and high blood pressure, blood cholesterol, TGs, LDL, diabetes, pre-diabetes, obesity, smoking, physical inactivity, stress and unhealthy diet (modifiable). High blood pressure (hypertension) shares many of these risk factors. However, much of the variance/risk in both conditions cannot be explained. This has led to a search for novel risk factors, including insulin resistance and subclinical inflammation, the significance of which at present are controversial, particularly in relation to hypertension. There are also ethnic differences in the incidence, prevalence, risk factors and progression of cardiovascular disease. In some populations CVD occurs at an earlier age and progresses more rapidly. In this thesis I worked on two datasets in relation to hypertension, cardiovascular disease and their risk factors: (i) the RISC (Relationship between Insulin Sensitivity and Cardiovascular disease) study (chapters 2, 3, 5 and 6); and (ii) routinely-collected national data in Scotland via the SDRN (Scottish Diabetes Research Network) and SCI-Diabetes (chapter 2 and 7). Work on data from the RISC cohort focused on the relation between clamp-measured insulin sensitivity (its unique feature), inflammatory markers and hypertension; the SDRN work addressed ethnic differences in relation to diabetes and CVD. The first study (Chapter 3) examined the importance of insulin sensitivity/resistance in the development of hypertension and change in blood pressure over three years of follow-up in the healthy European (EU) RISC population. Systolic BP (SBP) was higher at baseline in insulin resistant (IR) women. There was no difference in BP in relation to IR in men. After adjustment for age, BMI, baseline BP and other covariates, low insulin sensitivity (M/I) predicted a longitudinal rise in SBP in women but not men, and SBP over time did not increase in insulin sensitive women. The second study (Chapter 4) was a systematic review of the relationships between two markers of low grade inflammation (IL-6 and CRP) and BP/hypertension, considering the roles of adiposity and insulin resistance. The systematic review showed evidence of considerable variation in the relationships amongst low grade inflammation, adiposity, insulin resistance and the development of hypertension. There appeared to be a positive association in the literature between CRP and DBP in younger individuals, although none of the studies were adjusted for insulin sensitivity determined by clamp technique. This association was further explored using RISC study data in Chapter 5 with stratification by sex and adjusting for clamp-derived insulin sensitivity. The third study (Chapter 5) examined the relationship of inflammatory markers with the development of hypertension and change in blood pressure over three years in the same healthy European population and whether any relationship was independent of clamp-measured insulin sensitivity (IS). High sensitivity C reactive protein (hsCRP) predicted prospective change in diastolic BP independent of insulin sensitivity and BMI whereas IL-6 had no relation with BP (both systolic and diastolic) or the incidence of hypertension. The fourth study (Chapter 6) evaluated all available predictors of BP rise over time (both systolic and diastolic) in a healthy EU population; moreover the significance of different predictors was examined within subgroups defined by age and sex. This analysis showed that baseline BP was the principal determinant of follow-up BP in all age and sex groups. Obesity was the second most important predictor (BMI in adults aged 30-44 years; percent change in BMI in middle age people aged 45-60 years). Lifestyle factors influenced BP via their effect on BMI. People who maintained their BMI during the three year follow-up did not exhibit a rise in BP (whether systolic or diastolic). Other important predictors identified in this analysis were insulin sensitivity in middle aged women and hsCRP in adult men. The fifth study (chapter 7) evaluated the role of ethnicity in the development of cardiovascular disease in people with type 2 diabetes living in Scotland. Over a follow-up of seven years, Pakistani people had increased risk of CVD and Chinese people had decreased risk of CVD as compared to White population. Pakistanis had an increased risk of CVD at a younger age independent of other conventional risk factors. In summary, insulin sensitivity and inflammation influence blood pressure, but their role is not generalised across different age and sex groups. BMI and change in BMI are important predictors of follow-up BP in adults and middle age healthy people, supporting a role for maintenance of BMI in preserving cardiovascular health. In addition to the known ethnic differences in the development of diabetes, I identified ethnic differences in the development of CVD.
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Arshad, Sira. "Ethnicity and attitudes to body shape." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2007. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/176/.
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Research evidence has consistently shown that western society is one that values thinness and holds a negative attitude towards overweight individuals. The role of ethnicity is an under researched area in attitudes to body shape, particularly views of obesity in different cultures. The primary aims of this study were to compare British-born South Asian and Caucasian pre-adolescents and their views of their parents in their attitudes to obesity and importance of thinness. Secondary aims were to investigate the role of the family in terms of levels of conflict between girls and their parents and also the role of 'traditional' family background in Asian girls. 169 Asian and 147 Caucasian children from eleven primary schools in Northern England completed assessments investigating body shape stereotypes, body dissatisfaction, dieting and weight control behaviours, parental concern with thinness and levels of conflict in the family. The Asian children completed a short measure of cultural orientation. The study revealed that stereotyped negative attitudes to obesity were shared by all children and their perception of parental attitudes regardless of ethnicity or gender. However, the perception of the 'importance of thinness' to parents was significantly higher in Asian children than Caucasian children. Furthermore, despite the finding that no significant difference was found between the mean body weights of the Asian and Caucasian girls, Asian girls reported significantly higher priority and drive for thinness than Caucasian girls. Unexpectedly, similar results emerged for the Asian boys. No support was found for the 'culture-clash' hypothesis (conflict between traditional and western values) in Asian girls, as family conflict was positively associated with higher priority for thinness in Caucasian girls but not Asian girls. Furthermore only a weak association was found between traditional family background in Asian girls and priority for thinness. The results are discussed in terms of parental place of birth, religious and cultural factors, age of participants and the role of the Asian media. It is suggested that 'culture-clash' in Asian families is an over-simplistic formulation. It may be that it is the lack of tolerance of conflict in Asian families that contributes to the higher levels of attitudes and behaviours associated with a priority for thinness in British Asian girls.
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Thapa, Sandhya. "Ethnicity, class and politics in Sikkim." Thesis, University of North Bengal, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/1268.
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Khan, Nadia Yasmin Taher. "Ethnicity and health policy : the need for incorporating ethnicity into health policy using diabetes as an example." Thesis, University of Surrey, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.411002.
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Coffman, James H. "Political ethnicity : a new paradigm of analysis /." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 1994. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA284528.
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Ricke, Audrey Lawless Robert. "Expressing ethnicity a Vietnamese community in Kansas /." Diss., Click here for available full-text of this thesis, 2006. http://library.wichita.edu/digitallibrary/etd/2006/t010.pdf.
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Thesis (M.A.)--Wichita State University, Dept. of Anthropology."May 2006." Title from PDF title page (viewed on October 2, 2006). "Copyright 2006 by Audrey C. Ricke." Thesis adviser: Robert Lawless. Includes bibliographic references (leaves 100-107).
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Erden, Mustafa Suphi. "Citizenship And Ethnicity In Turkey And Iran." Phd thesis, METU, 2010. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12612392/index.pdf.
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This thesis aims at understanding the citizenship formations in Turkey and Iran by a comparative study of ethnicity, state formation, and nation building in the two lands. The research question is what kind of socio-political and cultural elements caused the two nation states to follow different paths and end up with different citizenship and state formations in the end of the twentieth century. The foci of comparison are the homogenization process of the nation states in ethnic terms, the extent of mass movements, the degree of centrality of the state in shaping the sociopolitical life, and the resistance to the state imposed regulations. In this thesis it is argued that the state tradition inherited from the Ottomans, the ethnic cleansing of the non-Muslim minorities, and the intention to assimilate the Kurdish population were the main determinants of Turkish citizenship. The mass movements emanating from the societal groups, the provincial autonomous movements, and the disruption of the state by external invasions were the main determinants of Iranian citizenship. The national identity in Turkey was more strongly based on the Turkish ethnicitythe Iranian national identity functioned as an umbrella identity over all ethnic identities in Iran. The Turkish citizenship, in comparison to Iranian, was closer to the ethnocentric and exclusionary German model
the Iranian citizenship, in comparison to the Turkish, was closer to the soil based and assimilationist French model.
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Takagi, Junko. "Ethnicity, expectations, and attributions : a theoretical review." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/28301.
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This thesis examines the effect of ethnicity on assessments of achievement outcomes, and presents a theoretical explanation using Foschi's reformulation. The reformulation integrates aspects of attribution theory and status generalization theory. It proposes that when a higher status performer and a lower status performer are equally successful at a task, the success of the former will tend to be attributed to ability more than the success of the latter. Also, when the two performers are equally unsuccessful at a task, the performance of the lower status person will tend to be attributed to lack of ability more than the performance of the higher status person. The propositions are tested for ethnicity by collecting evidence from attribution studies dealing with ethnicity and assessment of performance outcomes. The findings indicate that there is substantial support for the propositions. Since these have not been directly tested, an experiment is proposed. In the final section of the thesis a standardized experimental format such as the one used in expectation states research is presented.Arts, Faculty of
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Dorazio-Migliore, Margaret Louise. "Eldercare in context, narrative, gender, and ethnicity." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape2/PQDD_0016/NQ48628.pdf.
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Siapkas, Johannes. "Heterological Ethnicity : Conceptualizing Identities in Ancient Greece." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala : Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis : Univ.-bibl. [distributör], 2003. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-3949.
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Murray, Stephen. "Being Italian American: Performing Ethnicity in Atlanta." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2008. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/anthro_theses/27.
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What does it mean to be Italian American in Atlanta? While Italian Americans have lived in urban concentrations in parts of the United States for over a century, members of this ethnic group have been living in Atlanta only in small numbers and for a few decades. Considering theories of ethnicity and performance, this study investigates aspects of Italian American ethnicity in Atlanta. The thesis provides an ethnographic insight into what it means to be an Italian American in Atlanta.
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Nock, Laurie. "Ethnicity and economics in Punta Arenas, Chile." Thesis, McGill University, 1990. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=74565.
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This thesis examines the association between ethnic relations, ethnic cohesion and economic activities in Punta Arenas, Chile, a city inhabited by immigrants from Europe, Central Chile and Chiloe and their descendants over the last century. Through the historical study of changing ethnic interaction in economic activities, marriage and social institutions in the city, of the organization of each of twelve ethnic collectivities, and the analysis of occupational and marital data on nearly seven thousand individuals we demonstrate that the concept of ethnicity (a) can be used to promote inter-class solidarity within the ethnic collectivity, leading to ethnic cohesion; (b) can be used to demarcate class differences between collectivities, rationalizing privilege and exploitation; and (c) can be consciously rejected in favor of claims to national hegemony and/or class mobilization, for example. The significance of ethnic origin in organizing social interaction coincides with its utilization in pursuit of class interests.
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Gannon, Tracey J. "Gender and ethnicity in zainichi Korean writing." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.409618.
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Mbawa, Henry. "Local governance and ethnicity in Sierra Leone." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.579529.
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Recent local governance reforms in post-war Sierra Leone emphasise the need to extend the benefits of citizenship to rural inhabitants. Yet, these reforms have tended to focus on the establishment of local councils as the main means to enhance political participation and development, ignoring the salience of unequal relations between ethnic groups, the role of chieftaincy, and historically complex centre-local relations. This thesis focuses on the relationship between Sierra Leone's dual local government system and inter-ethnic relations, and the implications for centre-local relations. It examines the extent to which recent post-war local governance reforms address the type of colonial and post-colonial politics that had disenfranchised the vast majority of rural Sierra Leoneans. The thesis also examines whether top-down reorganisation of local democratic politics can provide sufficient autonomy for local institutions to influence the attainment of local citizenship. The thesis found that the attainment of rural citizenship has increasingly come to be defined by emerging contestations and negotiations between ethnic groups in both local councils and chieftaincy. These interactions and contestations have their roots in the colonial imagination, but have also been shaped by the turpitude of Sierra Leone's post-colonial politics characterised by ethno-political divisions and centralisation. The thesis concludes that the ability of local government institutions- particularly local councils-to influence inter-ethnic relations is severely undermined by the failure of post-war local governance reforms to deal with the legacy of Sierra Leone's complicated centre-local relations and incorporate chieftaincy, which enjoys some legitimacy and support among rural inhabitants due to its proximity and influence over rural socio-economic life. Consequently, devolution has created significant opportunities for an indirect central takeover of local politics and intensified local ethnic conflicts. This situation is made possible through a veiled triangle of centralisation characterised by limited fiscal resources, power, and centralised ethno-political mobilisation within the council system. In this context, chieftaincy has emerged as the main conduit through which these inter-ethnic relations are negotiated because of the relative autonomy it enjoys from central . political elites.
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Burnaford, Rochelle Milne. "Race, ethnicity, and exclusion in group identity." Scholar Commons, 2012. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/3999.
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The current project investigates exclusion in terms of racial/ethnic identity and group behavioral norms. Research concerning the "black sheep effect" evidences the tendency for group members to derogate a fellow in-group member who has violated an important social norm (Marques, Yzerbyt, & Leyens, 1988). Similarly, Oyserman's (2007) model of identity-based motivation argues that any group identity can shape behavior through a process of identity infusion such that group members are motivated to behave in ways that are in-group identity-infused and equally avoid behaviors that are out-group identity-infused. Finally, identity misclassification research provides evidence that individuals feel threatened by the notion that they may have behaved in ways that are congruent with an out-group (e.g., Bosson, Prewitt-Freillino, & Taylor, 2005). Therefore, when a behavior is infused with the identity of an out-group, avoiding such behaviors is seen as an expression of belonging to one's in-group. The current project assesses the consequences of group identity-infusion specifically in the area of academics and racial/ethnic identity. In Study 1, identity-threatened participants who were excluded by an in-group member attributed their exclusion to their out-group identity-infused behavior, but they did not expect exclusion, nor experience heightened negative emotions or anxiety as a result of exclusion. In Study 2, though strongly identified participants were more likely to choose an identity-affirmed partner regardless of task condition, no differences were found for ratings of potential partners. Future research should address ecological validity issues and attempt to make more naturalistic observations of these behavioral patterns. Additionally, a younger sample should be used in order to assess exclusion for "acting White" among students who are legally required to be in school, rather than those who have chosen to pursue higher education.
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Deniz, Nathalie. "Ethnicity and Cardiovascular Disease in theMiddle East." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för arbets- och folkhälsovetenskap, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-14691.
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The purpose of this study was to compare between ethnicities if there is a difference in survival and treatment when it comes to cardiovascular diseases in the Middle East. To find out if there is a difference 28 articles was selected for inclusion, both qualitative and quantitative studies. Searches were made in the databases Medline, PubMed, Google and Google Scholar.The results showed that it is possible that there are differences in mortality and morbidity between ethnicities affected by cardiovascular disease. These may be due to differences in abdominal obesity, insulin resistance in diabetes and other risks such as C-reactive protein in the blood plasma which is normally excreted in inflammation in the body and also adiponectin, which is a hormone found in fat tissue whose secretion is diminished in people who have diabetes. But studies saying that a difference does exist are too few and the need for more and larger studies is needed. It may also be that not all ethnicities are as benefited from current treatments available against cardiovascular diseases for example beta-blockers. The conclusion of this study is that more research in this area is needed as well as more comprehensive studies regarding public health in the Middle East.Syftet med denna studie var att jämföra mellan etniska grupper om det finns en skillnad i överlevnad och behandling när det gäller hjärt-och kärlsjukdomar i Mellanöstern. För att ta reda på det har 28 artiklar valts ut efter inklusionskriterierna, både kvalitativa och kvantitativa studier. Sökningar gjordes i databaserna Medline, Pubmed, Google and Google Scholar.Resultatet visade på att det sannolikt finns skillnader i dödlighet samt sjuklighet mellan etniciteter som drabbats av hjärt- och kärlsjukdomar. Dessa kan bero på skillnader i abdominal fetma, insulin resistens vid diabetes och andra risker så som C-reaktivt protein som finns i blodplasman och i vanliga fall utsöndras vid inflammationer i kroppen och adiponectin som är ett hormon som finns i fettvävnaden vars utsöndring är sämre hos personer som har diabetes. Dock är studierna som visar på skillnader alldeles för få, det behövs fler och större undersökningar inom detta område. Denna litteratur översikt visar också att det även kan vara så att inte alla etniciteter gynnas av dagens behandlingar som finns mot hjärt- och kärlsjukdomar som t ex Betablockerare. Slutsatsen i denna studie är att mer forskning inom ämnet behövs samt fler övergripande studier gällande folkhälsan i Mellanöstern.
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Petrykowski, Karen M. "The effect of ethnicity on helping behavior." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2008. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/1128.
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Joneken, Isabelle. "Empathy and Ethnicity : The Ethnic Empathy Bias." Thesis, Högskolan i Skövde, Institutionen för biovetenskap, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:his:diva-10139.
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The aim of this thesis is to overview studies examining the effect ethnicity has on the neural and physiological responses associated with empathy and the underlying mechanisms behind this effect. It has been revealed that ethnicity can modulate the empathic responses in that faster physiological arousal and greater sensorimotor resonance occurs during the perception of own ethnic members in suffering. A reduction and even total absence of activity in empathy-associated brain regions such as anterior cingulate cortex, anterior insula, temporo partial junction and medial prefrontal cortex has further been seen during the perception of other ethnic members in pain. There have however been studies where ethnicity has not had an effect on empathic responses, indicating that it might not be ethnicity per se but instead other underlying mechanisms that causes the difference in empathic responses. There is an ongoing debate on which these mechanisms might be. It has been suggested that it might be attitudes, similarity and familiarity with the target, general ingroup bias, differences in perceptual processes and culture. The thesis will end with a discussion on how the results can be interpreted, the implications of the results, proposals for future research directions and a conclusion.
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Hamza, Belgacem. "Berber ethnicity and language shift in Tunisia." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.444351.
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Mat, Jali Mohd Fuad. "Regionalism, ethnicity and voting behaviour in Malaysia." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.239695.
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Malik, Iffat Sanna. "Ethnicity and politics in the Kashmir Valley." Thesis, University of Hull, 1999. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:8002.
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Kyffin, Robert Geoffrey Ellesmere. "Ethnicity and health in north west England." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.250679.
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Chadwick, Thomas Harry. "'Normanitas' revisited : reconsidering Norman ethnicity, 996-1159." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/31731.
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This thesis investigates the extent to which the Norman gens was understood by contemporaries to share agreed features of ethnic identity. The term Normanitas, associated with significant Latin descriptive traits, including ferox, ferus, bellicosus, audax, strennus, astutus and callidus, has been in use since the 1980s, when scholars identified a shared Norman ethnic identity dispersed across eleventh- and twelfth-century Europe. However, work on Normanitas fails to take into account insights from more recent research, led by Walter Pohl, on the construction of early medieval ethnic identity. This thesis explores whether Normanitas is the same across various boundaries of time and geographical space and to what extent it was a unique phenomenon or subject to outside influences. Is it distinctive from male elite military behaviour and traditional models from earlier non-Norman texts or a response to the contextual circumstances surrounding specific authors? I argue that a shared understanding of Norman identity is less consistent within these texts than previously suggested nor is it unique, being based on traditional classical, biblical and early medieval models concerning identity and ideal male military behaviour. The critical consensus of a distinct Norman ethnic identity known as Normanitas is, in fact, a misdiagnosis of a series of traditional models and typical medieval attitudes concerning the Normans as exemplars of a successful male-dominated military aristocracy and encouraged by the proliferation of Norman sources on their own terms. This research uncovers the complicated synthesis of topoi used to construct an authoritative masculine military identity that was commonly employed across ethnic boundaries and appealed strongly to diverse audiences because it incorporated long- established language that emphasised entertaining martial and heroic values. This thesis explores historical texts from Normandy, England, southern Italy, Sicily, Wales, France and Germany in the period 996-1159. Part One examines Normandy itself, identifying both core and peripheral texts that belong to a similar literary tradition but present divergent attitudes to Norman ethnicity. Parts Two and Three explore histories outside of Normandy which, through their aims, influences and contexts, demonstrate that Normanitas failed to be effectively exported to other Norman spheres of influence and beyond.
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Tomasto-Cagigao, Elsa. "Paracas' Cranial Modifications: Status, Ethnicity And Aesthetic?" Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2017. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/113580.
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Since the first explorations at the Paracas Peninsula in the beginnings of the 20th Century, cranial modifications drew attention of archaeologists. Several descriptions and classifications have been proposed, as well as hypothesis regarding the reasons behind this cultural practice; generally elements of identity such as status, gender, origin and ethnicity.Nevertheless, none of these hypothesis have been demonstrated yet, since there are not systematic studies correlating cranial shapes with archaeological provenience. In the context of the increasing interest regarding the Late Formative social and political dynamics in the South Coast of Peru, the identity of people buried in the Paracas Peninsula cemeteries and their possible relations to populations that inhabited the valleys towards the north and south is a central issue that has been addressed from the study of objects associated to the burials. Nevertheless the study of human remains is crucial and since the DNA preservation in coastal archaeological context is not good, the study of cranial modifications can give important information. In this paper we study and classify the cranial shapes of 38 individuals coming from 35 Paracas mortuary contexts that were excavated at Wari Kayán and at the Palpa valleys. As this sample is non-random and small, this study cannot to give a final answer to the possible reasons behind this practice in the Paracas realm, but it opens the discussion of this type of evidence, showing its potential and proposing a classification that allowed us to differentiate three groups of individuals: Those buried at the Peninsula and associated to Early Horizon textiles, those associated to Early Intermediate textiles and those coming from the southern valleys.Uno de los aspectos que más llamó la atención de los arqueólogos desde las primeras exploraciones de la península de Paracas, a inicios del siglo XX, fueron las modificaciones craneales. Desde entonces hasta la fecha, se han realizado numerosas descripciones y clasificaciones, y se han propuesto diversas hipótesis referentes a las razones que estarían detrás de esta práctica cultural: estatus, género, origen, etnicidad, etc., elementos todos de la identidad. Sin embargo, todavía no se ha podido validar ninguna de estas hipótesis, porque no existe ningún estudio sistemático que haya clasificado las formas craneales y las haya relacionado con las características de los contextos de procedencia. En el marco del creciente interés por conocer la dinámica social y política de finales del Período Formativo en la costa sur del Perú, la identidad de las personasenterradas en los cementerios de la península de Paracas y su posible relación con poblaciones que habitaban los valles hacia el norte y hacia el sur, es un tema de discusión central, que ha sido abordado principalmente a partir del estudio de los objetos asociados a los enterramientos. En este contexto, el estudio de las modificaciones craneales adquiere relevancia, más aun considerando que los estudios genéticos no han logrado un nivel de resolución fino en el caso de Paracas. En este artículo, se estudia y clasifica las formas craneales de 38 individuos procedentes de 35 contextos funerarios paracas,excavados en el cementerio de Wari Kayán y en los valles de Palpa. Tratándose de una muestra pequeña y no aleatoria, este estudio no pretende dar una respuesta definitiva a las posibles razones detrás de esta práctica en el mundo Paracas.Por el contrario, el objetivo es abrir el camino para la inclusión de este tipo de estudios en la discusión, mostrando su potencialidad y presentando una propuesta de clasificación que nos ha permitido diferenciar tres grupos de individuos: aquellos enterrados en la península de Paracas que estaban asociados a textiles del Horizonte Temprano, los que estaban asociados a textiles del Intermedio Temprano y los que proceden de los valles sureños.
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ルクワゴ, サリ ヴィック, and Vick Lukwago Ssali. "Ethnicity and federalism in Uganda : grassroots perceptions." Thesis, https://doors.doshisha.ac.jp/opac/opac_link/bibid/BB13026564/?lang=0, 2017. https://doors.doshisha.ac.jp/opac/opac_link/bibid/BB13026564/?lang=0.
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This thesis describes what people at the grassroots levels of the different tribal areas of Uganda think about the issue of federalism. It presents the findings from conversations with selected samples of ordinary people in ten different tribal areas of the country, that ethnic federalism, a recognition of Uganda's indigenous peoples and their indigenous systems of governance, is seen as one possible way of restoring and guaranteeing accountability in national politics. This is against the background of a post-independence history of undemocratic rule, instability, and deteriorating levels of social inequality along ethnic and political lines.博士(グローバル社会研究)
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Macaulay, Christopher Cody. "Territorial Issue Salience: Escalation, Resources, and Ethnicity." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2017. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1011849/.
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Conflict over territory is a major concern to scholars and policymakers, and much of conflict over territory is driven by the issues that make territory more or less attractive, or salient, to states. I examine the impact that tangible and intangible issue salience has on territorial claims, and in particular, how it drives both conflict and conflict escalation. I argue that intangible issues, such as ethnic or religious kin, plays a greater role in driving more severe forms of armed conflict and conflict escalation, compared to tangible factors such as natural resources. This is theorized to be due to the difficulty in dividing territory with intangible elements, as well as domestic political pressure driving leaders to escalate. These suppositions are supported, with the finding that identity plays a particularly crucial and unique role in driving states to more severe forms of armed conflict. Further, I examine how natural resources may be viewed by states by their type and form of utilization, with certain resources likely to be more valuable or strategic to states based on their rarity, concentration, or ease of substitution, based in part on a state's level of development. The results support a fairly uniform role of natural resources, with particular resources and combinations of resources serving to drive low level conflict, but with generally little impact on severe forms of armed conflict. Development also is found to play a role, driving poorer states to dispute natural resources of certain types. Lastly, I return to the topic of conflict over territory with an ethnic dimension by examining the role of issue indivisibility in the negotiations process, and find that negotiated settlements are harder to reach, and states more likely to favor unilateral action when disputing territory with an ethnic or religious component compared to other types of issues in claimed territory.