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Chao, Wen-Ning. "American and Taiwanese college students' perceptions of self and the ideal romantic partner /." Click for abstract, 1997. http://library.ctstateu.edu/ccsu%5Ftheses/1485.html.
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Thesis (M.A.) -- Central Connecticut State University, 1997.Thesis advisor: Dr. Bradley Waite. "...in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Psychology." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 37-44).
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Cadet, de Fontenay Gabriel Roger Alain Laurent. "Intercultural differences in suggestibility amongst university students /." Link to the online version, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10019/990.
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Campbell, Santiba D. "Exploring the associations between TRIOS and racial attitudes." Access to citation, abstract and download form provided by ProQuest Information and Learning Company; downloadable PDF file, 57 p, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1251899061&sid=2&Fmt=2&clientId=8331&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Chentsova-Dutton, Julia Evgenievna. "Physiological, behavioral, and self-reported components of relived emotions and their coherence in Hmong American and European American college students /." Diss., ON-CAMPUS Access For University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Click on "Connect to Digital Dissertations", 2001. http://www.lib.umn.edu/articles/proquest.phtml.
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Grigori, Mirela-Cristina. "L’image de la Roumanie et des roumains dans les écrits français de 1770 à 1900." Thesis, Paris Est, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013PEST0012.
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Le domaine de l’imagologie est défini, par les comparatistes, comme un domaine de frontière, entre littérature comparée, histoire, ethnopsychologie. Nous nous sommes situés dans une perspective imagologique dans le cadre de cette recherche, pour décrire les étapes de la formation de l’image des Roumains dans des écrits français du XVIIIe et XIXe siècles. Ces étapes sont marquées par des textes de référence dans l’histoire des relations franco-roumaines, nous mentionnons ici le premier grand livre sur les Moldo-Valaques de Jean-Louis Carra, en passant par le livre de Stanislas Bellanger, jusqu’aux écrits d’Abdolonyme Ubicini, sans oublier ceux des divers consuls français, ou historiens, amis des Roumains.La Roumanie ne s’est pas faite en un jour. L’image des Français sur les Roumains s’est cristallisée durant le XIXe siècle. Il est vrai, dès le XIIIe siècle, des militaires français, des commerçants étaient arrivés sur les terres habités par les ancêtres des Roumains. Mais l’attraction vers l’Orient, cultivée surtout par le XVIIIe et le XIXe siècle, tout comme l’inquiétude qu’exerçaient en Europe les Empires Ottoman et Russe ont fait que de plus en plus de Français, aventuriers, révolutionnaires, exilés, hommes politiques, militaires voyagent vers l’Est européen.Même s’ils sont rédigés durant un séjour en pays roumain, au début, les écrits français sur les Roumains sont influencés par les chroniques moldo-valaques et par les textes antérieurs. Au fur et à mesure que les moyens de transport s’améliorent et que le kéroutza est remplacé par le train ou le bateau sur le Danube, les ouvrages sont beaucoup plus personnels, sans ignorer les textes antérieurs. Nous avons démontré que cette reprise des mêmes fragments d’images, faisant référence à des domaines récurrents (histoire, habits, logements, moeurs, organisation, ressources naturelles, paysage, ethnies), a abouti à composer une image qui est loin de la touche négative du cliché. Les enregistrements scripturaux sur les Roumains du XIXe siècle allaient préparer le terrain pour la naissance de la nation roumaine. Ce moment, ouvrant la voie à la grande amitié France-Roumanie, coïncide avec l’apparition dans les textes officiels des mots Roumain, Roumanie.Nous nous sommes intéressés aux écrits français sur les Roumains d’une période mal connue, sinon pas du tout, mais ce n’est pas une analyse exhaustive, notre recherche ne fait que commencer un travail qui pourra déboucher sur l’étude des textes d’ambassade, des échanges de messages entre les consuls français et le gouvernement français, avant même que la première ambassade française s’installe en Roumanie au XIXe siècle. L’étude des écrits sur lesquels nous nous sommes arrêtés se constitue en analyse de divers documents, essais historiques, mémoires, récits de voyage, statistiques. Notre analyse opère avec les concepts d’image (au sens de représentation), de8 stéréotype, d’ethnotype, en termes de réception de l’Autre, avec tout ce que l’altérité a de caractéristique. L’image finale ressort des récurrences des mêmes éléments sur lesquels les auteurs insistent (stéréotypes)The field of imagology is defined by comparatists as a frontier domain, somewhere in between comparative literature, history and ethnopsychology. We have approached the subject matter from an imagological perspective in order to describe the image formation stages of the Romanians in several French writings in the 18th and 19th century. These stages are marked by several reference texts along the history of the French-Romanian relations, we mention here the first great work on the Moldo-Vlachs by Jean-Louis Carra, following Stanislas Bellanger’ book to Abdolonyme Ubicini’s writings, without forgetting those of various French consuls or historians, friends of the Romanians.Romania has not come into being within a single day. The French people’s image on the Romanians crystallized along the 19th century. True, in the 13th century French military men and merchants arrived in the lands inhabited by the ancestors of the Romanians. But the attraction of the Orient, cultivated especially in the 18th and 19th century, as well as the apprehension exerted in Europe by the Ottoman and Russian Empires determined more and more adventurers, revolutionaries, exiles, politicians and soldiers to travel towards Eastern Europe. Even if they were written during a stay in the Romanian countries, at first, the French writings about the Romanians bear the influence/ mark of the Moldo-Vlach chronicles and earlier texts. As transport is getting better and the keroutza is replaced by train or ship along the Danube, later works become increasingly personal without disregarding previous writings. We have demonstrated that this resuming of the same fragments of images referring to recurring domains (history, habits, dwellings, morals, organization, natural resources, landscape and ethnic groups) resulted into composing an image which is far from the touch of the negative cliché. The scriptural records about Romanians in the 19th century would prepare the ground for the foundation of the Romanian nation. This point coincides with the appearance in the official texts of the words Romanian, Romania, everything preparing the ground for the great France-Romania friendship. We are mainly interested in the period when the writings are scarce, as compared with the French books appearing in the 20th century. The study of these writings constitutes in the analysis of various documents, historical essays, memoirs, travel narratives and embassy reports. This analysis operates with concepts of image (meaning representation), stereotype, ethnotype in the terms of perceiving the Other with everything Alterity has characteristic. The finale image is appearing of recurrence of the same elements which the authors insist on (stereotypes)
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Lechuga, Espino Julia. "The cross cultural variation of probability judgment accuracy the influence of reasoning style /." To access this resource online via ProQuest Dissertations and Theses @ UTEP, 2008. http://0-proquest.umi.com.lib.utep.edu/login?COPT=REJTPTU0YmImSU5UPTAmVkVSPTI=&clientId=2515.
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Hoersting, Raquel Carvalho Jenkins Sharon Rae. "No place to call home cultural homelessness, self-esteem and cross-cultural identities /." [Denton, Tex.] : University of North Texas, 2009. http://digital.library.unt.edu/permalink/meta-dc-10991.
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Siney, Ryan Patrick O'Leary Virginia E. "Attributions and depression across cultures." Auburn, Ala., 2005. http://repo.lib.auburn.edu/2005%20Fall/Thesis/SINEY_RYAN_37.pdf.
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Bardina, Patricia. "The role of ethnicity in parenting practices and children's behavior problems /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9055.
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Parker, Shelia Jeanette. "An examination of the role of sex and race on occupational stereotyping using Holland's theory /." The Ohio State University, 1985. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu148726085949485.
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Liu, Benjamin. "Psychotherapy with Chinese clients the effects of cultural assumptions such as filial piety on the working relationship." Abstract Full dissertation, 2007.
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Schroeder, Mark A. "Configuring modern cultures using the biblical themes of power and wisdom." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2001. http://www.tren.com.
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Maddux, William W. "The "Ripple Effect" cultural differences in subjective perceptions of responsibility /." Connect to this title online, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1092223803.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2004.Title from first page of PDF file. Document formatted into pages; contains ix, 61 p.; also includes graphics. Includes bibliographical references (p. 59-61). Available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center.
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Murry, Joe Mitchell. "Ethnicity and Cognitive Complexity of Chronic Pain Patients." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1990. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc332535/.
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Sixty subjects divided equally among Anglo-Americans, Black Americans, and Hispanic Americans participated in the study. They were classified as chronic pain patients by medical diagnosis and duration of pain. They were drawing Workers' Compensation and were all blue-collar workers from the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Cognitive complexity is a measure of individuals' ability to construe their feelings, events of their lives, and their world in a meaningful manner. Cognitive complexity appeared to differ among the cultural groups as indicated by significantly different functionally independent construct scores. Anglo-Americans appeared to have a greater internal complexity than did Black Americans and Hispanic Americans.
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Vollhardt, Johanna Ray. "Victim consciousness and its effects on intergroup relations a double-edged sword? /." Amherst, Mass. : University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2009. http://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3372282/.
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Herschbach, Mitchell Albert. "Beyond folk psychology? toward an enriched account of social understanding /." Diss., [La Jolla] : University of California, San Diego, 2010. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3402726.
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Tomas, Katarina, and mikewood@deakin edu au. "Displaced self: The impact of language-migration on self-identity." Deakin University. School of Communication and Creative Arts, 2005. http://tux.lib.deakin.edu.au./adt-VDU/public/adt-VDU20051208.113428.
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In this dissertation I explore the impact that language-migration has on Self-Identity. The thesis consists of two parts: a memoir The Strangeness of Freedom, and an exegesis. Each is intended to stand alone, but also to complement the other. In the memoir I draw on my personal recollections of my family's migrations across five countries (Czechoslovakia, West Germany, USA and Australia) and into three languages (Czech, German and English) in order to convey my particular experience of language migration.
In the exegesis I analyse several memoirs written by other language migrants and examine what impact they believe migrating into a new language and culture had on their own Self-identity. I draw on postmodern and psychoanalytic theory to explore the nature of Self-Identity formation and why migrants, as well as non-migrants might experience a change in their Self-identity during the course of their lives. I attempt to tease out to what extent the change in Self-identity is a universal experience that results from living across time and moving from a known past into an unknown future, regardless of whether one physically migrates or not.
I found that while language-migrants tend to describe a more intense disruption of their Self-Identity, non-migrants also experience such a disruption in their sense of Self, simply by living in a rapidly changing world. I propose that while changing locations and languages clearly disrupts the continuity we presume life entails, it is in fact the passage of time that distances us from our known past, including our familiar Self, even if we never physically or linguistically migrate.
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Miller, Traci Rinker. "Culture, gender and moral emotions the role of interdependent self-construal /." Full text available online (restricted access), 2002. http://images.lib.monash.edu.au/ts/theses/Miller.pdf.
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Thakar, Dhara Aniruddha. "Parenting style discrepancies a comparison inter-ethnic and intra-ethnic couples /." Connect to this title online, 2008. http://scholarworks.umass.edu/theses/94/.
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Boot, Katie. "Pictures and interpretations : towards an applied semiotics." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/2710.
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This is a study about the ways in which pictures can be interpreted and the ways in which they are interpreted; the latter, specifically, in a relatively remote part of Peru. Chapter II reviews an assortment of picture tests which bring to light differences in the ways pictures are perceived. Chapter III examines the specific cultural context in which a fairly informal picture test was administered. Chapter IV presents some results and asks what cultural and situational factors may have contributed to the variety in interpretations evident. The drawing of firm conclusions is precluded by the absence of any systematic approach to the interpretations or to the pictures themselves, and it is this which the second half of the study attempts to remedy; by providing a theoretical framework for the assessment of verbalized responses to pictures. Chapter V offers a definition of "picture" and locates it within a typology of indices. It also examines the notion of "visual resemblance", eventually adopting the view that any picture is infinitely ambiguous. Chapter VI introduces two methodological necessities consequent on this ambiguity: a stipulation as to the identity and the taxonomic specificity of any signified object; and a stipulation as to the spatial extension of its signifier. No other methodological content is presented. Chapter VII classifies types of verbalized responses in terms of their visual motivation, and the degree to which they interrelate the stipulated pictorial units. Chapter VIII acknowledges that signification may continue beyond the representational level. Further, postrepresentational, types of responses are classified in terms of the nature of the link maintained with the representational signified.
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Macêdo, Alice Costa. "O reverente irreverente: a espirituosidade em rituais de umbanda." Universidade de São Paulo, 2011. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/59/59137/tde-30092011-161724/.
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O humor revela-se frequentemente como uma característica marcante nos rituais umbandistas. Diante disso, este estudo propõe-se investigar, numa perspectiva etnopsicológica, se e em que medida as teses psicanalíticas (freudianas e lacanianas) sobre o chiste e o cômico podem ajudar a compreender o humor na umbanda. A pesquisa de campo foi realizada na Fraternidade de Umbanda Esotérica Caboclo Pena Branca, em Ribeirão Preto, cujos rituais se mostraram comumente bem humorados. Procedeu-se a uma escuta participante, que implica em uma escuta psicanalítica, na qual a participação é entendida e utilizada como instrumento de refinamento da audição. Nessa medida, a implicação do pesquisador em campo foi indispensável, pois o efeito de sentido é também produzido nele, que escuta e ri. Após a análise dos episódios espirituosos, foi possível constatar que a compreensão psicanalítica do humor é aplicável às suas ocorrências no ritual umbandista. Nas falas dos próprios adeptos do terreiro, o riso revela seu uso terapêutico, é parte de um tratamento que quebra defesas, o que se coaduna com a perspectiva freudiana de descarga de catexias. No entanto, segundo as teses psicanalíticas, frequentemente os chistes permitem a expressão de impulsos agressivos dirigidos ao ouvinte, enquanto na umbanda a função de ser objeto do riso é deslocada para personagens cômicos que representam o que poderia haver de repreensível no outro, deslocando a censura sobre os seus filhos para o enredo de uma comédia atuada por espíritos. Além disso, ao brincar com metáforas e sentidos novos, os espíritos dão eco à complexidade do sujeito humano, refletindo-a além de intelectualizações.Humor frequently reveals itself as an outstanding feature in Umbanda religious rituals. Given that, this study seeks to investigate, from an ethnopsychological perspective, if and to what extent psychoanalytic theories (Freudian and Lacanian) about wits and comic may help to understand Umbanda humor. The field research was conducted at Fraternidade de Umbanda Esotérica Caboclo Pena Branca in Ribeirão Preto, where the rituals generally proved to be humorous. The method was the participant listening, that involves a psychoanalytic listening in which participation is understood and utilized as an instrument of audition refinement. Thus, the researcher\'s involvement while in the field was essential since the effect of meaning is also produced on this individual who listens and laughs. After analyzing the witty episodes, it was concluded that the psychoanalytic understanding of humor is applicable to these occurrences in Umbanda ritual. In the religious own speeches, the laughter exposes its therapeutic uses; it is part of a \"treatment\" for \"breaking defenses\", which is consistent with the Freudian idea of catharsis. However, according to psychoanalytic theories wits regularly allow the expression of aggressive impulses, while in Umbanda the objects of laughter are comic characters that represent what could otherwise be considered objectionable, displacing the \"censure\" to a comedy plot acted by spirits. Moreover, while playing with metaphors and new meanings, the spirits mirror non-rational aspects of human complexity.
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ABDEL, KADER NEFISSA MOHAMED. "CROSS CULTURE GENDER DIFFERENCES ON EVALUATION OF WOMEN'S PSYCHOLOGICAL NEEDS." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/184204.
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The central purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of the devaluation of women's psychological problems upon the recognition of women's behavior as deviant and the subsequent impact of both variables upon the recognition of women's need for psychological treatment. A secondary purpose was to determine whether culture and gender influenced each concept in this study. The study utilized a mathematical correlational design with a causal modeling approach to test a three-stage theory. The convenience sample selected for the study consisted of 80 subjects: 20 Arabic males; 20 Arabic females; 20 Anglo American males; and 20 Anglo American females living in a southwestern city. A three-scale instrument (each scale contains two subscales) was constructed to index the theoretical concepts. Reliability and validity estimates were conducted to determine the psychometric properties of the instrument. The theory was tested using correlational, analysis of variance, and multiple regression statistical techniques. The traditional orientation of the Arabic culture appears to account for the differences found in the data. Along with cultural influences, gender also appeared to impact upon two of the concepts in the neurotic level, devaluation of neurotic behavior (B = -.64) and recognition of the need for treatment of neurotic behaviors (B =.22), with males evidencing a lower level of sensitivity to women's psychological problems. Gender interacted with culture for two concepts, devaluation of neurotic behavior (B = -.28) and recognition of neurotic behavior as deviant (B = -.27), and Arabic males were the least sensitive group. Both culture and gender did not have an impact upon devaluation of psychotic behavior and recognition of the need for treatment of psychotic behavior. However, there were cultural differences in the recognition of psychotic behavior as deviant. Arabic subjects probably evaluated some of psychotic behaviors as religious rather than considering them as psychiatric disorders. Only the variable, devaluation of women's psychological problems was found to be a predictor of recognition of women's need for treatment. Also the variable, devaluation of women's psychological problems, had an impact upon recognition of women's behavior as deviant.
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Castex, Graciela Maria. "An analysis and synthesis of current theories of ethnicity and ethnic group processes using the creation of the Hispanic group as a case example /." Access Digital Full Text version, 1990. http://pocketknowledge.tc.columbia.edu/home.php/bybib/10937742.
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Thesis (Ed.D.)--Teachers College, Columbia University.Typescript; issued also on microfilm. Sponsor: Ellen Condliffe Lagemann. Dissertation Committee: Lambros Comitas. Bibliography: leaves 109-114.
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Yoon, Jeeyun. "The influence of cultural orientation and power motive on leadership perception." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/51834.
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Despite the recognized importance of leadership perception and individual differences in various cultures, our understanding of each of these variables is limited. The influence of fundamental cognitive styles (context dependent vs. independent) in different cultures and individual differences within culture has rarely been discussed. Current leadership perception research typically depends on surveys which cannot capture spontaneous responses that reflect both automatic and controlled processes. To better understand cross-cultural leadership perception, this study recruited two cultural groups (e.g., Americans and East Asians) and employed both qualitative (e.g., picture recognition tasks) and quantitative (Conditional Reasoning Tests) methods to examine the effect of culture and individual differences (power motive) on leadership perception. Findings and implications for future research are discussed.
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Finklea, Kristin Michelle. "Investigating inappropriate cue utilization in the own-race bias." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2008. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3307561.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2008.Title from first page of PDF file (viewed July 24, 2008). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 123-127).
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Cameron, Rosalea. "The ecology of third culture kids: the experiences of Australasian adults." Thesis, Cameron, Rosalea (2003) The ecology of third culture kids: the experiences of Australasian adults. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 2003. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/498/.
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The ecology of human development has been shown to be different for different cultures and sub-cultures within a particular culture, and to play a significant part in shaping the outcome traits or character profile exhibited by individuals who experience a given ecology. This is the case for members of that sub-culture of children who spend childhood years abroad; who expect to eventually repatriate to their passport country.
Those who experience the phenomenon have been called Third Culture Kids or TCKs, and the outcome profile for those with a North American background has been identified. However, no literature on children in the Australasian context exists. A progressive naturalistic study, using both qualitative and quantitative methodology, was undertaken providing foundational data on the experience of adult Australasians (Australians and New Zealanders) who had experienced such a childhood ecology. The Australasian self-reported reflections were compared with descriptions of the North American and international experience presented in existing literature. Further, accepted models of human development were merged and adapted to produce a TCK-specific model of human development. This model was a significant product of this research project.
Components of particular importance to development that nurtured the outcome profile traits were identified and represented in the model. The study incorporated three phases: phase 1 involved the in-depth interview of 3 respondents who had experienced the TCK ecology on three different continents, phase 2 involved data collection on the demographics of the broader Australasian TCK population asking questions about family choices, education, and career trajectories (N=50), and phase 3 collected in-depth descriptions of the childhood TCK ecology through voluntary response to an extensive written survey and asked for comparison with the imagined alternative ecology had respondents remained in their passport country (N=45). In both phases 1 and 3 respondents were asked to describe character traits they believed they manifested as a direct result of immersion in the TCK ecology and then suggest traits they might otherwise have manifested had the imagined alternative ecology been the nurturing environment. Tabulation of the emerging data allowed comparison and contrast with the North American outcome profile traits that have been described in literature. In both tabulations many outcome profile traits were identified as being in polar contrast with each other; the TCK could manifest either or both of the apparently opposing traits.
Manifestation was dependent upon the immediate context within which the TCK was functioning. There was shown to be a significant overlap in the outcome profile for Australasians and North Americans. However, in this study Australasians presented stronger in their self-report of altered relational patterns and traits related to resourcefulness and practical abilities than was described in the North American literature. In comparing outcome profile traits of the real TCK ecology and those that were associated with the imagined alternative ecology respondents reported that they would have been more confident and more socially competent, but less tolerant and less globally aware had they been raised in the passport country. The self-reported outcome traits or profile were linked to the developmental ecology by exploring the processes and tensions that were at work. It was shown that dynamic tensions emerged and increased in valence as the individual gradually developed polarised traits that manifested according to engagement in the multiple contexts the TCK was required to manage. The results of this study have implications for those who deploy families abroad, as well as those who educate, and nurture the social potential of TCKs. This study has served to extend understanding of the phenomenon at the international level and laid a foundation for specific understanding of the Australasian context.
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Cameron, Rosalea. "The ecology of "third culture kids" : the experiences of Australasian adults /." Cameron, Rosalea (2003) The ecology of third culture kids: the experiences of Australasian adults. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 2003. http://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/498/.
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The ecology of human development has been shown to be different for different cultures and sub-cultures within a particular culture, and to play a significant part in shaping the outcome traits or character profile exhibited by individuals who experience a given ecology. This is the case for members of that sub-culture of children who spend childhood years abroad; who expect to eventually repatriate to their passport country.
Those who experience the phenomenon have been called Third Culture Kids or TCKs, and the outcome profile for those with a North American background has been identified. However, no literature on children in the Australasian context exists. A progressive naturalistic study, using both qualitative and quantitative methodology, was undertaken providing foundational data on the experience of adult Australasians (Australians and New Zealanders) who had experienced such a childhood ecology. The Australasian self-reported reflections were compared with descriptions of the North American and international experience presented in existing literature. Further, accepted models of human development were merged and adapted to produce a TCK-specific model of human development. This model was a significant product of this research project.
Components of particular importance to development that nurtured the outcome profile traits were identified and represented in the model. The study incorporated three phases: phase 1 involved the in-depth interview of 3 respondents who had experienced the TCK ecology on three different continents, phase 2 involved data collection on the demographics of the broader Australasian TCK population asking questions about family choices, education, and career trajectories (N=50), and phase 3 collected in-depth descriptions of the childhood TCK ecology through voluntary response to an extensive written survey and asked for comparison with the imagined alternative ecology had respondents remained in their passport country (N=45). In both phases 1 and 3 respondents were asked to describe character traits they believed they manifested as a direct result of immersion in the TCK ecology and then suggest traits they might otherwise have manifested had the imagined alternative ecology been the nurturing environment. Tabulation of the emerging data allowed comparison and contrast with the North American outcome profile traits that have been described in literature. In both tabulations many outcome profile traits were identified as being in polar contrast with each other; the TCK could manifest either or both of the apparently opposing traits.
Manifestation was dependent upon the immediate context within which the TCK was functioning. There was shown to be a significant overlap in the outcome profile for Australasians and North Americans. However, in this study Australasians presented stronger in their self-report of altered relational patterns and traits related to resourcefulness and practical abilities than was described in the North American literature. In comparing outcome profile traits of the real TCK ecology and those that were associated with the imagined alternative ecology respondents reported that they would have been more confident and more socially competent, but less tolerant and less globally aware had they been raised in the passport country. The self-reported outcome traits or profile were linked to the developmental ecology by exploring the processes and tensions that were at work. It was shown that dynamic tensions emerged and increased in valence as the individual gradually developed polarised traits that manifested according to engagement in the multiple contexts the TCK was required to manage. The results of this study have implications for those who deploy families abroad, as well as those who educate, and nurture the social potential of TCKs. This study has served to extend understanding of the phenomenon at the international level and laid a foundation for specific understanding of the Australasian context.
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Walker, Rebecca, and n/a. "The emergence of the representational mind." University of Otago. Department of Psychology, 2006. http://adt.otago.ac.nz./public/adt-NZDU20061106.161621.
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Theory of mind has been described in philosophical and psychological literature as "folk psychology", and is the tacit understanding that our behaviour is driven by our thoughts, desires and beliefs (Wellman, Cross, & Watson, 2001). Children are widely considered to have attained theory of mind understanding when they are able to pass the test of false belief understanding devised by Wimmer and Perner (1983), at around 4 years of age. There are many theories as to how a child comes to hold a folk psychology, including innate modularism (Leslie, 1987, 1988, 1994), theory change (Gopnik & Wellman 1992), developing representational understanding (Perner, 1991, 1995, 2000), and experiential understanding developed in a socio-linguisitic context (Nelson, 1996). In addition, theory of mind has been linked to the development of symbolic understanding (Deloache & Smith, 1999; Perner, 1991), pretend play (Leslie, 1987; Taylor & Carlson, 1997; Youngblade & Dunn, 1993), language (Astington & Jenkins, 1999; Nelson, 1996; Olson, 1988) and executive function (e.g. Hughes, 1998a; Kochanska et al., 1996; Reed et al., 1984). The present study sought to bring together these diverse findings and to attempt to provide an integrated account of the emergence of theory of mind understanding during the preschool years. Sixty-four New Zealand children were assessed on their mental state understanding, deceptive abilities, symbolic functioning, language, and executive skills, when they were aged 30, 36, 42 and 48 months of age.
There were a number of key findings in the present study. Language was a powerful predictor of false belief performance both within and across time, and was also related to many of the other variables included in the study. Performance on the scale model test of symbolic functioning was related across time to children�s concurrent and later false belief understanding. Scale model performance was also intertwined in a bidirectional relationship with language, and language appeared to play an increasingly important role in mediating the relationship with false belief understanding across time. False belief understanding and scale model performance were also related within and across time to executive function. There was evidence to suggest that the importance of working memory was due to its role in conflict inhibition. Although deception has sometimes been posited to be a precocious manifestation of theory of mind (Chandler, Fritz, & Hala, 1989), in the present study deceptive ability lagged false belief understanding. Furthermore, false belief understanding was related to children�s subsequent (but not earlier) responses to a protagonist�s intention. This supports the hypothesis that false belief understanding allows a qualitative change in the execution of deception, whereby children can move from simple physical strategies to more sophisticated mentalist strategies. Overall, the present study provides some evidence to suggest that symbolic functioning, language, and later theory of mind may form part of a single developing skill set of symbolic representation. In dynamic interaction with social understanding, and supported by cognitive abilities such as executive function, and the socio-linguistic context, it is argued that understanding of one�s own and other minds emerges. Children�s ability to solve the false belief problem at 4 years of age is presented as a milestone on a developmental continuum of social understanding.
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Dias, Rafael de Nuzzi. "Correntes ancestrais: os pretos-velhos do Rosário." Universidade de São Paulo, 2011. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/59/59137/tde-07082011-105621/.
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Complexa e abundante em possibilidades de conformação, a possessão umbandista possui suas margens estabelecidas por alguns tipos de personagens retirados da experiência histórica e da memória coletiva brasileira. Essas categorias organizam dizeres a partir de perspectivas enunciativas próprias, posições simbolicamente articuladas com potencial para produzir determinados sentidos. Nesse ínterim, o preto-velho emerge como entidade espiritual proeminente, recorrente presença no quadro da religiosidade afro-brasileira, sobretudo da umbanda. Afinado com o renovado interesse científico pelo tema nas últimas décadas, o presente estudo objetivou investigar o universo simbólico da categoria espiritual preto-velho, e desvendar significados e alcances dos seus usos rituais e etnopsicológicos na religiosidade umbandista. Para tanto, foi desenvolvido trabalho de campo em quatro terreiros de umbanda da região de Ribeirão Preto-SP, tendo sido um deles, o Terreiro de Umbanda Pai José do Rosário, escolhido como caso-modelo para a apresentação dos resultados e análises. O trabalho de campo foi desenvolvido a partir de uma abordagem do fenômeno pela via da escuta participante, refinamento do método da observação participante concebido pelo aporte da escuta psicanalítica lacaniana que, tomada como ferramenta heurística, permite recuperar e acessar sentidos sutis ocultos nos rituais e nas narrativas dos sujeitos inerentes à possessão. Além disso, foram feitas entrevistas semiestruturadas com médiuns desincorporados e incorporados por seus pretos-velhos. As análises dos dados foram realizadas com base na psicanálise lacaniana, sobretudo no que tange à noção de um inconsciente semiótica e socialmente estruturado, com vistas a perscrutar a dimensão histórica e coletiva do sujeito a partir de seus atos executados diante de um pesquisador transferencialmente implicado. Entidades mobilizadoras de um vasto repertório de símbolos cujo potencial abrange múltiplos desdobramentos semânticos, os pretos-velhos revelaram-se entidades complexas, capazes de assumir várias conformações distintas a partir de suas referências essenciais enquanto escravos e ancestrais. Etnopsicologicamente, os pretos-velhos mostraram-se espíritos fundamentalmente mediadores e integradores, subsidiando articulações e processos diacrônicos de significância entre passado e presente; vida e morte; adolescência e vida adulta; emoção e razão; corpo e espírito; ação e consequência. Em suma, os pretos-velhos são, no nível das vivências religiosas dos adeptos umbandistas, a mais contundente manifestação daquilo que em psicanálise implica o processo de assunção do desejo do Outro como desejo próprio, característico da conciliação do homem com seu próprio inconsciente, consubstanciado em marcas de filiação e pertencimento contidas na tradição e na cultura de seu povo. Convocam o ser vivente, enfim, a assumir seus inalienáveis, porque fundantes, direitos e deveres enquanto elo de uma corrente ancestral.Complex and abundant in its possibilities of conformation, umbanda trance has its borders established for some types of characters displaced from the historical experience and collective memory of Brazil. These categories organize sayings from their own enunciative perspectives, symbolically articulated positions potentially able to produce certain meanings. Meanwhile, the preto-velho (old black man) emerges as a prominent spiritual entity, a recurrent presence in the context of the African-Brazilian religiousness, especially umbanda. In concert with the renewed scientific interest about the subject in recent decades, this essay aims to investigate the symbolic universe of the spiritual category preto-velho, as well as to disclose the meanings and the scope of its ritual and ethnopsychological uses in umbanda religiousness. Therefore, a fieldwork was developed in four terreiros (umbandas temples) in the region of Ribeirão Preto. One of them, the Terreiro of Umbanda Pai José do Rosario, was chosen as a model case to display the results and analysis. The phenomenon approach, in this fieldwork, was conducted via participant listening, a refinement of the participant observation method designed by the contribution of lacanian psychoanalytic listening which, taken as a heuristic tool, permits tenuous meanings hidden in the rituals and narratives of the subjects related to the possession to be retrieved and accessed. In addition, semi-structured interviews were made with mediums both disembodied and embodied by their pretos-velhos. Data analysis was done based on lacanian psychoanalysis, especially regarding to the notion of a semiotic and socially structured unconscious, in order to recover the historical and collective dimensions of the subject based on their acts performed facing a transferentially implicated researcher. Entities that mobilize a vast repertoire of symbols whose potential embraces multiple semantic outspreadings, the pretos-velhos revealed themselves as complex entities, capable of assuming several different conformations based on their essential references as \"slaves\" and \"ancestors\". Ethnopsychologically, the preto-velho showed themselves up fundamentally as \"mediators\" and \"integrators\" spirits, supporting articulations and diachronic processes of significance between \"past\" and \"present\"; \"life\" and \"death\"; \"adolescence\" and \"adulthood \"; \"emotion and \"reason\"; \"body \" and \"spirit\"; \"action \" and \"consequence\". Concisely, the pretos-velhos are, in the level of the umbanda followers religious experiences, the clearest manifestation of what in psychoanalysis implies the process of taking the Other\'s desire as its own desire, characteristic of the conciliation of the human being with his own unconscious, embodied in an affiliation and belonging traces contained in the tradition and culture of their \"people\". It summons the individual, ultimately, to take his inalienable, since founding, rights and duties as a link of an ancestral chain.
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More, Janet May Derrick. "Cultural foundations of personal meaning : their loss and recovery." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/25473.
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This study investigated what occurs in an individual's life when their culture is changed or irretrievably lost; and it investigated how an individual then regains personal meaning during a time of cultural loss and change.
Peter Marris' innovative Theory of Loss and Change was used as the theoretical basis for the study. This theory states that a grief-like reformulation process occurs for individuals who experience any irretrievable loss of culture.
The Native Indian cultures of British Columbia were used as the cultural foundation. Three Native Indian elders were interviewed and their life histories recorded (Bertaux, 1981). The data collected was then used as multiple case studies and analyzed according to Yin (1984) and Stake (1980).
Cross-matching of patterns of loss and change, and patterns of recovery of personal meaning revealed six primary forms of loss and change in the elder's lives, and five primary characteristics of recovery of personal meaning. Secondary forms and characteristics in each area were identified as well.
Marris' Theory of Loss and Change was supported. It was also expanded to include the Native Indian cultures of British Columbia. In addition, the emotional elements of the reformulation process were specified.
The outcome of the study was a cognitive framework useful in understanding the Native Indian cultures in British Columbia and the personal conflicts of Native Indian individuals.Education, Faculty of
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Anderson, Kay. ""East" as "West" : place, state and the institutionalization of myth in Vancouver's Chinatown, 1880-1980." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/26950.
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Over the century 1880-1980, settlers of Chinese origin in Vancouver, British Columbia have been perceived primarily through the nexus of a racial category that defines them as pre-eminently "Chinese" or "Oriental." Similarly, their place in the urban landscape, "Chinatown," has in one sense been a product of host-society categories and institutional practices that have acted to single Chinatown out, and to render it continuously a place apart.
The point of departure for this thesis is the view that "race" is not an objectively given biological trait, but an idea, defined by the significance people attach to it. It is an idiom around which have been erected epistemological distinctions of insider and outsider, "we" and "they." In view of the problematic nature of race, it is argued that one of the tasks of the social science of race relations is to uncover the socio-historical process by which racial categories are themselves constructed and institutionalized over time and in certain contexts. In developing this argument, the thesis demonstrates the role played by place and the state in the continuous making of a racial category, the "Chinese."
The significance of place is identified for its role as the historically evolving nexus through which the racial category is structured. It is argued that "Chinatown" - like race - is an idea, a representation that belongs to the white European cultural tradition and the intention of the thesis is to trace the career of its social definition over the course of a century. In so doing, the claim is made that Chinatown reveals as much of the "West" as it does of the "East."
Ideas of place and identity would not be so enduring or effective, however, but for the fact that they have been repeatedly inscribed in the practices of those with the power of definition. It is argued that the three levels of the Canadian state, as the legislative arms of a hegemonic "white" European historical bloc, have granted legitimacy to, and reproduced the race definition process through their national, provincial and neighbourhood practices. This process continues through the long period when "Chinatown" was reviled as a public nuisance, promoted as a "Little Corner of the Far East," reconstructed as a "slum" and finally under the aegis of multiculturalism, courted in the 1970s by the Canadian state precisely for its perceived "Chineseness." Underlying these changing definitions of Chinatown, it is argued, is a deeper racial frame of reference that has been continuously re-created through discriminatory and more subtle ways as part of the exercise of white European cultural domination.
Lying behind the career of the racial category, therefore, is the history of the relationship between place, racial discourse, power and institutional practice in a British settler society. The study is undertaken with a view to uncovering those relationships and by way of a contribution to the recent rediscovery of place in human geography.Arts, Faculty of
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Lemos, Daniela Torres de Andrade. "Pai Cacique e os filhos da Estrela Guia: Processos identitários e cura na Legião Branca Mestre Jesus." Universidade de São Paulo, 2014. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/59/59137/tde-20012015-144240/.
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A Legião Branca Mestre Jesus é um tradicional centro de Umbanda, conhecido por se dedicar às praticas de cura, localizado na cidade de Santa Rita do Passa Quatro. O objetivo desta pesquisa foi investigar e descrever os processos de transformação identitária em adeptos e médiuns deste Centro, mediante seu acompanhamento longitudinal. Para esse efeito, foi feita uma etnografia com especial atenção aos significantes que se repetem no complexo simbólico das entidades espirituais e narrativas de vida dos médiuns. Foram realizadas entrevistas abertas individuais com médiuns iniciantes e atuais líderes, a respeito de sua vida pessoal e sua relação com o Centro. A análise dos dados se baseou na psicanálise lacaniana, apoiando-se em especial nos conceito de identificação e nos estudos sobre possessão. Os resultados indicam repetição dos significantes família, trabalho, justiça, luz e caminho. As transformações identitárias envolvem ressignificação de marcas simbólicas relacionadas a conflitos familiares através da afiliação à família espiritual da L.B.M.J. e aos valores de responsabilização perante o sofrimento do outro. Também verificou-se transformação das profissões dos médiuns em formas de trabalho espiritual norteadas por um bem fazer e combinando elementos simbólicos da L.B.M.J. a um modo de agir dos caboclos e pretos-velhos que implica trabalho justo. A iniciação como médium envolve reposicionamento subjetivo de alguém a ser cuidado para alguém que cuida. O adepto é visto como parte de uma corrente, cujo membro desgarrado é o elo mais frágil, o doente a ser cuidado. A compreensão dos processos identitários envolve compreensão da noção de pessoa do Centro, de que os espíritos (vivos ou mortos) são luzes inomináveis, que se manifestam sob diversas roupagens, identificáveis por padrões de ação éticos. Os processos identificatórios constatados têm a peculiaridade de se centrarem em padrões de ação atrelados aos valores do culto e, ao mesmo tempo, a uma luz que remete ao real inapreensível. Estes processos identificatórios envolvem ainda a reelaboração de aspectos da história brasileira como um todo, em especial ao etnocídio indígena em relação ao cristianismo, de forma que, sem abrir mão dos valores cristãos como humildade e caridade, recupera-se elementos históricos recalcados em relação ao descobrimento e ao extermínio de etnias.The Legião Branca Mestre Jesus (White Legion Master Jesus) is a traditional center of Umbanda, known to be devoted to healing practices, located in Santa Rita do Passa Quatro. The objective of this research was to investigate and describe the processes of identity transformation in adherents and mediums of the center, by longitudinal monitoring of them. For this purpose, an ethnography was done with special attention to repeated signifiers of the symbolic complex of spiritual entities and life narratives of mediums. Individual open interviews with beginners and current mediums leaders about his personal life and his relationship with the Center were held. The data analysis was based on the Lacanian psychoanalysis, relying in particular on the concept of identifying and studies in possession. The results indicate significant repetition of family, work, justice, light and way. The identity transformations involve reframing of symbolic marks related to family conflicts through affiliation to the \"spiritual family\" of LBMJ and values of accountability to the suffering of others. Also there was transformation of the professions of mediums in forms of \"spiritual work\" guided by a \"good to do\" and combining symbolic elements of LBMJ a mode of action of caboclos and pretos-velhos that implies fair work. Initiation as a medium involves subjective repositioning someone to care for someone who cares. The believer is seen as part of a chain, whose wayward member is the weakest link, the patient being careful. The understanding of identity processes involves understanding the notion of person of the center, that the spirits (living or dead) are nameless lights, which manifest themselves in different \"guises\", identifiable by ethical action patterns. The identification processes observed have the peculiarities of focus on action patterns linked to the values of the cult and, at the same time, to a light that refers to the unknowable real. These identification processes also involve redesigning aspects of Brazilian history as a whole, especially the indigenous ethnocide in relation to Christianity, in a way that, without rejecting the Christian values such as humility and charity, recovers repressed historical elements related to the discovery of Brazil and the extermination of ethnic groups.
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Kullgren, Carina. "Ack Värmeland regionalitet i diskurs och praktik /." Göteborg : Etnologiska institutionen, Göteborgs universitet, 2000. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/45065007.html.
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Rotta, Raquel Redondo. "Espíritos da mata: sentido e alcance psicológico do uso ritual de caboclos na Umbanda." Universidade de São Paulo, 2010. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/59/59137/tde-22042010-154134/.
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Os caboclos são entidades espirituais largamente encontradas no panteão umbandista. O objetivo desse estudo foi revelar, no recurso ritual a caboclos na umbanda, os seus sentidos e alcance psicológico. Para tanto foi utilizado uma combinação entre método etnográfico e atenção flutuante a significantes que se repetem. Dentre esse significantes repetiram-se alguns termos, como terra, luz, água, raiz, amadurecimento, liberdade e ideal, que podem assumir mais de um nível de significância, por meio de uma escrita por imagens. Caboclos se mostram em relação próxima com médiuns e também com outras pessoas e entidades espirituais, evidenciando seu cunho social. Interpelam seus fiéis iluminando processos de autodescoberta que impulsionam a consumação de potenciais rumo à realização de ideais de si.Caboclos are spiritual entities widely found in Umbanda pantheon. The aim of this study was to reveal the signification and the psychological extent of caboclos ritual practice in Umbanda. Therefore ethnographic methods and continuous attention to recurrent significants have been combined. Among these significants, some terms were repeatedly noticed as ground, light, water, root, matureness, freedom and ideal, which may carry more than one significance level by means of an image script. Caboclos, as an evidence of their social feature, manifest themselves in a close relation to mediums and to other people and spiritual entities. They interpellate their followers enlightening self-discovery processes that push the completion of potentialities in direction to selfs ideals achievement.
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Rotta, Raquel Redondo. "Olhares que narram: perspectivas umbandistas de articulação do sentido." Universidade de São Paulo, 2014. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/59/59137/tde-23102014-162054/.
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O impacto visual é importante tanto nos modos de construções de sentidos nas tradições bantas quanto no contexto umbandista. E a contribuição da cultura africana na composição do ethos da população brasileira é expressiva. Tendo isso em vista, objetivou-se apreender, em comunidades umbandistas, nuances dos modos de construção, transmissão e apreensão de significados relativos ao mundo, ao eu e ao outro, por meio de perspectivas umbandistas de articulação do sentido. Para tanto, o pesquisador assumiu uma posição em que foi possível uma função de abertura ao discurso do Outro, proporcionando que as enunciações decorrentes das relações em campo pudessem ecoar. No processo de experiência do pesquisador em rituais umbandistas e na produção das imagens fotográficas, os colaboradores enunciaram, por imagens e ou palavras, suas experiências pessoais a partir do material simbólico contido no patrimônio cultural que os atravessa, que Lacan chamaria de Outro. A consideração da transferência e do lugar ocupado pelo pesquisador em campo, assim como das repetições e intersecções entre as imagens e os dizeres sobre elas, foi fundamental para a revelação de implícitos deste universo. A busca pelo impacto visual configurou o meio para que o pesquisador, interpretado pela umbanda como consulente, pudesse ser olhado por ela e assim, olhando-a, entender parte de sua dinâmica. Nesse processo, entendemos como o olhar é importante na reelaboração de si (do lugar no mundo de cada um, assim como de uma comunidade) a qual pode ser trabalhada no contexto umbandista, onde o papel do ancestral e todo um repertório simbólico a ele associado têm destaque. A partir dos resultados deste trabalho, sugerimos que a experiência na umbanda corrobora a hipótese de que é preciso conhecer, reconhecer e lidar de forma pacífica com as nossas raízes. Percebemos, ainda, que nessa religião há um espaço privilegiado onde isso possa ocorrer a cada ritual, e nas experiências cotidianas de seus fiéis, possibilitando recombinações e reconstruções simbólicas tanto no nível pessoal quanto social.Visual impact is important not only to the ways in which banto traditions are built but also to the umbandista context. And the African culture contribution in constituting the Brazilian populations ethos is expressive as well. Having that in mind, we aimed to apprehend, in umbandista communities, nuances of how meanings related to the world, the self, and the other are constructed, transmitted and understood through umbandista perspectives of significance articulation. In order to do that, the researcher assumed a position where an openness function to the Others speech was possible, which has permitted the echoing of enunciations that arose from field relations. Within the process of the researchers experience in umbadista rituals and in photographic image production, the collaborators enounced their personal experiences through images and/or words, from the symbolic material present in the cultural heritage they carry, which Lacan would denominate the Other. Considering the transference and the position occupied by the researcher in field as well as the repetitions and the intersections between the images and the sayings about them was central to expose the implicitness of this universe. The search for visual impact has been the instrument elected by the researcher who, interpreted by umbanda as a consultant, could be seen by it and thus, looking at it, be able to understand part of its dynamic. During the process, we have understood how important the gaze is in oneselfs remodeling (of each ones as well as a communitys position in the world), and that it can be developed in the umbandista context where the ancestors role and a whole symbolic repertoire related to it are highlighted. As from the results of this research, we suggest that the experience in umbanda corroborates the hypothesis that it is necessary to know, recognize and deal peacefully with our roots. We have also observed that there is a privileged space in this religion where that demand may occur in each of its rituals and in its participants daily experiences, in a way that symbolic re-combinations and reconstructions are possible both in personal and social levels.
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Carvalho, Juliana Barros Brant. "Religião e memória social afro-brasileira em Ribeirão Preto." Universidade de São Paulo, 2016. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/59/59142/tde-18112016-093340/.
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Nesta investigação busca-se compreender como o sistema religioso da umbanda entrelaça-se às biografias dos seus dirigentes, as quais configuram e são configuradas por essa tradição afro-brasileira. Para tanto, acompanharam-se as cerimônias religiosas e entrevistaram-se quatro lideranças em dois terreiros na região de Ribeirão Preto. Interagiu-se com a comunidade pesquisada em posição de consulente. Foram feitos registros em caderno de campo, fotográficos, vídeos e áudio. Fez-se ainda uma reflexão sobre as potencialidades da psicanálise como ferramenta teórica pertinente para uma interação com o campo desde um lugar de interlocução deste como sujeito e não um objeto de saberes acadêmicos. Encontrou-se que a heterogeneidade da religiosidade umbandista agrega a diversidade do coletivo. Conceitos externos aos significados da tradição não parecem ser úteis para se compreender essa religião não dogmática nem excludente de divindades nem pessoas. Os recursos culturais e simbólicos mostram-se fundamentais para subsidiar a manutenção de memórias antigas. A característica da multiplicidade umbandista não está no trânsito e convivência entre pertenças religiosas, mas é inerente ao modo próprio de ser.This investigation seeks to understand through the perspective of the umbandist religious system how its leaders composing and being composed by this Afro Brazilian tradition. For this purpose, religious ceremonies were followed and four leaderships were interviewed in two terreiros in Ribeirão Preto. The researcher interacted with the community as a participant. Field notes were registered and photos, videos and audio were collected. And also was reflected about how the Psychoanalysis is a potential theoretical tool to interacting with the research field as being an interlocutor subject and not as object of academic knowledge. It was found that religious heterogeneity of Umbanda aggregates diversity to social collective. Outer concepts to the meaning of the tradition do not seem to be helpful to comprehend this religion that is not dogmatic nor exclusionary with any divinities and people. Cultural and symbolic sources are central to keeping ancient memories. The multiplicity issue in the Umbanda is not found in the transit or coexistence between religious belonging, but it is inherent to its own way of being.
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Das, Ashidhara. "Asian Indian immigrant women in the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Area work, home, and the construction of the self /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2006. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3223029.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2006.Title from first page of PDF file (viewed September 21, 2006). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 382-389).
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Drakos, Georg. "Makt över kropp och hälsa : Om leprasjukas självförståelse i dagens Grekland." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för etnologi, religionshistoria och genusstudier, 1997. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-27824.
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Paredes, Daniel M. "Multi/Cross-cultural competence integrating universal and particular perspectives /." Greensboro, N.C. : University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2007. http://libres.uncg.edu/edocs/etd/1485Paredes/umi-uncg-1485.pdf.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2007.Title from PDF t.p. (viewed Mar. 3, 2008). Directed by Craig S. Cashwell; submitted to the School of Education. Includes bibliographical references (p. 160-194).
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Leme, Fábio Ricardo. "Usos do imaginário nos estudos afro-brasileiros e no culto umbandista." Universidade de São Paulo, 2006. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/59/59137/tde-22052009-153752/.
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A psicologia analítica de Jung é umas das principais vertentes psicológicas de estudo das religiões afro-brasileiras, contribuindo na compreensão desse universo. Os pesquisadores desta tradição são atraídos por estas religiões por serem povoadas por fenômenos, como a vidência, o transe, a incorporação, entre outros, que têm importância vital na existência de seus praticantes, e que são classificados como da ordem do imaginário por algumas correntes acadêmicas, e, as vezes, tratados como uma falsa percepção da realidade, ao serem tomados como subprodutos da imaginação. Nunca se averiguou em que medida os trabalhos junguianos refletem esta posição ou não, e, em que medida têm conseguido refletir a cosmovisão do campo. O objetivo desta pesquisa é o de: 1- Proceder a uma explicitação da concepção umbandista sobre este imaginário; 2- Contrastar esta concepção com um dos principais modelos teóricos aplicados aos estudos afro-brasileiros, a psicologia analítica; 3-Contribuir para um diálogo entre a psicologia científica e a cosmovisão desenvolvida no âmbito da religiosidade afro-brasileira. Os colaboradores (médiuns videntes) foram selecionados a partir do contato com terreiros de umbanda em Ribeirão Preto e Piracicaba. Devido a seus talentos imaginativos, foram acompanhados caso a caso, relatando suas experiências, sendo observados em performances rituais, nas quais se presta especial atenção aos processos da imaginação (estados de transe, previsões, sonhos, vidências, lembranças do passado, etc.). Para além da observação participante utilizaram-se, na coleta de dados, gravações em áudio das narrativas obtidas a partir de entrevistas semi-estruturadas e anotações em caderno de campo de dados e impressões. Em paralelo, foi feita uma análise sobre os estudos junguianos a respeito da religiosidade afro-brasileira. Sobre o material, de campo e acadêmico, foi feita a sistematização das suas respostas para uma tripla pergunta: Qual o estatuto ontológico, epistemológico e psicológico do imaginário? A partir das respostas obtidas levantou-se subsídios para a discussão dos pontos de divergências e semelhanças entre os dois modelos que, não obstante as suas diferenças, permitiu mostrar intersecções, relacionar incompatibilidades e, principalmente, resgatar nuances do fenômeno que escapem ao modelo acadêmico. Os resultados mostram que termos como individuação, inconsciente coletivo, arquétipo, tipos psicológicos, nem sempre são utilizados como conceitos efetivamente junguianos, o que parece indicar que adquiriram um valor heurístico que ultrapassa as fronteiras da psicologia analítica. Os trabalhos junguianos analisados superam a postura patologizante freqüentemente atribuída aos fenômenos do imaginário por pesquisadores clássicos como Nina Rodrigues, Arthur Ramos e o próprio Jung, porém não escapam a vieses psicologizantes, que, muitas vezes, distorcem, à cosmovisão do campo, o que contribui para a redução dos fenômenos a conceitos cunhados a partir de modelos etnocêntricos (CNPq).Jungs analytical psychology is one of the main psychological approaches in the study of the African-Brazilian religions, contributing with the understanding of this universe. This traditions researchers are attracted by these religions for being them crowded with phenomena, like the clairvoyance, trance, impersonation, among others, which have vital importance in the existence of their followers, and that are classified as belonging to the imaginary by some academic currents and, sometimes, they are treated as a false perception of the reality, at being considered as imagination subproducts. People have never checked whether the Jungian works reflect this position or not and how they have been able to reflect the fields cosmovision. The goal of this research is: 1) gather an explicitation on the umbanda conception about this imaginary; 2) contrast this conception with one of the main theoretical models applied to the African-Brazilian studies, the analytical psychology; 3) contribute for a dialogue between the scientific psychology and the cosmovision developed in the scope of the African-Brazilian religiosity. The contributors (clairvoyant mediums) have been selected from the contact with umbanda yards in Ribeirao Preto and Piracicaba. Due to their imaginative talents, they have been followed individually, reporting their experiences, being observed in ritual performances, in which we pay attention to the imagination processes (trance state, previsions, dreams, clairvoyance, past memories etc). For reaching beyond the participant observation, audio recordings from the narratives, obtained from semi-structured interviews, notes on a field data notebook, as well as impressions were used. In parallel, an analysis about the Jungian studies regarding the African-Brazilian religiosity was made. About the field and academic material, the systemization of their replies was made on a triple question: Which is the ontological, epistemological and psychological statute from the imaginary? From the obtained replies, subsides were raised for discussing divergence points and similarities between both models which, despite their differences, allowed us to show intersections, to relate incompatibilities and, mainly, to rescue nuances from the phenomenon which escape the academic model. The results show that terms like individuation, group unconsciousness, archetype, and psychological types are not always used as effective Jungian concepts, which seems to indicate that they have acquired a heuristic value which trespasses the borders of the analytical psychology. The Jungian works under analysis overcome the pathologizing posture frequently attributed to the phenomena of the imaginary by classic researchers like Nina Rodrigues, Arthur Ramos and Jung himself, but they do not escape psychologizing biases which, mostly distort the fields cosmovision, contributing to the reduction of phenomena enhanced from ethnocentric models (CNPq).
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Steindorf, Sally Anne. "Walking against the wind : negotiating television and modernity in rural Rajasthan." Related electronic resource: Current Research at SU : database of SU dissertations, recent titles available, full text:, 2008. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/syr/main.
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Dinh, Khanh T. "Predictors of psychosocial well-being in an Asian American sample : acculturation, intergenerational conflict, and parent-child relationships /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9022.
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Leal, de Barros Mariana. "“Labareda, teu nome é mulher” : análise etnopsicológica do feminino à luz de pombagiras." Thesis, Lyon 2, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2011LYO20125/document.
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Dans l’histoire des femmes de l’occident, les corps féminins, régis et interpelés par des règles qui régulaient, surtout, leur sexualité, ont été pensés en couples antinomiques : les mères et les prostituées, les saintes et les « diaboliques ». L’umbanda, religion afro-brésilienne qui détient la capacité d’accueillir les discours et les pratiques de la société brésilienne, a incorporé cette dualité dans sa religiosité, mais de manière particulière : la pombagira prend corps dans la figure d’une « prostituée sacrée » et occupe une place de premier plan pour ses fidèles. A partir d’un travail de terrain dans des terreiros d’umbanda de l’état de São Paulo au Brésil en réalisant aussi des entretiens avec les adeptes du culte et avec les pombagiras elles-mêmes (pendant la possession), nous avons cherché à comprendre les significations associées a ce culte. L’analyse des données s’est effectuée par la combinaison de la méthode ethnographique et d’une écoute psychanalytique lacanienne afin de rechercher comment la pombagira « participe » à la vie des adeptes de cette religion. Le travail présente comment, en interagissant avec la pombagira, l’ « être femme » est associé à la séduction, la force, la beauté, le sexe, le désir, l’intelligence et, également, la maternité, intégrant ainsi des significations dissociées des dichotomies mentionnées plus haut. Les signifiants qui caractérisent les pombagiras produisent des sens qui façonnent de manière significative les expériences personnelles de ses adeptes. Par le biais d’une narration prenant en compte le sensible et intégrant le vécu de la chercheuse elle-même dans son intéraction avec les groupes étudiés, le travail présente une compréhension ethnopsychologique du genre à l’écoute des significations qui s’élaborent dans le contexte umbandiste et circulent socialementIn the history of the western women, female bodies, especially governed by their sexuality, were conceived in opposite pairs: the mothers and the prostitutes, the saints and the “demoness”. The umbanda, an afrobrazilian religion that holds the discourses and practices of Brazilian society, included this duality in its religiosity, but in a peculiar way: the pombagira is embodied in the figure of a “sacred prostitute” and is worshiped in prominent place by faithfuls of this religion. In umbanda’s terreiros in the state of São Paulo, we interviewed spiritualist mediuns as well as embodied pombagiras to understand the meanings associated with the cult of the pombagiras. The data were analyzed from a combination of the ethnographic method and the lacanian psychoanalytic listening to investigate how pombagiras “participate” in the life of the supporters of this religion. This work presents how, through the relationship with the pombagira, the “woman being” is associated with the seduction, the strength, the beauty, the sex, the desire, the intelligence and even the maternity, integrating the decoupled senses with the mentioned dichotomy. The pombagira’s meanings produce senses that build the personal experiences of their faithfuls. Using a narrative that concerns the sensible and by the researcher’s experience in the relationship with the surveyed groups, this work presents an ethnopsychological comprehension of the gender and considers the senses that are elaborated in the umbanda and that circulate socially
Na história das mulheres do ocidente, os corpos femininos, regidos e interpelados por normas que regulavam, sobretudo, sua sexualidade, foram compreendidos em pares de oposição: as mães e as prostitutas, as santas e as “satanizadas”. A umbanda, religião afro-brasileira detentora da capacidade de acolher os discursos e práticas da sociedade brasileira, incluiu essa dualidade em sua religiosidade, mas de maneira peculiar: a pombagira foi corporificada na figura de uma “prostituta sagrada” e passou a ser cultuada em lugar de destaque por seus fieis. A partir de trabalho de campo em terreiros de umbanda do estado de São Paulo, foram realizadas entrevistas com médiuns, pais e mães-de-santo, bem como com as próprias pombagiras incorporadas para compreender os sentidos associados ao culto das pombagiras. A análise dos dados contou com a combinação do método etnográfico a uma escuta psicanalítica lacaniana para investigar como a pombagira “participa” da vida dos adeptos da religião. O trabalho apresenta como, na interação com a pombagira, o “ser mulher” é associado à sedução, à força, à beleza, ao sexo, ao desejo, à inteligência e, inclusive, à maternidade, integrando sentidos dissociados pelas dicotomias mencionadas. Por meio de uma narrativa atenta ao sensível e incluindo a vivência da própria pesquisadora na interação com os grupos pesquisados, o trabalho apresenta uma compreensão etnopsicológica de gênero ao dar ouvidos a sentidos que se elaboram no contexto umbandista, circulam socialmente e ressoam intimamente
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Lee, Hye Joo. "Equivalence and faking issues of the aggression questionnaire and the conditional reasoning test for aggression in Korean and American samples." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/47557.
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Researchers have raised concerns about measurement equivalence in comparing personalities across cultures using personality assessments. The self-reported personality measurements often do not assess the same construct, trigger different response styles (i.e., extreme response style), or use behavioral exemplars that are inappropriate across cultures (Byrne&Watkins, 2003; Chen, 2008; Poortinga, van de Vijber,&van Hermert, 2002, van de Vijver&Leung, 1997). James et al. (2005) developed a new measurement system for aggression that is different from traditional personality assessment. It is referred to as the Conditional Reasoning Test for Aggression (CRT-A). The CRT-A is an indirect measure for assessing unconscious motives to be aggressive that was developed in the USA. It has not been studied with people from different cultures. Study 1 investigated the equivalences of the Aggression Questionnaire (AQ) and the CRT-A by administering both to groups of Americans (n=432) and Koreans (n=363). Results based on the exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses and DIF analyses showed that the AQ and CRT-A are not invariant across these cultures. Study 2 replicated LeBreton et al.(2007) study regarding faking issues of the CRT-A with the Korean population. Study 2 found that on the CRT-A, Koreans were able to identify aggressive alternatives when they were told to do so, and Korean students and employees did not score differently on the CRT-A. Implications and future directions of the study are discussed herein.
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Cadet, de Fontenay Laurent. "Intercultural differences in suggestibility amongst university students." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/3453.
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Thesis (MA (Psychology))--University of Stellenbosch, 2005.The current study investigates intercultural differences in suggestibility between Black, Coloured and White students at a South African university using the Creative Imagination Scale (CIS), (Wilson & Barber, 1978). The CIS and a short biographical questionnaire measuring embeddedness in traditional culture were administered to three samples (N=20 each) from students belonging to the above cultural groups. Statistical tests were applied to determine the effects of ethnicity, cultural embeddedness and gender on CIS scores. The results indicate that these three dimensions do not significantly impact on CIS scores. Implications of the results obtained are discussed and ensuing recommendations for future related research are made.
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Macêdo, Alice Costa. "Encruzilhadas da interpretação na umbanda." Universidade de São Paulo, 2015. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/59/59137/tde-30032016-144127/.
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A umbanda caracteriza-se como um culto de possessão, cujos participantes, em transe, incorporam espíritos que se apresentam nos terreiros em cerimônias geralmente públicas a fim de trabalhar a serviço de seus fiéis e consulentes. O objetivo desta pesquisa foi investigar e descrever os processos interpretativos na umbanda, numa perspectiva etnopsicológica. Trata-se de um estudo de caso, de corte longitudinal, com base no método da escuta participante, entendida como a extensão do método psicanalítico a pesquisas de campo, mediante a utilização de técnicas etnográficas. A pesquisa de campo foi realizada no Centro de Umbanda Oxalá (Ribeirão Preto Estado de São Paulo Brasil), onde as consultas concedidas pelos espíritos incorporados pelo paide-santo foram integralmente acompanhadas mediante registros em diário de campo. Para tanto, a pesquisadora foi admitida no lugar de cambona do pai-de-santo, ou seja, um auxiliar da cerimônia. A teoria psicanalítica sobre a interpretação assumiu um valor heurístico nesta pesquisa, ao possibilitar a formulação de hipóteses de trabalho como diretrizes que permitiram ao pesquisador buscar a compreensão dos processos interpretativos na umbanda. As consultas apresentaram o uso de ingredientes-coisas-significantes que se assemelham a uma oração, mas performaticamente rezada pelo corpo, como frases que compõem um poema cuja interpretação se enuncia do próprio sistema simbólico umbandista. Sugere-se, portanto, que a interpretação neste contexto parece apresentar ricas possibilidades de combinações de recursos que se revelam para além do verbal. A psicanálise se mostrou um instrumento relevante para a pesquisa no que tange à experiência de campo, às relações transferenciais e ao refinamento da escuta. A perspectiva lacaniana foi útil na medida em que compreende que a interpretação se faz presente no acontecimento e o acontecimento inclui a sua interpretação; além de ter possibilitado a análise no registro simbólico a partir do entrecruzamento entre dois eixos, metáfora e metonímia, o que facilitou a imersão da escuta na própria linguagem dos espíritos da umbanda e, por fim, ter permitido mapear interpretações que operam na materialidade, ao pé da letra e ao pé das coisas. De outro modo, percebeu-se que o método freudiano de interpretação dos sonhos não estabeleceu aproximações com o que ocorre nos terreiros, pois na umbanda a interpretação não parece operar a partir de conteúdos manifestos para o acesso a conteúdos latentes. No caso da umbanda, a interpretação se dá em ato, ou melhor, é, em si, o próprio ato, inscreve-se no corpo, dá-se a ver, mas um ver que seja rente à pele e não restrito aos olhos. Além disso, embora tenha sido útil a ideia de que o autor da interpretação dos sonhos seja o próprio sonhador, no caso da umbanda, o sujeito intérprete não é somente o médium, o espírito, o cambono ou os consulentes. O sujeito da interpretação perpassa todos esses personagens, mas reside no próprio sistema simbólico umbandista. Desse modo, propõe-se que a espiritualidade não seja desconsiderada, mas tratada como um recurso para o desenvolvimento de novas noções de acolhimento que não somenterespeitem a cultura do outro, mas, sobretudo, incorporem-nas às suas estratégias de cuidado. Embora esta pesquisa não tenha pretendido investigar como as comunidades afrobrasileiras compreendem saúde e doença, sofrimento e cuidado, ela buscou contribuir para um entendimento de como, mediante procedimentos interpretativos, esse universo cultural refina a escuta e o acolhimento daqueles que a ele recorrem.Umbanda is characterized as a possession cult, whose members, in a trance, incorporate spirits that appear in the terreiros (specific places for the religious ritual) on generally public ceremonies in order to \"work\" in the service of his faithful and consultants. The objective of this research was to investigate and describe the interpretative processes in Umbanda, from a ethnopsychological perspective. It is a case study of longitudinal type, based on the method of the participant listening, understood as the extension of the psychoanalytic method to field research, by using ethnographic techniques. The field research was accomplished in the Oxalá Umbanda Center (Ribeirão Preto - São Paulo - Brazil), where queries granted by spirits embodied by the father-of-saint were fully accompanied by records on the field diary. To achieve this purpose, the researcher was admitted into the place of father-of-saints Cambona, that is, an auxiliary of the ceremony. Psychoanalytic theory of interpretation assumed a heuristic value in this research, to enable the formulation of working hypotheses as guidelines that allowed the researcher to seek the understanding of the interpretative processes in Umbanda. The consultations showed the use of \"ingredients-things-significant\" that resemble a prayer but prayed performatively by the body, such as phrases that compose a poem whose interpretation is enunciated in the own umbandista symbolic system. It is suggested, therefore, that the interpretation in this context appear to present rich possibilities of combinations of features that are revealed beyond to the verbal. Psychoanalysis has proved an important tool for research regarding the field experience, the transference relationship and refinement of listening. The lacanian approach was useful in the sense that it comprises the interpretation that is present on the event and the event includes the interpretation; besides the possibility to analyze the symbolic register from the intersection of two axes, metaphor and metonymy, which facilitated the immersion of listening into the language of Umbanda spirits and, finally, it has allowed mapping interpretations that operate in materiality, to the letter and the bottom of thingsquite literally. Otherwise, it is clear that Freud\'s method of dream interpretation has not established approaches to what happens in the terreiros, because for Umbanda the interpretation does not seem to operate from manifest content access to latent content. In the case of Umbanda, the interpretation occurs in act, or rather is, the act itself, it is part of the body, reveals itself, but is a way to \"seeing\" that is close to the skin and not restricted to eyes. Furthermore, although it has been useful the idea that the author of dream interpretation is the dreamer himself, in the case of Umbanda, the subject interpreter is not only the medium, the spirit, the cambono or consultants. The subject of interpretation permeates all these characters, but resides in the proper symbolic system of Umbanda. Thus, it is proposed that spirituality is not disregarded, but treated as a resource for the development of new notions of protection that not only respect each other\'s culture, but above all that they can incorporate them to their care strategies. Although this research did not intend to investigate how african-Brazilian communities understand health and illness, suffering and care, it sought to contribute to an understanding of how, through interpretive procedures, this cultural universe refines listening and acceptance of those who turn to him.
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Hoersting, Raquel Carvalho. "No place to call home: Cultural homelessness, self-esteem and cross-cultural identities." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2009. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc10991/.
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The study examined relations between a cross-cultural geographically mobile childhood and adult cultural identity, attachment to cross-cultural identities (CCIs) and self-esteem. CCIs are loosely defined identities (e.g., third culture kids [TCKs], military brats, missionary kids) that describe some individuals' childhood cross-cultural experience. The 475 participants spent at least two years before age 18 in a culture different from their parents' and completed an online survey including childhood cross-cultural experiences, Cultural Homelessness Criteria, Rosenberg Self-esteem Scale, and Self Label Identity Measure (SLIM) that captured strength of affirmation, belonging and commitment to any CCI. Cultural homelessness (CH) was related to lower self-esteem; higher SLIM scores was related to higher self-esteem and lower CH. TCKs reported lower self-esteem than non-TCKs and older participants experienced less CH and higher self-esteem. SLIM scores buffered the CH-self-esteem relationship, whereas a TCK CCI and having more cross-culturally experienced social networks did not.
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Acevedo, Ignacio David. "UNDERSTANDING ETHNICITY: THE RELATION AMONG ETHNIC IDENTITY, COLLECTIVISM, AND INDIVIDUALISM IN AFRICAN AMERICANS AND EUROPEAN AMERICANS." Lexington, Ky. : [University of Kentucky Libraries], 2003. http://lib.uky.edu/ETD/ukypcps2003t00073/AcevedoThesis.pdf.
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Thesis (M.S.)--University of Kentucky, 2003.Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains viii, 68 p. Includes abstract. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 59-65).
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Mban, Loumpele R. "Esquisse d'une psychologie compréhensive du système mantique traditionnel dans ses relations avec l'articulation des symboles fondamentaux au sein de l'univers de sens Ngangulu, Congo caractéristiques et conséquences de la régulation du système /." Villeneuve d'Ascq : Presses universitaires du Septentrion, 1999. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/41507397.html.
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Belay, Million. "Participatory mapping, learning and change in the context of biocultural diversity and resilience." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1003572.
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This study set out to investigate the learning and change that emerged in and through participatory mapping in the context of biocultural diversity and resilience in rural Ethiopia. It did this through examining the learning and agency emerging from three participatory mapping practices (Participatory 3 Dimensional Modelling, sketch mapping and eco-cultural calendars) using two case study sites, located in the Bale Mountains and the Foata Mountains in Ethiopia, and honing in on in-depth reflective processes in two community contexts located within the broader case study sites, namely Horo Soba, Dinsho wereda in Bale; and Telecho, in Wolmera wereda, in the Foata Mountain complex. This study tried to answer three research questions related to participatory mapping: its role in mobilizing knowledge related to biocultural landscape, its role in learning and change, and its value in building resilience. The study used qualitative case study research methodology underpinned by critical realist philosophy, and used photographic ‘cues’ to structure the reporting on the cases. It used four categories of analysis: biocultural diversity, educational processes, learning and agency, in the first instance to report on the interactions associated with the participatory mapping practices as they emerged in the two case study sites. This was followed by in-depth analysis and interpretation of participatory mapping and biocultural diversity, as well as participatory mapping and learning, with an emphasis on acquisition, meaning making and identity formation processes. The in-depth analysis drew on social and learning theory, and theory of biocultural diversity and social-ecological resilience. The study also included analysis of broader change processes that were related to and emerged from the social interactions in the mapping activities, and the resultant morphogenesis (change), showing that morphogenesis, while broadly temporal, is not linear, and involves ‘little iterative morphogenic cycles’. These insights were then used to interpret how participatory mapping may contribute to resilience building in a context where social-ecological resilience is increasingly required, such as the two case study sites, where socialecological degradation is highly visible and is occurring rapidly. The study’s contribution to new knowledge lies in relation to the role of participatory mapping in facilitating learning, agency and change which, to date, appears to be under-theorised and under-developed in the participatory mapping and environmental education literature. As such, the study findings provide in-depth insight into how participatory mapping methodologies may ‘work in the world’, in contexts such as those presented in the two cases under study. It has tried to demonstrate how participatory mapping has managed to mobilize knowledge related to biocultural diversity, facilitated the acquisition of knowledge and helped members of the community to engage in meaning making activities relevant to their biocultural landscape and renegotiate their identity within the wider community context. It has also shown that dissonance is an important dynamic in the learning process; and that morphogenesis (or change) occurs over time, but also in smaller cycles that interact at different levels; and that participatory mapping cannot, by itself mobilise significant structural change, at least in the short term. It has also shown, however, that learning and the desire for change can emerge from participatory mapping processes, and that this can be utilized to adapt to the changing socio-ecological environments, potentially contributing to longer term resilience of social-ecological systems.