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Dittmar, Helga. "Material possessions and identity." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.237067.
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Betts, Jan. "Material objects, meaning and workplace identity." Thesis, University of Essex, 2015. http://repository.essex.ac.uk/16061/.
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This thesis explores the impact of material objects on people’s identity at work. I address the significance of this question, arguing that materiality, particularly the place it holds in the lives of individuals, has been less considered in relation to people at work than in other disciplines such as consumer studies. My research questions are: to consider how people conceptualise objects at work, to ask how objects and people are mutually implicated at work and to identify how this interactivity impacts on people’s identity at work. I review studies on material objects in organizations and studies on identity, using literature from organization studies and psychology . My data collection uses a qualitative approach based on participant-led photography. The literature review had raised the issue of many studies focusing on people at the same level in an organization. In order to develop this work, the participant group were selected from multiple organizations and different levels of employment. Participants were asked to photograph all objects in their immediate working spaces which had meaning for them. They were then asked about the meaning of the objects and completed a repertory grid analysis exercise. The thesis’ contributions consist in a specific focus on the place of materiality in identity in organizations for a wide range of workers. It draws on psychology in its use of mixed methods. It develops previous work in offering a view of materiality in practice as both representational and performative, affording practices and meeting areas of lack. It indicates that objects act as a collection through their connection to personal values which otherwise have no means of expression in the social and legal ordering of the workplace. It is recommended that organizations take cognizance of, and respect, the place which things seen as personal objects play at work.
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Ion, Sabina A. "Identity and Material Culture in Seleucid Jebel Khalid." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin147981964305723.
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Boksmati, Nadine Tarek. "Hellenisation deconstructed : space, material culture and identity in Beirut." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.612937.
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Sitkauskaite, Egle. "Migrating Identity." Thesis, Konstfack, Ädellab, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:konstfack:diva-7827.
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My personal history and the stories of people with similar experiences have inspired my degree project. It revolves around the feeling of belonging when moving from one place to another, adapting to the new environment (e.g. culture, language, etc.), and yet staying in between. It's about the notion of home in the time of migration. I want to capture the ideas of places and identity transformation through materiality. The tree is very human-like living material. I bend the wood, and, while doing so, it follows my moves and adapts to changed conditions. The tension and force create the shape, and the unfolded pieces become traces of my body movements. I see the sculptures from the jeweler´s perspective, the performative and interactive pieces invite the viewer to participate. In my smaller-scale series of work, I continue my materials research narrowing down my investigation from the body to my hands. The pandemic situation increases my awareness of touching and longing for real contact with people. I select a group of found and given to me objects which evoke memories of people and places I have been. By wrapping them into a metallic textile I create imprinted empty space. It becomes a container which questions what is left behind when someone is gone or something is taken away. I place the handprints and the tree rings in parallel. Both are strong identification symbols. The wood rings mark the conditions in which. the tree grows, forming a unique sign language that visually explains the whole history of the tree. Do people´s fingerprints change when they move from one place to another?
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Mac, Sweeney Naoise. "Community identity and material culture : the case of protohistoric western Anatolia." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.613248.
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Reese, Derek. "Evidence of Myself: Understanding Identity Through the Investigation of Body and Material." The Ohio State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1253654376.
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Carew, Nina. "The recipe book and the construction of female domestic identity: a historical inquiry." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/32463.
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This thesis explores how familiar objects such as the homely recipe book hold our affection and shape our personal worlds. It takes its inspiration from a body of literature that only recently has explored in detail our relationship to mundane objects, subjecting these objects - and our feelings about them - to a serious scrutiny. The thesis is concerned with a material culture that takes us into domestic space, and to the objects within it to which we attach importance. Specifically, the inquiry explores the cultural mores surrounding the practice of cooking and writing food. It considers the interplay between public and private, male and female, self and other and the significance of the domestic space in each case. It asks how the culture of the recipe book helps shape female domestic identity, that is, the personae of women within the home, and as wives and mothers, as opposed to their public personae. This thesis studies the (until-recently) under-researched yet broad field - previously regarded as both too trivial and too formulaic to merit study - of homely recipe books. It considers the large collection of historic manuscripts of this genre available at the National Library of South Africa, in particular the collection of Louis C Leipoldt, and it regards these as part of a continuum with my own mother's recipe book. An important leitmotif of the study is the evolution of the recipe book from manuscript to printed, and from single copy to mass-produced text. On the one hand using recipe books as historical sources for the study of food and material culture, this study is also concerned with the affective impact of these texts, and more specifically what they say about the individuals and societies that made them. A central theme of the study is the role played in women's lives by the collecting and archiving of recipes through hand-written texts. My purpose is twofold: first, to bring these hidden histories to light, opening the kitchen door to the lives of ordinary women through their private writings; and second, to explore why the practice of writing food continues to be relevant into the present. I trace how homely recipe books are both exercises in personal authority as well as material traces of women's internal worlds and archives of the communities in which they exist. This study ultimately sees the return of the personalised recipe book as a route back to a positive and affirming female domestic identity, through a practice which is both therapeutic and self-actualising and which, through the act of archiving, brings together both past and present.
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Sanchez, Jamie Nichol. "Making Mongols: Representations of Culture, Identity, and Resistance." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/71386.
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Mongols in Northern China fear the end of a distinct cultural identity. Until the late 19th century, cultural differences between Mongols and Han could be seen through differences in each group's traditional way of life. Mongols were nomadic pastoralists. Han were sedentary farmers. Recent economic development, rapid urbanization, and assimilation policies have threatened Mongolian cultural identity. In response to this cultural identity anxiety, Mongols in Inner Mongolia have looked for ways to express their distinct cultural identity.
This dissertation analyzes three case studies derived from material cultural productions that represent Mongolian cultural identity. These include pastoralism, the use of Genghis Khan, and the Mongolian language. The analyses of different material cultural artifacts and the application of cultural and political theory come together in this dissertation to demonstrate how Mongolian cultural identity is reimagined through representation. In this dissertation, I also demonstrate how these reimagined identities construct and maintain ethnic boundaries which prevent the total absorption of a distinct Mongolian identity.Ph. D.
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Fraser, Jennifer. "A strategy of distinction : cultural identity and the Carews of Antony." Thesis, University of Plymouth, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/10043.
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When William Carew (1689–1744) and Reginald Pole-Carew (1753–1835) unexpectedly inherited the Antony estates in the southwest of England, each invested in material culture to create, maintain and justify his distinction as a landowning member of élite society. Discourses around the uses of visual and material culture throughout the eighteenth century are usually framed in contrast: either the ostentatious collections of the hereditary nobility which denoted rank, wealth and power, or the status-seeking “middling sorts” who used luxury goods to paper over social and cultural gaps. In the space between these two social groups were the Carews (and a great number of landed gentry like them) who built relatively unpretentious country houses and who commissioned, collected and displayed luxury goods as statements of an identity not based on declarations of affluence, prestige, or social mobility. Using original, unpublished, archival research and testing the findings against historical and contemporary studies, the interdisciplinary approaches in this thesis will analyse the Carews’ uses of luxury goods – in country-house building, landscaping and portraiture– to cultivate an identity commensurate with their aims. Unpacking a strategy of distinction for each of William Carew and Reginald Pole-Carew offers a new perspective on eighteenth-century conspicuous consumption. The findings assert that what the Carews commissioned, collected and displayed fills a gap in current scholarship and must be integrated into any comprehensive understanding of the uses of luxury goods throughout the century.
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Sloan, Jesse Daniel. "The gendered altar Wiccan concepts of gender and ritual objects /." Orlando, Fla. : University of Central Florida, 2008. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/CFE0002176.
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Tracey, Rachel S. "From garrison to Atlantic port : material culture, conflict & identity in early modern Carrickfergus." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2017. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.728681.
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This AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award project, in partnership with the National Museums of Northern Ireland, focuses on the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century archaeology of the historic town of Carrickfergus, County Antrim, primarily derived from excavations undertaken throughout the 1970s by the late Tom Delaney of the Ulster Museum. The demise of Carrickfergus in the early eighteenth century has ensured the remarkable preservation of the town’s post-medieval archaeology, a relatively unique phenomenon in urban archaeological investigations in Northern Ireland. The artefactual and archival record of the town is employed to address the nature of cultural entanglements in late-medieval and early-modern Carrickfergus, investigating the transformation of the settlement from a sixteenth-century garrison to a seventeenth-century mercantile port town engaging with the global commercial world. The Carrickfergus archive is key to understanding the tangible expression of cultural change and continuity in the seventeenth century, particularly during the extension of British control into Ireland. This research is also concerned with tracing the extent of the emerging European consumer economy in the material culture of the town and in placing Carrickfergus in its wider historical context.
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Gonzalez-Posse, Maria Eugenia. "Galatea’s Daughters: Dolls, Female Identity and the Material Imagination in Victorian Literature and Culture." The Ohio State University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1330820345.
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Vigo, Laura. "Cultural diffusion and identity : material culture in northwest China, II and I millennia BCE." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2004. http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/28774/.
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Chinese North-western Zone designates the border areas of Northern China, including Xinjiang, Gansu, Qinghai, Ningxia, Inner Mongolia, Shaanxi and Shanxi, inhabited by semi-nomadic and nomadic groups in prehistoric times. The term denotes a broad geographic horizon conceivable as a multitude of cultural phenomena sharing a common material 'language', yet inferences on ethnic affiliation have been hitherto poorly grounded and difficult to ascertain. This work attempts to clarify some of the cultural phenomena occurred in the area, through a contextualised analysis of the available archaeological material. A methodological framework placing proto-historical material culture into 'context' is first enunciated and then employed in the investigation of various aspects of material expression belonging to different 'cultural horizons', from Siba-Huoshaogou, Yanbulake, Zhukaigou, Shajing and Chawuhu, to Alagou, Yanglang and Ordos. The data thus exposed provide clues on funerary behaviour, on patterns of consumption and social constructs, on stylistic and typological variation in ceramic productions, on metals and their social role, on craft specialisations and artistic expressions. Not only bronze and pottery objects are analysed from the stylistic and - when possible - the technological point of view, but also their relationship with 'alternative' types of material evidence (such as various perishable media) and with the contingent space are considered. Attention is further devoted to artefactual productions, ranging from bronze and iron casting to gold and silver metal-smithing. In the absence of contemporary written sources, the bulk of information comes primarily from archaeological reports. Yet manifold are the lines of evidence gathered. All these elements eventually contribute not only to discriminate similar modes of social negotiation such as gender and authority, indirectly reflecting expressions of ethnical affiliation, but also to assess both the degree of conscious cultural interaction and the extent of demic diffusion between Central Asia, Southern Siberia and China during the 2nd and 1st millennia BCE.
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das, Graças Santos Luiz Brightwell Maria. "A taste of home? : food, identity and belonging among Brazilians in London." Thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London, 2012. http://digirep.rhul.ac.uk/items/86ce4675-d904-96b6-54c2-0297258f6f32/1/.
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This thesis brings a focus to food and its cultural geographies by examining the ways that diasporic communities forge networks of distribution and the role of homesickness in shaping tastes in consumer societies. It also adds food (as material and immaterial culture) to diasporic geographies by highlighting the importance of food practices for migrant identities and sense of belonging. Through an investigation of food practices among Brazilians in London this research also contributes to an understanding of how this recent, numerous but under researched South American group experience migration in an everyday basis in London. The investigation undertaken includes desk research on food provision systems, semi-structured interviews and documentary field research with Brazilian food providers across London, focus group discussions with Brazilian migrants, periods of observational research in case study shop and restaurant outlets, and ethnographic domestic research with case study Brazilian households in Harlesden, Brent (an area of London with marked Brazilian immigration over the last decade). My analysis considers ‘Brazilianess' as a category and cultural-culinary form being made and contested in London. An overview of the dynamics of Brazilian food provision in London shows that this making and contesting operates through both the material culture of food provision and the social lives of public spaces such as restaurants, cafes and grocery shops. Brazilian food consumption thus operates in a number of different registers linked to practicality, emotion and ethnic identification. A closer look at public Brazilian food consumption spaces reveals how such places create collective migrant spaces of belonging by translocalizing Brazilian life. In the domestic settings, food narratives and observation reveal the materialities and practices of migrant home making in mixed households and the processes through which consumption practices are negotiated and contested by different household members.
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Hart, Sydney. "Things from home : ethnic identity and material culture in African American and Jewish American homes /." Diss., Digital Dissertations Database. Restricted to UC campuses, 2009. http://uclibs.org/PID/11984.
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McAuley, James. "Material masterpieces : art collecting and the formulation of French-Jewish identity from Dreyfus to Vichy." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2016. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:ffdd3e1e-efaa-4b05-b398-b1c9eb947656.
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This thesis relies on an extensive series of previously unexploited archival materials in France, Britain, and the United States to examine the role of art collecting among French-Jewish elites after Dreyfus and before Vichy. The families who constituted France's fin-de-siècle Jewish establishment - among others, the Rothschilds and the Reinachs, the Éphrussis and the Foulds, the Camondos and the Cahen d'Anvers - all shared an intense interest in collecting art and material objects. This interest they pursued with passion throughout a period in which the position of French Jews was increasingly uncertain. The Dreyfus Affair had challenged the promise of assimilation and the social station of the "israélite," while economic circumstances and waves of immigration from Eastern Europe had exacerbated extant French anti-Semitism. As plutocrats, many of these elite families were often even the targets of that anti-Semitism, yet they pursued their material interests regardless. Today, the collections they created - mostly of eighteenth-century French art - are their most enduring legacies, either in the form of individual public museums or as additions in other national museums. To that end, this thesis argues that material culture was central to the experiences of these families as Jews and as people in the French fin-de-siècle. The central contention of this thesis is that material culture was a crucial way in which these elites experienced Jewishness in private and especially in public. Beginning with Hannah Arendt (1951) and Michael Marrus (1971), most of the many studies of this fin-de-siècle milieu have tended to consider these individuals in the respective discourses of politics and culture. Few have emphasized their actual lived experiences as people with complex inner lives. Collecting, as archvial materials suggest, was a means of achieving personal sanctuary and solace in the midst of significant personal tragedies as well as an increasingly hostile external environment. It was also a significant means of preserving public dignity. Even fewer studies, after all, have emphasized the way in which French anti-Semitism of the late nineteenth century - from the likes of the journalist Édouard Drumont and the critics Edmond and Jules Goncourt - was often expressed in the language of material culture: Jews were attacked for "inauthentic" aesthetic tastes and for "invading" the realm of French cultural patrimony. As this thesis argues, Jewish elites responded to that material critique in material terms, amassing exhaustive collections of art and objects that, in their eyes, celebrated France and its glorious past. As many of their last wills and testaments suggest, the network of museums they created in the 1920s and 1930s were all subtle arguments for the compatibility of Frenchness and Jewishness. The Holocaust, of course, fundamentally altered the meaning of these museums as well as the memories of those who established them. This dissertation concludes with a reflection on these museums as "lieux de mémoire," material manifestations not only of vanished people but also of a vanished culture.
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Buckingham, Hannah. "Identity and archaeology in daily life : the material culture of the Crusader states, 1099-1291." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2016. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/98530/.
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This thesis is an interdisciplinary study of the material culture of Frankish daily life within the mainland Crusader states in the 12th and 13th centuries. It explores the role of material culture in aspects of Frankish identity, including items of personal adornment and dress accessories. These portable objects are discussed, along with ceramics and glass, in the context of material from Western Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean. In addition to the archaeological material, information from the written sources and the art produced in the Crusader states is examined. The role of Frankish identity in Crusader society is also discussed. This thesis is an attempt to begin integrating the material culture of daily life into broader discussions of Frankish identity. The key findings of the research can be summarised as follows: whilst creating and reproducing a distinctive group identity in relation to the cultures they encountered in the Levant, the archaeological evidence also demonstrates that Frankish identity articulated the shared experience of living in the Crusader kingdoms. As more material becomes available from excavations the conclusions from this thesis can be developed and expanded, adding further to our understanding of Frankish identity.
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Marn, Travis M. "Performing the Black-White Biracial Identity: The Material, Discursive, and Psychological Components of Subject Formation." Scholar Commons, 2018. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/7695.
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The purpose of this new materialist study was to examine the subject performativity of ‘biracial’ individuals in an interview setting in order to disrupt the humanist assumptions of racial identity in psychological research. I also sought to promote critical resistance to subjectification to examine ‘race’ without reifying participants’ raced subjects. Four research questions guided this study: How does the researcher, researched, and interview intra-activity serve to instantiate the biracial subject? Under what material alterations to the interview process do different subjects come to be? Which subjects come to be or fail to come to be in the interview intra-action? How does purposeful entanglement function during the interview process?
In this experimental critical qualitative inquiry study, I interviewed five ‘black-white biracial’ undergraduate students three times each while enacting a series of agential cuts within and between each interview. By altering the flow of material during the interviews, I provoked multiple identity instantiations and analyzed the process of subjectification/individuation. Grounded in Barad’s agential realism, and guided by Simondon, Foucault, and Butler my analysis of this data suggests that humanist models of ‘racial’ identity are insufficient, and findings further suggest that a posthumanist and post-qualitative account of ‘biracial’ identity offers more insight into the performativity of ‘raced’ subjects. This research provides a path for psychological identity research to ethically evolve past the linguistic and ontological turns.
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Thomas-Stark, Shireen. "A narrative inquiry into the use of natural-based therapy material in children's identity development." Thesis, University of Pretoria, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/60426.
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A need to develop creative practices in child therapy, which address elements of environmental and therapeutic sustainability, is evident. Practices that are accessible, affordable, adaptable, and cross cultural offer therapeutic options that are applicable in a range of contexts. This study explored the potential for nature-based material used in therapy, to facilitate narrative identity development. The therapy process preceding the study entailed the use of an Embodiment Projective Role (EPR) ideas for narrative play therapy, incorporating nature as metaphorical material in exploring identity. As a descriptive qualitative study the collaborative narrative inquiry allowed for an account of identity development through the co creation of a significant statement of self research document. The inquiry into six children's identity documents, differing in age and gender, yielded intentional states of being as identity conclusions. Statements of what was done, statements of knowledge about self, and statements of how their identity informed decision making, were made. Identity conclusions were reached by every participant and the knowledge that was co created resulted in rich feelings across all participants. Participants acknowledged the sustainability of the therapeutic process through concrete natural reminders. When engaging in revisiting conversations with their caregivers, it was evident that each participant had experienced changes that enriched their daily life experiences following the research. The research fulfilled objectives of contributing knowledge of alternative, sustainable therapeutic resources and creates opportunities for continued research and practice in narrative nature based play therapy.Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2016.
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Portocarrero, Gustavo. "Braga in the modern era : landscape and identity." Thesis, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.683223.
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Fransson, Rodriguez Liza. "Perspektiv på genusidentitet i förhistorien : Så resonerar forskarna." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper (KV), 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-24449.
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This essay examines how four archaeology scholars reason about gender. I have used a qualitative method in making this study of their dissertations. The aim is to obtain a deeper understanding of gender identity in prehistory, gaining a broader appreciation of how this might be expressed through archaeological material. This essay takes its theoretical departure from postprocessual thinking, where gender perspectives, including feminist and queer theories are in focus. The result of this study shows that the scholars have a postprocessual, structuralistic theoretical perspective in common, and that they use stereotypical identity-descriptions. The conclusion is that gender identities can be interpreted and categorized from archaeological material.
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Faccio, Thais Castioni Gomes 1961. "Materiais didáticos curriculares e identidades docentes : o caso dos sistemas privados de ensino em escolas públicas municipais." [s.n.], 2014. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/254020.
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Orientador: Maria Inês de Freitas Petrucci dos Santos RosaDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Educação
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Resumo: Os usos de sistemas apostilados privados de ensino nos municípios do estado de São Paulo compõem um quadro significativo da interferência do mercado na Educação. A entrada desses materiais nos municípios paulistas trouxe uma dinâmica diferenciada para as salas de aula, interferindo na identidade do professor, assim como na estruturação dos conhecimentos escolares, pois não abrem espaço para particularidades. Tal estruturação interfere diretamente na constituição dos currículos. A disciplina escolar Ciências, presente no Ensino Fundamental, é focalizada nessa pesquisa, em que professores foram entrevistados e narraram suas práticas docentes frente ao uso dos sistemas apostilados. Memórias dos professores frente ao uso desses materiais são apresentadas em um conjunto de mônadas benjaminianas que compõem um universo de possibilidades sobre identidades docentes marcadas pelo controle externo. Os sistemas apostilados privados de ensino diluem autonomia e fragmentam identidades docentes, expondo um novo momento da Educação pública em âmbito municipal
Abstract: The use of private handouts in the teaching throughout the cities of São Paulo state represents a significant interference in the Education market. The adoption of such materials in the municipalities of São Paulo state brought a different dynamic to the classrooms, which interferes in the teacher¿s identity as well as in the structuring of schooling expertise because it does not provide room for specificities. Such structuring directly interferes in the makings of curricula. The Sciences subject, present in all first grades is the focus of this research, when teachers were surveyed and described their teaching practices against the use of handout systems. The memories of the mentioned teachers about the use of such materials are presented in a set of benjaminian monads, which comprise a universe of possibilities about teaching identities under external control. The private system of handouts in the teaching area dilute the autonomy and fragment teaching identities exposing a new moment in the public Education on a municipal basis
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Barragan, Oscar R. "The puzzling nature of material objects: A study of co-location." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2015. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/332590.
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My goal in this dissertation is to analyze the question, why is co-location a problem for the metaphysics of material objects? I believe that the existing literature on the topic identifies three possible answers to this question: Either, (i) co-location is a problem because it violates the no-coincidence principle, or because (ii) co-location violates the claim that the best available explanation for the relationship between objects that share the same empirically discriminable properties is the relationship of numerical identity, or finally because (iii) co-location violates the thesis of microphysical determination. I argue that (i), (ii), and (iii) are not sufficient reasons to think that co-location is metaphysically problematic, and that a denial of these assumptions does not warrant a rejection of co-location. I maintain that, instead, if co-location is a problem, it is so in virtue of violating a more basic assumption. Co-location is a problem for the view that the individuation and persistence conditions of any given material object is completely and solely determined by the physical or material properties of such an object. I advance reasons to believe that the latter view is fundamental in the sense that (i), (ii), and (iii), are consequences of it, and that co-location is in conflict with (i), (ii) and (iii), because it questions the basic physicalist view that provides the conditions for (i), (ii), and (iii). The fact that (i), (ii) and (iii) depend on the belief that physical properties exhaust the individuation and persistence of material objects, explains why they are not good reasons against co-location: They cannot establish that co-location is a problem for an account of material objects because they depend on the belief that co-location denies. Therefore, (i), (ii), and (iii) provide no more than three different ways of begging the question against co-location. I argue that, in order to show that co-location is a problem, we must show that physicalism with respect to material objects is the correct, or at least the most plausible, metaphysics of material objects, and this is something that neither (i), (ii), or (iii) can show. This statement of the relationship between co-location and anti-colocation reasons is also a contribution to the discussion of co-location.
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Tinson, Barbara Elizabeth. "Material culture and identity at rural settlements in the Severn-Cotswold area in the Roman period." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2017. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:cbd02750-0573-4286-9107-287a9d04ee6e.
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My research examines how Roman-style material culture was used to express identity, how this changed during the Roman period, whether different types of material culture were adopted at the same time and whether there were differences across different types of site. Evidence for expression of identities related to wealth, status, gender, group identities and ethnicity was also examined. Datasets were analysed by four themes: literacy, including evidence for writing and knowledge of Classical literature; personal appearance, including personal grooming, hair-styling and dress; foodways, what was eaten, how it was prepared and served; and the use of settlement space as the setting for social interaction, and how individuals experienced these spaces. Taken together these provided a more nuanced understanding of the nature of identity expression at each site than is apparent from consideration of each site in isolation, or from consideration of single artefact types. Data from forty-six settlement sites where detailed published excavation reports were available were examined to explore the similarities and differences in the use of Roman-style material culture between 'nucleated settlement', 'shrine', 'estate centre', 'villa' and 'farm' sites, with a comparison against data for 'military', 'urban', and 'Iron Age oppidum' sites. A non-statistical methodology was developed for comparison of different types of artefacts. The four types of material culture were adopted at different rates and in different combinations at the different rural sites types, with a link between the function of a site and the way in which identity was expressed. Consideration of changes over time indicate that, contrary to general assumptions, adoption of Roman-style material culture in the study area was relatively slow and modest, comparable to other areas in Britain at the periphery of the Empire, with little evidence for differentiation of an elite material culture until the elite villa architecture of the later Roman period. Changes in the extent and use of material culture can be linked to the major re-organisation of the landscape in the early second century, and the establishment of Cirencester as the probable capital of the new province of Britannia Prima.
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Marvell, Alan D. "The construction of suburban residential identity in developers' promotional material : with specific reference to North Swindon." Thesis, University of Gloucestershire, 2016. http://eprints.glos.ac.uk/4175/.
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This thesis identifies the multiple meanings of the contemporary suburb by exploring the construction of suburban residential identities through an analysis of developers’ promotional literature. Special reference is made to a large housing development in North Swindon, which was regarded as Britain’s biggest housing scheme when construction first began in 1994 (Webb, 1994; Boddy et al., 1997; Marvell, 2004). Home to over 30,000 people, the final parts of the development are still awaiting completion at the time of writing. Using an approach inspired by Roland Barthes (1972; 1977), this thesis uncovers the multiple meanings of the contemporary suburb in terms of how it is portrayed by housing developers. Interviews with representatives from various housing developers, town planners and architects have helped to identify the process of brochure production and the representation of suburban identities. The findings suggest that meanings within the suburb are not static and change over time. The meanings are largely derived from a rural idyll, yet the constructed form is sub-urban rather than sub-rural. Interestingly, the terms ‘suburban’ or ‘suburb’ do not feature in any of the promotional material sampled. This thesis deconstructs the material using both text and image. Whilst some meanings coexist between text and image there are noticeable differences which are consistent with studies using applied social semiotics (Hodge and Kress, 1988; Kress and van Leeuwen, 2006). This thesis provides a contribution to knowledge because no recent studies have been published on this area of study since Eyles (1987) and Gold and Gold (1990). A deconstruction of text and image has reduced the promotional material to eight superordinate headings that reflect the importance of community, environment, family, heritage, financial incentives, lifestyle, location and design. The methodological approach developed in this thesis has the potential to be applied more widely to suburban developments in North America, Europe and Australia, which suggests that this research can contribute to a wider understanding of suburban form. This thesis widens the debate amongst policy makers, planners and government at both local and national level regarding the contemporary identity of the suburb. It defines what is being constructed today in preparation for tomorrow.
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Gomes, Natassia de Melo Gomes. "Consumo e maternidade: um estudo sobre o consumo simb?lico como meio de constru??o da identidade materna." Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro, 2015. https://tede.ufrrj.br/jspui/handle/jspui/2051.
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Consumption plays an important role in the construction of identities and one of the main ways to express and define the members of a group is through the shared consumption symbols. The dress can be understood as a reflection of the identity of the individual to reflect rules and roles that peopleplay in the dynamics of social life. Thus, the consumption of products and services related to clothing in this work is presented in its role to build personal and collective meanings, establish and highlight cultural categories, being the focus of this study, maternal identity. Motherhood, rather than a biological event, is a social phenomenon that carries cultural and ideological pictures, the maternal identity constructed from the time when the woman is seen inserted in the new maternity context that may occur through experiences consumption. During pregnancy, the dress mode is naturally modified by new modifications of the body, making it necessary choices for new clothes. The symbolic consumption and consequently the meanings culturally constituted and assigned to goods has as intrinsic characteristic concern insertion in social groups. In addition, there is also a concern to keep and represent their images and identities to consume products that are consistent with their respective personalities and that could best represent them. In this way, the aim of this study was to analyze how the meanings attributed to clothing assist women in the construction of maternal identity. To achieve this purpose were carried 10 in-depth interviews with women who had become mothers in the last 24 months. The main results showed that the clothes are transmitters of communication and definition of this new identity to the woman, still occurring in the liminal period or just after birth. The choice of clothing in the post-liminal period is ruled on several matters, the most recurrent being the issue of social norms imposed on what is considered an ideal mother and what she should dress. Beyond this social issue, the changes in the body and the body perception of women are seen as an influencer for change of clothes in the post-liminal period. The stripping ritual, which takes place at this stage of the rite of passage, is closely linked to the issue of the body as it characterizes the need that women see in clear meanings attributed to an outfit that used during pregnancy.It can be seen that despite the construction of maternal identity be demarcated at different times as the discovery of pregnancy, purchasing products, the changes of the body or through the birth, it is important to emphasize that only through the daily ritual activities that symbolic changes are reinforced
O consumo desempenha um papel importante na constru??o das identidades e uma das principais formas de se expressar e definir os membros de um grupo ? atrav?s dos s?mbolos de consumo partilhados. O vestu?rio pode ser entendido como um reflexo da identidade do indiv?duo ao refletir regras e pap?is que os indiv?duos desempenham na din?mica da vida social. Assim, o consumo dos produtos e servi?os relacionados ao vestu?rio, neste trabalho, se apresenta em seu papel de construir significados pessoais e coletivos, estabelecer e evidenciar categorias culturais, sendo foco da presente pesquisa, a identidade materna. A maternidade, mais do que um evento biol?gico, constitui um fen?meno social, que carrega imagens culturais e ideol?gicas, sendo a identidade materna constru?da a partir do momento em que a mulher se v? inserida no novo contexto da maternidade, que pode ocorrer atrav?s das experi?ncias de consumo. Durante a gesta??o e ap?s o nascimento do beb?, o modo de se vestir ? naturalmente modificado devido ?s transforma??es do corpo, tornando-se necess?rio as escolhas por novas roupas. O consumo simb?lico das roupas e consequentemente os significados culturalmente constitu?dos e atribu?dos aos bens t?m como caracter?stica intr?nseca a preocupa??o de inser??o em grupos sociais. Al?m disso, existe tamb?m uma preocupa??o em manter e representar as suas imagens ou identidades ao consumir produtos que condizem com as suas respectivas personalidades e que possam melhor represent?-los. Desta forma, o objetivo deste trabalho foi analisar como os significados atribu?dos ao vestu?rio auxiliam as mulheres na constru??o da identidade materna. Para atingir o objetivo proposto, foram realizadas 10 entrevistas em profundidade com mulheres que se tornaram m?es nos ?ltimos 24 meses. Os principais resultados mostraram que as roupas s?o transmissoras de comunica??o e defini??o desta nova identidade ? mulher, ocorrendo ainda no per?odo liminar ou somente ap?s o nascimento do beb?. A escolha do vestu?rio, no per?odo p?s-liminar, ? pautada em diversas quest?es, sendo a mais recidivante a quest?o da normatiza??o social impostas ao que se considera uma m?e ideal e ao que ela deve vestir. Al?m desta quest?o social, as modifica??es no corpo e a percep??o corporal das mulheres s?o vistas como um influenciador para a mudan?a das roupas no per?odo p?s-liminar. O ritual de despojamento, que ocorre nesta fase do rito de passagem, est? intimamente ligado ? quest?o do corpo, pois caracteriza a necessidade que as mulheres veem em apagar significados atribu?dos a uma roupa que usou durante a gesta??o. Percebeu-se assim que apesar da constru??o da identidade materna ser demarcada em diferentes momentos como o da descoberta da gravidez, da aquisi??o de produtos, das mudan?as do corpo ou atrav?s do parto, ? importante ressaltar que somente atrav?s das atividades rituais di?rias que as mudan?as simb?licas s?o refor?adas
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Pierce, Elizabeth A. "Identity at the far edge of the earth : an examination of cultural identity manifested in the material culture of the North Atlantic, c. 1150-1450." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2011. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/2530/.
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Beginning in the late eighth century A.D., the Vikings of Scandinavia expanded westward, first to raid and later to settle and trade. By the 11th century, they inhabited territory extending into the North Atlantic, including the Faroe Islands, Iceland, and Greenland. These settlements were by no means monocultural and were located hundreds of miles away from the population centres of medieval Europe. In time, this distance and the relative isolation of the region contributed to the development of new cultural identities of the inhabitants. Unfortunately, the Middle Ages have not received as much attention as the Viking Age in the North Atlantic, and little has been written about identity in the North Atlantic aside from the underlying assumption that the people were Norwegian prior to forming their own local identities. This thesis aims to examine these identities over the entire North Atlantic region by studying the relationships between the island groups and questioning how the inhabitants used material culture to interact within a larger European, Christian milieu. Focussing on the period c. 1150-1450, this thesis approaches the cultural identity of these societies by evaluating the material culture and practices of the inhabitants using theoretical frameworks in identity, material culture, and island archaeology that have rarely, if ever, been applied in the medieval North Atlantic. Because of the wide geographical scope of this study, three case studies of artefact assemblages will be used: one each in the Faroe Islands, Iceland, and Greenland. These assemblages will be analysed both for the style and form of the objects and for the domestic and overseas contacts they represent, using the British Isles and Norway as starting points because of their known contacts with the North Atlantic. Material culture can be manipulated in order to create identities that give the user certain social, political or economic advantages. Understanding the material choices made in the North Atlantic, such as church architecture, clothing, table wares and dress accessories, can help us to understand the identities these people sought to portray. Further, using the abovementioned theoretical approaches, this thesis attempts to understand why certain material choices were made and what advantages those people hoped to gain by using that material culture. It is hoped that this thesis will help to illustrate the role that material culture played in cultural identity of the North Atlantic settlements in the Middle Ages, and to promote further discussion of identity in the North Atlantic on a regional level in this period.
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Eimke, Andrea. "Liminal Space - an investigation of material and immaterial boundaries and their space in between." AUT University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10292/916.
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This visual arts project investigates notions of liminality and hybridity regarding the ambiguity of the interstitial position of the migrant. An examination of the migrant’s perspective and perception of cultural identity and the sense of home and belonging also underpins these studies. The project examines how the space between two cultures is experienced, and explores ways in which this might be visually expressed through the construction of fibre and textile art works. The researcher’s personal experience, as a German national now resident in the Cook Islands, provides the basis for reflections on cultural liminality and the ambivalence of feelings towards inclusion and exclusion. Material elements from European and Polynesian cultures such as cloth, fibres, and thread, and non-material elements like concepts and rituals are investigated for their potential to transcend the boundaries of their original culture to reveal the liminal space as source of energy and change. The 80% practice based work is accompanied by a 20% written exegesis
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Mazow, Laura Beth. "Competing Material Culture: Philistine Settlement at Tel Miqne-Ekron in the Early Iron Age." Diss., Tucson, Arizona : University of Arizona, 2005. http://etd.library.arizona.edu/etd/GetFileServlet?file=file:///data1/pdf/etd/azu%5Fetd%5F1136%5F1%5Fm.pdf&type=application/pdf.
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Dappert, Claire P., and claire dappert@gmail com. "The US-China Trade: Capitalism, Consumption and Consumer Identity." Flinders University. Archaeology, 2009. http://catalogue.flinders.edu.au./local/adt/public/adt-SFU20091117.131742.
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Since the fifteenth century the rise of capitalism and the expansion of global trade networks have ensured that a wide range of consumer goods has become available to people from all walks of life. Paralleling these developments, our attitudes and beliefs about consumer goods have also changed: goods that were once considered luxuries have become commonplace in domestic households. This study celebrates the diversity of this material culture and the variety of symbolic meanings people attach to it. The US China trade, as a facet of the Spice Trade, is inextricably linked to the development of capitalism and long-distance shipping that ensured the movement of consumer goods to markets around the world. Inevitably, many of these ships sank and archaeologically their cargoes and the artifacts associated with their crew provide an opportunity to glimpse the development of our modern world. This thesis uses the shipwreck Frolic (1850) as a case study to discuss how those
involved in, and those who were supplied through, this trade used a range of consumer goods to construct distinct identities for themselves and those around them. This study also draws on a wide variety of source material, including material culture (museum collections and archaeological assemblages), images and documentary sources (courtesy literature and newspapers) to paint a broader picture of the US China trade and consumer society than any one source is capable of doing itself. This study ultimately argues that the range in consumer goods
associated with the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century US China trade is symptomatic of the increasing complexity of consumer markets able to facilitate the establishment and maintenance of a wide array of consumer identities, necessary under the many new social, economic and ideological relationships constructed under capitalism.
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Gibson, Celise M. "Disjecta: Material representations of an Indigenous and immigrant cultural legacy." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2015. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/87001/1/Celise_Gibson_Thesis.pdf.
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This practice-led research explores family history and the on-going influence of cultural legacy on the individual and the artist. Homi Bhabha theorises that identity vacillates through society, shifting and changing form to create disjunctive historical spaces – spaces of slippage that allow for new narratives and understandings to occur. Using the notion of disjuncture that became apparent in this research, the practice outcomes seek to visualise my families' sometimes-occulted history at the intersection of euro-centric and Indigenous ideologies.
Researched archival materials, government documents, interviews, collected objects and family photo-albums became primary source data for studio-based explorations. Scanners, glitch apps and photo-hacking were used to navigate through these materials, providing opportunities for photographic punctum and creating metaphors for the connections and disconnections that shape our sense of self.
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Ponton-Nigaglioni, Nydia Ivelisse. "THE MATERIAL CULTURE OF SLAVERY: CONSUMER IDENTITY AND SOCIAL STRATIFICATION IN HACIENDA LA ESPERANZA, MANATÍ, PUERTO RICO." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2018. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/594505.
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This dissertation focuses on the human experience during enslavement in nineteenth-century Puerto Rico, one of the last three localities to outlaw the institution of slavery in the Americas. It reviews the history of slavery and the plantation economy in the Caribbean and how the different European regimes regulated slavery in the region. It also provides a literature review on archaeological research carried out in plantation contexts throughout the Caribbean and their findings. The case study for this investigation was Hacienda La Esperanza, a nineteenth-century sugar plantation in the municipality of Manatí, on the north coast of the island. The history of the Manatí Region is also presented. La Esperanza housed one of the largest enslaved populations in Puerto Rico as documented by the slave census of 1870 which registered 152 slaves. The examination of the plantation was accomplished through the implementation of an interdisciplinary approach that combined archival research, field archaeology, anthropological interpretations of ‘material culture’, and geochemical analyses (phosphates, magnetic susceptibility, and organic matter content as determined by loss on ignition). Historical documents were referenced to obtain information on the inhabitants of the site as well as to learn how they handled the path to abolition. Archaeological fieldwork focused on controlled excavations on four different loci on the site. The assemblages recovered during three field seasons of archaeological excavations served to examine the material culture of the enslaved and to document some of their unwritten experiences. The study of the material culture of Hacienda La Esperanza was conducted through the application of John C. Barrett’s understanding of Anthony Giddens’ theory of structuration, Douglas Armstrong’s cultural transformation model, and Paul R. Mullins’ notions of consumerism and identity. Research results showed that the enslaved individuals of Hacienda La Esperanza were active yet highly restricted participants and consumers of the local market economy. Their limited market participation is evidence of their successful efforts to exert their agency and bypass the administration’s control. As such, this dissertation demonstrates that material life, even under enslavement, provides a record of agency and resistance. The discussion also addressed the topics of social stratification and identity.
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Sun, Kang. "Manufacturing Identity: Peasant Workers' Spatial Production in China." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1343408103.
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BARROS, Andr? Henrique Sousa. "Do patriarcal ao monoparental: consumo material e a constru??o de identidade da fam?lia monoparental feminina." Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro, 2017. https://tede.ufrrj.br/jspui/handle/jspui/1844.
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In the last decades, patriarchal family models have shown a significant reduction in occurrences in Brazil, whereas single-parent family arrangements composed of women's exclusive leadership show constant growth (IBGE, 2015; LEONE et al., 2010; COSTA & MARRA, 2013; SCHIMANSKI & PEREIRA, 2013). Thus, changes in consumer practices during the family cycle offer a broader universe for consumer studies in the national context (CASSOTI & SUAREZ, 2015). It is in this sense that goods have the capacity to function as a path to the creation of a family identity, evidencing the interactions and reformulations that exist in the family (EPP & PRICE, 2008, COMMURY & GENTRY, 2000, MILLER, 2010). Therefore, the present research sought to investigate how the woman of the family who becomes a single parent uses the material culture to minimize and face the effects caused by the separation or death of the spouse during the construction of the identity of the female single parent family. Data collection was done through an in-depth interview with 12 female heads of single-parent families living in the metropolitan region of Rio de Janeiro (MCCRAKEN, 1988). As a basic requirement to be interviewed, women should have assumed the responsibility of family in the last 7 years, a period of time in which the process of restructuring after divorce or death takes place (BURNS & DONALD 1980, Commury & Gentry 2000). The data collected were analyzed through content analysis (BARDIN, 2011). In this sense, comparing the results obtained and relating them to the family identity construction scheme proposed by Epp & Price (2008), the present study seems to point out that the construction of a single-parent family identity occurs exactly through thrusters such as; Marital disruption, a new form of leadership, greater integration among members, and limited family budget. In view of this, all these attributes are determinants in the forms of relation between family and materiality, because they stipulate the levels of intensity of this dialectical interaction. These forms of use, meaning, and interactions between individuals and goods seem to create two family stereotypes. The first was called a renewed family, which includes the units with the greatest flexibility to insert changes, both in the acquired assets and in the forms of negotiations and participation in the decision-making process. The second group corresponded to the gradual families, which were less prone to drastic changes in relation to the customs and consumption of family assets. These families often see the continuity of consumption patterns as essential to family harmony.
Nas ?ltimas d?cadas, os modelos de fam?lia patriarcal t?m apresentado uma redu??o significativa de ocorr?ncias no Brasil, enquanto que arranjos familiares monoparentais compostos pela exclusiva lideran?a da mulher apresenta crescimento constante (IBGE, 2015; LEONE et al 2010; COSTA & MARRA, 2013; SCHIMANSKI & PEREIRA, 2013). Desse modo, as transforma??es nas pr?ticas de consumo durante o ciclo familiar oferecem um amplo universo para os estudos de consumo em contexto nacional (CASSOTI & SUAREZ, 2015). ? nesse sentido que os bens possuem a capacidade de funcionar como caminho para a cria??o de identidade familiar, evidenciando as intera??es e reformula??es existentes na fam?lia (EPP & PRICE, 2008; COMMURY & GENTRY, 2000; MILLER, 2010). Diante disso, a presente pesquisa buscou investigar como a mulher da fam?lia que se torna monoparental utiliza a cultura material para minimizar e enfrentar os efeitos causados pela separa??o ou falecimento do c?njuge durante a constru??o da identidade da fam?lia monoparental feminina. A coleta de dados foi realizada por meio de entrevista em profundidade com 12 mulheres chefes de fam?lias monoparentais moradoras na regi?o metropolitana da cidade do Rio de Janeiro (MCCRAKEN,1988). Como requisito b?sico para ser entrevistada as mulheres deveriam ter assumido a condi??o de respons?vel da fam?lia nos ?ltimos 7 anos, per?odo de tempo o qual o processo de restrutura??o p?s divorcio ou falecimento incorre (BURNS & DONALD, 1980; COMMURY & GENTRY, 2000). Os dados coletados foram analisados por meio da an?lise de conte?do (BARDIN, 2011). Nesse sentido, comparando os resultados obtidos e os relacionando com o esquema de constru??o de identidade familiar proposto por Epp & Price (2008), o presente estudo parece apontar que a constru??o de uma de identidade de fam?lia monoparental ocorre exatamente atrav?s de propulsores como; rompimento conjugal, nova forma de lideran?a, maior integra??o entre os membros e limita??o or?amentaria da fam?lia. Diante disso, todos esses atributos s?o determinantes nas formas de rela??o entre a fam?lia e a materialidade, pois, estipulam os n?veis de intensidade dessa intera??o dial?tica. Essas formas de uso, significado e intera??es entre os indiv?duos e os bens parecem criar dois estere?tipos de fam?lia. A primeira foi denominada de fam?lia renovada, a qual compreende as unidades com maior flexibilidade para inser??o de mudan?as, tanto nos bens adquiridos quanto nas formas de negocia??es e participa??es no processo decis?rio. J? o segundo grupo correspondeu as fam?lias gradativas, sendo estas menos propensas as mudan?as dr?sticas em rela??o aos costumes e consumo dos bens familiares. Essas fam?lias geralmente enxergam a continuidade dos padr?es de consumo como algo essencial para a harmonia familiar.
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Salazar, Bonet Juan. "Cultura material e identidad social de un grupo agrícola-ganadero del sudoeste etíope: los mursi." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/586184.
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Esta tesis analiza el papel de la cultura material en la construcción de una identidad colectiva en una población agrícola-ganadera del Sudoeste de Etiopía, los mursi. Para ello se presta atención a múltiples soportes y prácticas, materiales e inmateriales, perdurables y efímeros. La identificación de los grupos humanos a través del estudio de su cultura material forma parte de la historia de la investigación arqueológica desde sus comienzos. Sin embargo, nuestro conocimiento sobre la identidad de grupos pasados se encuentra limitado, no solo por la preservación parcial de los restos, sino también, frecuentemente, por problemas metodológicos como la elección subjetiva de un único tipo de objeto o de contexto donde analizar los aspectos identitarios. La investigación etnográfica llevada a cabo durante las dos últimas décadas ha generado nuevos paradigmas desde los que analizar los procesos de identificación en la zona donde se desarrolla nuestro proyecto de investigación, el curso bajo del río Omo. Para obtener una visión más completa de la interacción que se produce en el binomio identidad – materialidad, empleamos un enfoque etnoarqueológico. La elección de esta estrategia investigadora nos permite observar y reflexionar, en una población actual, sobre el papel activo de los objetos en la construcción y el mantenimiento de una identidad social o colectiva. La participación en cinco campañas del Mursiland Heritage Project me permitió obtener una abundante base documental que fue ampliada mediante el estudio de siete colecciones de objetos depositados en museos de Budapest (Hungría), Osaka (Japón), Roma (Italia), Manchester (Reino Unido), Addis Abeba (Etiopía), Valencia (España) y Jinka (Etiopía). El presente trabajo de tesis incorpora, a una metodología de análisis de tradición arqueológica, diversas categorías generadas por la población con la que se realizan los estudios, lo que ha permitido delimitar cuatro ámbitos de estudio. Estos exploran el territorio y la movilidad, la cotidianidad y su cultura material, los objetos empleados en eventos públicos y, por último, tres instituciones a las que pertenecen todos los individuos y que jerarquizan, mediante la restricción en el uso de una serie de objetos, la vida en comunidad. Los resultados demuestran el carácter estratégico de las identificaciones individuales y colectivas, así como el papel determinante de los objetos a la hora de posibilitarlas. Estas conclusiones podrían dar pie a una reconsideración a la hora de asignar categorías sobre los grupos en otros contextos, geográficos o cronológicos.This thesis analyzes the role of material culture in the construction of a collective identity in an agro-pastoralist group of Southwest Ethiopia, the Mursi. Attention is paid to multiple supports and practices, tangible and intangible, imperishable and perishable. From the beginning, the identification of human groups through the study of their material culture has been an essential part of the history of archaeological research. However, our knowledge about past groups is limited, not only due to the partial preservation of past remains but also, and often, due to methodological problems like the subjective selection of a single type of object or context where to analyze identity aspects. The ethnographic research carried out during the last two decades has generated new paradigms from which to analyze the processes of identification in the area of study, the Lower Omo Valley. To obtain a more complete view of the interaction between the identity – materiality binomial, we use an ethnoarchaeological approach. The choice of this research strategy allows us to observe and reflect, in a current population, on the active role of objects in the construction and maintenance of a social or collective identity. Participation in five campaigns within the Mursiland Heritage Project allowed me to obtain an abundant documentary base which was enlarged by the study of seven museum collections held in of Budapest, (Hungary), Osaka (Japan), Rome (Italy), Manchester (United Kingdom), Addis Ababa (Ethiopia), Valencia (Spain) and Jinka (Ethiopia). The present work of thesis incorporates to the traditional archaeological methodology of analysis several categories generated by the local population. This has allowed to establish four areas of study that explore the territory and the mobility, the daily life and related material culture, the objects used in public events and, finally, three institutions to which all individuals belong to and which, through the restriction on the use of a series of objects, hierarchize community life. The results demonstrate the strategic nature of individual and collective identifications, as well as the determining role of objects in making them possible. Hopefully, these conclusions will lead to a reconsideration when assigning categories on groups in other contexts, whether geographic or chronological.
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Spencer, Eliot P. Chasteen John Charles. "Reflecting the outside world in everyday consumption material culture and identity in late nineteenth-century urban Latin America /." Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2008. http://dc.lib.unc.edu/u?/etd,1787.
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Thesis (M.A.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2008.Title from electronic title page (viewed Sep. 16, 2008). "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in the Department of History." Discipline: History; Department/School: History.
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Rosten, Judith Freda. "Personal adornment and the expression of identity in Roman Britain : a study of the material culture of appearance." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/8768.
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This thesis focuses on the use of personal adornment in south-east Roman Britain and examines if and how appearance was manipulated to express different identities. Individual categories of items associated with appearance have received much attention in Roman-British studies in recent years. However, to understand the complex systems of communication being played out through the display of adornment, these different artefact categories need be studied in conjunction with one another. Using Baldock, a site in North Hertfordshire, as the primary case-study, and drawing on other sites in the region - Braughing, Dunstable, Verulamium and Colchester-for comparative purposes, this study has analysed the effect of context on identity display, using the entire range of personal adornment data available from each site. Focusing specifically on the variable use of adornment in burial and settlement contexts and between different site types, this study has provided an insight into how daily interaction between different aspects of society were overlain with a complex, non-verbal communication system, and how in death, the population was unified through the same means that were used to separate during life.
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Spencer, Eliot P. "Reflecting the Outside World in Everyday Consumption: Material Culture and Identity in Late Nineteenth-Century Urban Latin America." Thesis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/71605.
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Following the end of the colonial period, Latin America became a thriving market for goods from the industrializing world, particularly the United States, Great Britain, and France. This thesis explores the sociocultural implications of importation into Mexico City and Caracas, Venezuela, situating the flow of commodities within cultural processes. It analyzes how ordinary people in the two cities interacted with goods from abroad. While most studies of this phenomenon focus on elites, this research suggests that they did not comprise the only group to desire, acquire, and display imported commodities. In Mexico City, non-elites could achieve upward mobility by displaying European items. In Caracas, powerful external commercial ties allowed city residents of most classes to obtain foreign commodities and construct their identity by way of them. Thus, people throughout the social strata associated with imported goods, leading to internal and external effects on cultural identity.Tinker Foundation
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Zachariou, Nicholas. "From missionary to merino: Identity, economy and material culture in the Karoo, Northern Cape, South Africa, 1800 - ca. 1870." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/27553.
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This thesis addresses the 19th century sequence of Kerkplaats, a farm in the central Karoo, Northern Cape, South Africa. Over this period different colonialisms of varying power and effect were introduced. The first was to local Khoe, San and Griqua communities in the form of one of the first London Missionary Society stations in the early 19th century. A second phase between 1830 and 1860 was to sheep farmers of German, Dutch and mixed descent, who absorbed and moulded the increasing impacts of British influence and materiality into older worlds of cultural resilience and practice. From 1860, a third phase saw a flood of mass produced British goods enter the region, similar to other colonial contexts around the world. Amount, availability and choice changed significantly and provided the material substrate in which rural stock farmers re-expressed themselves within the growing stature of Empire. It is suggested that for some rural farmers, expressive cultural practice worked to underpin increased affluence brought by merino sheep farming for global markets. Through this sequence different expressions of identity, domesticity, and economic scale are assessed through a close reading of documentary and archaeological evidence. While the material opportunities through the 19th century are the result of global processes, how this material is understood has to consider local context. It is suggested that material expression and identity change is most dramatic from the middle of the 19th century, when patterns of consumption reflect the globalisation of British production.
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Machiridza, Lesley H. "Material culture and dialectics of identity and power : towards a historical archaeology of the Rozvi in South-Western Zimbabwe." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/30082.
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The desire to attach identities (e.g. ethnic, gender, race, class, nationality etc.) to material culture has always featured at the core of archaeological inquiry. Archaeologists share the view that material culture is an active cultural agent that can reflect complex ideas that operated in the minds of prehistoric agents when carefully examined. These ideas were often shaped by dynamic social interactions and they sometimes manifested through stylistic patterns or material culture variation at archaeological sites. In Zimbabwe, various archaeological identities have been defined but Rozvi identities remain the most problematic. This study, therefore, revisits the Rozvi subject in the light of contemporary ideas on ethnicity, agency and material culture. Rozvi identities are probed from material culture at Khami and Danamombe sites, which are also linked with the Torwa historically, thus historical archaeology largely informs this investigation. Through documentary and fieldwork research results, I found that Rozvi identity construction processes were extremely fluid and sophisticated. Diverse elements of culture (both tangible and intangible) were situationally invoked to mark Rozvi ethnic boundaries. Whilst ceramics at Khami were diverse and complex, Danamombe pottery became more simple, less diverse or homogenous. Polychrome band and panel ware however still occurred at Danamombe, but in very restricted numbers. Perhaps the production and distribution of polychrome wares was controlled by Rozvi elites as part of their ideology and power structures. On the contrary, beads, dry-stone walls, and status symbols became more diversified at Danamombe than at Khami. However, Dhaka structures show no difference between the two research sites, where mundane stylistic differences manifesting at Danamombe, the former Rozvi capital, are perceived as demonstrative of ethnic objectification.Dissertation (MA)--University of Pretoria, 2013.
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Jarman, Neil. "Material conflicts : parades and visual displays in Northern Ireland /." Oxford [England] ;New York : Berg, 1997. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0601/97199843-d.html.
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Silva, Luciane da 1977. "Trilhas e tramas : percursos insuspeitos dos tecidos industrializados do continente africano : a experiencia da Africa Oriental." [s.n.], 2008. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/279145.
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Orientador: Omar Ribeiro ThomazDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciencias Humanas
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Resumo: Partindo da premissa de que o uso dos tecidos constitui-se em forma complexa de comunicação sócio cultural, esta dissertação intenta, por meio da cultura material, refletida no tema tecidos industrializados, levantar evidências teóricas que nos levem a perceber de que maneira os panos podem revelar processos que implicam na construção de identidades das populações africanas. O entendimento dos simbolismos das formas materiais é fundamental para a interpretação das culturas. A percepção do efeito do mundo material nas interações sociais nos leva a captar evidências e entrelinhas de relações e criações, trazendo à tona formas de pertencimento desencadeadas pelos usos específicos dos objetos. Na intersecção da África com contextos transnacionais os tecidos atuam como articuladores das percepções de gênero, geração, etnicidade, filiação política e nacional. A realidade do uso dos têxteis em África é algo peculiar. No vestuário especificamente, o pano que cobre o corpo é também palavra, portador de mensagens sociais. Ao contextualizarmos os tecidos às organizações sociais específicas e compreendê-los dentro de processos de interação, percebemos formas inusitadas de diálogos e embates com as realidades sócio culturais , provando que a criatividade e a mudança são partes constitutivas da tradição e que a cultura material é capaz de proporcionar a criação e a re-criação de papéis sociais.
Abstract: Taking part from the premise that the use of textiles constitutes a complex means of sociocultural communication, this dissertation intends, by means of the cultural material reflected in the theme of industrialized textiles, to bring to light theoretical evidence that helps us understand the way in which these cloths can reveal the processes implicated in the construction of identity of African populations. Understanding of the symbolism of the material forms is fundamental for the interpretation of culture. The perception of the effect of the material world on social interactions pushes us to collect both evident and subtle aspects of relations and creations bringing up ways of belonging unlocked by the specific uses of the objects. In the intersection of Africa and transnational contexts, textiles act as articulators of perceptions of gender, generation, ethnicity and national and political affiliation. The reality of the use of textiles in Africa is something peculiar. Specifically in terms of attire, the cloth that covers the body is also word, carrier of social messages. In contextualizing textiles within specific social organizations and understanding them as part of processes of interaction, we perceive surprising forms of dialogue and clashes with sociocultural realities, demonstrating that creativity and change are constitutive parts of tradition, and that material culture is capable of affording the creation and recreation of social roles.
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Elias, Hajnalka Pejsue. "The Southwest : a study of regional identity in material culture and textual sources during the Eastern Han Dynasty (25-220 C.E.)." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2018. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/285173.
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This dissertation studies examples of social and cultural memory and identity manifested in the art of the southwest, present-day Sichuan province, during the Eastern Han dynasty. Through the study of the southwest's material culture, considered special for its distinct artistic style and content by scholars in the field of Chinese art, combined with analysis of early textual sources, it highlights a number of important findings associated with the region's social make-up, economic activities, burial practices, education and governance, all of which contributed to the formation of a distinct regional identity. The southwest's geographical isolation and its great distance from the Central Plains; the difficulties and dangers of road and river transport from all directions; its multi-ethnic make-up and the engrained cultural prejudice from the north, especially from the capital's governing elite and literati, were all factors that contributed to a sense of regional separation that manifested itself in a distinct material culture and is hinted at in early textual sources. The main sources of material culture examined in the dissertation are pictorial brick tiles and stone reliefs discovered in stone and brick chamber tombs; decorated stone sarcophagi placed in the region's cliff tombs; and commemorative and ancestral stelae erected for the governors of Shu and Ba commanderies. In its methodology, the dissertation employs Western theories on social and cultural memory and identity. It also bridges two fields of study, cultural and art history, which are often pursued separately due to their distinct specialisations. The dissertation's findings aim to contribute to our knowledge of the southwest and to the study of regional identity in early imperial China.
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Wiking, Holmlander Tuva. "Reflexive Material Identities : The Sartorial Practices of Ten Young Afghan Male Migrants in Sweden." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Modevetenskap, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-183292.
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Roeder, Tobias Uwe. "Professional identity of army officers in Britain and the Habsburg Monarchy, 1740-1790." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2018. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/277825.
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This thesis explores the existence and outlook of a European officer class in the mid- to later 18th century by studying the army officers of Britain and the Habsburg Monarchy from the War of the Austrian Succession to the eve of the French Revolutionary Wars. It illuminates the character of such an officer class of ‘Military Europe’ with its own cultural customs and practices. Furthermore, it details similarities, differences and peculiarities of both officer corps. This is achieved by analysing the social and national composition of both armies, with a focus here on the Habsburg Army due to the fact that it took in great numbers of foreigners and that the muster lists give an indication of how great the proportion of nobility was. A comparison with the British case shows striking similarities but also obvious differences. In a further step the ability of individuals for social advancement and national mobility is scrutinised on both sides. In this context, the state’s care for its officers and their social security is also taken into account. One possibility to acknowledge the officers’ service was to raise their status, either by ennoblement or through increasing the prestige of the uniform in court and society, its transformation into an ‘Ehrenkleid’ (garment of honour). As officers increasingly became servants to the state, rather than noble retainers and military enterprisers, they were also subject to professionalization efforts by the sovereigns. What becomes apparent, however, is that the officers did not only react to such measures but that at least a significant part of them actively worked on improving the service, thereby exhibiting a growing professionalism. In order to explore the coherence of the officer corps in those armies, with officers all following the same codes and accepting each other as equals, the thesis looks into core values (including honour, duty, courage and loyalty) binding them together and separating them from the enlisted men. The thesis will also offer a glimpse of their engagement with civilian society and culture as well as their role as ‘foot soldiers of Enlightenment’. On a European level, interaction between these officers proves their general acceptance of and respect for each other, while at the same time acting as state representatives in wartimes. Their interaction with non-European and non-state military forces and their leadership marks out the fluid boundaries of military Europe, but also exhibits the pervasiveness of European military culture.
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Maharjan, Monalisa. "Linking heritage: Yenya Punhi Festival a path to reinforce identity. The Katmandu experience." Doctoral thesis, Universidade de Évora, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10174/18925.
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In today’s world heritage worldwide are at the risk not only because of natural
process of decay and destruction but also by social change like urbanization,
globalization and homogenization of cultures. With these emerging problems, the
heritage conservation discourse also has reached to a new dimension including
broader range of concepts like tangible heritage, intangible heritage, community
participation, indigenous knowledge and many more. Even with the changing
scenario in the international context about the heritage conservation, Nepal’s
heritage conservation still focus on monuments, sites and buildings. In add to that
the conservation practices are still top-down approach and community
involvements are limited only in plans. While numerous intangible heritages like
masking dances chariot processions, festivals and rituals, which form an integral
part of the daily social life of people are still being continued and managed by the
community and its people, without with out serious attention form the government.
In Kathmandu Valley these heritages has been maintained with the traditional
social association of people known as “Guthi” which has been continuing since 5th
Century.
Most of the tangible and intangible heritages have survived for centuries because
of this unique association of people. Among the numerous festivals of the
Kathmandu Valley, the festival Yenya Punhi was chosen as a case for this study,
which is also a major festival of Kathmandu. This festival is the perfect example
for the study as its celebrated in the city that is the most urbanized city of Nepal
with the challenges of the every modern city like social changes and urbanization.
Despite modern challenges Guthi still plays a major role in the heritage
conservation in Kathmandu Valley. Now there are some interventions of the
various formal institutions. So this study will be focusing on the management,
continuity and problems of the festival along with Nepal’s position in terms of
intangible heritage conservation. The problem of Kathmandu and Yenya Punhi
festival is the problem of every country in the similar situation so with this case study it can be a good example for finding solutions of the similar problem not only
the other festivals within Nepal but also elsewhere in the world; Resumo:
Conexão de Património: Festival Yenya Punhi um caminho de
fortalecimento de identidade: A experiência de Catmandu
Nos dias de hoje, os patrimónios mundiais encontram-se em risco, não só devido
ao processo natural de degradação e destruição, mas também pelas mudanças
sociais, tais como a urbanização, globalização e homogeneização de culturas.
Com o emergir destes problemas, o discurso de conservação de Património
atingiu também uma nova dimensão, incluíndo uma área mais abrangente de
conceitos, como por exemplo, património material, património imaterial,
participação da comunidade, conhecimento indígena, entre outros. Mesmo com
este cenário de mudança no contexto mundial de conservação do património, a
preservação do património do Nepal continua a focar-se em monumentos, sítios e
edíficios. A acrescentar a isso, as práticas de conservação ainda têm uma
abordagem descendente e os envolvimentos da comunidade são limitados por
planificações. Enquanto que os numerosos patrimónios imateriais como danças
com máscaras, procissões, festivais e rituais, os quais formam uma parte integral
da vida diária social das pessoas que as continuam e as gerem em comunidade,
sem uma atenção séria por parte do governo. No Vale de Catmandu, este
património tem sido mantido pela associação tradicional de pessoas conhecidas
como ''Guthi'' desde o século V.
A maior parte destes patrimónios materiais e imateriais tem sobrevivido durante
séculos graças a esta associação única de pessoas. Entre os numerosos
festivais do Vale de Catmandu, o festival Yenya Puhni foi escolhido para este
estudo, pois é também um grande festival em Catmandu. Este festival é o
exemplo perfeito para este estudo, pois é celebrado na cidade mais urbanizada
do Nepal, com os desafios das cidades modernas tais como mudanças sociais e
urbanização. Apesar dos desafios da modernização, os ''Guthi'' ainda
desempenham um papel importante na preservação do património do Vale de
Catmandu. Agora, existem algumas intervenções de várias instituições formais Então, este estudo irá focar-se na gestão, continuidade e problemas do festival,
juntamente com a posição do Nepal em termos de conservação de património
imaterial. O problema de Catmandu e do festival Yenya Punhi é o problema de
todos os países em situação semelhante então, este estudo pode ser um bom
exemplo para encontrar soluções de problemas parecidos, não só em outros
festivais no Nepal mas também para qualquer parte do mundo.
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Park, Choon-Keun. "Identity, society, and history in modern Korean plays three aspects of three modern Korean plays; Moonlight play, Material man, and Terrorists /." Oxford, Ohio : Miami University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=miami1145642426.
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Adams, Karen Lesley. "'A juggling act!' : a socio-material analysis of the role and identity of practice teachers in the UK National Health Service." Thesis, University of Huddersfield, 2017. http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/34395/.
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Practice teachers within the UK National Health Service have had an unstable history during which their status has fluctuated. They belong to that category of occupations where there is a dual role identity, the practice teacher element being subordinate or secondary to a clinical role which is often aligned to additional leadership and management responsibilities. The secondary nature of the role contributes to the liminal status of this small professional group and this affects the professional identity of practice teachers and the extent to which the role can maintain itself and achieve recognition. This study seeks to reconcile identity and socio-material theory in order to offer innovative and original insights into how the practice teachers dual professional identity develops and how they learn and enact their role. This study develops empirical insights into the role and attributes of practice teachers and the context in which they work in order to produce a body of knowledge which could inform their preparation for the role. One to one interviews were carried out with ten practice teachers, four managers and eight specialist community nursing students in one region of the UK. In addition a focus group interview was conducted with six specialist community nurse educators drawn from a national organisation, and one to one interviews were conducted with the chair of a body representing nurse educators and a regulatory body representative. The analysis was framed by the socio-material literature and this illuminated the broader range of factors influencing learning and their impact upon professional roles. The findings suggest that health service reforms in recent years have led to the development of an efficiency driven model of health care and this impinges upon practice teacher roles and practice learning. The evidence indicated an absence of an infrastructure to support the practice teacher role in all its aspects and as a consequence the role is ambiguous and diffuse. A range of differing socio-material factors influence the specific localised contexts in which practice teachers experience and learn their role. As a consequence practice teacher roles are assembled in different ways and they are thus not a homogenous group. A corollary of this is that the professional identity of practice teachers is unstable and they have struggled to develop a shared identity. The findings depict practice teachers who have a capacity for self-determination and who are proactive in attempting to establish a more stable professional identity.
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Rose, Kayla. "Illuminating Ireland : illuminated addresses and the material culture of Irish civic and national identity in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries." Thesis, Ulster University, 2014. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.627629.
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This thesis explores the material culture of illuminated addresses in nineteenth and early twentieth-century Ireland as commemorative objects which concurrently exhibited Irish and British identity. It presents a history of the modern revival of illumination using the theoretical frameworks of material culture, art history, cultural history, anthropology and archaeology in order to determine the cultural, historical and socio-political value of illuminated addresses within the contexts of Romantic Nationalism, the Celtic Revival and modernity. The thesis reinvestigates the history of the revival of illumination in modern Ireland as it relates to the formation and expression of civic and national identity in the form of the illuminated address, and interrogates, as a case study, the art and printing firm of Marcus Ward & Co. and its chief artist and designer John Vinycomb within the larger civic development of Victorian Belfast, detailing their contributions to art, commerce and industry. As physical manifestations of Victorian and immediate post-Victorian and early modern identity, illuminated addresses were decorative, commemorative objects presented to people for significant achievements through public ceremony. The research questions associated with this thesis explore the material culture of illuminated addresses and conclude that illuminated addresses embodied, and were a key material part of expressing, Irish civic and national identity from the 1860s to the period immediately following Irish independence and partition, forming a major contribution to the study of material culture and art history in Ireland. It serves further as a recovery project in its construction of a history of forgotten objects.