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Young, Michael W. "Malinowski’s last word on the anthropological approach to language." Pragmatics. Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA) 21, no. 1 (March 1, 2011): 1–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/prag.21.1.01you.

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This article reproduces an archived and previously unpublished paper by Bronislaw Malinowski entitled “The anthropological approach to language” which he delivered to a meeting of the elite Monday Night Group in the Institute of Human Relations at Yale University in November 1941. The social “context of situation” of Malinowski’s seminar presentation is reconstructed together with a brief consideration of his contribution to linguistic theory. A commentary on his paper refers to Malinowski’s relationship with several of his peers, including discussion of the critical reception given to the second volume of his last monograph on the Trobriand Islands, Coral Gardens and their Magic. Finally, the “biographical context of situation” describes Malinowski’s lethally busy schedule six months before his death, referring to his other public presentations during the months of October and November 1941.

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Gondra, José María, and Manuel Sánchez de Miguel. "Yale University's Institute of Human Relations and the Spanish Civil War: Dollard and Miller's Study of Fear and Courage under Battle Conditions." Spanish journal of psychology 12, no. 2 (November 2009): 393–404. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1138741600001785.

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In the late 1930s, the Institute of Human Relations of Yale University developed a research program on conflict and anxiety as an outcome of Clark Hull's informal seminar on the integration of Freud's and Pavlov's theories. The program was launched at the 1937 Annual Meeting of the APA in a session chaired by Clark L. Hull, and the experiments continued through 1941, when the United States entered the Second World War. In an effort to apply the findings from animal experiments to the war situation, John Dollard and Neal E. Miller decided to study soldiers' fear reactions in combat. As a first step, they arranged interviews with a few veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. Taking these interviews as a point of departure, Dollard devised a questionnaire to which 300 former Lincoln brigaders responded. The present paper analyzes the main outcomes of the questionnaire, together with the war experiences reported in the interview transcripts. Our purpose was to evaluate a project which was initially investigated by the FBI because of the communists among the Lincoln ranks, but eventually supported by the American Army, and which exerted great influence on the military psychology of the time.

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Hansen, Karl R., Jennifer D. Peck, R. Matthew Coward, Robert A. Wild, J. C. Trussell, Stephen A. Krawetz, Michael P. Diamond, et al. "Intrauterine insemination performance characteristics and post-processing total motile sperm count in relation to live birth for couples with unexplained infertility in a randomised, multicentre clinical trial." Human Reproduction 35, no. 6 (May 20, 2020): 1296–305. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/humrep/deaa027.

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Abstract STUDY QUESTION Are intrauterine insemination (IUI) performance characteristics and post-processing total motile sperm count (TMC) related to live birth rate in couples with unexplained infertility? SUMMARY ANSWER Patient discomfort with IUI and lower inseminate TMC were associated with a reduced live birth rate, while time from hCG injection to IUI, sperm preparation method and ultrasound guidance for IUI were not associated with live birth success. WHAT IS ALREADY KNOWN We previously determined that some baseline characteristics of couples with unexplained infertility, including female age, duration of infertility, history of prior loss and income, were related to live birth rate across a course of ovarian stimulation and IUI treatment. However, the relationship between treatment outcomes and per-cycle characteristics, including ultrasound guidance for IUI, timing of IUI relative to hCG injection, difficult or painful IUI and inseminate TMC, are controversial, and most prior investigations have not evaluated live birth outcome. STUDY DESIGN, SIZE, DURATION This was a secondary analyses of 2462 cycles from the Assessment of Multiple Intrauterine Gestations from Ovarian Stimulation (AMIGOS) clinical trial. This prospective, randomised, multicentre clinical trial determined live birth rates following IUI after ovarian stimulation with clomiphene citrate, letrozole or gonadotropins in 854 couples with unexplained infertility. It was conducted between 2011 and 2014, and couples could undergo up to four consecutive treatment cycles. PARTICIPANTS/MATERIALS, SETTING, METHODS AMIGOS was an NIH-sponsored Reproductive Medicine Network trial conducted at 12 clinical sites. Participants were women with unexplained infertility who were between 18 and 40 years of age. Cluster-weighted generalised estimating equations (GEE), which account for informative clustering of multiple IUI treatment cycles within the same patient, were used to determine associations between IUI performance characteristics, including inseminate TMC, and live birth rate. Efficiency curves were also generated to examine the relationship between inseminate TMC and live birth rate. MAIN RESULTS AND THE ROLE OF CHANCE After adjustment for treatment group and baseline factors previously associated with live birth across a course of OS-IUI treatment, patient discomfort during the IUI procedure was associated with a reduction in live birth rate (aRR 0.40 (0.16–0.96)). Time from hCG trigger injection to IUI was not significantly associated with outcome. Higher TMC was associated with greater live birth rate (TMC 15.1–20.0 million (14.8%) compared to ≤5 million (5.5%)) (aRR 2.09 (1.31–3.33)). However, live births did occur with TMC ≤ 1 million (5.1%). LIMITATIONS, REASONS FOR CAUTION This investigation is a secondary analysis, and AMIGOS was not designed to address the present question. Since timed intercourse was allowed as part of the AMIGOS trial, we cannot rule out the possibility that any given pregnancy resulted from intercourse rather than IUI. WIDER IMPLICATIONS OF THE FINDINGS Most factors associated with the performance of IUI were not significantly related to obtaining live birth. Our findings suggest that higher TMC inseminated leads to an increase in live birth rate up to TMC ~20 million. However, there may be no reasonable threshold below which live birth is not possible with IUI. STUDY FUNDING/COMPETING INTEREST(S) Funding was received through grants from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD): U10 HD077680, U10 HD39005, U10 HD38992, U10 HD27049, U10 HD38998, U10 HD055942, HD055944, U10 HD055936 and U10 HD055925. This research was made possible by funding by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Dr Hansen reports grants from NIH/NICHD and Yale University during the conduct of the study, grants from Roche Diagnostics and grants from Ferring International Pharmascience Center US outside the submitted work. Dr Peck reports support from Ferring Pharmaceuticals outside the submitted work. Dr Coward has nothing to disclose. Dr Wild reports grants from NICHD during the conduct of the study. Dr Trussell has nothing to disclose. Dr Krawetz reports grants from NICHD during the conduct of the study, grants from Merck and support from Taylor and Frances and from Springer, outside the submitted work. Dr Diamond reports grants from NIH/NICHD, Yale University, during the conduct of the study and support from Advanced Reproductive Care AbbVie, Bayer and ObsEva, outside the submitted work. Dr Legro reports support from Bayer, Kindex, Odega, Millendo and AbbVie and grants and support from Ferring, outside the submitted work. Dr Coutifaris reports grants from NICHD/NIH and personal fees from American Society for Reproductive Medicine, outside the submitted work. Dr Alvero has nothing to disclose. Dr Robinson reports grants from NIH during the conduct of the study. Dr Casson has nothing to disclose. Dr Christman reports grants from NICHD during the conduct of the study. Dr Santoro reports grants from NIH during the conduct of the study. Dr Zhang reports grants from NIH during the conduct of the study and support from Shangdong University outside the submitted work. TRIAL REGISTRATION NUMBER n/a

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Ish-Shalom, Piki. "THE CULTURE OF VIOLENCE AND UNSTABLE PROCESSES FOR THE MAINTENANCE OF PEACE." Revista Observatório 4, no. 2 (April 1, 2018): 1026. http://dx.doi.org/10.20873/uft.2447-4266.2018v4n2p1026.

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INTERVIEW Prof. Ish-Shalom pursued his Ph.D. in Political Science and International Relations. Member of the Steering Committe of the Standing Group of International Relations (SGIR) of ECPR. He was the Director of the Leonard Davis for International relations Associate Professor (2012-15). He was a postdoctoral fellow at the International Security Program at the Belfer Center for Science and International affairs and at the Olin Institute for Strategic Studies, both at Harvard University. In addition he was the Israel Institute Visiting Professor as well as a Visiting Associate Professor at Stanford University (2015-16), visiting scholar at the New School University in New York (2000-2001), at the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF) (2012), and at the Institute for the Human Studies (IWM) in Vienna (2001). He is the author of Democratic Peace: A Political Biography (University of Michigan Press, 2013), as well as articles in different scholarly journals such as International Studies Quarterly, European Journal of International Relations, International Studies Review, Political Science Quarterly, and Perspectives on Politics.

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Lucas, Jay S. "Human Rights in Iraq. By Middle East Watch. New Haven: Human Rights Watch, Yale University Press, 1990. Pp. xiv, 164." American Journal of International Law 86, no. 2 (April 1992): 418–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2203251.

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Rich, Jennifer. "Education Supplement for Genocide Awareness Month." Genocide Studies International Supplement, no. 2023 (January 13, 2023): 1–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/gsi.2023.02.edsupp.

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Genocide Studies International ( GSI) is owned, operated, and managed by the International Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies (a division of the Zoryan Institute). The journal is published twice a year by the University of Toronto Press. Zoryan Institute, a nonprofit organization, serves the cause of scholarship and public awareness relating to issues of universal human rights, genocide, and diaspora-homeland relations. This is done through the systematic continued efforts of scholars and specialists using a comparative and multidisciplinary approach and in accordance with the highest academic standards.

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Popa, Bogdan. "Wollstonecraft, Mill and Women’s Human Rights. By Eileen Hunt Botting. New Haven: Yale University Press. 2016 320p. $85.00." Perspectives on Politics 14, no. 4 (December 2016): 1185–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s153759271600342x.

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Huwe, Terence, and Janice Kimball. "Selected by the Institute of Industrial Relations Library University of California, Berkeley." Industrial Relations 42, no. 2 (April 2003): 303–4. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1468-232x.00292.

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Huwe, Terence K., and Janice Kimball. "Selected by the Institute of Industrial Relations Library University of California, Berkeley." Industrial Relations 43, no. 1 (January 2004): 295–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.0019-8676.2004.00328.x.

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Huwe, Terence K., and Janice Kimball. "Selected by the Institute of Industrial Relations Library University of California, Berkeley." Industrial Relations 43, no. 2 (April 2004): 483–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.0019-8676.2004.00341.x.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Yale University. Institute of Human Relations"

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Hameed, Imran Boonyong Keiwkarnka. "Human relations among nurses at Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences, Islamabad /." Abstract, 2004. http://mulinet3.li.mahidol.ac.th/thesis/2547/cd363/4637984.pdf.

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Bezerra, de Melo Daly Gabriela. "Drawing and blurring boundaries between species : an etho-ethnography of human-chimpanzee social relations at the Primate research institute of Kyoto university." Thesis, Paris Sciences et Lettres (ComUE), 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018PSLEE035/document.

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Comment humains et chimpanzés définissent et brouillent les frontières entre leurs espèces lors de leurs interactions ? Tel sera le leitmotiv de notre étho-ethnographie, à l’intersection de l’anthropologie sociale, des études des sciences, et de la primatologie. Au fondement de cette recherche se trouve un travail de terrain de longue durée mené dans un laboratoire de sciences cognitives situé au Japon, au sein duquel sont enseignées aux chimpanzés des compétences langagières dans le but de caractériser leur monde perceptuel. Cependant, au cœur même du contexte ce laboratoire, la nature des relations entre humains et chimpanzés est un aspect crucial de ce programme de recherche ; les deux espèces y forment une communauté hybride faite d’affects, de relations sociales et de collaboration scientifique. Afin de fournir une étude comparative, nous avons également mené une série d’ethnographies plus brèves – sur le modèle de la méthodologie multi-site – en observant cette même problématique à l’œuvre au sein de diverses institutions au Japon - zoo, sanctuaires et réserves - ainsi qu’au sein de la station japonaise pour l’étude de la culture des chimpanzés qui se trouve à Bossou, en République de Guinée. En outre, ce travail narre l’expérience que nous avons faite de devenir expérimentatrice au sein du laboratoire étudié. Le résultat en est multiple. Nous commencerons par explorer l’histoire des études sur les chimpanzés menées à l’Institut de Recherche sur les Primates de l’Université de Kyoto (KUPRI) ainsi que les pratiques de soin et de recherche qui s’y sont mises en place. Ensuite, nous étudierons les dynamiques qui caractérisent (1) les frontières physiques, lors d’interactions sociales entre deux espèces qui peuvent s’avérer dangereuses, (2) les frontières expérimentales, lorsque le chimpanzé n’est pas seulement celui qui fait l’objet d’une expérience mais qui met également à l’épreuve son expérimentateur, (3) et les frontières symboliques, lorsqu’est interrogée la définition de la « personne » humaine et non humaine. Ainsi, quatre points principaux sont examinés à nouveaux frais, en particulier (a) la socialisation interspécifique (b) l’incarnation des relations inter-espèces dans un espace donné (c) les relations inter-espèces dans un contexte scientifique (d) l’examen de perspectives zoocentrées sur la « personne ». Nous conclurons avec l’évocation de nos espoirs et de nos attentes quant à un dialogue fructueux entre les différentes disciplines en jeu. L’apport de ce travail consistera en effet à mobiliser des concepts et des outils de la primatologie et des sciences sociales afin de proposer une analyse plus symétrique des relations entre humains et animaux
How do humans and chimpanzees set and blur boundaries between species when interacting with each other? This is the leitmotif of this etho-ethnography at the intersection of social anthropology, social studies of science and primatology. This endeavor is based on long-term fieldwork conducted in a cognitive sciences laboratory in Japan, which teaches chimpanzees language-like skills as means to understand their perceptual world. However, in this laboratory setting, the human-chimpanzee relationship is a vital part of the research philosophy and both species constitute a hybrid community of affections, social relationships, and scientific partnering. As a comparative effort, a short-term multi-sited ethnography was conducted following the theme across institutions in Japan of zoo, sanctuary and field-site type, in addition to the Japanese field station for the study of chimpanzee culture, in Bossou, Africa. Moreover, this work draws on the experience of becoming, at the same time, an experimenter in the targeted laboratory. The result is multifold. We shall explore first, the history as well as the caretaking and research practices in chimpanzee studies at the Primate Research Institute of Kyoto University (KUPRI). Then, we shall investigate the dynamics of physical boundaries in dangerous interspecies social interactions; the experimental boundaries of testing and being tested by chimpanzees; and the symbolic boundaries concerning human and nonhuman personhood. As a result, four major points are brought to light in a renewed perspective, namely (a) interspecies socialization (b) the embodiment of interspecies social relations in space (c) interspecies social relations in scientific settings (d) animalcentric perspectives on personhood. We conclude with the hopes and prospects for a fruitful dialogue across disciplines. Overall, the differential endeavor of this work consists in mobilizing concepts and tools from both primatology and social sciences to propose a more symmetric analysis of the human-animal relationship

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Books on the topic "Yale University. Institute of Human Relations"

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University of Zambia. Institute of Human Relations. A report of the activites of the Institute of Human Relations for the period 1982-1990. [Lusaka]: The Institute, 1990.

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B, Ifill Max, and University of the West Indies (Saint Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago). Institute of International Relations., eds. Proceedings of a sesquicentennial conference on human development: Held at the Institute of International Relations, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, 30th July to 1st August 1984. Port of Spain, Trinidad: Economic and Business Research, 1989.

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Workshop, Addis Ababa University Dept of Political Science and International Relations Launching. Topics in contemporary political development in Ethiopia: Towards research agenda in the framework of DPSIR-NIHR Research Programme (1998-2003) : proceedings of the Launching Workshop of the Department of Political Science and International Relations (DPSIR) and the Norwegian Institute of Human Rights (NIHR) : held at the Graduate School of Addis Ababa University, February 11-12, 2000. [Addis Ababa]: Dept. of Political Science and International Relations, Addis Ababa University, 2003.

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Office, General Accounting. Foreign assistance: Contributions to child survival are significant, but challenges remain : report to the Chairman, Subcommittee on International Operations and Human Rights, Committee on International Relations, House of Representatives. Washington, D.C: The Office, 1996.

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Office, General Accounting. Foreign assistance: Contributions to child survival are significant, but challenges remain : report to the Chairman, Subcommittee on International Operations and Human Rights, Committee on International Relations, House of Representatives. Washington, D.C: The Office, 1996.

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Office, General Accounting. Foreign assistance: AID energy assistance and global warming : report to the chairman and ranking minority member, Subcommittee on Human Rights and International Organizations, House Committee on Foreign Affairs. Washington, D.C: GAO, 1991.

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Vydrin, Igor'. Municipal Law of Russia. ru: INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1899696.

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The textbook reveals the issues of theory and practice of local self—government - the grassroots level of public power in the Russian Federation, ensuring the implementation of civil rights in the most important areas of human existence. The legal, territorial, functional, organizational and economic foundations of this institute are analyzed. Special attention is focused on the powers of local self-government bodies, the practical side of their direct activities, as well as controversial provisions of Russian legislation, the norms of which regulate various aspects of self-government relations in our country. The fifth edition takes into account the latest changes in municipal legislation, reveals the practical aspects of the activities of local self-government bodies in various spheres of municipal economy. For students, postgraduates, university professors, state and municipal employees, as well as for anyone interested in municipal issues.

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Proceedings of a Sesquicentennial Conference on Human Development: Held at the Institute of International Relations, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, 30th July to 1st August 1984. Port of Spain, Trinidad (P.O. Box 780, Port of Spain): Economic and Business Research, 1989.

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To raise up the man farthest down: Tuskegee University's advancements in human health, 1881-1987. Tuskaloosa, AL: The University of Alabama Press, 2018.

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Powell, Edith, Dana R. Chandler, and Linda Kenney Miller. To Raise up the Man Farthest Down: Tuskegee University's Advancements in Human Health, 1881-1987. University of Alabama Press, 2018.

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Book chapters on the topic "Yale University. Institute of Human Relations"

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"Milton C. Winternitz and the Yale Institute of Human Relations: A Brief Chapter in the History of Social Medicine." In Social Medicine and Medical Sociology in the Twentieth Century, 32–58. Brill | Rodopi, 1997. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004418530_003.

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Siraj, Muzzammil, Hasnain Siraj, Safdar Miran, and Fida Hussain. "Human Microbiota Impact on the Efficacy of Pharmacological Treatments." In Advances in Medical Technologies and Clinical Practice, 212–33. IGI Global, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/979-8-3693-2333-5.ch011.

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The objective of this review is to systematically examine several papers that observe the complex relationships between pharmaceutical treatments and human microbiota, highlighting how these relations may affect the course of treatment. To assure a thorough analysis of the data of current literature, the review was voted for to make use of several databases. PubMed, Open University, Academia Sinica, Southern Methodist University, Yale University, and Google Scholar were the central databases. This study analyzes the 1300 articles from the first search. After eradicating duplicate papers (348), 952 articles endured for abstract screening. After abstracts were observed, 212 publications were excluded. After a full-text screening process, 641 of the 740 remaining articles were estimated ineligible conferring to predetermined inclusion criteria. 99 papers that fulfilled all inclusion requirements were incorporated into the final analysis. The examination of 99 publications published between 2010 and 2023 has provided important new information about the complex interplay among human microbiota and pharmaceutical treatments effectiveness. Even with the countless advancements in microbiome research, there are still numerous unanswered questions. The systematic analysis of 99 publications covering a wide range of medical specialties has significant implications for practical applications as well as guidelines for future study. To understand the dynamic nature of these interactions, longitudinal studies monitoring variations in the composition of the microbiota and medication responses over time are important.

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Diamond, Sigmund. "Lux et Veritas." In Compromised Campus, 204–42. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 1992. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195053821.003.0010.

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Abstract Communlst Infiltration Was always at the center of the FBI’s interest. SAC New I haven, therefore, devoted considerable attention to his reply to the great investigation of universities ordered by Hoover in the spring of 1953. On April 24, 1953, the New Haven FBI office submitted its first report; additions were submitted sporadically, but their information was so similar to that of the first lengthy report that it may be taken as paradigmatic of them all. In that first report, seventeen persons—including faculty, students, and staff-were included; fourteen were on the Security Index, slated for arrest in event of a national emergency. They came from a variety of departments and divisions of the university—botany, the Institute of Human Relations, the Law School, physiology, zoology, mathematics, medicine, the library, linguistics, chemistry, among others.

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Babb, Florence E. "Women and Men in Vicos, Peru." In Women's Place in the Andes, 55–86. University of California Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/california/9780520298163.003.0003.

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The Peru-Cornell Project inthe community of Vicos (1952–1962) was the cooperative effort of Cornell University and the Peruvian Indian Institute. The late professor Allan R. Holmberg took the opportunity to lease the Hacienda Vicos in 1952 in order to direct and study social change, and many social scientists and technical personnel worked with the project over the next ten years. This chapter draws heavily on unpublished field data of members of the Peru-Cornell Project, as well as the published literature on Vicos, to document the changing conditions in women’s and men’s lives. Vicos is not unique in Peru, for much of the country underwent similar land reform a few years later, but it is unique in the conscious way that many changes were introduced and reported by researchers. This makes Vicos particularly appropriate for a study that traces the effect of capitalist development on the fabric of human relations.

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Kavan, Heather. "Friendly Fire: How Falun Gong Mistook Me for an Enemy." In Enlightened Martyrdom: The Hidden Side of Falun Gong, 213–29. Equinox Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/equinox.30558.

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This paper provides an account of more than a year’s fieldwork with a small group of Falun Gong members in New Zealand. The narrative begins in 2005 with my hopes of helping the group, and ends in a haze of mysterious communications, threats and accusations, which continue today – a decade after the research project was finished. The chapter shows how Falun Gong members in Western countries have forged an identity for their spiritual path as a group subjected to human rights violations for simply doing breathing exercises. The Rachlin media group (Falun Gong’s former Public Relations organisation) created the narrative, re-casting apocalyptic leader Li Hongzhi as a hero akin to Gandhi, who has mobilised millions of followers to non-violently resist an oppressive regime. In accord with this story, practitioners have staged headline-generating events, despatched thousands of press releases, and protested any portrayal that is not in accord with their new image. But Li’s writings to members tell a different narrative to the one told in the Western media. Drawing on my ethnographic research, the author discusses the differences between the group’s public and private communications. Using James Scott’s frame – the higher the stakes involved, the greater the discrepancy between an oppressed group’s public and hidden transcripts (Domination and the Arts of Resistance: Hidden Transcripts. Yale University Press 1990) – Heather Kavan observes that while practitioners revised their publicly proclaimed ideology to appeal to Western moral ideals of amelioration of suffering and personal freedom, these ideals were not part of their in-group communications. Rather, sacrifice, martyrdom, and exclusivity were intrinsic to members’ beliefs and life choices. To illustrate the focus on suffering and martyrdom, the author analyses practitioners’ responses when a frail, older member was denied refugee status and was returning to China to her likely imprisonment. Heather Kavan discusses why practitioners refused to pass on a message that would assist the woman and possibly save her life, preferring to embrace Li Hongzhi’s views that suffering is to be prized. The chapter closes with an outline of the responses to Heather Kavan's study. She discusses the internet passages about her that resulted in several Falun Gong authors being banned from Wikipedia, and the lingering shadowy harassment of which she could never be sure whether the protagonists were from the Chinese government or Falun Gong. Heather Kavan interprets harassment from Falun Gong as an expression of Li Hongzhi’s ‘stepping forward’ ideology in which practitioners must defend his version of the fa to compete for entry into heaven, which only allows for limited numbers.

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