Rozprawy doktorskie: „Cultural anthropolgy”

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Faria, Thaís Brando Balázs da Costa 1986. "Aproximações entre a antropologia interpretativa de Clifford Geertz e a perspectiva histórico-cultural de Lev Vigotski". [s.n.], 2014. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/254133.

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Orientador: Luci Banks-Leite
Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Educação
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Resumo: Lev Vigotski, pensador bielo-russo, produziu seus textos na primeira metade do séc. XX. Interessado nas mais variadas disciplinas, dentre elas a psicologia, buscou superar a dicotomia individual/social, afirmando a constituição social do sujeito. Em outras palavras, as relações sociais nas quais o sujeito está inserido são constitutivas de seu desenvolvimento. Nós nos desenvolvemos a partir de nossa interação com o meio social no qual vivemos e crescemos e, significamos o mundo ao nosso redor, constituídos pela maneira como o grupo ao qual pertencemos o faz. Entretanto, nossas maneiras de significar, de pensar ou de agir constituem-se de forma dialética nos grupos dos quais fazemos parte. Clifford Geertz, antropólogo estadunidense, produziu grande parte de suas reflexões acerca da antropologia na segunda metade do séc. XX. Preocupado com os rumos para onde se direcionava esta disciplina, realizou uma meta-antropologia, questionando o papel do antropólogo enquanto autor das etnografias e também o papel do sujeito-informante. Juntamente com seus questionamentos epistemológicos, Geertz definiu um novo conceito de cultura, mais compatível com a antropologia que realiza após o giro antropológico. Suas preocupações meta-antropológicas impactam fortemente suas etnografias, motivo pelo qual não é possível compreender umas sem as outras. Finalmente, defende que para apreendermos qualquer relação social ou significado atribuído por determinado grupo, devemos realizar um estudo etnográfico que busque como resultado a descrição densa, pois somente a partir dela somos capazes de compreender as teias de significados nas quais os sujeitos estão imersos. Apesar do momento histórico distinto, das diferentes disciplinas e do objeto diverso, ambos os autores buscam compreender a importância e o papel da cultura na constituição do sujeito e na sua forma de tecer e ler as teias de significados nas quais está imerso
Abstract: Lev Vigotski, the Soviet Belarusian thinker, penned his texts in the first half of the 20th century. Interested in various disciplines, among which psychology, he sought to overcome the individual/social dichotomy, affirming the social constitution of the subject. In other words, social relationships in which subjects are inserted are constitutive of their development. We develop based on our interaction with the social environment in which we live and grow, and we give meaning to the world around us, according to the way the group we belong to does. However, our ways of signifying, thinking or acting are constituted in a dialectic way in the groups of which we are part. Clifford Geertz, in turn, an American anthropologist, produced much of his reflections on anthropology in the second half of the 20th century. Concerned with the directions in which the discipline was headed, he delved into meta-anthropology, questioning the role of the anthropologist as author of ethnographies and also as subject-informant. Along with its epistemological questions, Geertz defined a new concept of culture, which is more compatible with the kind of anthropology he engages in after the anthropological turn. His meta-anthropological concerns heavily impact his ethnographies, reason why one cannot understand one without recourse to the others. Finally, he argues that to apprehend any social relationship or meaning assigned by a particular group, we must conduct ethnographic studies whose goal is to attain thick description, because only a description of such kind is able to provide an understanding of the web of meanings in which the subjects are immersed. Despite the distinct historical moment, the different disciplines and objects of study, both authors seek to understand the importance and the role of culture in the constitution of the subject and his way of weaving and reading the web of meanings in which it is immersed
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Marsh, Robert Gerald. "John Hewitt and theories of Irish culture : cultural nationalism, cultural regionalism, and identity in the North of Ireland". Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.337020.

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Barnns, Christopher Anne. "Feminist (re)visions of anthropology". Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/291941.

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This thesis characterizes feminist anthropology's past, present and future. The early years of feminist anthropology were committed to explication of the relationship between gender and power. Currently feminists are engaging in new post-modern ideas. Post-modern concerns with epistemology and knowledge/truth production resound with feminist observations, but post-modern concepts of power, resistance and deconstruction present problems for feminists. For post-modern anthropologists, traditional ethnography has been replaced by experimental texts. Feminist anthropologists created the textual innovation of "voices." Feminist anthropological texts are now focusing on how women handle the complex and diverse power structures that oppress them, incorporating a focus on media and discourse. Recent feminist anthropology combines textual experimentation with a focus on resistance at its various levels. Future feminist anthropologists will return to the discussion of gender and power begun in the 70s retaining the post-modern textual experimentation and interest in resistance and power.

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Taylor, John Mitchell 1963. "(Fill in blank) Homelessness and professional anthropology". Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/291876.

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This paper reconsiders the relation between what is studied, here homelessness, and the way of study, here anthropology. We will arrive at the notion of moral regulation which is useful in thoughts of the complex implications of otherwise seemingly disparate phenomena: homelessness and anthropology. Along the way we touch on order and morality. It is suggested that the professionalization of anthropology might be an active detriment to cogent anthropological analysis.

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Dalakoglou, Dimitris. "An anthropology of the road". Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2009. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/41398/.

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My ethnography begins providing its bibliographical, historical and geographic frameworks along the methodological issues in Chapter I. There, I outline the most explicit phenomena of postsocialism in Gjirokastër city, the introduction of private vehicles and private immobile property and their relationship with the radical transformations of the urban topography. This city today gradually centralises the road infrastructure, reflecting and facilitating the respective postsocialist social centralisation of spatial mobility and the increasing impact of the cross-border network on the social life of the city. The thesis continues in Chapter II with the history of motor-roads in Albania, with particular focus on the relationship between highways and modernisation during socialism and the paradox relationship between society and these infrastructures. During socialism Albanians had to build roads, but they were not able to use them, a process that paved in fact the way for the postsocialist social perceptions of roads and automobility. The main ethnographic and synchronic part begins in Chapter III and continues in Chapters IV and V where I study how the particular cross-border road network is perceived in postsocialist Gjirokastër, while I discuss its social agency after 1990. In Chapter III I focus on the contemporary road mythology in the city and I discuss it in reference other motifs of road mythology that are available in the bibliography. Chapters IV and V are the most important for the argument of the thesis as I emphasise the two most comprehensive road myths of the contemporary socio-cultural condition in Albania and I talk about their relationship with the actual materiality of that infrastructure in reference to the material dimensions of globalisation and transnationalism. In Chapter IV I present the politico-economic asymmetries of postsocialist capitalism in Albania as they are formed dialectically in the material and social constructions of Kakavije-Gjirokastër. In Chapter V, I continue with the dialectical scheme focusing on the social and material articulations of this transnationalism and fluidity from below, with focus on the ontological and material extension of the road: the houses built by migrants. There I show how the super-fluid and asymmetrical global relationships of the postsocialist transition are being familiarised and to a certain degree absorbed within the intimate material entity of the house, via the same road which incorporates and facilitates the international dependency of the society to the migratory process. The last chapter (VI) presents my conclusions emphasising the relationship between anthropology and roads, locating the current ethnography on the wider theoretical discussions on automobility infrastructures, space, time and scale.

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Van, Loon Carey Brunner, Frances Berdan i Edward A. Stark. "EthnoQuest: An interactive multimedia simulation for cultural anthropology fieldwork". CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1999. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1938.

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EthnoQuest, an interactive multimedia CD-ROM simulating a visit to a fictional village named Amopan, was conceived as an adjunct to college-level classroom instruction in introductory anthropology courses. Since these classes typically involve large numbers of students, the logistics on conducting actual fieldwork pose serious problems for instructors and students alike. The conception of an engaging, interactive, accessible learning tool that incorporates appropriate pedagogical principles has found its ultimate expression in EthnoQuest.

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Hernandez, Michael David. "THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM: ANTHROPOLOGY AND MUSEUM PRACTICES AT WORK". OpenSIUC, 2012. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/523.

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This work focuses on the use of anthropological and museum theory, methods and practices in the development and construction of a museum. It also illustrates how museums can be used as active research sites for anthropologists. This dissertation uses the Hotel Metropolitan Museum, a new African American museum in Paducah, Kentucky, as an example to demonstrate this research process. I approach this work as a museum professional and academic making a living outside the safety of the "Ivory Tower." I examine how the use of anthropological theories, case studies and methods can be used to help independent consultants understand interpersonal interaction/communication, community development and political structure. Also, I examine how these theories and methods can be applied and/or modified to construct situations that result in outcomes beneficial to the consultant and to the group for which s/he is working.

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Baker, Joseph O. "Sasquatch: Cultural Mythology Meets the Culture of Science". Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2012. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/488.

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White, David Gaylord Jr. "Dunctionally embodied culture| Cultural schemas and models in a diversified industrial manufacturer". Thesis, Fielding Graduate University, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3746293.

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Organizational culture is in need of new paradigms. As an ontological category it is flawed because the lack of academic consensus on what culture is tends to render it inadequate as an explanatory framework. As a field of praxis managers and practitioners tend to oversimplify culture, reducing it to one or two variables such as idealized norms or values, or as personality-writ-large. This leads to failed organizational culture change efforts, usually at great cost and effort as organizations fail to adapt beyond surface effects. Against these notions a new paradigm for organizational culture is proposed. Cognitive science, specifically embodied and situated cognition, analogically based reasoning, and cultural schemas provide a robust way to conceptualize and investigate culture. It is proposed culture is loosely but distinctively ecologically determined, underwritten by human cognition grounded in the functional, technological, and social forces inherent in work, and the production of meaning related to work. This paper advances a theory of culture as shared cognitive models by which groups derive meaning and organize sensemaking. Under the right conditions such models may make up the organization’s dominant culture. This dissertation provides theory and research describing a so-called functionally embodied organizational culture framework. It investigates the shared schemas and cultural models of the executive team of a global, diversified Fortune 1000 manufacturer. Preliminary support for functional grounding is seen: Schemas rooted in the strategic task environment of manufacturing make up the cultural models for people leadership and business management, lending preliminary support to functionally grounded culture. Implications for current theory and practice are discussed, along with avenues for future research. One implication is that popular approaches to culture and change utilizing top-down, espoused, and idealized norms and values may not be sufficient to dislodge prevailing shared cognitions rooted in dominant professional orientations or strategic context.

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Deubel, Tara F. "Conserving cultural heritage with microcredit: A case study of the Dogon Culture Bank in Fombori, Mali". Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/278802.

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This thesis presents a case study of the Dogon CultureBank in Fombori, Mali, a local initiative started in 1997 to conserve cultural heritage through the provision of microcredit loans. Participants obtain credit to support small enterprise by using cultural objects as collateral; the objects are conserved and exhibited in a community museum collection. This innovative approach to microfinance has provided financial incentive for cultural conservation in a rural Dogon community, increased social capital among participants, and heightened community awareness of the importance of cultural heritage as a resource for development. Results of quantitative analysis demonstrate a significant increase in overall income generation patterns among participants; however, male borrowers have consistently benefited from both higher loans and greater increases in income generation than female borrowers who are targeted as the primary beneficiaries. The study concludes by highlighting the contributions of the model to the broader field of microfinance in developing countries.

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Mascarenhas, André Ofenhejm. "Cultura organizacional e mudança cultural: a contribuição sahliniana e o caso Cedejor". reponame:Repositório Institucional do FGV, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10438/2599.

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Esta tese tem como objetivo propor novos caminhos para a discussão sobre a cultura organizacional. Tradicionalmente, os debates sobre o tema no âmbito da teoria das organizações assimilam referenciais teóricos e metodológicos oriundos da antropologia; em especial, as premissas e conceitos que compõem os paradigmas funcionalista e interpretativo. Nesta interdisciplinaridade, as discussões sobre a mudança cultural nas organizações não assimilaram referenciais de análise que dessem conta das maneiras como os grupos sociais de fato mudam e evoluem. Na realidade, a matriz disciplinar da antropologia caracteriza-se pela oposição entre diacronia e sincronia – que assume a forma dos pares opostos sistema e evento, história e estrutura, estabilidade e mudança, entre outros. Com base nesta polarização, os antropólogos construíram tradições de estudos que destacam a continuidade em detrimento da mudança, ou ainda, a estrutura em detrimento da história. Mais recentemente, entretanto, as idéias de Sahlins, ou a antropologia histórico-estrutural, sugerem não haver razão para a polarização excludente entre história e estrutura, considerando-se a complexidade e especificidade dos fenômenos culturais. Ao sugerir a inseparabilidade entre continuidade e mudança, Sahlins propõe redefinições importantes nos conceitos clássicos de cultura, incorporando às discussões antropológicas uma série de questões desprestigiadas pelos paradigmas clássicos; em especial, a mudança cultural. Neste sentido, propõe-se que a incorporação das propostas da antropologia histórico-estrutural às discussões sobre a cultura organizacional tem o potencial de fazer avançar os debates acerca das maneiras como as organizações evoluem ao permitir a análise das continuidades e descontinuidades que caracterizam estes sistemas culturais. Ao problematizar os conceitos tradicionais de cultura organizacional, este movimento contribuiria sobremaneira à temática da mudança cultural nas organizações, por exemplo, ao viabilizar o desenvolvimento de uma perspectiva cultural à aprendizagem organizacional. A contribuição da antropologia histórico-estrutural é ilustrada por meio de um estudo de caso etnográfico realizado no núcleo de Albardão do CEDEJOR – Centro de Desenvolvimento do Jovem rural –, que reúne 30 jovens da comunidade do sétimo distrito rural do município de Rio Pardo, no Rio Grande do Sul. O CEDEJOR é uma ONG que atua na região Sul do Brasil, tendo como objetivos promover o empreendedorismo e o desenvolvimento do jovem rural através de processos educativos e participativos, buscando a sustentabilidade e a melhoria da qualidade de vida das comunidades rurais, e tendo o jovem como protagonista. Com base nas idéias de Sahlins, a análise do caso sugere ser a cultura sistema e evento, ambigüidade e consenso, e estrutura e história, simultaneamente.
This thesis proposes new directions within the discussions of organizational culture. Traditionally, the debates on the theme in the field of organization theory incorporate anthropological frameworks, in special, the premises and ideas which compose the functionalist and interpretative paradigms. Within this interdisciplinary appropriation, the discussions on cultural change in organizations did not assimilate frameworks which allowed the analysis of the ways social groups actually change and evolve. In fact, the disciplinary matrix of anthropology is characterized by the opposition of diachrony and synchrony - which assumes the format of opposing pairs such as system and event, history and structure, stability and change. Based on this opposition, anthropologists built theoretical traditions which highlight continuity in detriment of change, or structure in detriment of history. More recently, however, the ideas of Sahlins, or the structural, historical anthropology, suggest the inadequacy of the history-structure polarization as we recognize the complexity and specificity of the cultural phenomenon. Based on a theoretical proposal that suggests the inseparability of continuity and change, Sahlins proposes important redefinitions in the classical concepts of culture. These redefinitions would allow the incorporation of a serious of issues historically neglected by the classical anthropological paradigms; in special, cultural change. This thesis suggests that the assimilation of Sahlinsí proposals to the discussions of organizational culture has the potential of advancing the debates on the ways organizations evolve as it allows the analysis of the continuities and discontinuities which characterize these cultural systems. As it questions the traditional concepts of organizational culture, this movement would contribute to the refinement of the cultural debates within organization theory, e.g., allowing the development of a cultural perspective to organizational learning. The potential contribution of Sahlinsí proposals is illustrated by an ethnographic case study held in CEDEJOR Albard„o, an NGO which aggregates 30 teenagers from the seventh rural district of Rio Pardo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. CEDEJOR´s goals include promoting entrepreneurship, the personal development of the rural youth and the sustainable development of their communities through participative educational processes. Based on the ideas of Sahlins, the analysis of the case study suggests that culture is system and event, ambiguity and consensus, and structure and history simultaneously.

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Fadaak, Raad. "Of the currently forming: an anthropology of traumatic brain injury". Thesis, McGill University, 2013. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=119718.

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Of The Currently Forming is an ethnographic exploration of a relatively recent diagnosis in clinical biomedicine – 'traumatic brain injury' or TBI. TBI has become a central preoccupation for researchers, clinicians, trauma centers, and public health departments across North America and Europe. Its epidemiological character is of startling concern, as its prevalence among the population is extraordinarily high. TBI is one of the most common causes of death in adults, and the leading cause of death and disability amongst young persons. Furthermore, TBI has become the "signature injury" of the US military in the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts. Yet, the way we have come to know injury to the head and brain has changed fundamentally in the last thirty years. This has situated TBI as an important category for public and political debate; hospitals, neuroscientists, the CDC, and the WHO have all, within the last decade, narrowed their focus to traumatic brain injury – the "invisible injury" - as a cause for concern for both the public health sector as well as the clinical and laboratory sciences. The first section attempts to bring into focus why and how this problematic generated this kind of interest; it is one mode of understanding the dramatic visibility of an 'invisible' injury. The second section is about the conceptual and practical changes in clinical and experimental work on TBI and mild TBI today. Mild TBI, for instance, remains without widespread consensus as to its underlying pathophysiology or clinical presentation. Such indeterminacy has effectively opened up a new conceptual space for TBI research - particularly in the areas of neurological imaging and its relationship to neuropathology, applied clinical practices, post-injury assessments, and rehabilitation. Fundamental biomedical concepts – such as the 'normal' and 'pathological' – take on particular conceptual form in the midst of these spaces of uncertainty. Here, a series of ethnographic vignettes trace the interconnections and arrangements as certain clinical technologies and practices converge, giving shape to this dynamic and emergent diagnostic category. By superimposing the historical account of TBI's emergence alongside its ongoing clinical and experimental re-negotiations, Of The Currently Forming attempts to give a glimpse into the spaces of the incomplete – an exploration of the complexity, heterogeneity, and creativity that underpins contemporary brain injury medicine.
De l'actuellement en formation est une exploration ethnographique d'un diagnostic médical d'origine récente, soit le 'traumatisme craniocérébral' ou TCC. Le TCC détient aujourd'hui une place prépondérante dans le travail des chercheurs, médecins, hôpitaux spécialisés, et départements de santé publique à travers l'Amérique du Nord et l'Europe. Le profil épidémiologique du TCC peut être qualifié d'effrayant puisque sa prévalence au sein de la population est incroyablement élevée. Le TCC constitue simultanément l'une des plus fréquentes causes de mortalité chez l'adulte et la principale cause de mortalité et source d'handicap chez les jeunes. Par ailleurs, le TCC est devenue la 'blessure caractéristique' des soldats américains engagés dans les conflits armés en Irak et en Afghanistan. Cependant, la manière de penser et connaître les blessures à la tête et au cerveau a radicalement changé dans les trente dernières années. Cela a propulsé le TCC à l'avant-scène des débats publics et politiques. Depuis dix ans, hôpitaux, neurologues, le Centre pour le Contrôle et la Prévention des Maladies, ainsi que l'OMS, ont tous concentrés leurs efforts sur le TCC, cette « blessure invisible », considérée comme une source de préoccupation à la fois pour la santé publique et les sciences médicales. Dans le but de comprendre la visibilité spectaculaire d'une blessure 'invisible', la première partie de ce mémoire documente pourquoi and comment cette problématique a généré cet important intérêt. Dans une deuxième partie, nous présentons les changements conceptuels et pratiques advenant aujourd'hui dans le travail clinique et expérimental concernant le TCC et le TCC léger. À titre d'exemple, il n'y a toujours pas de consensus par rapport à la physiopathologie et aux symptômes entourant le TCC léger. Cet état d'indétermination a généré de nouvelles avenues conceptuelles pour la recherche sur le TCC, particulièrement dans les domaines de l'imagerie neurologique et ses liens avec la neuropathologie, la pratique clinique, les évaluations post-traumatiques, et la rééducation. Des concepts médicaux fondamentaux, tels que le 'normal et le pathologique', prennent des formes conceptuelles uniques au sein de ces espaces d'indétermination. Dans cette deuxième partie, une série de vignettes ethnographiques tracent les liens et suit les configurations qui se dessinent alors que certaines technologies et pratiques convergent, donnant forme à cette catégorie de diagnostic, elle-même dynamique et émergente. En présentant parallèlement l'histoire de l'émergence de la TCC ainsi que les négociations expérimentales et cliniques qui l'entourent actuellement, nous visons à offrir un récit des 'espaces de l'incomplet', comme une exploration de la complexité, hétérogénéité et créativité au cœur de la médicine du cerveau contemporaine.

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MacPhee, Marybeth. "Deodorized Culture: Anthropology of Smell in America". University of Arizona, Department of Anthropology, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/112059.

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The sense of smell, though rarely considered important in America, clearly delineates cultural boundaries; this is both demonstrated and promoted through marketing and advertising of consumer products. Historical analyses is invoked to explain why Americans have different tolerances for body odor than their European predecessors. Cultural perceptions of smell are assessed according to Maiy Douglas's models; they are also related to American views of disease and social structure. Odor control manifests as both the American ideal of self-control and as individual expression, or release. The inherent contradictions of these cognitive models are underscored when American culture is examined in terms of its need to control body and environmental odors.

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Orejuela, Fernando. "The body as cultural artifact performing the body in bodybuilding culture /". [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2005. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3161795.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Folklore and Ethnomusicology, 2005.
Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-01, Section: A, page: 0290. Adviser: Richard Bauman. Title from dissertation home page (viewed Oct. 11, 2006).

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Cullen, Sandra. "Anthropology, state bureaucracy and the community". Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1993. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/272263.

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Price, Steinbrecher Barry Ellen. "The Geography of Heritage: Comparing Archaeological Culture Areas and Contemporary Cultural Landscapes". Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/560836.

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This thesis compares archaeological culture areas and contemporary cultural landscapes of the Hopi and Zuni tribes as an evaluation of the scale in which stakeholders consider heritage resources. Archaeological culture areas provide a heuristic for interpretations of past regional patterns. However, contemporary Hopi and Zuni people describe historical and spiritual ties to vast cultural landscapes, stretching well beyond archaeological culture areas in the American Southwest. Cultural landscapes are emic delineations of space that are formed through multiple dimensions of interaction with the land and environment. Concepts of time and space and the role of memory, connectivity, and place are explored to help to delineate the scale of Hopi and Zuni cultural landscapes. For both Hopis and Zunis, the contemporary cultural landscape is founded upon the relationships between places and between past and present cultural practices. Cultural landscapes provide a framework, for anthropological research and historic preservation alike, to contextualize the smaller, nested scales of social identity and practice that they incorporate.

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Gibson, Philip. "Learning, culture, curriculum and college : a social anthropology". Thesis, University of Exeter, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.272986.

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Piper, Jessie Celeste 1950. "Anthropology, sustainability and the case of Mexico's sea turtles". Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/278137.

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Mexico was formerly an important breeding ground for six marine turtle species. Over the last several decades, overexploitation of turtles for their meat, eggs, and hides, as well as habitat destruction, has led to alarming rates of decline in all species. The problem of sea turtle conservation is a promising area for questions of anthropology and sustainable human systems because decline of these species is related to unsustainable development and subsistence practices that have disenfranchised small coastal fishing cooperatives. Common property resource theory aids the analysis of the context in which overexploitation takes place. Conserving sea turtles will depend on the development of localized institutions for managing natural resources in perpetuity and for negotiating the array of regional, national, and global factors relevant to sea turtle endangerment and preservation. Anthropology can play a vital role in this process of developing sustainable interactions between human subsistence needs and natural resource conservation.

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Waag, Annika. "Entangled anthropology : the problematic practice of gendered anthropological analysis of development". Thesis, Uppsala University, Cultural Anthropology, 2001. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-3683.

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Silva, Fabiola Andrea. "As Tecnologias e seus Significados. Um Estudo da Cerâmica dos Asuriní do Xingu e da Cestaria dos Kayapó-Xikrin sob uma Perspectiva Etnoarqueológica". Universidade de São Paulo, 2000. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8134/tde-03122013-165920/.

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Através do estudo da cerâmica dos Asuriní do Xingu e da cestaria dos Kayapó-Xikrin, desenvolvi uma reflexão sobre os diferentes significados das tecnologias. Em outras palavras, tentei evidenciar que os processos produtivos da cultura material não são, exclusivamente, um indicador da adaptabilidade ou da eficiência do homem na resolução dos problemas originado da sua relação com o mundo material, mas que ao mesmo tempo, eles são uma construção social. A partir dos dados coletados, tentei contribuir para as discussões sobre os processos de formação do registro arqueológico e mais precisamente, sobre as causas e consequências da variabilidade artefatual em sua dimensão formal, quantitativa, espacial e relacional. Acima de tudo, este trabalho é um exemplo das possibilidades que a abordagem etnoarqueológica pode oferecer para a reflexão sobre os registros arqueológicos, bem como, para os estudos de cultura material de diferentes populações.
Through the study of Asuriní of Xingus ceramic and of Kayapó-Xikrins basket, I develop a reflection on the different meanings of the technologies. In other words, I try to evidence that the productive processes of the material culture are not, exclusively, an indicator of the adaptability or of the mans efficiency in the material culture are not, exclusively, an indicator of the adaptability or of the mans efficiency in the resolution of problems originating from his relationship with the material world, but that at the same time, they are a social construction. Besides, starting from the collected data, I try to contribute for the discussions on the formation process of the archaecological record and, more precisely, on the causes and consequences of the artifact variability in its forma, quantitative, space and relational dimensions. Above all, this work is an exemple of the possibilities that the ethnoarchaeological approach can offer for the reflection on the archaeological records, as well as, for the studies of material culture of different populations.

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Young, Michael A. "Cultural performances of German national identity| Popular music, body culture, and the 2006 FIFA World Cup". Thesis, Indiana University, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1535413.

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This thesis explores the intersection of nationalism, popular music, and sport as they collided with German identity politics and discourses of twentieth-century history. I contextualize public performances of German national identity during the 2006 World Cup within the broader historical context of national identity construction through music and sport in the last two hundred. I contextualize Germans' public performance of national pride and hospitality during the World Cup as the latest in a long line of cultural performances of German identity that have shaped and been shaped by historical circumstances and socially conditioned discourses of national identity. Taking a broad historical and conceptual perspective on cultural performance, I argue that cultural performances of German national identity—communicated in music, sport, and visual symbolism in the public landscape (i.e., through the use of posters, ads, popular press, etc)—have been tailored to and contingent on the social and discursive exigencies of particular historical and political junctures of the past two hundred years. Likewise, cultural performances during the 2006 World Cup must be seen as particular to twenty-first-century German society. Analyzing the Germans' public performance of national identity as well as popular songs and their audio-visual texts (i.e., music videos), I argue that some supposedly nationalist performances of German identity gained traction and popular support during the World Cup because of the strong role played by popular music and sport in framing the terms of their performance and interpretation.

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Schillinger, Kerstin. "An experimental approach to the generation of copying error during the manufacture of material culture : implications for cultural evolution". Thesis, University of Kent, 2014. https://kar.kent.ac.uk/47902/.

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Cultural evolutionary models are marked by an increased understanding that sources of variation such as cultural mutations, or copying error, form an integral part in generating population-level patterns of artefactual variation. Despite recognition that the manual manufacturing process is a fundamental component of material culture in the archaeological record, little is known about exactly how factors related to the manual manufacturing process affect rates of copying error, which potentially influence population-level trends. In addition, only a few studies have incorporated the study of shape variation into cultural evolutionary models even though artefactual shape is affected by evolutionary processes. Utilising an empirical framework that combined methods from the ‘psychology laboratory’ and morphometric shape data, it was shown on the basis of experimentally produced 3D cultural artefacts that a variety of manufacture-related components significantly impact rates of shape variation produced. Individual experiments confirmed hypotheses stating that differences in components of manufacture, such as contrasting manufacturing traditions, social learning mechanisms, economic factors associated with constraints placed on production time and distinct traditions of ‘equipment’ employed to produce material artefacts, all influence patterns of shape variation at statistically significant levels. The studies conclude that high mutation loads represent a potential cause for the ‘disintegration’ of shape traditions over repeated bouts of cultural transmission. Where shape traditions matter in the long-term (e.g., in the case of functional tools such as Acheulean handaxes or projectile points) high fidelity transmission mechanisms may become targets of selection processes associated with manual manufacture. A strong implication for cultural evolutionary models is that the study of the evolution of material culture may, therefore, not be fully characterised solely as the study of cultural transmission, but that it can be partly re-conceptualised as the study of the ‘management’ of the continuous production of mutation loads by various populations of artefact producers.

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Rossoukh, Ramyar Dagoberto. "An Anthropology of the Iranian Film Industry: The making of The Willow Tree". Thesis, Harvard University, 2014. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:13064971.

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This dissertation offers a detailed empirical study of a film industry by closely following the industrial process involved in the making of an Iranian feature length film, The Willow Tree (dir. Majid Majidi, 2005). What I mean by film industry is the standardized process of making a film through various semi-independent modules that must be performed in a sequence and that are widely shared around the world. Within the dissertation, I move from the initial stages of pre-production (script writing, casting, location scouting), through production (shooting) and post-production (editing, mixing), to the final stages of distribution and exhibition in national and international markets. My concern is with process as product. This stance foregrounds the background of film production, and allows us to see the dialectical relationship between film industry as a universal process and the more particular cultural contexts within which a variety of films situate themselves. It seeks to move the analytical focus to the cultural and social contexts of filmic production and consumption and explore the links between material and ideological, industrial and aesthetic, and national and transnational dimensions of cinema's circulation. In the case of The Willow Tree, I argue that the film was not only meant to portray Islamic virtue on the screen but to subject its own industrial production to Islamic practices.
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Simpson, Kelly M. "Measuring Culture Change as an Evaluation Indicator: Applying Cultural Consensus Analysis to Cultural Models of Lymphatic Filariasis in Haiti". [Tampa, Fla] : University of South Florida, 2008. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0002744.

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Castle, Carrie. "Cultures of Interpreting: Describing the Role Cultures Play in Medical Interpreting". Cincinnati, Ohio : University of Cincinnati, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view.cgi?acc_num=ucin1187032562.

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Thesis (M.A.)--University of Cincinnati, 2007.
Advisor: Jeffrey Jacobson. Title from electronic thesis title page (viewed Mar. 25, 2009). Includes abstract. Keywords: Culture; Role; Interpreting; Healthcare. Includes bibliographical references.

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Avrutin, Lilia. "The semiotic anthropology of Soviet film culture, 1960s-1990s". Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/NQ34731.pdf.

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Phaneuf, Victoria M. "National and Minority Cultures in 21st Century France: North African and Pied-Noir Cultural Associations". Diss., The University of Arizona, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/265371.

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Social conflict is common in many nations around the world. Tensions often arise from cultural misunderstandings and disagreements over national and group membership in multicultural populations. France offers a particularly clear example of such unrest. As a contemporary multi-ethnic, multicultural nation, France advocates both the belief in universal human rights as well as assimilationist policies designed to create a singular majority culture. North African immigrants and Pied-Noir repatriates are two groups at the center of recent debate in France. Both have historical ties to colonial French North Africa, but now reside within the modern French state. Each offers a unique case study of alternative strategies related to cultural negotiation and social tension as both groups currently demand recognition as French citizens and minorities. This dissertation analyses how North African and Pied-Noir minority communities in France engage discourses of history, culture, and identity to create a hospitable place for themselves in the French nation by redefining themselves both as minorities and as active citizens. One primary mechanism through which these groups achieve these goals is cultural associations, or social clubs. Cultural associations were legalized in 1901 and have not yet found a well-established role in France. Minorities use this institutional fluidity to develop concurrently their national and minority identities. Within such associations, they develop performances for both minority and outside audiences, engage contemporary French understandings of "culture," and acquire attention and resources needed to enact social change. One of the recurring tropes in such performances is the display of minority history and the role minorities play in French history. Through analysis of such activities this dissertation argues that these groups create new conceptions of national membership through their assertion of their right to be members in the French nation while retaining their cultural difference.

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Noll, Elizabeth O'Donnell 1964. "Three from the margins of anthropology: Hurston, Bohannan and Powdermaker". Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/278408.

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I argue for the importance of 3 marginalized works by women anthropologists: Dust Tracks on a Road by Zora Neale Hurston; Return to Laughter by Laura Bohannan; and Stranger and Friend: The Way of an Anthropologist by Hortense Powdermaker. It is not generally recognized that these works prefigured recent experimental anthropology and provided innovative possibilities for the discipline. Their marginalization was the result of many factors: I focus mainly on the refusal of anthropology (until very recently) to give due credit to its non-scientific side, and the consistent devaluation of women's work within anthropology. I analyze and compare the texts, concentrating on narrative style, use of dialogue, use of authoritative voice, treatment of racism, the author's view of herself and her text, and the text's placement in or between the genres of autobiography, anthropology and fiction. I conclude the anthropological canon should be redefined to include works such as these.

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Costa, Rafael Arouca Hõfke. "O que se ensina aos futuros cirurgiões-dentistas? Um estudo de caso etnográfico sobre currículo e práticas escolares em odontologia". reponame:Repositório Institucional da FIOCRUZ, 2009. https://www.arca.fiocruz.br/handle/icict/2583.

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A presente tese, composta por quatro artigos científicos, compreende um estudo de caso etnográfico realizado na Faculdade de Odontologia da Universidade Federal do Rio deJaneiro com o objetivo de identificar, no contexto definido e localizado de uma escola de Odontologia, características do habitus profissional expressadas em seu currículo e descrever práticas escolares adotadas para comunicação e preservação destas. Seu construto teórico sintetiza-se em três ideias-chave: (1ª) o entendimento de que aeducação escolar cumpre função de socialização das novas gerações por meio da seleção e transmissão institucionalizada de determinada parcela da cultura de uma sociedade; (2ª) a concepção de currículo como expressão de lutas simbólicas presentese passadas definidoras do habitus a ser incorporado por cada agente conforme a posição que ocupa no espaço social; e (3ª) a visão de escola como espaço de interações socioculturais e políticas, cuja análise requer a apreensão das dinâmicas sociais em seu contexto. A pesquisa empírica foi desenvolvida tendo a observação participante comoprincipal técnica de investigação, respeitados cuidados referentes à validação dos achados e das interpretações. A análise dos dados decorrentes da pesquisa empírica permitiu descrever a história da escola, sua estrutura político-administrativa, os agentes que conformam seu espaço social, o espaço físico da escola, os usos do tempo escolar, o modelo curricular e os critérios que norteiam a seleção e a organização do conhecimento, bem como as rotinas escolares em que se encerram os modos vigentes de transmissão de conteúdos da cultura profissional. A partir desta descrição foi possível sintetizar os elementos da cultura da escola que exercem influência sobre seu currículo e sobre as práticas escolares ali vigentes, evidenciando as bases sociais que os definem e, também, os mecanismos de conservação cultural que nela operam a perpetuação dedeterminado habitus nas novas gerações de cirurgiões-dentistas.
The present thesis consists on an ethnographic case study performed at the Dental School of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). The research aimed to identify, at the specific and localized context of a dental school, characteristics of the professional habitus expressed on its curriculum and to describe scholar practices used to communicate and perpetuate them. Three main ideas synthesize the theory that supports the study: (1st) the idea that scholar education carry out the function of socializing new generations through the selection and the institutionalized transmission of certain part of a society’s culture; (2nd) the conception of curriculum as the expression of present and past symbolical fights which define the habitus to be incorporated by each social agent according to its position on the social space; and (3rd) the view of school as a space of socio-cultural and political interactions that shall be analyzed through the observation of the social dynamics on their own context. Empirical investigation had on the participant observation its main technique. The analysis of the data obtained during field research allowed us to describe the history of the school, its political an administrative structure, the agents that compose the school’s social space, the school’s architecture, the uses of time at the school, the curricular model that rules the selection and the organization of knowledge and the scholar routines applied for transmitting the selected contents of the professional culture. Through this description it became possible to synthesize elements of the school’s culture that influence its curriculum and practices, to identify the social structure that defines them and, also, the cultural conservation mechanisms that operate the perpetuation of certain professional habitus on the new generations of dentists.

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Lee, Toby Kim. "Public Culture and Cultural Citizenship at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival". Thesis, Harvard University, 2013. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11165.

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This dissertation explores the relationship between state, citizen and public culture through an ethnographic and historical examination of the Thessaloniki International Film Festival in northern Greece. In the two-year period leading up to and following its fiftieth anniversary in 2009, the festival was caught up in the larger economic, political and social crises that have overtaken Greece in the last five years - a painful period of rapid transformation and neoliberalization for one of Europe's staunchest social-welfare states. As the Greek state faces bankruptcy - both economic and political - it is being forced to revisit the terms of its social contract with its citizens. In a country where "culture" was once touted as a national "heavy industry," the relationship between the state and cultural production is also being restructured. Public culture is one of the areas of social life in which people are now struggling with these changes and attempting to redefine what it means to be a citizen of the Greek state - utilizing and revising local, national and transnational identities in the process.
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Barnett, Lynn Elizabeth. "From anthropology to child psychotherapy : cross cultural observations of infants and turbulent environments". Thesis, University of East London, 2009. http://roar.uel.ac.uk/3888/.

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The central issue of the thesis is the innovative development of the Bick infant observation method into detailed, long term, cross-cultural video recording. Videos have been made which record individual infant development in UK, Western India, Nepal and Finland. Other observational videos demonstrate how the application of recent developmental theory can improve the care of infants in children's institutions. These are being used for teaching in over fourty countries but it is suggested that more detailed filmed records from these counties, and others, are needed. It is argued that video is invaluable for teaching and conference presentation as it substitutes seeing an actual situation for merely listening to or reading an individual verbal record. Further reasons for using the medium of video are fully discussed. There is a review of previous cross-cultural child development research recognising that it has been lacking in the area of infancy and that regrettably, it is not always included in the teaching of developmental theory. A major issue researched is the effects on children of turbulent environments: an environmental catastrophe (The Chernobyl disaster), the threat of nuclear war, an actual war (in Former Yugoslavia), the breakdown of a political system (in Russia), Day Nurseries and an Orphanage. The importance of human touch - a much neglected developmental issue in the West - is examined and visually recorded in a cross-cultural context as are beliefs about the nature of children. The papers, books and videos are all informed by attachment theory, psychoanalysis, systems theory and anthropology.

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Ewart, Ian James. "An anthropology of engineering". Thesis, University of Oxford, 2011. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:69c42210-e6c0-49c7-bec2-4a27f2e9903c.

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This dissertation considers the place in anthropology of ‘production’ generally, and ‘engineering’ specifically, by asking the simple question: How do people make things? Scholars of material culture have until recently focused on issues of consumption, especially the consumption of commodities (Miller), and considered production only in the abstract. Other theoretical approaches are therefore drawn upon to act as a framework for the thesis, including network theory (Law and Latour), and environmental relationism (Ingold). A methodology of ‘parallel fieldwork’ was developed (from Bourdieu), to situate myself as an experienced engineer carrying out anthropological fieldwork. Work in a ‘familiar’ environment (the Didcot Railway Centre, UK) was used to provoke thoughts about engineering in my primary fieldsite (the Kelabit highlands, Borneo). Data from the UK thus helped frame my analysis of Kelabit engineering, presented here in four parts. First, using the construction of two bridges as a case study, I suggest that a design can be seen as the revelation of a potential future, rather than a complete plan, as is suggested by design researchers such as Lawson and Norman. Then, by looking at changing traditions of house-building, I demonstrate the intimate relationship between materials and environment, even as the environment becomes more industrialised (Tsing), and consider this example in the light of debates about materiality (Miller; Ingold). Personal involvement in the conception and building of a new suspension bridge allowed me to investigate in some depth the act of construction. As a communal project, this incorporated aspects of individual skill, in the way that Ingold has described, but also the organization of people, tools and materials, akin to Law’s ‘heterogenous engineering’. This leads me to conclude that a theory of engineering might come from due consideration of both these approaches to relational thinking. Finally, I describe an abandoned longhouse and trace its deconstruction, suggesting that this is an example of creative destruction (Colloredo-Mansfeld), and re-materialization (Gregson). The dissipation of the material parts of the building shows that engineered objects should be seen as an ongoing process of material creation and disposal, and not a unified whole. In conclusion, my hope is that this dissertation contributes to ideas about the place and nature of material culture, and advocates a more prominent place for ‘production’ within anthropology.

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Fischer, Alysia Anne. "Integrating anthropology in pursuit of the Byzantine period glass industry in northern Israel". Diss., The University of Arizona, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/279932.

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Humans have utilized glass for over five thousand years. This dissertation seeks to show how, following a variety of anthropological avenues, one can come to a richer understanding of glass-working in the past. The research deals with the application of ethnoarchaeology, excavation, experimental archaeology, archaeometry and physical anthropology to an archaeological case study in an integrated manner. The case study in question is the production and distribution of glass in the Galilee region of Israel during the Byzantine period (363-640 C.E.). Remains of glass production, vessel production, and even the transportation of glass have all been excavated in the Galilee dating to this era. Integrating the data from the various anthropological sources yields a glimpse into the lives of glass-workers in antiquity.

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Bagley, Joseph. "Cultural continuity in a Nipmuc landscape". Thesis, University of Massachusetts Boston, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1539105.

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This thesis examines the lithic assemblage from the 2005-2012 field seasons at the Sarah Boston site in Grafton, Massachusetts. The Sarah Boston site is associated with a multi-generational Nipmuc family living on the site during the late 18^th through early 19^th centuries. In total, 163 lithic artifacts, primarily quartz flakes and cores, were found throughout the site with concentrations north of a house foundation associated with the Nipmuc family. Reworked gunflints and worked glass were examined as examples of lithic practice associated with artifacts that are conclusively datable to the period after European arrival. Presence of quartz artifacts in an undisturbed B-horizon demonstrates a much-earlier Native component to the Sarah Boston site. Lithics and ground stone tools present in the later intact midden deposit demonstrate that the Nipmuc family interacted with these materials. Given the concentration of flakes found within the midden, it is likely that some portion of these flakes as well as the reworked gunflints and knapped glass were actively used, and perhaps produced, by the occupants of the house as an alternative or replacement of other tools, including iron. This thesis concludes that the practice of knapping persisted on this site into the 19^th century indicating a cultural continuity of Nipmuc cultural practices and identity in addition to the adoption of European-produced ceramics, iron knives, and other later materials.

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Khamis, Lina. "Aspects of cultural policy in Jordan". Thesis, University of Exeter, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.245994.

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Martínez-Tagüeña, Natalia. "And the Giants Keep Singing: Comcaac Anthropology of Meaningful Places". Diss., The University of Arizona, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/581304.

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In collaboration with members of the Comcaac (Seri Indians) community of the central coast of Sonora, Mexico, it has been possible to join oral historical evidence with archaeological, ethnographic, and documentary data towards a better understanding of the Comcaac past and its continuity into the present. Collaborative research creates opportunities for innovative frameworks and methodologies that can integrate diverse historical narratives while responding to Comcaac perspectives and desires. The research approach emphasizes the historical and social context-dependent dialectical nature of material culture and its acquired meaning through social practice. It defines a cultural landscape as an environmental setting that is simultaneously the medium for, and the outcome of, social action. The Comcaac cultural landscape is tied to history, culture, and society, where places localize, commemorate, and transmit traditional knowledge derived from the people's historical memory that is anchored to the land. This study formally, spatially and temporally documented a vast range of social practices that constructed and continues to construct the Comcaac cultural landscape. In tandem with standard archaeological survey techniques, we developed a distinctive methodology for simultaneously recording oral histories and traditions along successive landscape segments. This project improves the discipline of anthropology through methodological advances to build theory that better understands object and people relationships in the past and today. The results not only exemplify a productive collaboration endeavor but also enhance archaeological knowledge of the poorly known Comcaac region.

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Tanner-Kaplash, Sonja. "The common heritage of all mankind : a study of cultural policy and legislation pertinent to cultural objects". Thesis, University of Leicester, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/4478.

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Government policy is subject to many influences, which may range from a philosophical position arising from changes in the value systems of a given society, to logistic considerations, such as available methods of implementation and the prevailing economic structure. The value system known as "the common heritage of all mankind" - the long-term global stewardship of natural and man-made resources - is explored in this thesis in the context of cultural policies, specifically those concerning cultural objects. Heritage, linked to the concept of inheritance as a legally protected future interest, is traced in its historical migration from the private sphere to the development of national public assets to an international awareness of global stewardship. Implementing legislation is a salient indicator of cultural policy; the cyclical relationship in which legal precepts internalized by a society from earlier laws become integral to the cycle of policy formulation and application is illustrated, featuring legislation from several States. While the thesis is cast within a particular philosophical framework, practical economic realities are among the most important logistic considerations for government policy development. Illicit activities have been recognized as a major threat to cultural objects in the modern world, in addition, these objects are frequently "luxury goods" for which historically, regulation and taxation have been the rule rather than the exception; the thesis argues for a practical, domestic and economic approach to the problem of protection. This implies control of cultural objects in some form, including the documentation of significant pieces. The thesis conclusions propose that both the responsibilities and associated costs could be defrayed and shared by governments and the private sector by means of a licensing program.

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Karyekar, Madhuvanti. "Translating observation into narration| The "sentimental" anthropology of Georg Forster (1754-1794)". Thesis, Indiana University, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3621890.

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This dissertation explores the nature of the anthropological writings of Georg Forster (1754-94), the German world-traveler (who accompanied Captain Cook on his second voyage in the South-Seas 1772-75), cultural-historian and translator in the late eighteenth century, showing how his anthropology proposes an "ironic" or "sentimental" (in the Schillerian sense) mode of narration. Although many others at the time were exploring what it is to be human, my dissertation argues that Forster's anthropology concerned itself primarily with what it means to write about humanity when one supplements the empirical-rational method of observation with an emphasis on "self-reflexive" and "ironic" (à la Hayden White) modes of writing anthropology, or the story of humanity. This study therefore focuses on those writings gathered around three salient concepts in his anthropological understanding, to which he returns frequently: observation, narration, and translation, presented in three chapters. The thesis not only undertakes close readings of Forster's texts centering on observation, narration, and translation but, crucially, places them within the historical context of late eighteenth century aesthetic and anthropological discourses in Germany. This study ultimately underscores the manner in which Forster's concepts of "sentimental" – i.e. self-reflexive, ironic, and striving towards the goal of perfectibility – observation and narration allow him to accept the fragmentary, exploratory, and temporary nature of knowledge about humanity. At the same time, his "aesthetic" – sentient and open to testing – translation allows him to engage and educate his readers' tolerance towards a provisional, composite and temporal truth in anthropology. In highlighting the self-reflexive as well as an open-to-testing attitude of Forster's anthropology, this dissertation underscores the mutual interaction between eighteenth century aesthetic and anthropological modes of thought.

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Coughlin, Depcinski Melanie Nichole. "Cruising for Culture: Mass Tourism and Cultural Heritage on Roatàn Island, Honduras". Scholar Commons, 2013. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/4458.

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This thesis examines the relationship between mass tourism and heritage tourism in the construction and perpetuation of histories and identities of local stakeholders on Roatàn Island, Honduras. I explore how identity is constructed by and through the tourism industry, and how much of the agency in forming identity and telling cultural stories resides in the hands of key stakeholders involved in the development of tourism on the island. Local cultural stories that focus on the people who live and have lived on the island for centuries are becoming increasingly silenced by a more commoditized, tourism driven, picture of life on Roatàn. Here, I examine how this silencing takes place, what its effects are on tourism and development, and consider what elements of the tourism industry have contributed to this silencing. On Roatàn, the issue of identity as interpreted through museums has become increasingly contested, as the tourism industry now controls the presentation of cultural and archaeological history of the island. This control influences how tourists visiting Roatàn interpret the past and present the heritage of local groups.

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Yip, Julianne. "An anthropology of "avian flu": beyond the nature/culture divide". Thesis, McGill University, 2013. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=119459.

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Since its appearance in 2003, avian influenza (AI) has been highly 'productive,' linking into a distinct form diverse elements, among which include: international health organizations and local farmers; governments and AI viruses; wildlife experts and public health practitioners; food regulatory bodies and ecologists; ornithologists and the poultry industry; ordinary citizens and, of course, poultry. From the perspective of an anthropology of thinking, 'AI' is intriguing because it escapes 'nature' and 'culture' concepts that traditionally ordered relationships between man and the natural world. Is 'AI' natural or cultural, animal or human, a blend of both, or something else entirely? The emergence of 'AI' does not only warrant the development of new conceptual frameworks, but arguably gives rise to new realities as they take shape from these conceptual frameworks. In the project undertaken here, I follow the emergence of form as I trace 'AI' through three different field sites: 1) poultry farms in the Fraser Valley of British Columbia, Canada; 2) the Department of Ecosystems and Public Health at the University of Calgary; and 3) a field school on ecohealth in New Brunswick. In each field site, I examine how 'AI' has allowed for emergent, still developing and potentially transient, orders of reality to come into being.
Depuis son apparition en 2003, la grippe aviaire (AG) a été très « féconde », reliant de façon caractéristique des éléments variés, comme des organisations internationales œuvrant dans le domaine de la santé et des fermiers locaux, les gouvernements et les virus de la grippe aviaire, des experts des milieux naturels et le personnel de la santé publique, des organismes de législation agroalimentaire et des écologistes, des ornithologues et l'aviculture; les citoyens et, bien entendu, la volaille. Pour l'anthropologue de la pensée, le phénomène de la grippe aviaire est particulièrement intéressant car il ne peut être décrit à l'aide des concepts de 'nature' et 'culture' qui ont traditionnellement régi les rapports Homme-Nature. La grippe aviaire, est-elle nature ou culture, animale ou humaine, un mélange des deux domaines, ou bien quelque chose d'entièrement différent ? La grippe aviaire entraîne non seulement le développement de nouveaux cadres conceptuels, mais donne naissance par ailleurs à des réalités émergeant de ces cadres. Notre projet de recherche consiste à documenter l'émergence d'une forme à travers l'étude de la grippe aviaire en trois sites différents : 1) des fermes avicoles dans la vallée du Fraser en Colombie Britannique, 2) le Département des Écosystèmes et de la Santé Publique de l'Université de Calgary, et 3) une école d'été sur l'éco-épidémiologie au Nouveau-Brunswick. Pour chaque site de terrain, nous examinons les nouvelles réalités, encore expérimentales et potentiellement éphémères, que la grippe aviaire a générées.

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Dahir, Naima S. "Stress Regulation and its Impact on Inhibitory Gating: Cross-Cultural Analysis". Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1402588198.

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Aeppli, Kelsey M. "A Cultural Analysis of Police Stress: An Application of Grid/Group Theory". Youngstown State University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu1496142126364081.

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Calestani, Melania. "An anthropology of well-being : local perspectives and cultural constructions in the Bolivian Altiplano". Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 2009. http://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/34151/.

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This thesis focuses on individual and collective definitions of ‘the good life’ in the Bolivian plateau. Drawing on ethnographic research conducted in the urban area of El Alto, the thesis explores potential contradictions between different orientations and models of well-being. The increasing interest amongst a group of Aymara intellectuals (GTZ) in an indigenous perspective on this topic provides the point of departure for an exploration of the complexity of ideas relating to this issue and an account of different definitions of ‘the good life’ among Aymara people. The thesis makes a contribution to debates regarding poverty and well-being and the problems attached to universal definitions, which tend to be based on simplified and economic criteria. By considering what different people value and prioritise in terms of their own well-being and, where applicable, their children’s well-being and happiness, the thesis offers a contribution to Andean anthropology and to the understanding of ‘poverty’. This entails an exploration of the moments of tension and synergy that exist between Aymara and Bolivian identity. It offers a detailed analysis of different collective and individual actions adopted for the achievement of well-being. In particular, these include social protests, moments of religious celebration, household cooperation, and the resort to supernatural forces and ‘making of luck (suerte)’ with a specific focus on gender and generational differences.

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Zafar, Morwari. "COIN-operated anthropology : cultural knowledge, American counterinsurgency and the rise of the Afghan diaspora". Thesis, University of Oxford, 2016. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:f0b8e443-4038-4f95-832b-13034a43f8d6.

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This thesis explores the encounter between the Afghan-American community and the U.S. military-industrial complex in the production of cultural knowledge for counterinsurgency (COIN) operations in Afghanistan. It focuses on the narratives mobilized as 'expertise' by Afghan-American contractors from the major diaspora hubs in California and Virginia, who were employed as role-players, translators, and cultural advisors by the U.S. military and defense contractors. I discuss how such narratives gained currency and shaped the perceptions of Afghanistan in the U.S. foreign and security policy communities. The goal of the thesis is to demonstrate the extent to which COIN-centered cultural knowledge production both defined political strategies toward Afghanistan and also reconstituted the Afghan diaspora in America. The thesis contributes to emergent ethnographic studies on militarism by looking at its effect on American society in general and the Afghan diaspora in particular. The broader application of the thesis findings is to move beyond critiques of the troubled connection between anthropology and the military, and to analyze the relationship between citizens and the state in terms of national and biopolitical security.

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Salvan, Laura <1981&gt. "Cultural Responsibility. Small steps to restore anthropology in economic behaviour. Interviews and best practices". Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/2624.

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Il presente lavoro di ricerca riflette sul concetto di Responsabilità Culturale (RC), che coniuga i due termini di responsabilità e cultura. Responsabilità è il dovere etico di garantire tanto alle generazioni presenti quanto a quelle future la possibilità di soddisfare i propri bisogni, le proprie aspirazioni, e di vivere le vite che hanno ragione di apprezzare. Cultura in senso antropologico considera gli individui come sistemi di credenze, simboli, spiritualità, immaginazione e razionalità che permette loro di rappresentare il mondo che li circonda all’interno dei diversi contesti di socializzazione in cui sono inseriti. RC è un atteggiamento responsabile nei confronti delle diverse espressioni culturali. La riflessione si colloca all’interno di una società caratterizzata dalla globalizzazione e dalla diffusione della knowledge economy, che esige un dialogo interculturale ed un atteggiamento di rispetto nei confronti della diversità culturale. La discussione è strettamente collegata ed arricchita dalla pratica della Responsabilità Sociale d’Impresa (RSI). Si potrebbe affermare che la RC è un’implicazione della RSI nel momento in cui si pone lo sviluppo culturale degli individui quale fine primario di ogni comportamento economico. Un atteggiamento che ha come immediata conseguenza la costruzione di un contesto sociale inclusivo, rispettoso dei sistemi di riferimento degli individui e delle comunità. Tutto ciò è quanto emerge sia da interviste condotte ad alcuni rilevanti operatori culturali, sia da significative buone prassi di organizzazioni di produzione culturale, che fanno della democrazia culturale, dell’opportunità di accesso, partecipazione e rappresentazione di tutti i cittadini, la loro ragion d’esistere. Fondare il comportamento economico moderno sull’antropologia, attraverso forme di cooperazione sociale, potrebbe essere una delle possibili vie di uscita dalla crisi che stiamo vivendo.

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Lee, Sue Mei. "Cultural work in language and literacy : reflections of a researcher as a cultural worker /". ProQuest subscription required:, 2003. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=990270691&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=8813&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Przybyl, Veronica Ashley. "Eating Disorder Narratives: Personal Experiences of Anorexia and Bulimia". Digital Archive @ GSU, 2010. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/anthro_theses/42.

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The following paper explores the ways in which we currently understand eating disorders, examining the current theory and literature as well as providing the stories of three women and one man with first-hand experience with eating disorders. Through the use of formal interviews, the paper focuses not only on the ways in which an eating disorder affects an individual’s life but also on the ways in which an individual’s life affects the manifestation of his or her eating disorder.

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Haeffner, Nicholas. "English cinema and cultural identity under Thatcherism". Thesis, University of Sussex, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.363364.

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POLLEY, SARAH ELLEN. "CULTURAL ACTIVISM AND THE NATIVE AMERICAN OCCUPATION OF ALCATRAZ: USING CULTURE AS A RESOURCE IN RECONSTRUCTING IDENTITY". University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2002. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1022194895.

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Gauss, Jeffrey Daryl. "The Department of Anthropology at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition: Motives, Methods, and Messages". W&M ScholarWorks, 1994. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625869.

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