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Suganuma, Nicole K. "An Ethnography of the Twitch.TV Streamer and Viewer Relationship." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10840336.

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<p> This thesis explores the extent to which Twitch.TV streamers and viewers influence each other and the social and economic capital exchange that occurs between the parties. For this study, influence will be defined as the extent to which streamers and viewers affect each other’s behavior and emotions. Bourdieu’s (1977) theory of practice is combined with Goffman’s (1959) dramaturgical analysis to analyze how both parties perform in ways to gain social/economic capital. The limited amount of studies conducted on live streaming video gamers has typically occurred outside the

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Lai, Lili Farquhar Judith. "Discerning the cultural an ethnography of China's rural-urban divide /." Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2009. http://dc.lib.unc.edu/u?/etd,2174.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2009.<br>Title from electronic title page (viewed Jun. 26, 2009). "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of Anthropology." Discipline: Anthropology; Department/School: Anthropology.

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Jackson, Thomas. "Multisensory ethnography : sensory experience, the sentient body and cultural phenomena." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2018. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/19876/.

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This practice-led PhD offers two contributions to the emerging discipline of sensory ethnography: a new theoretical framework for understanding the relationships between sensory experience, the sentient body and cultural phenomena and a series of new sensory research methods. It comprises the thesis presented here, a number of practical projects and a ‘dossier’ of associated outputs, including conference papers, workshops and symposiums, public engagement activities and successful funding applications. For the purposes of assessment and dissemination, all of these components have been collated

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Greene, Morgan Camille. "An Auto-ethnography: Critiquing the Cultural Milieu of My Classroom." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1147187966.

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Kunnuji, Joseph. "A chronicle of cultural transformation: ethnography of Badagry Ogu musical practices." Doctoral thesis, Faculty of Humanities, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/32279.

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This thesis examines the musical practices of Badagry Ogu people from both historical and contemporary perspectives and provides strategies for their further integration into the changing social and economic landscape characteristic of 21st-century Lagos. Badagry emerged as a Nigerian town bordering the Republic of Benin in the 19th-century colonial delineation processes, which neglected ethnic frontiers. Consequently, Badagry Ogu people, being a minority ethnic group and geographically peripheral in Nigeria, have been politically, economically and socially marginalized for generations. Using

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Thomas, Kedron. "An Ethnography of Brand Piracy in Guatemala." Thesis, Harvard University, 2011. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:10043.

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An important dimension of contemporary capitalism is the global spread of intellectual property rights law, drawing new attention by governments and media to the unauthorized copying of fashion brands. In this dissertation, I draw on sixteen months of ethnographic research with small-scale, indigenous Maya garment manufacturers to examine the cultural and moral context of brand piracy in Guatemala. I analyze what practices of copying and imitation, some of which qualify as piracy under national and international law, among Maya manufacturers reveal about two aspects of the social field: first,

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Mortensen, Lena. "Constructing heritage at Copan, Honduras an ethnography of the archaeology industry /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2006. 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:3204306.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Anthropology, 2006.<br>Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-01, Section: A, page: 0239. Adviser: Richard R. Wilk. "Title from dissertation home page (viewed Jan. 22, 2007)."

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Breschigliari, Juliana Oliveira. "Transmissão e transformação da cultura popular: a experiência do grupo de jongo do tamandaré (Guaratinguetá)." Universidade de São Paulo, 2010. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/47/47131/tde-03092010-161053/.

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Neste trabalho, procurou-se construir uma aproximação da experiência de um grupo de cultura popular no que diz respeito à transmissão de seus valores e práticas entre as gerações e à transformação deles nesta passagem. Experiência, tal como é compreendida por Benjamin (1985), conta aqui como lente fundamental na medida em que requer do olhar do pesquisador um voltar-se sobre si mesmo, tendo em vista a elaboração do que ele encontra como sua matéria-prima. O trabalho de campo da pesquisa foi feito com o grupo de Jongo do Tamandaré (Guaratinguetá-SP), portador da herança de um ritmo brasileiro d

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Yezbick, Julia. "Domesticating Detroit: An Ethnography of Creativity in a Postindustrial Frontier." Thesis, Harvard University, 2016. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:33493531.

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“Domesticating Detroit” is an ethnographic investigation into the intersecting worlds of art, creative industries, real estate, philanthropy and urban revitalization through the material lens of the single-family home. In March of 2015, Detroit faced a foreclosure crisis that threatened to add almost 70,000 homes to the annual tax foreclosure auction and evict nearly 100,000 people. While the city’s population continues to drop, the private sector is investing millions in Detroit’s artists and creative industries, valorizing creativity, innovation, and design as the hopeful saviors of the city

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Zhang, Zuotang. "An ethnography of traditional rural folk funeral practice in northwestern China." Thesis, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3637357.

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<p> This ethnographic study will analyze data collected through field-based observations, primary ritual texts, and locally conducted interviews of the yin-yang practitioners in the three small villages of Fanmagou, Qijiazhuang, and Wangdazhuang in northwestern China. The practice referred to as yin-yang in this region is part of an archaic folk religious system that can be traced back to at least the Qing dynasty (1644-1911). Despite its deep cultural roots, it is becoming endangered due to the impact of national policies (governing religion and culture) and the general adaptation to modernit

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Doherty, Catherine Ann. "The production of cultural difference and cultural sameness in online internationalised education." Queensland University of Technology, 2006. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/16302/.

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This research investigates the cultural politics of 'borderless' education. In Australia, online internationalised education has recently emerged as a market innovation borne from the intersection of two agendas in the higher education sector: an enthusiasm for technological means of delivery; and the quest for international full-fee paying enrolments. The empirical study analyses how both cultural difference and cultural sameness were produced in a case study of borderless education and were made to matter in both the design and the conduct of online interaction. A core MBA unit offered onlin

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Alejo, Albert E. "Generating energies : cultural politics and geothermal project in Mt Apo Philippines." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 1999. http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/28868/.

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This reflexive ethnography investigates both the practice of cultural regeneration movement and fieldwork engagement in the context of contested development. The setting is Mt. Apo National Park where the Philippine National Oil Company has built a 250-megawatt geothermal power plant. The project aims to reduce government's dependence on imported oil and fuel its industrialisation program. Mt. Apo, however, is an ecologically and politically sensitive site, being a sanctuary of Southeast Asia's rich biodiversity, home to indigenous peoples, and shelter for armed insurgents. The local NGO and C

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Stienecker, Dawn. "The Art Car Spectacle: a Cultural Display and Catalyst for Community." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2012. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc149669/.

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This auto-ethnographic study focuses on Houston’s art car community and the grassroots movement’s 25 year relationship with the city through an art form that has created a sense of community. Art cars transform ordinary vehicles into personally conceived visions through spectacle, disrupting status quo messages of dominant culture regarding automobiles and norms of ownership and operation. An annual parade is an egalitarian space for display and performance, including art cars created by individuals who drive their personally modified vehicles every day, occasional entries by internationally r

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Peschard, Karine Eliane. "Biological dispossession: an ethnography of resistance to transgenic seeds among small farmers in Southern Brazil." Thesis, McGill University, 2010. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=86636.

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For the past decade, seeds have been at the centre of a relentless global war. This is a war of rhetoric—fought in courts, in corporate publicity campaigns, and in international environment and trade negotiations; but it is also a "down-to-earth" struggle, fought in farmers' fields around the world. Indeed, with the advent of plant genetic engineering, seeds have undergone a formidable transformation. Formerly a common good, produced by peasants/farmers and exchanged freely among them, seeds are becoming a tradable commodity on the global marketplace covered by extensive patent rights. As the

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Godoy, Paiz Paula. "Looking back, seeing forward: an ethnography of women and violence in post-war Guatemala City." Thesis, McGill University, 2011. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=96904.

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Drawing on 12 months of fieldwork conducted in Guatemala's Metropolitan Area among indigenous and ladina women, this dissertation offers an ethnographic analysis of violence and women's lives in post-war urban Guatemala. First, this dissertation examines the ways in which intersecting processes of violence – political, structural, symbolic, everyday and gender-based – are experienced by women and shape the different dimensions of their everyday lives. Second, I analyze the interplay between collective and individual memories of war and how these are drawn upon by individuals and communities

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Brogden, Mette. "Refugee odysseys| An ethnography of refugee resettlement in the U.S. after 9-11." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10013600.

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<p> By now scholars, practitioners, government officials and others in the global community have witnessed a number of countries and their populations going through extreme destruction and trying to rebuild in the aftermath. Country case studies are invaluable for their in-depth, continuous look at how a nation-state collective and the individuals who make up that collective recover, regroup, develop, but also remain very harmed for a long time. They must live among and beside their former enemies.</p><p> Studies of the resettlement of refugees in a third country offer a different view: ther

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Stoffle, Richard W., Vlack Kathleen A. Van, Hannah Johnspn, and Kristen Simmons. "Ethnography in Bits and Pieces in Social Assessments." University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/301446.

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These four presentations were prepared for the Society for Applied Anthropology's annual meeting in 2012 in Baltimore, Maryland. These presentations present findings from the Solar PEIS Native American ethnographic study.<br>The Ethnographic Research team at BARA in the School of Anthropology, UofA has shifted to what we are calling “ethnography in bits and pieces” for situating American Indian cultural concerns. We wanted to provide essays that would more directly target the resources, places, and landscapes actually identified by tribal representatives during field work. We chose to negotiat

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Strauss, Alisa N. Ph D. "Design by Consensus: Designing Effective Icons Using Quantitative Ethnography." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1467126649.

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Dionne, Geneviève. "Development and organisational practice: ethnography at the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO)." Thesis, McGill University, 2010. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=95005.

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Anthropologists have analysed development from several angles: some have critiqued development on the grounds that it is a modernising project, while others have sought to understand relationships between actors in development work and proposed alternative methods of pursuing development. Rarely however, have anthropologists studied up within organisations to analyse the practices and cultures of this community of experts'. This research provides an insider's perspective on the lived experienced' of employees of the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO), based on ha

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Tanner, Janis, and University of Lethbridge Faculty of Arts and Science. "An ethnography of disordered eating in urban Canada." Thesis, Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Faculty of Arts and Science, 2006, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10133/362.

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This thesis examines the problem of disordered eating based on ethnographic fieldwork in emergency shelters, soup kitchens, and eating disorder support groups, as well as interviews with medical professionals, and other residents of a Canadian city. This person-centered ethnography that explores the eating behaviors of not only those who have been diagnosed with 'eating disorders', but also those who are unable at times to provide themselves with food reveals that in spite of a prevailing discourse that determines eating as an independent act, food choices and eating patterns are dependent soc

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Parreñas, Rheana. "Arrested Autonomy: An Ethnography of Orangutan Rehabilitation." Thesis, Harvard University, 2012. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:10443.

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This dissertation is an ethnographic study about ecological displacement, affective encounters, the work of care, and human and animal subjectivities involved in rehabilitating endangered orangutans in Sarawak, Malaysia. Using participant-observation, interviews, archival research, and animal behavioral methods during seventeen months of fieldwork, this work exemplifies Donna Haraway's idea of 'zooethnography' by treating animals and humans as situated subjects. Specifically, I examine encounters between semi-wild orangutans, indigenous Sarawakian workers, Sarawakian Chinese and Malay middle-c

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Lori, Jody Rae. "Cultural Childbirth Practices, Beliefs and Traditions in Liberia." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/193885.

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Over 500,000 maternal deaths occur globally each year. Over half of these deaths take place in sub-Saharan Africa. The purpose of this study was to understand the sociopolitical and cultural context of childbirth in Liberia including practices, beliefs and traditions that influence maternal health, illness and death. The concepts of vulnerability, human rights related to reproductive health, gender-based violence and war trauma within the theoretical perspectives of global feminism provide the framework for this study. Critical ethnography was used to study 10 cases of severe maternal morbidit

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Fry, Margaret. "Triage Nursing Practice in Australian Emergency Departments 2002-2004: An Ethnography." University of Sydney, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/701.

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This ethnographic study provides insight and understanding, which is needed to educate and support the Triage Nursing role in Australian Emergency Departments (EDs). The triage role has emerged to address issues in providing efficient emergency care. However, Triage Nurses and educators have found the role challenging and not well understood. Method: Sampling was done first by developing a profile of 900 nurses who undertake the triage role in 50 NSW EDs through survey techniques. Purposive sampling was then done with data collected from participant observation in four metropolitan EDs (Level

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Dakessian, Areck Ardack. "Casting nets and framing films : an ethnography of networks of cultural production in Beirut." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/31464.

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Filmmakers first received widespread academic attention as case studies into the increasing casualisation of labour in post-industrial economies. Their precarious existence in project-based labour markets provided much food for thought about the future of work, while their status as artists and producers of culture entered them into debates around just what art is and how to approach it. But in light of recent transformations in the cultural industries and the accompanied blurring of boundaries between production and consumption, academic understandings of the lives filmmakers lead have also b

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Mott, Helen Louise. "Investigating secretaries and sexual harassment : studies in self-reports, cultural representations and discursive ethnography." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.520176.

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England-Kennedy, Elizabeth. "Performing the label "LD": An ethnography of United States undergraduates with learning disabilities." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/289803.

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This ethnographic project used participant-observation and Life History Interviews to gather data on U.S. undergraduate students with learning disabilities (LD), including dyslexia and attention deficit disorders (ADD). The project focuses on issues concerning the political economy, personal and collective agency, social labeling theory, and medicalization. I argue that performance theory must be integrated with social labeling theory in order to provide a full consideration of context and agency. Information on prevalence and demographics, and on historical context is provided. This includes

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Istasse, Manon. "Living in a World Heritage site: ethnography of the Fez medina (Morocco)." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/209406.

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I aim to make explicit the actualisation of heritage, following this orienting question: how do human beings come to qualify a thing, be it tangible or intangible, as heritage? I argue that heritage is at the same time a quality allocated by human beings in their relation with things and a fiction that circulates between and anchors in situation(s). To support this assertion, I focus on one element of official heritage, namely houses in the medina of Fez in Morocco, a World Heritage site listed in 1981. <p>Firstly, I follow medina houses in terms of networks, that is to say the various ways to

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Arney, Lance. "Resisting Criminalization through Moses House: An Engaged Ethnography." Scholar Commons, 2012. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/4278.

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Neoliberal restructuring of the state has had destructive effects on families and children living in urban poverty, compelling them to adapt to the loss of social welfare and demolition of the public sphere by submitting to new forms of surveillance and disciplining of their individual behavior. A carceral-welfare state apparatus now confines and controls the bodies of expendable laborers in urban spaces, containing their threat to the neoliberal socioeconomic order through criminalization and workfare assistance, resulting in a new symbiosis of prison and ghetto. The resulting structures of p

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Sbrogna, Kristen Alina. "Becoming Food Crop| A Multispecies Ethnography of Three Food-Plants in a Changing California." Thesis, Prescott College, 2019. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=13424517.

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<p> This dissertation details a doctoral research project studying three food-plants—and their potential for introduction into diet and agriculture in Northern California. Applying post-qualitative methods to multispecies ethnography, I followed three food-plants (millets, edible bulbs, and milkweeds) through their life cycles and production chains, considering their many interactions with other species and the biosphere, as well as with humans. Each food's story emerged while investigating the food-plant and its potential as an appropriate crop for Northern California's changing climate

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Kukeba, Margaret. "Ethnography of household cultural feeding practices of children under five years in rural northern Ghana." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2017. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/ethnography-of-household-cultural-feeding-practices-of-children-under-five-years-in-rural-northern-ghana(cac6d660-1ac9-447d-9fc3-1970fdb56df0).html.

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Background: Appropriate child feeding prevents nutrient deficiencies, diseases, and deaths in children. However, only 13.3% of children aged 6-23 months in Ghana receive the minimum acceptable diet. Thus, undernutrition remains high in rural northern Ghana, especially among under-fives. This is showing no improvement despite economic development and implementation of globally recommended nutrition & feeding interventions. There is limited context specific evidence about child feeding in rural northern Ghana. Aim: To examine how culture might impact upon the feeding of children under five y

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Martin, Sonya Nichole. "The cultural and social dimensions of successful teaching and learning in an urban science classroom." Curtin University of Technology, Science and Mathematics Education Centre, 2004. http://espace.library.curtin.edu.au:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=17096.

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This critical ethnography focused on improving the teaching and learning of chemistry in a diverse, urban, tenth-grade classroom in high-achieving magnet high school serving students of differing cultural, social, and historical backgrounds. Participants included all 26 students in the class, a university researcher (Sarah-Kate LaVan) and me as a teacher-researcher. Conducted within the methodological and theoretical frameworks of critical ethnography, this research employed collaborative research, autobiographical reflection, the sociology of emotions, and cogenerative dialogues as tools by w

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Turner, Patrick. "Hip hop versus rap : an ethnography of the cultural politics of new hip hop practices." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 2010. http://research.gold.ac.uk/4745/.

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Using field observations, interview narratives, and lyrical analysis, this thesis argues that the increasing presence of hip hop arts in social spheres not popularly associated with hip hop such as community activism, school-based education and theatre is traceable to an intra cultural political struggle I term ‘hip hop versus rap’. Hip hop versus rap opposes the notion of a temporally prior, authentic hip hop culture to its degeneration into commercial and ‘anti-social’ rap music. As a redemptive discourse hip hop versus rap seeks to annex a socially responsible hip hop culture from its popul

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Kennington, John C. "Biblical hermeneutics and ethnography methodologies bringing cross-cultural ministry closer to Scripture and to people /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2001. http://www.tren.com.

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Beck, Key JR. "There is a Stranger Among Us: The African-American Experience of Blackness in Japan." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1384850532.

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Svensson, Andreas, and Bahar Öksûz. "Cultural differences - Hinder or Opportunities : A study of Swedish subsidiaries in Turkey." Thesis, Jönköping University, Jönköping International Business School, 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-211.

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<p>During 2001 experienced Turkey a deep financial crisis with high inflations, large public dept and a growing currency account deficits that caused a loss of confidence among investors. However, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Turkish government together established a stand-by-arrangement which gave remarkable results. The recover of Turkey’s economy has been a success story with an average growth of 10 percent that has attracted Foreign Direct Investments facilitated by the investors’ recognition of the country’s valuable opportunities. This has also attracted Swedish companie

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Pearce, Celia. "Playing ethnography : a study of emergent behaviour in online games and virtual worlds." Thesis, University of the Arts London, 2006. http://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/2300/.

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This study concerns itself with the relationship between game design and emergent social behaviour in massively multiplayer online games and virtual worlds. This thesis argues for a legitimisation of the study of ‘communities of play’, alongside communities perceived as more ‘serious’, such as communities of interest or practice. It also identifies six factors that contribute to emergent social behaviour and investigates the relationship between group and individual identity, and the emergent ways in which these arise from and intersect with the features and mechanics of the game worlds themse

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Bezanson, Birdie Jane. "Lost in translation : an ethnographic study of traditional healers in the Açorean (Azorean) islands of Portugal." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/2428.

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This interdisciplinary research project investigated the process of healing utilized by Açorean Portuguese traditional healers. The purpose was to facilitate an understanding of this process for multicultural counselling practices in North America. The theoretical framework is informed by medical anthropology and the work of Arthur Kleinman (1980, 1987). Kleinman has been called an ethnographer of illness because of his belief that suffering is social and, as such, culturally constructed. He contends that without consideration of the experience of suffering and the social aspects of suffering,

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Gilbert, Paul Robert. "Money mines : an ethnography of frontiers, capital and extractive industries in London and Bangladesh." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2016. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/60593/.

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This thesis draws on over eighteen months of multi-sited fieldwork carried out in London and Dhaka, among geologists, lawyers, fund managers, engineers, and private sector development consultants intent on securing profitable extractive opportunities in new ‘frontier' markets, and among public intellectuals and politicians in Dhaka who oppose the development of Bangladesh's energy resources by foreign corporations. The thesis contributes to a recently revitalized anthropological political economy and engages critically with the actor–network theory-inspired ‘social studies of finance'. By trac

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Kawata, Hisato. ""Something" that you can't say indescribable intelligibility and "otherness" in the making of art and ethnography /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2008. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3337555.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Anthropology, 2008.<br>Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on Jul 24, 2009). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-11, Section: A, page: 4386. Adviser: Philip C. Parnell.

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Chavez, Margeaux Alana. "Desert in the Springs: Ethnography of a Food Desert." Scholar Commons, 2013. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/4807.

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"Food desert" commonly describes food insecure areas with few fresh food outlets. Though used in a number of sources, the definition of "food desert" remains largely undeveloped and research is often deficit oriented, failing to account for community assets that may exist within food deserts but are underutilized or under-supported. Using an assets-based, ethnographic approach, this study combines GIS and survey methodology with participant observation and qualitative interviews to assess the potential positive effect of urban agriculture on food accessibility in Sulphur Springs, a USDA identi

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Harumi, Seiko. "The use of silence by Japanese learners of English in cross-cultural communication and its pedagogical implications." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1999. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10006613/.

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This thesis examinest he use of silence by Japanese learners of English in cross-cultural communication. It also considers how cross-cultural misunderstandings can be avoided in a pedagogic context. To this end, an analysis is made of a contrastive study of the use of silence by Japanese students learning English, and by Western students learning Japanese. The study draws on insights from the ethnographic approach. The study consists of three parts. The first part, Chapters 1-4, investigates the theoretical background to the study. Chapter 1 examines various definitions of the word 'culture' a

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Matiure, Sheasby. "Performing Zimbabwean music in North America an ethnography of mbira and Marimba performance practice in the United States /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2008. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3344589.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Folklore and Ethnomusicology, 2008.<br>Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on Oct. 5, 2009). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-02, Section: A, page: 0649. Adviser: Ruth M. Stone.

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Datoo, Al Karim. "Critical ethnography, local-global cultural dynamics and students' identity: perspectives from an urban school in Pakistan." Thesis, McGill University, 2009. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=40775.

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This critical ethnographic project is based on one year of field-work carried out in an urban high school in the context of Karachi. The research seeks to critically explore the local-global dynamic as it manifests in the school’s official curriculum and the students’ lived-world experiences, especially with reference to their interaction with the media-scape, which in turn bears implications on dissolution and re-construction of students’ identities. The research employs an ethnographic research method. In this respect, monological and dialogical data were generated through participant obse

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Fordham, Traci Ann. "Cultural capital and the making of 'blue blazer kids': An ethnography of a youth exchange program." Related electronic resource: Current Research at SU : database of SU dissertations, recent titles available full text, 2002. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/syr/main.

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Saulino, Lauren E. "PROTECTING BIO-CULTURAL DIVERSITY THROUGH ETHNOGRAPHY: ORAL HISTORY FOR AND BY THE MIAMI NATION OF OKLAHOMA." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1246542413.

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Van, Meersbergen G. A. M. "Ethnography and encounter : Dutch and English approaches to cross-cultural contact in seventeenth-century South Asia." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2015. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1461328/.

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This thesis explores the intersections between Dutch and English East India Company (VOC and EIC) enterprise and early modern ethnography. Scholarship concerning both Companies has focused principally on the socio-economic side of Euro-Asian exchanges. In doing so, existing literature has failed to address the importance of ethnographic assumptions in shaping the worldviews of overseas agents. This study suggests a novel way of writing the cultural histories of these commercial-cum-political bodies from a comparative, transnational, and interdisciplinary perspective. It analyses VOC and EIC ar

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Shah, Hina. "An ethnographically-informed analysis of the influence of culture on global software-testing practice." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/53983.

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There have been fewer studies performed to understand real-world software-testing practice than for other areas of software engineering, such as software requirements, design and development. In particular, surprisingly little is known about global software-testing practices---the practice of outsourcing testing activities to a company offshore---which is currently a large industry and is continuing to grow rapidly. Hence, it is important to study this practice. Moreover, research and anecdotal records provide evidence suggesting that cultural factors greatly impact aspects of the global softw

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Newman, Anneke. "Faith, identity, status and schooling : an ethnography of educational decision-making in northern Senegal." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2016. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/60607/.

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This thesis investigates how families in northern Senegal negotiate between state and Islamic schools. Studies of education strategies within anthropology of education predominantly employ Bourdieu's concept of capital. These studies are useful for illuminating the role of education within people's strategies of social mobility, but tend to render invisible preferences based on non-material considerations like spiritual benefits. To overcome this challenge, this thesis uses economic theory which acknowledges both intrinsic and material factors informing school choice. It draws on fifteen month

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Ximenes, MÃrcia Maria. ""Aqui, tudo se cria, nada se copia": Um estudo etnogrÃfico da ONG FundaÃÃo Casa Grande e a formaÃÃo cultural de jovens moradores de Nova Olinda/CE." Universidade Federal do CearÃ, 2014. http://www.teses.ufc.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=12853.

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FundaÃÃo Cearense de Apoio ao Desenvolvimento Cientifico e TecnolÃgico<br>O atual contexto das OrganizaÃÃes NÃo-Governamentais (ONG) no Brasil vem apresentando mudanÃas na forma de atuaÃÃo dessas instituiÃÃes em relaÃÃo ao surgimento das mesmas nos anos 90 do sÃculo XX. Diante desse novo cenÃrio, formula-se a questÃo central da presente investigaÃÃo: qual a relaÃÃo existente entre uma ONG que trabalha com projetos envolvendo a comunicaÃÃo e a cultura e a comunidade na qual ela estÃ inserida? A ONG FundaÃÃo Casa Grande â Memorial do Homem Kariri surge como objeto de estudo da pesquisa aqui apre

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Taljaard, Nico. "A place where you can “feel like you are a human” : an ethnography of the Pretoria Boeremark." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/65811.

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This ethnography shows how certain aspects of the Pretoria Boeremark can be seen to have symbolic resonances with contemporary South African society. Reflecting both economic and cultural practices since 1994, as well as the ways in which it can be construed as being paradigmatic of Afrikaans whiteness in the post-Apartheid era, and how dissonance within this dominant whiteness can be created in the neo-liberal nature of South African society. Markets are amongst the most ancient forms of commercial exchange as well as, in South Africa today, being at the forefront of a globalised cosmopolitan

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