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Leake, Lauren. "Forced Kinship." VCU Scholars Compass, 2013. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/3226.
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My oil paintings, glass works, and mixed media are abstract meditations on familial relationships and their boundaries. The interaction between colors and layers of pigment reference human interaction. I apply veils of colors, which obscure, alter, or blend into previous layers of color. These layers metaphorically reference how family relationships affect the person we are and influence who we become. I approach my oil paintings serially and often refer to them as sisters or a family. I often work on two or more canvases at a time allowing each painting to share palettes and a similar language of shapes. When I work this way, it allows me to explore different responses to an experience. The interaction of the paint embodies struggle, and new shapes and shades of color emerge as the boundaries of painted areas are dissolved or declared. I also layer color and pigment in my glass paintings. Here, I place finely ground colored glass onto clear glass sheets, then fire it, rework it, and fire it again. Reworking the glass allows me to build a history of layers, which I relate to the way that a person carries around a history of experiences. Lastly, in my prints, I use multiple stencils to apply layers of ink to conceal or reveal the history of the work and reference the ever-changing nature of relationships. This dance of emergence and disappearance of color relates to the forced kinship of family and calls to mind the levels in relationships we build with people, consciously or not.
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Nakagawa, Yuri. "Kinship written, kinship practised : a study of kinship and the writing of genealogies in contemporary Korea." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.244177.
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Varto, Emily. "Early Greek kinship." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/17421.
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Kinship is an important factor in modern explanations of social, political, and economic change in Early Greece (ca. 1000-450 BCE), particularly in social evolutionary schemes that see states develop from kinship-based clan societies. Following challenges to such schemes in several disciplines, including Classics, and following theoretical and methodological upheavals in anthropological kinship studies, our ideas and methodologies concerning families, descent groups, and kinship in Early Greece need to be reconsidered. In this dissertation, in order to avoid both applying typologies and employing universal biological kinship terminologies as points of analysis, a contextual methodology was developed to explore textual and archaeological evidence for ideas of kinship. Using this methodology, the expression and manifestation of kinship ideas were examined in Early Greek genealogical material, burial practices and patterns, and domestic architecture, taking each source individually to achieve a level of interpretative independence. Early Greek genealogies are usually linear and descendent-focused or tendrilled and ancestor-focused, and include sections of story-telling that are an integral part of the descent information. List-like genealogies are therefore not the standard structure for Early Greek genealogies and the few late extant examples may be associated with literary techniques or epigraphic traditions. The genealogies are mythico-historical and connected the legendary past with the present in the interests of individuals and states and were not charters determining status or membership in particular groups. Early Greek burial practices and patterns were informed by an idea of descent and an idea of households over a few generations, represented by small mixed burial groups. Residency patterns and changes in Early Greek domestic architecture suggest household units, some of which were participating and became successful in the domestic economy and in agricultural trade. A synthesis of the evidence reveals three broad overlapping Early Greek kinship ideas: blood and biology, generational households, and descent and ancestors. These ideas involve inheritance, ethnicity, success, wealth, and elitism. They therefore illuminate kinship’s role in social, political, and economic differentiation and power and resituate it in theorizing about the developing Greek polis.
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Makumbi-Morris, Jennifer Nansubuga. "Kintu." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.658213.
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Traditionally, twins are revered among the Ganda and their world heaves with superstition. They are believed to be sensitive children who can be vengeful when wronged. For example, depigmentation, Vitiligo is a result of the wrath of twins. At the birth of twins a family is renamed. The father becomes Ssalongo or Ssabalongo ifhe has more than one set. The mother becomes Nnalongo or Nnabalongo if she has more than one set. The sibling after whom twins come becomes Kiggongo. Babirye is the older girl twin and Nnakato the younger girl twin. Wasswa is the older boy twin while Kato is the younger boy twin. Kizza is the first sibling , after twins. Note also that Kamu is the Ganda version of Ham, Misirayimu is Mizraim, Kanani is Canan Puti is Phut and Kusi is Cush. These are biblical names. The Ganda are pmi of the Bantu family found in the regions commonly known Central Africa, Eastern and Southern Africa. The Bantu share mutual language intelligibility. In Luganda, Bantu means humans while obuntu means humanity or humanness. Kintu is a derivative name of humanity thus, according to the Ganda, he was the first human on earth. The Ganda are found along the northern shores of L. Victoria culturally known as the Nalubaale. Historical note While this novel uses characters and incidents from Buganda Kingdom's history, it is not a true representation of the kingdom at the time. This is a work of fiction.
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Sooter, Jan E. "Kinship: A Pastoral Approach." Digital Commons at Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School, 2013. https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/etd/38.
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An exquisite example of kinship between women is in Luke 1:39-45 when Elizabeth, pregnant through miraculous means, greets Mary, also miraculously blest with child. This encounter is replayed today as homeless women and their caretakers are greeted and welcomed into a room where they listen to scripture of God’s love for them and a reflection of daily hope. We provide an environment of comfort and trust as a setting for these women to share their life’s stories. This is the foundation of a new ministry at the Church of the Blessed Sacrament. The theologies of Edward P. Hahnenberg, Maria Harris, Michael Horan and Rosemary Radford Ruether provide foundational evidence that support the development of this ministry and provision of ministerial leadership. Establishing a ministry for women can be challenging due to the male only construct of the Church hierarchy to include the pastor and parish priest. The theologies of Augustine, Aquinas and Balthasar are rooted in human dualism favoring men over women. This view does not favor equality for women within the confines of church structure but rather views them using classical Christian theology. Protestant theologian Paul Tillich envisioned a practical scrutiny that theology is most effective if viewed within a contemporary context. It is evident to me as a Pastoral Associate candidate for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, that the theology of Paul Tillich would allow women to become Pastoral Associates and Parish Life Directors unlike classical Christian Theologians.
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Carroll, Jordan S. "Utopia, Kinship, and Desire." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1213363990.
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Sena, Tito. "Os Relatórios Kinsey, Masters." Florianópolis, SC, 2007. http://repositorio.ufsc.br/xmlui/handle/123456789/90788.
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Este trabalho é o resultado de uma análise discursiva e extradiscursiva sobre os relatórios Kinsey, Masters & Johnson e Hite publicados entre os anos de 1948 e 1981. Procura verificar as condições de produção histórica destes relatórios sobre sexualidade, servindo-se do instrumental teórico e metodológico de Michel Foucault em uma perspectiva interdisciplinar. Estes documentos emergiram num contexto social e histórico, apresentando comportamentos sexuais relatados confidencialmente por homens e mulheres através de enquetes e entrevistas, de modo a terem se integrado às práticas coletivas com status de verdades científicas. A tese se constitui em apontar o disfarce de critérios quantitativos em critérios qualitativos e, por extensão, da prática discursiva comum de confundir descrições com apreciações, estas últimas com julgamento valorativo e normativo. Os relatórios analisados, produzidos nos Estados Unidos e com repercussão mundial, contribuíram para disseminar formas não apenas de um agir sexual, mas de um falar e pensar sobre sexo através da mediação da ciência. Desta maneira, a verdade é tomada não como um conhecimento objetivo ou subjetivo em relação ao pensamento, mas verdade como obrigação de pensar de uma certa maneira em uma certa época e em determinado lugar. O recurso à estatística se revela como uma continuidade histórica do século XX, em busca de legitimidade para formulações científicas na área das ciências humanas, configurando um tipo especial de sujeito: a persona numerabilis, uma pessoa, homem ou mulher, que incorpora práticas de normalização, "mediadas" pela média numérica e estatística de uma população: antropometria, psicometria, taxa de fecundidade, expectativa de vida, incidências de doenças, índices comportamentais, percentuais de diagnósticos, etc, passam a fazer parte deste cenário. Neste contexto numérico, os relatórios são exemplos de formas de saber/poder articulados numa engrenagem onde sexualidades estatísticas se convertem em sexualidades prescritivas e estas, em sexualidades verdadeiras, normalizadas.
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Calleja, Carlo. "Kinship as a Political Act: Responding to Political Exclusion through Communities of Solidaristic Kinship." Thesis, Boston College, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:108721.
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Thesis advisor: Andrea ViciniThis dissertation aims, first, to retrieve a thicker notion of kinship; second, to explore whether such a notion might counter the political exclusion of the most vulnerable; and third, to propose that kinship has potential to promote the social integration of the most vulnerable. Over the past few decades, the term kinship has often been understood in a very reductionist sense, only referring to genetic connections or family ties, and a particular type of kinship, i.e., spiritual kinship, has lost its social implications. Such a narrow understanding of kinship contributes to marginalizing and excluding frail elderly women and men from the social fabric. In particular, the frail elderly are subjected to two kinds of exclusion: personal (individual) and institutionalized (systematic). While the vices that lead to personal exclusion include anthropodenial and an aversion to human limitations, the vices responsible for the institutionalized exclusion of the frail elderly include greed and individualism, both fostered by neo-liberalism. To promote the inclusion of the frail elderly, I propose, first, the practice of solidaristic kinship as a response to personal exclusion, because this practice re-educates the emotions through habits. Second, to address institutionalized exclusion, I recommend structures of kinship, such as solidarity and fraternity, because they promote kinship within society. Finally, practices of solidaristic kinship and structures of kinship together characterize communities of solidaristic kinship with frail elderly persons. By engaging in such communities, moral agents cultivate the civic virtues needed to contribute to shaping a society that promotes the political inclusion of its vulnerable members
Thesis (STD) — Boston College, 2020
Submitted to: Boston College. School of Theology and Ministry
Discipline: Sacred Theology
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Ince, Lynda C. "Kinship Care : an Afrocentric perspective." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2010. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/492/.
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This thesis explores the experiences and meanings that are attributed to kinship care by caregivers, young people of African descent, and social workers. It examined the meanings each group attached to kinship care and the risk and resilience they saw within it. The research was framed within the culturally distinctive theoretical framework of the Afrocentric paradigm which encapsulates cultural values. A qualitative approach was adopted for data collection, using interviews, and aspects of Grounded Theory for data analysis. The findings show that kinship care is a survival strategy that has historical significance for people of African descent, because it is linked to a tradition of help and a broad base of support. The study found that while local authorities were formally placing children with their relatives, there was a distinct lack of policy development to support kinship care as a welfare service. The absence of clearly identified support structures, tools for assessment, training and monitoring increased the risk factors for children who were placed in kinship care. Resilience was transferred through the Afrocentric cultural values, a key factor that led to family preservation and placement stability. The study concluded that there is an urgent need to reframe policy and practice.
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Appleby, Nellie Helen Frances. "Toward a New Kinship Constellation." VCU Scholars Compass, 2007. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/1085.
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This thesis attempts to elaborate on my artwork during my graduate studies, while contextualizing it within the framework of the art world and the works of other artists. A main project during this time was to minimize the singular interpretation and framing of a fine art photographic print, while expanding its possibilities of meaning through the addition of important ephemera and objects such as plants, drawings, moving imagery, conversation and the unknown.
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Clark, Nancy Elizabeth. "Perceptions of satisfaction in the delivery of services to kinship and non-kinship care providers." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2004. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2463.
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Liow, Joseph Chinyong. "The kinship factor in international relations : kinship, identity construction, and nation formation in Indonesia-Malaysia relations." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2003. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/1716/.
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This thesis addresses the question of why the kinship factor has not been able to provide a viable basis upon which Indonesia-Malaysia relations can be organised, despite the fact that the language of kinship continues to frame diplomatic discourse between the two "kin states". As a study of the phenomenon of kinship in international relations, the thesis discusses the basis of kinship discourse in Indonesia-Malaysia relations, how kinship was politicised in terms of its conceptualisation and application, and why its dominant motif has been rivalry more than harmony, despite its regular evocation. In order to understand the kinship factor as a political phenomenon in Indonesia-Malaysia relations, four issues are considered: (1) the anthropological and sociological nature of kinship, (2) the politicisation of kinship in terms of the perception and interpretation of its attendant expectations and obligations, (3) the association of the kinship factor with the historical process of identity building and nation formation in Indonesia and Malaysia, and (4) the discrepancies between popular pressures to emphasise kinship, which imply extra-national loyalties, and the political calculations of leaders based on conceptions of sovereignty. Consequently, the study makes the observation that despite the fact that there is a basis upon which to define Indonesia and Malaysia as kin states, their "special relationship" has been characterised predominantly by tension. It argues that this state of affairs has been a consequence of the perceived failure of these kin states to fulfil the expectations and obligations of kinship. This, in turn, has been borne of fundamental differences in their respective historical experiences and the forging of their national identities, which contravened the loyalties wrought by the kinship factor. Having said that, there remain avenues for co-identification on the basis of kinship, particularly in reference to the influence of the "Chinese factor" that has traditionally been a cause for concern for the national identities and security of Indonesia and Malaysia.
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Yonas, Eva. "Calder and Mondrian an unlikely kinship /." Connect to resource, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1811/24056.
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Caldwell, David E. "Production grammars for romance kinship terminology." Thesis, McGill University, 1986. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=66069.
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Wahlberg, Andreas. "Klaus Kinski : Erster Liebhaber und Lebenskünstler." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Avdelningen för tyska, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-104065.
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This study examines the relationship between sexuality and actorial artistic creation in the autobiographic writings of the German actor Klaus Kinski (1926-1991). Departing from Socrates’ appraisal of Eros in the Platonic dialogue Symposion, the text confronts two classic theories on sexuality and art: Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland’s book on macrobiotics and vital power (Lebenskraft), The Art of Prolonging Human Life, and Sigmund Freud’s texts on sublimation. Plato, Hufeland and Freud have in common that they see art and sexuality, representing spiritual and carnal life, as rivals. Hence, artistic production has to rely on a renunciation of physical love, either through abstinence or transformation of sexual energy into spiritual creative power. The case of Klaus Kinski is particularly important, since his literary works seems to resist sublimation of any kind. While devoting himself to libertinage – which he renders in detail – he still succeeds in creating works of art, as an actor and as a writer. The artistic conditions for Kinski the actor, being an active force in control of theatrical objects and means, in contrast to the passive-receptive actor in Rainer Maria Rilke’s The Notebooks on Malte Laurids Brigge, further adds to this particularity. Kinski’s refusal to recognise a rivalry between love and art has its roots in Constantin Stanislavski’s method of acting, in which the task of the actor is to give life to the role by giving it both spiritual and bodily life, having body and mind working together towards the higher aim of theatrical performance. Yet this paradigm of incarnation, as opposed to inspiration, does not apply exclusively to theatrical and performing arts, where the work of art is constituted by the actor’s body. In a text from 1927 about the rhyme, the Austrian writer Karl Kraus proposes an „erotics of language”, in which the ideal Paarung (coupling or mating) implies both the physical act of reproduction, and sonorous combination of two rhyming words, uniting distant spheres or entities. In this sense, Kinski’s ideal coupling can be understood as a joint venture between mind and body, art and sexuality, theatre and life, enabling him to enjoy a frivolous love life without abandoning artistic creation.
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Wood, Victoria Jane. "Subordinate kinship : families living with incarceration." Thesis, Durham University, 2008. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/1929/.
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This thesis explores the relationships and kinship practices of women, in the North of England who have a husband or partner in prison. In particular it focuses on how kinship in the context of incarceration is subordinate. The study is addressed from the perspective of the mothers of prisoners' children who are the wives and partners of prisoners. The study derives from qualitative ethnographic research which was undertaken between May 2004 and September 2005. During this time participant observations at the Visitors' Centres of a category B male local prison and a High Security Estate prison were conducted as a means of gaining valuable insights into the way in which the rules and regulations of the prison establishment govern the different forms of contact between prisoners and their families. This was supported by unstructured in-depth interviews with eleven women who were the wives or partners of male prisoners with the aim of collecting more detailed biographical case study data, focusing on their experiences. The issues which this thesis addresses and which derived from the research data collected were questions concerning what is the relationship between the family and the prison; how the tensions between exacting justice and the families welfare impact on health and well-being of mothers and their perception of the impact on their children, the effect of incarceration on kinship practices, and the extent to which incarceration influences the lives of these women beyond the institutional setting, with emphasis placed on their relationships and social networks. The theoretical focus of the study is orientated towards a contextualisation of the family and the use of imprisonment in both a contemporary and historical context, drawing, in particular, on the work of Foucault and his ideas concerning discipline and surveillance. The themes used revolve around, experiences of separation, notions of exchange and gift giving, ideas of the Visitors' Centre as a liminal space, secondary prisonization, and stigma. The conclusions drawn bring these ideas together to show how 'a subordinate kinship' is manifest in this context.
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Okruhlicová, Naďa. "Simply Wood : The Kinship of Care." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för design (DE), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-95488.
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Simply Wood is a collaborative inquiry into the topic of all wood joints for industrially produced furniture through engineering and the culture of care for and with furniture through Design+Change. This thesis is written in collaboration with the product development and communication wings from IKEA of Sweden, as the external tutors and supervisors. The design part, called the Kinship of Care, focuses on the culture of care between IKEA’s fast furniture and its user. This research, Kinship of care, consists of slow design principles reveal, expand, and reflect that serve as a cyclic timeline through the design process. Reader, the new caregiver is at the beginning introduced into the field of Slow Design and what does it mean to be the agent of change in today’s world. As the thesis unfolds, the section Reveal expresses challenges IKEA is facing when it comes to the culture of care. These challenges serve as a foundation from which this thesis builds its shape. The notion of care is highly abundant in meanings, and the understanding of furniture is quite narrow and static. The sectionReveal reframes the idea of care in collaboration with other caregivers in the form of a Caregiver manifesto for Living in Times of Social Distancing. The notion of furniture is revalued during an intervention walk Beyond Furniture that reveals hidden connections to furniture in the forest. Once the concepts of furniture and care are reframed, they are brought together and reimagined in the next section Expand. Expand uses tools of bisociation to combine seemingly unrelated notions together. All this information is transformed in conclusion into seeds for caring with furniture that serves as carative guidelines, guidelines that motivate caregiving behaviour in one’s household, and guidelines for imagining caring furniture. In the last section Reflect, the reader contemplates the life of furniture and learns to let go for sustainable disposal practices through the Love and the Breakup letters. This section also contains an interview with a caregiving practitioner, a furniture upholsterer. In conclusion, seeds for caring with furniture are introduced in the form of a moving zine. This thesis, Simply Wood, encourages the reader, fast-furniture user, and fast-furniture producer, to become a slow caregiver in this fast-changing society and offers tools for re-conceptualizing rooted notions of care and furniture.
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Leo, de Belmont Laura Ana. "Seminole kinship system and clan interaction." Mendoza, República Argentina : Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, 1985. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/16078022.html.
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VIEIRA, Tiago Figueiredo. "Identifying Kinship Cues from Facial Images." Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, 2013. https://repositorio.ufpe.br/handle/123456789/13315.
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A investigação da face humana é comum em análise de padrões/ processamento de imagens. Abordagens tradicionais são a identificação e a verificação mas muitas outras estão surgindo, como estimativa de idade, análise de similaridade, atratividade e o reconhecimento de parentesco. Apesar deste último possuir diversas possíveis aplicações, poucos trabalhos foram apresentados até então. Esta tese apresenta um algoritmo apto a discriminar entre irmãos e não irmãos, baseado nas imagens das suas faces. Um grande desafio foi lidar com a falta de um benchmark em análise de parentesco e, por esta razão, uma base de imagens de alta qualidade de pares de irmãos foi coletada. Isto é uma contribuição relevante à comunidade científica e foi particularmente útil para evitar possíveis problemas devido a imagens de baixa qualidade e condições não-controladas de aquisição de bases de dados heterogêneas usadas em outros trabalhos. Baseado nessas imagens, vários classificadores foram construídos usando técnicas baseadas na extração de características e holística para investigar quais variáveis são mais eficientes para distinguir parentes. As características foram primeiramente testadas individualmente e então as informações mais significantes da face foram fornecidas a um algoritmo único. O classificador de irmãos superou a performance de humanos que avaliaram a mesma base de dados. Adicionalmente, a boa capacidade de distinção do algorimo foi testado aplicando-o a uma base de dados de baixa qualidade coletada da Internet. O conhecimento obtido da análise de irmãos levou ao desenvolvimento de um algoritmo similar capaz de distinguir pares pai-filho de indivíduos não relacionados. Os resultados obtidos possuem impactos na recuperação e anotação automática de bases de dados, ciência forense, pesquisa genealógica e na busca de familiares perdidos.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The investigation of human face images is ubiquitous in pattern analysis/ image processing research. Traditional approaches are related to face identification and verification but, several other areas are emerging, like age/ expression estimation, analysis of facial similarity and attractiveness and automatic kinship recognition. Despite the fact that the latter could have applications in fields such as image retrieval and annotation, little work in this area has been presented so far. This thesis presents an algorithm able to discriminate between siblings and unrelated individuals, based on their face images. In this context, a great challenge was to deal with the lack of a benchmark in kinship analysis, and for this reason, a high-quality dataset of images of siblings’ pairs was collected. This is a relevant contribution to the research community and is particularly useful to avoid potential problems due to low quality pictures and uncontrolled imaging conditions of heterogeneous datasets used in previous researches. The database includes frontal, profile, expressionless and smiling faces of siblings pairs. Based on these images, various classifiers were constructed using feature-based and holistic techniques to investigate which data are more effective for discriminating siblings from non-siblings. The features were first tested individually and then the most significant face data were supplied to a unique algorithm. The siblings classifier has been found to outperform human raters on all datasets. Also, the good discrimination capabilities of the algorithm is tested by applying the classifiers to a low quality database of images collected from the Internet in a cross-database experiment. The knowledge acquired from the analysis of siblings fostered a similar algorithm able to discriminating parent-child pairs from unrelated individuals. The results obtained in this thesis have impact in image retrieval and annotation, forensics, genealogical research and finding missing family members.
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Saunders, Janine Michelle. "Exposure to chronic community violence : formal kinship, informal kinship, and spirituality as stress moderators for African American children /." Digital version accessible at:, 1999. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.
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Johnson, Lizabeth J. "Kinship and violence in Wales, 800-1415 /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/10409.
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Sakya, Anil M. "Newar marriage and kinship in Kathmandu, Nepal." Thesis, Brunel University, 2000. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/5413.
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This thesis presents a descriptive and analytical study of Newar marriage and kinship in Kathmandu. Essentially, this is a study about caste and the role that it plays in Newar life, in particular, the way that caste is expressed through marriage patterns and kinship rituals. This study also shows that although the link between one's caste and one's traditional caste occupation is breaking down, one's caste identity is still maintained through one's choice of marriage partner and one's participation in kinship rituals which occur at the various levels of caste organization. Newar caste organizations are also undergoing a process of transformation. In addition to the traditional caste organizations, there are also new intercaste organizations which cater to the ritual needs of those in intercaste marriages. This recent phenomenon coincides with the professionalization of other caste organizations, which, in addition to performing their ritual duties, have also taken on the role of social and economic guardians to their caste members. It could be argued that although some forms of caste are no longer applicable, in other ways, caste in Newar society has never been stronger or more important. Despite the claim that intercaste marriages are on the rise, the data shows that the majority of Newars still practice caste endogamy. Membership into a caste organization - which is through the initiation ritual - is so important to Newar identity that intercaste couples have started their own caste organization to ensure that their offspring will officially be a part of a caste group. In sum, this study shows that despite the fact that caste is no longer recognized in the Nepalese constitution, caste is still the main vector of Newar identity, and this is seen most clearly through the analysis of Newar marriage and kinship.
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Coster, William. "Kinship and community in Yorkshire, 1500-1700." Thesis, University of York, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.316165.
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Fortunato, L. "The evolution of kinship and marriage systems." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2009. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/18995/.
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Kinship and marriage systems represent the ways in which humans organize relatedness and reproduction. The work presented in this thesis extends the philosophical, theoretical, and methodological foundations of evolutionary biology to the study of these aspects of human social behaviour. Firstly, a game-theoretic analysis shows that the evolution of monogamous marriage can be understood within the framework of inclusive fitness theory. In this framework, the stability of monogamous marriage requires that men transfer property to their wife's offspring; consistently, the log-linear analysis of marriage and transfer strategies across a worldwide sample of societies shows that norms stipulating the transfer of land to wife's offspring exist in a larger proportion of monogamous than polygynous societies. Secondly, phylogenetic comparative analyses of marriage and residence strategies across societies speaking Indo-European languages reconstruct early Indo-European society as practising monogamy and prevailing virilocality with alternative neolocality. However, there is no evidence of co-evolution of monogamy with neolocality in the history of these societies; thus, it cannot be excluded that the observed association between marriage and residence strategies is the artefact of a history of descent from a common ancestor. In line with the archaeological, historical, and ethnographic evidence, these findings challenge explanations that link the emergence of monogamy and neolocality to the development of idiosyncratic features of "western" social organization; such explanations dominate the social sciences. More generally, they illustrate the relevance of the evolutionary paradigm to the study of kinship and marriage systems, contributing to the development of a biologically based social anthropology.
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Breeze, Justin. "Beyond the kinship of pessimism : Beckett's Schopenhauer." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2014. https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/49703/.
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Ogawa, Jane. "Kinship terminology in the greater Hindu Kush." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för lingvistik, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-157463.
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This is a study of the kinship terminology used for one’s parents and their siblings in the languages in the greater Hindu Kush area (GHK). GHK stretches over the mountainous borderlands of Afghanistan, Pakistan, Tajikistan, China and India and homes a range of various languages from six different genera, Indo-Aryan, Iranian, Nuristani, Turkic, Tibeto-Burman, and the language isolate Burushaski. The study is based on questionnaires from native speakers of 55 language varieties collected in 2015-2017. The main distinction is one between descriptive and merging systems. The descriptive system have separate terms for all six relations and are found in the outer areas of GHK. The merging systems have terms that refer to two or more relations, and these are found in the center of the area. Within this center-area the languages are then further divided into six different terminologies depending on which relations are merged with one term. Semantic clusters can be observed, based on systematic and lexico-semantic parallels, both within and across family lines. The distribution is discussed from a historical, geographical and social point of view.Language contact and relatedness in the Hindukush region. Vetenskapsrådet (421-2014-631)
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Tjon, Sie Fat Franklin Edmund. "Representing kinship : simple models of elementary structures /." Leiden : Leiden University, 1990. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37483458t.
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Chabot, Hendrik Theodorus Rössler Martin Röttger-Rössler Birgitt. "Kinship, status and gender in South Celebes /." Leiden : KITLV press, 1996. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37507090p.
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Cathcart, Alison. "Kinship and clientage : Highland clanship 1451-1609 /." Leiden : Brill, 2006. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb40163033k.
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Immel, Nancy. "Family Naming Practices and Intergenerational Kinship Affiliations." DigitalCommons@USU, 1991. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/2413.
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The study of naming practices has captured the interest of researchers in a variety of related disciplines. Studies of names and naming have led to a body of literature suggesting that naming practices are infused with meaning and reflect emotional ties between family members.
This study examined four research hypotheses related to family naming practices in an intergenerational sample of Mormon women. Ninety women f rom three generations of 30 families participated in the st udy. Through telephone interviews, each woman completed a survey designed to gather information about sources of children's names, kinship affiliations, and religiosity.
The information gathered from the surveys was analyzed using three statistical analyses : descriptive statistics, the chi square test of significance , and multiple regression. Data analyses indicated that there were no significant differences in naming practices in this group and that naming practices were similar across generations. Analyses of the relationship between family closeness and naming indicated that there was no significant relationship between closeness to the family of origin and naming for family members. However, closeness to the family of procreation was found to be inversely related to naming for relatives. Both of the religiosity items --level of church activity and frequency of church attendance for both husbands and wives--were found to be inversely related to naming children for relatives.
Further data analyses revealed that child gender was the factor that contributed most heavily to whether or not children were named for relatives .
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Cervantes, Danya Brenda. "Kinship Support Group: Addressing Grandparent Caregiver Challenges." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/332.
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Grandparent caregivers to their grandchild(ren) is a growing population that is not completely understood. This study explored the challenges faced by grandparent caregivers to their grandchild(ren) and how being part of a kinship support group can help in addressing the challenges. A qualitative research design was used for the purpose of gathering first account narratives from the participants in the study. California Family Life Center, a kinship support agency was contacted and allowed the researcher to reach out to grandparents who were interested in taking part of the study. Seven participants took part in this study. This study concluded that grandparent caregivers are presented with challenges such as: an impact in their social life, making adjustments to their retirement plans and learning to cope through support from the kinship support group. The Loss and Grief Theory and Erikson’s Developmental Stages, generativity vs. stagnation provided an analysis and a better interpretation from the data collected from the participants. Results from the study suggest that being part of a kinship support group for participants has been beneficial to them as they come to better understand their current situation through the kinship support group. Nevertheless, the challenges are still present in their everyday lives. Implications for practice, policy and research are also discussed.
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Griesser, Michael. "The Nepotistic Parent; Predator Protection, Kinship and Philopatry." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala : Universitetsbiblioteket : Univ.-bibl. [distributör], 2003. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-3384.
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Carriere-Laboucane, Jeannine. ""Kinship care: A community alternative to foster care"." School of Native Human Services, 1997. http://142.51.24.159/dspace/handle/10219/470.
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I realized the importance of kinship connection and family preservation the first time I met one of my birth family members at age twelve. As an adopted child, I often felt I was living in a borrowed state of being. In someone else's family, borrowing someone else's name and culture. Meeting my birth family and recognizing my connection to the Metis community gave me a sense of belonging for the first time in my life.
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Cowley, Lorraine Liddell. "Genetics and kinship : finding morality at their intersection." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.577489.
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This Cancer Research UK funded qualitative research was inspired by my genetic counselling experience and my interest in families with a cancer predisposition gene causing Lynch Syndrome (LS). The aim of the research has been to explore meanings and senses of family generated at the intersections of genetics and kinship. My thesis is focused on a family known to a Regional Genetics Service, who contributed to research (Kolodner, Hall et al. 1995) characterising one of the genes (hMLH1) causing LS. This genetic research made testing for LS possible. It framed individuals from the biologically constructed family as the first to know their genetic risk status for this condition. My study emerged out of an interest in what this involvement in genetic research and knowledge production might have had on participants' sense of individual and kinship identity. In- depth multiple narrative interviews using visual props such as, family photographs, their genetic family tree and social maps were conducted with fifteen of fifty members of the family who had been offered testing, (some of whom had the genetic mutation, while the majority did not). Respondents were invited to discuss their family relationships and their engagement with genetic testing. Findings show how participants discursively managed both biomedical notions of family as given and contemporary notions of family as chosen, when drawing their complex boundaries of family. Three chapters within the thesis discuss the data. In the first, narratives of respondents' history with biomedical engagement show meanings of family that were generated in this context. The second explores family as chosen and discusses respondents' senses of obligation, responsibility and claims for social value in limiting or expanding capacity to be close with family. The third chapter explores how senses of morality were framed and intensely highlighted in participants' narratives about those who declined a genetic test. It is at the intersection of choice and responsibility that a moral lens appeared through which participants viewed those who declined testing and it is within this emotive setting that kinship ties had and have the potential to be disrupted and family dynamics disturbed.
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Benedek, Marton. "Conditionality and Kinship : Hungarian Neighbourhood Policy, 1990-2004." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.517684.
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Spiro, Alison Mary. "Moral continuity : Gujarati kinship, women, children and rituals." Thesis, Brunel University, 2003. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/5521.
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This thesis is a study of Gujarati women and children living in the North London Borough of Harrow. It addresses the issues concerning women in the household, that include their relations with other kin and wider networks, caring for children, feeding, and protecting them from evil influences, and their key involvement in ritual practice. Men as husbands, fathers, uncles and grandfathers are also discussed. Children's involvement in ritual from birth, or even before, is addressed and the way they make sense of the world through multiple carers. Households were studied using the methods of participant observation and in-depth, taped, unstructured interviews. Different caste groups, religions and social classes were included in the study group, but the majority were Hindu, and a few Jain. Muslim households were excluded because they represented less than 10% of the Harrow population and would have made the study too broad. Data obtained from a three-month period of research in Ahmedabad, informed the Harrow data, but a direct comparison was not made. The theme of moral continuity emerged from the data as a central concern for Hindu and Jain households. This was linked to kinship ties, respect for elders, obligations, religious festivals and rituals. The joint household remains popular and many younger people are learning Gujarati, practising rituals and asking for arranged `introduction' marriages. Family `rules' which have been followed through many generations are followed in respect to festivals, life-cycle rituals of childhood, warding off the evil eye and what foods to eat. Childhood is a time of purity when children are thought to be close to the gods, requires special consideration, especially when it comes to food, and milk may be thought to be the safest option. Children live in a network of interdependency with other kin and through rituals participate in a world that respects the hierarchy of the household and wider Gujarati `community'. Western influences of toys, peers and the educational system are acknowledged at various points. In conclusion, a sense of being Gujarati is still held by individuals today in Britain. Continuity of moral codes is achieved through ritual practice, which is transformed over time, links with the ancestors and gives a sense of belonging to 'one of us'.
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Economou, Leonidas. "Kinship and politics in a Midwestern University city." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 1994. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/1285/.
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This thesis is an ethnographic study of kinship and municipal politics in a Midwestern American University city and it is based on anthropological fieldwork undertaken between January 1989 and July 1990. The research on kinship is drawn from information gathered from a sample of white middle-class informants. The kinship relations of these informants were characterized by great practical and ideological variation, and their views are described by two competing models. On the one hand there are those who invested kinship relationships with strong social and moral meaning and believed that they were grounded in and determined by natural facts. In contrast, there were those who downplayed the natural basis of kinship relations and stressed the right of every individual to seek self-fulfilment unfettered by familial restrictions. The study of municipal politics is based on a strategically selected sample of individuals and groups belonging to all of the different political factions in the city. Municipal politics attracted a relatively large amount of interest among residents and the political conflicts were related mainly to the rate and quality of the city's economic growth. Despite the existence of a significant movement supporting "controlled growth", the advocates of growth dominated city politics, and economic development was regarded by the majority of informants as both the inevitable and desirable result of social evolution. There was no direct correlation between kinship and political ideology: those who supported economic growth took a plurality of positions on kinship matters and the same is largely true for their political opponents.
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Deevey, Sharon. "Bereavement experiences in lesbian kinship networks in Ohio /." The Ohio State University, 1997. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487942739807836.
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Burkhart, Brian Yazzie. "Respect for kinship toward an Indigenous environmental ethics /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2009. 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:3354896.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Philosophy, 2009.Title from homepage (viewed on Feb 4, 2010). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-04, Section: A, page: 1299. Adviser: Paul V. Spade.
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Moua, Teng. "The Hmong culture kinship, marriage & family systems /." Online version, 2003. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/2003/2003mouat.pdf.
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Squires, Munir. "Kinship taxation as a constraint on microenterprise growth." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2016. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/3523/.
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Developing country entrepreneurs face family pressure to share income. This pressure, a kinship tax, can distort capital allocations. I combine evidence from a lab experiment—which allows me to estimate an individual-level sufficient statistic for the distortion—with data I collected on a sample of Kenyan entrepreneurs, to quantify the importance of the tax. My data reveal high kinship tax rates for a third of entrepreneurs in my sample. My quantitative analysis makes use of a simple structural model of input allocation fitted to my data, and implies that removing distortions from kinship taxation would increase total factor productivity, and increase the share of inputs used in the largest firms. These effects are substantially larger than those coming from credit market distortions, which I estimate using a cash transfer RCT. My analysis also implies strong complementarities between kinship taxation and credit constraints.
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Trionfera, Cristiana <1992>. "the morphosyntax of kinship terms in Italian dialects." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/12765.
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This thesis is going to be an extension of the paper 'kinship Nouns in italian dialects - variation in the use of Articles and Possessives', an abstract of Comparative Syntax. The analysis of Kinship Terms will be extended to other varieties of Italian and it will focus on the differences between standard italian and dialects.
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Newson, Lesley. "Kin, culture and reproductive decisions." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.273006.
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Widdig, Anja. "Paternal kinship among adult female rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta)." [S.l. : s.n.], 2002. http://deposit.ddb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?idn=966456939.
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Park, Hwan-Young. "Kinship in post-socialist Mongolia : its revival and reinvention." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1998. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/265421.
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This thesis argues that kinship is experiencing revived importance in every aspect of life in post-socialist Mongolia and suggests a number of reasons for this phenomenon. Under socialism the state performed functions that in traditional times were the province of kin relations and networks, including the provision of housing, employment, child care, social welfare, economic help, and so on. Now that socialism is gone, kinship is beginning to fulfill many of these functions again. It is therefore -lhe Je-n ,se 6f' filling the void left by socialism. ?' I approach this topic from three perspectives: the encouragement of "old" traditions (Chapter 1), the history of kinship terms (Chapter 2), and the manifestations of kinship in Mongolian society, economy, and conceptual life (Chapters 3, 4 and 5). In Chapter 1, I outline the various ways in which Mongolians have looked at the past as a source from which to choose the aspects of kinship that they wish to revive through "old" traditions and memories. A diachronic analysis of kin terms (from the eighteenth century until today) in Chapter 2 illustrates the changes that have taken place in kinship terminology that reflect changes at the theoretical level. The practical aspects of kinship are examined in three parts: kinship relations and networks (Chapter 3), kinship and economic relations (Chapter 4), and kinship metaphors (Chapter 5). Four main themes have emerged from this study. First, ritual is now being revitalised. Second, there is a mutuality of obligations in kin relations, that does not exist in non-kin relations which tend to be based on economic considerations. Third, although there is a relatively clear boundary between kin and non-kin, it is still possible for outsiders to become insiders if they develop the trust of the kin group. While there are many degrees of acceptance, one of the most interesting is the relatively new phenomenon of fictive (huurai) kinship, which has developed only since the beginning of the post-socialist period. I argue that fictive kinship has become common because it has all the social advantages of kinship and all the economic advantages of non-kinship. Last, kinship distinctions were present, but invisible during the socialist era because kinship ties were discouraged and pseudokinship relations such as "brotherhood" and comradeship took their place. Today kinship distinctions are visible again, as sources of support in troubled times, and as ways of defining what it means to be Mongolian, including the establishment of genealogical links to the national hero Chinghis Khan. The involvement of intellectuals in the reinvention of kinship and tradition is an interesting and proble'm atic phenomenon with both positive and negative implications for postsocialist Mongolian society.
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Gutierrez, Nadia M. "Preparing kinship foster youth for success| A grant proposal." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1522576.
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The purpose of this project was to write a grant proposal to fund a program which would concentrate on teaching and equipping emancipating foster youth with basic life skills in order for them to successfully transition to young adulthood. The target population for this program are dependent youth of the County of Los Angeles, Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS). While there are currently existing program models which promote independent living skills, there are restrictions on the eligibility requirements. This grant writer identified the Stuart Foundation as an appropriate funding source for the proposed program due to the foundation's commitment to education and improving the child welfare system. The grant was written to provide the vulnerable population of emancipating foster youth with knowledge and access to community resources in hopes they will become successful, law abiding and contributing members of society. In addition, the proposed program will provide transitioning foster youth with support and reinforce their self-confidence to reduce and/or counteract effects of childhood abuse and neglect. Securing the funding was not a thesis requirement.
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Hindson, James. "Family, household, kinship and inheritance in Shrewsbury, 1650-1750." Thesis, Aberystwyth University, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.482035.
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Stivens, Maila Katrin Vanessa. "Women, kinship and economy in Rembau, Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.362320.
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This study investigates the sphere of gender relations in rural Rembau, Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia, a state long famous for its 'matriliny'. The central aim of the thesis is to explore the significance of this historically reconstituted 'matriliny' for women's situation, arguing for a re-examination of the clasfc debates ri about 'matriliny'. This re-examination is conducted by an analysis of the complex relationships between economic and political developments in the agrarian economy, kinship relations and gender relations. The thesis first briefly looks at the historical material on Rembau 'matriliny', suggesting that this has been reified both in the literature and in local Rembau discourse. It then explores the interplay between local social forms and the political and economic changes in the wider society, giving detailed material on women's and men's activities and land owning in a situation of a declining village economy and massive out-migration. The following chapters examine aspects of domestic production, class and gender differentiation, kinship relations and practices, household relations, marriage, sexuality and childrearing. The concluding chapter explores the ways that Rembau women's autonomy is being undermined by contemporary developments in the Malaysian economy. The central argument of the thesis stresses the intervention of. capitalist class interests and the colonial state in reconstituting a 'matrilineal' peasantry characterised by non-capitalist relations of production within subsistence and petty commodity producing sectors. Stressing the historical specificities of developments in Malay(si)a, it rejects functionalist theorisations implying a symbiotic rektionship between non-capitalist enclaves and the dominant capitalist sector. The thesis also argues that most previous attempts to characterise the linkages between these sectors and the dominant capitalist sectors in many parts of the Third World have been blind to the significance of gender differentiation within so-called peasant sectors. An attempt is made to show how deconstructing the peasant household and exploring the political significance of women's land ownership and of gender relations overall historically can cast light on past and present developments in Rembau and other Malay peasant society.
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Torrance, David Alan. "Christian kinship : relatedness in Christian practice and moral thought." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2017. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/269744.
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Ideas of kinship play a significant role in structuring everyday life, and yet kinship has been neglected in Christian ethics, as well as moral philosophy and bioethics. Attention has been paid in these disciplines to the ethics of ‘family,’ but little regard has been paid to the fact that kinship is not a given, but is culturally contingent. The thesis seeks to remedy the neglect in recent Christian theological ethics by drawing on resources from the history of Christian thought and practice. It uses social anthropology both to unsettle the accounts of kinship used in Christian ethics, and to expose elements in Christian traditions of thought and practice relating to kinship. Notions of shared bodily substance, the house, gender and personhood recur cross-culturally in giving shape to kinship. By examining these four notions as they inform Christian thought and practice, a theological account is developed. Chapters dedicated to each of these four attempt to provide, in the first instance, a descriptive account of how the notion has structured Christian thought and practice in relation to kinship. Each chapter then turns, in the second instance, to a critical mode, offering a theological treatment of the chapter topic as it bears on kinship. The thesis concludes that kinship in Christ should be considered normatively primary for the Christian, but also that there are ways in which Christians have honoured this kinship in Christ by organising and playing out kinship on a smaller scale. In detailing the distinctively Christian organising principles that structure some practices of kinship ‘in miniature,’ another common practice – the special privileging of the blood tie in structuring kinship – is singled out for critique.
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Pérez, Erika. "Family, Spiritual Kinship, and Social Hierarchy in Early California." UNIV PENNSYLVANIA PRESS, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/622741.
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The study of kinship offers a rich opportunity for historians of early America to examine impositions of colonial power, subtle acts of resistance, and cultural adaptations evident in quotidian encounters between indigenous peoples and European American colonists. In Spanish and Mexican Alta California, colonial implementation of compadrazgo (Catholic godparentage) and the use of family metaphors, as well as the presence of Christian Indian auxiliaries from previously colonized regions, reveal colonial social hierarchies and evolving constructions of race, ethnicity, and class. While colonists and indigenous Californians both invested significant meaning in consanguineal and affective bonds, including spiritual kinship, Native peoples struggled to preserve and express precontact family values that included more fluid practices in marriage. Spanish-Mexican settlers and Franciscan missionaries attempted to impose a kinship system that would further goals of conquest and acculturate indigenous peoples by eradicating such fluidity. Spanish Mexican settlers, however, also exhibited an expansive understanding of kinship and family obligations, invoking them to function as a social safety net, as needed, and incorporating newcomers into existing networks. Thus, kinship is a useful measure of social relations and economic conditions and helpful for unraveling the scope and limitations of colonial rule in Alta California.