Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Riverine Culture'

Animals were given a preponderant position in Egyptian art, symbolism, and cultual practices. This thesis centres on the relationship between humans and animals during the predynastic period in Upper Egypt (Naqada I-IIIB, 4th millennium BCE), focusing on hippopotamus and crocodile as representatives of the Nile environment and antelope species as representatives of the desert environment. Depictions of these animals are analysed and compared with contemporary faunal remains derived from activities such as cult, funerary, or every day consumption. The material analysed covers several centuries: temporal evolutions and changes have been identified. The animals studied in this thesis were first used by the Naqada I-IIB elites as means to visually and practically express their power, which they envisioned in two contrasting and complementary ways. The responsibilities of the leaders were symbolised by the annihilation of negative wild forces primarily embodied by antelope species. In contrast, they symbolically appropriated positive wild forces, chief among them being the hippopotamus, from which they symbolically derived their power. Faunal remains from after mid-Naqada II are few, depictions of hippopotamus disappeared and those of crocodile became rare. Antelope species became preponderant, especially on D-ware vessels, which were accessible to non-elite people. However, toward the end of the predynastic period, antelope species came to be depicted almost exclusively on high elite material; they lost their individuality and became generic representatives of chaotic forces that the leaders and early rulers had to annihilate in order to maintain control and order.

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The aim of this dissertation was to understand the perceptions that young riverine dwellers in the interior of the state of Amazonas have of the surrounding urban and rural spaces. To reach this understanding we used semi-structured interviews with young people aged 15-25, based on the theoretical guidance of Phenomenology. Our goal was to identify the significance and the future projects that the young people in the Santa Luzia do Baixio Community attribute to these spaces, as well as reveal their feeling of belonging to the place they live. The place here is understood as the world of perceptions and experiences, comprehended through the subjectivity and culture. The Baixio is a riverine community, known mostly for maintaining their cultural values, based on cooperation and a close relationship with nature. We asked ourselves if there were modifications in their way of life resulting from the relationship with the city. We perceived that the youth are intimately linked to family ties and the culture that gave them their identity. However, their projects for the future include attending university, and migrating seems to be the only solution for those that see education as their only option for a better future.
Esta dissertação objetivou compreender as percepções que jovens ribeirinhos do interior do estado do Amazonas possuem dos espaços cidade e campo, os quais circulam. Para alcançarmos esse entendimento utilizamos da entrevista semiestruturada em jovens com idade entre 15 e 25 anos, a partir da orientação teórica da Fenomenologia. Nosso objetivo foi identificar quais os significados e projetos de futuro que os jovens da Comunidade Santa Luzia do Baixio atribuem a esses espaços, bem como desvelar o sentimento de pertença dos jovens com o lugar onde moram. O lugar aqui é entendido como mundo das percepções e experiências espaciais, compreendidas através da subjetividade e da cultura. O Baixio é uma comunidade ribeirinha, conhecida por manter seus valores culturais, baseados na cooperação e relação estreita com a natureza. Perguntamo-nos se existiam modificações no seu modo de vida decorrente da relação que mantêm com a cidade. Percebemos que os jovens estão intimamente ligados aos laços familiares e a cultura que lhes dão identidade. Porém, seus projetos para o futuro inclui cursar uma universidade e migrar parece ser a única solução para aqueles que veem nos estudos a única opção para um futuro melhor.

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This thesis was based on a cultural approach in geography and had the support base phenomenology that seeks through the human experience, individual and cultural make sense of the perceived space as it is presented, emphasizing the intentionality of perception, trying to recognize the possibility methodology in geographical science focused on understanding the lived world of riverside living in the city, particularly fishermen cities. This picture, was also valued the question of identity, as the (re) meaning of a place is revealed in the existence of an identity. For indigenous fishing highlighted as a major subsistence practices associated with agricultural and other extractive activities. This heritage is still present in the Riverine Communities in the state. This way, we sought to understand the place from the culture in this riverside city, what cultural resistance still exist for those who came from the interior of Amazonas state and other states of Brazil to the Riverside Communities located near the city of Manaus, and with the influences of urban culture have contributed to a new configuration of live of fishermen who live here.
Esta dissertação foi fundamentada numa abordagem cultural dentro da geografia e teve como base de sustentação a fenomenologia que busca por meio da experiência humana, individual, e cultural dar sentido ao espaço percebido tal como ele se apresenta, destacando a intencionalidade da percepção, buscando reconhecer possibilidade metodológica na ciência geográfica centrada na percepção do mundo vivido dos ribeirinhos que vivem na cidade, em particular os pescadores citadinos. Diante deste quadro, também foi valorizada a questão da identidade, pois a (re) significação de um lugar revela-se na existência de uma identidade. Para os povos indígenas a pesca se destacava como uma das principais práticas de subsistência associada às demais atividades extrativistas e agrícolas. Essa herança cultural ainda se faz presente nas Comunidades Ribeirinhas do interior do Estado. Dessa forma, foi buscado compreender o lugar a partir da cultura ribeirinha presente na cidade, quais resistências culturais ainda persistem para aqueles que vieram do interior do Estado do Amazonas e de outros Estados do Brasil para as Comunidades Ribeirinhas localizadas nos arredores da cidade de Manaus, e quais as influências da cultura urbana contribuíram para uma nova configuração dos modos de vida dos pescadores que aqui vivem.

Thesis (Ed.D.)--Teachers College, Columbia University, 1995.
Typescript; issued also on microfilm. Sponsor: William Bean Kennedy. Dissertation Committee: Douglas M. Sloan. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 281-310).

Bengala passou por enormes experiências de desenvolvimento sócio‐cultural, de estabilidade económica e de avanço da literatura e das artes. Durante o reinado Budista, Hindu e do Sultanato, a sociedade foi‐se valorizando e enriquecendo com estes diferentes valores e a amálgama cultural que representaram. Esta coexistência foi evoluindo e as pessoas começaram a dedicar‐se ao comércio, mas foram organizando e reformando a própria sociedade. O verdadeiro "renascimento" desta política económica e cultural Bengali seguiu um determinado caminho entre os possíveis. Para se manter e para proteger o território dos inimigos e de todas as ameaças externas, os “heróis” antigos foram previdentes, desenvolvendo uma forte capacidade em reforçar território fortificado, que designamos por cidade‐fortaleza. Esta tipo de cidade histórica planeada foi implantada, com variações, neste delta Bengali; por isso, os padrões de instalação e ocupação antigos foram observados na sua relação com as margens ribeirinhas e os recursos de água adjacentes e centrados em torno de uma estrutura religiosa. Uma cronologia popular no país ajuda a compreender a formação de um povoado ou de uma cidade. Na era Budista, a comunidade religiosa, o bazar e as vias marítimas eram o ponto central que concentram a mistura de pessoas e nações. Este sítio não foi excepção do delta de Bengali, embora esta tese fosse sinuosa e estivesse no meio de uma grande rede fluvial; os antigos dirigentes face à necessidade de criar sistemas de protecção territorial foram gerando os diversos padrões de assentamento e ocupação, com mega‐estruturas, infraestruturas e uma arquitectura público que se foram tornando os elementos característicos do domínio do espaço. Essas fortalezas ribeirinhas foram organizando padrões de assentamento cujas características variavam em função das percepções estratégicas e da morfologia do sítio; afinal estas foram as cidades do Delta que, além do perfil do rio, muitas vezes dependeram de influências locais e tradicionais. Neste delta Bengal, a cidade podia obedecer a tipos diferentes, mas, no geral, havia um padrão geral de ocupação das cidades que os administradores budistas antigos concebiam com um planejamento estratégico e uma morfologia que ía além da muralha do forte. O objectivo desta investigação é, em primeiro lugar, identificar e analisar a morfologia das antigas cidades‐fortaleza e os padrões de assentamentos em termos das suas estratégias de defesa e da arquitectura que organizava a ligação ao rio da terra Bengali. Em segundo lugar, o contexto e a organização do planeamento e lugar das estruturas fortificadas, abordando‐as numa perspectiva de conjectura, através do trabalho pictográfico e ilustrado. O antigo assentamento e a própria arquitectura de MAHASTHAN, um sítio datado do século VIII AD é um local ideal para essa investigação, dado ser um local de memória, de um espaço evocativo, ter um "sentido de lugar" e, claro, um padrão espacial tradicional flexível em relação as condições regionais e às construção tradicionais deste delta Bengali. Por fim, o estudo irá explorar a imagem (restauração conjectural) da escala da cidade, do espaço, da função e do sentido cultural do próprio bairro da antiga povoação ribeirinha, através da revisão crítica da literatura, do conhecimento das sucessivas escavações arqueológicas e com a ajuda da informação histórica pictográfica. O estudo irá explorar ainda o significado desses antigos assentamentos no subcontinente e a sua transformação em Bengali, focando as estratégias actuais de defesa e a sua manifestação física, bem como o papel que pode ter o Património Digital; Riverine Fortress city of `MAHASTHAN´ in Deltaic Bengal: In search for the traditional settlement pattern of ancient cities Abstract: Bengal had passed through enormous experiences of socio‐cultural development, economical stabilities, advancement in literature and arts. During the reign of Buddhist, Hindu and Sultanate Bengal the society was cherished and enriched with full of values and cultural amalgamation. Co‐existence in the society evolved up and people started occupying time in trade‐transaction and society reformation. The ‘rebirth’ of the Bengali cultural consistency took a way forward to immense possible trails. To remain retain established and to protect the territory from external forces as well as the enemies, the ancient heroes had prepared themselves, besides invented with strong capability to reinforce fortified territory or the fortress city. The historic city planning implanted with different characteristics, and prolonged with variations in this delta land of Bengal. Ancient Bengal was focused with their settlement pattern by the bank of the river or by the watery sources. Settlement in the ancient time used to develop centering a religious structure. Eventually; it is the popular chronology for deriving a hamlet or a town. For the Buddhist era, religious community, bazaar and the maritime route came to focus with the mixture of various people and the nation. Simply, it was no exception for the case of the delta land Bengal, although this mainland is curved and chiseled with cress cross river networks; the ancient heroes contributed outposts for territorial protection and thoroughly generated the pattern of settlement. Mega structures, infrastructures and public welfare architecture were becoming the notion of the domain. That river fort architecture and the settlement patterns had the strategic and morphological characteristics, which got different from other purpose built forts, nonetheless‐was in consistence with the local city context. Bengali riverine fortress cities experienced lots of local and traditional influences only for being the river fort and their settlement around it, stating from the component, elements of forts and formal profile of the river. So, undoubtedly Bengal conceived unique kind of riverine oriented fortress settlement pattern, which has distinct typescripts. Even in the case of this fort formation the ancient Buddhist administrators had some strategic planning, morphology for spread city beyond the fort wall. The objective of the research is firstly to identify and to analyse the morphology of the ancient fortress cities1 and settlements in terms of their defence strategies and river fort architecture of Bengal. Secondly the context and the planning organization and positioning the sites for fortification addressing pictographic and conjectural restoration2 includes ancient city formation through river‐fort architecture in Bengal. The ancient settlement and architecture, dated back 8th Century AD of a specific site of MAHASTHAN would be the intensive area of the research, its memory, space, ‘sense of place’ and the traditional spatial pattern would be the intensive area of the study that would remind flexible towards regional conditions and building tradition as happened in riverine ancient Bengal. Lastly the study will explore the image (conjectural restoration) of the scale of the city, space, function and cultural longing of the neighbourhood pattern of ancient riverine settlement, through the critical literature reviewing, progressive archaeological excavation and by the referencing of historic pictographic information. The study will explore for meaning of ancient settlements in the subcontinent and its transformation in Bengal with a focus on defence strategies and its physical manifestation as well as the Digital Heritage phenomenon.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, Riverside, 2009.
Includes abstract. Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Title from first page of PDF file (viewed March 24, 2010). Includes bibliographical references (p. 310-333). Also issued in print.

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Les plantations d’arbres sont fréquemment employées en milieux riverains pour restaurer les services écologiques de ces milieux fortement dégradés par l’intensification agricole. Néanmoins, les connaissances demeurent fragmentaires quant à la réponse des communautés végétales riveraines aux plantations d’arbres. Cette thèse vise à identifier certains des mécanismes de recolonisation des communautés végétales riveraines après plantation d’arbres en paysages agricoles. Pour cela, quatre questions principales étaient posées, soit : 1) l’intensification agricole réduit-elle le succès de plantation des arbres ?; 2) la plantation d’arbres induit-elle des processus de succession végétale aboutissant au retour de communautés forestières ?; 3) quels processus spatiaux et mécanismes écologiques structurent la diversité végétale riveraine ?; et 4) la disponibilité en lumière, la compétition et les conditions édaphiques sont-elles des filtres écologiques limitant la recolonisation des espèces forestières ? L’augmentation de la fréquence de cultures annuelles dans la parcelle adjacente aux milieux riverains diminuait la survie et la croissance des arbres plantés, témoignant d’un effet négatif de l’intensification agricole sur le succès de plantation des arbres. Toutefois, les arbres induisaient une succession végétale aboutissant avec le temps au retour d’une structure de végétation, d’une abondance des groupes écologiques et d’une composition en espèces similaires à celles des forêts riveraines utilisées comme écosystème de référence. De plus, cette succession végétale correspondait à un modèle de threshold dynamics dans lequel les espèces sciaphiles remplaçaient les héliophiles après le dépassement d’un seuil de disponibilité en lumière. Les processus spatiaux le long des rivières d’amont en aval contribuaient majoritairement à la composition végétale des milieux riverains comparativement aux processus spatiaux bidirectionnels à vol d’oiseau ou le long des rivières. Ces processus spatiaux amont-aval étaient principalement liés aux traits des graines des espèces végétales. En d’autres termes, la dispersion hydrochore est un processus-clef pour la diversité végétale riveraine. Finalement, la recolonisation de deux des trois espèces forestières transplantées en milieux riverains était réduite soit par de faibles niveaux d’ombrage, par la compétition ou par les sols agricoles. Ces avancées scientifiques permettront une meilleure compréhension du fonctionnement des communautés végétales riveraines et une amélioration des pratiques de restauration des milieux riverains en paysages agricoles.
Tree planting is frequently conducted in riparian zones to restore the ecological services of these ecotones widely degraded by agricultural intensification. Nevertheless, little is known about the response of riparian plant communities to tree planting. This Ph.D. thesis aims to identify some important recolonization mechanisms of riparian plant communities after tree planting in agricultural landscapes. Accordingly, four main research questions were raised: 1) does agricultural intensification reduce the establishment success of planted trees?; 2) does tree planting induce a plant succession leading to the re-establishment of plant communities characteristic of natural riparian forests?; 3) which spatial processes and ecological mechanisms structure plant diversity in riparian zones?; 4) do light availability, competition and soil conditions act as ecological filters limiting the recolonization of forest herbs? The increase in cultivation frequency of annual crops in the agricultural field adjacent to riparian zone reduced the survival and growth of planted trees, thereby demonstrating the detrimental impact of agricultural intensification on the establishment success of planted trees. However, trees induced a pattern of plant succession leading to the re-establishment of a vegetation structure, an abundance of ecological groups and a species composition characteristic of natural riparian forests. Furthermore, this type of plant succession corresponded to a model of threshold dynamics in which shade-tolerant species outcompeted light-demanding species after an ecological threshold related to light availability had been crossed. Upstream to downstream spatial processes along rivers, predominantly contributed to the plant composition of riparian zones, more so than bidirectional spatial processes overland or along rivers. These upstream-downstream processes were mostly linked to the traits of plant seeds. In other words, hydrochory was highlighted as a key watershed-scale process driving riparian plant diversity. Finally, the recolonization of two of the three forest herbs transplanted in riparian zones was reduced either by low shade levels, competition or agricultural soil. These scientific discoveries deepen our understanding of the functioning of riparian plant communities in agricultural landscapes, and promote more successful restoration of riparian zones.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, Riverside, 2009.
Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 33-42). Issued in print and online. Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, Riverside, 2010.
Includes abstract. Title from first page of PDF file (viewed May 19, 2010). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Includes bibliographical references. Also issued in print.

The purpose of this project was to design a series of self-directed learning modules for enrollees in the Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program in Riverside County, California. The WIC Program is a supplemental nutrition program that, among other things, provides participants with nutrition education to help them understand the health benefits of choosing more nutritious food. This project features information concerning the problem of food insecurity, the nutrition education of low-income women and children in the WIC program, and the characteristics of adult learners. The objective was to examine the WIC participants' comprehension and willingness to use self-directed learning modules as a nutrition education supplement.

The purpose of this study was to explore the patterns of utilization of mental health services in the Latino community. Fifty male and female adult Latinos in the general population of San Bernardino County and Riverside County were surveyed. The questionnaire consisted of demographic information and information on beliefs and attitudes about subjects' help seeking behaviors.

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The objective of this research is to shed a light over how the Cultural Environment composed by several occupation scenarios of cultural landscapes of the Brazilian Amazon river channels was formed. The environment, which is formed by a group of physical and cultural manifestations, reflects the result of intangible assets, such as traditional knowledge and practices of the communities that live or have once lived there, leaving behind edifications, objects, utensils, archeological sites, etc. The culture of native dwellers, as many other societies in the national territory, results from a long-term process of Amazon occupation by a diversitiy of cultural identities. However, recent transformations affecting the Brazilian Amazon, due to a globalized and more competitive economy, consider the implantation of major projects that entail social and political contradictions emerging from the relationship between State and society. Facing this scenario, it is imperative that this landscape be analysed in an integrated manner, taking into account the social diversity and not just the existing traditional societies, as well as the organized civil society, the landowners communitary leaderships, local state governments, companies and their different onlooks regarding the subject, thus enabling and promoting the Territory Management. As for the premisses mentioned above, we face a methodological challenge, especially regarding the application of concepts of Territory Management and Resilience to the traditional communities envolved, aiming at obtaining results that will leverage sustentainable actions, not only from the social and cultural point of view, but also from the economical and political standpoint. In the light of this challenge we will highlight research carried out by Brazilian research programs in the cultural environment of some communities living along the Brazilian Amazon rivers. Mapping of their built, historical and cultural heritage, the sum of testimonies and involvement of local communities, including their way of life and traditional knowledge, technical and specialized analyses that will eventually lead to the interpretation of the cultural landscape the Applied Science.
Este trabalho tem o objetivo de refletir a conformação do meio ambiente cultural1 composto pelos diversos cenários de ocupação das paisagens culturais das calhas dos rios da bacia amazônica brasileira a soma do envolvimento transdisciplinar entre as diferentes áreas do conhecimento envolvidas, em especial, dos saberes e práticas tradicionais transmitidos através da participação de atores sociais e representantes das comunidades ali inseridas. Formado por um conjunto de manifestações físicas e culturais, o meio ambiente reflete a somatória de ativos intangíveis, como saberes e práticas tradicionais das comunidades que ali vivem ou viveram, materializados através de edificações, objetos e utensílios, entre outros. A cultura do Caboclo Ribeirinho2, como muitas outras sociedades do território nacional, é resultante de um processo de longa duração da ocupação amazônica por uma diversidade de identidades culturais. Todavia, transformações recentes no território da Amazônia brasileira, no contexto de uma economia globalizada e mais competitiva, consideram a implantação de grandes projetos que implicam em contradições sociais e políticas que emergiriam desta relação entre estado e sociedade. Em vista este cenário, se torna intrínseca a análise da paisagem de uma maneira integrada, considerando as diversas sociedades. Não apenas aquelas sociedades tradicionais ali existentes como também a sociedade civil organizada, as lideranças comunitárias dos proprietários de terra, dos governos locais estaduais, das empresas, e seus olhares diferenciados sobre o tema. Diante das premissas acima citadas nos deparamos com um desafio metodológico. Especialmente no que diz respeito à aplicação dos conceitos de gestão de território e resiliência3 junto às comunidades tradicionais envolvidas, visando obter resultados capazes de alavancar ações sustentáveis do ponto de vista não apenas social e cultural, mas também, econômico e político. À luz deste desafio serão ressaltados trabalhos realizados por programas de pesquisa no Brasil no meio ambiente cultural de algumas regiões ribeirinhas da Amazônia brasileira. O levantamento do seu patrimônio edificado, histórico e cultural a somatória dos depoimentos e envolvimento das comunidades locais. Da vivência dos seus modos de vida e saberes tradicionais, às análises técnicas e especializadas para então interpretação da paisagem a ciência aplicada.

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Esta tese, intitulada Currículo da Escola Ribeirinha da Amazônia e a Produção da Identidade Cultural dos Docentes e Alunos das Classes Multisseriadas do Ensino Fundamental, tem como problema de pesquisa: quais as implicações da organização do currículo das escolas ribeirinhas na produção da identidade cultural dos docentes e discentes? Seu objetivo principal é analisar as implicações da organização do currículo das unidades escolares Maria da Silva Mendes e Jarbas Amorim Cavalcante na produção da identidade cultural dos alunos (a) e professores (a) do primeiro ao sexto anos do ensino fundamental, no município de Mazagão-Amapá. Este estudo faz uma reflexão sobre a questão do currículo e da identidade cultural, articulando fundamentos teóricos de: Stuart Hall (1997), (2003), (2005) e Foucault (1981), (1988), (1990), além de outros pesquisadores que investigam sobre a referida temática. Esses focalizam direta ou indiretamente o que perpassa nos ambientes escolares, indicam as teorias que influenciam historicamente a prática social e educacional, as novas abordagens desse contexto e as relações que ocorrem no processo educativo. Os currículos foram analisados como discursos, tendo como foco a perspectiva foucaultiana. Por meio das entrevistas e dos documentos analisados, é possível verificar que os docentes e discentes investem na produção do currículo alicerçado nas identidades e diferenças culturais. Os discursos são processados por meio do currículo oficial como o Projeto Sistema Modular de Ensino, Diretriz Curricular Estadual e o livro didático, porém deslizam através do trabalho de recriação dos professores de Língua Portuguesa, História e Ciências que contribuem para garantir a identidade cultural dos ribeirinhos vivida no Lago do Ajuruxi, na Reserva Extrativista Rio Cajari. Nesse território não há identidade fixa, mas a produção de variadas identidades que se entrelaçam entre o currículo urbano e o currículo subjetivo vivenciado na educação do campo.
This thesis, titled Amazon Riverside School Curriculum in the Cultural Identity Production of Teachers and Students from the Multiseriated Elementary School Classes, has as research question: what are the implications of riverside schools‘ curriculum organization in the production of cultural identity of teachers and students?Its main objective is to analyze the implications of curriculum organization from the school units Maria da Silva Mendes and Jarbas Amorim Cavalcante in the cultural identity production of students and teachers from first to sixth grades from elementary school in the city of Mazagão-Amapá.This study does a reflection about the issue of curriculum and cultural identity, articulating theoretical foundations of Stuart Hall (1997), (2003), (2005) and Foucault (1981), (1988), (1990), and other researchers that investigate the same theme.These directly or indirectly focus on what goes through the school environments, indicate the theories that historically influence the social and educational practice, new approaches in that context and the relations that occur in the educational process. The curriculums were analyzed as speeches, focusing on Foucault's perspective. Through the interviews and documents examined, it is possible to ascertain that teachers and students invest in the production of curriculum grounded on the cultural identity and in its differences.The speeches are processed through the official curriculum as the Modular Teaching System Project, the State Curriculum Guidelines and the textbook, but slip to the work of re-creation of Portuguese Language, History and Sciences teachers that contribute to ensure cultural identity lived bythe riverside on the Lake Ajuruxi in Extractive Reserve Rio Cajari.In this territory there is no fixed identity, but the production of various identities that intertwine between urban curriculum and the subjective curriculum experiencedin the education field.

This project begins by examining living history, defining its scope, uses, and relationship to other fields. It further defines and articulates a second-person methodology for construction of living history educational projects, grounding it in historical, educational, and dramatic theory.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, Riverside, 2010.
Includes abstract. Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Title from first page of PDF file (viewed May 19, 2010). Includes bibliographical references. Also issued in print.

Les politiques de gestion des risques appellent à favoriser la prévention et à développer une « une culture du risque » dans les zones exposées afin d'éviter l'écueil de l'oubli, pointé du doigt après une catastrophe. L'objet de cette thèse fut de questionner cette possibilité en investiguant comment on habite, au quotidien, un milieu exposé aux inondations. Forte d'un travail ethnographique, et en particulier d'une « observation habitante discrète », la thèse questionne ce qui circule à propos des inondations, comment des habitants s'emparent de la question et organisent leurs pratiques en fonction des risques. Le terrain d'étude, Lattes, ville prisée du Sud-est de la France qui a connue une explosion démographique récente, est rendue attractive par de nombreux atouts. Ce cas d'étude permet de comprendre les mécanismes - collectivement construits - de mise en invisibilité du danger. La mise en visibilité des mesures de protection par les politiques locaux et l'effet confortant du partage normatif encouragent la normalisation de la confiance en la protection. Dans l'interaction, les énoncés se formulant sans cesse dans le souci de leur acceptabilité, dédramatiser est plus confortable que de dramatiser : les énoncés de relativisation du risque circulent davantage que ceux ouvrant sur l'horizon du danger. Par ailleurs, la logique sécuritaire qui se développe vient contredire la prévention aux inondations. Surtout, ni les liens entre les habitants ni les liens des habitants au milieu ne fournissent le socle suffisant à l'élaboration collective que nécessite le déploiement d'une « culture du risque »
Risk management policies promote prevention and call to develop a "risk culture" in hazardous areas to avoid the phenomenon of forgetting about risk , that can be found after a disaster. This thesis has sought to question this possibility by investigating how we live, in everyday life, in flood-prone areas. Through an ethnographic piece of work, in particular a "discreet resident observation", the thesis questions what circulates about flooding between inhabitants and how they organize their practices in relation to the risk. The field study, Lattes, is an upper middle-class suburban neighbourhood located in the south east of France (Mediterranean coast). It was built on wetlands and therefore remains vulnerable to flash floods. This case study provides insight into the mechanisms - built collectively - from "invisible danger" implementation. The increased visibility of the protection made by local policies and the comforting effect of normative sharing provided a normalization of the trust in the protection. Through the interactions, statements are continually developed in the interests of their acceptability. Thus, it is more comfortable to "de-dramatize" than to dramatize: statements of relativism circulate more than the ones that open on the horizon of danger. Moreover, the current development of a "logic of safety" for urban risks reduction contradicts the prevention of flooding. Above all, neither the links between inhabitants nor the links with their living environment provide a sufficient collective development base for a "risk culture" deployment

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In this study, Theological Ethics detains itself to the analysis of Amazon s reality and its problems, perceiving the disharmony and the forms of threats to nature, and offers answers from concrete practices of the riverside cultural system. In this cultural system, shaped by the corpus mithorum, by folklore, by the way of life, by the means of relating to nature and by the forms of utilization of the means of resources for subsistence, is found strength for the preservation of nature, whose defensive potential is analyzed in the light of Theological Ethics. The first chapter pursues a historical description of the occupation of the Amazon, since the first intervention by the European conqueror and the process of assimilation by which the population went through and is going through. The second chapter is preoccupied in describing and analyzing the Amazon mythology, perceiving its role in the lives of the population, their way of manifestation and their configuration in the life of the riverside population, recognizing the potential for defense of the environment present in it. The third chapter deepens the ethical-theological reflection of the cultural manifestations of daily life motivated by myths, perceiving the ethical attitudes present there and the forms of defense of the environment suggested in them. The present study adds to the current theological, ecological and ethical debate, offering theoretical bases for the promotion of alternatives for the harmony between nature and man, development with preservation, sustainability and conservation of the natural, social and cultural heritage, aiming at perspectives with which man assumes the alliance made with God and with creation, proclaiming the promotion of justice and solidarity as indispensable ethical values
Neste estudo, a Ética Teológica se detém na análise da realidade da Amazônia e seus problemas, percebendo a desarmonia e as formas de ameaças à natureza e oferece respostas à partir de práticas concretas do sistema cultural dos ribeirinhos. Nesse sistema cultural formado pelo corpus mithorum, pelo folclore, pelo modo de vida, pela maneira de se relacionar com a natureza e pelas formas de utilização dos recursos naturais para a subsistência, é encontrada uma força de preservação da natureza, cujo potencial defensivo é analisado à luz da Ética Teológica. O primeiro capítulo faz um resgate histórico da ocupação da Amazônia, desde a primeira intervenção do conquistador europeu e o processo de assimilação pelo qual a população passou e está passando. O segundo capítulo se preocupa em descrever e analisar a mitologia amazônica fazendo perceber a sua função na vida das populações, seu modo de se manifestar e sua configuração na vida do ribeirinho, percebendo o potencial de defesa do meio ambiente nela presente. O terceiro capítulo aprofunda a reflexão ético-teológica das manifestações culturais do cotidiano motivadas pelos mitos, percebendo as atitudes éticas nelas presentes e as formas de defesa do meio ambiente nelas sugeridas. O presente estudo soma-se assim ao atual debate teológico, ecológico e ético, oferecendo bases teóricas para o fomento de alternativas em vista da harmonia entre natureza e homem, desenvolvimento com preservação, sustentabilidade e conservação do patrimônio natural, social e cultural, apontando perspectivas para que o homem assuma a aliança feita com Deus e com a criação, pregando a promoção da justiça e solidariedade como valores éticos indispensáveis

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, Riverside, 2009.
Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 430-465). Issued in print and online. Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations.

In light of the increase of Hispanic Immigrants (i.e 1st, 2nd, 3rd generation) in the U.S. workforce and the impact that the quality of the leader-member exchange has on the organization's success, this study investigated the quality of the relationship that emerges between hispanic subordinates and Anglo-American leaders (i.e who are most representative of the U.S. dominant culture).

The study of culture in wild animals has received wide theoretical and empirical attention, providing preliminary evidence of at least rudimentary culture across a broad range of taxa. However, the majority of previous studies of animal cultural behavior have focused on demonstrating the existence of behavioral variants across study sites, armed only with an assumption that ecological and genetic alternatives are unlikely to sufficiently explain observed geographic variation in behavior. Moreover, previous studies have reported the presence of behavioral variation at the level of the population, without first confirming the presence of such variation in individual repertoires, which could create artificial patterns within or between populations.

Using more rigorous methods than previous studies, I examined rarely tested alternatives to field-based claims of cultural repertoire variation based on ecological heterogeneity and genetic variation. This dissertation relies on a natural experiment to compare two wild orangutan populations. Sungai Lading, a previously unstudied, high-density population of wild Pongo pygmaeus wurmbii, was compared to Tuanan, a P.p.wurmbii population separated from Sungai Lading by an impassable river barrier, but ranging in a broadly similar habitat. Preliminary genetics results indicate that at least some individuals from both sites cluster in the same mitochondrial subclade and that low levels of gene flow must have occurred between the two sites. Even after applying rigorous controls for variation in sampling intensity for individual orangutans, several differences in innovative behaviors exhibited at each site were identified, many of which occurred in the nesting context.

The orangutan is a model taxon for such an investigation, because wild populations exhibit a wide range of sociality, which has been linked to opportunities for social learning. Comparisons between the Tuanan and Sungai Lading populations indicated that cultural variants observed at only one site clustered significantly by population, although only dietary differences were unique at both sites. Orangutans at Sungai Lading maintain significantly lower rates of female-female association and lower individual repertoire sizes of putative cultural variants, a result that is consistent with the possibility that the orangutans of Sungai Lading may have reduced opportunities for social learning as a result of severe population compression, which could constrain opportunities for cultural transmission of key innovative behaviors.

From a broader perspective, the patterns revealed in this study strongly suggest that the last common ancestor of Homo and Pongo shared culturally modified behavior. They further suggest that the extent of cumulative cultural behavior in humans may surpass that of orangutans as a result of lost opportunities for social transmission, owing to varying degrees of limited association among group members.

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