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

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This dissertation considers the place in anthropology of ‘production’ generally, and ‘engineering’ specifically, by asking the simple question: How do people make things? Scholars of material culture have until recently focused on issues of consumption, especially the consumption of commodities (Miller), and considered production only in the abstract. Other theoretical approaches are therefore drawn upon to act as a framework for the thesis, including network theory (Law and Latour), and environmental relationism (Ingold). A methodology of ‘parallel fieldwork’ was developed (from Bourdieu), to

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Brown, Jacqueline. "Oral Health Disparities Across Racial/Ethnic Groups." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2012. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/37.

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Oral health disparities persist across various sociodemographic groups in the United States. Data were obtained from the 2007-2008 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey(NHANES)to investigate differences in tooth count, self-rated condition of teeth, decay in at least one tooth, and ownership of dentures across racial/ethnic groups.

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Mitchell, Eleonore. "Pre-Lent Celebrations: Shrovetide & Carnival." TopSCHOLAR®, 1988. https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/2661.

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The history of pre-Lent celebrations is traced through the presentation, comparison, and evaluation of the main theses of origin held by Shrovetide and Carnival scholars. It is determined that the question whether the festivals are of pagan or Christian origin is not important for the analysis of their present-day significance. Their vitality stems first of all from the general importance of celebration for humans to define themselves in a setting in which they can perform, act, and behave in non-traditional ways that cannot be transferred to everyday life. However, the festivals' uniqueness c

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Rushing, Jon. "Horsetrading: An East Texas Study in Establishing Context." TopSCHOLAR®, 1991. https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/2788.

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Scholarship to date on the subject of horsetrading and horsetraders has been primarily narrative collections with a minimum of attention paid to the cultural context within which the horsetrader lives and works. This thesis focuses on the lives and dealings of several horsetraders in a five county region in middle to southern east Texas. Beginning with a discussion of the merits and failings of existing scholarship, I outline the historical background leading to the unique regional context and strong sense of independence in my area of study. A combination of early isolation, radical economic

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Gaylord, Wendy A. "Reformasi and teachers' implementation of civic education in West Sumatra, Indonesia." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2008. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3344624.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Educational Leadership & Policy Studies, 2008.<br>Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on Oct 30, 2009). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-02, Section: A, page: 0527. Adviser: Margaret Sutton.

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Perin, Jodi R. "Educational travel for societal change: An exploration of popular education along the Mexico-United States border." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/278807.

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During the past few decades, anthropologists have become increasingly interested in how different cultural frameworks come together. One opportunity to view such interactions is presented by travel seminars based on a transformative education model, which aim to educate middle-class people about conditions in economically depressed areas through travel. The task of this thesis is to examine the experiences of U.S. participant groups in one transformative education program, paying particular attention to interpersonal contact, both within groups and between them and local people, and to how par

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Hunt, B. Joby. "Place-based consciousness and social transformation| Perspectives from Flagstaff, Arizona's STEM City." Thesis, Northern Arizona University, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1594170.

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<p> Since WWII, the United States has experienced unprecedented economic growth and global expansion through the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Today, STEM technological innovations permeate many aspects of the social experience, from education to career to home-life, contributing to a pervasive technocratic ideology emphasizing global U.S. economic and political superiority. Many sectors of American society now tout STEM initiatives as a premium for U.S. education, contributing to the neoliberal model of producing effective, efficient, and skilled laborer

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Margaris, Amy Vlassia. "Meat and potatoes: recipes for a range of egalitarianism in three hunter-gatherer societies." Oberlin College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 1996. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1316173721.

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Lucas, William A. "Dynamics of Food Consumption in a Q'eqchi' Maya Community." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10604462.

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<p> This thesis examines how a nutrition transition effects identity, locality, and economy in a Q’eqchi’ Maya <i>aldea</i> (hamlet) near Livingston, Guatemala, located along the Caribbean coast. The data collected explore community members’ attitudes and behaviors regarding food consumption, food sources, and health—both individual and familial. This thesis examines the structuralist categories community members created within a larger discussion of the effects of globalization and economic development on indigenous communities. Analysis explored how external processed

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Solano, Maria Schelle. "Art, Commerce, and Social Transformation: Public Art And the Marketing of Philadelphia." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2012. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/184817.

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Anthropology<br>Ph.D.<br>The field site for this US-based ethnography is the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The overwhelming presence of murals in the urban landscape calls into question how these figurative wall-sized paintings improve the lives and neighborhoods in which these paintings are found. With Philadelphia suffering the consequences of deindustrialization and neoliberal globalization, characterized by high poverty and inequality, and consistently low rankings in quality of life indicators by the national media, what role do murals play in change? Do murals mask urban problems b

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Wilson, Victoria Arriola. "The Social Organization of the Hip Hop Graffiti Subculture." W&M ScholarWorks, 1995. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626015.

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Stansberry, Donna W. "Burial practices in Southern Appalachia." [Johnson City, Tenn. : East Tennessee State University], 2004. http://etd-submit.etsu.edu/etd/theses/available/etd-1112104-101034/unrestricted/StansberryD112404f.pdf.

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Thesis (M.A.L.S.)--East Tennessee State University, 2004.<br>Title from electronic submission form. ETSU ETD database URN: etd-1112104-101034 Includes bibliographical references. Also available via Internet at the UMI web site.

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Boyd, Varna G. "A Reflection to Life: A Social and Economic Study of Cedar Grove Cemetery, Williamsburg, Va." W&M ScholarWorks, 1988. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625440.

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Heitert, Kristen Barbara. "Social Science, Serving Bowls and the Question of Ethnicity: Deconstructing Material Culture Correlates of Ethnic Identification." W&M ScholarWorks, 1998. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626159.

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Jucker, Jean-Luc. "Ambiguous artefacts : towards a cognitive anthropology of art." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2012. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:0c90f23e-7f20-45b7-b9fd-f66dbdfaa3ab.

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This thesis proposes elements for a cognitive anthropology of visual art. Most works of art are human-made objects that cannot be approached in purely functional terms, and as such they frustrate important cognitive expectations that people have about artefacts. For this reason, it is hypothesised that art triggers speculation about the artist’s intention, and that it is intuitively approached as a form of communication. By application of Bloom’s (1996) theory of artefact categorisation, and Sperber and Wilson’s (1986/1995) relevance theory of communication, a series of predictions are generat

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Perez, David M. "Native Subordination Through The Franciscan Institutions During The Sixteenth Century." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2015. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/189.

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My thesis, building on over two centuries of scholarly research on colonialism and evangelism in Mexico, seeks to heighten the visibility of the Franciscan order in New Spain. I intend to clearly establish how the Virgin de Guadalupe’s influence on native conversions was mediated through, and controlled by, the Franciscan institutional systems between 1523 and 1572. Many scholars have argued that the most influential factor in converting the Nahua populations was the apparition of the Virgin de Guadalupe, in 1533. These scholars have argued that at the time of her appearance the conversion of

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Indalecio, Agnes Rose Espinosa. "Policies and practices of Chamorro cultural narratives in the community and schools of Guam." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/284054.

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In this study, I use aspects of ethnography to explore the role of cultural narratives in the educational experiences and daily life of the Chamorro people. The major method of collecting the data used in this study included official documents, interviews, and written surveys. These different sets of data collection allowed me to cross-check the data to triangulate the evidence and to refine and validate the study. The Chamorro culture and language still exist. However, the majority of homes are practicing an Americanized lifestyle because of the influences from the United States since their i

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Noack, Kelsey J. ""The Coffee House (Where I Occasionally Sometimes Go)": Examining Diversity in the Urban Meat Diet of Williamsburg in the Mid-Eighteenth Century." W&M ScholarWorks, 2009. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626587.

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Taft, Ann. "At the Spiritual Grassroots: An Analysis of Visionary Art & Artists." TopSCHOLAR®, 1986. https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/2896.

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In this thesis I focus on an art form alternately described as "naive," "visionary," "environmental," "singular," "individual," or "grassroots." Not easily placed within established academic or popular art categories, such art usually lands by default in the folk art pile and is quickly cast to the peripheries of that genre. In this thesis, I am not concerned with inventing another label for these artists and their work. Instead, I explore the possibility that visionary art may be a separate genre, but one to which folklore analysis may usefully be brought to bear. Chapter One is a historical

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MacKay-Tisbert, Tully. "Continuities of violence and vulnerability| An ethnographic study of supportive housing for the homeless." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1527984.

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<p> Research on homelessness has tended to be divided theoretically between looking at personal pathology and emphasizing structural forces, but both have focused on street and shelter life. While there is a growing consensus in Anthropology that research should place homelessness within structural context, homelessness continues to be framed within the discourse of medicalization. This discourse continues into supportive housing programs for the formerly homeless, an area that has not yet been focused on much in research.</p><p> Based on ethnographic research conducted at Lamp Community in

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Zwolinski, Mary. "Displays of Culture: Personal Museums in Wisconsin." TopSCHOLAR®, 1988. https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/2958.

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Fieldwork was undertaken in the state of Wisconsin to document and interpret privately owned and displayed collections. Collections were comprised of various types of objects, most commonly artworks created and/or collected by the collection owners. These collections often take on an environmental scope, occupying private spheres such as collection owners' homes or outbuildings. An examination of environmental type collections that are housed in bars was also undertaken. Collections of this specific type are culturally and locally significant. The objects in the collections and the collection

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Cartwright, Elizabeth 1959. "Malignant emotions: Indigenous perceptions of environmental, social and bodily dangers in Mexico." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/282765.

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This dissertation is based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in San Pedro Amuzgos, Oaxaca and on La Coasta Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico. In it I trace the movements of migrant farmworkers who come from southern Mexico to work in the grape fields of Sonora. Within that context of movement and change, I focus on understanding how illnesses are perceived and how they are healed. First I explore this issue, in depth, in their homeplace in rural Oaxaca. I follow specific illness events among residents of Amuzgos and I allow individuals actions and their reflections on those actions act as a correct

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Ruff, Joseph. "Country Music in the Northeast: Two Careers." TopSCHOLAR®, 1993. https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/2792.

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Although country music and its antecedents have received attention primarily as cultural phenomena of the South, the past twenty years have witnessed a growing scholarly interest in the interplay between commercial country music, vernacular components. and performers within a regional context. The commercial product which has now attained worldwide appeal undoubtedly sustains a significant relationship to the folkways and regional identity of the South; nonetheless, performers and vernacular styles from other areas of the country have contributed to the development of country music. Most impor

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Sawyer, Heather Jan. "PRECARITY IN PARADISE: TOURISM, MIGRATION, AND THE BROADER CAUSES OF INSTABILITY IN ROATÁN, HONDURAS." UKnowledge, 2018. https://uknowledge.uky.edu/anthro_etds/35.

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Since the 1990s, the population on the Honduran island of Roatán has grown from around 20,000 (mostly English-speaking Islanders) to roughly 100,000 residents (at least half of which are native Spanish-speaking Ladinos from the Honduran mainland) (Bay Islands Voice 2014b). This population growth has occurred alongside increasing forms of economic and environmental precarity that have fueled widespread instability on the island. While ethnic tensions between Ladinos and Islanders have existed since colonial times, conflict between the groups reached a crescendo in 2014 after the murder of a cru

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McPheron-Alex, Theda 1954. "Predisposing cultural factors among American Indian populations related to cancer occurrence." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/278545.

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Cancer during the twentieth century has become a major universal health concern. The American Indian population, too, has experienced both a dramatic rise in cancer rates and different patterns of cancer among tribal groups. The purpose of this thesis is to discuss various factors including culture that impact cancer in American Indian populations. A literature review that provides cancer data, including rates, risk factors, and American Indian responses to cancer is presented in the opening chapters. In addition, results of a qualitative exploratory research involving a sample from the Pasqua

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Navarro, Barnard Doris Graziela. "The role of social capital in household economy and landuse/ land-cover change in areas of land reform in Santarem, Brazilian Amazon." Thesis, Indiana University, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3615618.

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<p> This dissertation investigates the relationship between community structure and social dynamics and farmers' livelihood and land-use decisions in settlements of land reform in the Brazilian Amazon. Using social capital theory, it addresses the following questions: How can social capital be conceptualized in areas of land reform in the Amazon region and how does it change over time? What is the role of local organizations in community formation and development in colonization areas of the Amazon region? How has settlement design influenced farmers' participation in local organizations? How

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Pereira, de Miranda Damiana. "Depression across cultures: The construction of depressive disturbances in greater Sao Paulo, Brazil." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/283982.

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Described since the beginning of medicine and considered to be the oldest mental illness, depression is understood as a mood, symptom, syndrome and mental disease. It affects a large number of individuals, mainly women during their productive period, in different cultural environments. World Health officials suggest that over 200 million individuals worldwide are affected by one of the forms of depression. Epidemiological and biological studies have revealed the close relationship between depression and several factors, including sex, age, social environment, personality, and genetics. They ut

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Baily, Heather Rose. "The Digital Labor Ward: Teleconsultation in Rural Ghana." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1586514278335033.

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Nyonator, John Paul. "Informal Knowledge and Biomedicine: Ghanaian Assemblages." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/28666.

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The field study took place in Dzodze, Ghana, over a period of 4 months in 2009. The data was collected through semi directed interviews and ethnography. The aim of this study was to investigate how localized practices provide a lens to gain larger insights into national and transnational politics of healing and knowledge. Precisely, how are current relationships between informal healers and biomedical practitioners performed in the everyday life of Dzodze, Ghana? The results of the study indicate no direct or institutionalized collaboration between biomedical practitioners and healers, however

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Morris, Traci Lynn 1965. "Interpreting our own: Native peoples redefining museum education." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/278608.

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For my Master of Arts in American Indian Studies at the University of Arizona I have done a comparative analysis of the Docent program's at the Arizona State Museum and the National Museum of the American Indian. A docent program or guided tour program, is part of educational programing at each museum. In order to fully understand and appreciate objects in a museum, especially those in exhibits dealing with Native Americans, requires interpretation. The guided tour is one of the most popular interpretive techniques. In this particular study, I focus on the use of storytelling as an interpretiv

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Chrostowsky, MaryBeth. "THE EFFECTS OF MIGRATION ON GENDER NORMS AND RELATIONS: THE POST-REPATRIATION EXPERIENCE IN BOR, SOUTH SUDAN." UKnowledge, 2013. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/anthro_etds/5.

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My dissertation research was a 14-month ethnographic study of the post-repatriation experience of forced migrants in South Sudan. It was designed to determine if alterations to gender norms and relations that refugees experienced during asylum differed as a function of the asylum environments and if these modifications remained intact upon the refugees’ return. The forced migrants in my sample, the Dinka of Bor from South Sudan, encountered two different asylum environments and experiences: Kakuma refugee camp in northern Kenya and Khartoum, in northern Sudan. After 10-15 years in asylum, thes

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Champion, Deborah. "Quicksand Craft Center: Documentation & Analysis of a Handweaving Program in Vest, Kentucky." TopSCHOLAR®, 1989. https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/2217.

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Data on the handweaving program at the Quicksand Craft Center in the Appalachian Mountains of Eastern Kentucky were compiled and analyzed. Four areas--history of the craft program, business organization and financial structure, weave patterns of goods woven and sold by the craft center, and weavers employed in the program --were examined to assess the success of the program in the local community. Factors in the four areas examined contributed to the success of the program. The benevolence, perseverance, and co-operation of the founders, directors and community members involved with the craft

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Hutson, Sydney Nicole. "Understanding Social, Legal, Economic, and Spatial Barriers to Healthcare Access in El Paso County, Texas Colonias| An Examination of Structural Violence Using Mixed Methods." Thesis, University of Colorado at Denver, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10276261.

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<p> Healthcare access is a highly reported problem for immigrant populations in the United States, especially for Hispanic migrants at the US-Mexico border. This statement holds particularly true for populations living in unincorporated communities known as <i>colonias</i> in the borderland region. Residents of a <i>colonia</i> are estimated to suffer from preventable or treatable illnesses including tuberculosis, hepatitis A, cholera, hypertension, type 2 diabetes, depression, substance abuse, among other health problems, at two to four times the national average (Matthiesen 1997; Anders et a

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Gaizauskaite, Evelina. "Dancing Samba in Sweden : A study on transnational cultural expression." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Nordiska Latinamerikainstitutet, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-194486.

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In Sweden, samba - the popular Brazilian dance (and music genre), that has been named the“national rhythm” - is very widely known and practiced. This case study envelops questions about national cultures, cultural embodiment in dance, as well as cross-border relations. It aims to observe in what distinct ways, regarding these multiple facets of the topic, Brazilian culture can be expressed through samba in a foreign country so culturally different and geographically distant from the country of origin. The study focuses on samba no pé, a samba style popularized and mostly danced in Rio de Janei

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Jenkins, Gregory Kendall. "The Altered Mobile Home: A Stationary Image of Work and Value." TopSCHOLAR®, 1990. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/1712.

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As the medium cost of conventional housing rises, many people unable to incur such an expense look for alternative forms of adequate housing. In rural areas surrounding Bowling Green, Kentucky, several families have utilized the mobile home as a base to expand, embellish, and personalize, creating a larger more conventional-looking home. Many of these altered homes possess gabled roofs, rock exterior walls, and expansive interior space. Of primary concern is: why have these families undertaken a project of this nature? As material culture scholars and folklorists examine our built environment,

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Berry, Chad. "Folk Custom as a Barometer of Social Change in a Tennessee Community." TopSCHOLAR®, 1988. https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/2146.

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Using the techniques of oral history, residents of the Cypress Creeks area of southwestern middle Tennessee were questioned about their perceptions of the social change since 1940. In that year, the National Park Service hired men in the area to help snake out logs for the Natchez Trace Parkway's right-of-way. For most men in the area, the temporary positions on the Trace were the first "public" jobs they ever had. After these positions were no longer needed, outmigration brought residents north to factory-cities; thus, the building of the parkway remains a watershed in residents' memories as

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Rooney, Matthew Peter. "Investigating Alternative Subsistence Strategies among the Homeless Near Tampa, Florida." Scholar Commons, 2016. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/6137.

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Modern homelessness is one of the most pressing social and political problems of our time. Several hundred thousand people experience homelessness in the United States each year, and the U.S. Department of Housing, which attempts to count those people, has admitted that their statistics are conservative estimates at best. A recent archaeological study (Zimmerman et al 2010) examining material culture associated with homeless communities in Indianapolis has suggested that those who are considered chronically homeless have generally abandoned wage labor and are instead pursuing urban foraging as

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Hester, ElizaBeth. "Vadie Williams, Folk Artist: Drawnwork as a Reflection of Personal Identity in Rural Kentucky." TopSCHOLAR®, 1989. https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/2491.

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This study focuses on Vadie Conner Williams, an individual folk artist, and the drawnwork she has created throughout her lifetime. Included is a description of her rural farm background, her needlework skills and her creative process. The study also examines the significance of drawnwork to Williams and determines how she has adapted her work to satisfy her personal needs as well as the needs of her customers. Based on tape recorded interviews and a close examination of her work, the study concludes that drawnwork is an integral part of Williams's everyday life; it is an indicator of her belie

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Aarons, Derrick. "Palliative care, ethics, and the Jamaican paradigm." Thesis, McGill University, 1996. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=23764.

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Palliative care provides symptom control, social, psychological and spiritual care for terminally ill patients, and psycho-social support and bereavement care for their families. Ethics is the study of rational processes for determining the best course of action between conflicting values and choices. All medicine is practiced within a defined cultural setting and local beliefs about health and illness may determine particular solutions to ethical problems.<br>Culturo-religious beliefs and practices in Jamaica are linked historically to its people's African ancestry and to the syncretism of Eu

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Sesia, Paola Maria. "Confronting neoliberalism: Food security and nutrition among indigenous coffee-growers in Oaxaca, Mexico." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/280204.

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This dissertation analyzes the social history and current struggles of Analco and Santa Cecilia, two Chinantec peasant localities of Oaxaca, Mexico, which experienced the boom and bust years of coffee agriculture subject to the vagaries of the global market for this cash crop. It examines the last twenty-five years of State interventions toward the Indian peasantry, focusing especially on current neoliberal economic and social policies, to reveal how they have affected local well-being and livelihood strategies. In the course of describing food security and nutrition, I show how Analqueno and

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Tornatore, Jean-Louis. "Dans le temps. Pour une socio-anthropologie politique du passé-présent : patrimoine, mémoire, culture, etc." Habilitation à diriger des recherches, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), 2010. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00784902.

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...Non décidément, il est toujours, et peut-être plus que jamais, utile de défendre un point de vue dont l'affirmation d'évidence, à l'instar d'un monument, nuirait à la visibilité. On a vite fait de vous enfermer dans une nuit anthropologique où tous les chats sont gris. Ce travail, contre lequel je n'ai cessé de pester jusqu'à ce que j'en mette le point final au motif qu'il était artificiel et ronflant et m'empêchait d'occuper le congé de recherche que m'a octroyé mon université à faire ce dont notre métier d'enseignant-chercheur-agent administratif nous prive de plus en plus : lire, est don

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Hickler, Benjamin Hallam. "Epidemic oversight: Emerging infections and rural livelihoods in the Mekong." Diss., Search in ProQuest Dissertations & Theses. UC Only, 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:3390047.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, San Francisco with the University of California, Berkeley, 2009.<br>Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 71-02, Section: A, page: . Adviser: Vincanne Adams.

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Harbury, Katharine E. "Colonial Virginia's Cooking Dynasty: Women's Spheres and Culinary Arts." W&M ScholarWorks, 1994. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625865.

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Malakasis, Cynthia H. "Immigration and Nationalism in Greece." FIU Digital Commons, 2013. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/1280.

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A source of emigration until the early 1970s, Greece has become home to a rising tide of immigrants since 1991, and its foreign-born population rose from below one to over 11 percent. Equally important is the fact that the Greek state has historically premised national belonging on ethnicity, and striven to exclude people who did not exhibit Greek ethnic traits. My study examines how immigration has challenged this nationalist model of ethnically homogeneous belonging. Further, it uses the Greek case to problematize the hegemonic assumption that the nationalist model of social organization is

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Kelly, Tara B. "Plants, power, possibility : maneuvering the medical landscape in response to chronic illness and uncertainty." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:7d502bb7-8773-41f8-b71e-fe3f78b89cb0.

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This thesis is concerned with plants, chronic illness and medicine in Oku, Northwest Region, Cameroon. I focus on patient strategies to obtain effective medical outcomes, and on how such outcomes may be obtained through seeking traditional medicine in Oku. I argue that biomedical notions of efficacy do not appropriately represent the central and diverse roles that plants play in traditional medicine nor do they correctly represent how people in Oku evaluate the efficacy of plant-based traditional medicine. I argue instead that efficacy must be understood in terms of the emic concept of power.

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Cole, Samantha L. "Social Worker Engagement of Substance Abusing Rural Young Adults: An Action Research Study." ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/4845.

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There has been a dramatic increase in opioid-related overdoses and deaths that have had extensive health impacts in Delaware County, New York. Social workers play a crucial role in working with individuals who have substance use and co-occurring disorders. The study was guided by ecological systems theory and the generalist intervention model focused on the engagement process between social workers and local young people. The current action research study explored the social work practice problem of challenges encountered by clinical social workers who engage in services with young adults ages

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Fishleder, Sarah Louise. "Pathways of Embodiment: Drug Use Among Adolescents in Popay[aacute]n Colombia." Scholar Commons, 2014. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/5016.

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This research examines the interrelated biological and cultural factors that determine pathways by which recreational drug use is manifest to addiction in the lives of youth aged 12-18 in Popay[aacute]n, Colombia. It utilizes existing data from mixed methods research conducted between 2004-2005 examining epidemiological risk factors, drug use, perceptions about drugs, and a biological phenomenon of the brain known as incentive salience. Perceptions and experiences related to drugs were gathered using structured methods. MDS and hierarchical plots of drug perceptions are presented in order to d

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Stuck, Kenneth Edward. "Social Stratification in York County, Virginia, 1860-1919: A Study of Whites and African-Americans on the Lands of the Yorktown Naval Weapons Station." W&M ScholarWorks, 1995. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625955.

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Tezak, Ann Louise. "“A Wound That Never Heals”: Health-Seeking Behaviors and Attitudes Towards Breast Cancer and Cancer in General Among Women in Nakirebe, Uganda." Scholar Commons, 2016. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/6412.

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The scale and severity of cancer, specifically breast cancer, remains significantly different across the spectrum of low-income to high-income countries. This study explores women’s beliefs about breast cancer and associated prevention and health-seeking behaviors in a rural area of Uganda. Through a critical medical anthropological perspective, the study examines the social, cultural, and economic factors that shape women’s understanding of cancer, and breast cancer specifically, and that influence their use of biomedical services. Data were collected over a three-month period through 35 in-d

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Knopes, Julia. "The Social Construction of Sufficient Knowledge at an American Medical School." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1544043617644668.

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