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Rank, Competition, And The Etiquette Of Community At A Squash Club, David E. Levine
Rank, Competition, And The Etiquette Of Community At A Squash Club, David E. Levine
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This research uses a micro-level approach to focus on the day to day lives of squash players at a Toronto squash and fitness club. How different members conceived of the club as a community was one important aspect of my research. The club’s skill hierarchy and structure were also important ideas that influenced the everyday behavior of members, as it affected who members tended to develop relationships with. The greater social status of higher ranked players and how this was maintained is another important theme of this work. Members’ squash identity was usually grounded and initiated within the context of …
Relation Between Sacrifice And Mercy In Forms Of Worship And Pacification (Contents & Extended Abstract)
Matija Kovačević
Odnos Žrtve I Milosti U Oblicima Obožavanja I Postizanja Mira, Matija Kovačević
Odnos Žrtve I Milosti U Oblicima Obožavanja I Postizanja Mira, Matija Kovačević
Matija Kovačević
The Diagnosis Narratives & The Healing Ritual, James Peter Meza
The Diagnosis Narratives & The Healing Ritual, James Peter Meza
Wayne State University Dissertations
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THE DIAGNOSIS NARRATIVES & THE HEALING RITUAL
by JAMES PETER MEZA
December 2013
Advisor: Dr. Andrea Sankar
Major: Anthropology (medical)
Degree: Doctor of Philosophy
The goal of this dissertation was to describe healing practices in the setting of clinical encounters between patients and doctors. The theoretical background for this research began with the theory of the mind and using concepts from cognitive anthropology described the anthropological self as distinguished from person or identity. Additionally, the conceptual framework of cognitive anthropology was used to describe narrative theory. Narrative theory in the form of the narrative structure of experience, particularly the …
Legal Punishment As Civil Ritual: Making Cultural Sense Of Harsh Punishment, Spearit
Legal Punishment As Civil Ritual: Making Cultural Sense Of Harsh Punishment, Spearit
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This work examines mass incarceration through a ritual studies perspective, paying explicit attention to the religious underpinnings. Conventional analyses of criminal punishment focus on the purpose of punishment in relation to legal or moral norms, or attempt to provide a general theory of punishment. The goals of this work are different, and instead try to understand the cultural aspects of punishment that have helped make the United States a global leader in imprisonment and execution. It links the boom in incarceration to social ruptures of the 1950s and 1960s and posits the United States’ world leader status as having more …