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Communicating Culture Through Capoeira, Desislava Georgieva

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The popularity of capoeira, a dance based in the martial arts and originating among slaves in Sixteenth-Century Brazil, has increased greatly in recent decades as it has spread worldwide as a performance representative of Brazilian history and culture. In 1974, capoeira was declared the national sport of Brazil. Today capoeira academies and competitions may be found wherever Brazilian culture is celebrated and communicated in many major foreign cities. My thesis, through the participant/observer method and the use of long interviews, examines capoeira as it is practiced in one particular academy far from the art form's place of origin. In the …

The Politics Of Scale, Position, And Place In The Governance Of Water Resources In The Mekong Region, Louis Lebel, Po Garden, Masao Imamura

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The appropriate scales for science, management, and decision making cannot be unambiguously derived from physical characteristics of water resources. Scales are a joint product of social and biophysical processes. The politics-of-scale metaphor has been helpful in drawing attention to the ways in which scale choices are constrained overtly by politics, and more subtly by choices of technologies, institutional designs, and measurements. In doing so, however, the scale metaphor has been stretched to cover a lot of different spatial relationships. In this paper, we argue that there are benefits to understanding—and actions to distinguish—issues of scale from those of place and …

Using Students Mentors In An "Introduction To Honors" Course, Betsy Wackernagel Bach, Rachel Kinkie, Sam Schabacker

Communication Studies Faculty Publications

The Davidson Honors College at the University of Montana requires "Introduction to Honors" of all matriculating students. The course is offered for one credit and is designed to develop a sense of organizational identification among the first-year students enrolled in each of the ten sections that we teach every fall semester. Specifically, the goals of the course for students are to a) develop community, b) learn the essentials of a liberal arts education and c) participate in activities they might not typically experience (e.g., community service or cultural events). Faculty members teaching each section volunteer their time and are provided …

Coyote's Tale On The Old Oregon Trail: Challenging Cultural Memory Through Narrative At The Tamástslikt Cultural Institute, Jackson B. Miller

Faculty Publications

This essay examines the oppositional narratives presented in a Native American museum in order to explore the efficacy of narrative as both a strategy for resistance to hegemonic narratives of the settling of the West and a medium for sharing culture. The positioning of the museum visitor as co-participant in the museum’s narratives is also considered, with a particular focus on the relationships among narrator, story, and audience. Finally, the narrative of tribal life presented in the museum is evaluated for its potential as a vehicle for both cultural change and continuity.

An Examination Of Modern Family Communication And Moral Values In America And Europe, Melanie Seasons

Senior Honors Theses and Projects

The number one concern of some American voters in the 2004 presidential election was "moral values." This paper is an examination of the American family and its fascination with so-called traditional moral values. The results of the analysis are then contrasted to European families, who seem to, according to some research, be less concerned with such traditional beliefs and values. Moral values are defined, explored, and cross-referenced between the two cultures in order to get a better understanding of how they play a part in modem family communication.

Unlv Magazine, Lori Bachand, Regina Barcolas, Barbara Cloud, Holly Ivy De Vore, Gian Galassi, Cayrn Key, Jennifer Robison, Gillian Silver, Jason Vaughan, John F. Gallagher, Cate Weeks, Diane Russell

UNLV Magazine

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Pluma Fronteriza: Newsletter Of Latino/Chicano(A) Writers Of The El Paso And Cd. Juárez Border Region, Utep Chicano Studies

Chicano Studies

Electronic newsletter of the Latino/Chicano(a) Writers of the El Paso and Cd. Juárez Border Region.

Overexposed: Issues Of Public Gender Imaging, Pamela K. Morris

School of Communication: Faculty Publications and Other Works

Make no mistake—it is popularity that makes pop culture important. And it is the powerful visual imagery of advertisements that helps define the largely artificial construction we call gender. Sex-role stereotyping and gender representations are typically studied in content analyses of television and magazine advertisements. Less common are investigations into outdoor advertising, a medium that is ubiquitous and the most democratic—everyone has equal access to visuals. This essay calls attention to and offers insights on advertisements in our outdoor visual space, focusing on gender representations. Capturing and analyzing these ephemeral images can show how they influence how we feel, think, …

Cultural Performance Of Roadside Shrines: A Poststructural Postmodern Ethnography, Rebecca Marie Kennerly

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

Marking the site of death on the road with a shrine, an increasingly popular cultural practice in the United States, is a deeply personal, private affair, however, because shrines are placed in the public right-of-way, they attract attention and invite participation, comment, and criticism. These sites, the materials that mark them, how people come to build them, the messages that those who build them hope to convey, and the accumulative force these sites bring to bear in various contexts offer unique insights into our complex, fragmented, and often confounding relationships with death, living memory, and selective forgetting. This project takes …

Shifting Representations Of Aboriginality In Australian Cinema : Re-Presenting From An Anti-Colonial Perspective, Kylie Solonec

Theses : Honours

Recently there has been a significant shift in the way that Aboriginal people are being represented in Australian cinema. Some would argue that the social and political movements that have occurred since the 1960s through until today have had a significant effect and in turn have produced a third wave of Australian cinema. Concurrently with this process, there have been a number of Indigenous politicians, academics and filmmakers who have actively been striving to gain better resources and opportunities for Indigenous filmmakers to be able to tell their stories. A combination of these two projects has seen a shift in …

Multi-National Project Team Communications And Cultural Influences, Morgan E. Henrie

Engineering Management & Systems Engineering Theses & Dissertations

This exploratory case study dissertation examined multinational project teams' communication satisfaction as influenced by the project team's cultural attribute of power distance. Utilizing a exploratory case study, semi-guided interview research approach, ordinal scale data and open-ended contextual based question responses was obtained. This data was gathered from United States---Russia and Canada---Angola multi-national, complex, high technology oil transportation project teams. Triangulation data gathering techniques were utilized to obtain empirical data from multiple sources of data and multiple data types. Subsequent data analyses combined descriptive statistical analysis, graphical analysis, cluster analysis, and content analysis techniques to derive a theoretical construct of multi-national …

Central Florida Future, Vol. 37 No. 32, December 6, 2004

Central Florida Future

Holiday Blues: The winter break is a dangerous time for students dealing with depression; Senate's $12,000 for wild ride: Baja vehicles add to $2300 total semester funding; Find spring classes with Web services.

Hellenism, Hebraism, And The Eugenics Of Culture In E.M. Forster's Howards End, Seth Jacobowitz

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

Seth Jacobowitz, in his paper "Hellenism, Hebraism, and the Eugenics of Culture in E.M. Forster's Howards End," explores how the culturalist principles of Hellenism and Hebraism theorized by Matthew Arnold as the basis of Englishness in Culture and Anarchy (1869) were incorporated into the text of E.M. Forster's Howards End (1910) to show the close institutional and conceptual linkages Forster shared with Arnold. Further, Jacobowitz seeks to bring Howards End into dialog with Forster's only major work of science fiction, The Machine Stops (1928), to address their mutual themes of eugenics, the racialization of class difference, and concerns over the …

The New Woman In Early Twentieth-Century Chinese Fiction, Jin Feng

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

Jin Feng, in her paper "The New Woman in Early Twentieth-Century Chinese Fiction," proposes that the representation of the "new woman" in Chinese fiction was paradoxically one of the ways in which male writers of the era explored, negotiated, and laid claim to their own emerging identity as "modern" intellectuals. Previous scholarship on fiction of the period probed occasionally the thematic implications of female characters in specific works but has not engaged in systematic study of the "new woman" as a figure through a discussion of the politics of the narrative form. Feng addresses aspects of audience in early-twentieth-century Chinese …

Spartan Daily, November 23, 2004, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

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Central Florida Future, Vol. 37 No. 29, November 22, 2004

Central Florida Future

Football's final attempt at a win: Expectations may have been too high for O'Leary's start; Activity fee to increase: SGA-baked boost would push UCF's overall per-hour charges to the top; Tofurkey as an alternative: Animal-rights campaigners aim for Thanksgiving awareness; Jesus would vote for George W. Bush: And other myths of Christianity politics and their jilted marriage.

Spartan Daily, November 18, 2004, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

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Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 80, No. 19 [No. 21], Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. This issue contains articles:

• Richardson, Kelly. Arrest Made in Lampkin Park Case
• Clark, Ashlee. Group of Professors Receive Grant – Psychology
• Hupman, Samantha. Class to Bring Students to Presidential Inauguration
• Reed, Lindsey. Clinical Compassion – Suzanne Vitale
• Fisher, Lee. Brian Strow Prepares for Seat on Bowling Green City Commission
• Buckman, Josh. Barry Wells Leaves Western for Dallas – Dining Services
• Wilberding, Beth. Professors to Get Recognition – Student Government Association
• Henze, Adam. Editorial Cartoon re: George Bush
• Hall, Alex. Happy for Some Left-winged Representation – Chuck Williamson
• Meyer, Dustin. …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 80, No. 19 [No. 20], Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. This issue contains articles:

• Green, Tavia. Available Flu Shots Are Limited
• Wilberding, Beth. Youth Vote Improves, But Less Than Expected
• Maines, Ashley. Torn Apart – Cory Kemble, Divorce
• Clark, Ashlee. American Humanics Minor Proposed
• Richardson, Kelly. Post Office Supervisor Indicted for Stealing – Christopher Hillard
• Put the Community Back In Community Service
• Ingram, Brooks. Editorial Cartoon re: Shantytown
• Williamson, Chuck. For Those Who Voted Yes . . . It’s Never Too Late for An Apology – Same Sex Marriage
• Hitch, John. There’s Nothing Funny About 9/11
• Magill, Wes. There’s …

Spartan Daily, November 5, 2004, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

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Spartan Daily, November 4, 2004, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

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Central Florida Future, Vol. 37 No. 24, November 4, 2004

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Superstitions abound but voters give Bush the 'W': Washington Redskins game early polls fail to pick presidential winner; Homecoming events take to the stage; Rec center's opening pumps up students; Pegasus' roof up in smoke: Cigarette left burning on a La-Z-Boy ignites 3-alarm blaze displacing 47; Cheerleading about sport not pompoms: UCF's team won 2003 national championship.

Spartan Daily, October 29, 2004, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

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