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Organisational Ethnography: An Illustrative Application In The Study Of Indian R&D Settings By V Suchitra Mouly And Jayaram K Sankaran. Sage Publications, 1995., S Chandrashekar Mar 1996

Organisational Ethnography: An Illustrative Application In The Study Of Indian R&D Settings By V Suchitra Mouly And Jayaram K Sankaran. Sage Publications, 1995., S Chandrashekar

IIMB Management Review

Organisational Ethnography, by Suchitra Mouly and Jayaram Sankaran applies the insider or ethnographic perspective to the study of Indian R&D settings. In spite of its rather forbidding title, (ethnography according to the Webster’s dictionary is cultural anthropology), there are some interesting and novel aspects to this research work.

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My Day In India, Henry Mintzberg Mar 1996

My Day In India, Henry Mintzberg

IIMB Management Review

No abstract provided.

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The Second Decade: The Theme Of Social Change In Papua New Guinean Literature, 1979-1989, Gilian Gorle Mar 1996

The Second Decade: The Theme Of Social Change In Papua New Guinean Literature, 1979-1989, Gilian Gorle

Pacific Studies

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Toon Van Meijl's Review Of Roger Neich's Painted Histories: Early Maori Figurative Painting, Toon Van Meijl Mar 1996

Toon Van Meijl's Review Of Roger Neich's Painted Histories: Early Maori Figurative Painting, Toon Van Meijl

Pacific Studies

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Vol. 19 No. 1 (1996): Pacific Studies Front Matter, The Jonathan Nāpela Center For Hawaiian And Pacific Islands Studies Mar 1996

Vol. 19 No. 1 (1996): Pacific Studies Front Matter, The Jonathan Nāpela Center For Hawaiian And Pacific Islands Studies

Pacific Studies

Pacific Studies is published two times a year by The Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Studies, Brigham Young University Hawai‘i #1979, 55–220 Kulanui Street, Lāʻie, Hawai‘i 96762, but responsibility for opinions expressed in the articles rests with the authors alone. Subscription rate is US$40.00 yearly, payable to The Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Studies. The Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Studies (formerly The Pacific Institute) is an organization funded by Brigham Young University Hawai‘i. The Center assists the University in meeting its cultural and educational goals by undertaking a program of teaching, research, and …

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Margaret Jolly's Review Of Geoffrey M. White's Identity Through History: Living Stories In A Solomon Islands Society, Margaret Jolly Mar 1996

Margaret Jolly's Review Of Geoffrey M. White's Identity Through History: Living Stories In A Solomon Islands Society, Margaret Jolly

Pacific Studies

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Vol. 19 No. 1 (1996): Pacific Studies Full Issue, The Jonathan Nāpela Center For Hawaiian And Pacific Islands Studies Mar 1996

Vol. 19 No. 1 (1996): Pacific Studies Full Issue, The Jonathan Nāpela Center For Hawaiian And Pacific Islands Studies

Pacific Studies

Pacific Studies is published two times a year by The Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Studies, Brigham Young University Hawai‘i #1979, 55–220 Kulanui Street, Lāʻie, Hawai‘i 96762, but responsibility for opinions expressed in the articles rests with the authors alone. Subscription rate is US$40.00 yearly, payable to The Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Studies. The Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Studies (formerly The Pacific Institute) is an organization funded by Brigham Young University Hawai‘i. The Center assists the University in meeting its cultural and educational goals by undertaking a program of teaching, research, and …

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Land Tenure And Hierarchies In Eastern Melanesia, Jean Guiart Mar 1996

Land Tenure And Hierarchies In Eastern Melanesia, Jean Guiart

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.

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Unbounded Politics In The Solomon Islands: Leadership And Party Alignments, Jeffrey S. Steeves Mar 1996

Unbounded Politics In The Solomon Islands: Leadership And Party Alignments, Jeffrey S. Steeves

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.

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Lin Poyer's Review Of Geoffrey M. White's Identity Through History: Living Stories In A Solomon Islands Society, Lin Poyer Mar 1996

Lin Poyer's Review Of Geoffrey M. White's Identity Through History: Living Stories In A Solomon Islands Society, Lin Poyer

Pacific Studies

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Pascal Boyer's Review Of Geoffrey M. White's Identity Through History: Living Stories In A Solomon Islands Society, Pascal Boyer Mar 1996

Pascal Boyer's Review Of Geoffrey M. White's Identity Through History: Living Stories In A Solomon Islands Society, Pascal Boyer

Pacific Studies

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Geoffrey M. White Response On The Book Review Forum On Identity Through History: Living Stories In A Solomon Islands Society, Geoffrey M. White Mar 1996

Geoffrey M. White Response On The Book Review Forum On Identity Through History: Living Stories In A Solomon Islands Society, Geoffrey M. White

Pacific Studies

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Alan Howard's Review Of F. Allan Hanson And Louise Hanson's Art And Identity In Oceania, Alan Howard Mar 1996

Alan Howard's Review Of F. Allan Hanson And Louise Hanson's Art And Identity In Oceania, Alan Howard

Pacific Studies

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Expatriate Patterns Of Cultural Adaptation, Norma Westurn Mar 1996

Expatriate Patterns Of Cultural Adaptation, Norma Westurn

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

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A Hoard Of Stone Beads Near Lake Chad, Nigeria, Graham Connah Jan 1996

A Hoard Of Stone Beads Near Lake Chad, Nigeria, Graham Connah

BEADS: Journal of the Society of Bead Researchers

In 1980, a small pot containing 622 carnelian and quartz beads was found accidentally at Ala, in the Nigerian part of the clay plain south of Lake Chad. It appears to constitute a hoard of wealth which its owner buried and subsequently failed to retrieve. Beads of this sort first appear in this area in the second half of the first millennium A.D., but also occur in second-millennium deposits. However, they are usually found as grave goods, and the Ala discovery is almost the only example of a hoard of such beads known to the author. Their presence on the …

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Table Of Contents (V. 8-9, 1996-1997) Jan 1996

Table Of Contents (V. 8-9, 1996-1997)

BEADS: Journal of the Society of Bead Researchers

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Imitation Pearls In France, Marie-José Opper, Howard Opper Jan 1996

Imitation Pearls In France, Marie-José Opper, Howard Opper

BEADS: Journal of the Society of Bead Researchers

To achieve the perfect imitation pearl has been the goal of numerous European beadmakers for over 700 years. In France, the art of making false-pearls spread rapidly after Jacquin discovered how to fill hollow glass beads with a pearl-like substance in the 17th century. Since that time, many diverse recipes have been tried and used to satisfy the French public's enormous appetite for affordable, yet elegant, imitations of fine pearls. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, these types of beads became even more popular than before, as they emerged as the principal components of costume jewelry worn by celebrated …

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Beads, Pendants And Buttons From Early Historic Creek Contexts At The Tarver Sites, Georgia, Thomas J. Pluckhahn Jan 1996

Beads, Pendants And Buttons From Early Historic Creek Contexts At The Tarver Sites, Georgia, Thomas J. Pluckhahn

BEADS: Journal of the Society of Bead Researchers

Recent excavations conducted on historic Creek Indian components at the Tarver (9JO6) and Little Tarver (9JO198) sites in central Georgia produced an extensive collection of European trade material, including a large sample of glass and lapidary beads, pendants and buttons. The bead collection is significant for its size, as well as the fact that virtually all of the material was recovered from undisturbed and tightly dated burial contexts attributable to the relatively brief period between about 1695 and 1715.

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Akyem Te: The Technology And Socio-Cultural Setting Of The Abompe Bauxite-Beadmaking Industry, Ghana, Yaw Bredwa-Mensah Jan 1996

Akyem Te: The Technology And Socio-Cultural Setting Of The Abompe Bauxite-Beadmaking Industry, Ghana, Yaw Bredwa-Mensah

BEADS: Journal of the Society of Bead Researchers

Drawing primarily on data obtained from recent research at Akyem Abompe, Ghana, this paper examines the technology and socio-cultural setting of a stone-beadmaking industry in the forest zone of Ghana. Preliminary ethnographic observation of the industry not only reveals that it is community-based, but that it also interacts in a complex way with other local crafts in the village. The production process and marketing of the beads are discussed, as is the antiquity of the industry.

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Beads: Journal Of The Society Of Bead Researchers - Volume 8-9 (Complete) Jan 1996

Beads: Journal Of The Society Of Bead Researchers - Volume 8-9 (Complete)

BEADS: Journal of the Society of Bead Researchers

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Culture, Ideology, And Community: The Dynamics Of Accommodation And Resistance To Restructuring Of The Mexican Sugar Sector, Donna Chollett Jan 1996

Culture, Ideology, And Community: The Dynamics Of Accommodation And Resistance To Restructuring Of The Mexican Sugar Sector, Donna Chollett

Anthropology Publications

Neoliberalism has provoked profound and diverse consequences for rural Mexico, escalating the agricultural crisis for producers and workers in various sectors. Against this context, recent improvements in the sugar sector raise interesting questions about its relative economic success under the neoliberal paradigm. This article contrasts two cane zones--one that experienced economic recovery and another affected by abandonment of the sugar mill--to argue that in the interstices of modernizing neoliberalism, cane growers and mill workers who were subjected to politics of exclusion struggle to ensure the survival of their culture, community, and economic livelihood.

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African Family And Kinship, Brian Siegel Jan 1996

African Family And Kinship, Brian Siegel

Anthropology Publications

No abstract provided.

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Reviews And End Matter Jan 1996

Reviews And End Matter

BEADS: Journal of the Society of Bead Researchers

Adhyatman and Arifin: Manik-Manik di Indonesia/Beads in Indonesia reviewed by Heidi Munan

The Bead Study Trust: Catalogue of the Beck Collection of Beads in the Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology: Part 1, Europe reviewed by Jamey D. Allen

Kumekpor, Bredwa-Mensah and van Landewijk: The Ghanaian Bead Tradition: Materials, Traditional Techniques, Archaeological and Historical Chronology, Bead Usage, Traditional-Sociological Meaning reviewed by Margret Carey

Wolters: Les Perles: Au fil du textile reviewed by Marie-José Opper

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Community Organization And Development Among The Zabbalin Of Muqattam, Elena Volpi Jan 1996

Community Organization And Development Among The Zabbalin Of Muqattam, Elena Volpi

Faculty Book Chapters

Two studies of the informal garbage collectors' community at the base of the Muqattam Hills in Cairo explore and comment on the impact of an institution-building program on leadership and participation and the impact of development programs on the women of the settlement.

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Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 45, No. 2, Thomas E. Gallagher Jr., Robert Troy Boyer, Amos Long Jr., Christine M. Mueseler, Catherine Anne Jacobs, Hugo A. Freund Jan 1996

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 45, No. 2, Thomas E. Gallagher Jr., Robert Troy Boyer, Amos Long Jr., Christine M. Mueseler, Catherine Anne Jacobs, Hugo A. Freund

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Occupational Folklife
• A Fine-Tooth Comb: Atlee Crouse Carries on a Family Tradition
• "Lime and Manure": Agricultural Practices Among the Pennsylvania Germans
• Alcoa, New Kensington: "It was More Than a Job - It was a Way of Life"
• Women's Work: Textile Manufacturing in the Lackawanna Valley
• Working the Seams: African American Professional Performers Moving Between White Public Culture and African American Private Culture

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Sibyl 1996, Otterbein University Jan 1996

Sibyl 1996, Otterbein University

Otterbein University Yearbooks

No abstract provided.

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Someone's Calling Your Swatch: Youth, Technology And Power, Su-Lyn Tan Jan 1996

Someone's Calling Your Swatch: Youth, Technology And Power, Su-Lyn Tan

Theses : Honours

Common assumptions about youth and youth culture exist in academic, as well as other adult cultures. These assumptions underlie policy decisions, programming choices, and even the way we (as adults) treat youth. This study proposes to examine Singaporean youth and their use of pagers, in terms of Foucauldian theories of power; in an attempt to draw critical attention to these common assumptions. The intention is to explore the ambiguities of such common assumptions as sites of power relations; relations that are inherent to all societies in one way or another. The pager is not a conventional focus for communication research. …

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Cattle, Co-Wives, Children, And Calabashes: Material Context For Symbol Use Among The Il Chamus Of West-Central Kenya, Alan J. Osborn Jan 1996

Cattle, Co-Wives, Children, And Calabashes: Material Context For Symbol Use Among The Il Chamus Of West-Central Kenya, Alan J. Osborn

Department of Anthropology: Faculty Publications

This paper examines systemic contexts for symbol use among the Maa-speaking Il Chamus in the Lake Baringo region of west-central Kenya. The systemic context for symbols and material culture consists of the environmental constraints and behavioral responses that characterize pastoralist life in East Africa. The author's interest in this problem developed in response to Ian Hodder’s work among the Il Chamus, Pokot, and Tugen in the Baringo District. Unlike Hodder, however, the author argues that symbols and their use in East Africa can be more productively explained from a materialist perspective. Specifically, it is proposed that symbols affixed to certain …

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Higher-Order Categories In Brunei Dusun Ethnobotany: The Folk-Classification Of Rainforest Plants, Jay H. Bernstein Jan 1996

Higher-Order Categories In Brunei Dusun Ethnobotany: The Folk-Classification Of Rainforest Plants, Jay H. Bernstein

Publications and Research

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Devil, Not-Quite-White, Rootless Cosmopolitan: Tsuris In Latin America, The Bronx, And The Ussr, Marc Edelman Jan 1996

Devil, Not-Quite-White, Rootless Cosmopolitan: Tsuris In Latin America, The Bronx, And The Ussr, Marc Edelman

Publications and Research

This autobiographical essay reflects on experiences with antisemitism in New York City, Mexico, Costa Rica, and the Soviet Union. It analyzes this material in relation to ethnographers' emotional life and subjectivity and the larger historical and political contexts of fieldwork.

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