Sentences with phrase «for ethnographic»

I was thinking more in the line of an Anthropology, since the field has run out pre-literate tribes practicing magic to study, the IPCC should be ripe for an ethnographic study in post industrial myths and shamans.

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To gain the deep insights that anthropological and ethnographic based buyer persona research can offer, companies need to allow for sufficient time in months versus a few short weeks.

You will not get the insights that come from the right level of ethnographic research and the information will most likely be used incorrectly — perhaps even damaging if used for a high stakes initiative.

In contemporary sociology, Weber has often been a source of inspiration for interpretive, ethnographic, and historical approaches to religion advanced in opposition to narrowly reductionistic, positivistic research designs.

For example, sociologist Scott Coltrane has examined coded ethnographic records of a representative sample of close to a hundred preindustrial cultures.

Nor do Placher's anecdotes address my interest in seeing, for example, how political, historical and ethnographic interpretations of the persistent conflicts in what we call the Middle East would be reinterpreted from the biblical view.

The Human Terrain Analysis Branch, by contrast, has kept a much lower profile, though it is also uses social science to collect cultural and ethnographic information for the military in Afghanistan and around the region.

For my dissertation I conducted an ethnographic study of team cohesion, which was subsequently published.

One of the researchers gathered data for over a year as part of an ethnographic study, a type of study that requires researchers to immerse themselves in the culture and the lives of their subjects.

The research therefore offers the opportunity for new insights into the archaeological and ethnographic context of the engravings.

DeLyser has conducted ethnographic research on Bodie for 15 years and worked at the town for 10 summers.

She is conducting ongoing clinical and ethnographic research on the Mediterranean Diet of Crete and medicinal plants and foods of Crete which she began for her doctoral studies at the University of Lancaster, UK.

Although the original inception of the paleo diet had its roots in evolutionary biology as well as in anthropological ethnographic studies of contemporary hunter - gatherers and ancient foraging populations, the newfound rationale for adopting a paleo template lies in its emphasis on those foodstuffs delineated in the peer - reviewed literature to have the most nutritive value.

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Many of the films have been previously available in poor editions but many others are available for the first time, from early slapstick shorts to Zora Neale Hurston's landmark ethnographic films to James and Eloyce Gist's amateur evangelical film Hell - Bound Train (1930) and Verdict: Not Guilty (1933).

This January, Paulina and I organized PACE in solidarity with the broader Boston and Harvard community to fight for passing Massachusetts bill H. 3361, proposed by State Legislator Tackey Chan, which would require «all state agencies, quasi-state agencies, entities created by state statute and sub-divisions of state agencies» to provide its citizens with more ethnographic data.

She also applied to the Ed School, where she jumped into an ethnographic project with Associate Professor Jal Mehta that would lead to the ultimate achievement for an education writer: her first book.

Grotzer says that Solis» important ethnographic work is helping the field of children's cognitive development better understand the diversity of play and its role in cultures outside the West, and understanding what parents and community members believe about play is crucial for designing educational interventions.

The rich ethnographic and longitudinal data he presents have important implications for practice and public policy for our nation's immigrant families,» McCartney commented.

There are alternatives that could have been discussed: Some education reformers insist that student portfolios are a better basis for assessing student learning than standardized tests, and researchers using ethnographic methods sometimes come up with insights that we do not find in standard statistically based research.

For 30 years I have been studying cultural expectations for what makes a good teacher, beginning with field work in a Tibetan refugee school and an ethnographic study of Japanese and American public schools conducted some years latFor 30 years I have been studying cultural expectations for what makes a good teacher, beginning with field work in a Tibetan refugee school and an ethnographic study of Japanese and American public schools conducted some years latfor what makes a good teacher, beginning with field work in a Tibetan refugee school and an ethnographic study of Japanese and American public schools conducted some years later.

Corey Mitchell writes in Education Week about a seven - month ethnographic study conducted by Lehigh University Assistant Professor Sara Kangas, which found that some educators do not «prioritize language services for ELLs because they had low expectations for the students.»

Her dissertation research, funded by a Fulbright Fellowship, employs ethnographic methods to examine the ways in which educational programs foster inclusive environments for Syrian refugees and country nationals in Jordan.

Students will receive instruction on technical procedures, style guidelines, and ethnographic strategies for selecting representative examples their own work.

For this last purpose, I will use ethnographic methods based on on - site participant observations and interviews with advisors, faculty, and students.

Whether or not the variation in AP offerings affects the decision of suburban residents to participate in the New Haven School Choice Placement Process has yet to be studied and could be an important topic for further ethnographic research.

In 1919, at the Paris Peace Conference, which marked the end of World War I, justification for claims to territory assumed huge importance because there was so much to be divided up and so many competing claims... the arguments fell into three main categories: strategic, ethnographic, and historical right.

Some of the characteristics of the city and its people will be discussed here to provide ethnographic background for the more specific information on psychiatric disorder to follow.

If one prefers to see more of the Sacred Valley, one can drive back for a visit to an ethnographic museum featuring the history of Peru's rich read more...

If one prefers to see more of the Sacred Valley, one can drive back for a visit to an ethnographic museum featuring the history of Peru's rich civilization of the past or choose to explore the valley on mountain bike.

There's a very good ethnographic study of «hardcore» - ness in the fighting game community I could try to dig up for you, if you were curious.

Her ongoing investigation of ethnographic film, anthropology and material culture are the foundation for her multi-disciplinary practice.

For decades, the ambition to integrate art, non-art, and ethnographic artefacts, the periphery and the fringe, has underscored exhibition - making.

It features: a series of black - and - white photographs of elderly actors by Liu Zheng that play with conventions of ethnographic and opera photography; two videos by Chen Qiulin that make use of traditional opera characters to respond to changes wrought by the Three Gorges Dam; The Forbidden City (Zijincheng) by Liu Wei, a lyrical video of theatrical «glove puppets» (budai kuilei) shown publicly for the first time; and videos by Cui Xiuwen that connect to opera in more oblique ways, through performative elements and symbolic props, gestures, and costumes.

For a show at the Hammer Museum in L.A. last year, she took obscure ethnographic objects from the collection of the Fowler Museum at U.C.L.A., all of which had been categorized as «unidentified» — including textile scraps and broken pottery — things that had effectively been deemed originless and valueless, divorced from their history and the history of those who made them.

His films consider methods of narrative, ethnographic, and documentary filmmaking as the starting point for structural experimentation.

«Tiznit,» made with white enamel house paint and pencil and crayon, with gouges and scratches in the surface, was named for a town in Morocco that he had visited, and the painting's primitivist shapes were inspired by tribal pieces he saw at the ethnographic museum in Rome, as well as by artists like Dubuffet, de Kooning and Franz Kline.

Rivers is known for his hand - made aesthetic and reinterpretation of the ethnographic.

In a prepared statement, the center pointed to Hamilton's «proficiency in ethnographic assessment and organizational design... her position as a trusted local community member, and familiarity with indigenous artists» as key assets for the New Orleans center.

Dave Lewis combines photography with ethnographic research as a premise for his richly textured installations.

In 2012, the designers participated in the museum's residency program, the Weltkulturen Labor, where they were able to explore the ethnographic collection, drawing on the museum's anthropological expertise to inform their new creations — videos, multi-media works and prototypes for clothing and accessories.

Bookies» favourite wins Turner Prize The Scotsman; December 9, 2002; KAREN MCVEIGH; 700 + words THE Turner Prize, the most prestigious and controversial award in the art world... of 24 ethnographic sculptures holding McDonald's food by Jake and Dinos Chapman - for which Mr Saatchi paid GBP 1 million last month - was passed...

For his exhibitions, Condon records on video these unscripted and often disorienting interactions, documenting them in an ethnographic style.

Commenting on this new work Ross Keane, Director of the Irish Film Institute said; «The Village is a fascinating ethnographic documentary looking at how modernisation affected the inhabitants of Dún Chaoin and their relationship with the unpopulated Blasket Islands, and we are delighted that Duncan Campbell found inspiration for his latest work from this film and through his research into our collection at the IFI Irish Film Archive.»

Included are many different forms of early photography, representing an array of markets and social classes: grand portraits of Nepalese royals and palm - size cartes de visite for the masses, ethnographic albums by British photographers and hand - painted photographs from Indian portrait studios.

Contributing to the global discussion of how to best prepare law students for the practice of law, Ann Sinsheimer and David Herring's article, «Lawyers at Work: A Study of the Reading, Writing, and Communication Practices of Legal Professionals,» 11 provides «the results of a three - year ethnographic study of attorneys in the workplace.»

Create discussion guides for consumer context labs and field interviews, ethnographic observation guides for field projects, and custom - designed screeners for recruiting users of interest for clients

Design and conduct ethnographic research for corporate clients, assisting them in finding ways for branding and differentiating their products and services from a human - centered perspective

Drawing on ethnographic interviews, this policy brief describes the patchwork child care arrangements made by low - income parents and discusses implications for policies that would promote the dual objectives of child well - being and parental employment.

The barriers to the AAP, WIC, and WHO recommendations for infant feeding would not have been identified without adopting an ecological model and ethnographic research that focused on the social context of children and families.