camera angles and shots that were made in most amazing proximity. The richness of its photography will take you to the Carpathian Mountains and leave you astonished. History: Sergei Paradjanov’s extraordinary merging of myth‚ history‚ poetry‚ ethnography‚ dance‚ and ritual... remains one of the supreme works of the Soviet sound cinema‚ and even subsequent Paradjanov features have failed to dim its intoxicating splendors. And for anyone who’s interested in the Ukrainian culture and customs of perhaps
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Fainstein’s sociological thesis of what he calls “The Underclass Narrative” was a research study on African Americans in the latter half of the 1970’s. The underclass narrative can be defined as the disadvantaged lack of progression within low income‚ typically black inner city neighborhoods—a generational reality not captured elsewhere in the U.S. I think what is equally important to point out within this article is that Fainstein makes it clear that the underclass narrative can also be a defined
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Albright‚ A. (1997). Choreographing Difference: The body and Identity in Contemporary Dance.Wesleyan. In this paper‚ author Albright sheds light on different perspectives on bodily movements in contemporary dances. Some of the famous works the author focuses on are that of Bill Jones‚ David Dorfman‚ Jawole Zollar‚ among others. A key aspect of contemporary dance which the author focuses on is the notion that the body‚ when dancing‚ is a source of cultural identity. The author investigates different
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Reading and writing in context (pp. 180-196). London: Routledge. Green‚ J. (1983). Exploring classroom discourse: Linguistic perspectives on teaching-learning processes. Educational Psychologist‚ 18‚ 3‚ 180-199. Green‚ J.‚ & Wallat‚ C. (eds). (1981). Ethnography and language in educational settings. Norwood‚ NJ: Ablex Publishing Corp. Gumperz‚ J. (1982). Discourse strategies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (a) Gumperz‚ J.‚ & Hymes‚ D Hanks‚ W. (2000). Intertexts: Writings on language‚ utterance
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In the book “Dancing with Skeletons” by physical anthropologist Katherine A. Dettwyler‚ Dettwyler conducts a first hand study also known as ethnography in Mali which is located in West Africa. Dettwyler’s book consists of written information of her ethnography in places in Mali such as Macina‚ Bamako‚ and Timbuktu. Dettwyler writes in her book about the CARE health projects in the villages located around Macina in northern Mali. In this essay I will be discussing the goals of the CARE health projects
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relationship to context and structure for each participant and then for the participants as a whole. Analogous procedures are found in Case Study‚ Discourse Analysis‚ Ethnography‚ Grounded Theory‚ Heuristic Research‚ Intuitive Inquiry‚ Narrative Methods and variant derivative methods. Case Study‚ Discourse Analysis‚ Ethnography‚ Grounded Theory‚ Narrative Methods‚ and Phenomenological Research vary considerably in epistemological stance depending on the researcher and variant of the method used
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The main issue that prompted the researchers to do the study on the experiences that the health care workers have with dementia patients and their caregivers was to give an opportunity to health care workers to understand better ways of improving care for these patients because the population is increasing fast and it will help them give proper education to caregivers. The significance of the study was noted by “the global prevalence of Alzheimer disease and related dementias which is estimated to
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Political Oratory and Cartooning: An Ethnography of Democratic Processes in Madagascar By Jennifer Jackson. 2013. Durham: Wiley & Blackwell. 288 pages. ISBN: 978-1-118-30606-2. Reviewed by Onur Senarslan‚ University of South Carolina [Review length: 1052 words . Review posted on October 30‚ 2014] Jennifer Jackson’s Political Oratory and Cartooning: An Ethnography of Democratic Processes in Madagascar (2013. Wiley & Blackwell) examines relationship between Madagascar’s political cartoonists and
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Women‚ Power and Dissent in the Hills of Carolina is an ethnography by Mary K. Anglin about women’s labor in the declining mica industry in Southern Appalachia‚ specifically the Moth Hill Mica Company. Anglin begins her research by first analyzing government documents as a contextual base for the social and economic environment of North Carolina. Then‚ she conducts eight months of field research in which she interacts and has daily conversations and interviews with workers in order to get first-hand
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Book Review: Operation Fly Trap; L.A. Gangs‚ Drugs‚ and the Law Operation Fly Trap was written by Susan A. Phillips‚ published in 2012 by the University of Chicago Press. Phillips received her Ph.D. in anthropology in 1998 from UCLA. She is interested in theories of violence‚ in the relationship between gangs and the state‚ and in utilizing academic writing and scholarship toward criminal justice reform (Susan). All of these intriguing interests led her to write Operation Fly Trap. However‚
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