The dissertation examines the impacts that limited resources and the disruption of international (i.e., trans-Himalayan) trade networks have had on the populations of Sama and Lho, highland Tibetan communities in Nepal's Nubri Valley. Using primary Tibetan sources and oral narra…
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This study examines the relationship between culture and child health in Java, Indonesia by assessing whether cultural factors can explain why Sundanese children suffer from higher rates of morbidity and mortality than Javanese children. This question is explored through the com…
The idea of culture came into circulation in the European vernacular languages simultaneously around 1780. A dynamic concept implying development and change, culture described the origin and progress of civil society from the primitive state of nature to modern Enlightenment. In…
This study investigated the extent biological, cultural, and psychological factors predispose individuals to eating disorders and compared the prevalence between (N = 103) male and female students (18-27 years of age) from Mississippi State University (MSU). Data was collected f…
This mixed-methods study examined music therapists’ experiences with, education regarding, and attitudes about music therapy with people who have multiple intersectional cultural perspectives. In the first phase, a survey created by the researcher was used to gathered informatio…
The current investigations coordinate math cognition and cross-cultural approaches to mathematical thinking to examine the linkages between numeric and non-numeric processes, and how these linkages are modified by cultural artifacts such as writing and by socially situated math …
Traditional communities in most Third World countries today are facing the influx of all industrialized economy which is leading to the introduction of new building technologies, infrastructure and modern communications. This has resulted in a change in the built environment of …
This dissertation is an ethnographic study of how end-of-life decisions are made in Jerusalem, Israel. The primary focus of my study is what factors have the greatest influence on how these decisions are made. What cultural beliefs and values are involved, and how did they come …
The purpose of this study was to explore the psychosocial and cultural variables affecting adolescents living with parent(s) infected with the AIDS virus in selected states (Akwa Ibom, Cross River, Delta, & Rivers) of the Niger Delta Region of Nigeria. This study compares the ex…
This study investigated the effect of art history lessons on the cultural awareness of a group of middle school students in rural Minnesota. The data from eleven seventh grade students was collected based on their enrollment in the art class, their assent, and their parents' con…
This research investigated the use of social capital by Nigerian Yoruba immigrant parents and its relevance to the educational performance of their children. The research question was: What is the role of social capital in the educational performance of Nigerian immigrant childr…
The goals of this proposed study were to explore the history, challenges, and accomplishments of Iranian women in higher education and to be able to contribute to the literature of what we do know about the integration of these women into higher education. The impact of Iranian …
This study examined the cultural and socio-economic differences in the regulation strategies and socialization goals of Euro-American and Turkish mothers. Thirty-six Turkish mothers and thirty-six Euro-American mothers who had four and five year old children were interviewed abo…
The study explores the issues that have caused conflict between Muslims and Christians in Northern Nigeria. It focuses on how historical, cultural and political factors have influenced current Muslim-Christian relations. Within this context, the church's mandate to evangelize Mu…
This dissertation reports the results of several studies which investigated the content and structure of a cultural domain of virtue concepts among Arabic-speaking Sunni Muslim immigrants in the Chicagoland area. In the first part of the dissertation, I argue that virtues and vi…
In this study, we undertake a socio-cultural analysis of female existence in narrative spaces produced by African francophone writers of Muslim cultural background. We begin this analysis with the premise that one of the fundamental components of any culture is a set of values r…