Bamboo is regarded as the most versatile woody plant worldwide. It accompanied humans from prehistoric times and contributed much to the socio-cultural and technological development of many small-scale and large-scale societies in Asia, the Americas, and Africa. Moreover, bamboo…
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The aim of this thesis was to develop understanding of women’s experiences of inpatient mental health services. The thesis comprises three separate papers: 1) systematic literature review, 2) an empirical study and 3) a critical appraisal of the research process. Paper One is a …
Literature on the southern Philippines region of Mindanao has a longstanding gender gap, with relatively little attention paid to the role of women either in history or in the contemporary era, despite international and national concern about gender in the recent peace process i…
This ethnographic study explores the ways in which religion impacts the lives of those who live and visit the Isle of Lewis, an island off the northwest coast of Scotland. The churches on the island are, predominantly, of conservative Presbyterian denominations; the island has o…
This thesis followed the journey of a small sample of women from one netball club located in the East of England to provide an insightful analysis into their childhood experiences of sport, exploring the extent to which this may have shaped their adult participation and the comp…
This thesis presents an ethnographic case study into the political anthropology of contemporary religion. By exploring the ‘liquid’ faith of participants in the Religious Society of Friends (‘Quakers’), it carefully examines the social and political practices that constitute the…
This study examines maracatu nação, a working-class, Afro-Brazilian carnival pageant from the city of Recife in Pernambuco state, and its relationship to the transnational circuits of knowledge production created by elite artists and intellectuals interested in the practice. Mar…
Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have emerged as symbols of modernity in the developing world, and currently policy makers and popular press perceived them as bridges to promote social and digital equalities. However, scholars have regularly demonstrated that di…
This study examines how implementing ethnographic tools and techniques into an international cultural immersion program (ICIP) curriculum specifically influences group members' intercultural competency. For this study, an ethnographic inquiry curriculum is introduced to particip…
This study focuses on the education of students who have been adopted internationally and are now learning English in school. Teachers typically have little training for—or experience with—working with these learners. Largely an unstudied area, this dissertation aims to shed lig…
Scholars of migration, colonization, and cultural interaction in antiquity have increasingly turned towards a variety of concepts (such as hybridity, negotiations, and middle grounds) developed by postcolonial theorists to describe the dynamics of ancient civilizations beyond th…
Media use is neither socially determined nor socially determinative outside of subjectivity, the process by which the self makes meaning of its place in the world. To further our understandings of media and social change, this dissertation examines the relationship between Leban…
In Indonesia, during six months in 1965-1966, between half a million and a million people were killed during a purge of suspected Communist Party members after a purported failed coup d’état blamed on the Communist Party. Hundreds of thousands of Indonesians were imprisoned with…
Background. Traditional perspectives of veteran mental health are grounded in physiological and psychological principles of trauma response and recovery. An alternative perspective is needed for the provision of culturally relevant healthcare to our nation’s newest veterans. Res…
A small-scale ethnographic case study of young children's learning from television in southern Illinois provides understanding about the frameworks used for interpreting media use in family life. The research consisted of in-home interviews about patterns of using the media, obs…
The phenomenon of mass incarceration in the United States has been attributed to a number of factors, including punitive legislation, neo-liberal economic policies, and a "culture of control" that supports continual carceral growth. Little research has examined how these nationa…
A challenge of second language learning for the 21st century is to incorporate affect into second language learning. The current emphasis on empowering Saudi second language learners into self-directed students underscores the role of affect has for the future of second language…
An ethnography based on research carried out between 2009 and 2010 in the vicinity of Bor Town, the capital of Jonglei State, in what was then Southern Sudan, this dissertation is primarily concerned with people's reflections on making agreements with one another during a period…
This dissertation, based on thirteen months of dissertation fieldwork in Moscow, Russia (from October 1995 to November 1996), addresses religious ritual as the means through which people express and create their ethnicities in the post-Soviet context. I focus on the ritual life …