Statement of Problem: The current educational structure in the state of California continues to be outdated and in need of a modification to conform to classroom demographics. According to the California Department of Education, recommendations have been presented to the State B…
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Indigenous peoples in the United States are already disproportionately experiencing the impacts of climate change. Closely related to tribal efforts to manage climate effects are historical endeavors to assert indigenous sovereignty and govern tribal lands, but deficiencies in t…
The processes by which individuals learn how to perceive, interpret and think about their environment are not completely understood. Sixty years of anthropological studies of indigenous environmental knowledge have largely focused on language-like classification systems. These s…
Indonesia as a nation faces the formidable task of balancing sustainable economic activity, conservation goals, and continuation of traditional indigenous life ways. This research encompasses a broad but integrated system of human-land relationships among the Benuaq Dayak, an in…
Indigenous non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have become increasingly important to sustainable development efforts as evidenced by upward trends in funding amounts and participation levels, acting as distribution channels for development assistance. However, in-depth knowled…
The ‘Nigerian’ supra-national state was built by British colonialism in West Africa's Niger basin. Its supra-national status derives from its multi-national composition. It attracts the attention of scholars who want to account for its continuing poor political performance. Our …
This study investigated the management training needs and the preferred training delivery systems of owner-managers of small/medium sized indigenous construction firms in South West Nigeria. It also identified the major difficulties experienced in the industry by this group of c…
Twenty-seven patients suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and/or Tourettes's Syndrome (TS) were diagnosed according Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders IV (DSM-IV) criteria in Bali, Indonesia. This pilot study was funded in part by the World Hea…
Current approaches to post-war state reconstruction are primarily dominated by the liberal peace thesis. These approaches tend to ignore the indigenous institutions, societal resources and cultural agencies of post-conflict societies, although such entities are rooted in the soc…
This dissertation examines the relationship between church-based medicine and the state in Ethiopia over the course of the 20th century. Church-based healing, associated with the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, can be traced back to the 16th century. It involved a rich complex of pra…
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO, 2002) estimates that 80 percent of the developing world, including some 60 million indigenous people, relies on non-timber forest products (NTFP) for their nutritional, health, material, and income needs. The factors tha…
During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, emigration to Spanish America was restricted legally to old Christians, individuals who could prove they had been Catholic for at least three generations. Due to Spanish authorities' preoccupations with spreading religious orthodox…
I conducted a case study of how a senior university professor presented course content and assessed 2 sets of essays and 2 sets of in-class tests in an undergraduate Sinology course. The study involved the participating professor and 12 students who allowed me to photocopy their…
Betel nut chewing is a social practice that articulates boundaries. The history of betel nut chewing in Southern China indexes the ways in which non-Han minorities were sinicized, demonstrating how betel nut chewing culture was appropriated by Han nobles, and variously incorpora…
This dissertation examines why healing among the Yoruba people remained a successful popular institution in the colonial period between 1922 and 1955. The factors that allowed the Yoruba healing system to flourish were diverse. The Yoruba’s indigenous and colonial political stru…
This inductive study explored the indigenous understandings and beliefs about suffering and healing of a sample of South Asian immigrant women. All seven of the participants had immigrated to the U.S. in the last ten years from South Asian countries, were of working class backgr…
The Evangelical Church of West Africa (ECWA) today is in dire need of a relevant indigenous disciple-making model, with methods that are culturally-relevant and biblically affirmed, to mature its members. This dissertation introduces an indigenous “discipling” model—Christian so…
This study examines traditional African indigenous knowledges and educational practices for the purposes of determining their relevance to and applicability in Black-focused schools in Toronto, Ontario. Literature-based, the study examines the writings of Afrocentrists---Cheikh …
India needs Christ and He will be welcomed best in a native garb. It is generally agreed that the Church in India must be indigenous. I realize this is an urgent task that should be done as early as possible. In this book I especially want to draw the attention of the readers to…