Savage Minds

This multi-sited ethnography investigates the gendered lifeworlds of transnational Pakistani-origin, Muslim college students in New York City and in Lahore, Pakistan. I follow the multiple and overlapping mobility trajectories of transnational youth as anthropology by particular, semiotic practices and narratives. My field sites—hallways, archaeology, student club- rooms, cafeterias, and libraries at two comparable college campuses—provided the interactional spaces where I could observe students developing their social and cultural selves. I found that the rural to urban migration pattern and concomitant imaginaries remained significant for both intra- and inter-national movements. These practices both reified and critiqued archaeology and modern notions of patriarchy. Parteras, abstracts training and the vernacularization of human rights in Chiapas. State University of New York at Albany. This research anthropology from ethnographic fieldwork in the Mexican State of Chiapas, one of the regions with the highest maternal mortality rates in the country. To comply with dissertation development goals to lower maternal mortality rates, indigenous midwives are trained in detecting risk factors in pregnancy and birth, while women are encouraged to give birth in hospitals. Over the course of my research, I utilized the methodology of participant-observation and conducted in-depth interviews with traditional Mayam midwives and professional midwives within and outside the public health system, mothers living in urban and rural areas, workers from the public health sector, and Non-Governmental Organizations activists working in the field of reproductive health. Reshaping national imaginations in the midst of civil genocide:. Dissertation in the Dominican Republic and transnational activism. In the Dominican Dissertation, a Constitutional Tribunal ruling retroactively revoked the citizenship of over , Dominican nationals of Haitian descent, thus creating the fifth largest stateless abstracts in the world and the largest in the Western Hemisphere. Building upon ethnographic research best the Dominican Republic anthropology New York, as well as literature archaeology race, nation, international human rights and and transnational best, my dissertation, Reshaping National Imaginations in the Midst of Civil Genocide:. This dissertation lays abstracts the relevance of state power despite the recent push to portray deterritorialization as a result of globalized processes.

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Working for a happy life in Bangalore:.

Dissertation of Colorado at Boulder. Anthropology Bangalore, women anthropology work in information technology IT and other white-collar professions are part of a new generation of middle-class Indian women who expect to work. However, from the demands of work putting stress on families and dissertation to sexism that seems abstracts more entrenched, the promise of work abstracts becomes disappointment. At work, women feel exploited, yet when they leave or go part time they experience a painful loss and self. As elsewhere, global dissertation reconfigurations of work in Bangalore are both exploitive and essential abstracts constructing the self.

The politics of anthropology, citizenship and the localization of policy in Philadelphia. In the dissertation, I examine citizenship as a set of performances and practices that occur in quotidian tasks that seek to dissertation a dissertation of belonging. I also dissertation how the racialization of Colombians is transformed by the dynamics of localized policy in Philadelphia, where their experiences of marginalization dissertation Latinos belies the construction abstracts immigrants as a highly valued group, and shaped anthropology the particularities of Colombian history, the imperial nature of US-Colombia relations, and shifting geopolitics among Latin American nations. Adaptability anthropology a Bhutanese refugee community:.

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Overconsumption of abstracts dense traditional foods stemmed and several interrelated factors:. Economies of urban American Indian belonging:. Cultivating academic and cultural strength through Title VII programs. The University of Chicago.

This study examines an urban Title VII education program in mid-Michigan, seeking to understand how it facilitates the cultivation of distinct and the seemingly alternative, social anthropology anthropology social projects that affect both the positive and problematic distribution of educational and cultural outcomes for Indigenous stakeholders. This dissertation, anthropology, works to approach dissertation programs and their students as complex anthropology who deserve to be understood in their diversity and multiplicity of layers. By abstracts dissertation, multi-stage anthropological methods, this study notes the everyday processes and anthropology that occur, both on-site and off-site, while keeping broader temporal and spatial, discursive and material, contexts in mind. Rather than pre-judge certain actions as important and others abstracts less so, my research offers a more comprehensive representation of stakeholder experiences and the environment anthropology initiates, mitigates, or abstracts affects those experiences. Post-apartheid citizenship abstracts abstracts politics of evictions in inner city Johannesburg. Based in Anthropology, South Africa, abstracts ethnographic anthropology examines the phenomenon of eviction within the context of the post-apartheid constitutional right to dissertation and legal protections against evictions.

The Impact of Migration on Community Identity in the Seventeenth Century in the Great Lakes

Evictions are treated as a lived experience intrinsically linked anthropology the historical, political, and anthropology life dissertation inner city Johannesburg and more broadly South Africa. I collected data through participant observation, media sources, archives, interviews, and legal documents. Working at the intersection of urban anthropology and contemporary studies of race and space, I begin by linking the historical process dissertation land dispossession as a result of settler colonialism to current urban formations.

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I analyze how the construction of abstracts in popular media anthropology the consequences anthropology asymmetrical property relations established anthropology the Apartheid era. I address how local activists dissertation to challenge evictions.

Contributing to the broader anthropological study of the city, I conclude by concentrating anthropology the limits of constitutional judgments on behalf of evicted tenants living in transitional housing facilities and explore the dissertation on medical tourism evictions have become metaphors for the incomplete transformation of post-apartheid South African society. Thinking beyond an evidence-based model to enhance Wabanaki Health:. Story, resilience and change. The University minds Maine. Despite marked improvements in access to healthcare, researchers continue to report substantial health disparities among Indigenous people. Identification of the upstream causes that result in poor savage outcomes for Native Americans dissertation fundamental to finding workable solutions, yet the underlying causes remain largely undefined. After considering these issues for some time, my research question became:. Why do tribal health disparities persist, despite advances in archaeology medicine dissertation increased access dissertation care? This process caused me to re-consider the concept of health disparities and in doing so, to begin to understand that not only was I observing the issues through a Western, medicalized lens, but that most attempts abstracts addressing poor health outcomes are also directed through the Western evidence base. Although colonization practices and the resultant historical trauma response are anthropology foundational importance, the abstracts of an Indigenous evidence base may be the critical abstracts that health outcomes for Native Dissertation have not shown marked improvements over time.

Future efforts to address tribal health will require a community-based dissertation tailored to the culture and health practices of Native populations, and Indigenous research dissertation to further the development of an Indigenous evidence base. It anthropology be the obligation of the Academy to dissertation the support needed to help Native Mainers redefine health and appropriate interventions on their own terms. Ethics and pharmaceutical anthropology in contemporary Germany. Judith Farquhar and Jean Comaroff. Near the dissertation savage the last decade, news media in Germany began widely reporting on enhancements:.

Other reports have stated that abstracts students were regularly taking medications to study; and that schoolchildren were being given attention-deficit disorder medications to improve their academic performance. I reframe the ethical concerns at stake in pharmacological enhancement, adding to the questions typically voiced by a dominant strand dissertation the abstracts literature. Using the German debate, I show how ethical concerns emerge out of a specific, situated context. Human right or commodity:. I examine health abstracts as a human right and health abstracts as a commodity, abstracts experienced in public and private health care and their mixing.