Browsing by Subject "ethnography"

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    • Capturing new community: a case study in digital filmmaking as ethnography 
      Underwood, IV, George Milton (2007-09-19)
      Department: Community Research and Action
      This thesis examines the case of New Community Church, a digital film made by the author, from the perspective of ethnographic research. The case study shows how ethnographic process involves movement from a formative ...
    • Colonial ethnographers: writing, alterity and Eurocentrism in the conquest of America 
      Solodkow, David Mauricio (2009-04-08)
      Department: Spanish
      In my dissertation I analyze the discursive construction of cultural identities during the first century of European colonial occupation in the Americas. In order to do so, I explore a broad variety of colonial discourses ...
    • Democracy and education in a white suburban high school: an ethnography 
      Stenson, Christine Marie (2007-04-05)
      Department: Leadership and Policy Studies
      This ethnographic study begins by outlining two competing conceptions of democracy, the participatory and representative views. These conceptions frame an analysis of the practices for socialization for democratic citizenship ...
    • Saving the Sacred Sea: Baikal Environmentalism from Iron Curtain to Global Modernity 
      Brown, Kate (Anne Katherine) Pride (2015-03-16)
      Department: Sociology
      What is the effect of globalization on the development of civil society? This dissertation examines the relationship between these two phenomena by examining environmentalist efforts in Irkutsk, Russia. Environmentalism ...
    • The Eve-olution of Modern Woman 
      McMillan, Serena; 0009-0004-7335-3234 (2023-03-09)
      Department: Religion
      Popular ecclesial depictions of the character of Eve present women as inferior to men, while much scholarship has sought to liberate her character from negative stereotypes. Women are seen as responsible not only for the ...