1,376 research outputs found
Identity and consumption practices of Northamptonshire Caribbeans c.1955-1989
No full textThe objective of this thesis is to delineate and analyse Northamptonshire Caribbeans' consumption c.1955-1989. Author-collected and other oral histories alongside complementary primary and secondary references dovetail to unearth and analyse aspects of Post-War Caribbean consumption in a British provincial location that have been significantly unexplored previously. Central to the argument is the contention that identity is fundamentally significant in comprehending and analysing Northamptonshire Caribbeans' consumption. Various conceptualisations of identity facilitated development of consumer materialisations and aspirations. This thesis explores how multiple forms of identity as Caribbean, Black and British people were significant in shaping local Caribbeans' consumption. The succeeding pages address and analyse how these multiple identities influenced consumption and how provincial consumer behaviour was shaped by Caribbeans' relative co-ethnic isolation in Northamptonshire. Chapter 3 delineates and analyses consumer practices and practicalities of Northamptonshire Caribbeans. Integral within these consumer practices and practicalities are changes in consumption over time, intergenerational differences in consumption, as well as aspects of consumption that could be considered 'typical' and/or 'atypical' Northamptonshire Caribbean consumption; all of which are incorporated within this chapter. Chapter 4 connects identity and consumption through enhancing understanding of Northamptonshire Caribbeans' consumer networks. These networks interacted with the combination of identities local Caribbeans psychologically felt part of within various Caribbean, Black and British permutations. Furthermore, such identities varied more widely amongst the younger generation than their co-ethnic elders, a concept which is also addressed. Education and cultural currency are two novel strands through which to analyse connections between consumption and identity. The final two chapters deploy these concepts in an innovative manner creating and developing greater understanding of Northamptonshire Caribbeans' consumption. Chapter 5 expounds on the concept that education can be used as consumption whilst shaping future consumer behaviour, both ideas significantly under-explored previously. Chapter 6 introduces the theory of cultural currency, the idea that aspects of culture have finite, but changing, values and must be shared to have value similar to monetary currencies having exchange values for other monetary currencies. This chapter demonstrates how Northamptonshire Caribbeans shared aspects of Caribbean culture as cultural currency, fostering co-ethnic strength whilst gaining inter-ethnic respect for Caribbeans. Through comprehending Caribbean identity, correlations between empirical and social history, local consumption, as well as educational and cultural circumstances that stimulated and inspired Northamptonshire Caribbeans, this thesis distinctively illuminates how local Caribbeans' consumption interacted with various permutations of Afro-Caribbean, Black and/or British identities whilst representing idiosyncratic local nodes within these larger amalgamations
Composing and devising music theatre
No full textThe commentary for the portfolio is a theoretical, research-based explanation of the eight pieces contained in the portfolio, all of which were composed with the hypothesis that the visual aspect of musical performance is as important, and is as performative as, the aural aspect.
The portfolio explores the use of text in musical composition by setting texts, and charting a progression from scores using conventional musical notation (‘Oh mihi, Duncia!’, ‘um’, ‘Brainbow mouse’), to those using verbal notation (ahamkara, ‘geneRic speCtator, ‘five tableaux for five musicians’). ‘Cornucopian cloud’ is situated at the half-way point between these two, using a graphical cue notation for physical communication between players alongside specific musical material, while the final piece, ‘nothing new’, compresses the transition from musical to verbal notation into its concept and structure.
This progression is the primary research concern of the pieces’ composition, as seen in the focus on the act of making performance which shifts from composer to performer. The incorporation of text into the compositional process through a process of assimilation is analysed, as explored through the creation of scores for devising pieces of music theatre. Devising is considered as the function of the score as a textual stimulus for performers. Consequently, all the pieces require improvisation, except ‘Brainbow mouse’; all are visual, physical pieces.
A supplementary theme pervading the portfolio is the influence of ‘Surrealist intentions’, to quote Nicolas Calas: the idea that two objects, which may not be expected or thought of as being similar or related, but which can be seen to have an interactive relationship through their juxtaposition. In this light words and music, words and movements, and music and movements, are considered, alongside the existence of an artwork’s ‘self’
Life expectancy and the Global Burden of Disease 1990–2016: little cause for complacency
No full textThe Politics of Social Policy Reform in the United States: The Clinton and the W. Bush Presidencies Reconsidered
No full textThe purpose of this paper is to examine what key reform attempts during the Bill Clinton and George W. Bush presidencies reveal about the wider possibilities for social policy change in the United States. Most particularly, why were Presidents Clinton and Bush able to achieve their goals in some policy realms but so badly defeated in others? As argued, institutional variation from one policy area to another helps answer this question. On the one hand, strong institutional obstacles in the fields of Social Security and health insurance largely explain the defeat of the most ambitious social policy proposal put forward by each president. On the other hand, successful reforms occurred in a comparatively favourable institutional context. Yet, the analysis also suggests that paying close attention to the strategic ideas of political actors as they interact with existing institutions and policy legacies is necessary to fully understand the politics of social policy reform.social policy, Medicare, Social Security, welfare, institutions, United States
Book Review of: The changing face of disease: implications for society by Nick Mascie-Taylor, Jean Peters, Stephen McGarvey (eds)
No full textNewbigging Pottery Musselburgh, Scotland c 1800 - c 1930 Ceramic Resource Disc 1
No full textThe Newbigging ceramic material, listed and photographed on the enclosed disk has been assigned to the National Museums of Scotland and was catalogued using accession numbers (FD 2004.1.1 to 507. This small and fairly commonplace ceramic assemblage derives from a pottery of 19th and early 20th century date. The shards have been divided by fabric type, form and decoration into 6 folders and 58 files. The majority of the pottery was recovered during a small rescue excavation and salvage operation funded by Historic Scotland. Most of the on site work was carried out by Alison McIntyre, Alan Radley and the author over a three week period at the end of December 1987 and beginning of January 198
'BROTHERS IN ARMS'?: The American and British Coalition on the Western Front, 1918
No full textThis dissertation examines in detail, the organisation, training and operations of
the 27 th and 30th American Divisions during the period of Summer 1917 to the
announcement of an armistice in November 1918. Particular emphasis is placed
on the two divisions after they were attached to the 11 American Corps. especiallý
their experience with the British Expeditionary Force in 1918, and the training
received under the supervision of British officers.
The 11 American Corps was unique in that it spent its entire service in France in
the British sector. Originally it was composed of 10 divisions, but eight of these
were removed by the commander of the American Expeditionary Forces, Gen.
John. J. Pershing. The divisions were transferred to the First American Army and
operated entirely independent of 11 American Corps. The týýo American divisions
that h, oth remained with the British, the 27t and -3 , relied heavily upon their coalition
partners for advice in training, supplies, equipment, food and more importantly,
tactical leadership. Although General Pershing forbade American divisions from
being th -, oth amalgamated into Allied armies, in reality, the 27 and -)
Divisions
became part of the BEF, especially the Fourth Arrný during the final campaigns of
the war. Despite its attachment to arguably the best fighting force on the Western
Front in 1918, the 11 American Corps suffered heavý casualties during its limited
operational experience and. in many ways. failed to take advantage of lessons
learned by the British Army during its campaigns of 1916-1917.
This dissertation concludes that the relationship between the two American
divisions and their British ally was in the end result a success. By allowing the
27 th and 30'hDivisions to remain behind with the BEF, Pershing provided the
British with more than 50,000 able American troops to use at the front. Thus the
tNNo ,a llies became Brothers-in-Arms
The 'true use of reading' : Sarah Fielding and mid eighteenth-century literary strategies.
No full textPhDThe aim of this thesis is to explore, by examining her life and
works, how Sarah Fielding (1710-68) established her identity as an author.
The definition of her role involves her notions of the functions of
writing and reading.
Sarah Fielding attempts to invite readers to form a sense of ties
by tacit understanding of her messages. As she believes that a work
of literature is produced through collaboration between the writer and
the reader, it is an important task in her view to show her attentiveness
toward reading practice. In her consideration of reading, she has two
distinct, even opposite views of her audience: on the one hand a familiar
and limited circle of readers with shared moral and cultural values and
on the other potential readers among the unknown mass of people. The
dual targets direct her to devise various strategies. She tries to
appeal to those who can endorse and appreciate her moral values as well
as her learning. Her writings and letters testify that she is sensitive
to the demands of the literary market, trying to lead the taste of readers
by inventing new forms.
The thesis opens with an overview of Sarah Fielding's career,
followed by a consideration of her critical attention to the roles of
reading. I go on to examine the narrative structures and strategies
she deploys, with a particular emphasis on her use of the epistolary
method. The following chapter deals with her attention to the reading
of the moral message tangibly embodied in her educational writing. It
is followed by an analysis of the activity which earned her a reputation
as a learned woman. Various as the forms of her works are, they invariably
reflect her attempt to balance herself between the two demands of
inventiveness and familiarity
La polémica entre Franz Boas y Konrad Th. Preuss en torno al análisis sistémico de la mitología kwakiutl. Antropología. Boletín Oficial del Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia: Viejas y nuevas religiosidades. Num. 68 Nueva Época (2002) octubre-diciembre
No full textAlcocer, Paulina, “La magia en las palabras. Tylor, Preuss y Malinowski. El debate inconcluso entre animismo y preanimismo”, tesina de maestría en Historia y Filosofía de la Ciencia, México, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana- Iztapalapa, 2000.——, “Elementos humboldtianos en la teoría de la religión y de la magia de Konrad Theodor Preuss”, ponencia presentada en la XXVI Mesa Redonda de la Sociedad Mexicana de Antropología, Zacatecas, 2001.Berman, Judith, “’The Culture as It Appears to the Indian Himself: Boas, George Hunt, and the Methods of Ethnography”, en Volksgeist as Method and Ethic. Essays on Boasian Ethnography and the German Anthropological Tradition (George W. Stocking, Jr., ed.), Madison, The University of Wisconsin Press, 1996, pp. 215-256.Boas, Franz (ed.), Handbook of American Indian Languages, Bulletin 40, Washington, D. C., Bureau of American Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution, 1911.——, “Review of G. W. Locher, The Serpent in Kwakiutl Religion: A Study in Primitive Culture”, en Deutsche Literaturzeitung, 1933, pp. 1182-1186.——, “The Study of Geography”, en Race, Language and Culture, Chicago y Londres, The University of Chicago Press, 1940 [1887], pp. 639-647.——, “The Limitations of the Comparative Method of Anthropology”, en Race, Language and Culture, Chicago y Londres, The University of Chicago Press, 1940 [1896], pp. 270-280.——, “The Aims of Anthropological Research”, en Race, Language and Culture, Chicago y Londres, The University of Chicago Press, 1940 [1932], pp. 243-259.
Bunzl, Matti, “Franz Boas and the Humboldtian Tradition: From Volksgeist and Nationalcharakter to an Anthropological Concept of Culture”, en Volksgeist as Method and Ethic. Essays on Boasian Ethnography and the German Anthropological Tradition (George W. Stocking, Jr., ed.), Madison, The University of Wisconsin Press, 1996, pp. 17-78.Cole, Douglas, Franz Boas. The Early Years, 1858-1906, Seattle y Londres, m University of Washington Press, 1999.Dascal, Marcelo, “Epistemología, controversias y pragmática”, en Isegoria, 12 (1995), pp. 8-43.——, “The Study of Controversies and the Theory and History of Science”, en Science in Context, 11, 2 (1998), pp. 147-154.Effert, F.R., J.P.B. de Josselin de Jong, Curator and Archeologist. A Study of his Early Career (1910-1935), Together with a Bibliography of J.P.B. de Josselin de Jong (1886-1964) by F.R. Effert and H.F. Vermeulen, Leiden, Leiden University, Center of Non-Western Studies Publication, number 7, 1992.Furst, Peter T., “Introduction to chapter 4 [Konrad Theodor Preuss (1869-1938) on the Huichols]”, en Stacey B. Schaefer y Peter T. Furst (eds.), People of the peyote. Huichol indian history, religion and survival, Albuquerque, University of New Mexico Press, 1996.Jonaitis, Aldona, A Wealth of Thought. Franz Boas on Native American Art, Seattle y Londres, University of Washington Press, 1995.Josselin de Jong, J.P.B. de, “The Malay Archipielago as a Field of Ethnological Study”, en Structural Anthropology in the Netherlands. A Reader, P.E.Josselin de Jong, editor, Leiden, Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-Land-en Volkenkunde, 1983 [1935]; pp. 166-182.Lévi-Strauss, Claude, “Historia y etnología”, en Antropología estructural, Barcelona, Ediciones Paidós, 1992 [1958], pp. 49-72.Lévi-Strauss, Claude y Didier Eribon, Conversations with Claude Lévi-Strauss, Chicago y Londres, The University of Chicago Press, 1991 [1988].Locher, Gottfred Wilhelm, The Serpent in Kwakiutl Religion. A Study in Primitive Culture, Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1932.——, “The Reactions of Franz Boas and Konrad Theodor Preuss to a Structural Interpretation of Kwakiutl Mythology in 1933”, en Symbolic Anthropology in the Netherlands, P. E. de Josseling de Jong y Erik Schwimmer (eds.), La Haya, Martinus Nijhoff, 1982.Neurath, Johannes y Jesús Jáuregui, “La expedición de Konrad Theodor Preuss al Nayarit (1905-1907) y su contribución a la mexicanística”, en Preuss, Konrad Theodor, Fiesta, literatura y magia en el Nayarit, México, Instituto Nacional Indigenista - Centro Francés de Estudios Mexicanos y Centroamericanos,1998, pp. 15-60.Preuss, Konrad Th., “Der Kampf der Sonne mit den Sternen in Mexiko”, en Globus. Illustrierte Zeitschrift für Länder- und Völkerkunde, Brunswick, 87, 19 (1905), pp. 333-337.——, Die Nayarit-Expedition. Textaufnahmen und Beobachtungen unter mexikanischen Indianern 1. Die Religion der Cora-Indianer in Texten nebst Wörterbuch Cora-Deutsch, Leipzig, B. G. Teubner, 1912, pp. CVII + 396.——, Die geisitige Kultur der Naturvölker, Leipzig, B. G. Teubner (Aus Natur und Geisteswelt, Sammlung wissenschaftlich-gemeinverständlicher Darstellungen, 452), 1914.——, Die religiöse Gehalt der Mythen, Tübingen, J. B. Mohr, (Sammlung gemeinverständlicher Vorträge und Schriften aus den Gebieten der Theologie und Religionswissenschaft, 162), 1933——, “G. W. Locher, The Serpent in Kwakiutl Religion. A Study in Primitive Culture, Leyden, 1932”, en Sociologus. Zeitschrift fürVölkerpsychologie und Sociologie, 9, Stuttgart, 1933, pp. 348- 351.——, Fiesta, literatura y magia en el Nayarit. Ensayos sobre coras, huicholes y mexicaneros de Konrad Theodor Preuss (Jesús Jáuregui y Johannes Neurath, comps.), México, Instituto Nacional Indigenista–Centro Francés de Estudios Mexicanos y Centroamericanos,1998.——, “Die Religion”, en Preuss, Konrad Th. y Richard Thurnwald (comps.), Lehrbuch der Völkerkunde, Stuttgart, Verlag Ferdinand Enke, 1939 [1937], pp. 57-123.Seler, Eduard, “Die Lichtbringer bei den Indianerstämmen der Nordwestküste”, Gesammelte Abhandlungen V, Berlín, Behrend & Co., 1915 [1892], pp. 9-43.Stocking, George W., Jr., “Boasian Ethnography and the German Anthropological Tradition” en Volksgeist as Method and Ethic. Essays on Boasian Ethnography and the German Anthropological Tradition (George W.Stocking, Jr., ed.), Madison, The University of Wisconsin Press, 1996, pp. 3-8
Androgen synthesis inhibition increases behavioural flexibility and mPFC tyrosine hydroxylase in gonadectomized male rats
No full textBehavioural flexibility is essential to adapt to a changing environment and depends on the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC). Testosterone administration decreases behavioural flexibility. It is well known that testosterone is produced in the gonads, but testosterone is also produced in the brain, including the mPFC and other nodes of the mesocorticolimbic system. It is unclear how testosterone produced in the brain versus the gonads influences behavioural flexibility. Here, in adult male rats, we assessed the effects of the androgen synthesis inhibitor abiraterone acetate (ABI) and long-term gonadectomy (GDX) on behavioural flexibility in two paradigms. In Experiment 1, ABI but not GDX reduced the number of errors to criterion and perseverative errors in a strategy set-shifting task. In Experiment 2, with a separate cohort of rats, ABI but not GDX reduced perseverative errors in a reversal learning task. In Experiment 1, we also examined tyrosine hydroxylase immunoreactivity (TH-ir), and ABI but not GDX increased TH-ir in the mPFC. Our findings suggest that neurally-produced androgens modulate behavioural flexibility via modification of dopamine signalling in the mesocorticolimbic system. These results indicate that neurosteroids regulate executive functions and that ABI treatment for prostate cancer might affect cognition
- …
