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Technology: Practice and Culture
2014All technologies, qua technologies, have technical components — the materials, designs, parts, and processes that constitute them, as well as the scientific principles by which they operate. However, all technology is also socially, culturally, ecologically, and politically situated. How effective a technology is in the world, depends not only upon its
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Diagnosis as Cultural Practice
2005Diagnosis isn't what it seems. It is usually treated as a label, arrived at by professionals, to explain a problem and to point to treatment. This view of diagnosis fits "the medical model". Authors in this book view diagnosis as a process, not a label.
Dana Kovarsky, Judith Felson Duchan
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The practical arts and culture
Peabody Journal of Education, 1932Matthew Arnold thought that to be cultured is "to know the best that has been thought and said in the world." Huxley in commenting on that definition remarked that, "It is the criticism of life contained in literatures." But Huxley thought, that "After having learned all that Greek, Roman, and Eastern antiquity have thought and said, and all that ...
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2012
In 1989, I started to grow sweetgrass at CREC and the only way I knew how to start new fields was to dig “mother plants” from the ocean front and separate the clumps into smaller separations or “mini clumps” and plant those (Fig. 15.1). At that time, we had no idea how to germinate sweetgrass and so we depended on digging sweetgrass mother plants from ...
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In 1989, I started to grow sweetgrass at CREC and the only way I knew how to start new fields was to dig “mother plants” from the ocean front and separate the clumps into smaller separations or “mini clumps” and plant those (Fig. 15.1). At that time, we had no idea how to germinate sweetgrass and so we depended on digging sweetgrass mother plants from ...
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The Practicality of Votive Culture
Material Religion, 2017Votive practice may be understood as a technique or ritual procedure that operates ad hoc, that is, as an intervention tasked to solve a particular problem.
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The Practice and Culture of Smuggling
2018This chapter situates smuggling as a transgressive economic practice that is embedded in the wider social, political and cultural connectivity of the borderland. It discusses how smuggling is socially embedded in and regulated by kinship associations of the borderland.
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The Modern Language Journal, 1922 2017
This chapter focuses on the notion of "cultural competence", partly to clarify its significance and partly to evaluate its usefulness as a concept that can cast light on sociological aspects of death, grief, and bereavement. In a sense, cultural competence is the modern equivalent of ethnically sensitive practice.
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This chapter focuses on the notion of "cultural competence", partly to clarify its significance and partly to evaluate its usefulness as a concept that can cast light on sociological aspects of death, grief, and bereavement. In a sense, cultural competence is the modern equivalent of ethnically sensitive practice.
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