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Cadernos de Estudos Africanos, 2020 In this article it is argued that school, in a post-colonial context, is a space that (re)produces social inequalities. School is an institution that reproduces culture, a place of power in which reality is socially constructed by an elite that has been ...
Xénia de Carvalho
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Investigating a narrative based approach to leader development: Life stories, middle managers and the leader-follower paradox : A thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the postgraduate degree of Master of Advanced Leadership Practice at Massey University, Albany, New Zealand [PDF]
, 2017 There is a small amount of emergent leadership literature recommending people incorporate a narrative based approach into their leader development. This approach involves the identification and reflection on experiences and events from ones’ life so a
Knowsley, Mathew David
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EtnoAntropologiaThe essay reflects on the processes of redefining the forms of living in a rural community, Trequanda (in the province of Siena), which has experienced a partial repopulation since the 1970s with the arrival of individuals (couples and families of ...
Simonetta Grilli, Fabio Mugnaini
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Polyploidization of Indotyphlops braminus: evidence from isoform-sequencing
BMC Genomic DataBackground Indotyphlops braminus, the only known triploid parthenogenetic snake, is a compelling species for revealing the mechanism of polyploid emergence in vertebrates. Methods In this study, we applied PacBio isoform sequencing technology to generate
Fei Zhu +4 more
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Temporal Orientations in Life Stories
Suomen AntropologiThis article draws on ethnographic material from life stories and nonfiction literature and is complemented by fieldwork vignettes. The material is used to discuss how experiences of connections and disconnections between past and present, self and ...
Ingjerd Hoëm
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Etnoantropološki Problemi, 2011 Based on fieldwork conducted in Eastern Serbia (Knjaževac and Kučevo with surrounding regions), this paper analyzes the life stories of migrant workers as material crucial for anthropological and folkloristic research into experiences, values and ...
Dragana Antonijević +2 more
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THE GARDEN OF STORIES: REVIEW OF VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN IN A RIO DE JANEIRO SLUM [PDF]
Antropólogos Iberoamericanos en Red, 2017 This article is the result of a period of research on violence against women in Brazil. It arises from the work as psychologist in an integral institution of the national policy to prevent and cope such violence, located in a favela in Rio de Janeiro ...
Marisa Antunes Santiago +2 more
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Narratives and the Ethics and Politics of Environmentalism: The Transformative Power of Stories [PDF]
, 2001 By revealing the centrality of stories to action, to social life and to inquiry together with the implicit assumptions in polyphonic stories about the nature of humans, of life and of physical reality, this paper examines the potential of stories to ...
Gare, Arran
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Between the Barrio and the City: Pathways of Work among Scavenging Families [PDF]
, 2014 In this article, I will reconstruct, through brief stories, some of the traits that characterize the way of life of families in the El Salvador neighborhood, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, go scavenging everyday in Buenos Aires city.
Gorban, Debora
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[Review of] Louise Erdrich. Love Medicine [PDF]
, 1986 Love Medicine brings together the stories of the Kashpaws and Lamartines, two Chippewa families of North Dakota. Two major themes, love and death, produce both the continuity of the novel and of family traditions that are the foundation of each character\
Brydon, Barbara
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