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  • *Russian culture *Russian studies Russian|1114280856 ...
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  • and pioneer of African-American studies. He believed that African ... but the World War I interrupted his studies. He joined the Army Medical ...
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  • the frames of meaning through which each culture views the world. His work ... of universities: Center for International Studies at Massachusetts Institute ...
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  • Lakes. Radin believed that to understand a culture other than one's own ... Radin advocated for an individualistic approach to culture studies ...
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  • famous for his study of Zuni Indian culture. Cushing was an expert on ... sharing details of his own life in his culture with them. This way of exchanging ...
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  • to the development of theories of culture within American anthropology ... a lifelong love of their language and culture. He wrote two popular books ...
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  • was a Dutch historian, a philosopher of culture, and one of the founders ... Ludens: A Study of the Play Element in Culture (1938). The work was the ...
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  • social anthropologist, best known for his studies on kinship, family, and ... to 1937 participated in numerous field studies of Tallensi and Ashanti ...
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  • He was also one of the initiators of the culture-historical approach to ethnology ... does, noting three phases in the life of a culture. He also recognized that ...
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  • A Study in Contemporary American Culture (1929) and its follow-up ... A Study in Contemporary American Culture was published in 1929 and ...
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  • sociologist and anthropologist. Her studies on Pueblo Indians are regarded ... where she witnessed American Indian culture and rituals. She later met ...
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  • quot; of the lab, starting a series of studies of different kinds. Among ... memory, including Psychology and Primitive Culture (1923), Feeling, imaging ...
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  • community, recognizing that they have a culture and identity, that deaf ... Detmold encouraged Stokoe in his studies of sign language. Gallaudet ...
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  • |known_for = Studies in child development |author_abbrev_bot = ... years of his career, conducting numerous studies and developing the theories ...
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  • in part, from Korea's conservative culture that discouraged many Korean ... :* 1977 - Women's Studies classes begin. :* 1984 - The School ...
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  • cultural, economic, historical, and psychoanalytic studies. capitalist interests driven American mass culture as the necessary outcomes ...
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  • remained an essential source material for studies of the cultures of the Torres ... approach which essentially linked culture to biology. He was interested ...
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  • of Minnesota in 1904 and started graduate studies at Yale University in 1907 ... of the American School of Classical Studies, Athens in 1920, carrying ...
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  • figure within the New Left and in wider culture. His writings on politics ... Cultural materialism in literary theory and cultural studies emerged ...
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  • rhythms of jazz. He did his formal studies at the University of Illinois ... role of art and artists in developing a culture that manifests the best ...
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  • have the unique role of building a culture of peace by enhancing mutual ... programs in field such as Museum Studies, Arts Administration, and ...
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  • connections among language, thinking, and culture. Work with Benjamin Whorf ... solely linguistics to include cultural studies, psychology, politics, and ...
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  • Ethical Culture is a nontheistic religion established by Felix Adler ... In adhering to its social and moral imperatives, the Ethical Culture ...
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  • The final examination on completing studies at the gymnasium has been ... they take subjects such as vocational studies and economics in addition ...
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  • in many other fields of Near Eastern studies. For example, his his work ... theories, concentrated on Judeo-Christian culture to the exclusion of Canaanite ...
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  • encounter the issue of death. Sociology studies social rules and attitudes ... is a resource for books, media, research studies, and periodicals on the ...
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  • of social evolution. Service made detailed studies of early cultures in Central ... States in 1938, he continued with his studies at the University of Michigan ...
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  • that the history of any people or culture, including that of the Jews ... where he devoted himself entirely to his studies for the next ten years. ...
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  • work. He pioneered the use of long-term studies and in-depth analysis of ... Ethnology will give to culture history, which was until now restricted ...
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  • The seminal text in play studies is Homo Ludens by Johan Huizinga ... of this theory to Computer game studies. The theory of play and ...
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  • autonomy, taking the lead of the Goguryeo culture until Goguryeo absorbed ... the only glimpse we have into Goguryeo culture. Of the 10,000 Goguryeo ...
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  • in the early stages of the modern studies of mythology and comparative ... Burnett Tylor. After reading his Primitive Culture (Tylor 1871), Frazier realized ...
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  • so far from each other that their culture would collapse and be destroyed ... E.E. Evans-Pritchard. However, his studies were cut short when he volunteered ...
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  • *In media-studies terminology, denotation is the first level of analysis: ... denotation and connotation in media studies and semiotics, it is helpful ...
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  • et Bonis Artibus (Latin: "For Religion and Culture") ... enter the clergy upon completion of their studies, Gregorian University also ...
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  • All three kingdoms shared a similar culture and language. Their original ... the creation of Japan's Asuka culture .<!-- date=March 2007 ...
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  • and academic, in Egyptian civilization and culture goes back as far as the ... The numerous sites remaining from this culture, including the great ...
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  • The Yayoi is identified as the first culture in Japan to cultivate rice ... period, making a precise definition of the culture difficult. ...
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  • indigenous North American peoples, whose culture brings the spiritual and ... His works included partial dictionaries, studies of linguistic relationships ...
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  • United States and Europe, producing a number of studies of the phenomenon of precognition, with varying results. Most parapsychologists admit that there ...
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  • social reformer who founded the Ethical Culture movement. of people. He established the Ethical Culture Society which initiated ...
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  • cattle herding is a pivotal part of Nuer culture, and most aspects of daily ... and yet to maintain their unique culture and identity. The civil ...
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  • Stumpf attended local gymnasium, after which he begin his college studies at the University of Wurzburg, studying esthetics and law. At the university ...
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  • 1928 and commenced a program of graduate studies in 1955. Affiliated with ... * The Caspersen School of Graduate Studies * The Drew Theological School ...
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  • and the hasty import of Western culture. Suzuki’s efforts in pioneering ... time (1891), he also entered spiritual studies at Engaku-ji in Kamakura ...
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  • The first serious European studies of Buddhism and Hinduism were undertaken ... painted many depictions of Islamic culture, often including lounging ...
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  • that matriarchy was the earliest form of culture, prior to patriarchy. He ... Platt who published them under the title Studies in Ancient history: Second ...
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  • at the age of 23, he finished his doctoral studies. After that, he went to ... theories to the development of culture in a manner that is no longer ...
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  • as well as its cultural and humanities studies. The institution faced ... VIII, as a Studium for ecclesiastical studies more under his control than ...
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  • "structural-functionalism." Both studies served as the inspiration ... still serves as the sourcebook for the studies of the region. ...
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  • the sociology of human migration with his studies of Polish immigrants in ... social sciences and our understanding of culture and ethnicity. ...
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  • B.C.E., during which the earliest major culture of prehistoric Japan developed ... that many other elements of Japanese culture including Shinto mythology; ...
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  • contribution to the formation of Japanese culture by becoming its spiritual ... ceremony in ways that made it prominent in Japanese culture. ...
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  • found the Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies at Toronto, Canada. He was ... *La société de masse et sa culture, Vrin, 1967. *Hommage à Bergson ...
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  • orphans and promoted education and French culture internationally. He believed ... Institute of Advanced International Studies in Geneva. His interest ...
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  • #039;s contributions include the unique studies of primates conducted by ... and started his new field study on the culture of Kikuyu people. He divorced ...
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  • evidence suggests Chinese bronze culture differed dramatically from ... Anachronism, (Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies) 62(2) (2002):271-305. ...
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  • , High Gods in North America (1933), The Culture Historical Method of Ethnology ... including linguistics, ethnology, and studies of family and religion. ...
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  • well-known for his study of Maori culture. He was a pioneer of economic ... Firth connected to the heart of the people whose culture he studied ...
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  • he made important contributions to the studies of ancient history, epigraphy ... to understand both Eastern and Western culture enabled him to develop remarkable ...
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  • originally as a school for Western studies in 1858 in Edo (now Tokyo ... the Institute of Cultural and Linguistic Studies, are associated with the ...
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  • for Romanian Literature and the Culture of the Romanian People" ... and 1904, and had an important role in the culture and politics of the Romanians ...
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  • of the study were published in Genetic Studies of Genius, Volume I in 1925 ... Terman officially retired in 1942, but continued to conduct studies ...
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  • the primary focus being the study of human culture. In this context, culture ... Any and all of these factors make up important aspects of culture ...
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  • the time, he went to Italy to continue his studies; he arrived in Venice during ... of the Venetians into the German culture, creating the first and ...
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  • adoption of a slang term by mainstream culture will cause the subculture ... together through a shared vocabulary. Each culture generally has its own set ...
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  • most seemingly objective study of Eastern culture or history was biased by ... work in literary theory and cultural studies. Edward Said died at the ...
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  • organism, or to the branch of biology that studies the internal structure and ... is a special field within anatomy and studies structures and systems of ...
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  • these experiences, he introduced Western culture to Japan through his writings ... of 14, Fukuzawa entered a school of Dutch studies, or Rangaku (a Japanese ...
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  • *Conger, Syndy M., and Julie Candler Hayes. 1998. Studies in eighteenth ... inédit de Diderot. Yale Romanic studies, 2d ser., v. 12. New Haven: ...
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  • led to a study of the roots of Japanese culture, including Japanese Buddhist ... and statues from the viewpoints of Western culture and modernity. ...
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  • for having potential design flaws. Some studies did not use truly soundproof ... 2(1) (Fall 2004) (Results from these studies were published in the Jan/Feb ...
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  • interest to women. With the development of studies of sexology as well as the ... of Bilitis has been influential on lesbian culture. This book provided a name ...
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  • after they were assimilated into Chinese culture. Intermarriage was permitted ... Donald S. Sutton. Empire at the margins culture, ethnicity, and frontier ...
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  • Chicago, Park decided to continue with his studies. He enrolled at Harvard ... in immigrants, and conducted numerous studies on them. He was famous for ...
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  • In 1875, Holmes began studying the remains of the Anasazi culture ... Etowah Indian Mounds of the Mississippian culture in Georgia. In 1910, he ...
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  • classes or attend separate schools, cite studies that show students from ... between male and female brains. Studies on male and female brains ...
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  • Some studies, notably Alfred Kinsey's Sexual Behavior in the ... Some studies, including one by controversial researcher J. Michael ...
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  • and the founder of academic sociological studies in Poland, where his theoretical ... recognized that important aspects of culture and ethnicity could be understood ...
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  • a "seriousness" into English studies. He insisted that evaluation ... this year Leavis was appointed director of studies in English at Downing College ...
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  • identified with the Bronze Age Andronovo culture at the Caspian Sea. Their ... The Indo-Aryan migration dates from before the Mature Harappan culture ...
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  • methods, such as firsthand case studies of living cultures, careful ... whose work formed the basis for the "culture concept," which is ...
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  • center of its day. Archaeological studies lead to the conclusion that ... of a highly developed, ancient American culture. When archaeologists recorded ...
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  • potential, and affected every aspect of culture in Europe, including philosophy ... Renaissance humanists followed a cycle of studies, the studia humanitatis ...
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  • Cancel culture (or call-out culture) is a modern form of ostracism ... Cancel culture is a variant on call-out culture and constitutes a ...
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  • and the intellectual fruits of secular culture. Potok was the first Jewish ... century which focused on strictly limited Talmudic studies. ...
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  • pioneer in the field of secular religious studies. In 1967, he established ... readership. His defense of religious studies as a secular discipline ...
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  • For example, on January 1, 2002, the WEU's Security Studies Institute ... * The European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS) and European ...
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  • Indians as an integral part of indigenous culture, had numerous social implications ... in a mosaic of preserved and modified culture specific to the Kwakiutl. ...
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  • of family and society appropriate to the culture of the West, and in particular ... Ruth Benedict, Mead concentrated her studies on problems of child rearing ...
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  • the world, Kato studied rangaku (Western studies) under Oki Nakamasu in Edo ... the rest of the world, rangaku (Western studies) under Oki Nakamasu in Edo ...
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  • as a colorful place with a distinct culture, more akin to Europe and ... stories, such as Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things. ...
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  • establishing scholarly interest in Indian culture, which laid the foundation ... In India, he was entranced by its culture, an as-yet untouched field ...
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  • Religion and director of African American Studies at Princeton after a public ... and organized protests demanding black studies courses at his high school ...
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  • He was a pioneer in adapting to the culture and traditions of a society ... Ricci was a pioneer in distinguishing between religion and culture ...
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  • art movement, Proletkult (proletarian culture). In his lectures and articles ... transl.), Hull, UK: Centre for Systems Studies, University of Hull, 1996. ...
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  • Progress and Poverty led him into his economic studies. ... inequalities and growing materialist culture, nurtured through his membership ...
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  • widespread use in literature and popular culture. The public's fascination ... and H. F. I. Elliott. (Editors). 1987. Studies of Mascarene Island Birds ...
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  • director of the Institute for Cognitive Studies at Rutgers University from ... of the world. His most famous studies were on conformity. He recounted ...
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  • A Native American Encyclopedia: History, Culture, and People (New York, NY: ... Indians of the pre-historic Mississippian culture.Theda Perdue and Michael ...
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