Anthropology URC Student Scholarship
Recent Submissions
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After Graceland: Can cultural transmission through music improve post-Apartheid racial relations in South Africa?
(2005-01-01)Through analysis of two stations that broadcast hip hop, and shadowing a specific break dancing troupe, I gained a full perspective of the forces encouraging and discouraging racial integration in Johannesburg's hip hop ... -
Walking Culture: Authenticity, Pilgrimage and Tourism Along the Camino de Santiago.
(1999-01-01)The Camino de Santiago is a Christian pilgrimage in the north of Spain leading to the city of Santiago de Compostela. For almost 1000 years pilgrims have walked hundreds of kilometers in the attempt to reach Santiago. Since ... -
History, Hegemony, and Identity Politics: An Ethnoarchaeological Examination of Heritage Sites in Ireland
(2001-01-01)Duchas, The Heritage Service, is a government organization which funds, organizes, and establishes "Heritage Sites" throughout the nation of Ireland. "Heritage Sites" are simply locations which The Heritage Service has ... -
Methodological Reflections onEthnic and Disciplinary Categories
(2000-01-01)My initial proposal for the Ford research grant was to examine how Armenian identity is articulated and constructed by Armenian-Americans in Los Angeles. I explained that Armenians have used essential definitions to portray ... -
Project GOLD Curriculum.
(2004-01-01)Project GOLD is a gang intervention and prevention program created and implemented this past year in conjunction several organizations. The program itself was split into two distinct phases; the first half directed by the ... -
Job Satisfaction: A Case Study.
(2001-01-01)Job satisfaction is one of the most important concepts in the study of organizational behavior along with absenteeism, productivity, and turnover. Many researchers and industrial psychologists are interested in finding ... -
Participating in Participatory Research: An Indian Methodology for Social Change
(2004-01-01)In the summer of 2004, I will travel to India to learn participatory research in the context of India's growing popular education movement, specifically as the movement has impacted women of the oppressed classes. Located ... -
Deconstructing the Bushman Image: Representations of the San in Southern Africa
(2004-01-01)The San are one of the most marginalized people in the world. Their peripheral status has been cemented in the media, through television documentaries and major films that show them as living in an idyllic wilderness, as ... -
The Cross-Cultural Applicabilityof the Concept of Sexual Harassment.
(2000-01-01)Sexual harassment is a concept which was originally formulated in the United States, but received world-wide attention following the Clarence Thomas/ Anita Hill trial. Basing my study in Brazil, I intend to look at the ... -
Meaning and Demeaning:Life Accounts on the Worth of Work
(2004-01-01)Today, work is a lifestyle, not simply a living. Our jobs are much more than a means of putting food on the table; they define our lives and classify us in our society. To take pride in a job is to do work that is both ... -
Social Constructs of Hawaiian Land and Identity: Connections between Native Plants and Native People
(2003-01-01)Using medical anthropological theories and methods, the purpose of this project was to investigate the culturally constructed models of a healthy native Hawaiian identity, focusing on the use of plants. I explored the ... -
Culture Lives on in the Surviving Soul: The Effects of Assimilation on the Preservation of Australian Aboriginal Culture and Identity
(1999-01-01)The Australian Aboriginals, thought by some to have embodied one of the simplest forms of cultural existence, were colonized by the British in the late eighteenth century, thus causing a potential threat to the maintenance ... -
The Fusion Music of the British Asian Dance Club and Concert: Contemporary Ethnic Identity of Anglicized Second Generation South Asians
(2003-01-01)My Richter project aims to study ways in which second generation Brit-Asians in London overcome the struggle to identify and juxtapose both their British and South Asian cultural identity through fusion music. Contemporary ... -
Judgment and Justification: Globalization and Cultural Knowledge Among American and Moroccan Students
(2003-01-01)This is an ethnographic project based at Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco. My primary goal is to understand how culture flows between American students studying abroad at the university, and their Moroccan hosts. ... -
The Cultural Significance of Hawaiian Dance in Japan.
(2000-01-01)I plan to study the cultural significance of Hawaiian dance (hula) in Japan. A component of Japanese culture comprises their tendency to 'adopt,' 'adapt,' and become 'adept' at a foreign theory or project. Is the presence ... -
Social Impacts of Microloanson Women and their Families.
(2002-01-01)I will spend the summer of 2002 in Cochabamba, Bolivia exploring the social impacts of microloans on women and their families. Microloans 'small, low-interest loans given to poor people' are widely available throughout ... -
Constructed Identity and Social Response:Dance as Cultural Catalyst withinthe Kuku Yalanji of Queensland, Australia
(2002-01-01)This project consists of the creation of a documentary film on the role dance plays in an Aboriginal Kuku Yalanji community in Queensland, Australia. It seeks to understand how dance is used as a means to construct and ... -
Childcare Responsibilities and their Relationship to Gender Equality in Cape Town, South Africa.
(2002-01-01)I will be studying the connections of gender equality and childcare responsibilities in the lives of black women in Cape Town, South Africa. In essence, I will attempt to determine if the state and/or men are willing to ... -
Self-Expression and Identity: Women in Capoeira in Brazil
(2002-01-01)An infusion of dance, martial arts and acrobatics, Capoeira varies in practice from region to region and with each individual capoeirista in Brazil. I will be traveling to Rio de Janeiro, Goiania, and Salvador, in order ...
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