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'I should have some deer, but I don't remember how many': Confused Ownership Of Reindeer in Chukotka, Russia
(2012)
Gray, Patty A.
'I should have some deer, but I don't remember how many': Confused Ownership Of Reindeer in Chukotka, Russia
(2012)
Gray, Patty A.
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As the title of this chapter implies, I seek to highlight the perspective of individual reindeer herders with regard to issues of ownership of the reindeer in their midst. If multiple, overlapping claims to reindeer are m be found in Chukotka3 they are less likely to occur among the herders themselves than between the herders and the state. In the former Soviet Union as well as in post-Soviet Russia, reindeer herders in Chukotka have competed with state agencies for ownership and control of individual reindeer, and have come out the losers.
http://eprints.maynoothuniversity.ie/4273/
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'lkea sofas are like H&M trousers': the potential of sensuous signs
(2013)
Garvey, Pauline
'lkea sofas are like H&M trousers': the potential of sensuous signs
(2013)
Garvey, Pauline
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What makes Ikea sofas similar to H&M trousers? Clothing and furniture retail are increasingly aligned, as both follow fashion trends and seasonal change. Because of the transience that shifting trends imply, clothing is often read as a signifier of superficial or frivolous expression, masking more important realities that lie elsewhere. In this article, I follow Webb Keane in asserting that when treating clothing as a sign of surface adornment, as a mere communicator of meaning, one not only dematerialises the sign but foregrounds meaning over action. In focusing on the sensuous qualities of signs (qualisigns), I view Ikea goods as sites of potential and compare how adorned surfaces are more than semiotic vehicles, but also material things that have effects.
http://eprints.maynoothuniversity.ie/4547/
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'More power to the Indians' : Roger Casement, the Putumayo, and indigenous rights
(2011)
O Siochain, Seamas
'More power to the Indians' : Roger Casement, the Putumayo, and indigenous rights
(2011)
O Siochain, Seamas
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Marking the centenary of Roger Casement's humanitarian investigations in the Putumayo region of the Upper Amazon, this article suggests that he notr only recognized the abuses there as systemic but increasingly saw them as part of the wider features of exploitation which accompanied colonization and empire. His Putumayo work illustrated a long-term commitment on his part to what we would term today indigenous rights.
http://eprints.maynoothuniversity.ie/3605/
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'The Last Kulak' and other stories of post-privatization life in Chukotka’s tundra
(2006)
Gray, Patty A.
'The Last Kulak' and other stories of post-privatization life in Chukotka’s tundra
(2006)
Gray, Patty A.
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The Chukchis and Evens of western Chukotka led a nomadic or semi-nomadic way of life for hundreds of years, until mid-twentieth century campaigns by the Soviet state for the most part settled them in permanent villages.
http://eprints.maynoothuniversity.ie/2027/
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'The Last Kulak' and other stories of post-privatization life in Chukotka’s tundra
(2006)
Gray, Patty A.
'The Last Kulak' and other stories of post-privatization life in Chukotka’s tundra
(2006)
Gray, Patty A.
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The Chukchis and Evens of western Chukotka led a nomadic or semi-nomadic way of life for hundreds of years, until mid-twentieth century campaigns by the Soviet state for the most part settled them in permanent villages.
http://eprints.maynoothuniversity.ie/1243/
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'Vengeance is sweet': a herdswoman's recompense in the music of the Mantaro Valley
(2006)
BRADBY, BARBARA M
'Vengeance is sweet': a herdswoman's recompense in the music of the Mantaro Valley
(2006)
BRADBY, BARBARA M
http://hdl.handle.net/2262/63897
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"An Outsider's View of Modern Ireland: Michel Houellebecq's Atomised"
(2003)
Maher, Eamon
"An Outsider's View of Modern Ireland: Michel Houellebecq's Atomised"
(2003)
Maher, Eamon
http://arrow.dit.ie/ittbus/88
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“Man the fisher”: salmon fishing and the expression of community in a rural Irish settlement
(1981)
Taylor, Lawrence J.
“Man the fisher”: salmon fishing and the expression of community in a rural Irish settlement
(1981)
Taylor, Lawrence J.
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This paper analyzes the significance of the summer salmon fishery of Teelin, a small coastal settlement in county Donegal, Ireland. Although not of great economic importance to most Teelin families, the salmon pursuit is the subject of considerable cultural attention, providing a source of communal and personal identity. An explanation for the disproportionate cultural strength of the fishery is sought in its contribution to the maintenance of the local community as a bounded social entity in a region where historical disincorporations have made the existence and nature of such communities problematic. The ways in which the interactional and experiential aspects of this fishery contribute to Teelin’s “local culture” are examined as a sample case of the relation between any such socially definitive activity and the structure of a local system of social relations or ideology.
http://eprints.maynoothuniversity.ie/2015/
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“There are two things that people don’t like to hear about themselves”: the anthropology of Ireland and the Irish view of anthropology
(1996)
Taylor, Lawrence J.
“There are two things that people don’t like to hear about themselves”: the anthropology of Ireland and the Irish view of anthropology
(1996)
Taylor, Lawrence J.
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My title is derived from a quip by the late John Maloney, a wise publican of southwest Donegal. The year was 1973, and we had been discussing the public relations problems of anthropologists in Ireland. No doubt exaggerating, he told me that, according to his sources, neither of two ethnographers of small islands off the west coast could safely return to his research site. I asked him about a rather technical kinship article by another anthropologist who had conducted fieldwork close by in west Donegal; surely that had not upset anyone? His answer: “There are two things that people don’t like to hear about themselves; one of them is lies and the other’s the truth.”
http://eprints.maynoothuniversity.ie/2043/
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A Chinese Writer's Vicissitude in the Political and cultural Context of Early Modern China
(2014)
Peng, Lijing
A Chinese Writer's Vicissitude in the Political and cultural Context of Early Modern China
(2014)
Peng, Lijing
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This dissertation explores the social and linguistic contexts of Shen Congwen's literary works, with a particular focus on (1) the way his works enriched and stratified nationalist ideology/narratives and (2) the linguistic ideologies, the historical images and the literary images registered as semiotic processes which mediated the Hmong identity formation and differentiation in Xiangxi, China. A range of scholars have demonstrated that the modern novel is one of the main tools for propagating the practices and ideologies of standardized language under nationalism. In this dissertation I examine the nature of the nationalist ideologies embodied in the still very young Modern Mandarin literature. Accordingly I have chosen texts in which collisions of different aesthetic and poetic traditions in Chinese history can be readily observed. Through a detailed analysis of literary devices including the juxtaposition of time-space configurations, the interactions of diversified linguist...
http://eprints.maynoothuniversity.ie/5613/
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A Mercenary Author for Hire.
(2005)
El-Tom, Abdullahi
A Mercenary Author for Hire.
(2005)
El-Tom, Abdullahi
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The British writer and "activist" David Hoile launched a new publication on Sudan in 2005. This work comes under the title, Darfur In Perspective, and is published by his own London-based Organisation. Sifting through the analysis of the book, the reader would be forgiven for concluding that the book is either an evil joke or otherwise a work commissioned by the like of Musa Hilal, the notorious Darfur Janjaweed (Arab Militia) leader, whose name is certain to top the UN list for Darfur war criminals.
http://eprints.maynoothuniversity.ie/1091/
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A Passage to Indiana: Reflections on Fieldwork in a Reverse Direction
(2006)
Mathur, Chandana
A Passage to Indiana: Reflections on Fieldwork in a Reverse Direction
(2006)
Mathur, Chandana
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My two years (1989-91) of dissertation fieldwork were spent in Southern Indiana in a small town located near the flagship plant of a major multinational corporation, the Aluminium Company of America (Alcoa). As an Indian woman anthropologist whose work centres on mainstream American culture, I have become well used to the inevitable amused chuckle drawn by this disclosure. Any exploration of the intentions underlying the project, of the fieldwork experience itself, of the particular difficulties involved in writing about it, and (most pertinently for this collection) of the residues remaining, however, requires reaching beyond the cheap paradox element of this fieldwork encounter.
http://eprints.maynoothuniversity.ie/2973/
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A study of cultural agency and an analysis of its application
(2014)
Garry, Shauna
A study of cultural agency and an analysis of its application
(2014)
Garry, Shauna
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This study is concerned with analysing the application of cultural agency in two distinct cases. The case in Bogotá, Colombia, examines the promotion of civic awareness through the use of mime artists and how this led the city to embark on a major cultural experiment, under the instruction of the city mayor, Antanas Mockus. The case in Dublin, Ireland, examines RTE‟s documentary John Lonergan‟s Circus to highlight the value Art has, through the use of circus training, as an educational tool for students from socially disadvantaged areas in Dublin. The pedagogical theories of Paulo Freire and the literature written by Doris Sommer, based on cultural agency, inform the research. This research contributes to the literature by examining the value aesthetics and the Arts can have both socially and pedagogically, when used in innovative ways. This research follows a qualitative methodology; case study is referred to throughout, while interviewing allowed for analysis of data. The applic...
http://doras.dcu.ie/20300/
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Abdul Rasoul’s Personal Vendetta against President of JEM
(2009)
El-Tom, Abdullahi
Abdul Rasoul’s Personal Vendetta against President of JEM
(2009)
El-Tom, Abdullahi
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Izzadine Abdul Rasoul’s “Dr. Khalil Ibrahim an empty bravado” was referred to me by several friends for comments. The article was published in the reputable venue “Sudan Tribune”, May 2009. I was reluctant to respond to the article for several reasons...
http://eprints.maynoothuniversity.ie/2183/
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AIDS Walks in High Heels
(2006)
Larkan, Fiona
AIDS Walks in High Heels
(2006)
Larkan, Fiona
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Poster presentation.
http://eprints.maynoothuniversity.ie/2001/
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Alternative approaches to the debt issue
(1989)
O Siochain, Seamas
Alternative approaches to the debt issue
(1989)
O Siochain, Seamas
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Since the debt crisis erupted in 1982, the poor in the heavily indebted countries have paid a heavy price. As Cardinal Arns of Sao Paulo in Brazil said “every time the United States raises its interest rates, thousands die in the Third World, because money that would be used for health care and food is sent outside these countries to pay the debt”. Higher interest rates, falling commodity prices, inflation, devaluation, cheap labour policies, slashed public expenditure all have hit the poor hardest. Yet, as well as causing suffering, the I.M.F. austerity programmes have failed in their primary goal, which was to guarantee the continuation of debtor country repayments. The growing recognition of this failure has strengthened the position of those who have long argued for alternative policies. What are some of the alternatives available?
http://eprints.maynoothuniversity.ie/1098/
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An Exploration by Way of Introduction: Design and the Having of Designs in Ireland
(2009)
Drazin, Adam; Garvey, Pauline
An Exploration by Way of Introduction: Design and the Having of Designs in Ireland
(2009)
Drazin, Adam; Garvey, Pauline
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There is no abstract available for this item.
http://eprints.maynoothuniversity.ie/2844/
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An Uncertain Dominion: Irish Psychiatry, Methadone, and the Treatment of Opiate Abuse
(2008)
Saris, A. Jamie
An Uncertain Dominion: Irish Psychiatry, Methadone, and the Treatment of Opiate Abuse
(2008)
Saris, A. Jamie
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This paper investigates some productive ambiguities around the medical administration of methadone in the Republic of Ireland. The tensions surrounding methadone maintenance therapy (MMT) are outlined, as well as the sociohistorical context in which a serious heroin addiction problem in Ireland developed. Irish psychiatry intervened in this situation, during a time of institutional change, debates concerning the nature of addiction, moral panics concerning heroin addiction in Irish society and the recent boom in the Irish economy, known popularly as the Celtic Tiger. A particular history of this sort illuminates how technologies like MMT become cosmopolitan, settling into, while changing, local contexts.
http://eprints.maynoothuniversity.ie/1125/
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Anthropology and Attachment
(2007)
Mulholland, Peter
Anthropology and Attachment
(2007)
Mulholland, Peter
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In the second half of the last century Ireland, along with much of the Western world, witnessed a remarkable surge of interest in experientially-based forms of religion that often emphasized spiritual or ‘magico-religious’ healing practices2. As Robbins’s 1988 review of the literature on modern New Religious Movements (NRMs) shows, the sociological origins and functions of these movements has been extensively studied and theorized. In this essay I will argue that recent developments in the field of developmental psychology bridge the gap between sociological and psychological theories of religious behaviour in a way that promises to deepen our understanding of religious behaviour and explain individual and collective surges of interest in devotional and magico-religious forms.
http://eprints.maynoothuniversity.ie/1920/
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Anthropology and the Irish Encounter
(2015)
Mathur, Chandana
Anthropology and the Irish Encounter
(2015)
Mathur, Chandana
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In their discussion of ancestral versus contemporary anthropology in Ireland, Keith Egan and Fiona Murphy (this issue) do not draw a parallel distinction, quite probably deliberately, between “metropolitan” and “native” anthropologies. Positing a category of “native anthropology” opens up an explosive set of issues about the claim to be “native”—all the more combustible in a place that has known settler colonialism since the 12th century, tidalwaves of out-migration (and consequently a vast and tuned-in diaspora) due to famine in the 19th and economic stagnation in the 20th century, and a total demographic makeover through in-migration in the past two decades. Nonetheless, even though they do not resort to this distinction, Egan and Murphy are likely to agree that they are describing an Irish version of a quandary that is all too familiar to native anthropologists from marginal anthropological traditions, predominantly in the postcolonial world: namely, what is to be done when the a...
http://eprints.maynoothuniversity.ie/8375/
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Audit Culture and Anthropology
(2001)
Maguire, Mark; Shore, Cris; Wright, Sue
Audit Culture and Anthropology
(2001)
Maguire, Mark; Shore, Cris; Wright, Sue
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http://eprints.maynoothuniversity.ie/3080/
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Barriers to Access and Adherence to ARVs
(2010)
Larkan, F.; Saris, A. J.; Van Wyk, B.; Ramela, T.; Stevens, P.
Barriers to Access and Adherence to ARVs
(2010)
Larkan, F.; Saris, A. J.; Van Wyk, B.; Ramela, T.; Stevens, P.
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Poster Presentation
http://eprints.maynoothuniversity.ie/1989/
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Bás InEirinn: cultural constructions of death in Ireland
(1989)
Taylor, Lawrence J.
Bás InEirinn: cultural constructions of death in Ireland
(1989)
Taylor, Lawrence J.
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“Bás InEirinn” (“To die in Ireland”) is a Gaelic drinking toast whose resonance is explored in this case study of the relation of meaning and power. By viewing death as opportunity as well as problem, I interpret varying cultural constructions of Irish death in light of the historical dialectic between the Catholic Church and popular practice. Whereas the Church has generally assumed control of the ritualization of death, there are also striking examples of creative popular responses, including re-adaptation of older popular occasions (American wakes) and even appropriation of Church forms for popular purposes (the IRA funeral).
http://eprints.maynoothuniversity.ie/2020/
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Biopower, racialization and new security technology
(2012)
Maguire, Mark
Biopower, racialization and new security technology
(2012)
Maguire, Mark
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From fingerprinting in colonial contexts to scientific racism, and from face recognition pioneers to contemporary multi-modal surveillance, biometric security has long been connected to processes of racialization. Using both contemporary and historical examples, this article explores the rollout of biometric security, paying especial attention to how biometrics makes use of and relies upon racialized configurations of population. The article explores these connections and teases out the precise ways in which ‘race’ and racialization connect to the securitization of individual identities. This article also opens a space for a discussion of biopower, the most popular theoretical frame through which biometric security is currently being viewed
http://eprints.maynoothuniversity.ie/5451/
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Blood / Money
(1997)
Strong, Thomas
Blood / Money
(1997)
Strong, Thomas
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Marilyn Strathern has argued that "nature" in Euro-American culture has appeared as constraint; it has figured the givens of existence on which human artifice is seen to construct "society" or "culture."(5) Among those givens is the notion that human beings are naturally individuals. And blood, too, images individuality: "The very thought of blood, individual blood, touches the deepest feelings in man about life and death" ([RIchard Titmuss] 16.) Transfusion medicine, then, draws on a series of images with which Western culture is replete -- nature, society, the individual. But if it extends there images, transfusion medicine also refigures them. As Paul Rabinow has written," it is not quite true...that it is the 'newness' of contemporary technology that leaves us culturally unprepared. It is also the effacement of the 'oldness' of so many of the background assumptions and practices that lurk unexamined at the edges......
http://eprints.maynoothuniversity.ie/4262/
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