Originally presented as author's Thesis (doctoral)--Universität, Innsbruck, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (p. [345]-263).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Dept. of Art and Art History and Dept. of History. University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2005. / "A dissertation in art history and history." Advisors: Donald Matthews and Burton Dunbar. Typescript. Vita. Title from "catalog record" of the print edition Description based on contents viewed June 26, 2006. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 263-283). Online version of the print edition.

Thesis (Mnutr)--Stellenbosch Univresity, 2004. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: INTRODUCTION: The aim of this study was to investigate post-immigration BMI changes in a South African immigrant population and how dietary intake and habitual physical activity reflect these changes. The study was designed as a cross-sectional, observational survey. Thirty-six volunteers aged 20 - 50 years were included in the sample. Volunteers were South African immigrants in the Atlanta area, USA, who have lived in the USA for more than 6 months but less than 5 years. METHOD: Subjects were required to complete four questionnaires including a selfadministered socia-demographic, physical activity and food frequency questionnaire. The weight history questionnaire containing measurements including height, weight and waist circumference was completed by the investigator. RESULTS: A significant increase in BMI was indicated for both male (p=0.036) and female (p=0.0009) subjects. The increase in BMI for two age categories, 20-29 years (p = 0.018) and 30-39 years (p = 0.006), was also significant. Forty five percent of females reported an energy intake above the Estimated Energy Requirement (EER) for active individuals. Reported saturated fatty acid intake (13% of TE) exceeded the Acceptable Macronutrient Distribution Range (AMOR). The prevalence of inadequate n-3 and n-6 PUFA as well as fibre intake was high, especially in men. Sixty four percent of the population had a 'low active' physical activity level (PAL). CONCLUSION: The observed increase in post-immigration BMI implies that the South African immigrant population, similar to other immigrant populations, has adopted to some extent, the lifestyle and dietary habits of the general US population. As a result, the South African immigrant population may also be subject to increased chronic disease risk. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: INLEIDING: Die doel van hierdie studie was om die veranderinge in liggaamsmassa index (LMI) wat met immigrasie gepaard gaan in In Suid-Afrikaanse immigrant populasie te ondersoek, asook hoe die populasie se dieet en fisieke aktiwiteit hierdie veranderinge reflekteer. Die studie was In dwarssnit, observasie opname. Die steekproef het bestaan uit 36 vrywilligers (20 - 50 jaar oud). Respondente was deel van In Suid-Afrikaanse immigrant populasie in die Atlanta area, VSA, wat vir langer as 6 maande en korter as 5 jaar in die VSA woonagtig was. METODE: Respondente is versoek om vier vraelyste te voltooi insluitende In sosiodemografiese, fisieke aktiwiteit, -en voedsel frekwensie vraelys. Antropometriese metings, insluitende massa, lengte en middelomtrek is deur die navorser op die massa geskiedenis vraelys aangeteken. RESULTATE: In Betekenisvolle toename in LMI vir beide mans (p=0.036) en vroue (p=0.0009) is gevind. Die toename in LMI vir respondente 20-29 jaar (p = 0.018) en 30- 39 jaar (p = 0.006) was ook betekenisvol. Vyf-en-veertig persent vroue se energie inname was hoër as die aanbevole daaglikse inname vir aktiewe individue. Die populasie se versadigde vetsuur inname (13% van totale energie) was hoër as die aanvaarbare makronutriënt verspreiding. Die prevalensie vir onvoldoende innname van n-3 en n-6 poli-onversadigde vetsure, asook vesel inname was hoog, veralonder mans. Vier-en-sestig persent van die populasie se fisieke aktiwiteit vlak is geklassifiseer as 'lae aktiwiteit' . GEVOLGTREKKING: Die waargenome toename in LMI impliseer dat die studie populasie, soortgelyk aan ander immigrant populasies, die lewensstyl en dieet gewoontes van die algemene Amerikaanse populasie tot In sekere mate aangeneem het en is dus ook onderhewig aan die gevolglike toename in risiko vir kroniese siekte van lewensstyl.

Thesis (MPhil (Journalism))--University of Stellenbosch, 2006. / Although reputation management has historically been restricted to companies or other organisational entities, countries are also increasingly concerned with their reputation relative to other countries and have started to actively measure and manage that reputation1. Over the past years, the Republic of South Africa has begun to professionally streamline its own reputation management activities, specifically by establishing the International Marketing Committee (IMC) in August 2000. South African Tourism, the media division of the South African diplomatic sector and even South African Airways are other reputation management vehicles that have been working toward emanating a comprehensive marketing and communication message from South Africa to other countries. The basis of good reputation management is to first measure such reputation2. It is also important to know what aspects are the main drivers of such reputation. Using the content of specific German newspapers as data body, this study determines the drivers of South Africa’s media reputation in Germany. In order to accurately set the scene for an analysis of South Africa’s reputation, a thorough situation analysis on the country is conducted. This situation analysis forms the backbone for the methodology used further on to investigate the drivers of South Africa’s reputation in specific German media. To this end, a large part of the situation analysis looks at South Africa in terms of Germany and a study is conducted on the relationship between Germany and South Africa as well as the potential stakeholders of South Africa’s media reputation in Germany. It is also important to know what current efforts in terms of reputation management are. After studying the history of South Africa’s reputation management activities, members of today’s reputation management vehicles are interviewed and an overview of South African reputation management efforts currently active in Germany is provided. The reputation management activities of other countries are briefly explored and specifically the lessons from other countries’ efforts are highlighted. Subsequently, the reputational dimensions that positively or negatively drive South Africa’s reputation in specific German media are determined. To this end, a content analysis is conducted on the seven German national daily newspapers, Börsen- Zeitung, Die Welt, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Frankfurter Rundschau, Financial Times Deutschland, Handelsblatt and Süddeutsche Zeitung3 over a period of 20 months. The findings made culminate in suggestions for South Africa’s future reputation management activities in Germany.

Cette thèse a pour objet le palo monte, culte initiatique d’origine bantoue que l’on pratique aujourd’hui sur tout le territoire cubain. Ses adeptes, les paleros, se lient rituellement à certains esprits des morts, les nfumbis, afin de bénéficier de leurs pouvoirs extraordinaires. Religion peu prescriptive, le palo monte laisse à ses adeptes une grande latitude en matière d’innovation rituelle et d’improvisation. En l’absence de corpus mythologique, de textes sacrés, de liturgie fixe et de toute autorité institutionnalisée, chaque groupe initiatique définit sa méthodologie religieuse de façon autonome. L’objectif de cette thèse est d’expliciter comment des pratiques religieuses se créent, se légitiment et se transmettent dans un contexte de variabilité extrême. Je porte d’abord une attention particulière à la matérialité du culte et tout particulièrement aux interactions quotidiennes entre les paleros et leur nganga, chaudron qui condense la présence du mort : objet-sujet omniscient, la nganga médiatise un réseau relationnel complexe qui permet l’émergence en continu des pratiques du palo monte. Je m’intéresse ensuite aux rites paleros en tant que performances au cours desquelles les prêtres forgent leur réputation en créant une sorte de cosmologie personnalisée. Tout en proposant une analyse interactionnelle de ces rituels, je montre comment certains aspects de la personnalité des adeptes interviennent dans la définition de la forme rituelle de chaque groupe. Enfin, je montre comment les actes réflexifs des paleros, omniprésents sous la forme de critiques, de justifications, de confrontations, etc. sont constitutifs de la transmission et du renouvellement des pratiques. / This thesis is on palo monte, a Cuban initiatory religion of Bantu origin, widespread over all Cuban territory. Its worshippers, the paleros, establish ritual bonds with determined spirits of the dead, called nfumbis, in order to receive their supernatural powers. Imposing a small number of prescriptions, palo monte enables its devotees to operate a wide range of ritual innovations and improvisations. Indeed, the inexistence of a mythological corpus, a sacred text or a strict liturgy, and more generally of any kind of institutionalized authority, allows every initiatory group to define its religious methodology in an autonomous way. The aim of this research is to explain how these religious practises are created, legitimized and transmitted in a context which allows for extreme variability. In this perspective, the analysis focuses primarily on palo monte’s materiality and more specifically to the daily interactions between the paleros and their nganga, a cauldron condensing the presence of a dead man. I argue that the nganga, as an omniscient object-subject, mediates a complex relational network and enables a constant reinvention of palo monte’s ritual practises. I focus thus on palero rituals as performances through which priests make a name for themselves by creating a kind of customized cosmology. By putting forward an interactional analysis of these/their rituals, I show how determined aspects of the adepts’ personalities intercede in the definition of each groups’ ritual patterns. Finally, I point out how paleros’ reflexive acts – in the form of pervasive critique, vindication, debates, etc. – are constitutive of their practices’ transmission and renewal.

Ma thèse explore les rencontres qui eurent lieu entre Français, Amérindiens et Africains en Louisiane, à l’époque de l’Amérique coloniale. C’est plus précisément sur la partie sud du territoire que ce travail s’est penché. Les bornes chronologiques sont 1686, découverte du territoire par Robert La Salle et 1803, vente du territoire, alors Français, aux Américains par Napoléon en 1803. Mon projet était d’analyser les rapports établis entre ces trois groupes en mettant l’accent sur les relations intimes qui se sont créées entre eux (relations sexuelles, concubinage, mariages mixtes), et les liens de parenté sont également des objets d’étude dans cette recherche. De ces relations intimes émergent diverses communautés : ainsi, les « métis » font référence aux enfants nés de Français et d’Amérindiens alors que les « Griffe » désignent une autre communauté, résultat d’unions entre Africains et Amérindiens. L’étude de ces deux groupes représente une partie de ce travail. Cette thèse s’attache aussi à analyser les conséquences de ces unions sur les rapports sociaux, économiques, et diplomatiques entre ces différents peuples. / Historians have agreed that the French were more successful than their competitors in developing cordial relations with Native Americans during the conquest of North America. French diplomatic savoir faire and their skill at trading with Indians are usually cited to explain this success, but the Spaniards relied upon similar policies of trade and gift giving, while enjoying considerably less success with the Indians. I propose an alternative model to understand the relative success of French Colonization in North America. Intimate Frontiers, an ethno-historical examination of the colonial encounters in the Lower French Louisiana, focuses on the social relations between Europeans, Indians and African in colonial Mississippi Valley. It examines the importance of the intimate bonds forged between settlers and natives in maintaining diplomatic alliances in the region even after the French left Louisiana in 1763. My work brings sexuality and intimacy into the political arena, challenging the prevailing view that power was defined solely by political and military alliances.

History / M.A. (History)

Made available in DSpace on 2016-12-08T16:35:11Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 graciane.pdf: 2440301 bytes, checksum: 3177e07a3c6498ab24b7e78883fe3f4d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-03-31 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The present investigation aims to comprehend the African and Afro descendants schooling in 'Nossa Senhora do Desterro', from 1870 to 1888. Then, Desterro was the capital of the province of Santa Catarina in the imperial period, corresponding to what is today the central part of the Florianópolis city. The theoretical background is mainly based on the Homi Bhabha s post-colonial perspective and on the Michel de Certeau s tactics conception. The empirical basis is built up on documental and bibliographical sources, mostly, of Province Presidents reports, Public Instruction Board s documents, as well as rules and research about the period. Throughout the text I discuss the 19th Century Public Instruction at Desterro, covering aspects of the city and the African origin population, and concerns about legislation and Primary and Secondary school. I also present experiences on African descendants school Problematization looking at indexes , intentions , initiatives , and I analyze the lifetime of the African descendant João da Cruz e Sousa. In general marks, the research presents elements about the popular instruction and about the possibilities the African descendant population could enlighten on the policies concerning the education of the poor. It also presents the complex movement of presence/absence, in which the experiences of Africans and African descendants presence in schools coexist with an absence process, in a sense of invisibility with a covering of their tracks in the representations engendered / Esta investigação objetiva compreender o processo de escolarização de africanos e afrodescendentes na Freguesia de Nossa Senhora do Desterro, de 1870 a 1888. Desterro era a capital da Província de Santa Catarina no período imperial, correspondendo ao que hoje é a parte central da cidade de Florianópolis. A fundamentação teórica é apoiada principalmente na perspectiva pós-colonial de Homi Bhabha e na concepção de táticas de Michel de Certeau. A base empírica é constituída de fontes documentais e bibliográficas, sobretudo de Relatórios de Presidentes da Província, Ofícios da Diretoria da Instrução Pública, bem como de normativas e pesquisas sobre o período. Ao longo do texto, discuto a instrução pública na Desterro oitocentista, abordando aspectos da cidade, das populações de origem africana e questões relativas ao ensino primário, secundário e à legislação. Também apresento experiências de enfrentamento da problemática da escolarização de africanos e afrodescendentes, sob o enfoque de indícios , intenções , iniciativas e, ainda, analiso a trajetória escolar do afrodescendente João da Cruz e Sousa. Em síntese, a pesquisa apresenta elementos sobre a instrução popular e sobre as possibilidades que as populações de origem africana poderiam vislumbrar nas políticas voltadas à educação para os pobres. Apresenta, também, o movimento complexo de presença/ausência, em que experiências da presença de africanos e afrodescendentes em escolas coexistem com um processo de ausência, num sentido de invisibilidade, com um apagamento de seus rastros nas representações engendradas

Orientadores: Ricardo Luiz Coltro Antunes, Selma Borghi Venco / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-18T07:26:40Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Vaz_PauloGomes_M.pdf: 2415751 bytes, checksum: 6f61d7970b18a45a58f3126b56796790 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011 / Resumo: Este estudo tem como objetivo analisar as características do trabalho realizado por imigrantes africanos no município de São Paulo. A pesquisa, de caráter qualitativo, visou abordar as conexões entre a dimensão local e global sobre o trabalho desenvolvido por esse segmento de imigrantes no cenário produtivo inscrito na globalização. Considera-se na presente pesquisa o papel da classe que vive do trabalho no bojo desse processo de globalização, indagando a articulação entre o arcaico e o moderno inscrita em um nicho da economia informal, no qual são contratados trabalhadores que partem dos países africanos para o Brasil em busca de oportunidades de inserção social, formação acadêmica e/ou de trabalho para manter a subsistência dos familiares que permanecem em seus países de origem. A fim de analisar esse movimento, abarcou-se a divisão internacional do trabalho e a reestruturação produtiva como fomento das desigualdades sociais mundiais, aspectos aqui compreendidos como fundamentais para debater a emergência da igualdade substantiva como fator primordial no equilíbrio da humanidade / Abstract: This study attempts to analyze the characteristics of the African immigrant labor in the city of Sao Paulo. Through a qualitative methodological approach, the research aims to shed light on the connections between the local and global dimensions of the African immigrant labor in the context of globalization. It investigates the role of the working class in globalization and poses question concerning the articulation between archaic and modern aspects of informal economic niches, in which African immigrants are employed where they come to Brazil in search of opportunities for social inclusion, academic education or a job so that they can sustain their families back home. In order to analyze the characteristics of this migration, this study focused on investigating mechanisms through which the international division of labor and the restructuring of production generate social inequalities worldwide. It concluded that understanding these mechanisms is essential to demonstrate that the emergence of the substantial equality is a primordial factor for the equilibrium of humanity / Mestrado / Sociologia / Mestre em Sociologia

Orientador: Silvia Hunold Lara / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciencias Humanas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-07T00:47:10Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Sela_EneidaMariaMercadante_D.pdf: 15672380 bytes, checksum: 755068756b37879cee9f0aad3a3e64e9 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006 / Resumo: A proposta desta tese é investigar as maneiras pelas quais os viajantes europeus que estiveram na cidade do Rio de Janeiro durante a primeira metade do século XIX registraram, em letras e figuras, os africanos na experiência da escravidão. Mais especificamente, a intenção é demonstrar o quanto esta literatura de viagem oitocentista dialoga, em várias instâncias, com certas teorias científicas e estéticas européias sobre a diversidade humana, formuladas durante as últimas décadas do século XVIII. Estas vias intelectuais, em seus embates, edificaram e legitimaram hierarquias ontológicas para os povos, tendo como alvo principal a inferiorização dos africanos. Carregando tal bagagem, os estrangeiros que visitaram a Corte carioca até 1850 depararam-se com a maior população escrava africana das Américas. O conjunto da literatura de viagem que descreve este confronto cultural e social revela as reiterações conceituais de uma gama de características físicas, mentais e comportamentais atribuídas aos africanos no cativeiro. Como objetivo mais amplo, ao examinar tais construções este trabalho gostaria de apontar alguns limites e potenciais dos testemunhos de viajantes como fontes fartamente usadas para o estudo da escravidão no Brasil oitocentista, mas que nem sempre recebem a necessária decodificação de suas linguagens e conteúdos / Abstract: The proposal of this work is to investigate the ways European travellers, who have come to the city of Rio de Janeiro during the first half of the 19th century, registered, through texts and images, Africans in the slavery experimence. More specifically, it intends to demonstrate how much this 19th century travellers¿ literature dialogues, in many instances, with some European scientific and aesthetic theories on human diversities formulated during the last decade of the 18th century. These intellectual ways, on their counterpose, built up and legitimated ontological hierarchies to human groups, having, as a main target, African devaluation. Carrying such backgrounds, foreigners who visited Brazilian Court until 1850, faced the biggest African slave population of the Americas. The set of travel literature, which describes such cultural and social counterpose, reveals conceptual reiterations of a whole lot of physical, mental and behavioural characteristics given to Africans in captivity. As a wider objective, examining such constructions, this work is meant to point out some limits and potentials of travellers¿ witnesses as highly used sources to Brazilian 19th century slavery. studies, which have not always received the necessary decoding on their languages and contents / Doutorado / Historia Social / Doutor em História