Using a framework of feminism and poststructuralism, this thesis aims to interrogate the utilisation of the body as a contested site of struggle for meaning in contemporary theatre dance in South Africa. "Both feminism, as a politics, and dance, as a cultural practice, share a concern for the body" (Brown, 1983: 198). A feminist analysis of dance can offer a tool to interrogate the dominant discourses of gender and race that surround and permeate both the female and male body in contemporary theatre dance. The body is not a neutral site onto which cultural codes and conventions are inscribed, as the dancer's body is always marked in the physical sense of gender and race. This thesis aims to decode the body and examine how the discourses of gender and race are embodied by the moving body on stage - specifically in the South African (KwaZulu-Natal) context. By a feminist appropriation of the poststructural endeavour, this research will look at how the body, as discourse, can be interrogated to examine how the interconnected discourses of gender and race surround and permeate the moving body. The utilisation of a poststructural paradigm will aid in the examination of how the dominant discourses of gender and race are hegemonically imposed onto the body. Poststructuralism also offers an understanding that there exist counter-discourses that have the ability to resist the dominant discourses of gender and race. This notion becomes important to the study of contemporary theatre dance as an art form. This thesis will examine how South African (Durban-based) contemporary theatre dance choreographers explore the body's potential to be subversive in performance. The thesis will focus on the body's ability to interrogate the discourses that operate in its surroundings and permeate its lived reality. / Thesis (M.A.)-University of Natal, Durban, 2000.

In this thesis. I have moved away from the general question of 'How do women and men behave linguistically?, (Sing and Bergvall. 1996:19) and have turned to investigate in particular how the speech act of apologies contributes to the production of people as 'women and men' (Sing and Bergvall, 1996:19). In other words, the investigation focuses on the effect of politeness strategies on the construction of gender identities. Using poststrucluralist feminist theory as developed primarily by Weedon (1987), this thesis investigates the politeness strategies employed by some Zulu students at the University of Natal, Durban, in their English-medium interactions with African international students. The speech act of apologies is the area of language investigated, with data being collected primarily by means of role-plays and focus groups. The focus of the analysis is limited to the performance of apologies towards non-Zulus by 12 Zulu male and female students. To this end, the various strategies employed by the respondents were analysed according to the framework developed by Holmes (1989, 1995). In addition, information gathered in the focus groups revealed to what extent politeness strategies are still being transferred from Zulu to English. The strategies employed by these men and women are considered as revealing some of the ways by which politeness contributes to the construction of gender identities, in the University context. On the basis of this limited sample, it is argued that traditional Zulu male masculinity, while still dominant, is now being contested in the University context by some students favouring a less tradition-oriented identity. The strategies employed by the female respondents, on the other hand, suggest that Zulu women students may be beginning to reject traditional Zulu femininity in favour of more westernized identities. / Thesis (M.A.)-University of Natal, Durban, 2000.

The Basque people and their language have been politically oppressed for centuries. I examine the history of the Basque language and how its oppression and revitalization have been shaped by the language policies of France and Spain, the two countries spanned by the Basque country. I focus my research and predictions on the French Basque Country, which is currently subject to a more oppressive language policy than Spanish Basque Country. The number of Basque-speaking bilinguals in the French Basque Country is decreasing and attitudes regarding instruction of the language have become more apathetic. I explore governmental, community, and combined efforts to preserve and encourage use of the language and draw several conclusions about viable future revitalization efforts.

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La recherche réalisée s’attache à éclairer « les pratiques inclusives en mathématiques d’enseignants de classe ordinaire dans le premier degré » dans un contexte de changement requis pour les enseignants du système éducatif français qui depuis 2005 sont confrontés à l’accueil des élèves reconnus institutionnellement handicapés. L’état des lieux réalisé conduit à envisager cette scolarisation comme un nouvel enjeu de la culture enseignante, où la question de l’accessibilité au savoir apparaît comme un problème professionnel. C’est pourquoi notre recherche s’est intéressée à la question suivante : en quoi l’inclusion d’un élève reconnu institutionnellement handicapé questionne les praxéologies enseignantes ? Pour instruire cette question, nous nous inscrivons dans le cadre de la didactique professionnelle et dans celui de la théorie anthropologique du didactique. Sous l’influence d’un dispositif à double institution, le modèle d’analyse construit, permet d’étudier le travail enseignant dans la classe tout comme celui du développement professionnel. Ce travail est mené à partir de captations numériques de séances de classe, d’entretiens ante et post et d’analyses simples et croisées. Il permet de mettre en évidence des praxéologies professionnelles relatives au type de tâche « donner une place à l’élève reconnu institutionnellement handicapé en milieu ordinaire » et des évolutions du rapport personnel des enseignants à l’inclusion scolaire. Il contribue également à un dialogue entre la didactique professionnelle et la théorie anthropologique du didactique par l’introduction du système notionnel de praxéologie, d’institution et de rapport personnel d’un sujet x à un objet O / The research carried out aims to describe the “inclusive practices of regular classroom teachers in the teaching of mathematics at primary level” within a context of necessary change for teachers in the French education system, who since 2005 have had to face the task of integrating pupils recognised as having institutional disabilities. The situational analysis carried out leads us to regard the schooling of such pupils as a new challenge for teaching culture, where the issue of accessibility to knowledge is a professional problem. Our research therefore focused on the following question: What question does the inclusion of a pupil recognised as having institutional disabilities raise about the praxeology of teaching? To explore this question, we need to take account of professional didactics as well as the Anthropological Theory of Didactics. Based on a dual institution study, the model of analysis that is constructed makes it possible to examine both work related to teaching in the classroom and to professional development. The research is carried out using digital recordings of lessons, interviews conducted before and after, as well as simple and cross analyses. It allows us to gain insight into the professional praxeology relating to such a task as that of “ensuring pupils recognised as having institutional disabilities have their place in a regular classroom environment”, as well as changes in teachers’ own personal relation towards inclusive education. Moreover, it contributes to a dialogue between professional didactics and the Anthropological Theory of Didactics by introducing the notional system of praxeology, institution and the personal relation of a subject X towards an object (O)

The Sherezade Project set forth by the teachers’ Academic Management at PUCP aims to integrate transmedia platforms and anthropological research. The present article details the process of incorporating audiovisual and narrative methods into the urban anthropology course. It also describes the process of producing micro-programs for the university’s TV channel. In this case, wrestling was chosen as the subject by the students and was diffused to a larger audience than just the academic. The project’s main goal is to apply new audiovisual platforms and technology to university education, thus training the students to not only do research but also to democratically relay the results of said social research to the community. / El proyecto Sherezade, promovido por la Dirección Académica del Profesorado de la PUCP, busca integrar las plataformas transmedia y la investigación antropológica. En el presente artículo se expone las características del proceso de incluir técnicas audiovisuales y de narrativa en el curso Antropología Urbana. También se expone la creación de los microprogramas modelo para el canal de TV universitario, donde se escogió el caso de la lucha libre de espectáculo, y que sirvieron como ejemplo para los alumnos y como material de difusión para un público mucho más amplio que el académico. El objetivo final del proyecto es aplicar las nuevas tecnologías y plataformas audiovisuales en la enseñanza universitaria, entrenando así a los alumnos no solo para investigar sino para transmitir democráticamente los resultados de la investigación social a la comunidad.

Cette recherche participative vise à élaborer et à tester un dispositif d’enseignement-apprentissage expérientiel de la langue anglaise, basé sur le principe de narration gestuée, destiné à des élèves débutants à l’école primaire. L’élément central de cette étude ancrée dans l’épistémologie de la reliance est la conception du geste, issue de l’anthropologie linguistique de Jousse, mise en pratique par Lecoq dans le domaine de la pédagogie théâtrale, concrétisée par la théorie des schémas-images de Johnson en linguistique cognitive, et confirmée expérimentalement par les récentes découvertes en neurosciences. Si le geste constitue la facette instrumentale du dispositif, le conte traditionnel en est l’appui thématique. Ce choix a été inspiré par la communauté des caractéristiques propres à la structure narrative du conte et à la motricité humaine (bilatéralisme joussien), au conte et à la conscience mythologique des enfants âgés de 6-8 ans (Egan, psychologie du développement).Le dispositif a été testé dans une classe de CE1 durant une année scolaire. L’analyse des productions d’élèves et des entretiens permet d’évaluer l’impact de la pédagogie expérimentée sur la qualité phonologique et lexicale de la langue, les stratégies de mémorisation ainsi que les stratégies de créativité/initiative linguistique et gestuelle mise en œuvre par les élèves. L’analyse met en lumière également le rôle de l’émotion et de l’interaction dans les apprentissages. / This participatory study on teaching languages in primary school aims to develop and test an experiential approach to English teaching and learning for beginners, based on the principle of gestural narration.This interdisciplinary research focuses on the concept of gesture as described by the linguistic anthropologist Marcel Jousse, put into practice by the theatre instructor Jacques Lecoq, embodied by Mark Johnson’s theory of image schemata in cognitive linguistics and confirmed by recent discoveries in neuroscience.In this teaching approach, gesture is the instrument, while traditional fairy tales provide the subject matter. Fairy tales were chosen because their narrative structure shares some of the characteristics of human motor behaviour (Jousse’s bilateralism) and because they are adapted to the mythic understanding of the world by children aged 6-8 (Egan, educational psychology).This approach was tested in a CE1 class (second year of primary school) during an entire school year. An analysis of student work and interviews assesses the impact of this experimental teaching approach on phonological and lexical language quality, on memorizing strategies, on pupils’ linguistic and gestural creativity/initiative, and evaluates the role of emotion and interaction in their learning.

Esta dissertação visa lançar uma perspectiva antropológica sobre a Doença de Alzheimer (DA). Ela está baseada na simetrização de processos sociais e orgânicos que ocorrem em pessoas com e sem DA. Alguns impasses são criados a partir desse posicionamento diante de uma doença. Dentre eles, as definições da doença dadas por diversos interlocutores, as formas de cuidado e tratamento da DA atualmente praticados e as relações do doente com outros seres não-humanos existentes no processo de adoecimento são pontos de vista reversos que impulsionam as questões centrais dessa etnografia. Uma delas trata sobre a possível inclusão do doente de DA no círculo de interlocutores de uma etnografia. Essas perguntas de pesquisa inventam um circuito de produção de incertezas e controvérsias sobre a prática etnográfica. Os efeitos desses problemas mostram um rearranjo das formas de cuidado, da organização do cotidiano e da vida do doente. A hipótese levantada por essa dissertação sugestiona que as produções de saberes sobre a DA estejam recriando conceitos de “pessoa” em sociedades ocidentais. Sobre o termo “processo demencial” será traçada essa perspectiva que se inicia em um grupo de apoio a cuidadores (Associação Brasileira de Alzheimer) e fragmenta-se, por exemplo, no problema da diferença e nos processos de “molecularização da vida”, como diria Nikolas Rose. Baseando-se no pensamento de Gilles Deleuze e Félix Guattari, esse trabalho irá propor uma perspectiva “nômade” sobre uma demência ao seguir as linhas que socializam uma multiplicidade de elementos e fatores que a compõem. Para produzir essa “nomadologia” foi preciso interelacionar conceitos de antropólogos como Bruno Latour, Tim Ingold e Roy Wagner. Tendo em vista a amplitude dos problemas de pesquisa lançados, essa dissertação não tem a pretensão de encontrar “soluções” para as problematizações que lança mas sim de pensar seus efeitos. / This dissertation aims to launch an anthropological perspective on Alzheimer's Disease (AD). It is based on simetrization of organic and social processes that occur in people with and without AD. Some deadlocks are created from that position before a disease. Among them, the definitions of the disease given by various interlocutors, forms of care and treatment of AD currently practiced and patient relationships with other non-human beings exist in the disease process are reverse viewpoints that drive the central questions of this ethnography. One deals with the possible inclusion of patients with AD in the circle of interlocutors from ethnography. These research questions invent a circuit of uncertainties and controversies about the ethnographic practice. The effects of these problems show a rearrangement of forms of care, the organization of daily life and the life of the patient. The hypothesis for this dissertation suggests that the production of knowledge about the DA are recreating concepts of "person" in occidental societies. About the term "dementia process" will be drawn this perspective that begins in a support group for caregivers (Brazilian Association of Alzheimer) and fragments, for example, the problem of difference and processes "molecularisation of life", as Nikolas Rose would say. Based on the thought of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, this paper will propose a perspective "nomad" on a dementia to socialize following the lines that a multiplicity of factors and elements that compose it. To produce this "nomadology" was necessary interelacionar concepts of anthropologists such as Bruno Latour, Tim Ingold and Roy Wagner. Given the breadth of research problems launched, this dissertation does not claim to find "solutions" to the problematizations that throws but think of its effects.

Assim como a medicina, a psiquiatria não consiste em uma disciplina teórica, mas sim, em uma práxis, um projeto teórico que somente se justifica pelo projeto prático. Trata-se, portanto, de um campo de intervenção. A psiquiatria utiliza diversas abordagens teóricas e científicas com uma finalidade prática. O objeto de estudo do campo, entretanto, não se confunde com o objeto destas abordagens. O objeto da psiquiatria pode ser definido em vertentes reducionistas e não-reducionistas. No contexto atual, há uma tendência a uma polarização. Por um lado, o objeto da psiquiatria é concebido como o objeto das demais especialidades médicas, enquanto doença mental, localizado no cérebro e resultando em práticas que privilegiam as abordagens biológicas. Por outro, em vertentes mais amplas de definição, ele consiste no sofrimento psíquico e social ou em disfunções internas socialmente inapropriadas, o que envolve múltiplos níveis e dimensões biológico, fenomenológico, cultural. Esta concepção do objeto da psiquiatria demanda uma multiplicidade e pluralidade de abordagens tanto no plano teórico quanto no plano prático. A presente tese afirma que uma perspectiva multinível e plural é imperiosa à práxis psiquiátrica. A tese está dividida em duas partes. Na primeira, realiza-se uma discussão filosófica na psiquiatria, mediante o método da investigação conceitual, visando um refinamento teórico do campo, que tende a gerar práticas mais efetivas. Três problemas filosóficos que perpassam a psiquiatria são discutidos: a distinção explicação-compreensão; o problema mente-cérebro e a distinção fato-valor. Aponta-se uma solução pragmatista para cada um destes problemas. Na segunda parte, realiza-se um estudo de caso com o exemplar esquizofrenia, analisando os múltiplos níveis do fenômeno mediante a apresentação das abordagens biológicas, fenomenológicas e antropológicas da esquizofrenia na contemporaneidade, enfocando, respectivamente, as hipóteses neurodesenvolvimentais, as alterações na consciência pré-reflexiva de si e as concepções do fenômeno em contextos não-ocidentais. A esquizofrenia corresponde a uma categoria de alta validade, tendo uma importante participação de fatores genético-biológicos. Ainda assim, o modelo biomédico se mostra insuficiente para dar conta da complexidade da experiência do adoecimento nesta condição. Portanto, uma perspectiva multinível e plural se faz mandatória. E se esta perspectiva se aplica à esquizofrenia, aplicar-se-á também a todos os transtornos mentais, com importantes implicações para a práxis psiquiátrica, seja no âmbito da teoria e pesquisa, seja no âmbito da clínica e da elaboração de políticas públicas de saúde mental, ajustando-se melhor, por exemplo, aos propósitos do Global Mental Health. / Just as medicine, psychiatry does not consist in a theoretical discipline, but in praxis, a theoretical project that is only justified by practical project. Therefore, it is a field of intervention. Psychiatry uses various theoretical and scientific approaches with a practical purpose. However, the subject of this field cannot to be confused with the subject of these approaches. The subject of psychiatry can be defined in reductionist and non-reductionist strands. In the current context, there is a tendency to polarization. On the one hand, the subject of psychiatry is conceived as the subject of other medical specialities, as a mental disease, located in the brain and resulting in practices that favor biological approaches. On the other hand, in broader strands of definition, it consists on psychic and social suffering or socially inappropriate internal dysfunctions, which involves multiple levels and dimensions - biological, phenomenological, cultural. This conception of the subject of psychiatry demands a multiplicity and plurality of approaches in both theoretical and practical plans. This thesis affirms that a multilevel and plural perspective is imperative to psychiatric praxis. The thesis is divided into two parts. In the first part, there is a philosophical discussion in psychiatry, by the method of conceptual investigation, aiming a theoretical refinement of the field, which tends to generate more effective practices. Three philosophical problems that pass through psychiatry are discussed: the explanation-understanding distinction, the mind-brain problem and the fact-value distinction. A pragmatist solution for each of these problems is pointed. In the second part, there is a case study of schizophrenia as exemplar, analyzing the multiple levels of the phenomenon upon presentation of biological, phenomenological and anthropological approaches to schizophrenia in contemporary times. This case study is focusing on neurodevelopmental hypothesis, changes in pre-reflective self-consciousness and conceptions of the phenomenon in non-Western contexts, respectively. Schizophrenia represents a category of high validity, with an important contribution of genetic-biological factors. Still, the biomedical model is insufficient to account for the complexity of the experience of suffering this condition. Therefore, a multilevel and plural perspective becomes mandatory. And if this perspective applies to schizophrenia, also will apply to all mental disorders, with important implications for psychiatric praxis, either within the theory and research, either within the clinical and mental health policy development, adjusting better, for example, to the purposes of the Global Mental Health.

The text presented is the result of research of the dissertation to the Graduate Program in Cultural Heritage College of the Federal University of Santa Maria (PPGPPC / UFSM). In this work we will analyze the theme of Management museological institutions, taking as a case study the Anthropology Museum Director Pestana, a private institution maintained by the Foundation for Integration, Development and Education of Northwest State of Rio Grande do Sul. For this research proposes the Situational Diagnosis of Museum and later development of specific programs, however without being developed Projects. We base our look at the guidelines of Law 11.904/2009 that implements the Status of Museums, with the result of this work a proposal for a museum site plan for the institution, considering especially the local realities and possibilities of adjusting it. / O texto apresentado é o resultado da pesquisa da dissertação de mestrado para o Programa de Pós-Graduação Profissionalizante em Patrimônio Cultural da Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (PPGPPC/UFSM). Neste trabalho será analisada a temática da Gestão de instituições museológicas, tendo como estudo de caso o Museu Antropológico Diretor Pestana, uma instituição privada mantida pela Fundação de Integração, Desenvolvimento e Educação do Noroeste do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul. Para essa investigação propõe-se o Diagnóstico Situacional do Museu e posterior desenvolvimento dos Programas Específicos, entretanto sem serem desenvolvidos os Projetos. Baseamos nosso olhar nas diretrizes da Lei 11.904/2009 que implementa o Estatuto dos Museus, tendo como produto deste trabalho uma proposta de Plano Museológico para a instituição, considerando, sobretudo, a realidade local e as possibilidades de adequação da mesma.