Bibliography: leaves 54-55.

Thesis (M. Sc.)--University of Adelaide, 1988. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 54-55).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1964. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

In this dissertation I attempt to explicate Jacques Derrida's strategy of deconstruction and, through a deconstructive reading of Clifford Geertz's interpretive anthropology and James Clifford's 'postmodern' anthropology respectively, to show its relevance to the discipline of anthropology in general. The following is a skeletal outline of how I set about this endeavour. In my Introductory chapter, I attempt to indicate the way in which the notion of logos or presence has dominated Western philosophy from its inception in ancient Greece up to and including the present day. As Derrlda utilizes it, the term •presence' has to do with the assumption of and desire for the existence of a self-certain and self-identical basis for all extant phenomena and is manifested in such notions as truth, meaning, God, self, concept and so on. Because it is always defined as self-sufficient and self-identical, wherever it operates, presence entails the suppression of difference and otherness. In Chapter Two, I offer an explication of Derrida's strategy for exposing and delimiting presence as it manifests itself through and throughout Western conceptuality, paying particular attention to his work on undecidability. Briefly, this has to do with arguing that concepts, as such, are always already originarlly doubled and hence, Aristotelian logic notwithstanding, are both possible (as effects of undecidabllity) and Impossible (as self-sufficient and self-identical ideas). This calls radically into question our assumptions about the nature of conceptuality and indicates the way in which these assumptions ensure the repression of difference and otherness. In Chapter Three, I look at the phenomenological (Husserl) and hermeneutic (esp. Heidegger, Gadamer, Ricoeur) background of contemporary interpretive and •postmodern' anthropology and, in so doing, attempt to show that it is premised upon an assumption of presence. In Chapter Four, I offer a deconstructive reading of certain works by Clifford Geertz and by James Clifford respectively, and attempt to show that their unrecognized dedication to an assumed notion of presence prevents them from seeing the repressive/oppressive nature of their chosen conceptuality. And, finally, in my concluding chapter, I argue that Geertzian interpretive anthropology and Cliffordian 'postmodern' anthropology are two sides of the same old coin and that, with respect to the latter's work, the term 'postmodern' is a misnomer. I further argue that Western conceptuality is, by definition and in principle, both repressive and oppressive and that, this being the case, anthropology must either reexamine and re-evaluate its most basic assumptions or, failing that, resign itself to perpetuating the inherited legacy of a ruthless metaphysics. / Arts, Faculty of / Anthropology, Department of / Graduate

This thesis contends that current critical appreciation of Clifford Odets as a dramatist is incomplete and that, contrary to the general view, Odets, a creator of living language and unforgettable dialogue, did make a significant and lasting contribution to the contemporary American theatre. The purpose of this study, therefore, is to demonstrate with what creative skill and with what theatrical precision Odets uses the dramatic language of his plays.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 51-52). Also available in electronic version. Access restricted to campus users.

Thesis--Göttingen. / In Periodical Room.

University, Diss., 2005--Kiel.

Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. Centro de Ciencias Fisicas e Matematicas / Made available in DSpace on 2012-10-16T01:41:13Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0Bitstream added on 2016-01-08T16:06:12Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 81779.pdf: 1134439 bytes, checksum: 3a7d46a6cf731cb8b57c4b1815f21112 (MD5) / O objetivo anunciado no título desta tese é realizado do seguinte modo: No capítulo I selecionamos definições de estruturas algébricas e de álgebra linear que usaremos nos capítulos posteriores. No capítulo II introduzimos a noção de álgebra de clifford. Estabelecemos a sua unicidade (a menos de isomorfismo) e determinamos a sua dimensão. No capítulo III tratamos da existência das álgebras de Clifford por meio de uma construção matricial explícita e formulamos uma série de critérios e teoremas que reduzem esta construção aos casos em que o espaço ortogonal é de dimensão menor que 5. Finalmente, no capítulo IV aplicamos os resultados obtidos na construção do recobrimento do grupo Spin(n) pelo grupo SO(n) e na construção da sequência de Radon-Hurwitz-Eckman.

Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Ciências Físicas e Matemáticas. / Made available in DSpace on 2012-10-19T02:17:40Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0Bitstream added on 2016-01-09T03:36:56Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 175354.pdf: 2174314 bytes, checksum: 3d934ab8e79f01772de6e45634702fe3 (MD5) / As estruturas de Álgebra Exterior e Álgebra de Clifford se relacionam por isomorfismo de espaço vetorial. Se a forma quadrática é degenerada, a Álgebra de Clifford é a própria Álgebra Exterior para esse espaço. Construção de uma álgebra C/Q, onde Q é a forma quadrática para um espaço vetorial V como imagem de um operador alternado, definindo sobre tal álgebra um produto, de tal maneira que seja isomorfa à Álgebra de Clifford para V.