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Hosemann, Aimee J. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This dissertation explores the way Kotiria/Wanano (E. Tukanoan, Kotiria hereafter) women of the Brazilian "Alto Rio Negro" (ARN) contrive (McDowell 1990) "kaya basa" "sad songs" using linguistic and musical resources to construct songs that express loneliness and other private emotions, while also creating alliances…
Descriptors: Singing, Music, Females, Foreign Countries
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Olitsky, Stacy – Urban Education, 2015
This article investigates interactional processes by which students from non-dominant groups develop academic identities within schools that privilege the dominant group. It draws on an ethnographic study of an urban magnet school, focusing on a discourse analysis of conversations between 3 eighth-grade girls. Findings include that students…
Descriptors: Minority Group Students, Identification, Ethnography, Urban Schools
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Bhattacharya, Kakali – Qualitative Inquiry, 2009
Using several approaches of data collection over a period of 10 months, the author combines participant observations, conversational interviews, photo-elicitations, and various other serendipitous types of information gathering in performative spaces of actions and re-actions, demonstrating the contestatory negotiations of two transnational female…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Scientific Research, Ethnography, Social Structure