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Nineteenth and early twentieth centuries saw the emergence of a ‘scientific’ project to analyse and reconstitute the dietary practices of colonial Bengal. Since the project was purportedly and confessedly ‘scientific’, it was imperative on it to evolve a general...
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyze how meanings of body and identity are constructed when dieting. The … paper utilizes cultural approach and focuses on the ways meanings of body and identity are constructed in social interaction … questions were approached data driven. Findings – Three themes showing the cultural meanings of dieting body were identified …
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relationship subjects are fostered to construct with their body and, in parallel, how workers may play an active and unpredictable …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper was to investigate the role of the body in the vocational anticipatory …” bodies is as important as tuning instruments (body as object of work), and diseases, occupational injuries, and accidents … pose challenges to both health and performance (body as obstacle). Research limitations/implications – Theoretically, the …
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Purpose – The aim of the research is to emphasise the role of material culture, and especially the role of objects related to physical activities, in children's socialization. It involves children's bodies but also symbolic meanings and values which introduce children to the universe of...
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approaches involving the body in learning motor skills as a way of developing leadership, and moving from self‐awareness to self …
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The convergence of social media and GIS provides an opportunity to reconcile space-based GIS and place-based social … analytical approached is used to enrich the geographic context of social media data in both space and place. Specifically … platial analysis of the top 25 popular place venues in the study area. …
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Recent research has shown how new mobile networked environments have added new complexity to the notion of “place”, now … and applications. A model of place was generated, adopting the humanistic geographical perspective as represented by the … four “layers of place” introduced by Tuan's theory, which can be served as a sensitizing device in order to interpret and …
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