CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY

Author: GARCIA-CANO TORRICO MARÍA.
Year: 2000.
University: GRANADA.
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS DE LA EDUCACIÓN.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE FILOSOFÍA Y LETRAS.

Summary: The research is carried out an ethnographic study in which proposes an analysis of programaiones of training for work in a context of cultural diversity. The hypothesis I propose is this: both the existing occupational training policies in the state aimed at Spanish and working people in general, such as training programs designed and developed, particularly for the population foreign immigration is a sign of the social inequality (which derives until exclusióhn) of this group in the Spanish state. This inequality on the one hand refers to the non-recognition of rights, while non-citizens, and the difficulties of access-equal knowledge that the national population to social resources. The methodology used in the thesis has sought from an anthropological perspective present a holistic and comprehensive analysis of the reality of the study. Thus, the research identifies three levels of analysis that so interrelated relive underscores how the impact of training schedules are subject to the individual and group level (micro level) are significantly influenced by macro-social factors (legislative, economical and sociodemographic), while mediated by the speeches, policies and programs institutionalized (level of analysis middle). The techniques of data collection were: interviews (conducted immigrant population, technical training programs, policy makers and representatives of NGOs and trade unions), participation observation, analysis documentary, statisticians and the use of questionnaires. The findings of this study show how the design and development of training programs designed for specific way to the immigrant population is showing signs of a social construction that converts border insurmountable cultural differences between "us" (nationals) and "others" (foreign immigrants) and derives in: - The etnificaicon of labor: to contributing in any half content to be developed in the various training programs ( "training in what they would have an opportunity to fit under the Aliens Act ") - From the political bodies at various levels of intervention as well as from the social partners and union makes use of a speech by culture which places Deficit training in subjects themselves, given their immigration status and because of alleged differences they have (either cualifación, language, the cultural socialization of work ...) to knock host society. - An analysis of the immigrant population access to the training schedules I found gender differences. In this sense, strategies are designed specific training and "special" for the group of immigrant women, responds to all lde form homogéneia (in terms of qualifications, experience and work further reinforces prejudices that defined as illiterate, submissive or mere accompanying spouse in the migration process).

Author: VILLALONGA CAMPOS ROCIO.
Year: 2003.
University: MIGUEL HERNÁNDEZ DE ELCHE.
Place of defense: CIENCIAS SOCIALES Y JURÍDICAS.
Place of preparation: UNIVERSIDAD MIGUEL HERNÁNDEZ CAMPUS ELCHE.

Author: CHULILLA CANO JUAN LUIS.
Year: 2003.
University: COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID.
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS POLÍTICAS Y SOCIOLOGÍA.
Place of preparation: FAC. CC. POLÍTICAS Y SOCIOLOGÍA.

Summary: Qualitative study, from the perspective of research based on a set of strategies intercomplementarias; analyzes speeches and ritual practices in the environment and space funeral (not necessarily equivalent in either case). Based on an approximate model of systemic root in which analyzes the social and community responses to a range of types of deaths, he examines the ritual environment and the state of contemporary culture funeral is illustrated by an analysis of registration and decoration more than 1500 cases of a cemetery niche sacramental Madrid from 1848 to 2000,

Author: CARRASCO HENRÍQUEZ NOELIA.
Year: 2004.
University: AUTÓNOMA DE BARCELONA.
Place of preparation: ESCUELA DE POSTGRADO.

Summary: The investigation has been conducted in the period between December 2002 -Julio 2004. He has enjoyed three phases of field work in the ninth region of Chile, from which it has been possible to construct an ethnography of the situation contained. The objectives and assumptions of research contemplated concerns theoretical, methodological and ethnographic, and have tried to determine the relevance of anthropological study of the phenomena food, considering the distitnas traditions that have led and the contributions that various studies of this kind can generate. Thus, the research supports the thesis d eque anthropology of food that can analyze food problems currently affecting the Mapuche population in the region of Araucanía in Chile, is one that revises its epistemological and political foundations, and designs a methodology that covers expressions such empirical foundations. With regard to the food situation of the Mapuche population, argues that this has been gradually disintegrated due to the nature of the interventions that have structural and ideological changes in a social and cultural level. The intervention areas such as religiosity, the ecosystem and ecological context, and the Mapuche sociopolitical organization, it would have detonated the current conditions of their food system, without ignoring the incidence of others such as ecónomico and doctor. Finally, the research is planned through the approach of new concerns in the field of theoretical and methodological contemporary anthropology.

Author: Frías Osuna Antonio.
Year: 2005.
University: GRANADA.
Place of defense: Facultad de Filosofía y Letras.
Place of preparation: Facultad de Filosofía y Letras.

Summary: The risk behavior of adolescents and represent one of the factors that determine a clearer personal development and the experience of this stage of life. They are, at this time and in our socio-cultural environment, a distinct population group, whose problems both in the social field such as health, acquiring an important and growing social care. This thesis deals with the study of values and cultural beliefs involved in the generation of risk-taking behavior in and adolescents, and the fact that these will evolve into habits that characterized their lifestyle. The research methods used were of a qualitative nature. Sources of information, adolescents between 14 and 19 years. The information we have obtained from the speech of teenagers, gathered through in-depth interviews. In the group of teenagers interviewed have found a gra

Author: Pires do Prado Ana.
Year: 2006.
University: AUTÓNOMA DE BARCELONA.
Place of defense: Facultad Filosofia y Letras.
Place of preparation: FILOSOFIAY LETRAS.

Summary: The objective of this thesis is the introduction and impact of educational decentralization and community participation in an educational community of a socially disadvantaged environment in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It is a comprehensive process that is influenced by the economic, social and political problems of our time and whose complexity is intended to analyze from ethnographic work. The overall objective of this research is to understand how different social groups linked to the educational process observe, define and assess the educational reform, and more specifically, administrative decentralization, the decentralization educational and community involvement. In addition, to explore possibilities for educational change and innovation with the introduction and practice of decentralization and community participation in a context of educational reform.

Author: MONTES MUÑOZ MARIA JESUS.
Year: 2006.
University: ROVIRA I VIRGILI.
Place of defense: ESCUELA UNIVERSITARIA DE ENFERMERIA.
Place of preparation: FACULTAT DE LETRAS.

Summary: Research on "cultures of birth" is focused on different forms of mean, interpret, practice and experience the birth of pregnant women, midwives and doctors obstetricians. This is an investigation in the area of feminist anthropology, and gender category analytical used. Pregnant women are the focus of this research to believe that both main actresses for his involvement biological, and as recipients of care and care professionals. Using a qualitative methodology. In-depth interviews and participant observation are the main techniques in a group of sixteen women, five midwives and five obstetricians. The context of study has been and Tarragona province, and sometimes off, Barcelona. The findings showed that the vast majority of women agree speeches and medical practices they see as necessary to prevent possible risks, but at the same time try to introduce - and-introduce changes, but in general, they feel Depending on the experts. Some have raised complaints about the relationships established with these and others have introduced changes in how they wish to be assisted in their deliveries in hospitals and a small group planned to take his creatures at home. Finally, women are still the primary responsibility of caring for the creatures during the two months that the study lasted, and this reinforced by the social interest in breastfeeding. Their experiences of motherhood have been very varied and they gave stages with varying degrees of satisfaction.

Author: BOQUERA MARGALEF MONTSERRAT.
Year: 2006.
University: ROVIRA I VIRGILI.
Place of defense: FACULTAT DE LLETRES.
Place of preparation: FACULTAT DE LLETRES.

Summary: The relationship of the local population with the river has undergone profound changes over the twentieth century, which inevitably has an impact on the perception and significance that this population was giving the Ebro. At the beginning of the century, the river was a very advantage: a channel of communication, a source of raw materials, hydropower, water for irrigation and domestic consumption, and even the scene of celebrations and recreational events. Later, a whole series of factors that led to the decade of the 60 of the twentieth century, the Ebro relegated to oblivion. In the decade of 90, the river resumed their value, but it is a different value, is now a tourist resort. But the real importance of gracious loss recovery will not take place until the year 2000, with the start of the mobilizations against the MNCs. The Terres de l'Ebre  ¡living an unprecedented response to retrieve old images of the river but will also create new images.