The present study explored the relationship between culture, self-construal, and agency in India, the United States, and in bicultural Indian-American individuals. Study 1 is a cross-cultural investigation of differences in self-construal and agency, using the Ten Statements Test, Relational ...
This dissertation explores the intimate relationships engendered by modernization projects designed to "free" women in Rajasthan, north India. Contemporary political discourse marks Rajasthan as both the site of authentic Indian culture and the place most oppressive to women, where their basic well being...
This study provides a first look into the relationship between motivation and culture in the context of ecology-focused collaborative scientific projects around the world. Projects in three distinct cultures - the United States, India, and Costa Rica -- were examined by triangulating qualitative and ...
In their analyses of traditional medical systems such as Ayurveda, postcolonial critics of science and technology have often pointed to the hierarchies, inequalities and asymmetries between western and non-western, biomedical and traditional, knowledge claims and practices. This dissertation explores ...
New York University.Govil, Nitin.New York University.Govil, N. (2005). Something to declare: Trading culture, trafficking Hollywood, and textual travel. Unpublished doctoral dissertation. New York: New York University.
While most South Asian diasporic studies focus on the "home/abroad" binary, "Consuming India" thus engages with a different set of foci: exoticism, commodification, culture making, and strategies of identification in South Asian literature and culture in Britain.Sarkar, Parama....
The domain of broadcast policies and television programs provide a useful point of entry for exploring the epistemological underpinnings of national culture in postcolonial India. The construction of national culture during 1982–98, revealed a series of contradictory articulations of power and ...
The pedagogy of culture: Cultural models of teacher thinking and teaching in Bangalore, South IndiaMy dissertation, using qualitative research methods, explores cultural models of pedagogy among 24 math and social studies, eighth grade teachers in Bangalore, South India. This research is based on ...
While the novel may remain the most used genre, the anthology and the autobiography clearly enable the voices of a wider range of writers.University of Michigan.;Nair, Sridevi K.University of Michigan.Nair, Sridevi K. Writing the lesbian: Literary Culture in Gonal India. PhD. Dissertation ...
This is partly founded on a text-critical study of the Maharthamanjari which reveals previously unnoticed features of the work's history of transmission and reception.; The Maharthamanjari also provides the occasion for an inquiry into what I refer to as Cidambaram's textual culture, the ...