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Traditional cures : an anthropological exploration of cures employed by curers in North Leitrim
(Dublin Business School, 2001)This Final Year Project is an investigation and exploration of a range of traditional cures in a specific geographic area -part of North Leitrim, Ireland. In addition to placing the practice of traditional curing in an ... -
Will there be any space left for artists?
(Dublin Business School, 2001)Technology is both directly and indirectly undermining both the space and sense of place of the visual artist. The wealth generated through telecommunications industries has precipitated the commercial redevelopment of ... -
Identity, constructions and the public performance of crime
(Dublin Business School, 2001)Cultural forces produce criminal acts. Some of these acts have a particularly public aspect. Careful consideration of local concepts can lead to an understanding of why these crimes occur in the settings they do. What ... -
Body praxis - illness as a biological weapon
(Dublin Business School, 2001)This Final Year Project is an ethnographic account of how a particular section of society, in the town of Kilrush in the West of Ireland, have developed a very unusual, morbid attitude towards health and their own bodies ... -
Portrait of a gentleman's collection : the social lives of artefacts from an anthropological perspective
(Dublin Business School, 2001)The purpose of my Final Year Project is to demonstrate that art objects in addition to their aesthetic value are embedded in the historical, economic and political aspects of culture. As example I will use the art collection ... -
The feminisation of ageing - a myth of dependency in the literature of British civil society : an exploration of how an image may be the site for myth production
(Dublin Business School, 2001)This Final Year Project will look at how images of older people can produce a myth about the ageing process. The myth being produced is that older people can be said to occupy the same symbolic space as women which means ... -
The balance of power: using the community to get things done
(Dublin Business School, 2002)This thesis demonstrates how the idea of 'community' is an ideology, used politically by different groups, at levels of both state and local authority. I begin by scrutinizing one state sponsored development plan which ... -
The public response to the increase of ayslum seekers in Ireland : was it shaped by the government's handling of the asylum issue?
(Dublin Business School, 2002)Since the mid1990s there has been a dramatic rise in the number of asylum applications in Ireland. The Government failed to foresee this rise, and hence failed to legislate adequately. Their response was to disperse asylum ... -
Identity - power - humour : an anthropological exploration into Irish deaf culture
(Dublin Business School, 2003)This research was to explore the identity-power-humour paradigm amongst the Irish Deaf Community. Deaf people's subaltern sense of communnitas, expressed through Irish Sign Language, is based on the shared experiences they ... -
Riot Grrrl : a postmodern feminist initiative
(Dublin Business School, 2005)This dissertation is primarily concerned with riot grrrl as a postmodern, feminist initiative. In this introduction I present two interpretations of postmodernity and situate riot grrrl as an exemplar of Cixous' 'feminine' ... -
Celebrity culture and the relationships upon which it depends
(Dublin Business School, 2006)Celebrity in modem life positions itself as a contemporary cultural and economic phenomenon. Celebrity has been inserted significantly into our everyday lives, and is prominent in all media outlets of which we consume. The ... -
The North, the end
(Dublin Business School, 2006)The hypoFinal Year Project of this study set out to draw upon the less documented relationship between the media and peace in an effort to define the relationship between the media and the peace process in Northern Ireland. ... -
Convergence - and the business of television distribution
(Dublin Business School, 2006)Over the last decade the television industry has changed at a phenomenal rate. The reason for this change has been the introduction of new information technologies and the convergence of the television, telecommunications ... -
Delivering news in Ireland : media agendas & international reporting in the cases of East Timor and West Papua
(Dublin Business School, 2006)This study examines the concept of media agenda setting and its influence on news reporting of international affairs and conflict. It looks at the theory of media agenda setting in the theoretical arena Sources of the Media ... -
Dispersion in contemporary documentary making and issues it raises in representing reality
(Dublin Business School, 2006)The following project attempts to gain inside in the conventions of the contemporary documentary format and more particularly after the 1990's when various factors led to changes and dispersion of the genre. It discusses ... -
The Irish Times : investigating the 16 - 18 year old market. Can the Irish Times serve young adolescents?
(Dublin Business School, 2006)The adolescent population is rapidly growing in both size and consumption power. The aim of this study was to research the potential of producing a new product (e.g. a supplement, weekly column, section, etc.) aimed at the ... -
Makeover shows : a post-modern analysis
(Dublin Business School, 2006)The roles that fashion and identity play in makeover shows will be discussed in relation to post-modernistic society; the society that, some theorists argue, we live in today. The UK based 'What Not to Wear' and the American ... -
An anthropological study into the commonalities of death and funeral rituals in Irish and Greek cultures
(Dublin Business School, 2008)The central pillar in this thesis will be examining the different rituals in each stage of the funeral rites individually and in doing so the traditional and cathartic reasoning behind funeral rituals will be exposed. This ... -
Reintegration of ex-combatants, Lofa County, Liberia : a micro level anthropological investigation
(Dublin Business School, 2008)The aim of this research was to examine the reintegration of military trained/physical conflict focused personnel into civilian community life in environments where poverty, inequality and resource deprivation already ... -
Murder, manslaughter and mayhem: a forensic anthropological study of homicide in 21st century Ireland
(Dublin Business School, 2008)The writer began this work by outlining how homicide has been a part of human nature since the beginning of time. A brief history pertaining to the Irish law on homicide was presented. An analysis was taken of the homicide ...