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Tiers of Development: Technology, Education, and Black and Indigenous Life in Bocas del Toro, Panama

Creator:

Pleasant, Traben L.

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This dissertation examines development and the implications of information and communication technology, particularly computers, on issues relating to education, labor, and the overall wellbeing of Black and indigenous people in Bocas del Toro, Panama. It details the Black and indigenous legacy of dependency in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries on...

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Dissertation
Expressions of modernity in rural Pakistan : searching for emic perspectives

Creator:

Niazi, Amarah

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This dissertation examines women's lives in a rapidly urbanizing rural community in Southern Pakistan to understand their responses to modernity in developing societies. Applying a mixed-methods approach, socio-demographic data is collected and contrasted with oral history and personal narratives to analyze social change through women's access to education and reproductive...

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Dissertation

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region. Other smaller groups include Qureshi, Arayeen, Makhdoom, Khattak and Miana families. The