Marlene Dobkin
Biographic Data
| ID | 164933 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marlene Dobkin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marlene |
| FAMILY NAME | Dobkin |
| SIGNATURE | DOBKIN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | California State College at Los Angeles |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1967 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Colonialism and the Legal Status of Women in Francophonic Africa
This chapter discusses the French colonial legislation in West and Equatorial Africa and its effect upon the status of women under French control until the early 1960&s;s. The effects of European colonialism upon people of the world have been multifold, but little can compare with the zeal and fervor with which the French attempted to legislate dignity and status to African women. African women were a source of dismay to French administrators who…
Folk Curing With a Psychedelic Cactus in the North Coast of Peru
In the opinion of the plant specialists the main causes of cracks in the coke oven lining were as follows: intensified oven operation, high oven heating levels, presence of low-fusing materials in the charge, and possibly the use of low-quality refractory materials. Methods are described to prevent further damage to coke ovens caused by cracking and to increase their service life
Fortune's Malice: Divination, Psychotherapy, and Folk Medicine in Peru
THROUGHOUT PERU and much of Spanish-speaking America, fortunetelling cards called naipes are used to predict the future. In many cases, folk healers curing by means of herbs or psychedelic drugs employ the naipes as psychological adjuncts to their therapy. This paper will examine the psychotherapeutic technique of divination utilizing fortunetelling cards, in an attempt to focus on some of the less understood psychological aspects of folk psychia…
Trichocereus pachanoi—A mescaline cactus used in folk healing in Peru
Social Ranking in the Woman's World of Purdah: A Turkish Example
Discussions of equality and inequality in human societies often focus upon the recognition of superiority of one individual to another in a given community system. Differential ranking behavior would appear to be ubiquitous to human society and may be said to receive its impetus from value systems which define standards of moral evaluations (Fallers 1964: 238). Role differentiation is another factor accounting for unequal status and prestige sinc…
Trichocereus pachanoi—A mescaline cactus used in folk healing in Peru
Fortune's Malice: Divination, Psychotherapy, and Folk Medicine in Peru
THROUGHOUT PERU and much of Spanish-speaking America, fortunetelling cards called naipes are used to predict the future. In many cases, folk healers curing by means of herbs or psychedelic drugs employ the naipes as psychological adjuncts to their therapy. This paper will examine the psychotherapeutic technique of divination utilizing fortunetelling cards, in an attempt to focus on some of the less understood psychological aspects of folk psychia…
Social Ranking in the Woman's World of Purdah: A Turkish Example
Discussions of equality and inequality in human societies often focus upon the recognition of superiority of one individual to another in a given community system. Differential ranking behavior would appear to be ubiquitous to human society and may be said to receive its impetus from value systems which define standards of moral evaluations (Fallers 1964: 238). Role differentiation is another factor accounting for unequal status and prestige sinc…
Social Ranking in the Woman's World of Purdah: A Turkish Example
Discussions of equality and inequality in human societies often focus upon the recognition of superiority of one individual to another in a given community system. Differential ranking behavior would appear to be ubiquitous to human society and may be said to receive its impetus from value systems which define standards of moral evaluations (Fallers 1964: 238). Role differentiation is another factor accounting for unequal status and prestige sinc…
Trichocereus pachanoi—A mescaline cactus used in folk healing in Peru
Folk Curing With a Psychedelic Cactus in the North Coast of Peru
In the opinion of the plant specialists the main causes of cracks in the coke oven lining were as follows: intensified oven operation, high oven heating levels, presence of low-fusing materials in the charge, and possibly the use of low-quality refractory materials. Methods are described to prevent further damage to coke ovens caused by cracking and to increase their service life
Fortune's Malice: Divination, Psychotherapy, and Folk Medicine in Peru
THROUGHOUT PERU and much of Spanish-speaking America, fortunetelling cards called naipes are used to predict the future. In many cases, folk healers curing by means of herbs or psychedelic drugs employ the naipes as psychological adjuncts to their therapy. This paper will examine the psychotherapeutic technique of divination utilizing fortunetelling cards, in an attempt to focus on some of the less understood psychological aspects of folk psychia…
Colonialism and the Legal Status of Women in Francophonic Africa
This chapter discusses the French colonial legislation in West and Equatorial Africa and its effect upon the status of women under French control until the early 1960&s;s. The effects of European colonialism upon people of the world have been multifold, but little can compare with the zeal and fervor with which the French attempted to legislate dignity and status to African women. African women were a source of dismay to French administrators who…
Law (2 works) · Medicine (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Traditional medicine (2 works) · Art (1 works) · Biology (1 works) · Botanical Research and Applications (1 works) · Botany (1 works) · Botany, Ecology, and Taxonomy Studies (1 works) · Cactus (1 works)