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Showing 1 to 20 of 112 for “"Civilisation"”.
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Japanese 'civilisation' and ideas of progress in Britain, c. 1880-1945
Japan holds unique historical significance as the first non-Western nation to win recognition by the West as a modern ‘civilised’ society and a major imperial power. This dissertation examines the significance of this rise for ideas of human difference and world order in British intellectual life …
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Climate change, water stress and agriculture in the Indus Civilisation, 3000-1500 BC
… change in South Asia’s Bronze Age urban Indus Civilisation. Specifically, my research tests the hypothesis that an abrupt weakening of the Indian Summer Monsoon ca 2100 cal BC led to increasing crop water stress, and hence potentially contributed to the Civilisation’s decline by reducing food …
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What's cooking in the Indus Civilisation? Investigating Indus food through ceramic lipid residue analysis
… in ceramic vessels by populations of the Indus Civilisation through ceramic lipid residue analysis. It uses concepts of food choice and foodways to explore the culinary practices of Indus populations. Specifically, the thesis examines how vessels may have been used in urban and rural Indus …
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Keeping wonder secure and the people awake:on the nature of wonder and its importance for civilisation.
… has a place in generating and maintaining a civilisation.
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The history and politics of civilisation: the debate about Russia in French and German historical scholarship from Voltaire to Herder
… its concern to explain the historical process of civilisation in general, and Europe’s historical journey out of a state of barbarism in particular, an array of thinkers turned to the example of Russia with a set of interrelated historiographical and political questions: Does Russia share a …
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Ceramic traditions and ceramic landscapes of the Indus Civilisation: investigating the technologies and socio-economic complexity of rural pottery production in Bronze Age northwest India.
… choices made by rural communities of the Indus Civilisation (c.2600-1900BC) by analysing ceramic materials from three villages in north-west India. The Indus Civilisation has typically been characterised as a society that underwent a broadly homogeneous development, and continuity and …
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Social Organisation And Change In Bronze Age South Asia: A multi-proxy approach to urbanisation, deurbanisation and village life through phytolith and macrobotanical analysis
… choices made by rural populations of the Indus Civilisation (3200-1300BC) and the subsequent Painted Grey Ware period (1300-500BC) by analysing macrobotanical and phytolith remains from five rural settlements in north-west India. The Indus Civilisation has typically been characterised as a …
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DE LA LITTÉRATURE UNIVERSALISTE SENGHORIENNE AU TOUT-MONDE DE GLISSANT: MÉTISSAGE ET DIALOGUE DES CULTURES DANS L’ÉCRITURE DE FATOU DIOME, ALAIN MABANCKOU, GASTON KELMAN ET AMINATA SOW FALL
… and Dialogue des cultures echo Senghor’s Civilisation de l’Universel. We also examine how le voyage, with its relation to globalization, influences or not these authors’ vision, as well as their writing and discourse about the universal ideas on the human condition. The objective of this …
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Saphira, the snake priestess : a novel, and; Minoan is not Greek : an essay
… this age group to the remarkable Minoan civilisation of around 1600BC. The novel aims to stimulate interest in the subjects of Ancient History and Mythology that inform studies in English and Literature in the later years of secondary school. The essay, Minoan is not Greek, explains some …
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The roles of regional organisations in international peace and security in the post-modern era. The case of the Organization for Security and Co-Operation in Europe with the Former Soviet Union Republic States.
… international cooperation. While the post-modern civilisation and values are introduced into the institutions and organisations for international peace and security, the state actors from the pre-modern and modern civilisations and values are vigorously defending the traditional version of state …
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The masks of Mnēmosynē: modulations of memory from ancient Greece to modern Paris
… and functioning of memory from the Mycenaean civilisation to the Hellenistic period of ancient Greece before taking up a reading of the modern continental philosophical engagements with this inheritance and the question concerning the irreducible mediations which lie between us and this Greek …
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What is 'Surreal' about Surrealism? An investigation of Surrealism as seen through the looking-glass of Jan Svankmajer
… time of production and his beliefs regarding a civilisation in crisis. Contingent to Švankmajer’s filmic representation of surreality is an examination of his style, aesthetics and techniques used to convey surreality or the notions of surrealism in his films to depict the affinity of the …
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Carnivalesque Inversion: The Subversive Fiction of Kurt Vonnegut
… a detrimental effect on the progress of human civilisation. It considers how valuable technology is to the human experience, and what happens to civilisation if humans are forced to surrender everything that gives their lives meaning. Chapter Three will analyse Slaughterhouse-Five, looking …
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The formation of the Japanese Art Collection at the Art Gallery of South Australia 1904-1940 : tangible evidence of Bunmei Kaika.
… hegemony. Driven by the slogan bunmei kaika ‘civilisation and enlightenment’, Japan throughout the Meiji era (1868-1912) exploited the mania for its art in order to achieve status and recognition as a world power. It will be further argued that the spirit of bunmei kaika also encapsulated the …
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Sùilean Gàidhlig, Speuclairean Beurla - Dathan ann an Litreachas agus Dualchas Nitheil
… and in the ancient world, seen as an example of civilisation by the western world, particularly the philosophy, poetry, and use in material culture of colour in Ancient Greece. This is then compared with applied colour in Gaelic culture, from a survey of traditional home dyeing recipes, to the …
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Ordering British Famine Relief Efforts in India, Ottoman Anatolia, and Qing China, 1873–1879
… society to adopt Britain’s own standards of ‘civilisation’. Thirdly, it functioned to naturalise the hierarchical model of triage as the only legitimate and necessary procedure to allocate ‘scarce’ aid resources. Lastly, this framework channelled British famine relief efforts towards …
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Progrès technologique et bonheur d'après les romans de Bernard B. Dadie
… et en Italie lui ont permis de pénétrer la civilisation occidentale. C'est à la suite de ces voyages que Dadié exprime lucidement ses pensées , suivant un itinéraire mitoyen entre le monde traditionnel africain et l'Occident technologique.Nous aborderons notre sujet par une série d'études …
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Gestures and Acclamations: some assembly required Contextualising curating and exhibtion practices in Southeast Asia for Singapore, Indonesia and Hong Kong
… Asia, the presence of indigenous culture and civilisation is sometimes overlooked and disregarded in favour of a larger post-colonial discussion concerning artistic production of the new and modern nation state. This research touches on how acknowledging the weight of civilisation and the …
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The challenges of the Arabic language in the age of globalization and the role of the Qur’ān in preserving it
… an immense support to the construction of human civilisation, which continues until today, across various fields of knowledge such as philosophical thought, scientific, arts, etc.
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