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Showing 1 to 20 of 49 for “"Colonial society"”.
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The formation of a colonial society : Belize, from conquest to Crown Colony
… of the mahogany trade and the assertion of Colonial Office control over the territory undermined the power of the hitherto dominant white settler oligarchy.The settler oligarchy, having completely controlled the Settlement in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, was virtually …
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Conquering the Cape: the role of domestic keyboard instruments in colonial society and the colonisation process
… light the role that these instruments played in colonial society and in the colonisation process in the Cape Colony. Chapter 2 sketches the broader historical, social and cultural context within which domestic music making involving keyboard instruments took place in the Cape Colony. Chapter 3 …
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Traditional Practices and Negotiating Settler Colonial Society: An Exploration of Sport and Physical Culture Within the Siksika Nation
… transformative paradigm with an Indigenist, anti-colonial framework guided this research. Information was gathered through sharing circles and one-on-one interviews with elders (of which 31 participated) as well as archival sources such as newspapers, yearbooks, etc. Key topics covered include the …
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From One Woman to Another: The Role of Spanish Women in the Catholic Education of Indigenous Girls in Sixteenth Century New Spain
The endeavors of the colonial enterprise of the Spanish empire are often attributed to men while women are given secondary importance; yet women were greatly involved in the religious education and conversion of indigenous girls. Religious laywomen, or beatas, served as religious teachers to …
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Between Homes: Examining the notion of the uncanny in art practice and its relationship to post-colonial identity and contemporary society in Taiwan
… at home' in relation to identity issues, post-colonial society and art practice, focusing in particular on Taiwan. I explore Sigmund Freud's theory of the 'uncanny' (unheimlich) and argue that in contemporary society, experiencing the 'uncanny' is common, while it is nearly impossible to obtain …
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Interpreting the Witness: Frederick Thomas Morrison and Other Accounts of Precolonial Lake Nyasa, 1878 to 1891
… Victorian middle and upper-class members of society, the desire to end the slave trade set the stage for complex dynamics, particularly in the Lake Nyasa (now Malawi) region. Nyasaland serves as an excellent case study to understand the multifaceted intricacies that characterise the region …
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Mujeres de mal vivir: Gender, religion, and the politics of power in colonial Guatemala, 1650-1750
… authority and power within the process of colonial rule in Guatemala. To do so, I focus on seventeenth- and eighteenth-century accounts of the lives and practices of female healers, midwives, sorcerers, and clandestine cult leaders in the capital, Santiago de Guatemala. Colonial authorities …
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Artful places: creativity and colonialism in British Columbia's Indian residential schools
… them, provide opportunities to better understand colonialism in British Columbia. Residential schools were places created to transform Aboriginal children, through assimilation, into a modernizing and colonial society. They are simultaneously places that offer access to Indigenous articulations of …
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A transdisciplinary study on developing knowledge based software tools for wildlife management in Namibia
… against the cultural background of a post-colonial society in which the deficits of the past constrain the impact and the efficacy of technological interventions.
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Writing an alternative Australia : women and national discourse in nineteenth-century literature
… emergence of the Australian national identity in colonial Australia. National identity is not a politically determined construct but culturally produced through discourse on literary works by female and male writers. The emergence of the dominant bushman myth exhibited enormous strength and …
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Rhode Island's Wars: Imperial Conflicts and Provincial Self-Interests in the Ocean Colony, 1739–48
… participation of non-combatants all depict a colonial society very interested in its own local political and economic interests. Although literally “provincial,” these interests exhibit the Atlantic and global networks that the smallest of the New England colonies was situated in. These two …
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The securitisation of ethnic identities and the 1993 genocide in Burundi: an interpretative case study
… in combination with a Fanonian conception of colonial society, this dissertation provides an alternative interpretation as to why the genocide occurred. At heart of its analysis is the question of ‘how did ethnic identities in Burundi become securitised?', which it seeks to answer through a …
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Weaving Subjects at the Obraje de Chincheros: Indigenous Contributions to the Colonial Aesthetic
… dissertation highlights the contributions that colonial textile producers at the colonial textile mill, the Obraje de Chincheros (c. 1570-1820), influenced the colonial Peruvian aesthetic. Peruvian weavers were seen as superior weavers at the time of the Spanish invasion and obrajes were …
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Performing Theaters of Power: The Holy Office of the Inquisition's General Autos de fe in Spain and Spanish America and the Visual and Physical Representation of Inquisitorial Power, 1481-1736
… the ideal nature of the proper order of Spanish colonial society.
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Wokiksuye : the politics of memory in Indigenous art, monuments, and public space
… imaginations and wokiksuye (memory) of society. Indigenous intervention into the practice of public art can powerfully contribute to the process of decolonization and Indigenization in America. Considerations embedded in notions of public space within a settler colonial society, such as …
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Medical pluralism in central Mexico in the early colonial period
… pluralism in central Mexico during the early colonial period, surveying the medical landscape to recognise spaces for and evidence of, medical assimilation and exchange between Spanish, Indian and Black populations. Recognising that medicine during this period was a combination of science, …
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The Heroics of Conquest: Hernán Cortés in the Early Modern Hispanic Epic
… and political matrix of early modern Spanish and colonial society. In my consideration of how the figure of Cortés is used as a tool to explore issues of patronage, creole identity, evangelisation, and nationalism, I question not only how heroic discourse is conditioned by historical context, but …
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Identifying the dead : eighteenth century mortuary practices at Cobern Street, Cape Town
… skeletal material (both historical and precolonial) representing a total of 121 individuals. A variety of cultural material was found with the burials. The following is a summary of the excavation activities, and a detailed description of the burial patterns and grave goods unearthed at the …
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The Scandalous Case of Isabel de la Cruz Mejía: Healing, Ethnicity, and Gender in Seventeenth-Century Mexico
… the Protomedicato. In this absence, Novohispano society learned to heal itself. Influenced by Iberian, Mesoamerican, and African religious and medical traditions, popular healers of mixed caste, gender, and ethnicity learned to heal in a hybrid colonial context. Heavily influenced by popular …
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“The Amazing Iroquois”: Haudenosaunee History in Myth and Memory, 1776–1955
… who worked within and against American colonial society and shaped how New Yorkers and Americans remembered the Iroquois and their history. Through deed and reputation, they created and then preserved an enduring vision of Iroquoian history told on Seneca terms in the American …
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