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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Cultural Loss"”.
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Otse mbaka, this is who we are : cultural loss, change and recuperation in Ovamboland
This thesis is an investigation into the terms of cultural change in north central Namibia. I am primarily concerned with issues of agency in the processes which result in cultural change, and look at both historical and contemporary agents of change in order to determine who and what impacts …
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Effects of health information seeking behaviors on anxiety, and loss among East Asian international students
… health information seeking behavior, cross-cultural loss on satisfaction with life among 186 East Asian international students while studying abroad in the U.S. The results showed that general and health anxiety are both significantly associated with satisfaction with life, while there is a …
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What do you call this?
… deal with issues of immigration, exile and cultural loss. The emphasis, however, is not placed on ethnicity in any strict sense, but rather on taking the, by now, familiar premise of the immigrant subject and giving it back to the reader, as the Irish poet Seamus Heaney writes, "with a clean …
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THE OLD CITY OF KASHGAR: LOSS OF WORLD HERITAGE IN TIMES OF RAPID ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND SOCIOCULTURAL CHANGE
This paper focuses on perceptions of cultural loss felt by Uyghurs, one of China’s fifty-five officially recognized minority ethnic groups, with respect to the demolition of the old district of the city of Kashgar. Although the western-based media describes the old city as being the heritage of the …
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THE OLD CITY OF KASHGAR: LOSS OF WORLD HERITAGE IN TIMES OF RAPID ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND SOCIOCULTURAL CHANGE
This paper focuses on perceptions of cultural loss felt by Uyghurs, one of China’s fifty-five officially recognized minority ethnic groups, with respect to the demolition of the old district of the city of Kashgar. Although the western-based media describes the old city as being the heritage of the …
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Anna He Purnabramha: Deorukhe Women’s Agency in the Making of Bodies, Cuisines, and Culture in Maharashtra, India
… concerns. While some are apprehensive about cultural loss and western cultural imperialism, others make a case for the rise of glocalization. While some espouse the positives of a free market economy, others are critical of the nutrition transition in developing countries and what this means …
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Safeguarding Indigenous Heritage in the Anthropocene: A Transnational Comparative Study of the Northwest Territories, Canada, and Northern Chile
… most urgent and growing threats to natural and cultural heritage in the twenty-first century, and the indelible impact of humanity has led to the definition of a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene. Indigenous peoples are disproportionately affected by natural and human-induced changes to the …
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Evaluating Justice: Indigenous Communities and Environmental Litigation in Australia and New Zealand
A discernible gap between economic and legal valuation of environment has been revealed by materials brought before specialist environmental courts worldwide. While economic valuations have a significant role in quantifying environmental harms, the literature available on methods and legal tools …