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Showing 1 to 20 of 47 for “"Cultural Preservation"”.
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Cultural Preservation Through Promotion: Marketing The Muscogee Way
<p>Cultural tourism is on the rise. According to UNESCO (2021), cultural tourism accounts for 40% of global tourism and is one of the fastest-growing segments of the tourism industry. Today, travelers worldwide seek authentic experiences that allow them to connect with local cultures, learn about …
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Communal Appropriation: Considerations of Heritage and Cultural Preservation
<p>While cultural appropriation is widely taken as a negative phenomenon that should be avoided, aspects of cultural appropriation are desirable for cultural preservation and heritage. These aspects can expand upon a museum's function by fostering an authentic connection to the community that would …
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Cultural Preservation in a Saudi Domestic Environment in the Eastern Province
… developments have also resulted in new modes of cultural preservation in a domestic environment. It also explores the significant role of private museum making as a network of cultural practices that reflect and preserve Saudi culture for future generations. Despite the high price of land for …
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Producing Authenticity: The Process, Politics and Impacts of Cultural Preservation in Washington, DC
… how the process, politics, and impacts of culturally-framed redevelopment balance growth and equity within inner-city neighborhoods experiencing change. Redevelopment programs that draw upon existing arts and cultural assets have been supported and identified by planners as a strategy of …
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Fixin' To Tell: Cultural Preservation, Multiculturalism, And A Delicate Double Commitment In Appalshop's "Insider" Activism
… as it manifests in concepts of tradition and cultural authenticity, in the utilization of positive stereotypes, and in an asserted commitment to the "value of diversity." I consider how Appalshop's particular approach to place-based identity may perpetuate a process of cultural exclusion that …
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Mora county, New Mexico, and Tapetes de Lana: Weaving the tapestry of poverty and cultural preservation
Mora County, New Mexico, has rich natural beauty and a long history of economic success followed by failure. The future of the county is uncertain, but a nonprofit corporation, Tapetes de Lana, has been founded to revive traditional crafts and at the same time provide a sustainable, community-based …
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Regional heritage preservation planning: an examination through case study analysis
Cultural preservation efforts have evolved from traditional, site specific projects administered by a single agency, to regional, multi-jurisdictional projects administered by a cooperative partnership. The projects administered cooperative partnerships are a recent phenomena and are often termed …
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Cultural Resources in the United States: What Messages Are We Sending
… highway markers point the general public to the cultural resources of the United States. The present study used Rogers' diffusion of innovations theory and social marketing theory to better understand the level of support for archaeological, historic and cultural preservation. Current messages …
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Reparative Preservation through Immersive 3D Documentation: Cultural Memory, Spatial Justice, and Gullah Geechee Futures on Daufuskie Island
This thesis advances a reparative framework for cultural preservation by combining immersive documentation with co-authored digital storytelling to support Black spatial memory and community sovereignty. Grounded in fieldwork on Daufuskie Island, South Carolina—a historic Gullah Geechee community …
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“The Journey of Relocation,” A Reflective Autoethnography, Digital Story Telling, and Netnography: Experiences of South Asian Immigrants in Canada
… narratives of South Asian migrants navigating cultural, social, and systemic landscapes in Canada. By employing a hybrid qualitative methodology, the study integrates three distinct yet complementary approaches: reflective autoethnography to examine the researcher’s personal migration journey, …
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Nollywood: Challenges, Heritage Practice and Storytelling
… and institutional structures contribute to the preservation, representation, and transmission of Nigerian cultural heritage. The central research question guiding this study is: To what extent has Nollywood storytelling contributed to Nigerian heritage? The research examines Nollywood’s …
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Cultural Modification in Rural Appalachia: Changes as Perceived by Persons Living through the Transformations Created by the ARC.
… the repercussions of those changes on the cultural level. Using personal interviews with volunteers who are older-generation, native Appalachians, regarding their experiences of life before, during, and after the ARC was introduced, this thesis explores the significance of cultural …
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Translating and interpreting South Africa’s cultures: art, song and dance in Mda’s selected novels
… the complexities of translating South African cultural realities into narrative form. By examining how Mda incorporates and reinterprets traditional South African art forms, music, and dance, this study reveals the complex dynamics of cultural expression and translation. The study argues that …
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Cultural Transmission in the Age of Modernism: Mentorship in the Novel, 1890--1960
Cultural Transmission in the Age of Modernism: Mentorship in the Novel, 1890-1960 considers how education reform impacted modernist questions about the transmissibility of culture. Beginning with the institutionalization of universal education in the late nineteenth century and ending with the …
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#Explore: Outdoor Retailers, Indigenous Activists, and the Digital Battle for Public Land in the United States
… Indian treaty rights, resource sovereignty, and cultural preservation. It positions social media as a space of ambiguity, revealing how Indigenous people challenge these representations and respond to these companies. I pay special attention to how Indigenous people unite western and traditional …
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Viceroy
… of art and the state as an insidious site of cultural preservation, reduction and stagnation; it is about inheritance as intergenerational contamination, and the way we descend from histories without permission to inherit them; it is about trying to make a home in the world without the ability …
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The Antiochian Orthodox Syrians of Montreal, 1905-1980 : an historical study of cultural and social change over three generations
… in Montreal has undergone slow but substantial cultural and social change over three generations. The first-generation immigrants were characterized by cultural preservation and continuity. They established a vibrant ethnic community characterized by social and cultural traditions that were …
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Igbobuagu: An Exploration of Performance Practices, Aesthetics, and Symbolism in Igbo Traditional Instrumental Music
… perspective that treats musical elements as cultural texts, the research demonstrates how Igbobuagu ’s rhythms, instrumentation, and symbolic layers function as dynamic cultural texts that balance formal structure with lived experience. Practical implications include strategies for cultural …
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Historicizing and Engaging Lindy Hop: The Development, Presence, and Absence of Black Cultural Values and Aesthetics
… New York during the 1920s and 30s from a sociocultural perspective, applying the findings to an instance of contemporary Lindy Hop practice at Jazz Attack, a Lindy Hop venue in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in order to ascertain where elements of Black culture are present or absent. As Lindy Hop …
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Piano works by Latin American women composers born between 1850 and 1950: an anthology and recording
… in part due to the lack of exposure and limited cultural preservation programs in many countries. This dissertation strives to uncover and highlight a collection of at-risk compositions by Latin American women born between 1850 and 1950. Throughout this work, important information on five such …
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