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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Cultural Revival"”.
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“Picb’il”: digital repatriation and textile production as cultural revival in the Alta Verapaz of Guatemala.
… thousand years. Forming the backbone of a rich cultural tradition, the craftwork of Maya women remains an indigenous tradition in the Maya region to survive the Spanish conquest and subsequent waves of violence. For Q’eqchi’ women of the Alta Verapaz of Guatemala, textile production not only …
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Making Indigenous Futures: Land, Memory, and 'Silent Knowledge' in a Skolt Sámi Community
… of wild foods, which form the core of a vibrant cultural revival. Through participant observation and life history methods, I follow the making of things using local materials as a means by which people remake relationships with the land and with each other. The thesis focuses on the first 14 …
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Allusion, aesthetics, and nationalism in James Joyce's Dubliners
… Joyce judges the nationalist mythology of cultural revival, preserving and replicating the structure of the very culture its seeks to displace, unsuited to modernity. Allusions are a central component of Joyce's critique of these institutional structures. The act of alluding, Joyce …
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Reru: figuras em cordéis dos Índios Karajá
Examines a cultural feature in the form of a leisure activity which is common) to many peoples in the world. A close look into the activity of string figure making can give us many insights to help us better understand human creativity and ludic nature. Through an account of a sampling collection …
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Putting Cajuns on the Map: Music's Role in Popularizing Louisiana's Bayou Culture
… Louisiana witnessed a grassroots Cajun cultural revival whose most active years stretched across three decades in the latter half of the twentieth century. While important local and world events created conditions favorable to its development, actors and events within the Cajun musical …
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Zimbabwean stone sculpture: The invention of a Shona tradition
… through drawing upon theories about artistic revivals developed by French art historian Henri Focillon as well as the pedagogical techniques of the nineteenth century symbolist painter Gustave Moreau. In doing so, McEwen presented the works created during his tenure (1957-1973) as the …
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The trouser under the cloth : Ceylon/Sri Lanka, personal space in the decolonization
… these previous identities with attempts made at cultural revival by emergent nationalist movements. Each of these periods feature hegemonic cultural processes and an intellectual bourgeoisie that figure prominently in their projection. The positions adopted by this intellectual bourgeoisie to …
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National Project, Regional Perspective: Newfoundland, Canada and Identities, 1949-1991
… this enduring struggle. After confederation, a cultural revival in the province further entrenched its distinct identity during the same period in which it was acclimatizing to a new Canadian reality. The main goals of this research are to comprehend how Newfoundland understood official Canadian …
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To Play Jewish Again: Roots, Counterculture, and the Klezmer Revival
… Finally, how was the genesis for the klezmer revival related to the social and cultural climate of its time? I argue that Jewish folk musicians revived klezmer music in the 1970s as a manifestation of both an existential search for authenticity, carrying over from the 1960s counterculture, and …
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Abd al-Rahman Al-Kawakibi's Tabai` al-Istibdad wa Masari` al-Isti`bad (The Characteristics of Despotism and The Demises of Enslavement): A Translation and Introduction
… between the religious, literary and scholarly cultural revival in the Arab Middle East and the adoption and application of the cultural ideas of European Enlightenment.</p> <p>Kawakibi fluctuates between Arab nationalism and Islamic revivalism. In order to fully understand his progressive ideas …
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Tradition is Dead, Long Live Tradition: Critical Approaches to Postvernacular Yiddish Culture
… is the vernacular of the contemporary Yiddish cultural scene, creating the space for a subjective, relative, and contingent relationship with Yiddish cultural practices, and that this context necessitates that critical thinking be integrated into the pedagogy and transmission of cultural …
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The Scottish literary renaissance reborn: a re-evaluation of the cultural directives of King James VI, as defined in his 'Essayes of a Prentise in the Divine Art of Poesie' (1584)
… lexicon with which to analyse James VI’s cultural revival. Bawcutt condemns the imprudent scholarly acceptance, and the ensuing promulgation, of Shire’s ‘Castalian Band’ theoretic as nothing more than a fabrication of a scholarly fiction which culminates in a widespread fundamental …
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Dissecting the Charrúa Extinction Narrative in 2025: Dissonance, Hope, and Misunderstanding
In this thesis, I will discuss my research on the indigenous Charrúa people of Uruguay. My goal was to explore the perception of the general public and Charrúa themselves surrounding the Charrúa extinction narrative. My fieldwork consisted of eleven interviews with indigenous activists, artists, …
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Symbolic meanings in the Ghanaian arts : a step towards developing cultural literacy
While the cultural policy adopted by Ghana on her attainment of political independence aims to offer the Ghanaian people opportunities to revive, preserve, and develop their indigenous culture, not much has been done in terms of documenting the Ghanaian cultural arts for both cultural record and …
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"De par chez nous:" Fiddling Traditions and Acadian Identity on Prince Edward Island
… community are a matter of some debate, yet the cultural identity of the Acadians of Prince Edward Island in the twenty-first century appears to have remained intact. Contrary to a popular discourse of identity "revival," this distinct culture is neither a recent phenomenon nor is it something …
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Reimagining keening: an examination of the reinvention of Irish lament as a healing tool in the contemporary world
This study explores the contemporary revival of the once widely practiced Irish funerary lament tradition known as keening (from the Irish caoineadh, meaning "to cry"). Keening has declined as a funerary practice since the early twentieth century but is now being reimagined in contemporary Ireland …