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Showing 1 to 20 of 161 for “"Cultural Significance"”.
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The effects of commodification on cultural significance: two African fortifications
… is specifically concerned with the impact of cultural tourism on the valorisation of two African fortifications; Castelo São Jorge da Mina (Elmina Castle) in Elmina, Ghana and Casteel de Goede Hoop (Castle of Good Hope) in Cape Town, South Africa. The commodification of national and world …
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In Martha We Trust? The Cultural Significance of the Martha Stewart Phenomenon
… Stewart's rendition of domesticity and a broader cultural trend of the late 1990s U.S. domestic retreatism. It argues that the mode of construction and representation of the "domestic dream" in Stewart's programs cannot be examined outside of such concepts as class and ethnicity, whose …
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Fordsburg's urban memory - cultural significance and its embodiment in the ordinary landscape
… mark on the suburb and have resulted in changing significances and heritage resources. The study's main aim was to identify what constants have gained significance to become anchors for memory and identity in Fordsburg's landscape of rapid urban and social change. An exploration of Fordsburg's …
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The cultural significance of the Church of the Vow in Pietermaritzburg KwaZulu-Natal
… building that one can attempt to determine its cultural significance. The concept of ‘cultural significance’ has been widely used to determine the heritage value of places. In South Africa, heritage practitioners are guided by the South African National Heritage Resources Act (Act 25 of 1999) …
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Star-struck, lovesick, poet-musicians: Troubadours and the cultural significance of music in Medieval society
This research investigates questions of how to understand troubadour song as music, in the absence of musical notation for most of the repertory, how troubadour song influenced social structures of music-making, and the extent to which troubadour song interacts with other aspects medieval culture. …
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Dance, Culture and Nationalism: the Socio-cultural Significance of Cloud Gate Dance Theatre in Taiwanese Society
The socio-cultural significance of Cloud Gate Dance Theatre (est. 1973) in Taiwan is manifested in the interconnection of political nationalism and the representation of a diasporic postcolonialist cultural nationalism in its dance creations. The hybrid nature of Taiwanese society and its struggle …
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A double blind placebo controlled proving of Nelumbo nucifera 30CH with subsequent comparison to its cultural significance
Submitted in partial compliance with the requirements of the Master’s Degree in Technology: Homoeopathy, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2017.
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Shall We Gather At the Table?: the Symbolic, Material, and Cultural Significance of the Table In American Life and Letters
<p>A table is an intersection, a crossroads, a convergence, a gathering. Imitating this spirit, my project explores the numerous ways the table has been set in American life and letters: from Herman Melville's reincarnated apple-tree table to dinners displaced by bodies on Eudora Welty's tables, …
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My Brother the Buffalo: An Ethnohistorical Documentation of the 1999 Buffalo Walk and the Cultural Significance of Yellowstone Buffalo to the Lakota Sioux and Nez Perce Peoples
… Park Service to serve as documentation of the cultural significance of Yellowstone buffalo to two American Indian cultural groups, the Nez Perce and the Lakota Sioux, and of the 1999 Buffalo Walk and accompanying ceremony that took place within the boundary of the park. Both Lakota Sioux and …
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My Brother the Buffalo: An Ethnohistorical Documentation of the 1999 Buffalo Walk and the Cultural Significance of Yellowstone Buffalo to the Lakota Sioux and Nez Perce Peoples
… Park Service to serve as documentation of the cultural significance of Yellowstone buffalo to two American Indian cultural groups, the Nez Perce and the Lakota Sioux, and of the 1999 Buffalo Walk and accompanying ceremony that took place within the boundary of the park. Both Lakota Sioux and …
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My language, my culture: an exploration of the cultural significance of isiXhosa language to people who identify as amaXhosa: a case study with six urban and six rural speakers
… and socially desirable. In South Africa, cultural conversion became evident with the arrival of missionaries: Africans started to adopt the culture and world view of missionaries (Ndlovu, 2002; Oduyoye, 2009). The adoption of western culture came at a high price for African languages, …
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Commerce or Significance: Commercial Interventions on Cultural Interpretation at Two Philadelphia Historic Sites
… commercialization shapes the interpretation of cultural significance in historic site management. Rather than treating commercialization as an inherent threat to preservation, it argues that its effects depend on institutional context, management structure, and narrative strategy. Through …
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Declaring urban conservation areas: the Art Deco townscape of Vredehoek, Cape Town
… study asks what qualities, characteristics and cultural significance need to be embodied within an urban environment that make the area worthy of conservation-oriented protection through laws and policies. The research question was explored through an assessment of the townscape of Vredehoek, an …
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Cultural values change in the rehabilitation of historic schools in Portugal
… of architectural rehabilitation decisions on the cultural significance of historic buildings. Architectural heritage conservation literature has focused almost exclusively on providing principles and guidelines, describing intervention methodologies, and discussing predicted impacts of design on …
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Two Waters: Warburdar & Wai
… & Wai is a study aimed at understanding the cultural significance of water for Indigenous peoples. Using an Indigenous storytelling approach, this creative research blends film, story, projection, sound and design to create a new immersive sensory experience that raises consciousness of the …
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CARLOTA LUCUMÍ
<p>"Carlota Lucumí" is a creative work of cultural significance, written in the novella form. It follows the protagonist, Carlota Lucumí, a woman of Yoruba descent, who is taken captive and sold to Spanish slave traders, who in turn transport her to Cuba. While working on a plantation in Cuba, …
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NFL Films and the re-production of Pro Football
… Using techniques of textual analysis and social/cultural historiography, I investigate the representational dynamics of pro football in this film. In order to explicate the ideological, sociological, historical, and cultural significance of the film before, during, and after its release, I …
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