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Showing 1 to 20 of 53 for “"Cultural continuity"”.
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Tracing Ainu and Pre-Ainu Cultural Continuity Through Cladistic Analysis of Faunal Assemblages
… analysis. These findings suggest some level of cultural continuity across these time periods and important local environmental forces at work in shaping animal use.
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Cultural Continuity as a Pathway for Métis Peoples Health Promotion: A Descriptive Phenomenological Approach
… from colonialism. Disconnection from their land, cultural suppression, and loss of cultural identity have had adverse effects on the health outcomes and overall well-being of the Métis population. Considering the critical importance of cultural continuity as a health-protective factor for Métis …
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Analysis of artifacts from four Duke Point area sites, near Nanaimo, B.C. : an example of cultural continuity in the southern Gulf of Georgia region
… 5, 11, 29, and 36, yielded a large volume of cultural material. Complete artifact analysis, supplemented with partial soils, fauna!, burial, and pollen analyses, and a range of radiocarbon dates, from about 2760 B.C., have suggested the interpretation of three cultural components. Component …
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Cultural Pluralism, Migration and Ceramics: Reconsidering An Eighteenth Century Yuchi Settlement On the Savannah River (9Ef169)
… Rivers to determine the effect of migration and cultural interaction on cultural continuity through the lens of pottery. Although studies have been conducted in the past, rarely has there been an opportunity to isolate artifacts attributed solely to them. This study attempts to distinguish …
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Discerning activity areas in domestic space : a model for the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age Levant
The question of cultural continuity or the appearance of a new culture in the Levant in the period from the Late Bronze Age to Early Iron Age has been strongly debated in Near Eastern studies. Proponents of cultural change argue that a new type of building, the “four-room” house is a strong …
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Changing communal habitat patterns in the Tzotzil region of the Chaipas highlands in Mexico
… settlement patterns is a major problem for the cultural continuity of these societies during their period of adaptation to modern life. The problem of development and modernization with respect to evolving cultural patterns in the Chiapas Highlands is addressed. Hence, primacy is given to the …
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Feet don't fail me now: brass bands in post-Katrina New Orleans
… and the complex web of formal and informal sociocultural relationships that exist in the brass band community. The perspectives of these musicians, who were active New Orleans brass band musicians before and after the storm, help us better understand the resurgence and popularity of brass bands …
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Social Psychology of Globalization: Joint Activation of Cultures and Reactions to Foreign Cultural Influence
… are often exposed to local and foreign cultural symbols simultaneously. Psychological consequences of this kind of cultural exposure (termed bicultural priming) remained largely unexplored. This research examines how bicultural priming influences individuals’ reactions to foreign …
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Invisible village: A potential alternative for urban village redevelopment in China
… intervention contribute to a more functional and culturally identifiable community in an urban village redevelopment project in Langfang, China? ABSTRACT This research explores an alternative architectural strategy for urban village regeneration, focusing on Dong Village in Langfang, China. The …
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Spaces of Resistance: Reflections on Algerian Domesticity
… the role of Algerian domesticity in designing culturally, socially, and environmentally resonant spaces. This research engages critically with the legacy of French colonial housing projects in Algiers by confronting colonial practices that disregarded the cultural and social needs of Algerian …
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Transitional relief housing for tsunami victims of Tamil Nadu, India
… or seismic issues, and tries to suggest cultural continuity between the new architecture and previous architectures.
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LIVING ON THE EDGE
… regional and national fisheries, shaping cultural identity while sustaining vital coastal economies. Today, however, these communities face converging pressures: accelerating sea-level rise, recurrent high-tide flooding, aging and unaffordable housing stock, and the economic precarity of …
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Bram Stoker and cultural unification: colonialism, hybridity and the gothic
… seems to inform the present of the dangers of cultural degeneration and imperial decline, allowing the author to offer a new version of the British Empire based upon cultural continuity with Ireland. This ideal of a regeneration of the British Empire will also be seen to ground Stoker's …
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The architecture of storytelling : children's shelter in Venice, California
… stories told to me as a child provided a form of cultural continuity. Stories were a way of transferring culture, ideas, religion, morals, and values. The moral of the story changed depending on who was the storyteller. My mother's and later my sister's stories changed depending on my age and my …
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Formal education and traditional ecological knowledge transmission in Samburu, Kenya: research and revitalization
… Such erosion is seen as a threat to both the cultural continuity of indigenous societies and their ability to sustainably manage their natural resources. As in other parts of the world, the indigenous pastoralists of the Waso Ward of Samburu County, Kenya are increasingly concerned that the …
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Osage Glass Bead Use: Archaeological and Ethnohistorical Evidence of Change and Continuity Through the Early Postcontact Era
… studies characterize post-contact Osage cultural development as a process of inevitable change due to Osage adoption of European culture. The lack of discussion about cultural continuity and indigenous agency is problematic because it minimizes the Osages' role in their own cultural …
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The early inhabitants of the Upemba depression, the Democratic Republic of Congo
… the archaeological evidence pointing towards cultural continuity and the Luba’s rejection of ancestral relationships with the human skeletal remains found in the Upemba Depression of Central Katanga, the Democratic Republic of Congo. This was done by assessing the biological variation of the …
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Speaking Identity: Language Investment and Agency Among Spanish Heritage Speakers
… as “counterspaces,” where Spanish was valued for cultural connection and social support. Participants leveraged Spanish to maintain family ties, navigate social networks, and assert their linguistic identity. The study concludes that HS actively negotiate bilingualism, balancing the cultural value …
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Living in Excess: Narrating Violence and Presence in Native American and Chicana Literature
… similar understandings of and strategies for cultural continuity that bypass settler colonial definition. I examine their approaches to representing and navigating the violence of enforced absence and the technologies that create absence, and to exploring how it conditions the strategies for …
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Education, Identity, and the New Asian Americans: The Case of Japanese Immigrant Families in the Midwest
… have co-created a distinctive image of their cultural and ethno-national identities. Therefore, this research further assesses how the co-ethnic community, through cultural, language, and literacy education, has partially compensated for the potentially subtractive impact that assimilationist …
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