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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Cultural richness"”.
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Translating traditional Chinese medicine anchored in philosophy: towards a fuller account of the cultural richness of Su Wen
… both in terms of translation practice and of cultural encounter. In brief, the principal problem is that, unlike modern medicine and health-care cultures which are based on experiments and data, TCM considers the human being as an organic whole in unison with nature, rather than as a damaged …
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The Liminal Shift
… in many communities? How does one account for cultural richness and diversity? Known as the warm heart of Africa, Malawi lives up to its reputation through the warmth and hospitality shown by its people. In spite of an absence of a strong formal architectural history, one cannot help but be …
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A Pedagogical Grading of Albanian Violin Repertoire
… development does not reflect a lack of cultural richness; Albania possesses an ancient musical tradition rooted in its folk heritage. Professionally trained musicians such as Pjetër Gaci, the “People’s Artist,” played a significant role in shaping the national violin repertoire by …
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The slow zone : designing alternative paths for the future of North Bali
… The high profitability of real estate over agricultural land created development schemes that favor outside capital instead of local needs. The 2014 Village Law is a decentralization mechanism that provides direct funding for infrastructural development and village-owned enterprises based on …
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Path place pause: re-establishing vibrancy and cultural identity in Pniël by redefining the square
Buildings provide a source of culture and cultural identity, forming part of the cultural fabric of an area with traces of the past assisting in the development of a place (Fransen, 2006). Cultural identity appears to be threatened in many mission towns in South Africa as issues of gentrification, …
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Patchworked creative practice and mobile ecologies
… systems were standardized and encoded with cultural norms, giving creatives second-hand discourses from which to build their own creative artefacts. These case studies draw attention to the global standardization of infrastructures for creative practice, which threatens to flatten the …
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Ideologias de linguagem na formação de professores: uma etnografia com estudantes guineenses de letras-língua portuguesa no Brasil
… Portuguese that encompasses the linguistic and cultural richness embedded in their people's communicative practices. In opposition to the hegemonic and Eurocentric precepts of Portuguese language teaching and learning, the Guinean student community in São Francisco do Conde represents a movement …
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Developing a place-centred approach to sustainable development solutions for Namatala Slum, Mbale Municipality, Uganda
… between the social, economic, environmental, and cultural dimensions of Namatala was required to understand the challenges, along with an analysis of the effectiveness of policies and practices for sustainable development and the degree to which community capacity building is functioning. The main …
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The effect of collectivism on family meal consumption behaviour and its implications on food companies in Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone is a multi-cultural and multi-faceted society with people from diverse backgrounds, who espoused different cultural behaviours at mealtimes and in their business dealings. The significance of this study is that it highlights the differences and similarities inherent among the families …