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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Cultural transfer"”.
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Cultural Transposition: Exploring Meanings of and Strategies for Cross-Cultural Transfer of Organizational Practices
… research objective is to study the phenomenon of transferring organizational practices which are conceptualized in one culture to another different culture. The purpose of the study is (1) to understand how cultural values and beliefs are manifested in behavior; (2) to explore how the Western …
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A cross-cultural study of architectural production in Korea and the West: cultural transfer within South Korean architecture and urbanism, 1990-2010
This thesis examines the issue of cultural transfer within the context of modern Korean architecture and urbanism from 1990 to 2010 in light of globalising forces. My research is based on the proposition that the emergence of any new architecture in South Korea cannot be simply categorized …
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Fürst Pückler-Muskau (1785-1871) als interkulturelle Mittlerperson zwischen Frankreich und Deutschland. Studie unter besonderer Berücksichtigung seiner unveröffentlichten französischen Briefwechsel
… written in French an unpublished. Based on the cultural transfer approach, complemented by network analysis, the aim of this thesis was to examine with whom this French-speaking and Francophile prince was in (epistolary) contact and for what purpose. The study shows that Pückler-Muskau …
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Strengthening cross-cultural policy transfer : the case of international health promotion and tobacco control
The study refers to the issue of cross-cultural transfer of internationally initiated health promotion and tobacco control policies. It explores the process of cross-cultural policy transfer, analyses the difficulties, proposes methods to overcome them, and tests the approach in Bulgaria. Generally …
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Bodies of Knowledge: The Influence of Slaves on the Antebellum Medical Community
… It also suggests that the importance of cultural transfer to America from places other than Europe has been overlooked in the history of medicine. The medical influence of slaves took the form of botanical remedies, many of them with an African origin, and were disseminated through the …
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Between Scotland and Norway: connected cultures and intercultural encounters after 1700
… and Scandinavia. This thesis examines intercultural encounters evident in the historical, material and literary cultures of coastal communities in Scotland and Norway, demonstrating the existence of a shared, transnational Nordic/Northern cultural region after 1700. <br/><br/>The main aim of …
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The German classics on the British stage : the reception of Goethe, Schiller and Kleist since 1945
… explanations. As a case study in intra-European cultural transfer, the history of the reception of the German classics is examined against the backdrop of the British theatrical culture and the implications of the habitus of British theatre: its structures, history and tradition, and how these …
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Viennese Japonismus and Modern Allegory in the Work of Gustav Klimt
… questions I address are: How did the historical cultural problem of the fracturing Habsburg Empire inform the aims of artistic reformers from the 1860s through the foundations of the Secession and Wiener Werkst.tte? How did the inescapable question of Austrian identity in the arts encourage …
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Socio-material constructs of domestic energy demand: Household and housing practices in Pakistan
… as a result of the specific socio-material and cultural contexts that underpin how the need for energy arises and evolves. This research adopts a socio-technical perspective to explore various nexuses of practices and spatial arrangements of urban housing that have emerged, persisted and …
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Resituating Transatlantic Opera: The Case of the Théâtre d'Orléans, New Orleans, 1819-1859
… articulating the authors’ perceptions of inter-cultural encounter in New Orleans. This thesis, therefore, seeks to unpick the processes involved in transatlantic opera from a number of angles. I resituate New Orleans, arguing that the city was not simply on the musical periphery, but that it was …
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Os avós na família e sociedade contemporânea : uma abordagem intergeracional e intercultural
O estudo sobre a importância dos avós na família e sociedade contemporâneas visa compreender qual o papel que os avós têm para a dinâmica familiar, quer como recurso quer como transmissão de saberes numa perspectiva intergeracional. Foram analisadas neste estudo 50 famílias, 25 famílias num …