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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"Customs and traditions"”.
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P. I. Mel'nikov-Pecherskii in the History of the Russian Novel
Both opponents and admirers of of Mel'nikov-Pecherskii's literary works agree that he gave a precise description of everyday life, religious ceremonies, customs and traditions of Old Believers in the Transvolga district.
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Choices for the living, honour for the dead : a century of funeral and memorial practices in Lethbridge
This thesis explores the customs and traditions surrounding death and memorialization in the history of Lethbridge, paying particular attention to the public "face" of the practices as observed in newspaper death notices, obituaries, in-memoriams, undertaker advertisements, gravestones and …
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Elements of folklore in “House of Houses” by Pat Mora
… for individuals, for they face the dilemma of abandoning their cultural identity through assimilation into the mainstream Anglo-American culture. Pat Mora, a Mexican-American writer, in her memoir House of Houses develops the theme of the preservation of one's ethnic self through folk …
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"An Ardent Military Spirit": William C. C. Claiborne and the Creation of the Orleans Territorial Militia, 1803-1805
… the fledgling United States. Taking control of and defending the new territory, especially the culturally heterogeneous city of New Orleans occupied much of the administration's time. Most of the burden for establishing the defense policy rested on William C. C. Claiborne, a staunch …
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Die vertaling en groepering van Landeskunde elemente in geselekteerde verhale van Bessie Head
… Bessie Head in which she tells stories about the customs and traditions of the Batswana were translated into Afrikaans. The stories on the Batswana culture were taken as representative of other African languages for the specific purpose of the study. In the study the researcher also indicates …
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Travel behaviour and its cultural context : an empirical study of the Vietnamese community in Australia
Culture involves a confluence between beliefs and values, customs and traditions, symbols and expressions, hopes and aspirations that human beings, in their various collectives, inherit and embody as their source of identity and meaning. Geographically removed from their cultural place or context, …
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Sentimental Journey?: The Immigrant Experience of World War II-Era War Brides in Montana
During and after World War II, over one hundred thousand American servicemen married women they met in the course of their deployment overseas. In early 1946, these women, commonly known as “war brides,” began to immigrate to the United States to join their husbands. Over one hundred of the women …
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Sentimental Journey?: The Immigrant Experience of World War II-Era War Brides in Montana
During and after World War II, over one hundred thousand American servicemen married women they met in the course of their deployment overseas. In early 1946, these women, commonly known as “war brides,” began to immigrate to the United States to join their husbands. Over one hundred of the women …
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What is the experience of traveller women in adult and community education?
… the experience of Traveller women in adult and community education. It focuses on a particular group of women in a particular community centre. It was my intention to use the insights gained to develop education programmes that would be congruent of Irish Traveller culture, traditions and …
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'Gāpatia i Fa’anoanoaga': An Art Installation Reflecting on Burden and Loss Through a Migrant Experience
… sadness’, which encompasses all aspects of loss and grief in relation to the burden of obligation to reciprocity. This project has functioned as lightening the load of the burden of grief and loss through the process of making an art installation exploring a migrant Samoan experience. My project …
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A Comparative Analysis of the influence of Folklore on the works of the following African writers: Chinua Achebe, Eskia Mphahlele, Ngungi wa Thiongo' and Andrew Nkadimeng: An Afrocentric approach
… is often influenced by their lived experiences and the social context embedded within folklore. Folklore houses the cultural beliefs, customs and traditions of a society and is passed on from one generation to the next through oral and written literature. Many African authors’ works instil an …
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Shaping and managing corporate social responsibility in a low-income country : lessons from Uganda
The corporate social responsibility (CSR) landscape in Uganda was for a long time undocumented. Additionally, Uganda, like many other low-income countries (LIC) has lacked a definitive theoretical base on which to explain what is happening around its CSR affairs. A combination of these two …
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The Vernacularisation of Indigenous Peoples' Participatory Rights in the Bolivian Extractive Sector: Including Subgroups in Collective Decision-Making Processes
… been developed in the area of indigenous peoples and respective land and resource rights in particular. International legal instruments (ILO C169 and UNDRIPS) and Inter-American jurisprudence (e.g. the Saramaka and Sarayaku cases) significantly safeguard such rights. The latter materialise in the …
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Out of context: Spatializing culture in a pluralistic reality
… between architecture, cultural identity, and context in a pluralistic reality, focusing on the context of Indian temple complexes in the American suburb of Jersey City. It argues that Architecture becomes alienating when its form and function do not reflect the culture of its occupants, …
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Aspects of Islam and social coexistence: the case of Britain
This study deals with coexistence between Muslims and non-Muslims in the British society in the social context from an Islamic perspective. It identifies factors working for achieving coexistence between Muslims and non-Muslims in Britain. It also deals with factors that could undermine that …
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Transatlantic Acts: Nation, Self-Narration, and Celebrity in Victorian and Modernist Women's Autobiography
This dissertation examines select Victorian and Modernist women writers' autobiographical narratives with attention to how the presence of transatlantic travel' bodily and textual, between Europe and America' links private processes of self-narration to public critiques of nation-specific systems, …
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Piety Projects: Islamic Schools for Indonesia's Urban Middle Class
… control over popular conceptualizations of piety and what it means to be a good Muslim, as presented by Al Azhar 31 Islamic Primary School and Luqman al Hakim Integrated Islamic Primary School in Jogjakarta, Indonesia. Al Azhar 31 promotes an Indonesian Islam, pluralistic and inclusive of …
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A cloud-based collaborative virtual learning environment for the higher education institutions in the Sultanate of Oman.
… utilisation by users mostly for uploading and downloading course materials. This study focuses on challenges and concerns that limit or even prohibit the use of a cloud-based collaborative virtual learning environment (CBCVLE). More specifically, this study considers the influences of Omani …
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Hybrid body craft
Sensor device miniaturization and breakthroughs in novel materials are allowing for the placement of technology increasingly close to our physical bodies. However, unlike all other media, the human body is not simply another surface for enhancement - it is the substance of life, one that …
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The relationship between human beings and nature in an urban context: Tehran and the natural structures of seven river-valleys: a design and planning case study
… the relationship between human beings and nature in an urban context through the enhancement and improvement of the existing natural structures of the city. Although, in the past, the city was mostly characterised as a place of ‘non-nature’, nowadays the landscape is acknowledged to be …
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