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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Historical continuity"”.
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existence and continuity
… architecture with a presence of permanence and historical continuity.
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Learning from Andean vernacular architecture: a proposal for a tourist center in San Pedro de Casta, Marcahuasi
… spirit of place" - and the need to assure the "historical continuity". The main points of the program are the following: 1.- to create a service unit corresponding to the needs of the overall development of the micro-region as regards to tourism, 2.- to favor contact between the tourists and the …
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The Ever Present Past: Thoreau's Perception and Use of History in Walden
… purpose of this project was to explore Thoreau's historical perspective and to examine how his perception of history is reflected in his major work <strong>Walden.</strong> Regarding the scope of the project, three dimensions of Thoreau's perception and use of history were treated: his belief in a …
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Singing With the Spirits: Musical Life in Sao Luis, Northeast Brazil
… social roles and relationships in contexts of historical continuity and change.
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Las huelgas en España: Intensidad, formas y determinantes
… policy during the twentieth century, as its historical continuity, because since the mid-nineteenth century strikes became the dominant form of social protest in the industrial societies. Also for methodological reasons: the availability of statistical data series from the late nineteenth …
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The Communication of Beliefs: An Inquiry Into the Rhetoric of Collective Identity and the Origins and Uses of Normative Logic
… identity offer demonstration of both the historical continuity and the dazzling fluidity of our norms of belief about the good and the right and the real and the true in human affairs."
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Enemies of Science: The Handmaiden's Handmaiden in the Early Medieval West
… existence has more to do with limited historical perspectives than with reality. The anachronistic superimposition of modern presuppositions and methodological expectations is a very old phenomenon. Ironically, however, it has crept into the history of science and extended to ostensibly …
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Governing Global Migration
… it places the regulation of movement within the historical continuity of governmental concerns with managing circulation. Third, it explores current governmental thought on migration, to this end tracing the political rationality of governing migration from the global description of migration and …
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Biosemiotics as systems theory: an investigation into biosemiotics as the grounding for a new form of cultural analysis
… methodological perspective is an instance of historical continuity due primarily to biosemiotics' and systems theory's involvement with Tartu-Moscow semiotics. Subsequently, the thesis argues that biosemiotics' and cybernetics' systems thinking differ in their view of 'information'. It shows …
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Does autism merit belief? : Developing an account of scientific realism for psychiatry
… one addresses the pessimistic meta-induction. I historically analyse autism to show there has been sufficient historical continuity to avoid the pessimistic meta induction. Chapter two considers arguments from underdetermination. I consider the strongest candidate for an alternative to autism, …
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The journey from New Delhi to Islamabad : dependence and subversion in the ambivalent expression of nationhood
… and an effort to embody memory within a sense of historical continuity. Effacement of identity, which was once the only means of survival for the colonized, has been replaced by the legitimation of identity. The return to a denied heritage requires a re-invention of traditions which project an …
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A river of memory: landscape, narrative and identity in the Lee Valley, Co. Cork, Ireland
… the surface of a cultural landscape, inject historical research and temporal depth into cultural landscape studies and instil a genuine sense of inclusivity of a wide variety of voices (role of monuments and rituals and voices of people) from the past and present. The polyvocal-bricoleur …
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The Diversion of Macromolecular Synthesis in L-Cells Towards Ends Dictated by Mengovirus
… place the biochemical evidence in a framework of historical continuity. This discussion is by no means complete but is meant to be sufficient to provide some understanding of the place of this virus relative to some of its closest relatives, especially poliovirus. The introduction then goes on to …
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Defining and Enhancing Place-Identity in Historic Cities: Embracing heritage, conflict, and globalisation in Erbil, Iraq
… form and distinctive place-identity of unique historical landscapes. One recent example is the case of Erbil, the capital of the Kurdish region of Iraq. After decades of war and ethnic repression, the area is now experiencing a period of political and economic stability, intensified post-war …
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The Tongan traditional history Tala-E-Fonua : a vernacular ecology-centred historico-cultural concept
… this anthropo-ecological context, I examine the continuity of the social and the natural, and how the dialectic between structure and event are orally transmitted through culture and history. The first part introduces the issues by examining the formal characteristics of tala-e-fonua and its …
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The Tongan traditional history Tala-E-Fonua : a vernacular ecology-centred historico-cultural concept
… this anthropo-ecological context, I examine the continuity of the social and the natural, and how the dialectic between structure and event are orally transmitted through culture and history. The first part introduces the issues by examining the formal characteristics of tala-e-fonua and its …
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Spatial development of the city of London in the later middle ages
… It is argued that the segments correspond to historical property divisions which exercised a decisive effect on the evolution of building pattern. From a state description of the morphology, the analysis proceeds to a process description, based on historical evidence. The historical continuity …
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A Critical Evaluation of the Customary Justice System in Nigeria: A Human Rights Approach for Integration
… Their existence and legitimacy derive from historical continuity, social acceptance, and judicial recognition, rather than from constitutional enactment. This research examines how such systems function in practice, their relationship with state law, and their capacity to uphold fundamental …
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Die skrifbeskouing van die vroeë kerkvaders uit Afrika (veral Tertullianus en Augustinus) en hulle relevansie vir Suidelike-Afrika (Afrikaans)
… pre-Christian society of the patristic. From a historical-theological perspective, the researcher points out that these resemblances could shed light on the current burning issue around the authority of Scripture. This historic continuity with the patristic and apostolic tradition is addressed …