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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"History and Anthropology"”.
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Sensory Encounters in the Age of Computation
… of curating, cleaning, visualizing, circulating, and manipulating data to understand the persuasive force of visual information in multimodal media. From the history of haptic interfaces to the data practices of social media communities across the US and China, this thesis uses historical and …
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The Shape of Kubler: George A. Kubler in Peru, 1948-49
Yale art history professor George Kubler’s seminal 1962 publication The Shape of Time is, according to his own words, representative of a “crossroads between the history and anthropology of art.” This work does not stand alone, but is rather part of a larger corpus of study through which Kubler …
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The nature of appropriation: Eric Linklater's 'Juan in America'
… shaped Eric Linklater's 'Juan in America' (1931) and show how these influences work together to create a unified satirical text. 'Juan in America' pays homage to Byron's 'Don Juan' (1819-1824) through appropriation, intertextuality and allusion, and Linklater's interpretation of Byron and his work …
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A history of Australian art 1830-1930 : told through the lives of the objects
This is a history of Aboriginal and settler art between 1830 and 1930. The focus is a close study of the contexts in which some of Australia's best-known works of art were produced, collected, and, over time, assessed. Written from the humanist perspective, the thesis shows history as shaped by …
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A history of Australian art 1830-1930 : told through the lives of the objects
This is a history of Aboriginal and settler art between 1830 and 1930. The focus is a close study of the contexts in which some of Australia's best-known works of art were produced, collected, and, over time, assessed. Written from the humanist perspective, the thesis shows history as shaped by …
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INDIGENOUS CHRISTIANITY: EARLY MISSIONARY ENCOUNTERS AND RELIGIOUS CHANGE IN NIAS, INDONESIA (1865-1908)
Through a critical analysis of missionary and colonial archives, this thesis explores the complex interplay between traditional ‘immanentist’ Nias culture and ‘transcendentalist’ Christianity brought by German missionaries during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The early encounter between …
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The Irish in Jamaica during the long eighteenth century (1698-1836)
In 2007 Nini Rodgers published Ireland, slavery and anti-slavery (1645-1865), a book that brought together a vast range of new research, which encompassed the entire Atlantic basin. Her study covered an extended chronological period, starting as far back as the sixteenth century and concluding with …
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O direito a um passado na luta para existir no presente: disputas pela memória indígena nas escritas da História do Rio Grande do Norte (1994-2021)
… June 2005, in the Legislative Assembly of Rio Grande do Norte, the existence of indigenous peoples in that state became public. However, this fact came into conflict with the narratives consolidated by the classical local historiography, which admitted a disappearance of these ethno-cultural …
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Muslim Distinction: Imitation and the Anxiety of Jewish, Christian, and Other Influences
… looked favorably upon assimilating Jewish and Christian religious and cultural practices. As Muslim collective religious identity conjoined with political power, Muslims changed their religious policy from imitation to distinction; they began to define themselves both above and against …
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Homes of Capital: Merchants and Mobility across Indian Ocean Gujarat
<p>My dissertation project is an ethnographic history of "homes of capital," merchant homes located in port-cities of Gujarat in various states of splendor and decrepitude, which continue to mark a long history of Indian Ocean cross-cultural trade and exchange. Located in western South Asia, …