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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Indigenous heritage"”.
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The Last Elephant Catchers: (In)Visible Indigenous Heritage in Thailand
… of power that create a national Authorised Heritage Discourse (AHD) and the subsequent effects of this. It does so by examining the consequences of imposing state values onto Indigenous and minority communities, whose definitions of heritage, and relationships with the environment can often …
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Safeguarding Indigenous Heritage in the Anthropocene: A Transnational Comparative Study of the Northwest Territories, Canada, and Northern Chile
… and growing threats to natural and cultural heritage in the twenty-first century, and the indelible impact of humanity has led to the definition of a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene. Indigenous peoples are disproportionately affected by natural and human-induced changes to the …
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Decolonizing Public Places and Public Memory: Kingston Ontario
… in their practice, including new engagement with Indigenous heritage and public memory. Municipal perspectives of heritage are frequently colonial and result in Euro-Canadian commemorative landscapes that reinforce official national narratives of history and identity. These landscapes limit the …
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The Right to Control the Land: Law, Heritage and Self-Determination by Native Hawaiians
Hawai‘i was once an independent Indigenous sovereign island nation with a distinctive culture, history, and legislative past. The laws of the modern state of Hawai‘i reflect that history as Indigenous heritage has been integrated into state law. However, during the last forty years the laws …
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Unpicking a Feeling: Interrogating the role of heritage in indigenous collective identity formation on the Caribbean island of Bonaire
… research attempts to understand how identity and heritage interface with each other in the colonial context of Bonaire in the Dutch Caribbean. By exploring common understandings of how identity and heritage interact, this work applies theories of Indianness, a felt identity based on the adaptation …
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Kia mate rā anō a Tama-nui-te-rā: reversing language shift in Kōhanga reo
… transmission of te reo Māori, the threatened indigenous heritage language of Aotearoa/New Zealand. Observational data was analysed illustrating these bilingual, biliterate, bicultural, bicognitive and bilateral children and their use of sophisticated language for increasingly complex purposes. …
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“Sé Exactamente de Donde Vine”: The Rivera Sisters and the Development of a Lamanite Religio-Racial Identity in Salt Lake City’s Rama Mexicana
… of Book of Mormon Lamanites through their indigenous heritage. This belief in a sacred Lamanite lineage, in part, allowed Rama Mexicana to become a place of racial and religious meaning and practice.Incorporating evidence from oral histories, church minute books, newspaper articles, and …
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Indigenous Burn Survivors Experiences of Injury, Care, and Social Reintegration
… highly specialized treatment to limit sequalae. Indigenous people are impacted by burn injuries at disproportionate rates across colonized countries of Canada, United States, Australia and New Zealand. This study aimed to understand Indigenous burn survivors’ experiences of injury, care, and …
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Studio Notes
… to reflect on the specificity of my cultural heritage which stems from the German mission settlement in South Africa. In practice, I contemplate my dual heritage by acknowledging a mission heritage, and an indigenous heritage which predates missionary work in the region. By means of drawing, …
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Pathways to the Eighth Fire: Mapping Indigenous Knowledge in Toronto
… of scholarly research now accords with long-held Indigenous prophecy in affirming the ongoing importance of Indigenous knowledge for the health and wellness of contemporary Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples and their environments. Yet, while much research has examined Indigenous knowledge and …
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Roberto Valcárcel: Renaming Repression and Rehearsing Liberation in Contemporary Bolivian Art
… the latent repression in the idealisation of indigenous heritage through play and anti-thesis. The dissertation introduces a new topic into the study of art in Bolivia – veiled repression – at the same time that it sheds light on the potential of the artwork of Roberto Valcárcel to open new …
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Thunderbird: Embracing Indigenous Voices of Resistance
“Indigenous people have not surrendered to the colonial structures embedded within the current government” (Karim). For over four centuries, Indigenous identities, stories, and lifestyles were silenced due to aggressive actions of settler colonialism. Initially, this was accomplished through …
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The revelatory landscape: Archiving memory through indigenous narrative and cosmology
The Khoi-Khoi's indigenous astronomical beliefs are associated with themes of time, religion and belonging. These values were manifested structurally and spiritually on the topographic landscape of Cape Town nearly 1000 years ago. Today - this landscape is merely longed for as it exclusively …
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The role of indigenous environmental beliefs in cultural heritage preservation of Mwela rock art site in Kasama district of Zambia.
The researcher sought to investigate the role indigenous environmental beliefs play in heritage preservation at Mwela rock art site of Kasama district of Zambia. The objectives of the study were: to unravel the role spiritual beliefs played in preserving the rock art site, to investigate the …
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The philosophical, behavioural and academic merit of uMaskandi music
… by Western cultures and by some modern local indigenous Africans, was not a mere oversight, but a result of stigmatization of all African arts by Europeans, whose intention was to dominate the whole of Africa. They would not succeed in managing the people dictatorially without destroying the …