Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Invented traditions"”.
-
Limassol Carnival Serenades: an approach to sustaining sound communities, safeguarding and cultural sustainability
… preserving Intangible Cultural Heritage and oral traditions like the Limassol Carnival Serenades. In this thesis, I delve into the cultural significance and identity of the Limassol Carnival Serenades within the broader context of traditional Cypriot music. I conduct extensive Interviews with key …
-
The evolution of pilgrimage practice in early modern Ireland
… main aim in this thesis is to examine how newly invented traditions became accepted and embedded, and how they were in turn, expanded on.
-
Naogaon and the world: Intoxication, commoditisation, and imperialism in South Asia and the Indian Ocean, 1840-1940
… alternative meanings of ganja through newer invented traditions around the figure of Trinath. The Trinath movement was constructed as undesirable and morally corrupt by officials of the colonial state. Trinath devotees, on the other hand, were able to legitimate their relationship to ganja or …
-
Values, nation building and control: The Singapore mass media in the next lap
… the application of Hobsbawm's (1983) theory of invented traditions', Bhabha's (1990a) discussions on the difficulties of locating a nation1 s cultural identity and Foucault's (1979) analysis on the art of government. By applying these theories, I will show that the Next Lap.is an ongoing process …
-
Total Artifice: Neo-Gothic Literary and Visual Art in Britain 1750-1789
… deadened by the weight of nineteenth-century invented traditions which we have failed either to shed, or reinvent. My work salvages what it can from this zone of aesthetic experience. This is not just a matter of personal taste. I argue that the aesthetics of the early Gothic Revival were …