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Showing 1 to 20 of 111 for “"Pre-colonial"”.
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Conceptualizing Islamic Acculturation in Pre-Colonial Punjab
Abstract The purpose of this dissertation is to conceptualize the manner in which Islamic acculturation took place in the Punjab. To date, there has been little scholarly attention on Muslims in this region. Scholarship on the religious history of the region has focused exclusively on the Sikh …
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Pre-Colonial African Paradigms and Applications to Black Nationalism
… of people arises a worldview that is utilized in preserving societal order and cultural cohesiveness. When such worldview is distorted by a calamity such as enslavement, the victims of that calamity are left marginal within the worldview of the oppressive power. From the European Enslavement of …
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Contestations over Caprivi identities : from pre colonial times to the present
… rule existed in the area for most part of its colonial history resulting in constant change of colonial masters. Though it was pushed more to neighboring territories administratively, it was not made an integral part of such territories but made to stand separate as a geographical entity.
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Ajami Literacy, class, and Portuguese pre-colonial administration in Northern Mozambique
… role in the establishment of a Portuguese pre-colonial administration in northern Mozambique. The history of Islam in northern Mozambique is viewed as a constant struggle against the Portuguese establishment in the region. Through an examination of ajami correspondence held in the AHM and …
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From Chaos to Order: Balancing Cross-Cultural Communication in the Pre-Colonial and Colonial Southeast
… the culturally distinct groups who inhabited the pre-colonial and colonial Southeast approached cross-cultural communication. The extensive and violent entradas led by Spaniards into the Southeastern interior in the 1500s represent a watershed moment in North American history that deeply impacted …
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How Kings are Made, How Kingship Changes : A Study of Ritual and Ritual Change in Pre-colonial and Colonial Owamboland, Namibia
Tutkimuksen teemana on poliittisen vallan luonne ja muutokset varhaisissa Afrikan kuningaskunnissa, esimerkkinä Pohjois-Namibian entiset Owambokuningaskunnat. Väitöskirjassa analysoidaan miten ns. sakraalikuninkuus rakentui ja miten se muuttui. Lähtökohtana on Luc de Heuschin teesi, jonka mukaan …
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The potential of digital representation: The changing meaning of the Ife ‘bronzes’ from pre-colonial Ife to the post-colonial digital British Museum
For many years, meanings and interpretations of artefacts that are taken to represent African culture including the Ife bronzes have been predominantly produced and fixed by a team of western curatorial experts (Ciolfi, 2012). Such museum practices have prevented visitors and the people being …
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Ubwinga, a subset of Bemba indigenous knowledge systems : a comparative study of pre-colonial and post-independence wedding ceremonies in Lusaka and Kitwe, Zambia
… in Lusaka and the Copperbelt during the pre-colonial era and the white wedding ceremonies performed during the post-independence era. It has further investigated the nature and existence of Bemba IKS. This study employed qualitative research methods involving extensive fieldwork in Lusaka …
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Interpreting the Witness: Frederick Thomas Morrison and Other Accounts of Precolonial Lake Nyasa, 1878 to 1891
… This study aims to contribute to the academic pre-colonial literature through diaries and other reflections. Five objectives were identified. Firstly, to review the appropriate literature on the history of pre-colonial Nyasaland, and the current historiographical understanding on the …
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Re-collective Revolution: A Reclamation of Black Self-Subsistent Economic Tradition
… and communal economic traditions of pre-colonial societies in West Africa, with an anti-revisionist lens, in active repudiation of a capitalist, imperialist, and westernized erasure of Black self-subsistent, or self-reliant, economic tradition. Through the excavation and utilization …
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Three essays on regional economic development
… key drivers of regional economic growth: entrepreneurship. In the first two chapters I examine how the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) contributes to entrepreneurship. Chapter 1 focuses on the labor demand side of regional entrepreneurship, finding the introduction of state EITC policies …
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Writing Resistance in the Three Punjabs: Critical Engagements with Literary Tradition
This dissertation analyses post-colonial Punjabi writing on the left as a critical engagement with literary tradition that re-interprets tropes of resistance embedded in popular, oral genres to articulate political critique in the contemporary. Drawing on Punjabi texts from India, Pakistan, and …
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Female filmakers: Towards reconstructing women's images in Nollywood films
… accounts of African women’s mobilization in the pre-colonial past, “individual women giants who transformed their societies in pre-colonial times, such as Nehanda of Zimbabwe, Nzinga of Angola, Nana Asantewa of Ghana” (2015:252). I approach the films using Catherine Acholunu’s Motherism and …
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Training and localisation policy: a case study of Swaziland
… of the initiative to localisation started in pre-colonial Swaziland in 1966 leading to independence. The study also examined the drawbacks to training and localisation and how these were overcome. Swaziland inherited and was strongly dependent upon a strongly entrenched cadre of top-level …
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Unearthing Vietnam: Archaeology and the making of a nation
… date from the fourteenth century. During the colonial period, they and their kingdom of VA?n Lang were considered legends. However, in the post-independence period, archaeological artefacts from the Bronze Age, first unearthed during the colonial period and studied further by archaeologists in …
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Traditional Governance Influence on Democracy in Africa
<p>The spread of democracy in the global community has been rampant since the end of World War II. On the continent of Africa, as a collective of countries are recent newcomers as sovereign states to this governmental practice. The purpose of this thesis is to explore the political development of …
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Architecture and development as instruments for political control and marginalization in Lucknow, India
… criticism, and urban intervention played, as representational and ideological tools, in the process of British colonial formation in Lucknow, from 1765 to 1858. Results show: (1) Architecture and development played a crucial role in annexation of Lucknow by the British in 1856, (2) Orientalist …
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Songs in the dust: Riel Music in the Northern and Western Cape, South Africa
… courtship displays. In the post-apartheid, postcolonial South African context, the riel has emerged as symbol of indigeneity through largescale public performance of Khoe-San heritage. Despite colonial influences, it represents an historical link to the Khoe-San people for its performers who …
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A critical exposition of historicism and implicit activism in Elundini Lothukela
… in it we see graphic reflections of the pre-colonial Nguni Indigenes in South Africa, their admirable and glorious which manifested itself in a virile political pattern, orderly social-religious systems, and structured industrial practices. We use these aspects to reinforce our exposition …
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