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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Romanization"”.
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Romanization of the Hebrew alphabet
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Han’gŭlization and romanization: two models of script change
… if the Han’gŭlization of Korean and the Romanization of Turkish are two distinct models of script change and if one model is more useful than the other. After describing language planning and policy making, I define script change, operationalize the terms used in the field, and discuss …
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Changing Identities in a Changing Land: The Romanization of the British Landscape
… effect on the identities of the native Britons. Romanization, as the process is commonly called, and evidence of these altered identities as seen in material culture have been well studied. However, the manifestations of this process in the landscape have been less well examined. Applying current …
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"We are the church": the Romanization of United Methodism, 1945-1988
In his 1994 Presidential Address to the American Society of Church History, Nathan O. Hatch described the puzzling lack of attention given to American Methodism by religious and general historians. Methodism in early American history has received considerable attention and, more recently, …
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"Writing ""Taiwanese"": The Péh-oē-jī romanization and identity construction in Taiwan, 1860s-1990s"
… roma zi/Baihua zi, literally meaning “church romanization” or “vernacular script” in Chinese, POJ hereafter) was transformed from a “foreign” writing system as a religious tool for Bible study into an identity arker for various groups of “Taiwanese” (Taiwan ren) in Taiwan from 1865 through the …
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Religion and Burial Roman Domination, Celtic Acceptance, or Mutual Understanding
<p>The effects of Romanization were believed to be devastating to the cultures conquered by Rome, but Britain was an exception. The Romanization of Britain began through trade with the continent long before the invasion by Claudius. But the natives of Britain did not accept the Roman culture as …
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The effectiveness of tonal spelling in learning Mandarin Chinese
… accurately. Many textbooks use ""Pinyin,"" (the romanization system of mainland China) which uses superscript marks to indicate tones. Yuen Ren Chao (1964, p. 11) asserted that using spelling to indicate tone served as a more powerful tool for tone recall, and he consequently developed Gwoyeu …
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Embedded Histories: Belonging in the Maghreb from 1st c. BCE - 4th c. CE
… These debates have often used the paradigm of Romanization to argue that individuals resisted or assimilated into imperial ideology, but my project moves beyond the model of Romanization and instead adopts a model of belonging. Drawing on theoretical models from fields like race studies and …
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Aspetti di vita quotidiana, religiosa, militare e civile in Britannia e lungo il Vallo di Adriano
… cultural practices triggered by the process of Romanization, secondly the question whether is possible to study everyday life in the northernmost province of the Empire through a discussion of the civilian settlements in proximity to military sites. This issue is drawn especially thanks to the …
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Visual Power and Elite Subjectivity in Private Portraiture from Imperial Greece
… portraits as unequivocally Greek or tokens of Romanization, this thesis understands portraiture as a powerful medium which shored up local elites’ currency and created common ground between Greece and Rome in tandem. This thesis investigates the ways in which local elite families developed …
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Household Shrines and Cults in Roman Achaia: A New Approach to Examining Cultural Change under the Roman Empire
… within which cultural change is analyzed is “Romanization” that is re-interpreted as “cultural interaction,” emphasizing the impact that local communities had in shaping Roman domestic religion in the Roman Empire.</p> <p>To document the dynamic and complex nature of Roman culture and its …
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Subaltern Spaces in the Ancient City: Cultural Identity, Spatial Memory, and Networks of Meaning in Roman Pompeii
… narratives of Roman acculturation, so-called Romanization, which have devalued the plurality of identities and meanings found in the dispersed spaces and imageries of the ancient city. Rejecting this unilinear narrative of colonization, this thesis instead examines the networks of meaning tied …
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Reading Romans in Rome: A Reception of Romans in the Roman Context of Ethnicity and Faith
… The chapter concludes that Hellenization and Romanization were simultaneously shaping life in Rome prior to and during the time the initial hearers interacted with the Roman epistle. The second chapter concurrently tests two presuppositions. The first is whether Judean treatment in Rome was …
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Globalizing the Sculptural Landscapes of the Sarapis and Isis Cults in Hellenistic and Roman Greece
… to culture change that center on the concepts of Romanization and identity. In order to access local experiences of globalization, I examine viewership on a micro-scale. I argue that viewers brought their concerns about culture change into dialogue with elements of cult, social status, art, and …