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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Sacred sites"”.
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How can sacred sites be interpreted to incorporate multiplicity? An ethnographic study.
… managers who attempt to promote care for sacred sites, is the focus for the final section. It suggests by incorporating the local community in the interpretative management of sacred sites, through creative consultation based techniques, the 'mindful visitor' can be promoted within formal …
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Sacred sites and international law : a case study of the Ayodhya dispute
Sacred sites fonn a vital component in manifesting the right to freedom of religion. They also function as identity icons for the religious communities in a multi-religious state like India. Protecting them therefore, from aggression, or demolition by states and non-state actors is fundamental to …
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Sacred sites: the social-spiritual and feminist practice of contemporary Latina/o narrative
“Sacred Sites: The Social-Spiritual and Feminist Practice of Contemporary Latina/o Narrative” identifies and reads an archive of established and emerging genres of Latina/o narrative—Chicano/a movement and women of color feminist print culture, “multicultural” women’s writing, young adult and …
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Mandeville's Intolerance: The Contest for Souls and Sacred Sites in The Travels of Sir John Mandeville
As the first medieval text to combine the matter of the East with the matter of the Holy Land, <italic>The Travels</italic> circulated widely in over 300 manuscripts, making it an important text when studying medieval Christian attitudes toward non-Christians. Although many scholars point to …
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Protest and identity in the context of Sacred spaces: A historical appraisal of three selected sacred sites of the Eastern Free State
Sacred sites are the preferred space for ritual performances and identity construction from which the issue of sensitive structures, distinctive features, individual interpretations, and symbol and meaning emanates. The history and importance of Motouleng, Mautse and Mantsopa caves (Eastern Free …
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Moving mountains: tracing the history, creation and meaning of Jain sacred-site images (tirtha pata)
… Defined as two-dimensional images (pata) of sacred sites (tirtha), these works of art have been used for religious purposes in the Svetambara Murtipujak subsect of India's Jain religion since the fifteenth century or earlier. Varying in materials, styles, and representational strategies, they …
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Moving mountains: tracing the history, creation and meaning of Jain sacred-site images (tirtha pata)
… Defined as two-dimensional images (pata) of sacred sites (tirtha), these works of art have been used for religious purposes in the Svetambara Murtipujak subsect of India's Jain religion since the fifteenth century or earlier. Varying in materials, styles, and representational strategies, they …
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The landscape pattern surrounding the Venda sacred site of Thathe Forest
Natural sacred sites are areas protected by traditional groups as a point of connection to the land. They are also acknowledged for their disproportionate biodiversity contribution. These natural remnant patches have, however, recently come under threat from surrounding anthropogenic land-uses. …
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Exploring Perspectives on Landscape and Language among Kaike Speakers in Dolpa, Nepal
… and mapping focused on place names and sacred sites as particularly illuminating repositories of environmental knowledge expressed in language. The maps generated in community mapping sessions allowed Kaike speakers the opportunity to articulate their perception of the relationship …
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Exploring Perspectives on Landscape and Language among Kaike Speakers in Dolpa, Nepal
… and mapping focused on place names and sacred sites as particularly illuminating repositories of environmental knowledge expressed in language. The maps generated in community mapping sessions allowed Kaike speakers the opportunity to articulate their perception of the relationship …
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The differential use of constructed sacred space in southern Britain, from the late Iron Age to the 4th century AD
… identification of constructed cult sites, the evidence for such loci within an Iron Age context was critically re-examined. This has led to the conclusion that not only were such sites very rare and geographically dispersed, but they were confined in most cases to the ultimate …
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Native Voices and Native Values in Sacred Landscapes Management: Bridging the Indigenous Values Gap on Public Lands Through Co-Management Policy
… form of a federal-tribal co-management model for sacred lands held in federal stewardship. The central question in this inquiry is, are co-management agreements appropriate for sacred landscapes management, and if so, how would they work? In other words, what are the issues, fundamental elements …
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Practices of pastness, postwars of the dead, and the power of heritage: museums, monuments and sites in colonial and post-colonial Zimbabwe, 1890-2010
… move across landscapes, monuments, dispersed sites, and institutionalised entities such as museums. The thesis also points to a complex relationship between official heritage practices and unofficial practices carried out by local communities. To demonstrate this relationship, it traces the …
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Praise, Politics, and Language: South Indian Murals, 1500-1800
… framed narrative paintings. For all of the major sites considered in this dissertation, I have transcribed and translated these inscriptions. Establishing a rubric for analysis of the pictorial imagery alongside translations of the text integrated into the murals facilitates my analysis of the …
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AFRICAN TRADITIONAL PLANT KNOWLEDGE TODAY: An ethnobotanical study of the Digo at the Kenya Coast
… of the kaya, but the forests were protected as sacred sites, and this preserved the traditional plant knowledge. On the other hand, modern scientific botany was introduced to the Digo through teaching in schools and as modern agriculture to farmers, creating two types of plant knowledge with …