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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"South and Southeast Asian Languages and Societies"”.
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Ladakhi Traditional Songs: A Cultural, Musical, and Literary Study
… kingdom of Ladakh. I look at how Buddhism and pre-Buddhist religion informed the texts and performance contexts of traditional songs, and how Ladakhi songs represent cultural self-images through associated musical, textual, and visual tropes. Many songs of the past, both from the old royal …
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Nurturing transitions: Housewife organizations in (colonial) Indonesia, 1900-1972
… 1900-1972, housewife organizations in the Netherlands Indies and Indonesia assisted the population of the archipelago in adapting to the political upheaval that attended Indonesia's national liberation from the Netherlands. Under the Ethical Policy (1900-1942), the Association of Housewives sought …
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Thai popular music: The representation of national identities and ideologies within a culture in transition
Thai popular music always reflects and reproduces the concerns of Thai people in changing times especially in regard to issues relating to identity. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between the preservation of Thai identity and the ideologies surrounding it and the …
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Boundation & Bindās: Ambedkarite Youth In A Global Buddhist Movement
… of young adult Indians from Scheduled Caste and Tribe and Other Backward Caste backgrounds who have come to study at Nagaloka Centre, a Buddhist training center in Nagpur, Maharashtra. Some of them are Ambedkarites or people who take Dr. B.R. Ambedkar – leader of the Dalit community and …
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Boundation & Bindās: Ambedkarite Youth in a Global Buddhist Movement
… of young adult Indians from Scheduled Caste and Tribe and Other Backward Caste backgrounds who have come to study at Nagaloka Centre, a Buddhist training center in Nagpur, Maharashtra. Some of them are Ambedkarites or people who take Dr. B.R. Ambedkar – leader of the Dalit community and …
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A Description of the Phonology and Morphology of Kɔɖa, An Endangered Language of Bangladesh
… a preliminary description of the phonology and morphology of Kɔɖa [cdz], an endangered language of Bangladesh and one of the least described Munda languages of South Asia. It has four chapters: 1) Introduction, 2) Phonology, 3) Morphology, and 4) Kɔɖa in the Context of Language Contact. …
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The Multidimensionality of Schoolgirl Dropouts in Rural Bangladesh
… the secondary school system of rural Bangladesh and assesses the barriers that affect adolescent girls and their families. The complex dynamics of the historical context within the patriarchal-dominant structure of society creates a system that hinders girls’ education and forces them into …
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Sharing Hearts: Buddhist Charity and Urbanization in Vietnam
<p>My dissertation analyzes how and why volunteers joined or established grassroots Buddhist charities in Ho Chi Minh City. I spoke with approximately 400 members of 25 charities, focusing on seven main groups that shared an overlapping network of volunteers. My research includes perspectives from …
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Badnaam Women of Bollywood: The Combative Sexual Politics of Item Songs in India
… number,” a vampy song with suggestive lyrics and hypersexualized imagery of dancing women, as a crucial cultural artefact reflecting the gender and sexual uneasiness in India. Sex avoidance is a common theme in Bollywood films and in the country, where media and people are heavily censored and …
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Mulk Raj Anand: Moving India Forward
<p>Mulk Raj Anand is an innovator in literature. He is one of the first Indian authors to write in English about the humanitarian dilemmas facing India during the mid-twentieth century. His compassionate objective is to produce an awareness of the cruelty and inhumane practices of untouchability …
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The Chinese Cultural Influence on Filipino Cuisine
… culture has also influenced the everyday life and culture of the Philippines through language and customary practices for over a millennium. The first section of the paper analyzes the cultural connection between China and the Philippines. The second section illustrates the Chinese language …
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Under the Radar: The Everyday Resistance of Anarchist Punks in Bandung, Indonesia
… across the globe, resistance movements and counterhegemonic ideologies are becoming increasingly visible and more common elements of broader socio-political discourses. While high-profile protests have ignited public interest in resistance movements—turning relatively unknown groups such …
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Seeding Sovereignty: Sensory Politics and Biodiversity in the Karen Diaspora
<p>This dissertation traces the sensory and political dimensions of Karen refugees' co-movements with their seeds, plants, and agricultural practices in exile. It also tentatively explores understandings of sovereignty beyond the frame of the Westphalian nation-state through engagements with seed …
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The Orient in the Empire’s Poetry: Scholarship, Translation, and Imaginative Geography (1770-1857)
… idea of imaginative geography to study literary and scholarly representations of what writers in Europe referred to as the <em>Orient</em> during the long nineteenth century. <em>Imaginative geography</em> refers to a subjective collection of associations that accumulate around a place about …
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South Asian women's sexual relationship power: Examining the role of sexism, cultural values conflict, discrimination, and social support
… of literature examining sexual experiences of South Asian women in dating relationships has important implications for the healthy development of long lasting romantic relationships. It is important to understand South Asian women’s relationship experiences in the context of power and sexism …
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Interrogating Whiteness in Graduate Education Culture: A Phenomenological Exploration of Southeast Asian American Graduate Student Experiences
… phenomenological study is to understand the role that whiteness has in shaping the graduate education experiences of Southeast Asian American students in the United States. This study explores two research questions. 1) How do Southeast Asian American graduate students describe their …
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A Heavy Rain Has Fallen Upon My People: Sindhi Sufi Poetry Performance, Emotion, and Islamic Knowledge in Kachchh, Gujarat
<p>This dissertation is a study of the use and contestation of Sindhi-language Sufi poetry performance as a means of Islamic knowledge transmission and ethical self-formation in rural Muslim communities in Kachchh, a border district in the western Indian state of Gujarat adjacent to Sindh, …
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Humayun Ahmed and Archival Hauntings: The Subaltern Experience of the 1971 Liberation War of Bangladesh as Portrayed in Debi
… to consolidate political power for a select few, and how they further subjugate and silence the country’s subalterns.</p>
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