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Tradition is Dead, Long Live Tradition: Critical Approaches to Postvernacular Yiddish Culture
… for this study, showing how they transform tradition through cultural practice, put tradition to work in their activism, and build community and social infrastructure around a shared affinity with Yiddishkayt. Chapter Three offers insights into the ways that participatory performances at …
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Sport, tradition and freedom
"Sport, Tradition and Freedom" entails a philosophical examination of the relationship between traditions of rationality and understandings of freedom in sport. Chapter One introduces the ideas of freedom and virtue. Chapter Two involves a critical and historical exploration of the traditions of …
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The Nenets Song Tradition
Conclusion draws attention to the survival value of the musical expression among the Nenets whose performance skills and inspirations have continuously contributed to the series of the people's adaptations to the challenges of the ecological and socio-cultural environments.
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The Nenets Song Tradition
… thesis explores the oral, basically, epic song tradition of the Nenets people, one of the northern minorities of the Russian Arctic. It is based on the fieldwork conducted in the springs of 1975 and 1976 in the two Nenets settlements, Nel'min Nos and Indiga, both located in the European part of …
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The Leopard's Kopje Tradition
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T23:55:03Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7414557.pdf: 8080637 bytes, checksum: 7160394562f589856c01f5679f200106 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1974
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The French flute tradition
The French flute tradition is remarkable and is admired by flautists, teachers and students of the flute all over the world. The dissertation researched the development of this tradition from the pre-Baroque period through to the modern era and tried to determine the underlying factors that …
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The tradition behind the tradition: Matriarchy and the contemporary women writers of Cameroon
In 1969, Therese Kuoh-Moukoury emerged as the first female novelist of her native Cameroon with the publication of Rencontres essentielles. In terms of feminist literary expression, she was preceded in the Francophone world only by Marie-Claire Matip who wrote the novella, Ngonda, in 1958. Matip …
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Clowning in the Brechtian tradition
… moves beyond Brecht but remains in the Brechtian tradition, by examining the show Can of Worms, directed by the author for Strange Bedfellows theatre company and asking how far a pure clown show can achieve Brechtian effects. Throughout, the thesis is concerned to establish how far the specific …
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Universal Morality in Japanese Tradition
… by reassessing two common assumptions: 1) that traditions are either universal or particular, and 2) that persuasion is the appropriate method of cross-cultural conversation. Examining Japan?s Shinto, a seemingly particularist creed, I argue against the first assumption: Shinto displays both …
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Democritus and the Critical Tradition
… which this study refers to as the Critical Tradition). It presents evidence for an integrated reading of early atomist fragments, a reading that construes the Leucippus and Democritus as men of their time (working with and responding to the positions taken by their predecessors in the …
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Dryden, Tragedy, and the Tradition
To discuss a type of literature such as tragedy is a dangerous and often quite a confusing business. To read the sometimes conflicting views of critics from Aristotle to Hume to Arthur Miller would lead the student to believe that, although tragedy exists, an objective and productive examination of …
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Revitalizing an indigenous musical tradition: a study of Korankye's approach to sustaining the seperewa musical tradition
… as to what we mean by sustaining a musical tradition or culture. Scholars like Bell Yung (2009), Jeff Titon (2009), Baron Beardslee (2014) and others have argued that the romanticizing of these initiatives by UNESCO is not the best method as the initiatives themselves appear to have done …
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John Graves and the Pastoral Tradition
… Graves in relation to the southwestern literary tradition of J. Frank Dobie, Walter P. Webb, and Roy Bedichek, to southern pastoral in the Virgilian mode, and to American nature writing. Graves's rhetorical strategies, including his appropriation of form, his non-polemical voice, his …
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Tradition and conviction :architecture in context
Ada Louise Huxtable states, "There is the irreparable damage that the rejection of the past has done to our cities, the uncaring and unthinking demolition and loss of our heritage, the destructively wrong scale and sabotaged relationships of the environment, the ignorance and neglect of the …
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Porphyry, And the Platonic-Aristotelian Tradition
… it unfolded in dealing with the inherited Greek tradition. We begin with a discussion of Porphyry's understanding of some Homeric and pre-Socratic themes. Then , in the second chapter, Plato's contribution to Porphyry's system is analysed. In the third and fourth chapters, our philosopher's …
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Joseph Smith, Mormonism and Enochic Tradition
Mormon scholar Hugh Nibley (1910-2005) claimed to have developed an argument, in two parts, that proved the bona fides of the Mormon Prophet Joseph Smith (1805-1844). First, Nibley compared Smith’s extract of the prophecy of Enoch, written in 1830-31, with the pseudeupigraphic 1 Enoch, written …
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The Lincoln tradition in American poetry
New countries, such as our own United States, usually do not have a developed folk-lore nor an abundance of national legends. It is only after centuries that ancient tales and certain heroic figures become part of the literature of a race or nation.|United States history is rich in the names of …
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