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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"Tradition and Modernity"”.
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Those magnificent men or their flying machines?: Tradition and modernity in the 1928 National Air Races
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Iraqi architecture between tradition and modernity : re-creating the urban identity of Basra, the “Venice of the East”
Unfortunately, in recent years Iraqi traditional architecture and urban identity have been deeply affected by three wars, which challenged the cultural memory of the local people and in particular of young generations. This research focuses on the city of Basra to investigate the material features …
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The conflict between tradition and modernity : the histoy of the relationship between the state and traditional leaders Gutu District, Zimbabwe from 1960-2010
The study investigates the relationship between traditional leadership and the local government in the theoretical framework of the conflict between tradition and modernity. The study examines the relationship between two institutions which cannot be merged, but at the same time cannot be thrown …
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A House in Bahrain
The architecture in Bahrain is now lost between tradition and modernity. The drastic economical changes that occurred there had a large influence on the architecture of the Island. My thesis is a study of the changes that occurred to the architecture of Bahrain over the past thirty five years. It …
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"Informal" architecture : an examination of some adaptive processes in architectural traditions
… part of urban built environment in Pakistan and similar countries may be termed "informal," as not being the result of architects' work. This study seeks to understand the historical nature of this architecture by looking at its past and present relationships with social practices, the social …
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危与机:论新加坡早期华人银行之生存发展1903-1945 = Crises and changes: The development of Overseas Chinese Banks in Singapore during 1903-1945
… compete successfully against the Western banks and the traditional Chinese financial institutions during 1903-1945. Compared with the Western banks and traditional Chinese money houses, the Chinese banks were founded years later and had less capital and less experienced professionals. Despite …
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Lifting the Veil on Hindi Film Song Sequences: An Approach to Analysis
… of a multivalent approach to thoroughly understanding and interpreting Hindi film song sequences. In a case study of the song sequence “Pardā Haı̃ Pardā” ("There Is a Veil,"? from Manmohan Desai's 1977 film <em>Amar Akbar Anthony</em>), the three essential elements of these sequences (on-screen …
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Xu Dishanovy příběhy vnitřního a morálního růstu
… Xu Dishan (1893-1941), active during the 1920s and 1930s. It focuses on the inner development of the main characters in three selected short stories ("The Merchant's Wife," "Chuntao," and "Yuguan") and on those features of the author's narrative style that, contrary to the prevailing modernizing …
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An intersectional exploration of the motherload among black mothers in professional occupations in South Africa
… unpaid care work to be the physical, cognitive and emotional care load placed on women. The concept of the motherload, which describes the “highly gendered, often invisible, and undervalued work that those who perform mothering undertake hindering their economic security, safety and wellbeing”, …
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Rural men in urban China: masculinity and identity formation of male peasant workers
… approach, including life histories, ethnography and discourse analysis. A primary purpose is to address the absence of male peasant workers from the literature on gender and migration as a gendered category and the reductive public representation of them through government and media images. In …
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Middle-Class Identity and Hindu Women's Ritual Practice in South India
… members’ narratives about rural-urban difference and modifications to Hindu women’s rituals to explore the continuous construction of middle-class identities in the changing social milieu of contemporary India. In considering the role of ritual in the (re)formation of middle-class identities and …
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Writing Resistance in the Three Punjabs: Critical Engagements with Literary Tradition
… 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 Britain, I show how this corpus constitutes an imaginative …
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Muḥammad ʿAbduh’s Politics of Adab: knowledge, journalism and policing public sociability in 19th century Egypt
… view of Muḥammad ʿAbduh’s reform ideas in broad and binary terms as bridging a gap between ‘Islam and Europe’ or ‘tradition and modernity’. I offer instead an analysis of ʿAbduh’s reformist thought in his own words and local practical context in 19th century Egypt, based on a close-reading of his …
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“Making up (for) lost heritage: an ethnographic study of dance, language and identity in London’s Greek Cypriot diaspora”
This thesis investigates the role of folk dance and language in the construction of ethnolinguistic identities within London’s Greek Cypriot diaspora. Employing in-depth linguistic and dance ethnography conducted across three Greek Cypriot dance schools in North London, the study examines how …
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Addressing the gap in the arts and culture industry in Dubai problems and solutions
… how to address effectively the gap in the Arts and Culture in Dubai, a city that has prospered so well economically and financially in recent decades. Therefore, my focus is on those activities and events relating to literature, the visual arts, music, theatre and film - all reflecting the …
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Análisis del exilio en Brian Moore
… conceptual de una selección de novelas del norirlandés Brian Moore. Exiliado en Norteamérica, este novelista emplea el exilio como hilo conductor de buena parte de su corpus narrativo, como base principal para contrastar tradición y modernidad, y como pedestal para retratar su imagen de Irlanda y …
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Indigenous modernity and its malcontents: family, religion and tradition in highland Ecuador
… body of work on modern indigenous culture in the Andes has focused on various aspects of an urban, transnational and cosmopolitan identity. However, what does indigenous modernity mean in the poorest region of highland Ecuador, where indigenous identity continues to be associated with rural …
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Love in the big city: Intimacy, marriage, and risk in turn-of-the-century Berlin
This dissertation examines the surprising push and pull between tradition and modernity that occurred when men and women living in Europe’s fastest growing city fought off isolation and attempted to find love using self-consciously modern mindsets and technologies. Whether it was the decision to …
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"Consuming the ""authentic"": globalized nostalgia and the politics of hybridity through culinary tourism and heritage foodways. A case study of Galicia, Spain."
… present through the lens of culinary tourism and heritage foodways, positing that the contemporary interest in authenticity and heritage are emblematic of a populism that has the potential to be emancipatory and liberating or reactionary. I read these trajectories through foodways and the …
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The development of social teachings in Asian churches : an analysis of the statements on social justice of the Christian Conference of Asia, 1949-1980
… churches were optimistic that freedom, equality and justice would prevail. This optimism, however, was soon overshadowed by the emergence of new oppressive classes. The churches, witnessing the continuation of people's sufferings, shifted their emphasis to demanding a total transformation of the …
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