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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Transculturation"”.
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Civic Capacity and Transculturation: The Rise and Role of The Alaska Federation of Natives
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Telling stories and contextualizing lived experiences in the Cuban heritage language and culture: an autoethnography about transculturation
<p>Through this bi-literacy narrative, the author traces her path to becoming a United States citizen and a language teacher. The lived experiences in both Cuba and the United States include (1) her father’s “one year, one month, and one day” in the Aid-to-Production Camp where young Cuban men—even …
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Mediated encounters in diasporic space:exploring processes of transculturation syncretism and identity redefinition in the Ghanaian diaspora in London
This thesis explores the diasporic experiences of Ghanaians in London and assesses how Ghanaian identity is redefined and constructed in new contexts. The mediated experience dimension of this exploration considers the difference that the diverse menu of cultural resources offered by television is …
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Literary representation of spanish immigration in the United States of America (1900-1950): transculturation, hybridization, and the third space
El objetivo de esta tesis es analizar las representaciones literarias del siglo XX sobre la inmigración española en los Estados Unidos de América ambientadas entre 1900 y 1950, tal y como se reflejan en los siguientes libros: Chromos (1948), de Felipe Alfau; Windmills in Brooklyn (1953) y Fiesta: A …
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Construcciones Literarias Del Artista E Intelectual Del Siglo XIX en Hispanoamerica
… the challenges that characterize the formation, transculturation and miscegenation of the Spanish American subaltern artists and intellectuals in their quest for the reconstruction of a modern and authentic Spanish American nation/narration.
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Spanish Heritage Speakers' Spanish and English Writings: Contrastive Rhetorical and Linguistic Analyses
… that demonstrate both a cultural and linguistic transculturation: they do not thoroughly follow the beaten paths of SSLL nor SNS, but find their own pathway to expression.
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BITING OFF MORE THAN YOU CAN CHEW: GERMAN-BRAZILIAN CULTURAL CANNIBALISM
… with other concepts, such as Fernando Ortiz’s transculturation, the melting-pot metaphor (both in the US and in Germany), the European Willkommenskultur, and the now popular cultural appropriation. Through concrete examples – such as the literary encounter between the German ethnographer …
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GLOBALIZATION AND "HAIER": AN ORGANIZATIONAL DISCOURSE STUDY OF A LEADING CHINA-BASED TRANSNATIONAL CORPORATION
… nexus of the global and local, glocalization, transculturation and hybridity, as well as organizational communication, organizational discourse study, organizational discourse analysis, and corporate public discourse. Methodologically, to better reveal the impact of globalization on …
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Reassessing the cultural distance between China and the United States as perceived by students from the Sino-American 1+2+1 dual degree program
… own culture after studying abroad--understood as transculturation. The study concludes with suggested areas of focus for future development in intercultural competency within the context of Sino-American student exchange"--Document.</p>
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Cumbia Tejana: Synthesis Towards Unification in the Tejano Continuum
… Ethnomusicologist Fernando Ortiz theorized as, "Transculturation". This being the fluid and dynamic convergence of ethnicity and expression, i.e., the Mexican, American, and Pan-Latino influences on Tejano identity. The transcultural mediation that South Texas Tejanos required was solidified in …
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Breaking Sound Barriers: Reading the Jazz Novel as a Model for More Flexible Social Interaction in a Globalized World
… novels. In the second chapter, I examine the transculturation of Scottish folk music and "American" jazz in Jackie Kay‘s novel Trumpet. I claim that Kay finds a model for her protagonist, Joss Moody, in African American jazz trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie and an aesthetic corollary for a "more …
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Breaking Sound Barriers: Reading the Jazz Novel as a Model for More Flexible Social Interaction in a Globalized World
… novels. In the second chapter, I examine the transculturation of Scottish folk music and "American" jazz in Jackie Kay‘s novel Trumpet. I claim that Kay finds a model for her protagonist, Joss Moody, in African American jazz trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie and an aesthetic corollary for a "more …
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Sampling India: examining cultural appropriation, intercultural exchange, and the Othering of Indian music in hip-hop and reggaeton
… cultural exchange, exploitation, dominance, and transculturation. My goal in this process is to explore the scope for cultural appropriation whilst acknowledging the possibility for both exploitation and exchange, thereby driving the debate forward. Through these studies, I observe both overt and …
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Creole identity: a post-colonial research in contemporary Mauritius
… changes, the entanglement of cultures, transculturation, and miscegenation). This research examines creoles and non-creoles’ perceptions of marginalisation and categorisation. This includes the impact of racism and stereotyping in contemporary Mauritius, including how creole identity …
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Through the Eyes of Shamans: Childhood and the Construction of Identity in Rosario Castellanos' "Balun-Canan" and Rudolfo Anaya's "Bless Me, Ultima"
… to overcome their identity crises, including transculturation, the creation of sites of memory, and a transition from orality to writing. Each of them resorts to creative writing and becomes a sort of shaman who pulls together the "spirits" from the past, selects them, and organizes them in a …
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Renewal of Ogu Musical Culture Through Jazz Intervention
… genre. Given the reality of globalization, mass transculturation, and the adoption of Western educational system by African States, musical syncretism cannot be evaded. Thus, this dissertation concludes by examining a method of documentation and reestablishment of Ogu musical integrity, which …
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El arte de la resistencia: música, literatura y tradición oral en la región andina desde el período pre moderno hasta el siglo XVII
… vantage point from which to explore models of transculturation. On the other hand, the natives devised several tactics to continue their own traditions by inserting them into new ones, thus converting this music into an art of resistance. The first chapter outlines the creation of the Incan …
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Appropriation and resistance in Philippine Marian devotion
… hybrid religiosity that emerged as a result of transculturation has, in the past, provided the impetus for native rebellion and resistance against the colonizers. As a specific example of this kind of religiosity, Marian devotion may also therefore be seen as a site of appropriation and …
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Santa Caterina at Galatina: Late Medieval Art in Salento at the frontier of the Latin and Orthodox Worlds
… how the frescoes themselves are evidence for transculturation and how the experience of both communities must be re-centred in order to fully understand the creation and reception of the fresco programme. Before doing this, however, this PhD focuses on the history of the foundation by …
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Plantation America: the US South and the Caribbean in the literary culture of empire, 1898-1959
… in his little studied Haitian manuscript, transculturation in Ernest Hemingway’s Key West and Cuban works, the modern plantation empire in stories of the Panama Canal Zone by the Caribbean-born writer Eric Walrond, and William Faulkner’s transnational plantation economy in The Sound and the …
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