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Showing 1 to 20 of 41 for “"and Folklore"”.
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Cynhaeaf:customs, practices and folklore associated with the traditional harvest in Wales
… thesis aims to explore a wide variety of customs and practices associated with the traditional harvest in Wales, principally during the nineteenth century; with a particular focus on south-west Wales, where the evidence survives most strongly. This includes an examination of the practice of …
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Rewriting a Mythic Nation : Welsh Women Writers Recovering Welsh Myth and Folklore
… the function of Welsh mythology, fairy tale and folklore in a selection of works by twentieth- and twenty-first-century Anglophone Welsh women writers who choose to engage with such source material. Its aim is to provide a critical response to those recoveries through feminist and …
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Sowing Seeds Of Subversion: Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers' Subversive Use Of Fairy Tales And Folklore
… Women Writers' Subversive Use of Fairy Tales and Folklore" focuses on the fictional works of nineteenth-century British women authors, analyzing their use of fairy-tale and folklore motifs to criticize social mores, in particular those surrounding domestic ideology and the institution of …
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Bo Mmaruri: Bosadi
… in this body of work as an anecdote. Its landscapes, history, culture, traditions, norms and identity are deconstructed and reconstituted in a heterotopia of my own making. Motivated by the decline in the momentum and visibility of Botswana's women's movements, the project asks how non-male …
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Whispers From Scotland
… is a short story collection representing Scotland's music and folklore through an imaginative lens. The process involves digging into their rich musical roots, clan history, and somewhat hidden mythology. There are maps, footnotes, and graphics to accompany the work.</p>
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Constructing Regionalism: Discourses of Spirituality and Cultural Poverty in the Popular Music of Uttarakhand, North India
… local elites, state institutions, private media, and 'folklore' studies all stand to gain from the construction of regional difference. This study is a modest effort to trace the growth of cultural regionalism across the historical depth and geographic breadth of the popular music industry, with …
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"We're Just Women Who Like To Ride:" An Ethnographic Journey On A Woman's Motorcycle
… culture in media, academic scholarship, and folklore, some women are riding their own motorcycles and participating in motorcycle culture as agents. Using social movement and space/place theories as a theoretical framework, this dissertation presents an interpretive ethnographic …
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Artists as Tricksters: Resourceful Artists of the German Renaissance
Comic and entertaining chapbooks from late-medieval Germany, such as Till Eulenspiegel, often featured clever and cunning protagonists who practiced trickery and subverted social norms. This character of the trickster—as this dissertation reveals—was also a major identity deliberately cultivated by …
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Ailments of the Soul: Blood Transfusions and the Treatment of Melancholy in Seventeenth-Century England
… performed in seventeenth-century England focused on patients suffering from mental diseases such as melancholy. Many physicians diagnosed melancholy as a disease of the body, mind, and soul in which blood played a key role. Philosophy, religion, and folklore helped formulate blood as …
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A Rejuvenating Resort Remembered: The Use of Folklore and Archaeology in the Investigation of the Historic Massey Springs Resort in South-Central Kentucky
… people, group, or community. In order to understand the ideas and objects, of culture present at historic sites, it is necessary to use archaeological methodologies with vernacular architecture studies and folklore to create a more holistic image of the world and its inhabitants. To facilitate …
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Beyond the Ancestral Skillet: Four Louisiana Women and Their Cookbooks, 1930-1970
… ability to record women.s history, both private and public. Cookbooks transmit not only instructions for preparing specific dishes, but also the values of class, race and gender of the times and places in which they are created. This study will focus on several such cookbooks produced by …
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Jews Behind Glass: The Ethnographic Impulse in German-Jewish and Yiddish Literature, 1900-1948
This dissertation demonstrates that German and Yiddish literature about Jews from the turn of the twentieth century until after the Holocaust is characterized by several discourses and tropes borrowed from contemporary ethnography, anthropology, and folklore studies. The influence of these …
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Breaking the Bonds of Silence: The Immigrant Experience in Magical Realist Novels of Katherine Vaz and Chitra Divakaruni.
… on the sole basis of its identification with and fantastic expression of Latin-American cultural identity. However, the genre, when employed by non-American immigrant women, takes on new characteristics. It not only highlights the mystical underpinnings of everyday life but instructs in a …
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The protection of traditional cultural expressions ? seeking international consensus for a multilateral solution
… cultural heritage have been misappropriated and commercially exploited by western culture for centuries. Existing intellectual property laws, the closest conceptually related legal regimes, fail to protect TCEs because they were not developed with indigenous culture in mind. Despite over …
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Cultural Translations: A Global history of the chili pepper in Architecture
… pleasure gardens where it sits among cyclamens and tulips in Europe at the dawn of early modernity to the battle fields of Hungary-Ottoman frontier; from colonial plantations of the Portuguese bordering the Indian west coast to the royal miniature paintings of the Mughal court; from the domestic …
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The contemporary storyteller in context: a study of storytelling in modern society
Professional storytellers and their work over the past three decades have been acknowledged as a field worthy of study by many scholars. While drawing from traditional sources and abstract concepts concerning what is traditional storytelling, contemporary storytelling practitioners' methods often …
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Music in Schools
… sufficiency of' soo4 orchestras, operas, ballets and legitimate theatres throughout this eou.ntry with the result that the publiQ has very little outside cultural stimulation. The.re is, fu~hermore, little or no heritage of song, dance and folklore. The public fee l s the need of some emotional …
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Reverential language in American education: why we started calling teachers heroes and how language is at the root of broken school systems
… with origins in Christianity, mythology, and folklore, used to describe teachers in educational and political spaces, as well as public media, is deeply detrimental to progressive initiatives in public school systems across the United States. Through an examination of the history of our …
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The Nature of the Wind: Myth, Fact, and Faith in the Development of Wind Knowledge in Early Modern England
… in multiple capacities, both physically and symbolically. The following study explores the ways in which natural history, myth and folklore, craft knowledge, and religion contributed to a growing body of knowledge about the wind at a moment in British history when wind knowledge assumed …
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Urhobo: Language, Identity, and Design
Urhobo: Language, Identity and Design is a 3D web-based game design project that explores how technology and digital storytelling can preserve and promote the endangered language and cultural heritage of the Urhobo people of Nigeria's Niger Delta in Delta State. Inspired by UNESCO's warning that …
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