Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"cross-cultural encounters"”.
-
Writing hybridity: identity, dialogics, and women's narratives in the Americas
… postmodern era. As a phenomenon resulting from cross-cultural encounters, hybridity has always posed a danger to fixed categorizations of identity, and thus a variety of discourses of hybridity have surfaced across different traditions in order to control its meaning. After the arrival of the …
-
An examination of Ugandan and U.S. American communication styles and value orientations
<p>This study describes cultural values and communication patterns that are attributable to Ugandans and U.S. Americans in Kampala, Uganda. Value patterns are described within this paper, a mixture of self-attributed and ascripted based on survey and interview data. This information was examined to …
-
Black Enlisted Men in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands: Race, Citizenship, and Military Occupation, 1866-1930
… the post-Civil War era. It focuses on soldiers’ cross-cultural encounters with the racially and ethnically diverse communities that surrounded the posts they garrisoned, revealing how black enlisted men viewed and attempted to define their positions within the complex and fluid social order of …
-
Women, Nature and Labor on Long Island: A Gendered-Environmental Perspective to Colonial Encounters
… Long Island, as the setting for many dynamic cross-cultural encounters in the colonial and Atlantic world, is itself worthy of historical study.</p>
-
Cultural engagement in missionary China: American missionary novels 1880-1930
… enterprise in China was built on a paradox in cross-cultural encounters. In order to convert the Chinese—whose religion they rejected—American missionaries adopted strategies of assimilation (e.g. learning Chinese and associating with the Chinese) to facilitate their work. My dissertation …
-
Strangers from within, strangers from without: negotiations and uses of space in African American and immigrant literatures and cultures, 1900s-1950s
… statement illustrates only a limited view of the cross-cultural encounters that it describes, it is based on historical facts that anchor my dissertation which explores the relationship between cultural constructions of space and literary visions of ethnicity and Americanness in fiction. My …
-
Fevers in a Reykjavík Graveyard: A COVID Novella in Modernist Iceland
… planning, COVID-19 brought about widespread cultural uncertainty, economic inflation, and demographic upheaval. With the economic sphere of tourism stalled, cross-cultural encounters between Icelanders and foreigners took place in more unconventional and domestic spheres. Fevers in a …
-
“What country are you from originally?” A conversation analysis of black clients' and black therapists' talk during therapeutic encounters
… In the context of an increasingly multicultural society, research examining the ways in which clients of different ethnic minorities experience counselling and therapy is prevalent. Previous research has explored at length, barriers impacting Black people’s engagement with therapy, as …
-
Post-Lapita developments in the Reef-Santa Cruz Islands, southeast Solomon Islands
… pertinent to the case study. The narratives of cross-cultural encounters during the historic period are examined to investigate how such interactions produce change in cultural traditions, and to assess the archaeological visibility of these contacts. While the archaeological record testifies to …
-
The Post-Colonial Noble Savage: A Study of Witi Ihimaera's Fiction
… complexity. In revealing the presence of western cultural references and literary traditions in Ihimaera’s fiction, the thesis does not aim to undermine the uniqueness of Māori literature. Rather, it suggests that these cross-cultural encounters and literary borrowings have produced rich and …
-
Sir John Finch’s (1626–1682) and Dr John Covel’s (1638–1722) Sensory Experiences in the Ottoman Empire, 1660-1690
… examines the sensory dimensions of Anglo-Ottoman encounters in the seventeenth century through a micro-history of Sir John Finch (1626–1682) and Dr John Covel (1638–1722), two English travellers whose experiences in the Ottoman Empire were shaped by cultivated perception and scholarly discipline. …
-
Carving the spirits of the wood: an enquiry into Trobriand materialisations
… of the role of material forms as mediators of cross-cultural encounters in the Trobriand Islands. It is based on eighteen months of ethnographic research in Kiriwina and other parts of the Massim region, Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea. The dissertation analyses previously overlooked …
-
Engendering Power: Dynastic Women And Visual Culture In The Hellenistic World (fourth-First Centuries Bce)
… were constructed and negotiated within and across dynasties. I thus bring issues of gendered and ethnic difference to bear on how such portrayals would have been received by a diverse group of audiences: Greeks and non-Greeks, men and women, and royal and non-royal viewers. This dissertation …
-
The Narungga and Europeans: cross-cultural relations on Yorke Peninsula in the nineteenth century.
… Peninsula, South Australia. This thesis explores cross-cultural encounters and relations between the Narungga and Europeans in the nineteenth century. Contemporary Narungga people, hoping to learn about the lives of their forebears, instigated this research. The Narungga have not previously been …
-
US Theatre and Cosmopolitics: Imperfect Reimagining of US–Asia Relations on Stage Since 1945
… I explore how they depict Asia as a space of cross-cultural, cross-national, and cross-racial encounters and engagement, promoting a cosmopolitan ethics and politics of openness, compassion, and solidarity, envisioning more equitable US-Asia relations. Using cosmopolitanism as a theoretical …
-
Artisans, Vendors, and Practitioners from the Eastern Mediterranean in Early Modern Italy
… practitioners from the Eastern Mediterranean to cultural, scientific, and artisanal production, experimentation, and innovation in early modern Italy, from the mid-sixteenth to the later seventeenth centuries. In recent years, scholars have explored the significance of cross-Mediterranean …