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Showing 1 to 20 of 95 for “"cultural development"”.
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The Cultural Development of Coker Community, Texas
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Exploring the Connections between Community Cultural Development and Sustainable Tourism in Central Appalachia
… initiatives to highlight their natural and cultural assets in efforts to develop tourism as a new foundation for their economies. However, to avoid tourism simply becoming another extractive industry, researchers and practitioners have suggested that these communities must develop capacity …
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A New Institutionalist History of Appalshop: Exploring the Agential Dynamics of an Appalachian Community Cultural Development Organization
… peer institutions to form a larger community cultural development (CCD) field, characterized by actors that value the potential of art and cultural activities to create space for individual and collective imagining and reimagining of communities. Through an exploration of archival documents …
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Useable space
… of self-discovery, intersubjective dialogue and cultural development. Using the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a laboratory and case study, a series of interventions and observations were conducted and recorded. Key concerns were the dialectical relationships between individuals and …
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Osage Glass Bead Use: Archaeological and Ethnohistorical Evidence of Change and Continuity Through the Early Postcontact Era
… studies characterize post-contact Osage cultural development as a process of inevitable change due to Osage adoption of European culture. The lack of discussion about cultural continuity and indigenous agency is problematic because it minimizes the Osages' role in their own cultural …
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The effect of stronger intellectual property protection on technological innovation in developing countries: the case of Lesotho
… integral part of the general economic social and cultural development worldwide.2 This begs the question: What is intellectual property? IP refers broadly to a number of distinct types of creations of the human mind, for which property rights are recognised. Its influence extends to every aspect …
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The Pueblitos of Palluche Canyon: An Examination of the Ethnic Affiliation of the Pueblito Inhabitants and Results of Archaeological Survey at LA 9073, LA 10732 and LA 86895, New Mexico
… historical reconstructions of Navajo history and cultural development.</p>
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Otse mbaka, this is who we are : cultural loss, change and recuperation in Ovamboland
This thesis is an investigation into the terms of cultural change in north central Namibia. I am primarily concerned with issues of agency in the processes which result in cultural change, and look at both historical and contemporary agents of change in order to determine who and what impacts …
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The boria : A study of a Malay theatre in its socio-cultural context
… the boria in its historical, political and socio-cultural context. It further requires placing it in the wider perspectives of Malaysian national policies for cultural development and the scholarly study of the performing arts of South-East Asia.
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Aboriginal newspapers : their contribution to the emergence of an alternative public sphere in Canada
… Indian, Metis and Inuit newspapers to the development of an alternative political public sphere for Aboriginal peoples in Canada. It argues that although the development of the newspapers was an important aspect of the political and cultural development, these newspapers were, to use …
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A COURTIER'S LEGACY: CASTIGLIONE'S LITERARY INFLUENCE ON ELIZABETH ENGLAND
This thesis examines the cultural influence of Baldesar Castiglione’s Book of the Courtier on European culture. Specifically, argue that the Courtier had a profound influence on Elizabethan England and its cultural development. I achieve this goal by examining various genres of literature during …
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Climate change at the Pleistocene-Holocene boundary in the Pacific Northwest: a comparison of proxy datasets and the archaeologicial record
… Boundary (ca. 12,600-10,200 cal B.P.) and cultural responses to attendant shifts in the environment remains a vexing issue for archaeologists. This study compiles and analyzes glacial, palynological, faunal, and stratigraphic/geomorphological proxy datasets for climate change in the Pacific …
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Detroit : open city
… highlights the tragic aspects of Detroit's urban development and obscures the numerous initiatives and opportunities for social and spatial development that have emerged as a result of the city's particular evolution. This thesis examines the recent transformations in Detroit's urban environment …
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The dialectics of textile hand production : In search of poetic content : an enquiry into the position of the traditional textile crafts
… of furthering the concept of aesthetic socio-cultural development. It approaches the traditional textile crafts in relation to the proposition that contemporary society is post-traditional and has broken away from nature. By examining the concept of tradition and the processes by which society …
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Princípios andragógicos como meios de incentivar a leitura na área empresarial: uma análise no Projeto de Leitura da Dental Gold
… reading as an essential tool for social and cultural development of the individual. We conclude that adult education has been discussed over the years and realizing the difficulty of engaging them with reading, many scholars have worked to contribute to the educational and motivational …
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Um olhar sobre a preservação e conservação do acervo da Biblioteca Pública Estadual Juarez da Gama Batista na Cidade de João Pessoa - PB
… especially the public ones because they promote cultural development once they belong to a local community. Therefore, it is necessary to preserve and conserve their collection in order to amplify lifespan. The research aims to diagnose the situation of preservation and conservation of the …
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"""The friendship of peoples"": Soviet ballet, nationalities policy, and the artistic media, 1953-1968"
… Soviet classical ballet within the political and cultural context of the Khrushchev-era Thaw. It traces the Soviet Union's long-standing nationalities policy--envisioned by Lenin even before 1917 and championed by Stalin throughout his tenure--and its connection to the proliferation of …
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Cultural policy, state politics, and rural economic development : lessons from Maine
… on state economies to boost -the significance of cultural policy within a given political environment. Specifically, this thesis explains how the current Governor of Maine, John Baldacci and the leaders of Maine's cultural policy bureaucracy utilized a study of creative industries' contributions …
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