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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"cultural encounter"”.
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Commercial diplomacy, cultural encounter and slave resistance : episodes from three VOC slave trading voyages from the Cape to Madagascar, 1760-1780
… is drawn predominantly from the first trading encounter of the crew of De Zan when they arrived in Madagascar in 1775. The second explores the predicaments that the European slave traders encountered on the island, predicaments that arose both from cultural misunderstandings and from personal …
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A reading of qi: being in a world of qi in contemporary Melbourne
… posed. The research represents a kind of cross-cultural encounter whereby the interpenetration of cultures and ideas alerts us to new and different ways on how knowledge is garnered and impacts on lived experience with reference to the Chinese medical idea of qi. Unlike the usual interpretation …
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The impact of British Christian missionaries on Indian religious, social and cultural life between 1800 and 1857. With particular reference to the role of missionaries in the events leading up to the 1857 Mutiny
… 1800 and 1857. The study focuses on the cross cultural encounter between the Christian Missionaries and the Muslim inhabitants of three Indian cities: Agra, Delhi and Peshawar. Alongside this, the role of the missionaries in creating anti ¿ British sentiment in Agra and Delhi, is examined. …
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Remembering the Cultural Trauma Legacies of Slavery: African American Young Adult Perceptions on Racism, Ethnic Identity, and Racial Socialization
… of this research investigation is to explore cultural trauma theory on African American young adult development. Cultural trauma theory asserts the adverse cross-cultural encounter, North American slavery, reproduces intergenerational psychosocial legacies for contemporary African Americans. …
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Listening in code : process and politics in interactive musical works
… sites and conditions of computationally mediated cultural encounter.
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Landscapes Of Memory In German Realist Writing
… modes of memory, including repetition (Stifter), cultural and personal memory (Fontane), intertextuality, irony, and writing (Raabe), allow narrators and characters to imagine and, as in the case with Stifter, ritualize the past as a way of retrieving significance into the present and future. My …
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Translating traditional Chinese medicine anchored in philosophy: towards a fuller account of the cultural richness of Su Wen
… both in terms of translation practice and of cultural encounter. In brief, the principal problem is that, unlike modern medicine and health-care cultures which are based on experiments and data, TCM considers the human being as an organic whole in unison with nature, rather than as a damaged …
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Human Development as Integral Development: The Social Teaching of the Church in an African Context
… the nation-state of Kenya. It proposes a cross-cultural encounter between African socialism and Western liberalism. This chapter concludes with other propositions for a mutual complementation or reciprocal enrichment between the African Weltanschauung and Western thought, for example, in the …
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How and what do science advisers learn? Insights from environmental science-policy in the UK
… of advisers’ learning based on the idea of the cultural encounter and two models of science advice (collective intelligence and networked intelligence) with repercussions on learning. I also introduce and reflect on methodological innovations, including an experimental pilot of longitudinal …
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At home in the metropole : gender and domesticity in contemporary migration fiction
… resources in their narratives of cross-cultural encounter, challenging the devaluation of the private sphere as a static, unproductive and uncreative space. I unpack how these texts engage with the domestic as a material space of inspiration, but also as a political space constructed by …
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The Rhetoric of Collaborative Ministry: A Perspective on Ministry Based on Augustine's Rhetorical Theory with Particular Reference to Abakaliki Diocese
… for the Catholic Church is rooted in the inter-cultural and counter-cultural encounter between Christianity and any of the cultures in question, and at this point the African Culture in Abakaliki diocese. To negotiate a complexity of this magnitude, one cannot ignore its rhetorical ripples …
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Cultural Encounters in Medicine: (Re)Constituting Traditional Medicine in Taiwan under Colonization, Modernity, and Exchange
Today we have many alternative medicines, not a few of which connect back to aboriginal cultures. Some of these alternative medicines were born under the influence of European imperialism, as they were not "alternative" until modern empires and modern medicine came to these distant regions. The …
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Resituating Transatlantic Opera: The Case of the Théâtre d'Orléans, New Orleans, 1819-1859
… articulating the authors’ perceptions of inter-cultural encounter in New Orleans. This thesis, therefore, seeks to unpick the processes involved in transatlantic opera from a number of angles. I resituate New Orleans, arguing that the city was not simply on the musical periphery, but that it was …
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Costume Albums in Charles V’s Habsburg Empire (1528-1549)
… known and surviving attempts to make sense of cultural difference by compiling visual information about regional clothing customs in and around Europe and further abroad. Their method of codifying sartorial customs through representative costume figures became a prevailing method through which …