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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"cultural encounters"”.
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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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Working On Campus: The Impact of International Student Employees' Dining Services Job Experience on The Development of Intercultural Communication Competence
… influences international student employees’ intercultural communication competence. The Campinha-Bacote cultural competence model’s five dimensions: cultural awareness, cultural desire, cultural knowledge, cultural skills, and cultural encounters were discussed through a qualitative investigation …
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Planter's Paradise: Nature, Culture, and Hawaiʻi’s Sugarcane Plantations
… system eclipsed diversified farming, how cultural encounters between indigenous and Euro-American groups influenced agriculture and natural resource use, and how the politics of planting contributed to the rise of American hegemony over the islands. With research grounded in plantation …
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Writing hybridity: identity, dialogics, and women's narratives in the Americas
… 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 …
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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 …
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An Alternative Framework of Analysis to Investigate China’s Confucius Institutes: A Great Leap Outward with Chinese Characteristics?
This thesis examines China’s contemporary global cultural footprints through its recent development of cultural diplomacy and its global expansion of the Confucius Institute, whose prominent features are investigated by exploring the four specific research questions of ‘why’ China wants to launch …
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Concepts of culture, diversity and cultural care among undergraduate nursing students : a nursing education perspective
Culture, diversity and cultural care have become important concepts for nurses professionals. However, little is known about how nursing students come to understand these complex concepts. The purpose of this study was to explore what nursing students learn and understand about diversity, culture …
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Black Enlisted Men in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands: Race, Citizenship, and Military Occupation, 1866-1930
… 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 the …
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Women, Nature and Labor on Long Island: A Gendered-Environmental Perspective to Colonial Encounters
… Island, as the setting for many dynamic cross-cultural encounters in the colonial and Atlantic world, is itself worthy of historical study.</p>
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E M B O D I M E N T : mental and physical geographies of the neo-nomad
… has led to homogenization, hybridization, cultural confusion, and social disorders. The resulting chaos has been translated by a loss of landmarks, which has consequently engendered mental and physical displacements. New species, hybrids, have emerged from these various cultural encounters. …
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BITING OFF MORE THAN YOU CAN CHEW: GERMAN-BRAZILIAN CULTURAL CANNIBALISM
Cultural cannibalism is an aesthetic practice and an analytical tool that can be used to look closely at (trans)cultural encounters that happen in the arts. From its modernist roots, the term inherited a bold spirit, a playful self-assertion in the face of the other, a refusal to submit to the …
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Cultural engagement in missionary China: American missionary novels 1880-1930
… 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 explores …
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Strangers from within, strangers from without: negotiations and uses of space in African American and immigrant literatures and cultures, 1900s-1950s
… 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 parallel …
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Homeward Bound: The Influence of Emigration and Return on Aezkoa Valley and its Surrounding Rural Communities in Northern Navarre at the turn of the 19th Century
… will be analyzed from the point of view of cultural encounters that led to hybrid practices. These encounters and interactions created new realities in the homeland, many times transforming the everyday life of the peasant as well as the society as a whole. These influences will be tracked …
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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 …
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Genre and Empire: Historical Romance and Sixteenth-Century Chinese Cultural Fantasies
… into light the importance literature plays as a cultural response to China's long history of cross-border military and cultural encounters with her Eurasian neighbors.
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NARRATED TRAVEL AND RHETORICAL TROPES: PRODUCING "THE TURK" IN THE TRAVEL WRITING OF CYPRUS, 1955-2005
… and the texts they produce in light of these encounters function rhetorically, informing cultural relations among people of different societies. When the efforts of these travel writers are taken to be rhetorical, critics position themselves to identify how ethics, politics, and aesthetics of …
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“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 …
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Post-Lapita developments in the Reef-Santa Cruz Islands, southeast Solomon Islands
… 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 …
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Sights/Sites of Spectacle: Anglo/Asante Appropriations, Diplomacy and Displays of Power 1816-1820
… applicability in the analysis of other cultural encounters.
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