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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"cultural interpretation"”.
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A cultural interpretation of Shāfiʻī's legal doctrine
This study examines the cultural implications of the methodology followed by Muhammed b Idris al-Shāfiʻī in the process of Islamic legalism. With reference to Clifford Geertz's model of religion as a cultural system, Shāfiʻī's methodology is presented as a process which expresses a certain cultural …
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Cultural Interpretation of Canonical Paradox: Lay Meditation in a Central Thai Village
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Commerce or Significance: Commercial Interventions on Cultural Interpretation at Two Philadelphia Historic Sites
… thesis examines how commercialization shapes the interpretation of cultural significance in historic site management. Rather than treating commercialization as an inherent threat to preservation, it argues that its effects depend on institutional context, management structure, and narrative …
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Critiquing Ethnohermeneutics Theories: A Call for an Author-Oriented Approach to Cross-Cultural Biblical Interpretation
… and proposes an alternative view to cross-cultural interpretation. Chapter 1 introduces the study by examining the topic of ethnohermeneutics and its development out of the indigenous movement. For the sake of clarity, key terms are defined. The project background, methodology, and the …
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Ducks and Deer, Profit and Pleasure: Hunters, Games and the Natural Landscapes of Medieval Italy
… human activities for centuries. Hunting had deep cultural significance for a range of social groups, each of which had different expectations and limitations on their use of their local game animal-habitat complexes. Hunting in medieval Italy was business, as well as recreation. The motivations …
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Deconstructing National Identity: Character, Place, and Contemporary American Independent Cinema
… a fruitful process of Derridean cinematic and cultural interpretation. In undertaking this broad theoretical objective, I intervene within a range of specific filmic and socio-political debates. Analysing texts drawn from within prevailing independent film definitions, this project undertakes a …
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Communication Between Human and Non-Corporeal Entities: A Comparison Between Lived Experience and Cultural Expectation
… these traditions differ in historical origin, cultural framework, and modes of ritual expression, each provides sanctioned avenues and methodologies through which practitioners engage with beings perceived as existing beyond the mundane material realm. The research aim was to determine whether …
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Categories of Design for Sustainability: A Wearer's Perspective of Classic Design
… formal attributes, viewer's experience, and the cultural context of classic design two pilot studies were conducted. The results of these pilot studies indicated that the interpretation of formal attributes determined how classic design was applied within personal and cultural contexts. Based on …
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One step forward, two steps back: Making change in Early Head Start
… used interviews, participant observation, and cultural interpretation to understand the perspective of participant families.</p><p>The study provided evidence that economically and socially diverse families who accessed social services often became enmeshed in a system of social "supports" that …
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Gestures and Acclamations: some assembly required Contextualising curating and exhibtion practices in Southeast Asia for Singapore, Indonesia and Hong Kong
… museums as institutions which accumulate cultural artefacts and display these artefacts according to a taxonomy specific to forms of cultural interpretation and exchange. The second takes place outside of institutions, where Southeast Asian curators assume a role in a larger production of …
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The Pragmatic Strategy of Main-Clause Omission in Japanese: Its Contrast with Hebrew, and Its Learnability
… Further, they reveal a sharp disparity in the cultural interpretation of main-clause omission: JNS view it as a strategy to show respect and politeness toward the listener, while HNS view it as an expression of disrespect. A follow-up experiment on 20 HNS who are advanced Japanese language …
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No Circe with wicked charms: dialectical mediation of time in South Korea’s cultural formation in the 1980s
… mediation process of the South Korea’s cultural formation echoed with the peculiar historical modality of financialization in the 1980s. Taking the conception of time as the constitutive logic of the cultural formative process, my historiography, based on Marx’s method of inquiry called …