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Showing 1 to 20 of 56 for “"cultural transformation"”.
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Melodic variations : toward cross-cultural transformation
We all share similar innate emotions, but our cultural experiences nurture us to express them differently. The musical form "theme and variations" offer us a unique lens to uncover in each culture the relationships between the musical surface that touches us most directly, and the underlying …
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Post-Lapita Fiji: cultural transformation in the mid-sequence
This dissertation examines the little known cultural changes that occurred In Fiji during the 1500 years between the end of Lapita and the late prehistoric era - a period of time termed here the 'mid-sequence’. During this interval the relatively homogeneous proto Polynesian Lapita culture of Fiji …
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Post-Lapita Fiji: cultural transformation in the mid-sequence
This dissertation examines the little known cultural changes that occurred In Fiji during the 1500 years between the end of Lapita and the late prehistoric era - a period of time termed here the 'mid-sequence’. During this interval the relatively homogeneous proto Polynesian Lapita culture of Fiji …
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Jazz and the cultural transformation of America in the 1920s
… Jazz and its eventual popularity represented the cultural tensions present in modern America, and the acceptance of jazz reflected the degree to which Americans rejected or accepted traditional values. This dissertation examines the historical context of this larger transformation America …
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Bible Women: Evangelism and Cultural Transformation in the Early Korean Church
… religious syncretism being practiced in a socio-cultural environment which prohibited all interaction between the predominantly male missionaries and the local females. To remedy this situation, the women missionaries converted and recruited a small number of indigenous women to augment …
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Embracing Complexity: A Reflective investigation of Cultural Transformation Through Experiential Learning
… is an examination of the dynamic complexity of cultural transmission and transformation. It is an investigation of the assumption that human agency can influence the direction of the inevitable process of change. The three parts reflect the three components of a complex theory of experiential …
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A chronicle of cultural transformation: ethnography of Badagry Ogu musical practices
… and social analysis, including the concepts of cultural cohorts and cultural formations, in exploring the different attitudes, among Badagry Ogu people, towards indigenous music. I advocate for and outline a contemporary approach for musical recontextualisation as a means of inclusivity and …
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(S)CORE FOR SUSTAINABILITY. DRIVING CULTURAL TRANSFORMATION AND ACTION IN MEDITERRANEAN SPORTS ORGANISATIONS
… narratives and how these narratives shape cultural representations in their organisational context. The second explores concrete sustainability practices, revealing moderate commitment, limited long-term planning, and gaps between expectations and implementation. The third introduces a …
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Organizational and cultural transformation to facilitate lean manufacturing practices in the aerospace industry
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1996.
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A Cross-Cultural Transformation that Drew Boundaries: Matteo Ricci and His Mapmaking in Ming China
… China witnessed two phases of his intellectual transformation. The first phase, from 1582 to 1595, displayed Ricci's humanist education as he learned about China through the writing and translation of ancient Chinese and Western classics. In the second phase, from 1596 to 1610, however, Ricci …
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Agricultural Strategy and Cultural Transformation: An Ecological Study of Prehistoric and Modern Chalcatzingo, Morelos, Mexico
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Examining South Africa 's process of cultural transformation : interrogating the Indigenous Knowledge System (IKS) policy framework
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 91-104).
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Evoking Belonging: Enlivening Ubuntu As Social Sculpture for Cultural Transformation towards Ecological Citizenship in Sustainable City Making
… heritage, a means of knowing, which enlivens our cultural practices. Performance in the Evoking Belonging Ubuntu Practices occurs as participants and researcher come together as co-researchers to new forms of knowing. This results in a sense of enlivenment, achieved through enquiry into memories, …
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Cultural transformation: an analysis of the community bylaws and legal mechanisms in combating the practice of 'Kusasa Fumbi' in Malawi
… examines the intricate relationship between cultural practices, Malawi's legal framework, and the emergent role of community bylaws in combating the persistent issue of Kusasa Fumbi, a harmful cultural practice affecting the girl child in Malawi. The study addresses fundamental questions …
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Study on cultural transformation that drives towards an effective digital transformation of Small Medium Enterprises (SME) in selected states of Malaysia
… culture affects the adoption of digital transformation within the Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) in selected states of Malaysia. Although SMEs understand the need and benefits of digital transformation, their adoption rate remains low.This problem has negatively impacted most SMEs who …
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Reformed theology, modernity and the environment crisis
… as the poses a dominant contemporary socio-cultural matrix. This challenge can only be responded to through a radical socio-cultural transformation which favours those, human and otherkind, who have been marginalised and oppressed by modernity. This will include a change of human …
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The Karen of Andaman Islands: Labor Migration, Indian Citizenship and Development of a Unique Cultural Identity
… present a unique story—a story of migration, transformation and endurance. This paper presents the findings of my ethnographic fieldwork of 2014 contextualized through extensive secondary research of Andaman and Karen history. Some data supported my initial expectation of rapid cultural …
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Of disciples and sultans: Power, authority and society in the nineteenth century Mauritanian Gebla
… dissertation examines processes of political and cultural transformation in the Gebla, the region of southwest Mauritania that lies along the right bank of the Senegal river. Its focus is the nineteenth century, a time of political upheaval, economic change and imperialism in the Senegal valley. …
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