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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"cultural transition"”.
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The Morisco House in Granada : domestic space in cultural transition
This paper examines issues of cultural, religious, and personal identity as reflected in domestic space, with the premise that expressions of the built environment evolve from concepts of self. These themes are particularly apparent in the case of residential architecture of the Moriscos, a …
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Visualizing the Cultural Transition in Bithynia (1300--1402): Architecture, Landscape and Urbanism
Chapter Six recapitulated the evidence gathered in each chapter in order to elaborate on the new identity represented by new architectural forms and a new urban order in Bithynia.
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The impact of cross-cultural transition on intercultural relationships using a strengths-based approach
<p>This study explored the ways in which intercultural relationships are affected by cross-cultural transition through the lens of the female experience. Specifically, this research examined (1) in what ways women felt that cross-cultural transition impacted their relationship, especially with …
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A Phenomenological Study of Cultural Transition and Adjustment of Asian Undergraduate International Students Using Different Cross-Cultural Treatments
… abroad, international students face a series of transitional difficulties impacting academic, social, and professional success. In particular, Eastern Asian international students who comprise over 42% of all international students in the U.S., experience more cross-cultural adaptation distress …
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Cultural Transition in the Northern Levant during the Early Iron Age as Reflected in the Aegean-style Pottery at Tell Tayinat
… Turkey promise to shed new light on the critical transitional phase of the Late Bronze/Early Iron Age (c. 1200-1000 B.C.), a period which in the Northern Levant has until recently been considered a Dark Age, due in large part to the few extant textual sources relating to its history (Hawkins 2002: …
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The view from mazique (22ad502): the Coles Creek / Plaquemine cultural transition from the perspective of the Natchez Bluffs region of the Lower Mississippi Valley
… Plaquemine culture. Current perceptions of this transition are informed principally by studies conducted in the Lower Yazoo and Tensas basins that have produced conflicting models of Plaquemine origins: the External Stimulus model and the Internal Development model. This dissertation contributes …
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A socio-cultural study investigating the influences on food and lifestyle choices, and the cultural transition, of British Bangladeshis living in Tower Hamlets East London
… context in which people live. This trans-cultural study utilised qualitative approaches over three phases: paired interviews, in-depth semi-structured interviews and multiple pass dietary recall; drawing upon current social science and public health nutrition paradigms to investigate the …
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The role of culture in organizational change
… is a critical first step but often belies the cultural transition that must take place concurrently. Some organizational change theorists present culture as one of many variables in the change equation. Others take a more holistic approach where organization and culture are integrated and must …
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J-Horror : A discourse in cross-cultural communication and cinematic hybridity
… in his 2002 counterpart. With the cross-cultural transition, certain aspects of the premise and characters were changed. I posit these differences are more than artistic reinterpretation, and are culturally significant. However, while certain facets of fear are culturally specific, the …
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Examining Acculturation Strategies in Immigrant and Refugee Youth: A Mixed Methods Approach to Arts-Informed Research
Extending far beyond migration to a new home, the cultural, emotional, and mental plight of immigration plagues immigrants and refugees of all ages. Nonetheless, immigrant youth are commonly overlooked in acculturation studies. This mixed methods approach to arts-informed research examined the …
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Heinrich Wölfflin's ideas and historiographical discourse
… visuality (Sichtbarkeit, Anschauung) within the cultural transition between the fields of historicism and modernity/modernism. Through the impact of photographic reproductions he demarcated an analytical typology of architectural form and spatial effects, and of modes of depiction (of artists, …
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Making Sense of a New Culture: Transition of International School Leaders
… school leaders who guide learning for a culturally diverse community of expatriates around the world. The International School Consultancy Group (2014) estimated that there were upwards of 3.5 million students being educated in over 7,000 international schools. As the number of …
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From lifestyle media to lived practice: an ethnography of class, gender and ordinary gardening
This thesis is about the ordinary cultural practice of gardening. Using an interdisciplinary framework and holding 'ordinary aesthetics' at the forefront of the analysis, it asks if the garden is a site where identities of class and gender are played out. Arguing that domestic gardening has …
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Mythologizing the transition : a comparative study of Bahram Beyzaee and Wolfe Soyinka
… comments on human life and socio-political and cultural institutions. This research study examines the major themes and dramatic techniques of these two writers to demonstrate how, in two very different cultural settings, traditional modes and themes appear in modem art forms to renegotiate …
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To the Wall: London's Murals and 'the Left', 1975-1986
… study centred upon this remarkable moment of cultural production. Applying diverse methodologies of the social history of art and Marxist art history to an analysis of seven case studies this thesis seeks to redress the murals’ neglect within art historical accounts. The first chapter examines …
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Holding Space for our Stories: Latiné Educators' Experiences as English Learners and their Journey to Becoming Bilingual Teachers
… personal histories with language barriers and cultural transition influenced their educational trajectories. It examined how their dual experiences, as former English learners and as current bilingual teachers, inform their understanding of students' multifaceted needs and how they have shaped …
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Beyond Italian Opera. Manuel García in postcolonial Mexico City (1826-1828)
… these years as a short yet critical step in the cultural transition of Mexico into its postcolonial identity. Arriving at a period when Italian opera was widely viewed by the new Latin American elites as a powerful marker of civilisation against the perceived backwardness of the colonial state, …
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"Feels Like Times Have Changed": Sixties Western Heroes
… formula hero as refigured through an era of cultural transition. My project joins an ongoing discussion of how the transformation of popular genres reflects and informs social transformation. Specifically, this dissertation explores the politics of influential artists such as Sam Peckinpah, …
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Social relations and migration : a study of post-war migration with particular reference to migration from Bangladesh to Britain
… of migration. Having established that socio-cultural transition migration, which is one of the four categories developed in this chapter, is the major concern of most migration studies, the thesis argues that a subtle process of 'branding' exists in the matters of encouraging migration to a …
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Understanding the experience of South Asian female graduate international students in the United States: a phenomenological study
… between their academic pursuits, family, and cultural expectations? Lastly, how do South Asian female international graduate students describe their experience of navigating the technology-rich U.S. environment in institution of higher education. The participants of my qualitative study were …
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