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Showing 1 to 20 of 203 for “"dynasty"”.
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Dressing for the Times: Fashion in Tang Dynasty China (618-907)
During the Tang dynasty, an increased capacity for change created a new value system predicated on the accumulation of wealth and the obsolescence of things that is best understood as fashion. Increased wealth among Tang elites was paralleled by a greater investment in clothes, which imbued clothes …
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Like Life: Royal Portraits of the Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910) in Ritual Context
… these portraits changed over the course of the dynasty. For the latter, I use the history of the imperial portraits of the Ming Dynasty as a foil. The fifth chapter notes the emergence of several repositories in the late Joseon period and discusses portraits of certain late Joseon kings that …
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Envisioning Antiquity: Yi Bingshou and the Politics of Memory in the Qing Dynasty
… painters and calligraphers of the Qing dynasty (1644–1911) deployed prodigious efforts to interpret them in different media in pursuit of aesthetic originality. This stylistic revolution, later termed beixue, or the “stele tradition,” advocates the engraved calligraphy on early stelae as …
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Pastoralism, Agriculture, and Stress: A Comparative Analysis of Two 19th Century Qing Dynasty Populations
In order to improve anthropological understandings of mobile pastoralism as a strategy for the exploitation of marginal environments, this study tests the hypothesis that a mobile, diffuse, pastoralist population is less likely to experience elevated physiological stress than a comparatively …
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A Sign of the Times: Administration, Agency of officials and Monumental architecture in Eighteenth Dynasty Egypt
… dissertation explores the state in Eighteenth Dynasty Egypt through the lens of administration and its officials. Due to the abstract nature of the state, it is studied through its manifestations and actions, as defined by anthropologists Sharma and Gupta (2006). The management of the state is …
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The Palazzo Calderini, the City of Imola and the Calderini Dynasty between the 14th and 20th century
The purpose of this thesis is to research a Renaissance-era palace in Imola, Italy, within the context of the surrounding city, through a combination of historical, archaeological, geographical and the topographical approaches. To start off, this research involves the study of cartography, whereby …
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The Augustae of the Theodosian Dynasty (379 - 455 CE): An Enquiry into their Portrayal by the Contemporary Textual Sources.
Between 379CE and 455CE seven female members of the Theodosian Imperial Family were elevated to the role of Augusta (Empress), thereby enhancing their ability to influence events and causing their deeds to be recorded by the contemporary historians, clergymen and poets. This dissertation explores …
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Shaping Religious and Cultural Aspiration: Engraved Sutras in Southwestern Shandong Province from the Northern Qi Dynasty (550-577 CE), China
<p>This dissertation explores how the Buddhist texts carved on the cliffs of mountains served their patrons’ religious and cultural goals. During the Northern Qi period (550-577 CE), these carved Buddhist sutra texts and Buddha names were prevalent, and were carved directly onto the surfaces of …
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