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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"family memory"”.
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"Pieces in a Pattern": Virginia Woolf and Family Memory
… and narrative intricacies of the Woolf/Stephen family conversation.</p>
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Becoming with the dog in South Africa Reflections on family, memory, and human-animal relations in post-apartheid South Africa
Can the relationship White people have with the figure of the dog, in what currently exists as South Africa, be free of antiblackness? Following instances where I saw black women who worked as domestic workers walk dogs belonging to their White employers, I write these letters addressed to you, my …
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The Female Life Course at San Zeno: An Exploration of Women as the Makers and Keepers of Family Memory in Lombard Italy
This thesis investigates women's experiences in Lombard Italy (sixth-eighth century). I explore various aspects of women's life courses, particularly fertility and reproductive loss. As documentary sources discussing Lombard women are scarce, generally hostile towards women and written by men, I …
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Paměť a historie rodiny Palliardi - dva koncepty studia rodinné minulosti
In this thesis, I focus on the Palliardi family of Italian origin and their activities in the Czech lands using the methodological approaches of historiography and memory studies. Descendants of the Palliardi family still live in the Czech Republic today and some of its members, including myself, …
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Selections from SHADOWS OF CLOUDS ON THE MOUNTAINS
… of Clouds on the Mountains. These are stories of family, memory, suicide, mental illness, the sibling bond, marriage, children, divorce, and adulthood. These are stories of a life devoted to art and exploration.
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Scrimshaw
… texts—all of which trace one troubled family’s century-spanning story as it attempts to inhabit the unstable space of memory. The fragmentary quality of the work’s construction speaks to the way in which the family memory is lashed together from stories, snippets of overheard …
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Absent Presence: an exploration of memory and family through printmaking
… and linguistic metaphors help to conceptualise memory by reducing its physiological and philosophical complexities to a degree that allows its processes to be easily understood. Two commonly used metaphors are ‘memory as an imprint' and ‘memory as a photograph'. However, these metaphors ignore …
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Rekindling histories : families and British polar exploration
… in private, and probes the intersection between memory and history, family and nation. What people do is not necessarily unusual, but using a case-study allows for an appreciation of the extent to which their practices may be effective over extended periods of time . While words are important …
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The dead room : reflexivity, recursion and memory in the act of autobiographical scriptwriting
… PhD I intend to explore the themes of family, memory and time by researching and writing a feature-length screenplay that will draw on research into autobiographical scriptwriting, establishing a direct and substantive dialogue between my own practice and the work of other recent …
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EN PITHO TEN KERAMEIAN. ANALISI TIPOLOGICA, TECNOLOGICA E FUNZIONALE DEL PITHOS NELLA PEUCEZIA PREROMANA: IL CASO DI JAZZO FORNASIELLO (GRAVINA IN PUGLIA - BA)
… this ceramic artifact quickly became a symbol of family wealth. In an attempt to accurately understand how the large containers of Jazzo Fornasiello were used, Professor Silvia Bruni and her team from the Department of Chemistry at the University of Milan conducted specific investigations on …
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Black Lake
… grief and a physical place that has been in my family for generations. It is where we’ve spent time together. Where Grandma Tootie and Auntie Greta cooked a pancake and sausage breakfast I can still smell. Where we’ve spread ashes. To be consumed by grief is to jump into a black lake. Here I am …
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The Cult of Chinggis Khan in the Dayan Khanid Period
… published many works sharing their knowledge and family memory. In Ordos, in an area known as Eǰen Qoro'a (Mo. `Lord's Sanctuary'), the replicas of the shrine's physical artifacts, the originals of which were destroyed during the Cultural Revolution, are now the center-piece of a Museum, which is …
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Memory on the move: transnational travel in post-1989 German literature
… of travel, particularly in exploring traumatic family pasts. The transitional years of 1989/90, known as the Wende, have arguably resulted in greater mobility and Germans' turn to the future as a unified country. However, authors of the second generation, or those born at the end of or just …