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Showing 1 to 20 of 77 for “"regional identity"”.
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Fibroblast Regional Identity in the Murine Lymphoid System
… positional memory and help impart anatomical identity. An important implication of these findings is the effect this diversity may have in conveying site specificity to immune responses.
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Y'all eat: Foodways, performative regional identity, and the South in the twenty-first century
<p>"Y'all Eat: Foodways, Performative Regional Identity, and the South in the Twenty-first Century" examines the ways in which iconic Southerners--Jim Beam and his ilk, Colonel Harland Sanders, and Paula Deen--create and sustain the hypercontemporary South. Because of their media exposure and place …
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Framing Latin American Art: Artists, Critics, Institutions and the Configuration of a Regional Identity
… in the shaping of both a Latin American cultural identity and an expanded notion of the Americas. This expansion of Latin American art influences how artists represent themselves and how such production is actively being inserted into collections around the world.</p>
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Etrusco-Italic Hercle: A Study in the Formation of Image, Cult, and Regional Identity
… structure and meaning at both local and regional levels."
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Etrusco-Italic Herclé: a study in the formation of image, cult, and regional identity
… structure and meaning at both local and regional levels.
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The effect of borders on the linguistic production and perception of regional identity in Louisville, Kentucky
… borders of a dialect region and to what kinds of identity alignments can be found in such areas. This lack of attention to regional and dialect border identities is surprising, given the salience of such borders for many Americans. This salience is also ignored among dialectologists, as …
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Understanding the Construction of National and Regional Identity: Perceptions of One Another along the Bulgarian-Macedonian Border
… strong ethnic and cultural ties, view their regional, national and European identities. The study finds that individuals have developed a strong attachment to their national identity. Many Bulgarians hold a strong vision based on historic claims to the Bulgarian Kingdom. Many Bulgarians see …
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Émile-Antoine Bourdelle and the Midi: French sculpture and regional identity at the turn of the twentieth century
… while also considering the changing notions of regional identity in turn-of-the-century France. It covers the period 1884-1915 and examines Bourdelle’s sculpture, paintings, drawings, poetry, and letters. Interpretation of the artist’s work, as well as the way he reacted to new understandings of …
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The Southwest: A Study of Regional Identity in Material Culture and Textual Sources during the Eastern Han Dynasty (25 - 220 C.E.)
… examples of social and cultural memory and identity manifested in the art of the southwest, present-day Sichuan province, during the Eastern Han dynasty. Through the study of the southwest’s material culture, considered special for its distinct artistic style and content by scholars in the …
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Regionální identita obyvatelstva v česko-polském pohraničí : příklad Broumovska
9 Abstract The study deals with regional identity in Czech-Polish borderland. The Broumov region is an example of peripheral region which is suitable for research of forming of regional identity regarding its history (expulsion of Germans after World War II). This ressetled region is compared with …
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PERFECTION, WRETCHED, NORMAL, AND NOWHERE: A REGIONAL GEOGRAPHY OF AMERICAN TELEVISION SETTINGS
… dissertation examines the senses of place and regional identity shaped by more than seven hundred American television series that aired from 1947 to 2007. Each state's relative share of these programs is described. The geographic themes, patterns, and images from these programs are analyzed, …
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Narrating Black Hawk: Indian Wars, Memory, and Midwestern Identity
… process become readily enmeshed in notions of regional identity. Using the example of Black Hawk, a nineteenth-century Sauk leader, I illustrate how Native people are especially prone to both conscious and unconscious manipulation in historical memory---and incorporation into regional identity …
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Community attachment, sense of place, and attitudes toward tourism: a study of residents in the Mt. Rogers area of Southwest Virginia
… length of residence, local sentiment, local identity, and regional identity. Findings indicate that the four measures of place bonds may be measuring different types of attachments to place. Data analysis also reveals that there is not difference in concern for tourism impacts between long- …
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Alternative drainageway design: a case study analysis
… the ecosystem; and lost landscape legibility and regional identity. Strategies to solve these issues are varied, however most strategies include the following: reestablish ecosystem balance and function; increase wildlife and plant diversity; enhance and promote regional identity and landscape …
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"Marimba, por tí me muero": Region and Nation in Costa Rica, 1824-1939
Analyzing regional identity construction in the peripheral northwestern Costa Rican province of Guanacaste, and the creation of regionalist discourse and political organization in Costa Rica from the early twentieth century to 1939, this dissertation studies the historical dynamics between region …
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Lion-hearted Zezva: musical memorial at a funerary horse race
… culinary) within a broader conversation about regional identity, the politicization of memorial practices, and the utilization of musical performance as a means to both remember the past, and comment on the present and future.
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Ethno-nationalism and the Spanish state: a comparison of three regions in Spain
… ethnicity as the basis for individual and group identity. However, the persistence of ethnic activism, including autonomist and separatist movements in Western European countries. challenges the validity of that hypothesis. Equally significant, many attempts, historical and contemporary, to …
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