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Svanberg, Kerstin. "Bringing the history of fashion up-to-date; towards a model for temporal adatation in translation." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk och litteratur, SOL, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-22629.
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In cultural adaptation, the translator has a solid theoretical ground to stand upon; scholars have elaborated strategies that are helpful to this effect. However, there is little research, if any, to rely upon in the matter of temporal adaptation. The aim of this paper is to fill this gap. The primary data used in this translational study consists of an English source text that was published in 2008 and the resulting target text, translated to Swedish in 2012. Hence, in order for the target text to function in its time, there was a four-year long time gap to fill with accurate and relevant data and in a style that would not deviate from the author’s original intentions; the target text needed to be temporally adapted. In what follows, I will suggest a set of strategies for temporal adaptation. The model is elaborated with strategies for cultural adaptation as a starting point and based upon measures taken to relocate the target text to 2012. The suggested strategies are time bridging, updating, adjustment and omission. These four strategies make up the model that I put forward to bridge the theoretical gap that seems to prevail in the matter of temporal adaptation. However, considering that the data used in this study was relatively limited, the applicability of the strategies may be the scope of future studies.
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Lowrey, Brian. "The Forging of a Nation: Cultural and Political Scottish Unity in the Time of Robert the Bruce." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2020. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1707260/.
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While Scotland was politically unified before the First Scottish War of Independence (1296-1328), it was only nominally so. Scotland shared a rich cultural unity amongst the clans, and it was only through the invasion from England, and the war that followed, that Scotland found a true political unity under King Robert the Bruce. This thesis argues that Scotland had a shared cultural identity, including the way it waged war, and how it came to be united under one king who brought a sense of nationalism to Scotland.
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Swanepoel, Aletta Catharina. "Re-placing memories : time, space and cultural expression in Ivan Vladislavić's fiction / Aletta Catharina Swanepoel." Thesis, North-West University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/7749.
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Ivan Vladislavić’s fiction shows a preoccupation with the South African past in terms of both time
and space and with the influence of ideology on the interpretation of the past and of cultural
artefacts such as cityscapes, buildings, monuments, photographs, and fine art within the South
African context. No study has yet considered Vladislavić’s entire oeuvre in terms of the
interaction between time and space and their particular manifestation in concrete cultural
expressions that generate meaning that can only be recognized over time and within the limits
of different perspectives. In order to situate his work within such a paradigm, this thesis
discusses various theories on the representation of time and space and their application and
argues that Vladislavić represents concrete reality and abstract ideas about the past and
ideologies in an interrelated manner, in order to illuminate the ways in which concrete reality
influences perceptions of the past and its associated ideologies, but also how past and ideology,
in turn, influence how concrete reality is perceived. His fiction can thus be described as
exploring the complex dynamic between concrete and abstract.
Perspective plays an important role in his fiction in terms of both his representation of concrete
(city and artefacts) and abstract reality (past and ideology). Characters’ perspectives come into
play as they negotiate, create and interpret concrete and abstract reality, and in the light of how
they ‘see’ the world, their identities are shaped. Vladislavić shows that perspective is inevitably
blurred with ideological prejudice. He does so, in such a way, that a reader is often led to
reconsider her/his own way of perceiving both concrete and abstract.
Cultural artefacts, in particular, mediate perceptions of time and of place; they are (in)formed by
ideology and also have singular signifying possibilities and limitations. By drawing attention to
his own expression in language, by creating seemingly random lists, or focusing on the multiple
meanings of a word in a playful manner, Vladislavić shows that, like artefacts, language too is a
medium for mediation that is subject to and formative of ideology.Thesis (PhD (English))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2012.
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Newby, Alison Michelle. "'Women's sphere' and religious activity in America, 1800-1860 : dynamic negotiation of reality and meaning in a time of cultural distortion." Thesis, University of Manchester, 1992. http://www.manchester.ac.uk/escholar/uk-ac-man-scw:230201.
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The thesis uses the case study of the experience of middle-class northern white women in America during the period 1800-1860 to explore several issues of wider significance. Firstly, the research focuses upon the dynamic relationships between the culturally-constructed categories of public/formal and private/informal power and participation at both the practical and symbolic levels, suggesting ways in which they intersected on the lives of women. Secondly, consideration is given to the validity of the stereotyped view that 'domestic' women were necessarily disadvantaged and dominated relative to those who aspired to public political and economic roles. Thirdly, the relationship of religious belief to these two areas is discussed, in order to discover its relevance to the way in which women both perceived themselves and were perceived by others. In seeking to explore these issues, the research has analysed the patterns of social and cultural change in the era under question, indicating how those changes influenced the perceptions and experiences of both women and men. Their reactions in terms of discourse and activity are located as strategies of negotiation in redefining both social role and participation for the sexes. The rhetoric of 'separate spheres', which was used by men and women to order their mental and physical surroundings, is reduced to its symbolic constituents in order to illustrate that the distinction between male and female arenas was more perceptual than actual. The motivating forces behind the activities and ideas of women themselves are investigated to determine the role of religion in the construction of both female self-images and wider negotiational strategies. The context of nineteenth-century social dynamics has been revealed by detailed analysis of extensive primary sources originated by both women and men for private as well as public consumption. Feminist tools of analysis which enable the conceptualisation of 'meaningful discourse' as including female contributions have further enhanced the specific focus on how women constructed their own world-views and approaches to reality. 'Traditional' approaches and tools are shown to have seriously skewed and misrepresented the reality and variety of both discourse and female experience in the era. Great efforts have been made to allow women to speak in their own words. This has produced an insight into a richness of female social participation and discourse which would otherwise be obscured. The research indicates that women were indeed actors and negotiators during the period. Those women who advocated as primary the duties of women in the domestic and social arenas were by no means setting narrow limitations on female participation in both society and discourse. The religious impulses and eschatological frameworks derived by women (varied as they were) served to order and renegotiate reality and meaning, whilst they produced female roles and influence of great significance. Women were not passive victims of male oppression. Religion can thus be perceived as a positive force which women were able to approach both for its own sake, and for their own particular ends.
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Dearman, Vera. "The reality of time, history and life in the prose of Ivan Bunin." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 1999. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/14915/.
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The thesis focuses on two major aspects. Firstly, it offers a discussion of the evolution of the notion of 'historicity' in the thought of various Russian thinkers and cultural historians with particular reference to the ideas of Berdiaev, Bakhtin and Likhachev. It also addresses the problem of the contribution made to the twentieth-century humanities by the 'Slavonic Renaissance' of the early part of the twentieth century. Secondly, the work examines various views on the issue of historical time and its perception and representation in artistic work, focusing primarily on the specificity of artistic time in the prose of Ivan Bunin. The discussion of this issue is based on four of Bunin's substantial works (The Shadow of the Bird, The Life of Arsen 'ev The Emancipation of Tolstoi and Dark Avenues), examining the problem of historical time from semantic and formal points of view. The analysis of the novel The Life of Arsen 'ev emerges as central to the whole discussion since it approaches the problem of the notion of 'path through life' and its significance both for an understanding of Bunin's work and in relation to the discursive practice of the 1920s and early 1930s in Russia. Moreover, for Bunin this category proves to be both a feature of artistic thinking and of generic significance, extending the boundaries of understanding and portrayal of historical time in its various aspects.
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Jordan, John Frederick Dodge. "Legal culture in a turbulent time : law and society in early modern Saxony." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2013. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:08a01053-87e3-4310-a974-b194f516b692.
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This thesis reconstructs and interprets the evolution of legal culture in the Saxon city of Freiberg in the sixteenth century. It challenges the notion that early modern state institutions were punitive and disciplinary; and instead posits that in Saxony, they were flexible and sought to maintain social harmony. While previous scholarship has favoured a sociological approach, based on the concept of social control, this thesis employs a legal anthropological optic to study the interaction of state institutions and social life holistically. The focus is not just on how state institutions sought to regulate social life, but also on how ordinary people used institutions for their diverse purposes. The goal of this methodological approach, based on Lawrence Friedman’s concept of legal culture, is to assess the relative position and interaction of the people, the judiciary, and the law in early modern Germany. Probing the interactions of the court and the residents of Freiberg reveals that the court was primarily a record-keeper and a mediator. For the former, it logged and transcribed all manner of transactions: peace pacts, loans, and house purchases; and Freibergers readily turned to the court to get a formal record of an obligation. For the latter, the court was rarely a site of punishment, rather it was a place where conflicts were regulated, and bonds forged. At court, Freibergers fostered ties to one another. Neither of these roles, record-keeper or mediator, are ones traditionally ascribed to early modern courts. Only by considering by the culture of a court does either become apparent.
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Eugene, Nicole Christina. "POTENT SLEEP: THE CULTURAL POLITICS OF SLEEP." Connect to this title online, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=bgsu1151208257.
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Johnson, Stacey. "Taking pictures, making movies and telling time : charting the domestication of a producing and consuming visual culture in North America." Thesis, McGill University, 1998. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=35900.
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The dissertation examines how image-making, a common pastime, was made common. It investigates the ways in which the production and consumption of images in the context of the North American family contributed to the development of a distinctly domestic and privatized visual culture, and the transformation of the home into a site for privatized spectatorship.Four cultural forms (No. 1 Kodak, Box Brownie, Cine Kodak and Cine Kodak 8) are specified in this development, all pioneered by the Eastman Kodak Company. The dissertation traces Eastman Kodak's direct involvement in the popularization of image practices. It analyzes strategies used by them to make this possible, namely an appeal to the becoming lifestyles of the bourgeois and middle-classes.
The analysis links the popularization of image-making and consuming practices to other popular amusements (i.e. cycling, cinema-going) to work against an artifact-centred analysis. Issues of gender and generation are critically evaluated as concepts used to instill image-making as a popular, family practice. Shifts in modern temporal and spatial experience, as well as mobility are also explored in relation to popular image-making.
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Merrick, Meg. "Patterns of Time, Place, and Culture: Land Use Zoning in Portland, Oregon, 1918-1924." PDXScholar, 1998. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/2874.
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Until recently, few have questioned the notion that the separation of uses in land use zoning is inherently correct. Many observers of the city are now suggesting that zoning, as it has been practiced in this country over the last 80 years, has created cities that are fractured and function poorly. Others propose that zoning should be reconsidered as a remedy for urban dysfunction. They suggest that the whole notion of zoning be rethought.
The purpose of this study is to uncover some of the underlying rationales and methodologies that set the model for zoning. This study examines the rationales behind the classification and location of land use zones in a fast-growing area of Portland, Oregon, for its first zoning ordinance through history, culture, and geography.
Between 1919 and 1924, two ordinances were prepared using two very different methodologies. The first of these was designed by nationally known consultant, Charles H. Cheney, using the latest scientific methods. After its rejection in the polls, a second ordinance was developed by a prominent group of realtors in conjunction with the city planning commission using more intuitive methods. This “realtors’ code” (MacColl 1979) was approved by the Portland electorate in 1924. Some fifty years later, the Portland planning commission would identify zoning as having played a significant role in the deterioration of the Buckman neighborhood in the study area.
The comparison of the rationales and methods behind the locations of zone boundaries in both ordinances against the locations of actual uses in the study area, reveals the powerful influences of social Darwinism, laissez-faire attitudes, and newly developing social science methods on the association of zoning with the separation of uses and the land use patterns that were created.
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Viana, Josà Ãtalo Bezerra. "The many arts of Cariri: relations between tourism and cultural heritage in the 21st century." Universidade Federal do CearÃ, 2017. http://www.teses.ufc.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=19201.
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CoordenaÃÃo de AperfeiÃoamento de Pessoal de NÃvel SuperiorThe main research subjects of this dissertation are the relations between tourism and cultural heritage in setting discourses about time and the representations on a Cariri region cultural identity. The objective of this work is to analyse the touristic uses of cultural heritage aiming to the social and economic development of Cariri region at the beginning of 21st century. Starting in the 2000s, one notes that the patrimonialising processes engendered in Cariri were bound to projects of future that mobilized the cultural assets as touristic resources, putting them in temporal paces that sometimes drawn close to the past, associated to tradition, sometimes reaching to the future, associated with some aspects of the market integration of cultural heritage. This movement corresponded to social processes that singularized the present by means of deliberate strategies on the fabrication of traditions and the invention of practices and cultural values on which it was set as relevant in the elaboration of a sense of belonging. Developed from a group of documents â which embraces journals from the press, tourist guides and leaflets, reports of work, development projects from touristic sector, and others â, the issues on this work converge with the discussions carried out by Grupo de Estudos e Pesquisa em PatrimÃnio e MemÃria â GEPPM/UFC/CNPq, to which this research is associated. It aims to contribute to the debate related to the field of cultural heritage in Brazil.
As relaÃÃes entre turismo e patrimÃnio cultural na configuraÃÃo de discursos sobre o tempo e as representaÃÃes acerca de uma identidade cultural caririense sÃo os objetos de estudo desta tese. O objetivo do trabalho à analisar os usos turÃsticos do patrimÃnio cultural com vistas ao desenvolvimento sociocultural e econÃmico da regiÃo do Cariri no limiar do sÃculo XXI. A partir dos anos 2000, nota-se que os processos de patrimonializaÃÃo engendrados ali estiveram vinculados a projetos de futuro que mobilizavam os bens culturais enquanto recursos turÃsticos, inserindo-os nos ritmos de temporalidades que ora se aproximavam do passado, associado à tradiÃÃo, ora se dirigiam ao futuro, relacionado aos aspectos de inserÃÃo comercial do patrimÃnio. Esse movimento correspondeu a processos sociais de singularizaÃÃo do presente, mediante estratÃgias deliberadas de fabricaÃÃo de tradiÃÃes e invenÃÃo de prÃticas e valores culturais sobre os quais atribuiu-se relevante importÃncia na construÃÃo dos sentidos de pertencimento. Desenvolvidas a partir de um conjunto documental que abrange periÃdicos da impressa, guias e folderes de divulgaÃÃo turÃstica, relatÃrios de trabalho, projetos de desenvolvimento do setor do turismo, entre outras, as problemÃticas deste trabalho convergem com as discussÃes realizadas pelo Grupo de Estudos e Pesquisa em PatrimÃnio e MemÃria âGEPPM/UFC/CNPQ, no qual esta pesquisa vinculada, no intuito de contribuir com a reflexÃo em torno das questÃes relativas ao campo do patrimÃnio cultural no Brasil
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Schoone-Jongen, Terence G. "Tulip time, U. S. A. staging memory, identity and ethnicity in Dutch-American community festivals /." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1172255860.
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Tuma, Magda Madalena. "Trajetorias e singularidades de professoras das series iniciais : conhecimentos sobre o tempo historico." [s.n.], 2005. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/252080.
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Orientador: Ernesta ZamboniTese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Educação
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Byström, Christoffer. "Urmakarens undergång : En kulturhistorisk undersökning om urmakeriets utveckling och motgångar under 1900-talet." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper (KV), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-71015.
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The following study examines watchmakers and the watchmaking school in Sweden, how these changed during the 20th century. This is done through Geert Hofstede´s theory about levels of analyzes, his different steps to reach culture history. The source material of the study is based on public investigations, scientific articles, newspaper articles, literature and interviews. The purpose of this study is to reach and understand what and why changes occur in the world of watchmaking, and if the watchmaker managed to survive these changes during the 20th century. Results from the study confirm that very little has changed in the watchmaking school, they still use the same methods as they did 300 years ago. The watchmakers in Sweden showed that they had the durability and flexibility to survive several changes, even if the world was in motion during most of the 20th century.
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Parno, Travis Gordon. ""With the quiet sturdy strength of the folk of an older time": an archaeological approach to time, place-making, and heritage construction at the Fairbanks House, Dedham, Massachusetts." Thesis, Boston University, 2013. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/34331.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Boston UniversityHistoric houses function as the stages for, and central figures in, processes of place-making and heritage construction. I offer the case site of the Fairbanks House (completed in 1641) in Dedham, Massachusetts as the subject of my investigation into these issues. Touted as the "oldest timber frame house in North America," the Fairbanks House is widely regarded as a significant example of early colonial architecture in the United States; it has operated as a house museum since it was purchased by the Fairbanks Family in America, Inc. stewardship group in 1904. This study expands beyond antiquity to include all eight generations of Fairbanks families who lived on the property. I argue that longevity, and a durational perspective that links the past with the present, is equally vital to peoples' understanding and appreciation. I trace the biography of the Fairbanks House from its creation in the early 17th century to its current use as a heritage site. This perspective emphasizes the continued saliency of accumulated individual decisions and actions, reified by both material culture and immaterial processes such as tradition and memory. I use archaeological, architectural, documentary, and oral sources to reconstruct the landscape of the Fairbanks farm and I demonstrate how residents made day-to-day choices, such as land purchases or neighborly socializing, to improve their socio-economic standing and establish a future for their children. In doing so for eight generations, they established a legacy that was celebrated beginning in the 19th century, when Fairbanks women living in the house promoted their family's history through storytelling and published media. These processes of heritage construction remain continuous and personal, as shown by the results of an ethnographic study that I designed, which reveals that Fairbanks House museum visitors define historicity not through specific facts about the Fairbanks family but through their own narratives based on their engagement with the site's material culture. In addition to providing an important example of how generations of modestly-successful New England farmers adapted their surroundings to fit their values and goals, this study positions local house museums as dynamic spaces for creative, personal engagements with the past.
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Machado, Sibeli Cardoso Borba. "Maracajá em foco: reflexões acerca das experiências de educação patrimonial do Centro Histórico Cultural Avetti Paladini Zilli Museu Municipal do Trabalho em Maracajá, SC." Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina, 2010. http://tede.udesc.br/handle/handle/1498.
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This dissertation, constructed to the light of the History of the Present Time, has as its objective to analyze how the city of Maracajá/SC, supporting itself in proposals of Patrimonial Education, has glimpsed and, therefore, tracing, lines of performance to take care politics of democratization of its cultural patrimony. For this research, three concepts had grounded this investigation under the context of the dissemination and the acceleration of preservation actions and valorization of the cultural patrimony in the present time: the systematization of actions directed to the preservation of the maracajaense patrimony, that had culminated with the creation of the Cultural Historical Center Avetti Paladini Zilli in the year of 2004, which receives the Municipal Museum of the Work; the adoption of the boarding of Patrimonial Education by the museum, with intention to guide the proposals of educational actions and the activities developed for it in its partnerships with other institutions of education and the community; the interpretative description of the set of developed educational activities between the years of 2004 and 2009 by the museum, in partnership with the municipal schools of Maracajá, that glimpse how the Municipal Museum of Work has managed possibilities of access to the patrimony, in the search for the promotion of citizenship and autonomy
Esta dissertação, construída à luz da História do Tempo Presente, tem por objetivo analisar como o município de Maracajá/SC, apoiando-se em propostas de Educação Patrimonial, tem vislumbrado e, por conseguinte, traçado, linhas de atuação para atender políticas de democratização de seu patrimônio cultural. Para esta pesquisa, três motes balizaram a investigação dadas sob o contexto da disseminação e do aceleramento de ações de preservação e de valorização do patrimônio cultural no presente: a sistematização de ações voltadas à preservação do patrimônio maracajaense, que culminaram com a criação do Centro Histórico Cultural Avetti Paladini Zilli no ano de 2004, o qual acolhe o Museu Municipal do Trabalho; a adoção de atividades de Educação Patrimonial pelo museu, com o intuito de orientar as propostas de ação educativa e as atividades desenvolvidas por ele em suas parcerias com outras instituições de ensino e com a comunidade; a descrição interpretativa do conjunto de atividades educativas desenvolvidas entre os anos de 2004 e 2009 pelo museu, em parceria com as escolas da rede municipal de ensino de Maracajá, que vislumbram como o Museu Municipal do Trabalho tem gestado possibilidades de acesso ao patrimônio, na busca pela promoção de cidadania e autonomia
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Netto, Sebastiao Leal Ferreira Vargas. "A mística da resistência: culturas, histórias e imaginários rebeldes nos movimentos sociais latino-americanos." Universidade de São Paulo, 2007. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8138/tde-12022008-112052/.
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Esta tese analisa aspectos da cultura política de dois movimentos populares latinoamericanos: o Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST) e a guerrilha mexicana do Exército Zapatista de Libertação Nacional (EZLN). Conseqüente com o desafio intelectual de construir um conhecimento crítico e de situar a relação histórica entre luta e consciência social, decifrando no emaranhado de vontades da cena histórica as possibilidades e a eficácia da utopia camponesa e indígena gestada na adversidade de séculos de dominações e \"resistências transformadoras\", este estudo pretende verificar, pela análise das complexas tradições históricas e ideológicas desses movimentos, qual a relação da radicalidade da luta com fatores culturais diversos. Utilizando diversos suportes documentais e a observação da vida cotidiana, tento reconstituir e refletir sobre o processo de criação de uma \"nova cultura política\" que contribui para a emergência de projetos e atitudes políticas que \"organizam a esperança e a rebeldia\" articulando e mesclando modernidade e tradição. A partir de uma abordagem do imaginário político-ideológico (mas também utópico-poético) analiso e comparo os discursos e memórias, os princípios, a religiosidade, a ritualística e a \"mística\" presente nesses movimentos a fim de rastrear \"afinidades\", convergências e divergências na cultura política que emerge do campo latinoamericano. Sugiro que um estudo em perspectiva temporal de larga duração possa ajudar na compreensão destes movimentos rebeldes que têm na utilização da memória histórica e dos seus símbolos \"ativadores\" de subjetividades que impulsionam suas práticas.This theses analyses aspects of the political culture of two Latin American popular movements: the Brazil´s Landless Workers Movement (MST) and the Mexican guerrilla of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN). Besides it presents two objectives I´d like to discuss in particular. The first one is the intellectual challenge to build up a critical knowledge and to point out the historical relationship between fight and social conscience. The second one is how to decipher, in the confusion of wills of the historical scene, the possibilities and the efficiency of the peasant and indian utopia to overcome the many adversities got in centuries of domination and transforming resistances. Therefore this study intends to show through the analysis of the complex historical traditions and the ideology of these movements what is the relationship between the radicalism of the fight and diverse cultural factors. Using not only varied documentary supports but also the observation of the daily life, I reconstitute and reflect on the process of creation of a new political culture that contributes for the emergency of projects and political attitudes that organize the hope and the revolt as well the way they articulate and mix modernity with tradition. From a point of view that deals with not only what people think about ideological principles but also utopian and poetic ones, I analyze and compare the speeches and the memories; the religiosity, the rituals and the mysticism present in these movements in order to detect affinities, convergences and divergences in the political culture that emerge from the Latin American countryside. In my conclusion I hope that a secular perspective study of wide duration may enrich the understanding of these rebellious movements that make of its historical memory and of its symbols a propeller of subjectivity that stimulates its existence.
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Mehret, Rafael de Castro. "A COLÔNIA CECÍLIA ENQUANTO ELEMENTO DE ANÁLISE PARA A COMPREENSÃO DA HISTÓRIA LOCAL A PARTIR DO JORNAL GAZETA DE PALMEIRA: UM RECORTE DOS ANOS 1990 – 1991 / 2003 / 2015 – 2016." Universidade Estadual de Ponta Grossa, 2018. http://tede2.uepg.br/jspui/handle/prefix/2704.
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O presente trabalho tem por finalidade a busca em perceber a relevância da história local e especificamente da Colônia Cecília e sua ideologia norteadora para a construção da memória histórica da cidade Palmeira-Pr. Desta maneira, a realização do trabalho se dá através da análise do jornal “Gazeta de Palmeira”, entre os anos de 1990 – 1991 (período que incorpora o centenário da Colônia), 2003 (ano da formação da rota rural “Caminhos da Cecília”) e também entre os anos de 2015 - 2016 (período da inauguração oficial do Memorial da Colônia Cecília e da retomada do projeto da rota da Colônia), os quais foram selecionados devido a ligação com momentos específicos da história da Colônia Cecília. Buscamos, enfim, através desta análise compreender como a sociedade de Palmeira vai ressignificar a experiência da Colônia Cecília. Para isso, associamos a visão do Jornal com as atitudes da comunidade e do Estado em seu esforço para resgate e preservação deste evento enquanto componente formativo fundamental para o entendimento da história local.
The present paper aims to perceive the relevance of the local history, specifically, Colonia Cecília’s and its guiding ideology for the construction of the historical memory of the city of Palmeira -PR. Thus, the work’s accomplishment is done through the analysis of the newspaper “Gazeta de Palmeira” in the years between 1990-1991 (period which incorporates the Colony’s centennial), 2003 (year of “Caminhos da Cecília” rural route’s formation) and also between the years 2015-2016 (period of the official inauguration of Colonia Cecília’s Memorial and the and the retake from the Colony’s route project), such years were selected for its connection to specific moments of Colonia Cecilia. Finally, through this analysis we aim to comprehend how the society of Palmeira will reframe Cecilia Colony’s experience. To achieve it, we associated de Newspaper’s view with the attitudes of the community and the State in its effort to recall and preserve such event as a fundamental formative component to understand the local history.
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Smith, Abigail A. "A Footpath through Time and Space: The Emergence of Trail Culture along the Appalachian and Sierra Nevada Ranges, 1876-1916." Fogler Library, University of Maine, 2006. http://www.library.umaine.edu/theses/pdf/SmithAA2006.pdf.
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Finnen, Patrick Joseph. ""Strange Times:" The Language of Illness and Malaise in Interwar France." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1398089945.
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Bueno, Eric Allen. "Uma história visual da nudez e sensualidade feminina na revista O Cruzeiro (1966-1970)." Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina, 2012. http://tede.udesc.br/handle/handle/1426.
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How have the female nudity and sensuality become common visualities in Brazilian Visual Culture? Starting from this question, this research analyzes how women were represented in photo reports in O Cruzeiro magazine during a key moment, the late 1960s. In this period the naked and sensual female body is gaining space in the media along with discussions regarding issues such as divorce and greater sexual freedom. In this research, the team of reporters from O Cruzeiro is presented, ranging from Indalecio Wanderley (the "photographer of misses") to the eclectic Ubiratan Lemos, showing not only how the girls were naked by the photographic eye, but also what was said about them and how it was said. In addition, it is also contemplated the passage of Stanislaw Ponte Preta in the magazine, focusing on one of his creations, the "certinhas" (literally "the right little female ones"), beautiful girls photographed in sexy poses by the photographer Augusto Valentin
Como é que a nudez e sensualidade feminina se tornaram visualidades comuns na Cultura Visual brasileira? Partindo desta problemática, a presente pesquisa analisa a forma como as mulheres foram representadas em fotorreportagens na revista O Cruzeiro em um momento chave, o fim dos anos 1960. Período em que o corpo nu e sensual feminino vai ganhando espaço na mídia e ao mesmo tempo em que se discute a questão do divórcio e da maior liberdade sexual. Na pesquisa, são contemplados a equipe de repórteres de O Cruzeiro e que vai desde Indalécio Wanderley (o "fotógrafo das misses") até o eclético Ubiratan Lemos, mostrando não só como as garotas eram despidas pelo olhar fotográfico, mas também, o que se falava sobre elas e como falavam. Além disso é contemplada a passagem de Stanislaw Ponte Preta na revista, enfocando uma de suas criações, as "Certinhas", lindas garotas fotografadas em poses sensuais pelo fotógrafo Augusto Valentin
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Friberg, Anna. "Demokrati bortom politiken : En begreppshistorisk analys av demokratibegreppet inom Sveriges socialdemokratiska arbetareparti 1919–1939." Doctoral thesis, Mittuniversitetet, Avdelningen för humaniora, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-17674.
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This dissertation analyzes the concept of democracy as it was used in the official rhetoric of the Swedish SocialDemocratic Party (SAP ) between 1919 and 1939. Theoretically, the dissertation relies on German Begriffsgeschichte, as put forward by Reinhart Koselleck, and Michael Freeden’s theory of ideologies. Together, by supplementing each other, these theories offer a perspective in which concepts are thought of as structures that are under contestation and change due to socio-political circumstances. However, the formulation of this change takes place in relation to the linguistic praxis of each time-period, and renegotiates the relative constraints of established relations between concepts in language. The analysis shows that the profound changes in society provided impetus for a continuous renegotiation of meanings, allowing concepts to retain their explanatory power under changing circumstances, at the same time the SAP needed new ways to express what kind of society the party strived to realize. The SAP had been one of the leading forces in the struggle for universal suffrage, and when the bill, giving universal suffrage to men andwomen, was passed in the Parliament 1919 this meant a temporary cessation to a long and intensive political debate. However, the SAP did not consider the introduction of suffrage reform as the end of full societal democratization. Rather than seeing the reform as a terminal point, the SAP saw it as the starting point for the struggle for full democracy. The SAP did not limit itself to only one concept of democracy but instead used a number of composite concepts, such as political democracy and economic democracy. The use of composite concepts can be understood as a changing temporalization of democracy. Since parliamentarism and suffrage were seen as central components in democracy, the realization of these institutions meant that the concept of democracy lost its future dimension. Thus, the usage of composite concepts should be seen as a re-temporalization of democracy. The composite concepts pointed forward in time, toward political goals that the SAP envisaged realizing in the future. Concepts should not be thought of as having cores but rather, as suggested by Freeden, ineliminable features. An ineliminable feature is not of logical nature but has a strong cultural adjacency. By analyzing the ineliminable components of the concepts of democracy that the SAP used, it is possible to discuss whether the composite concepts should be understood as subsets of a whole or as separate concepts. The analysis shows that the composite concepts that the SAP used during the first half of the 1920s shared a number of ineliminable features, but that the commonality of these features started to disintegrate during the latter half of the decade, leading to a rather diversive concept of democracy. During the 1930s the disintegration ceased as the party was faced with new circumstances, for example the growing threat of international war and national clashes between different social groups. There has always been a close relation between language and society. However, the relationship does not follow a simple and clear-cut logic but a complex mixture of various factors at different levels, both within language itself and of society. When society develops, language also has to change if the ongoing process is to be understood. As this study shows, new circumstances require new argumentsand thus revised concepts.
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Ryan, Mackenzie Anne. "An Analysis of National Football League Fandom and Its Promotion of Conservative Cultural Ideals About Race, Religion, and Gender." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1343359916.
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Craig, Martin Jean Carol. ""In memory of" Chelsea's historic cemeteries: Community institutions from pioneer times to the present." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0002/MQ45209.pdf.
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Watson, Kelly L. "Encountering Cannibalism: A Cultural History." Connect to this title online, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=bgsu1149995164.
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Norman, Will. "Nabokov, Time and History." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.487029.
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This thesis investigates the relationship between the operation of time in the fiction of Vladimir Nabokov, and the historical moments in which his works are situated. Nabokov himself denied any connection between his art and history, writing that he was 'indifferent to social problems and to the intrusions of history.' I argue that the characteristic manipulations and distortions of time in his writing are the principle means by which he asserts this aesthetic autonomy, and that, far from ignoring or repressing history, Nabokov's fiction should be understood as responding to it. I begin by interrogating Nabokov's resistance to notions of modernism and modernity and trace the development of his ideal, ahistorical model of literary evolution from its sources in nineteenth-century English, I:rench and Russian literary debates. My second chapter examines how his first English novel, The Real Life ofSebastian Knight, constitutes a response to a perceived crisis in autonomous fiction during the 1930s in Europe and the Soviet Union. In chapter 3 I read Nabokov's autobiography, Speak, Memory alongside the critical writings of Walter Benjamin in order to evaluate Nabokov's strategies for creating a 'historyless time.' Chapter 4 proposes a reading of Bend Sinister and the short story 'Tyrants Destroyed,' in which the struggle for autonomy is played out through rival claims to temporal mastery from the artist and from the totalitarian regime. In chapter 5, I explore Nabokov's ambivalent engagement with decadent forms of temporality in The Enchanter and Lolita in the context of postwar American anxieties about literary and social history. Finally, chapter 6 turns to Nabokov's 1960s fiction, Pale Fire and Ada, in order to suggest how the author's use of the pastoral genre in these works constitutes an attempt to delineate an ideal artistic world, into which historical time inevitably intrudes.
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Machado, Elaine Cristina. "Em nome da fé e do pároco: memórias e experiências religiosas em Guaramirim/SC (décadas de 1950, 1960 e 1970)." Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina, 2012. http://tede.udesc.br/handle/handle/1429.
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This work was built through the memories of people who lived during the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s in Guaramirim/SC and sought to highlight the religious experiences reported by these subjects. These religious experiences from the arrival of Father Mathias, a Catholic priest in the city are to be re-signified, since the power relations have become more consistent and clear, imposing a normalizing condition for the faithful of this denomination. The disclosures of memories dealing with religious experiences and their consequences in Guaramirim/SC appear in phrases translated and refracted, smiles, pauses and silences, but are accompanied by missings, estrangements, concordances and gaps. Neighborly relations, the spaces of sociability, religious obligations, prohibitions and community life were reported by subjects who sought to tell us about their readings and appropriations of the city, making it possible to identify the assignment of meanings to these readings and experiments. The intention to take the memory as a main agenda of the reflections presented here is also linked to a movement led by the desire to remember, this movement is closely related to one of our interviewees worked largely for the construction of an official version of the Guaramirim story, which necessarily involves the appreciation of Fr Mathias in this version. Thus, it was possible to identify a tension between the memories of the interviwees and the intention of memory that integrates the city's history to the history of Father Mathias. This movement shows this process in the patrimonialization of Father Mathias, and offers a version of a past priest which turns him into a vital subject to the organization of public life and growth of the city
O presente trabalho foi construído através das memórias de pessoas que viveram, durante as décadas de 1950, 1960 e 1970, em Guaramirim/SC, e procura colocar em evidência as experiências religiosas relatadas por esses sujeitos. Essas experiências religiosas, a partir da chegada de Pe. Mathias, pároco católico, na cidade, passam a ser ressignificadas, uma vez que as relações de poder se tornaram mais consistentes e evidentes, impondo uma condição normatizadora para os fiéis dessa denominação. As evidenciações das memórias que tratam das experiências religiosas e de seus desdobramentos em Guaramirim/SC aparecem traduzidas e refratadas em frases, sorrisos, pausas e silêncios, porém estão acompanhadas de saudosismos, estranhamentos, concordâncias e lacunas. As relações de vizinhança, os espaços de sociabilidades, as obrigações religiosas, as proibições e a vida em comunidade foram narradas por sujeitos que procuraram nos contar suas leituras e apropriações da cidade, tornando-se possível identificar a atribuição de sentidos e significados para essas leituras e experiências. A intenção de tomar a memória como pauta principal das reflexões presentes neste estudo está ligada também a um movimento provocado pelo desejo de lembrar, a esse movimento relaciona-se intimamente um de nossos entrevistados, que colaborou em grande medida para a construção de uma versão oficial da história de Guaramirim, que necessariamente passa pela valorização de Pe. Mathias nessa versão. Nesse sentido, foi possível identificar uma tensão entre as memórias dos entrevistados e a intenção de memória que integra a história da cidade à trajetória de Pe. Mathias. Esse movimento evidencia no presente o processo de patrimonialização de Pe. Mathias, e na medida em que oferta uma versão de um passado transforma o pároco em sujeito indispensável para a organização da vida pública e para o crescimento da cidade
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Wagner, Christoph. "Crossing the line : the English press and Anglo-German football, 1954-1996." Thesis, De Montfort University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2086/11113.
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The primary focus of this thesis is on representations of Germany and Germans in the sports pages of English newspapers from the mid-1950s to the mid-1990s, when EURO 96 generated press coverage that prompted much comment and criticism, both in England and in Germany. Studies focusing on media representations from the mid 1990s onwards, such as those by Maguire, Poulton and Possamai (1999), Garland and Rowe (1999) and Garland (2004) have been helpful in deconstructing the language used by football journalists and in identifying negative national stereotyping. More recently, however, Ramsden (2007) and Young (2007) have developed our understanding of Anglo-German cultural relations and how they have changed since 1945. In the light of these recent developments this thesis seeks, firstly, to analyse the discourses embedded within the ‘Two World Wars and One World Cup’ meta-narrative which has characterized press coverage of Anglo-German football since international fixtures between the two countries were resumed in 1954 and, secondly, to contextualize them in the broader history of Anglo-German cultural relations and how they developed over the forty years or so that followed. Though drawing on some insights from both cultural and media studies the methodology employed is essential historical. This does not mean, however, that press reports and comment are regarded as unproblematic primary sources. Recent methodological approaches the history of sport, notably by Booth (2005) and Hill (2006), have pointed to the importance of viewing such sources as texts which are thus open to deconstruction. A complementary emphasis on historical context is nevertheless justified, principally because it is important to explain variations that have occurred over time. Though there were some similarities in the way that Anglo-German football was covered in 1954 and 1996 – and at various points in between - there are also striking differences which it is argued here are primarily explained by conditions prevailing at the particular historical junctures at which representations were generated. The relationship which existed between Britain and the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s was significantly different to that which existed between Britain and re-unified Germany in the 1990s. This was an important contingent factor and helps to explain variations in the deployment of journalistic discourses over the years. Thus this thesis breaks new ground in that it emphasizes the historical contextualization of representations over a long period and seeks to counter any tendency to look backwards from the viewpoint of the mid 1990s. The discussion proceeds chronologically from the 1950s to the 1990s in order to demonstrate variations in the way that discourses were deployed over the years. Thus the representations generated provide a way of reading the state of underlying Anglo-German relations at any given point. One chapter is devoted to the 1966 World Cup Final on account of its significance in press discourses relating to Anglo-German football and in what is popularly referred to in England as the 'thirty/forty years of hurt' that followed. Whereas academic attention in relation to football-related representations has previously concentrated on the downmarket tabloid press, this study is equally concerned with quality and middlemarket titles. Thus The Times and the Daily Express are considered alongside the Daily Mirror and the Sun. Finally – and in contrast to previous accounts which have considered the English press in isolation – a chapter on German newspaper coverage (principally Bild, Die Welt and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung) has been included to allow some comparisons to be made and to point to directions in which future research might be pursued.
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Marris, Alan David. "The cultural history of the werewolf." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.260040.
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Gee, Lindsay Mary. "Lydia : a cultural and social history." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1993. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:3ab35d75-60de-4739-81ad-5e4e8dfb912a.
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A date-chart of significant periods and events from the third millennium BC to the seventh century AD prefaces the work. The text's chronological span runs from the heyday of the Mermnad kingdom to that of the Roman Empire, and the primary emphasis is on giving a narrative of the country's development under Greek influence: a wide range of literary and archaeological material is employed to this end. The thesis is divided into six parts: the first deals with geographical notices in such authors as Strabo and Pliny; the second chronicles the Mermnad period, between the seventh and sixth centuries, with particular reference to contacts with the Ionian Greeks; the third describes Lydian experiences during the ensuing period of Persian hegemony, between the sixth and fourth centuries; the fourth, covering the sequel to Alexander's takeover, focusses on the culminating stages of Hellenization, discussing Sardis' Hellenistic period and the Seleukid and Attalid foundations in the countryside. The fifth part discusses the village communities, over an extended period as the topic warrants: inscriptions of the Roman period predominate, and are incorporated on the grounds that a broader panorama is thereby achieved, and that the patterns delineated will have changed only slowly and are anyway of relevance for the Hellenized country's continuing history. The sixth part, on religion native and foreign, deals with the relevant inscriptions and literature, charting the progressive influence of Persian and Greek cult but also the surviving Anatolian elements. Appendices follow on the evidence for the process of change in language use from Lydian to Greek, on Maionia and the Heraklidai, and on Mycenaean contacts, together with a catalogue of the numismatic sources for religious history. Maps and sketch-plans accompany the text at appropriate points.
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Micaković, Elizabeth Joan. "T.S. Eliot's voice : a cultural history." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/18902.
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This thesis is a diachronic account of T. S. Eliot’s speaking voice, which, over fifty years, developed into the meticulously crafted tool of the twentieth-century author and critic and the politically and socially powerful instrument of the public intellectual. Eliot’s voice, although certainly the offspring of the nineteenth-century marriage of authorship as a bona fide profession and oral performance, was, however, unique in its responsiveness to twentieth-century legal and political debates on national identity and stability, copyright, and the powerful potential of recording technologies to both disseminate an author’s words almost exponentially whilst simultaneously encroaching on the traditional material of authorship: print. Indeed, what underpins this thesis is the argument that he was both fascinated by and actively involved in shaping those very discourses on the authority of the spoken voice in the belief that the power of the spoken word, and ultimately of his own voice, held an unrivalled ability to impact on social behaviour and national stability.
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Ford, Marcia. "Una historia cultural de LatinoAmerica : a cultural history of Latin America /." [Rohnert Park, Calif.], 2003. http://members.aol.com/latinowebquest/Index.html.
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Scannell, John School of Media Film & Theatre UNSW. "James Brown: apprehending a minor temporality." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. School of Media, Film and Theatre, 2006. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/26955.
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This thesis is concerned with popular music's working of time. It takes the experience of time as crucial to the negotiation of social, political or, more simply, existential, conditions. The key example analysed is the funk style invented by legendary musician James Brown. I argue that James Brown's funk might be understood as an apprehension of a minor temporality or the musical expression of a particular form of negotiation of time by a minor culture. Precursors to this idea are found in the literature of the stream of consciousness style and, more significantly for this thesis, in the work of philosopher Gilles Deleuze on the cinema in his books Cinema 1: The Movement-Image and Cinema 2: The Time-Image. These examples are all concerned with the indeterminate unfolding of lived time and where the reality of temporal indeterminacy will take precedence over the more linear conventions of traditional narrative. Deleuze???s Cinema books account for such a shift in emphasis from the narrative depiction of movement through time the movement-image to a more direct experience of the temporal the time-image, and I will trace a similar shift in the history of popular music. For Deleuze, the change in the relation of images to time is catalysed by the intolerable events of World War II. In this thesis, the evolution of funk will be seen to reflect the existential change experienced by a generation of African-Americans in the wake of the civil-rights movement. The funk groove associated with the music of James Brown is discussed as an aesthetic strategy that responds to the existential conditions that grew out of the often perceived failure of the civil rights movement in the 1960s. Funk provided an aesthetic strategy that allowed for the constitution of a minor temporality, involving a series of temporal negotiations that eschew more hegemonic, common sense, compositions of time and space. This has implications for the understanding of much of the popular music that has followed funk. I argue that the understanding of the emergence of funk, and of the contemporary electronic dance music styles which followed, would be enhanced by taking this ontological consideration of the experiential time of minorities into account. I will argue that funk and the electronic dance musics that followed might be seen as articulations of minority expression, where the time-image style of their musical compositions reflect the post-soul eschewing of a narratively driven, common sense view of historical time.
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Patterson, Ian. "Cultural critique and canon formation, 1910-1937 : a study in modernism and cultural memory." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1997. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/244805.
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This thesis argues that one of the tasks of literary hiStory is to identify and challenge the processes by which writers who were once highly valued come to be forgotten and excluded from the canon. I investigate the work and cultural milieu of three such writers: Douglas Goldring, John Rodker and Mary Butts. The first chapter sets the terms of the argument, and presents the grounds for a reconfiguration of the conventional historical view of modernism. The second examines the early wor~ of Douglas Goldring: his achievements as editor of The Tramp are related to its cultural and historical situation; I then turn to the history of conscientious objection in the First World War in order to explore the politics of his 1917 novel The Fortune, and to provide historical material necessary for the later reading of Rodker's Memoirs of Other Fronts. This leads on to a discussion of some of his subsequent political novels and plays. In the third and fourth chapters, I analyse the work of John Rodker, from his adolescence in the East End of London to his maturity, first in relation to modernist dance and theatrical experiments in London during the first war, and later to avant-garde writing in England and France in the 1920s, particularly as it draws upon psycho-analysis. The fifth chapter examines the novels of Mary Butts, particularly Ashe of Rings, which is read as a war-novel, but one which makes constructive use of her interest in the occult. What this category meant during that period is also investigated, which allows me to formulate a broader argument that situates her work within a tradition that takes fantasy seriously, while remaining critical of the conceptual framework of psycho-analysis. I follow this up by showing the later importance of unconscious anti-semitism to her capacity to elaborate an ecological nationalism. The final chapter examines anti-semitism and satire in the relationship between Rodker and Wyndham Lewis, and offers a further explanatory justification for the argument of the thesis.
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Hatherell, William. "A cultural history of Brisbane 1940-1970 /." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2003. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe17644.pdf.
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Armstrong, Christopher. "Placing Atlantic Canada, community, cultural history, politics." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape11/PQDD_0020/NQ43463.pdf.
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Driscoll, P. M. "A cultural history of Wiltshire, 1750-1800." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.598655.
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This thesis constructs the first integrated cultural history of a county as a unit for the eighteenth century. Surveying a diversity of environments, urban and rural, this study emphasises the variety of cultural activities and contexts within a single English county. Such a detailed study of a whole county – not just major towns – brings geography to the fore, recognising the importance of not only ‘natural’, but also human, geography – in the form of communications networks, urban planning, and local economies – in shaping provincial cultural life in the eighteenth century. The thesis mines a rich seam of source material including local newspapers, books, diaries and correspondence to explore five central aspects of Wiltshire’s cultural life. Each of the chapters – on religion, sociability, sport, the theatre, and music – reveals important details of English provincial life, from religious, social, and economic imperatives to leisure pursuits and pastimes. Together, the chapters form a detailed case study of Wiltshire’s own cultural life and the provincial county’s relations with regional, national, and metropolitan social and cultural influences. Because of its breadth of focus and the diversity of its sample, this thesis creates a body of material that is used to analyse key themes in the historiography of eighteenth-century society and culture. The thesis thus employs its empirical geographical basis to interrogate concepts and models such as class, commercialisation, politeness and the urban renaissance, and to evaluate the way these developments played themselves out on the ground in Wiltshire. The county history therefore not only extends historians’ knowledge of local provincial culture and society, but contributes to an understanding of eighteenth-century English culture at large.
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Stevens, Charlotte. "Snapshots from the cultural history of taste." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.416724.
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This thesis explores the cultural, or literary history of taste as a social construct. Taking the mid-eighteenth century as its starting point, the thesis adopts an historicist approach to five very particular texts from this vast history. It begins by focusing on three novels: firstly, Henry Fielding's Tom Jones (1749) which was published at a time when there was increasing pressure to create `standards' of taste; secondly, Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility (1811) which belongs to a moment that scrutinised these `standards'; and thirdly, Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist (1837), which reflects an era in which taste is driven by commercial forces. The final chapters explore a significant twentieth-century development in the history of taste: namely, the adaptation of text into film. Here, David Lean's Oliver Twist (1948) and Tony Richardson's Tom Jones (1963) become the focus for close investigation. I argue that Lean's Oliver Twist very much belongs to a post-war Britain in which the acquisition of taste was part of a wider framework for maintaining national and social cohesion. Richardson's Tom Jones, I argue, must be read in relation to the cultural revolutions in tastet hat dominatedth e early 1960s.
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Downes, Aviston Decourcei. "Barbados 1880-1914 : a socio-cultural history." Thesis, University of York, 1994. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/14001/.
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Price, David Charles. "History matching hydromechanical models using time-lapse seismic time-shifts." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2018. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/21733/.
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Although time-lapse seismic data has been used to great success in the history matching of reservoir fluid properties (i.e. saturation in reservoir simulators), it has been used far less effectively for benchmarking geomechanical behaviour. The reason for this is twofold. Firstly, hydromechanical models are typically large, complex and highly nonlinear with considerably large runtimes. Secondly, isolating and extracting quantifiable mechanical information from seismic data is difficult. However, by not attempting to utilise numerical history matching techniques, are we making the most out of the geomechanical information stored in time-lapse seismic data? In this Thesis I have attempted to answer this question by conducting a synthetic history matching study. I generate a hydromechanical model of a typical high pressure high temperature production scenario in the North Sea and utilise seismic history matching in an attempt to constrain the properties of the overburden and improve the models predictive capabilities. The study focuses primarily on overburden calibration as overburden timeshifts are not complicated by fluid effects, as in the reservoir, and hence can be considered as a purely geomechanical effect. Also the matching process is attempted utilising only a small, feasible number of model perturbations. Before seismic history matching can be successfully attempted it is important to have an in depth working knowledge of the model behaviour. Therefore, I conduct a multi-method Global Sensitivity Analysis (GSA) on over 4000 model perturbations, to evaluate the potential geomechanical information content of seismic time-shifts. Specifically, which model parameters cause the majority of the variation to overburden time-shifts. The results show that the majority of the variation in modelled shifts can be attributed to the Young's Modulus and Biot coefficient. These parameters appear the most influential for both near-offset time-shifts and the time-shift offset behaviour. However, the Poisson's ratio also becomes influential when considering the time-shift offset behaviour at long offsets. The results of the GSA also highlight that the over-parametrisation of material properties in the model can lead to unnecessary complexity in the model space. The simplification of complex rock properties (i.e. simplification of nonlinear relationships to single constants) will not significantly affect model performance whilst making seismic history matching more achievable. A robust history matching study also requires the consideration of all forms of uncertainty. One of the main causes of uncertainty in the process is that of the relationship between effective stress and seismic velocity i.e. the rock physics model. I analyse a handful of the most popular rock physics models and assess their behaviour and stability when applied to a large dry core dataset of different lithologies. The results show that most models are robust, well constrained and do a suitably good job at fitting velocity-stress data taken from core samples in a laboratory environment. However, slight discrepancies between different model approximations for the same core sample can cause significantly different time-lapse velocity predictions. The results also show that models are difficult to parameterise without the availability of velocity-stress core data. Attempting to do so can lead to even greater discrepancies in their time-lapse velocity predictions. The results also support the current belief that the velocity-stress core data may not be a good representation of the velocity-stress dependence of the subsurface I utilise an iterative emulator based approach to history matching which makes it possible to perform a robust history match with a small number of model realisations. I utilise the results of the GSA to define the model parameters in which to focus the history match and also utilise the results of the rock physics model analysis to define suitable uncertainties. The results of the emulation process show it is possible to perform a successful history match utilising only a small number of model perturbations and to constrain the uncertainty in the most influential model parameters. The process is improved significantly when both near-offset time-shifts and the time-shift offset behaviour are considered simultaneously in the matching process. It becomes apparent that the matching process and hence final solution is limited by the number of model realisations, iterations and the extent of the available seismic data. The greater the number of realisations, the more accurate the emulators whilst the more seismic observations, the more data available in which to test predicted models. Also, it becomes increasingly clear that the uncertainty in rock physics modelling dominates the matching process. Taking into consideration it's uncertainty makes it extremely difficult to confidently constrain any properties of the hydromechanical model from time-lapse seismic data. It becomes increasingly apparent that there is a great need to improve our understanding of rock behaviour (i.e. rock physics) before the seismic history matching of mechanical behavior becomes suitably accurate and economically appealing.
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Tauchert, Ashley. "Mary Wollstonecraft in her time and our time." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.264200.
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McGregor, Vivien Margaret. "Trans Temporality: Narrative, History, and Time." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/12346.
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This thesis offers a new interpretative model for reading contemporary trans narratives. The overarching argument is that trans life narratives are complex, contradictory, and often resistant to discursive productions of identity, and these forms of resistance can best be understood through the rubric of queer temporality. Trans(sexual/gender) life narratives form an important part of trans subjectivity. Identities that fall outside of heteronormative understandings of the causal relation between sex and gender (and sex and/or gender’s stability over time) are subject to close scrutiny, interrogation, and suspicion within medical, legal, social, and literary contexts. In order to be ‘read’ as authentic, trans subjects must present a life narrative that ‘makes sense’ according to the discursive constructions of (trans)subjectivity already in place: concretized by medical discourse and circulating in the social field. The narratives examined here represent a collection of fictional works and experimental autobiographies that all seek to challenge normative constructions of what it means to cross-identify or transition. The texts discussed in this thesis all share a common strategy for dismantling normative constructions of identity. Rather than challenging sex-gender norms per se, these texts queer time: they distort, challenge, and complicate standardized constructions of temporality, narrative, and history. This thesis argues that self-representations that complicate the temporal order of standard autobiography—of personal history— evoke alternative forms of familial, national and communal history shaped by the queering of time and narrative. These histories, whether personal, genealogical, or national, are represented as non-linear, porous, and open to a multidirectional haunting. In reading trans narratives through the interpretative lens of queer temporality, this thesis aims to reinvigorate ‘queer’ for trans studies, and emphasize the centrality of trans for queer theory’s interest in non-normative time and history.
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Takegami, Mano. "A Humanitarian Monster| Mizuki Shigeru and Manga as Cultural Redemption." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10829947.
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Shigeru Mizuki (1922-2015) is one of the most sophisticated and accomplished of modern manga artists. His work synthesizes ancient and modern Japanese visual artistic methods with contemporary tropes from Western graphic art to tell profound and complex stories that reflect major themes of war and the supernatural world. This thesis argues that Mizuki’s work should be reevaluated as a valuable contribution to modern art based on the following three qualities: technical mastery and innovation in visual art; socio-political and philosophical depth of content; and his impact on other contemporary Japanese artists. Such study is significant because of the popularity of manga and other graphic art in shaping both popular culture and the view of art adopted by younger generations. Thus, studying Mizuki has implications for our understanding of art and its intersection with popular culture, and raises questions regarding whether popular media like manga should be considered seriously by art historians.
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Lauritzen, Lydia J. "THE MAKING OF BIOETHICAL HISTORY." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1259859539.
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Tuaillon, Demésy Audrey. "L'histoire vivante médiévale. Approche socio-anthropologique." Phd thesis, Université de Franche-Comté, 2011. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-01062398.
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L'histoire vivante est une manière de présenter le passé, qui peut se décliner en fonction d'époques variées ; celle qui est prise en compte dans cette recherche concerne la période médiévale. La pratique s'expose à travers deux activités distinctes mais complémentaires : la reconstitution historique et les Arts martiaux historiques européens, couramment nommés AMHE. L'étude menée répond à un travail de terrain interdisciplinaire, mêlant des approches ethnologiques et sociologiques. Les données recueillies proviennent d'observations participantes, mises en place lors de différents événements, d'entretiens (semi-directifs ou directifs) auprès de divers informateurs et, enfin, de deux séries de questionnaires. C'est une méthodologie aussi bien qualitative que quantitative qui a été utilisée, afin de permettre une compréhension globale de l'objet d'étude.La problématique retenue, en fonction d'une dialectique constante entre le terrain et la théorie, questionne les modalités d'expressions d'une pratique culturelle génératrice d'identités. Plusieurs axes ont ainsi pu être dégagés. C'est d'abord sous l'angle de la diffusion des connaissances (actions culturelles, rapport au patrimoine, liens entretenus avec la mémoire et principe de transmission) que l'histoire vivante est abordée. Ensuite, la recherche porte sur les éléments de définition associés à la démarche, entre activité de loisir et professionnalisation. Les thématiques présentées renvoient autant au fait associatif qu'au développement technique, en passant par les enjeux touristiques et les ambivalences relatives au concept de fête. Enfin, le dernier point évoque la pratique sociale, créatrice de liens entre les participants. Du profil sociologique des enquêtés au principe de communauté, les investigations réalisées invitent à appréhender les normes et valeurs spécifiques à ce type d'activités. L'un des principaux enjeux consiste à afficher les mécanismes relatifs à la délimitation identitaire d'un groupe particulier : c'est en fonction du rapport à l'altérité et des normes véhiculées par un ensemble précis que le lien social se maintient ou se délie. La faible reconnaissance dont dispose l'histoire vivante favorise ainsi une approche en termes de jeu identitaire, fécond pour l'analyse globale d'une démarche contemporaine en expansion.
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Jokilehto, Jukka. "A history of architectural conservation /." Click here to access, 1986. http://www.iccrom.org/eng/e-docs/ICCROM_05HistoryofConservation.pdf.
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Moot, Dennis. "Visual Culture, Crises Discourse and the Politics of Representation: Alternative Visionsof Africa in Film and News Media." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1596021641358625.
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Hackenesch, Silke [Verfasser]. "Chocolate and Blackness : A Cultural History / Silke Hackenesch." Frankfurt am Main : Campus Verlag, 2017. http://www.campus.de/home/.
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Tsetskhladze, Gocha R. "Cultural history of Colchis (6th-1st centuries BC)." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.244242.
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Downing, Phoebe C. "Fabians and 'Fabianism' : a cultural history, 1884-1914." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:425127c1-94c1-4d20-ba58-fdd457c1f6b8.
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This thesis is a cultural history of the early Fabian Society, focusing on the decades between 1884, the Society’s inaugural year, and 1914. The canonical view is that ‘Fabianism,’ which the Oxford English Dictionary defines as the ‘doctrine and principles of the Fabian Society,’ is synonymous with State socialism and bureaucratic ‘efficiency.’ By bringing the methods of cultural history to bear on the Society’s founding members and decades, this thesis reveals that ‘Fabianism’ was in fact used as a dynamic metonymy, not a fixed doctrine, which signified a range of cultural, and even literary, meanings for British commentators in the 1890s and 1900s (Part 1). Further, by expanding the scope of traditional histories of the Fabian Society, which conventionally operate within political and economic sub-fields and focus on the Society’s ‘official’ literature, to include a close examination of the broader discursive context in which ‘Fabianism’ came into being, this thesis sets out to recover the symbolic aspects of the Fabians’ efforts to negotiate what ‘Fabianism’ meant to the English reading public. The Fabians’ conspicuous leadership in the modern education debates and the liberal fight for a ‘free stage,’ and their solidarity with the international political émigrés living in London at the turn of the twentieth century all contribute to this revised perspective on who the founding Fabians were, what they saw themselves as trying to achieve, and where the Fabian Society belonged—and was perceived to belong—in relation to British politics, culture, and society (Part 2). The original contribution of this thesis is the argument that the Fabians explicitly and implicitly evoked Matthew Arnold as a precursor in their efforts to articulate a kind of Fabian—latterly social-democratic—liberalism and a public vocation that balanced English liberties and the duty of the State to provide the ‘best’ for its citizens in education and in culture, as in politics.
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Munro, Lisa L. "Inventing Indigeneity: A Cultural History of 1930s Guatemala." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/347326.
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Popular images of indigenous cultures, both past and present, have served to construct pernicious racial stereotypes of native peoples throughout the Americas. These stereotypes have led to the discrimination and marginalization of native peoples; however, they also have functioned to construct identities and cultural values of non-Indian people. Existing scholarship on the representation of native peoples of Latin America has focused on the ways that nineteenth-century elites in that region appropriated certain elements of indigenous cultures to construct a sense of national unity and historical continuity. However, this scholarship has overlooked the ways that images of the Maya produced social and cultural identities outside of Latin America, as the U.S. public avidly consumed a variety of images of the Maya and commercialized their material culture in the early twentieth century. Analyzing the question of identity construction through the appropriation of Mayan culture, this dissertation focuses on the U.S. construction and use of a particular racial discourse about native people. Public audiences consumed racial discourses in the context of a series of transnational cultural initiatives, including international expositions, popular film, and textile exhibits, which shaped public understandings of the Maya. I argue that despite growing public interest in Mayan culture and shifting understandings about the relationship between race and culture, these venues of visual display reinforced and reproduced older racial discourses of Indian degeneracy. I examine documentary evidence, such as travel brochures, newspapers, and archival materials to show that sites of visual display invented a new language of "indigeneity," which functioned to define not only native peoples, but also to shape U.S. public social identities. I conclude that the production of racial discourses of the Maya as culturally and racially inferior throughout the twentieth century defined contemporary understandings of U.S. identities and the role of indigenous history.