A revolution in gender and familial life : an analysis of socio-political and cultural factors on the contemporary Chinese family : a thesis presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Philosophy in Sociology at Massey University [PDF]
, 2001 The aim of this study is to investigate gender relations and the family in contemporary China. More specifically it seeks to contextualise the contemporary Chinese family within a socio-historical, political and cultural analysis of China from the ...
Haughton, Anne
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Curator: The Museum Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the role of museums in the construction of national identity during the Early Republican Period in Turkey (1923–1950). Drawing on theoretical approaches that interpret museums as spaces in which collective memory and national identity are materially organized and publicly communicated, the study analyzes museums as key ...
Duygu Atalay Şimşek
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Sacralization of space as a way of psychological adaptation the Russians and Komi in Western Siberia
Вестник археологии, антропологии и этнографии, 2018 Ancestor worship was one of the most significant elements of traditional beliefs. In many cultures it is believed that the ancestors can become mythical patrons of a clan or a family (chur, domovoy (hobgoblin)).
Golubkova O.V., Kononova Yu.B.
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Chinese Gift-Giving, Anti-Corruption Law, and the Rule of Law and Virtue [PDF]
, 2016 This Article addresses the question of whether virtuous giftgiving in China can be used in the fight against corruption. Giftgiving, ubiquitous in Chinese familial, business, and official practices, has been under fire by both laws outside and within ...
Szto, Mary
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Golden weapons and golden fetters: From the gold standard to the new geopolitics
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract This paper explores the historical relationship between monetary regimes, security concerns, and geopolitical tensions, particularly focusing on the role of gold. Throughout history, monetary systems have been deeply intertwined with international state systems and security provisions.
Harold James
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, 1958 The importance of the Greeks lies in the fact that they sketched out many, although of course not all, of the broad foundations upon which Western Civilization rests.
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A grief that cannot be shared: continuing relationships with aborted foetuses in contemporary Vietnam [PDF]
, 2014 For Vietnamese women who undergo an abortion, the deeply distressing experience can be extenuated by the stigmatisation of abortion and the disenfranchisement of grief relating to it.
Heathcote, A.
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Aristocratic identification in Felix’s Life of Guthlac
Early Medieval Europe, EarlyView.Recent scholarship often sees high‐born monastics and clerics in early Christian England as part of the aristocratic class. Modern identity theories, however, suggest that social identity could be dynamic, situational, processual and discursive. In light of this concept, the present article reads Felix’s Life of Guthlac as a text that constructs an ...
Lek Hang Chan
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Constructive Realism: “Why Ancestor Is Possible” in Zhu Xi’s Religion View
ReligionsTraditional Chinese ancestor worship implicitly raises a fundamental question: How are ancestors possible? This question was formally articulated in the Zhu Xi’ philosophy. Qi holds ontological status: the “birth” of things arises from the aggregation of
Linqiang Quan, Xiaodong Xie
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The structure of ordinary: Hui vernacular settlements and architecture in China [PDF]
, 2015 Ponència presentada a: Session 8: Dimensiones psicosociales de la arquitectura y el urbanismo / Psycological dimensions of architecture and ...
Ren, Xiang
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