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Percival Lowell as a researcher of Japanese culture
This paper analyzes Percival Lowell's (1855–1916) views on the characteristics of Japanese culture. During the period of 1882–1893, he made three scientific trips to Japan and Korea, which were the result of four books and several papers in periodicals ...
D.E. Martynov +2 more
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ABSTRACT In the Global North and elite spaces in the Global South, the concepts of Eurocentrism and decolonization have come to be associated primarily with identity and location rather than with capitalism and political economy. This article argues that the reason for this can be traced to what Samir Amin calls ‘inverted Eurocentrism’, which entails a
Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven
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BackgroundThe first Diagnosis-Related Group (DRG) Reimbursement pilots in China, which started in 2019, marked an essential step in cost control and service efficiency in Chinese hospitals, but some adverse effects inevitably emerged during the ...
Jia-Yi Wang +5 more
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17. yüzyıla kadar -diğerleri bir yana- Osmanlı İmparatorluğu ile Avrupa Devletleri birçok yönden rekabet halindeydi. İslâm Dünyası’ndan da aldığı etkilerle erken modern dönemde bilim ve felsefe alanında önemli gelişmeler kaydeden Avrupa Dünyası ...
Mehmet Fatih Elmas
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Demystifying Decoloniality: Epistemic Rupture and Material Reality
ABSTRACT Decolonial thought has become increasingly influential across the social sciences, foregrounding coloniality, epistemic injustice, ontological difference and pluriversality as alternatives to Western universalism. This Introduction to the Forum Debate ‘Debating Decolonial Thought’ critically examines the ‘decolonial turn’ in development ...
Sreerekha Sathi
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RECENT FOOD CONSUMPTION PATTERN OF JAPANESE HOUSEHOLDS: DRIVING FORCES BEHIND WESTERNIZATION [PDF]
A complete demand system for 11 aggregated food categories with 24 demographic variables, is specified following QUAIDS and is estimated using Japanese household level data.
Takagi, Shingo +3 more
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Tsardom of Muscovy Traditional Culture and Peter's Westernization Project
The article studies Peter the Great “revolutionary” westernization project of Russia by reviewing the most significant differences in the socio-cultural system of Russia centuries compared to its Western European counterparts in the second half of the ...
T. V. Chernikova
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Tribulations of a Westerner in the Western World
Someone has taken a trip and taken photographs of that trip and someone else has been invited to watch a slideshow of the trip taken. There is a road, there is an abstract painting, there is a viewer who wishes he could live in a televised loop of a sunset and another who wonders why people are fat. Tribulations of a Westerner in the Western World is a
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The Datafication of Community Health Work: Discipline, Visibility and the State
ABSTRACT There has been a concerted drive to expand the scope of ‘data for development’, with a focus on novel technologies. This article highlights a relatively overlooked category of worker in the large‐scale production of such data: volunteers. The authors examine community health as the last frontier of the ‘datafication’ of health, but which forms
Kathy Dodworth, Jean‐Benoît Falisse
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