Search Results - "syncretism"

Phi theory phi-features across modules and interfaces /

Table of Contents: “…/ David Adger and Daniel Harbour -- Features on bound pronouns / Irene Heim -- On the semantic markedness of phi-features / Uli Sauerland -- Phi-agree and theta-related case / Milan Rezac -- Conditions on phi-agree / Susana Bejar -- Phi-feature competition in morphology and syntax / Martha McGinnis -- Discontinuous agreement and the syntax--morphology interface / Daniel Harbour -- Third-person marking in menominee / Jochen Trommer -- When is a syncretism more than a syncretism? / Heidi Harley -- Where's phi? …”
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Cultural memory resistance, faith & identity / by Rodriguez, Jeanette, 1954-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The concept of cultural memory -- The power of image -- The power of secrecy and ceremony -- The power of narrative -- The power of syncretism/inculturation -- Final thoughts.…”
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Ontologies of rock art : images, relational approaches and indigenous knowledges /

Table of Contents: “…Philosophical and historical perspectives -- Rock art and indigenous knowledges -- Humans, animals, and more-than-human beings -- Syncretism, contact and contemporary rock art.…”
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Negotiating Afropolitanism essays on borders and spaces in contemporary African literature and folklore /

Table of Contents: “…Border crossings, precarity, syncretism -- pt. 2. Dissidence, absence, transgression -- pt. 3. …”
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Music in Kenyan Christianity : Logooli religious song / by Kidula, Jean Ngoya

Table of Contents: “…Assembly : Logooli historical, cultural, and musical background -- Encounter : Avalogooli and Euro-American religion, culture, and music -- Consolidation : Christian religious genres in Logooli-land -- Accommodation : Logooli adoption and use of 'book' music -- Syncretism : Logooli Christian songs of the spirit -- Invocation : Logooli Christian songs in contemporary education and media.…”

An introduction to the literature of Equatorial Guinea between colonialism and dictatorship / by Lewis, Marvin A., 1942-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : The essay in Equatorial Guinea : Hispanidad, cultural syncretism, and the search for Guineidad -- Poetry: in search of an authentic voice -- The short story : a genre in search of authors -- Drama : oral and written for the stage -- The early Equatorial Guinean novel : writing under colonialism -- The contemporary novel : Hispanidad and Guineidad interrogated--again.…”
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Hidden heritage the legacy of the Crypto-Jews / by Jacobs, Janet Liebman

Table of Contents: “…Secrecy, antisemitism, and the dangers of Jewishness -- Women and the persistence of culture : ritual, custom, and the recovery of Sephardic ancestry -- The self-in-relation and the transformation of religious consciousness -- Syncretism and faith blending in modern Crypto-Judaism -- Conversion and the rekindling of the Jewish soul -- Jewish ancestry and the social construction of ethnic identity -- Conclusion. …”
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After Confucius : Studies in Early Chinese Philosophy / by Goldin, Paul Rakita, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…The Reception of the Odes in the Warring States Era -- Xunzi in the Light of the Guodian Manuscripts -- Han Fei's Doctrine of Self-Interest -- Li Si, Chancellor of the Universe -- Rhetoric and Machination in Stratagems of the Warring States -- Insidious Syncretism in the Political Philosophy of Huainanzi -- Ban Zhao in Her Time and in Ours -- Those Who Don't Know Speak: Translations of Laozi by People Who Do Not Know Chinese.…”
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Shi'ism a religion of protest / by Dabashi, Hamid, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…Shi'ism and the crisis of cultural modernity -- On ressentiment and the politics of despair -- Toward an aesthetics of emancipation -- Contemporary contestations. Toward a new syncretic cosmopolitanism -- The un/making of a politics of despair -- Contemporary sites of contestation.…”
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Saami linguistics

Table of Contents: “…Etymological nativization of loanwords: a case study of Saami and Finnish / Ante Aikio -- Grade alternation in Inari Saami and abstract declarative phonology / Patrik Bye -- Productive syncretism in Saami inflectional morphology / Gunnar Ólafur Hansson -- Roots and verbs in north Saami / Marit Julien -- The instability of systems with ternary length distinctions: the Skolt Saami evidence / Zita McRobbie-Utasi -- Events and case in Inari Saami / Diane Nelson -- Verbal agreement in Inari Saami / Ida Toivonen.…”
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A Protestant theology of passion Korean Minjung theology revisited / by Küster, Volker, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…Foreword / by David Kwang-Sun Suh -- Writing from this place -- Theology in context -- People as the subjects of history -- Re-constructing Korean identity the Minjung culture movement -- Theology and biography theological identity re-constructed -- Jesus and the Minjung Ahn Byung-Mu (1922-1996) -- A confluence of two traditions Shu Nam-Dong (1918-1984) -- Fools for Christ's sake Hyun Young-Hak (1921-2004) -- Theology as a social biography of the Minjung Kim Yong-Bock (1938) -- A plea for a survival-liberation centered syncretism Chung Hyun-Kyung (1956) -- Contextual challenges Minjung theology in intercultural perspective -- Contextual transformations Minjung theology yesterday and today -- Epilogue: Contextual theologies as open systems.…”
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Contested conversions to Islam narratives of religious change in the early modern Ottoman Empire / by Krstić, Tijana

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : turning "Rumi" : conversion to Islam, fashioning of the Ottoman imperial ideology, and interconfessional relations in the early modern Mediterranean context -- Muslims through narratives : textual repertoires of fifteenth-century Ottoman Islam and formation of the Ottoman interpretative communities -- Toward an Ottoman Rumi identity : the polemical arena of syncretism and the debate on the place of converts in fifteenth-century Ottoman polity -- In expectation of the Messiah : interimperial rivalry, apocalypse, and conversion in sixteenth-century Muslim polemical narratives -- Illuminated by the light of Islam and the glory of the Ottoman Sultanate : self-narratives of conversion to Islam in the age of confessionalization -- Between the turban and the papal tiara : Orthodox Christian neomartyrs and their impresarios in the age of confessionalization -- Everyday communal politics of coexistence and Orthodox Christian martyrdom : a dialogue of sources and gender regimes in the age of confessionalization -- Conclusion : conversion and confessionalization in the Ottoman Empire: considerations for future research.…”
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Egypt and the Classical World : Cross-Cultural Encounters in Antiquity /

Table of Contents: “…Kelder -- Mediterranean Encounters: Greeks, Carians, and Egyptians in the First Millennium BC / Alexandra Villing -- "I Am Isis": The Role of Speech in the Cult of Isis / Martin Bommas -- The Creation of New "Cultural Codes": The Ptolemaic Queens and Their Syncretic Processes with Isis, Hathor, and Aphrodite / Martina Minas-Nerpel -- The Kellis Mammisi: A Painted Chapel from the Final Centuries of the Ancient Egyptian Religion / Olaf E. …”
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Writing Gender in Early Modern Chinese Women's Tanci Fiction / by Guo, Li (Writer on Chinese literature)

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Writing Gender -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Style and Excerpts -- Introduction Toward a Spatialized Understanding of Women's Literary Tanci -- Chapter One Vernacular Literacy, Cross-Dressing, and Feminine Authority in Zhu Suxian's Yulianhuan (Linked Rings of Jade) -- Chapter Two Among Women: Feminine Homoeroticism in Li Guiyu's Liuhuameng (Dream of the Pomegranate Flowers) -- Chapter Three Gender, Syncretism, and Female Exemplarity: Jin Fangquan's Qizhenzhuan (A Tale of Exceptional Chastity)…”
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Wars of disruption and resilience cybered conflict, power, and national security / by Demchak, Chris C.

Table of Contents: “…Globalization and spread of cybered conflict -- Emerging uncivil cybered international system -- Challenge to international relations theory -- Syncretic reframing : security resilience strategy for a cybered world -- Security resilience strategy : linking framework and tools -- History's experiments in security resilience -- Case studies of city-state security strategies -- Greek and Italian city-state wars of disruption -- British and U.S. small wars of disruption -- Lessons for disruption in a security resilience strategy -- Challenges in a new strategy for cybered threats -- Political acceptance of cybered threat in democratic city-states -- Technical design for cybered conflict -- Operational constraints on implementation of disruption -- Institutional design for cybered power and national security -- Honest joint consultation--knowledge nexus -- Comprehensive data--privacy in behavior-based adaptations -- Collaborative actionable knowledge : the atrium model -- Gathering what exists today -- Disruption and resilience for national security and power in a cybered world -- Marks of the new cybered age : sovereignty, disruption, and resilience -- Inklings of the future : the rise of the cybercommand -- Adapting the social contract for cybered uncertainty.…”
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Convivial constellations in Latin America : from colonial to contemporary times /

Table of Contents: “…Conviviality between norm and praxis: Imperial conviviality: producing difference in the TransAtlantic Iberian world / Karen Graubart -- Mestizaje and conviviality in Brazil, Colombia And Mexico / Peter Wade -- Syncretism and pluralism in the configuration of religious diversity in Brazil / Paula Montero -- Part 3. …”
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Jewish culture and society in North Africa

Table of Contents: “…Schroeter -- Muslim-Jewish relations in contemporary Morocco / Mohammed Kenbib -- Place names in western Algeria : biblical sources and dominant semantic domains / Farid Benramdane -- The image of the Jews among Ibadi Imazighen in North Africa before the tenth century / Mabrouk Mansouri -- Jewish identity and landownership in the Sous region of Morocco / Abdellah Larhmaid -- Southern Moroccan Jewry between the colonial manufacture of knowledge and the postcolonial historiographical silence / Aomar Boum -- Dating the demise of the western Sephardi Jewish diaspora in the Mediterranean / Yaron Tsur -- Jewish-Muslim syncretism and intercommunity cohabitation in the writings of Albert Memmi : the partage of Tunis / Philippe Barbé -- Making Tangier modern : ethnicity and urban development, 1880-1930 / Susan Gilson Miller -- Muslim and Jewish interaction in Moroccan meat markets, 1873-1912 / Stacy E. …”
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The bioarchaeology of individuals

Table of Contents: “…Sava -- Mortuary Evidence for Maya Political Resistance and Religious Syncretism in Colonial Belize / Gabriel D. Wrobel -- Part 2. …”
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Youth and age in the medieval north

Table of Contents: “…The challenges of quantifying youth and age in the medieval North / Shannon Lewis-Simpson -- Forever young : child burial in Anglo-Saxon England / Christina Lee -- Constructions of early childhood at the syncretic cemetery of Fjälkinge : a case study / Lotta Mejsholm -- Child burials and children's status in medieval Norway / Berit J. …”
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Another world is possible spiritualities and religions of global darker peoples /

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