This thesis presents a comparative study of cultural policy in Britain and Italy. It provides a historical reconstruction of the cultural, legal and administrative contexts for cultural policy-making in the two countries, with a view of highlighting how cultural policy priorities have changed over time. The discussion of the growing popularity, in Italy, of notions of the cultural heritage as an engine for local economic development and as a resource that can allow the government to find the resources it needs to finance infrastructural works is given particular emphasis. Indeed, this probably represents the most original contribution made to the field of cultural policy research, in that Italy is a much under-researched country, and extant literature in English is almost non-existent. The main argument that the discussion aims to substantiate is that, despite being rooted in very different cultural and administrative traditions, both the British and Italian cultural policy debates seem to display a growing popularity of an instrumentalist rhetoric, which justifies public subsidy of the cultural sector on the grounds of the alleged beneficial impacts of the sector in the social and economic spheres. The main contribution of the thesis to the current understanding of instrumental cultural policy is therefore to offer plausible explanations for this recent trend. The thesis argues that the current situation, both in Italy and the UK, can be best understood in the light of the global phenomenon of neo-liberal globalisation, and the tendency for policy-transfer between countries that it tends to promote.

This study examines the theoretical contradictions of 'cultural democracy' in Britain and the United States. Cultural democracy here refers to the claim that community participation in cultural activities (artistic production and consumption) leads to participation in a democratic society. In Britain 'cultural democracy' has been associated especially with the 'community arts' movement of the 1970s and 1980s. Using Gramsci's theory of 'hegemony' as a framework for analysis, I will argue that the theoretical inconsistencies of 'cultural democracy' in the 1970s and 1980s can be traced back to a fundamental contradiction in British and U.S. cultural policy, between 'materialist' and 'idealist' conceptions of culture. This contradiction has resulted in moments of crisis in British and U.S. cultural policy, followed by periods of 'unstable equilibrium'. In support of this argument I will focus on four of these moments of contradiction and crisis. First I will develop my hypothetical model of contradiction, crisis and equilibrium in relation to the British community arts movement in the 1970s and 1980s. Then I will apply this model to three successive 'moments of crisis' in British and U.S. cultural policy: the 'civilising mission' of the late nineteenth century public cultural institutions in Britain and the U.S., particularly the settlement house; the U.S. federal arts projects of the 1930s; dilemmas of access and accountability in recent media policy. I will conclude by exploring some alternative theoretical formulations of the relationship between 'culture' and 'community' and their possible application to cultural policy and cultural democracy.

This paper explores the ritualized gift-giving that occurs at funerals in the Volta Basin. Other studies of hierarchical gift exchange in the region have failed to notice the salience of funeral gifting, which is actually the most prestigious form of reciprocity because it allies the living with the dead, who in turn aid the living and ensure the integrity of all other exchanges in the hierarchy. This paper examines this relationship by analyzing case studies of funerary practice from four different Voltaic societies, with a special focus on the Mossi empire of Burkina Faso. The thesis concludes by exploring how the findings reveal the relevance of religious studies to understanding the economic dimension of ritual behavior and the ritual ends of much economic exchange. / A Thesis submitted to the Department of Religion in partial fulfillment of the Master of Arts. / Summer Semester 2017. / April 28, 2017. / Economics, Funerals, Mossi, Religion, Spheres of Exchange, Volta Basin / Includes bibliographical references. / Joseph R. Hellweg, Professor Directing Thesis; Adam Gaiser, Committee Member; Bryan Cuevas, Committee Member.

Suen Yiu-kwan. / Bibliography: leaves 108-119 / Thesis (M.Ph.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1982

陳英凱. / "2004年8月". / 論文(哲學碩士)--香港中文大學, 2004. / 參考文獻 (p. 89-93) / 附中英文摘要. / "2004 nian 8 yue". / Chen Yingkai. / Lun wen (Zhe xue shuo shi)--Xianggang Zhong wen da xue, 2004. / Can kao wen xian (p. 89-93) / Fu Zhong Ying wen zhai yao. / 引言 --- p.1-8 / Chapter 第一章 --- 旅遊主題下的都市空間 --- p.9 / 閱讀香港´ؤ´ؤ主題公園 --- p.11-18 / 創造/模擬「動感」 --- p.19-27 / 都市空間的銷售與呈現 --- p.28-32 / 商界意見 --- p.33-37 / 小結 --- p.38-41 / Chapter 第二章. --- 都市空間的商品化與資訊化 --- p.42 / 廣告資訊構成的商品化都市景觀 --- p.45-62 / 令人目眩的屏幕化都市與超真實 --- p.63-78 / 小結 --- p.79-81 / 結語 --- p.82-88 / 參考書目 --- p.89-93

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This dissertation offers a reading of Juvenal's Satires. It maintains that Juvenal consciously frustrates readers' attempts to identify his poetic voice with a single unitary character or persona. At the same time, it argues that Juvenal's poems are influenced in both form and theme by cultural trends in the early second century. The arguments staged in these poems constitute a critique of aspects of Roman intellectual culture in the reigns of Trajan and Hadrian.

This dissertation examines the relationship between scientific inquiry and hexameter poetry at Rome in the first century CE. It focuses on three poetic texts: Manilius' Astronomica, Lucan's Civil War, and the anonymous Aetna. It argues that despite generic and thematic differences, these works participate in a common dialogue and therefore can benefit from being read side by side. In particular, the dissertation demonstrates that all three authors reflect on the ability of poetry to communicate scientific knowledge, and that they simultaneously question or undermine the practical value of that knowledge. As a result, it allows us to see that scientific inquiry itself constitutes a dynamic and multifaceted area of creative literary activity in Early Imperial Rome.

This study traces the development of building inscriptions in Roman North Africa, in order to understand the rich epigraphic record testifying to public construction during the reign of Diocletian. In particular, it examines the role of the imperial government in construction, both in how it itself built and how it related to locals who did. Treating construction as a form of communication between builder and society, I have examined the claims made by the state as it took on the role of builder, and to what social groups these claims were directed. A wide approach has been called for to understand the role played by public construction - and by broadcasting it through inscriptions - for the negotiation of influence in the province. I have examined the activities of both imperial and local builders, which has revealed well defined conventions as to what and where to build, and how to communicate it. Against this backdrop, I have traced the relations of the Diocletianic government to a number of social strata, as expressed through building inscriptions, from rural entrepreneurs and small town councilors to Carthaginian senators. An image has emerged of a government that was keenly aware of the social makeup of the province, and deeply invested in its economic fabric, concerned with maintaining a viable, small scale network of independent municipalities as a counterweight to the interests of the highest elites, while at the same time maintaining stable relations to said elites.

姜宗強 = The relationship between the prophet and the people : an interpretation of the Old Testament prophetic word in the Chinese cultural context / Jiang Zongqiang. / "2004年6月". / 論文(哲學碩士)--香港中文大學, 2004. / 參考文獻 (leaves 121-140). / 附中英文摘要. / "2004 nian 6 yue". / Jiang Zongqiang = The relationship between the prophet and the people : an interpretation of the Old Testament prophetic word in the Chinese cultural context / Jiang Zongqiang. / Lun wen (zhe xue shuo shi)--Xianggang Zhong wen da xue, 2004. / Can kao wen xian (leaves 121-140). / Fu Zhong Ying wen zhai yao. / 目錄 / 摘要 / 致謝 / Chapter 上篇： --- 以前學者硏究成果的追溯 / Chapter 第一章、 --- 問題的提出：中國文化傳統中有無先知因素？ --- p.1 / Chapter 一、 --- 韋伯對先知與先知之言性質的界定 --- p.1 / Chapter 二、 --- 羅理的硏究：溝通古代以色列與中國文化傳統中先知因素的嘗試 --- p.7 / Chapter 三、 --- 對羅理溝通古代以色列與中國文化傳統中先知因素硏究的評價 --- p.13 / Chapter 第二章、 --- 狄百瑞對中國儒家式先知的界定 --- p.19 / Chapter 一、 --- 韋伯的命題面臨挑戰 --- p.19 / Chapter 二、 --- 先知之有無？ --- p.20 / Chapter 三、 --- 何種類型的先知？ --- p.24 / Chapter 四、 --- 對狄百瑞理論硏究的評價 --- p.32 / Chapter 五、 --- 本篇論文硏究的問題、範圍、方法論、目的 --- p.37 / Chapter 下篇： --- 先知與民的關係 / Chapter 第三章 --- 跨文本閱讀的根據與方法 --- p.39 / Chapter 一、 --- 跨文本閱讀的可能性 --- p.39 / Chapter 二、 --- 跨文本閱讀的方法 --- p.43 / Chapter 三、 --- 對古代以色列先知之言性質的理解 --- p.47 / Chapter 第四章、 --- 《阿摩司書》與杜甫詩篇中“受苦者´ح主題的閱讀 --- p.67 / Chapter 一、 --- 引論 --- p.67 / Chapter 二、 --- 戰爭中的受苦者 --- p.76 / Chapter 三、 --- 政治、經濟壓迫下的受苦者 --- p.91 / Chapter 四、 --- 杜甫代表的爲底層受苦者呼籲公義的中國式的先知傳統 一一詩歌文學中的民本思想 --- p.106 / 結語、先知與民的關係 --- p.116 / 參考書目 --- p.121