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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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»A French Music of France«

Robichaud, Bianca 03 September 2020 (has links)
No description available.
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Utata wa kutumia lugha kama Kibainishi cha utambulisho wa mzungumzaji

Msanjila, Yohana P. 16 August 2012 (has links) (PDF)
This paper discusses the problems caused by the linguistic features used by speakers as the basis of determining their social identity. The concept of identity is broad and closely related with socio-cultural and eco-spheres environment of the speakers. The speaker’s identity is determined by employing both social and linguistic features in the overall analysis. The linguistic features include the whole range of language use, from phonetic features to lexical units, syntactic structures and family names. This paper therefore argues that the speaker’s linguistic features pose some problems in determining the speaker’s identity. The first problem concerns the concepts of language and dialect which are defined differently by different scholars. The second problem refers to multilingual speakers with diversified linguistic competence, and lastly, it has been noted with concern that some speakers use artificial family names which are not from their ethnic origin, hence complicating the process of determining the identity of the speakers.
33

Ngoma ni uhuni?

Brunotti, Irene 30 November 2012 (has links) (PDF)
This paper is a brief exploration of Zinzibar soceity in contemporary times, of how it can be read through the ngoma perfromances, music events which take place during the focal moments of the social life in the Swahili communities. It is a study of their identity constructions, referring both to ethnic identities and gender ones, which are given meaning through the ngoma performances and can be also discussed or confirmed through them in the social context of the Zanzibari daily life. It mainly analyses the crucial dichotomy culture/religion from the point of view of women perfromers, who are deeply related to the domestic area (and not the public one, usually related to men) in which they can find a way to speak to the community through the perfromance and consequently to get an active role despite their social status. It is also a brief summary of the contemporary socio-political situation of the islands, in which ngoma performances become a way to participate to the social processes and to decode political tensions which characterize Zanzibar today.
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Essays in Swahili geographical thought.: Group identity in Swahili chronicles.

Tolmacheva, Marina January 1996 (has links)
In the last two decades, Swahili chronicles have been thoroughly re-evaluated by historians of the East African coast, and their usefulness as historical sources subject to serious doubt and criticism. Typical of this new attitude were the words of Gill Shepherd: `Such chronicles are less objective histories than annotated pedigrees of a single ruling lineage`. Given such a perspective, the question may be asked whether the chronicles are a suitable guide to the search for historical identities of coastal societies.
35

Institutionalized identities in informal Kiswahili speech:: Analysis of a dispute between two adolescents

D`Hondt, Sigurd 30 November 2012 (has links)
In conversation, participants operate under the condition that they must demonstrate to each other what they assume to be the nature of their talk. This happens on a sequential basis. Every turn in conversation is typically followed by another one, and therefore it is paramount for the second turn in line, for its own intelligibility, to make clear how it relates to the preceding turn. In this way, by tracing the interpretations that are made `available´ by the participants themselves as they assemble their talk, one can obtain a technical specification from within of the procedures conversationalists use for eo-constructing their encounter. This approach to the study of talk and interaction, heavily influenced by Harold Garfinkel´s (1967) ethnomethodological program, became known as Conversation Analysis (CA). This paper, then, is an attempt to reconceptualize the notion of institutionality in CA. At the same time, because it uses real conversational materials for doing so, it contains a substantive analysis of some of the procedures and situated practices the people in the sample resort to for accomplishing their interaction.
36

Changing Swahili Cultures in a Globalising World: An Approach from Anthropology

Caplan, Pat 27 March 2014 (has links) (PDF)
This article considers what might be meant by Swahili cultures and Swahili identities. It regards neither concept as fixed, but as constituting a repertoire from which people choose strategically, depending not only upon location and historical time, but also upon social context. The processes of constituting cultures and identities are part of the making of meaning, a process in which, as will be seen, there are important continuities, ruptures and contradictions. With its attention to detail and its ability to give voice to the local, ethnography plays an important role in understanding the construction of both cultures and identities. In this paper, ethnographic examples are drawn both from my own fieldwork on Mafia Island, Tanzania, begun in 1965, and from the work of other anthropologists and scholars who have carried out research on the East African coast and islands.
37

Utata wa kutumia lugha kama Kibainishi cha utambulisho wa mzungumzaji

Msanjila, Yohana P. January 2011 (has links)
This paper discusses the problems caused by the linguistic features used by speakers as the basis of determining their social identity. The concept of identity is broad and closely related with socio-cultural and eco-spheres environment of the speakers. The speaker’s identity is determined by employing both social and linguistic features in the overall analysis. The linguistic features include the whole range of language use, from phonetic features to lexical units, syntactic structures and family names. This paper therefore argues that the speaker’s linguistic features pose some problems in determining the speaker’s identity. The first problem concerns the concepts of language and dialect which are defined differently by different scholars. The second problem refers to multilingual speakers with diversified linguistic competence, and lastly, it has been noted with concern that some speakers use artificial family names which are not from their ethnic origin, hence complicating the process of determining the identity of the speakers.
38

Ngoma ni uhuni?: Ngoma za kisasa mjini Zanzibar

Brunotti, Irene 30 November 2012 (has links)
This paper is a brief exploration of Zinzibar soceity in contemporary times, of how it can be read through the ngoma perfromances, music events which take place during the focal moments of the social life in the Swahili communities. It is a study of their identity constructions, referring both to ethnic identities and gender ones, which are given meaning through the ngoma performances and can be also discussed or confirmed through them in the social context of the Zanzibari daily life. It mainly analyses the crucial dichotomy culture/religion from the point of view of women perfromers, who are deeply related to the domestic area (and not the public one, usually related to men) in which they can find a way to speak to the community through the perfromance and consequently to get an active role despite their social status. It is also a brief summary of the contemporary socio-political situation of the islands, in which ngoma performances become a way to participate to the social processes and to decode political tensions which characterize Zanzibar today.
39

Changing Swahili Cultures in a Globalising World: An Approach from Anthropology

Caplan, Pat 27 March 2014 (has links)
This article considers what might be meant by Swahili cultures and Swahili identities. It regards neither concept as fixed, but as constituting a repertoire from which people choose strategically, depending not only upon location and historical time, but also upon social context. The processes of constituting cultures and identities are part of the making of meaning, a process in which, as will be seen, there are important continuities, ruptures and contradictions. With its attention to detail and its ability to give voice to the local, ethnography plays an important role in understanding the construction of both cultures and identities. In this paper, ethnographic examples are drawn both from my own fieldwork on Mafia Island, Tanzania, begun in 1965, and from the work of other anthropologists and scholars who have carried out research on the East African coast and islands.
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'Weder vom Osten noch vom Westen': Intermediacy in ausgewählten Werken deutsch- und englischsprachiger Literatur von Autorinnen und Autoren arabischer Abstammung / ‘Neither of the East nor of the West’: Intermediacy in Selected German and English Novels by Authors of Arab Origin

Shanneik, Yafa January 2009 (has links) (PDF)
Diese Dissertationsarbeit konzentriert sich in ihrer Untersuchung auf englischsprachige Romane, die von zeitgenössischen Autorinnen arabischer Herkunft verfasst worden sind, und stellt sie in den Kontext postkolonialer und feministischer Literatur. Ahdaf Soueifs Roman In the Eye of the Sun (1992), Fadia Faqirs Roman Pillars of Salt (1997) und Leila Aboulelas zwei Romane The Translator (1999) und Minaret (2005) sind Gegenstand der Untersuchung. Zum Vergleich werden auch zwei deutschsprachige Romane von Autoren arabischer Herkunft miteinbezogen: Jusuf Naoums Nura. Eine Libanesin in Deutschland (1996) und Rafik Schamis Die dunkle Seite der Liebe (2004). Obwohl der Grad kolonialer Herrschaft Großbritanniens im arabischen Nahen Osten nicht so stark ausgeprägt war wie in den ehemaligen Kolonien, die nun Mitglieder des Commonwealth sind, und deswegen die untersuchten Romane nicht als Widerstandsliteratur wie viele andere Beispiele postkolonialer Literatur charakterisiert werden können, sind die Suche nach und Konstruktion von kulturellen Identitäten wichtiger Bestandteil der untersuchten Romane. Diese Literatur kann als Beispiel eines neuen Forschungsgebietes innerhalb des weiten Spektrums postkolonialer Literatur angeführt werden, die sich mit den Erfahrungen von Angehörigen ehemaliger britischer Kolonien befasst, die niemals Teil des Commonwealth waren. Als analytisches Hilfsmittel wird in der Arbeit der Begriff intermediacy verwendet, wie er von der amerikanischen Feministin und Ethnologin Sherry Ortner in ihrem grundlegenden Artikel zur Sexualisierung der Natur/Kultur Dichotomie definiert wird. Intermediacy wird als Zustand des Dazwischenseins verstanden, in dem klare geschlechtliche, kulturelle, ethnische und nationale Identitätsabgrenzungen dekonstruiert werden. Dieser Begriff ist besonders nützlich, die Konstruktion von literarischen Subjekten in den untersuchten Romanen zu verstehen, deren Protagonisten zwischen verschiedenen Kulturen, geographischen Räumen und Konstruktionen von geschlechtlichen und kulturellen Identitäten oszillieren. Gesellschaften des arabischen Nahen Ostens werden dargestellt, in denen traditionelle Geschlechterrollenverständnisse durch den Einfluss von Kolonialismus, Modernisierung und Globalisierung unterwandert worden sind. Die Protagonisten erscheinen verwirrt über ihre gesellschaftlichen Rollen, die zum großen Teil von traditionellen Werten bestimmt werden aber zugleich auch aufgrund verschiedener interner und externer Faktoren ausgehöhlt worden sind. Die Untersuchung wendet den Begriff intermediacy nicht nur im Bezug auf gender an, wie es Ortner tut, sondern auch auf die Fluidität kultureller Identitäten in einer globalisierten und postkolonialen Welt. Die untersuchten Romane porträtieren Individuen, die nach verlässlichen Markierungen ihrer kulturellen Identitäten suchen, wie z.B. in Form einer transnationalen und transkulturellen islamischen Identitätsstiftung, und zugleich das Scheitern dieser Sinnstiftungen erfahren müssen. Somit stellt diese Arbeit die behandelten Romane nicht nur in den Themenkomplex der Identitätskonstruktionen postkolonialer Literatur, sondern setzt sie auch mit der allgemeinen Dekonstruktion des Subjekts in postmodernen Romanen in Verbindung. / This thesis focuses in its analysis on novels written in English by contemporary female authors of Arab background and places their works within the context of postcolonial and feminist literature. Ahdaf Soueif’s novel In the Eye of the Sun (1992), Fadia Faqir’s novel Pillars of Salt (1997) and Leila Aboulela’s two novels The Translator (1999) and Minaret (2005) are subject of the investigation. For comparative reasons, two novels written in German by authors of Arab background are also discussed: Jusuf Naoum’s Nura. Eine Libanesin in Deutschland (1996) and Rafik Schami’s Die dunkle Seite der Liebe (2004). While the degree of colonial penetration of the Arab Middle East by Britain was not as strong as in the Commonwealth countries and therefore the discussed novels cannot be characterised as resistance literature as many other examples of postcolonial literature, re-negotiations and re-constructions of cultural identities nevertheless form an important part of the discussed novels. This literature can serve as an example of a new field of research within the broader context of postcolonial literature dealing with the experiences of inhabitants of former British colonies that were never part of the Commonwealth. As analytical tool the thesis uses the notion of intermediacy as developed by the American feminist and anthropologist Sherry Ortner in her seminal article on the gendering of the nature/culture dichotomy. Intermediacy is understood as a state of in-betweenness in which clear gender, cultural, ethnic and national boundaries are deconstructed. This notion proves to be particularly helpful in understanding the construction of literary subjects in the discussed novels whose protagonists oscillate between different cultures, regions and constructions of gender and cultural identities as part of their experience of intermediacy. Societies in the Arab Middle East are presented in which traditional gender roles have been undermined by the forces of colonialism, modernisation and globalisation leaving the protagonists confused about their social roles which are still determined by traditional values to a large extent but have been eroded by various internal and external factors. The thesis defines intermediacy not only in the context of gender, as originally conceived by Ortner, but also as applicable to the fluidity of cultural identities in a globalised and postcolonial world. The discussed novels portray individuals who search for secure markers of their cultural identities – in the form of a transnational and transcultural Islamic identity, for example – while experiencing the failure of these searches at the same time. In this sense, the thesis not only places these novels within the context of identity negotiations in postcolonial literature but also relates them to the general deconstruction of the subject in postmodern novels.

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