Made available in DSpace on 2016-07-27T14:20:47Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 CELIOMAR RODRIGUES SILVA.pdf: 12740675 bytes, checksum: aa765b71d245bd656c70a5fc62abd092 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2005-03-15 / This study investigates the importante of preservation of culture and memory while constituting elements of social identity of na Indian community in danger of becooming extinct: The Avá-Canoeiros of Goiás and Tocantins States. Starging as of a bibliographic research carried out July 2003 to February 2005, directed my analytical attention to actual implications of the loss of cultural memory of this indian Nation (both remnants and mestizos - half-breed). The research focused on the search of cultural references and the psycho-social-cultural strutcture of the Avá-Canoeiros, with the helf of Social Psychology and its connections with anthropology, history, and sociology. Furthermore, the loss of social memory of this community is due to the influence carried out by the civilized white society that marginalizes and despises the Indian societies since the very beginning of the historical process - privately the Avá-Canoeiros - of a new culture, causing them dramatic implications in their social identity. The cultural massacre of the Avá brought them a double invisibility: invisible not only for the others, but for themselves. Because of this, we are trying to establish e relation between memory and social identity based on the acquisition of the psycho-social processes so constituted. / Este estudo investiga a importância da preservação da cultura e da memória enquanto elementos constitutivos da identidade social, tendo como referência uma comunidade indígena em extinção: Os Avá-Canoeiros dos Estados de Goiás e Tocantins. A partir de pesquisa bibliográfica, desenvolvida entre julho de 2003 a fevereiro de 2005, analisa-se as implicações da perda da memória cultural dessa nação indígena (tanto os remanescentes quanto os mestiços). A pesquisa centrou-se na busca de referências da cultura e da estrutura psico-sócio-cultural dos Avá- Canoeiros, à luz da Psicologia Social e de suas relações com a antropologia, a história e a sociologia. A perda da memória social da comunidade estudada, em função do poder exercido pela sociedade civilizada branca dominante, que marginaliza e despreza as sociedades indígenas ao longo da história - em particular os Avá-Canoeiros a partir da imposição violenta de uma nova cultura, traz dramáticas implicações do ponto de vista de sua identidade social. O massacre cultural dos Avá, causa-lhes uma dupla invisibilidade: invisíveis não apenas para os outros, mas para si mesmos. Nessa perspectiva busca-se estabelecer a relação entre memória e identidade social, pela aquisição dos processos psicossociais aí constituídos.

Diss. (sammanfattning) Umeå : Umeå universitet, 2010. / Härtill 4 uppsatser.

This thesis aimed to report on the qualitative research conducted which identified the role played by international television soap operas in identity formation and cultural change in relation to Kurdish women. Currently, Kurdish women live in a cultural context where traditional values often conflict with modern values when it comes to behaviour deemed appropriate for their gender. Through the impact of international television soap operas, Kurdish women come to identify themselves as being 'traditional' while at the same time they attempt to integrate non-traditional beliefs into their value system. This study looked at the relationship between Kurdish women's exposure to international television, soap operas and consumerism, as well as the problems which they create in terms of non-Western women's identity formation. This thesis has documented the lives and experiences of 21 female Kurdish participants, aged between 18 and 40, through in-depth interviews and observations. The thesis assumes that the views recorded are representative of the general viewpoint of viewers of the international soaps. Open-ended, in-depth interviews about women were used to explore viewing habits and preferences for various soaps. This thesis incorporates and expresses the ideas which were recorded with regards to the accepted 'typical' characteristics of men and 4 women - it is these characteristics which play an important role in selfformation. It became evident that these women had incorporated values from the traditional Kurdish culture and the modern way of life. The Kurdish women cannot be said to have a 'modernist' outlook on gender-appropriate behaviour, as they are still endemically entrenched in traditional Kurdistan worldviews. The qualitative research analysed the level in which the soap operas act as a kind of medium between the values of modernity and those of tradition. This study, in addition, demonstrates the appeal that soap operas can have on the norms, and other aspects, in the Kurdistan Region, and therefore illustrates that the soaps have an active role as a mechanism of change in Kurdistan. Thus, the research demonstrates the power of the soap operas and their effects on the Kurdish people in this region. Furthermore, this research explored the current media environment in the Kurdistan Region by reviewing the dependency of Kurdish viewers, and the Kurdish television channels, on foreign and imported television programmes into the region.

This dissertation critically analyses New Zealand’s National Museum Te Papa Tongarewa. Since it opened in 1998, Te Papa, arguably the world’s foremost exponent of the ‘new museology’, has been popularly and critically supported for its innovations in the areas of popular accessibility, bicultural history, and Maori-government management arrangements. As the first in-depth study of Te Papa, I examine and problematise these claims to exceptionality. In producing an analysis that locates the museum within cultural, political, economic and museological contexts, I examine how the museum’s particular institutional program develop, and point to limitations in its policy and practice.

This interdisciplinary thesis belongs to Marie Antoinette studies. The contemporary dissonant commodification of the controversial historical character of the last Queen of France, detected at her former home, Petit Trianon, drives the course of the thesis research. Considering the complexity and controversy of the subject, the thesis seeks to make a contribution to extant scholarship by clarifying important modern history issues through a fresh approach: by using art history as an indicator in assessing the historical truth of the narrative of Petit Trianon, the residence identified as home to the last Queen of France. The thesis examines Petit Trianon and Marie Antoinette in the context of four major narratives - the historical, cinematic, architectural and heritage narratives - relevant to the contemporary heritage interpretation of Petit Trianon as well as its visitor perceptions. In addition to sourcing evidence for the arguments originating in art history information, the thesis relies on the data collection provided by a tailor-made survey for the topic, placing the results in the wider context of a hermeneutical interpretation of data found in either history or contemporary popular culture. The array of Marie Antoinette’s images detected by the analysis charts the commodification of this historical character at Petit Trianon: its production and consumption. It is through the assessment of this commodification that the present thesis reveals the misconceptions surrounding the historical character best known as Marie Antoinette. The thesis argues that the true role of the last Queen of France was successfully obscured through juxtaposition with her perception by the French collective memory. In other words, the perception of Marie Antoinette had subverted historical truth. Furthermore, the commodification of her historical character is perpetuated in an endless chain of representations fuelled by postmodern consumerism.

La investigación pretende conocer la incidencia de los discursos insertos en la transformación urbana del distrito de Chavín desde su súbito enriquecimiento como beneficiario del canon minero de Antamina, en la configuración de la identidad de sus pobladores, relacionado al carácter habitual de su práctica constructiva. Se identificaron dos discursos fuertemente arraigados entre los chavinos, reflejo de una convivencia tácitamente confrontada. Por un lado, un grupo reducido de sus habitantes, antiguamente hacendados y hoy dedicados al turismo, sostienen que el acceso al canon ha devenido en un crecimiento desordenado que no respeta las reminisencias del turista sobre la configuración urbana de un pueblo andino, haciendo frente de manera crítica a un discurso ajeno pero legitimado y absorbido por el grueso de la población. Esta última es oriuna de los caseríos aledaños, abandonó el trabajo agrícola atraído por los beneficios del canon y sostiene que el nuevo panorama económico ha favorecido notablemente la ciudad al dotarla de infraestructuras modernas, término que también buscan atribuir a sus viviendas. Después de un análisis exhaustivo a partir de material fotográfico validado con ocho entrevistas a profundidad, se desvinculan los hábitos de las prácticas relacionadas a la configuración urbana del distrito, reconociendo que la expansión y modificación del lugar no corresponden a un hábito constructivo. Por el contrario, sus practicantes han optado por cuestionar las conductas pasadas y su sentido, a través de un discurso que encubre su naturaleza económica. Pero en medio de esa fragmentación identitaria, se halla aquello que tal ves les es común a las dos partes: el afán superior de parecer antes que ser. Con ello se concluye que la colectividad que conforman los habitantes y sus formas de captación del paisaje urbano, están indefinidamente en construcción. / Tesis

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This thesis analyses processes of discursive European identity formation in three cultural journals: Esprit, from France, the British New Left Review and the German Merkur during the time periods 1989-92, and, a decade later, during 2003-06. The theoretical framework which the thesis brings to bear on this analysis is that of the European Public Sphere. This model builds on Jürgen Habermas’s original model of a “public sphere”, and alleges that a sphere of common debate about issues of European concern can lead to a more defined and integrated sense of a European identity which is widely perceived as vague and inchoate. The relevancy of the public sphere model and its connection to the larger debate about European identity, especially since 1989, are discussed in the first part of the thesis. The second part provides a comparative analysis of the main European debates in the journals during the respective time periods. It outlines the mechanisms by which identity is expressed and assesses when, and to what extent, shared notions of European identity emerge. The analysis finds that identity formation does not occur through a developmental, gradual convergence of views as the European public sphere model envisages. Rather, it is brought about in much more haphazard back-and-forth movements. Moreover, shared notions of European identity between all the journals only arise in moments of perceived crises. Such crises are identified as the most salient factor which galvanizes expressions of a common, shared sense of European identity across national boundaries and ideological cleavages. The thesis concludes that the model of the EPS is too dependent on a partial view of how identity formation occurs and should thus adopt a more nuanced understanding about the complex factors that are at play in these processes. For the principled attempt to circumscribe identity formation as the outcome of communicative processes alone is likely to be thwarted by external events.

La tesi cerca di rispondere alla domanda: 'La libanese intifadha al-Iqtad poteva essere prevista?'. la tesi prima definisce l'evento politico, e. Successivamente esamina le condizioni epistemologiche in base alle quali una predizione del futuro possa essere considerata scientifica. In terzo luogo, propone uno schema di previsione organizzato in funzione del coinvolgimento degli agenti nella creazione della storia umana. Infine, analizza la intifadha al-Iqtad in base allo schema analitico proposto. / The thesis aims to answer the question 'could the Lebanese Intifadha al-Iqtad have been predicted?' In order to do so, it first of all tries to define the political event, in terms of features, dynamic, and outcome. Secondly, it outlines the epistemological assumptions on which a scientific prediction of the future could be based. Thirdly, it puts forward a framework for foreseeing the future organised on different levels and divided into macro-categories. Finally, it analyses the Lebanese Intifadha al-Iqtad according to the proposed framework.