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When Life Happens: Theatres Of Hiv And Complexity In South Africa, Jessica S. Ruthven
When Life Happens: Theatres Of Hiv And Complexity In South Africa, Jessica S. Ruthven
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This dissertation examines theatre as part of an artistic movement in South Africa to address the social, structural, and emotional repercussions of HIV, as well as a space in which knowledge about HIV/AIDS is actively created, mediated, reproduced, challenged, and presented for public consumption. Although applied theatre has a long history in the country, I focus on innovation in recent theatrical practices that have occurred as artists and members of broader civil society struggle to understand the trajectory of the country's AIDS epidemic and question the scope of popular national HIV intervention campaigns. I use emerging forms of cultural production …
Bronze Age Potters In Regional Context: Long-Term Development Of Ceramic Technology In The Eastern Eurasian Steppe Zone, Paula Naify Doumani
Bronze Age Potters In Regional Context: Long-Term Development Of Ceramic Technology In The Eastern Eurasian Steppe Zone, Paula Naify Doumani
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This dissertation explores the relationship between mobility, social interaction and flows of material technology in Bronze Age Semirech'ye, in southeast Kazakhstan. The work is directed at questions of operational complexity and issues of scale in understanding local and regional material assemblages and craft production in the Bronze Age. The thesis represents the first comprehensive technological analysis of Handmade Steppe Ceramics (HSC) from Semirech'ye. The ceramics date to the Bronze Age (ca. 2400-800BC) and are associated with the work of mobile pastoralists who occupied disaggregated seasonal campsites along the piedmont zone of the Dzhungar Mountains. Pottery data was obtained from newly …