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Spirituals, Saddler Taylor Jan 2007

Spirituals, Saddler Taylor

Staff Publications

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Local Wisdom, Environmental Protection And Community Development: The Clam Farmers In Tambon Bangkhunsai, Phetchaburi Province, Thailand, Kamonthip Kongprasertamorn Jan 2007

Local Wisdom, Environmental Protection And Community Development: The Clam Farmers In Tambon Bangkhunsai, Phetchaburi Province, Thailand, Kamonthip Kongprasertamorn

Manusya, Journal of Humanities

The present article is a study of the use of the People Research and Development Method as a means of promoting local wisdom, environmental protection, and community development in Tambon Bangkhunsai, Phetchaburi Province, Thailand. This method allowed the community to do their own research and to utilize their local wisdom as a form of untapped capital on which self-reliance can be built. Research findings indicated that the People Research and Development method could stimulate local wisdom to protect the environmental and develop the community in a number of ways. In particular, the local fishermen employed their local wisdom to collect …

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Improving 'Consumer Protection' With Buddhist Ethics: Necessity, Possibility, Challenge, Suntharee T. Chaisumritchoke Jan 2007

Improving 'Consumer Protection' With Buddhist Ethics: Necessity, Possibility, Challenge, Suntharee T. Chaisumritchoke

Manusya, Journal of Humanities

This article primarily aims to draw attention to the concept of consumer protection in health care and the drug regulatory system. Consumer protection originated in the Western tradition and later it became a consumer protection model adopted by countries all over the world. However, it has been challenged when consumers have encountered the various unethical drug marketing strategies of the pharmaceutical industry. Modern advertising and aggressive drug marketing have considerably contributed to and stimulated mixed feelings of greed, fear and delusion so that consumers? minds have become weak and vulnerable. Meanwhile, the minds of physicians and the drug regulators have …

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Mon Nationalism And The Invention Of Traditions: The Case Of The Mons In Thier Diasporic Communities, Juajan Wongpolganan Jan 2007

Mon Nationalism And The Invention Of Traditions: The Case Of The Mons In Thier Diasporic Communities, Juajan Wongpolganan

Manusya, Journal of Humanities

This essay is aimed to describe and analyze the invention of Mon traditions by applying Eric Hobsbawm and Terence Ranger's concept of invented traditions. As I found in my observations in the field and in archival research, the Mons in their homeland and their diasporic communities overseas have invented a number of traditions in order to show solidarity. These include national costumes, a national flag, a national anthem, and a national day.

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King Mongkut's Political And Religious Ideologies Through Architecture At Phra Nakorn Kiri, Somphong Amnuay-Ngerntra Jan 2007

King Mongkut's Political And Religious Ideologies Through Architecture At Phra Nakorn Kiri, Somphong Amnuay-Ngerntra

Manusya, Journal of Humanities

This research investigates King Mongkut?s vision of modernity as expressed through the medium of Phra Nakhon Kiri in Phetchaburi. King Mongkut used hierarchically traditional architecture as a means of bolstering national pride and legitimising claims to the right of kingship. Simultaneously, a political position of Siam as a modern state was manifested through European-Sino-Siamese hybrid architectural styles in the mid-nineteenth century. In addition, the bell-shaped pagoda style within the site complex reflected his religious reform directed at upgrading monastic practices and purifying the canon. His reformed Buddhist sect, Thammayut, is characterised as rational, intellectual, and humanistic. Such religious reform was …

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A Comparative Study Of Chinese Musical Activities And Thai Cultural Contexts, Jintana T. Barton Jan 2007

A Comparative Study Of Chinese Musical Activities And Thai Cultural Contexts, Jintana T. Barton

Manusya, Journal of Humanities

This research explores the influence of Chinese music as it is reflected in cultural activities in China and Thailand. In China, music has been used since long before the time of Confucius (551-479 BC) as a learning tool, and the Chinese who migrated into Southeast Asia and ultimately Thailand brought their music with them. In Thai society, Chinese music has been used in traditional ways. Although the music remains closer to what was brought with the immigrants, it has been adopted into Thai society in ways that go far beyond the original Chinese use. This research found that some Chinese …

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The Decline Of Socialist Realism In Post-1975 Vietnamese Literature, Montira Rato Jan 2007

The Decline Of Socialist Realism In Post-1975 Vietnamese Literature, Montira Rato

Manusya, Journal of Humanities

In Vietnam, Socialist Realism served as a tool for the party and the state to control art and literature. Its emphasis on the utilitarian function of literature and collectivism is a good explanation for why it flourished in Socialist countries, including Vietnam. However, Socialist Realism was found unsuitable for the development of Vietnamese literature in the post-1975 period. This study tries to examine how Socialist Realism was adopted and adapted in Vietnam, and why it was challenged in the post-war period.

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Semantic Extension Of The Verb Of Breaking In Thai And Japanese, Kingkarn Thepkanjana, Satoshi Uehara Jan 2007

Semantic Extension Of The Verb Of Breaking In Thai And Japanese, Kingkarn Thepkanjana, Satoshi Uehara

Manusya, Journal of Humanities

The fact that a lexical item has semantic variations when combined with other linguistic elements is a central issue in lexical semantics. A number of researchers claim that a lexical item has one basic meaning, and that other extended meanings are triggered in context by a process whereby the semantic structure of the lexical item is adjusted in certain details so that it is semantically compatible with its neighboring lexical items. This paper aims to examine how this process actually works as it applies to a transitive verb occurring with subject and object arguments. A study of the Thai transitive …

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The 2005 Year's Work In Linguistics In Thailand, Pranee Kullavanijaya Jan 2007

The 2005 Year's Work In Linguistics In Thailand, Pranee Kullavanijaya

Manusya, Journal of Humanities

A study of Thai linguistics works in 2005 shows that most are M.A. theses and doctoral dissertations done by Thai students in five universities in Thailand and a few universities in the U.S.. and the U.K.. Only three works analyse foreign languages, while the rest investigate the Bangkok Thai dialect. Five main areas are identified: sound and orthography, sociolinguistics, utterance semantics, lexical semantics and syntax-semantic interface. More works focus on the last two areas. With regard to the frameworks used in the analyses, pragmatics, discourse, and speech acts are found most often. Several topics such as village names, politeness, and …

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Syphilis, Gonorhoea, Leprosy, And Yaws In The Indonesian Archipelago, 1500-1950, Peter Boomgaard Jan 2007

Syphilis, Gonorhoea, Leprosy, And Yaws In The Indonesian Archipelago, 1500-1950, Peter Boomgaard

Manusya, Journal of Humanities

This paper dexamines the history of sexually transmitted diseases in Southeast Asia and explores the origins of venereal disease, specifically syphilis and gonorrhoea, in the region. The arrival of new diseases that accompanied Europeans from about 1500, is a subject that scholars have largely ignored in favour of the 19th and 20th centuries. While concentrating on the Indonesian archipelago, the paper also considers to other parts of Southeast Asia to investigate the impact of syphilis and gonorrhoea on the rate of population growth in the region. Unlike gonorrhoea, which was present before the arrival of Europeans, syphilis was a new …

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The Body And Sexuality In Siam: A First Exploration In Early Sources, Barend Jan Terwiel Jan 2007

The Body And Sexuality In Siam: A First Exploration In Early Sources, Barend Jan Terwiel

Manusya, Journal of Humanities

In this article some aspects of the relationship between the degree of display of the uncovered body and sexuality are explored, using data from Thai historical sources. A close look at some illustrations in manuscripts from the Ayutthaya and Thonburi periods establishes that prior to the middle of the nineteenth century, Siamese etiquette allowed for large parts of the body to be exposed to public gaze. It is assumed that this may have affected attitudes towards sexuality. A hypothesis whereby the relatively generous display of the human body is correlated with a larger degree of matter-of-factness towards the body and …

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Filial Piety And Chastity In Du's The Tale Of Kieu: A Challenge To Confucianism In Vietnam, Montira Rato Jan 2007

Filial Piety And Chastity In Du's The Tale Of Kieu: A Challenge To Confucianism In Vietnam, Montira Rato

Manusya, Journal of Humanities

he early 19th century Vietnamese masterpiece, The Tale of Kieu by Nguyen Du, is a story that famously highlights the conflict between the Confucian concepts of filial piety and female chastity, and between personal obligations and personal morality. This paper explores how issues of love and sexual relationships, as portrayed in the Tale of Kieu, influenced the thinking of Vietnamese intellectuals in the early 20th century. Drawing on parallels to Kieu???s plight, it is argued that the Vietnamese, who collaborated with the French, often made sense of their actions in terms of sexual submission and sacrifice as well as being …

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Women, Sexuality And Politics In Modern Cambodian Literature, Klairung Amratisha Jan 2007

Women, Sexuality And Politics In Modern Cambodian Literature, Klairung Amratisha

Manusya, Journal of Humanities

This essay aims to explore the political messages found in the work of Soth Polin, one of Cambodia?€?s influential writers in the 1970s. Soth?€?s short story, Sramol Ptī Oey..Khluon Ūn Rahaek [My Dear Husband?€?My Body Was Torn Apart] illustrates how Cambodia was in a state of physical and moral decay during the Vietnam War as a result of attacks from Vietnamese Communists and American influence over the Cambodian leaders during the Vietnam War. In Soth?€?s stories, pornographic, philosophical and political elements are artistically interwoven. The author uses women?€?s bodies and sexuality as both a site of patriarchal control and as …

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Translation Of "Chto Bylo Strashno? Nichego Ne Strashno..." By Y. Neyman, Y. Neyman, Sibelan E. S. Forrester , Translator Jan 2007

Translation Of "Chto Bylo Strashno? Nichego Ne Strashno..." By Y. Neyman, Y. Neyman, Sibelan E. S. Forrester , Translator

Russian Faculty Works

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Folk Mythology, Sibelan E. S. Forrester Jan 2007

Folk Mythology, Sibelan E. S. Forrester

Russian Faculty Works

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Folk Song, Sibelan E. S. Forrester Jan 2007

Folk Song, Sibelan E. S. Forrester

Russian Faculty Works

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Science Fiction (Nauchnaia Fantastika), Sibelan E. S. Forrester Jan 2007

Science Fiction (Nauchnaia Fantastika), Sibelan E. S. Forrester

Russian Faculty Works

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Poshlost, Sibelan E. S. Forrester Jan 2007

Poshlost, Sibelan E. S. Forrester

Russian Faculty Works

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Grand Valley Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 2 Winter 2007, Grand Valley State University Jan 2007

Grand Valley Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 2 Winter 2007, Grand Valley State University

Grand Valley Magazine

Grand Valley Magazine is a quarterly publication about Grand Valley State University produced by University Communications since 2001.

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Jelinek In Film And Script: Tales Of Sound Vs. Fury: "Malina" (1991), Sunka Simon Jan 2007

Jelinek In Film And Script: Tales Of Sound Vs. Fury: "Malina" (1991), Sunka Simon

German Studies Faculty Works

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Review Of "The Sushi Economy: Globalization And The Making Of A Modern Delicacy" By S. Issenberg, Hansjakob Werlen Jan 2007

Review Of "The Sushi Economy: Globalization And The Making Of A Modern Delicacy" By S. Issenberg, Hansjakob Werlen

German Studies Faculty Works

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A Tale Of Two Priests And Two Struggles: Liberation Theology From Dictatorship To Democracy In The Brazilian Northeast, Jan Hoffman French Jan 2007

A Tale Of Two Priests And Two Struggles: Liberation Theology From Dictatorship To Democracy In The Brazilian Northeast, Jan Hoffman French

Sociology and Anthropology Faculty Publications

Land for the landless, food for the hungry, literacy for the uneducated— not through charitable works, but by forcing the state to take seriously its responsibilities to its poorest citizens. This was integral to the theology of liberation as it was practiced by bishops, priests, and nuns in Brazil beginning shortly after the close of the Second Vatican Council in 1965. Important sectors of the Brazilian Catholic Church were “opting for the poor” at a time when economic development, modernization, and democracy were not considered appropriate or meaningful partners in the repressive environment characterized by the Brazilian military dictatorship (1964-1985).

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'Si Ridesti [Il Leon Di Castiglia] La Fiamma Sopita': Ricordi's Censored Libretto Of Ernani And Some Vicissitudes Of The Conspiracy Scene, David B. Rosen Jan 2007

'Si Ridesti [Il Leon Di Castiglia] La Fiamma Sopita': Ricordi's Censored Libretto Of Ernani And Some Vicissitudes Of The Conspiracy Scene, David B. Rosen

Verdi Forum

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Outside Inside Out: Perspectives On Social Anxiety, Kevin Andrew Hagan Jan 2007

Outside Inside Out: Perspectives On Social Anxiety, Kevin Andrew Hagan

LSU Master's Theses

“Outside Inside Out” is a study of how the visual perspective of an installation design can be used to create interaction, animation, and multiple messages. Traditionally, graphic designers have tended to present their messages either as flat printed materials, such as newspapers and billboards, or as videos/animations on television and the Internet. While both of these mediums provide an adequate means to convey a message, they fall short in presenting information to the audience in a non-obtrusive, interactive form. By using a technique I developed called “Passive Interactivity,” designers can use a viewer’s visual perspective to create interaction, animation, and …

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Rawls And Health Care, Elizabeth H. Coogan Jan 2007

Rawls And Health Care, Elizabeth H. Coogan

Honors Theses

John Rawls’s A Theory of Justice (1971), his first major work articulating his theory of justice as fairness, was immediately recognized as a fundamental contribution to political philosophy in the twentieth century. Working within the tradition established by previous philosophers such as Kant and Locke, Rawls employed the contract theory approach. Taking it to a higher order of abstraction, he sought to determine not what the structure of social organization would be, but what the principles which governed social institutions would be under a hypothetical contracting situation. Rawls uses this contract theory approach to construct a society in which the …

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The Practical And The Sentimental: The Artifact Collection Of The Danish Immigrant Museum, Angela Stanford Jan 2007

The Practical And The Sentimental: The Artifact Collection Of The Danish Immigrant Museum, Angela Stanford

The Bridge

Many of the things immigrants brought from Denmark were of practical value to them as travelers building new lives across the ocean. Trunks, blankets, tools, and clothes were obvious choices for anyone moving from one place to another. Photographs, knickknacks, toys, and other like items may not have been as practical, but held sentimental value by reminding them of the homes, families, and friends they were leaving behind.

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Utpa Undergraduate Catalog 2007-2009, University Of Texas Pan American Jan 2007

Utpa Undergraduate Catalog 2007-2009, University Of Texas Pan American

UTPA Archives - Course Catalogs

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Urban Danish Foodways And Ethnic Marketing Strategies In Bien, 1900-1950, Catrine Kyster Christensen Giery Jan 2007

Urban Danish Foodways And Ethnic Marketing Strategies In Bien, 1900-1950, Catrine Kyster Christensen Giery

The Bridge

Food culture is an integral part of popular culture. Fabio Parasecoli defines popular culture as “the totality of ideas, values, embodied experiences, representations, material items, practices, social relations, organizations, and institutions that are conceived, produced, experienced, and reciprocally connected within environments influenced by markets and consumption, with or without the specific economic goal of reaping a profit.” When food culture appears in the semi-public sphere—for example, in grocery stores, restaurants, bars, butcher stores, and bakeries, it demarcates a space where the desires and strategies of businessmen and consumers meet. Consumers want the products they need at an affordable price, and …

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Donald Davidson, Anomalous Monism And The Study Of Religion, G. Scott Davis Jan 2007

Donald Davidson, Anomalous Monism And The Study Of Religion, G. Scott Davis

Religious Studies Faculty Publications

Donald Davidson’s concept of “anomalous monism” is not nearly as well known as his related attack on the idea of “conceptual schemes,” though they are closely related. This concept, I shall argue, has several important implications for the study of religion. In particular, it implies that, as an account of mind and language, “cognitive science” is going to be of limited interest. Moreover, and that approaches to the study of religion based on models drawn from cognitive science are likely to be “degenerate research programmes.” If this is so, then we can reasonably marginalize such programmes to the extent that …

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Utpa Graduate Catalog 2007-2009, University Of Texas Pan American Jan 2007

Utpa Graduate Catalog 2007-2009, University Of Texas Pan American

UTPA Archives - Course Catalogs

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