sources are better than their oral equivalent‚ but the African interior did not yield many written sources until the 19th century. Jan Vansina‚ however‚ supports the legitimacy of oral sources as a form of historical evidence and has adopted oral traditions to reconstruct the African past for fifty years. This paper‚ therefore‚ chronologically explores some of Jan Vansina’s major publications and discusses the methodological approaches he established to apply oral sources in the reconstruction of the
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through many new empires‚ events and groups of people which included the Muslims‚ the Catholic Church‚ the Barbarian invasion‚ and the Byzantium Empire. These people and events influenced the way Western civilization has developed today. One period in history that had many contributions to the way western civilization has developed today is the middle ages. The idea that the Middle Ages were "dark ages" has been exaggerated a lot. In fact the middle ages are split into three distinct time periods
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word "tradition" as something stultifying and old‚ having no meaning for or application to us personally; something usually being forced upon us by someone who smells funny and is only seen on holidays. What all of this means is that we can no longer simply follow the examples of old. It is up to us to create new family traditions. Celebrating is not hard. We all know about celebrating and have some ways of doing it. The only challenge is to find new ways. Why do we need to celebrate tradition? It
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Intellectual Property Rights 2014 1.Intellectual property rights: US set to punish India The Indian embassy in Washington DC too scheduled a briefing by its economic and commerce wings soon after the expected US action. TNN | Feb 10‚ 2014‚ 10.28PM IST WASHINGTON: It’s not looking good between New Delhi and Washington. Tensions over the Khobragade episode are yet to fully dissipate‚ but the two sides are locking horns again over intellectual property rights. The Obama
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Greeks‚ and the Hellenistic monarchs. These types of regimes laid the groundwork for that of the Romans who took pieces of each of these past civilizations and implemented it in their own system which eventually would grow into the foundation for Western Civilization. The Egyptians conquered Nubia during the Middle Kingdom period (Sherman‚ 21).
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A REPORT ON THE FATE OF TRADITION – INDIAN CULTURE By P.SANDEEP ID.NO.2005S5P4483 A report submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements of TAGC 312: Technical Report Writing 12 March 2007 a ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I am grateful to Dr.CHAGLA‚ my instructor for the course TECHNICAL REPORT WRITNG‚ for many valuable ideas and suggestions he gave for the
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Non-western Performance – Summative assignment – 1‚500 words – 28th May Write a reflective essay on the basis of your experience in this module‚ moving from the theoretical and historical part to the performative segment. What did you learn? How did the knowledge you gained of African‚ Chinese and Indian performance traditions help and inform your summative ensemble performance? What kind of problems did you encounter in your intercultural ensemble work? How did you solve them? Were you happy
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Q: What is Antonio Gramsci’s concept of understanding of the intellectuals. How is it different from the conventional perception of intellectual in his essay "The Formation of the Intellectuals" Ans: Marxist thinker Antonio Gramsci in his essay "The Formation of the Intellectuals" focuses on the way how intellectuals are formed in a society and the activites they perform in it. Every society is composed of various social groups‚ which has specific role in the mose of production because of the
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How realistic is the realist tradition? By Dan Andrei Dumitru Realism as a tradition of thought in political theory has been a perennial approach and it can be traced back for more than two millennia. However‚ as Donnelly (2000‚ p1) remarks‚ “the link between realism and international theory is especially strong in the twentieth century”‚ being a dominant theory before and after the second World War and then declining after the end of the Cold War. Furthermore‚ as he points out‚ realism
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TITLE: Western Concepts of God DISCUSSANT/s: Lopez‚ Abby Domingo‚ Jetter Alexis Barreda‚ Maria Claudette Obias‚ Stephanie Tiamzon‚ Carlo Listana‚ Christian Dave Jacobo‚ Michelle Samson‚ Brixton WESTERN CONCEPTS OF GOD Western concepts of God have ranged from the detached transcendent demiurge of Aristotle to the pantheism of Spinoza. Nevertheless‚ much of western thought about God has fallen within some broad form of theism. Theism is the view that there is a God which is is the creator and
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