Musical notation in the Beneventan zone is attested in a brief explicit in a manuscript datable to 948-49. Other safely datable local testimonies to the practice of writing music have survived from about 40 years later; by the turn of millennium there are enough documents to all…
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This project investigates a filmic technique—the production of moments of absorption and estrangement—and its translation and provocation to architecture with attention to private life and residence. The design research explored a set of formal, material, tectonic, programmatic,…
The primary aim of this PhD is the investigation of the history of street-names and street naming in the capital of Cyprus, Nicosia, the last divided European capital since 1974. The study examined the political dimensions of toponymic commemoration as an aspect of municipal pol…
This dissertation is devoted to exploring Armenian Üsküdar (an Anatolian side municipality of Istanbul) and its surroundings within the lenses of “conviviality” as conceptualized by Freitag (2014). Armenian neighborhoods in Üsküdar had all its relevance within the Ottoman rule i…
The Deuteronomistic History (Dtr) is a story with a message for Israel in exile. It tells the story of Israel's leadership from its entry, under Moses and Joshua, into the land covenanted to its ancestors to its eventual expulsion from the land under monarchy. The story begins w…
The Hebrew Bible contains numerous injunctions against Israelite involvement in polytheistic worship. While the statements of the prophets and Biblical historiographers speak of rampant polytheism in ancient Israel, and cite disloyalty to YHWH as one of the main factors contribu…
The Republic of Turkey was established in 1923 out of the ruins of the Ottoman Empire. Soon thereafter, Mustafa Kemal (Atatürk) and his ruling Cumhuriyet Halkci Partisi (Republican People's Party) launched a series of reforms which were designed to transform all aspects of life,…
"Redskins: Insult and Brand examines how the ongoing struggle over the team name raises important questions about how white Americans perceive American Indians, about the cultural power of consumer brands, and about continuing obstacles to inclusion and equality. C. Richard King…
Looks at the controversial branding of the Washington Redskins professional football franchise, the positions of those who support and challenge it, and what the controversy says about perceptions of Native Americans and the power of brands. --Publisher's description.
The Washington Redskins franchise remains one of the most valuable in professional sports, in part because of its easily recognisable, popular, and profitable brand. And yet "redskins" is a derogatory name for American Indians. The number of grassroots campaigns to change the na…
Looks at the controversial branding of the Washington Redskins professional football franchise, the positions of those who support and challenge it, and what the controversy says about perceptions of Native Americans and the power of brands. --Publisher's description.
"Redskins: Insult and Brand examines how the ongoing struggle over the team name raises important questions about how white Americans perceive American Indians, about the cultural power of consumer brands, and about continuing obstacles to inclusion and equality. C. Richard King…
