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This dissertation is about indigenous coffee farmers who win state recognition of their ancestral territory. The story unfolds in a place called Katu that is tucked between the lush foothills of Indonesia's Lore Lindu National Park, on the island of Sulawesi. In 1995, an Asian D…

Thousands of designer sketches from the Bergdorf Goodman custom salon dated from the late 1940s through 1969 are housed in the Department of Special Collections and FIT Archives of the Gladys Marcus Library at the Fashion Institute of Technology. The sketches are stored alphabet…

This dissertation is a 'thick' description and analysis of the institutions, practices and mentalités that framed a vital arena for the daily lives of the cosmopolitan denizens of mid-eighteenth-century Islamic Eurasia. It was within this arena that men, goods, ideas and knowled…

This dissertation explores the development of the concept of custom in the Islamic legal tradition. Within this tradition the concept has been associated with the two terms of `urf and `adah. After a review of modern scholarship on the subject, the dissertation examines the root…