Ibn Khaldun's complex work conveys some of the most controversial ideas in medieval Muslim intellectual tradition. Scholars have usually tended to liken it to modern sciences such as historiography, sociology, or anthropology. Accordingly, Ibn Khaldun has appeared as a modern mi…
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This thesis examines how medieval Byzantium is represented in French epics, romances, and chronicles of the twelfth and early thirteenth centuries within a discursive triangle formed by Exoticism/Orientalism/Otherness. Despite their geographical proximity with the Muslim world, …
This dissertation focuses on the historical representations and social practices in terms of which Banda Eli, an Eastern Indonesian village, is defined as a distinct cultural entity. In scholarly history and colonial records the founders of the village are consistently identifie…
Critical discourse analysis investigates the ways in which discourse is to abuse power relationships. Political debates constitute discourses that mirror certain aspects of ideologies. This study aimed to uncover the ideological intentions in the formulation and circulation of h…
There is a close relationship between art and philosophy. From time to time, philosophy attempts to make art its theme. Invariably it has to acknowledge the very qualities of art that it seeks to explain - art’s elusiveness and its indeterminateness. On the other hand, it is the…
This thesis focuses on a body of cultural productions and, more specifically, on some texts that have emerged on the French and francophone literary scene in the early eighties. There are about thirty novels, a few testimonies and some movies, which all share the characteristic …
La notion d'altérité circule avec insistance dans la conscience collective contemporaine, mais, à ma connaissance, il n'y a pas d'ouvrage critique qui aborde simultanément la spécificité de différentes sortes d'altérité dans la fiction pour en saisir les formes, la signification…
Clara Janés's poetry attests to the diverse traditions within Spanish culture, highlighting many of the cultural and religious groups that have historically lent the peninsula an in-between space in the west/east, white/non-white, Judeo-Christian/Islamic divides. This study expl…
In this dissertation, I investigate how the growing market for "ethnic art" is linked to the pursuit of modern and cosmopolitan identities among producers, distributors and consumers. Based on field research in Bali, Indonesia and in California, Georgia and North Carolina, I exa…
This study researched the nature of self-identified unlikely ally friendships. An unlikely ally is a person who, despite possible opposition from family or societal group, forms a platonic friendship with someone from another race, religion, ethnic, or cultural group within the …