This investigation identified the learning styles and creative performances of Bruneian primary, secondary, performing, non-performing, regular, elite, creative and noncreative students and their teachers' teaching styles. It also compared the significant differences between/amo…
This dissertation considers alternative accounts of the Partition in the performative public sphere that complicate our received official histories of Indian independence from British rule. The 1947 Partition of British India into India and Pakistan affords a crucial historic mo…
Ahl-i Haqq (Yārisān) is a unique religion with the fundamental teaching that the power of God, following the original stage of nothingness or absolute oneness, manifests itself in a cyclic manner in seven layers. This sevenfold power of God is called the Haftan. The first comple…
AlterNations: Performing Indonesian Communicability argues that the heterogeneous plurality of the term "nation" is revealed through the certain ways a singular national language comes to be performed. By utilizing the term "alter-nations" this thesis demonstrates that performan…
The Gulf has been the site of deep cultural exchanges through the millennia. This diverse heritage is reflected in the contemporary music traditions in instrumentation, form, structure, and style. The Gulf has also been the site of tremendous change over the last century with th…
This dissertation examines a form of historical production that has been practiced in Bali, Indonesia, since the early 18th century. In this local Southeast Asian tradition, history is conveyed not just through the production of dynastic chronicles known as babad but through the…