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Hittade 4 avhandlingar innehållade orden USA IN Indiana University.

  1. 1. Women in rural communities : Peasants, patriarchy and the local economy in Northeast France, 1650-1789

    Författare :Elise Dermineur; James Farr; USA Indiana West Lafayette Purdue University; []
    Nyckelord :Women; gender; peasants; early modern France; historia; History;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation investigates gender relationships and the role of women in French rural society in the seventeenth and eighteenth century from two different perspectives—economic and socio-legal. I not only show female peasants’ social importance as I demonstrate that they had a prominent role not only within their respective households but also within their communities, but I also demonstrate that women were not as passive and submissive as the traditional historiography and common assumptions have asserted. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Slippery paths : The performance and canonization of Turkic literature and Uyghur muqam song in Islam and modernity

    Författare :Nathan Light; USA IN Indiana University; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Folklore; Song; Islam; Muqam; Modernity; Language; literature and linguistics; Social sciences; Turkic; Canonization; Middle Eastern literature; Uyghur; Performance; China; Asian literature; Turkic languages; Turkiska språk; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap; Religionshistoria; History of Religions;

    Sammanfattning : In the past forty years the fluid Uyghur muqam song tradition has been transformed into a cultural canon used to represent the Uyghur ethnic group within China and on the world stage. Traditional muqam performers have provided the magma of songs that scholars and politicians have edited into an invented "great tradition" which supports a Uyghur claim to an important piece world cultural history. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Design foundations for content-rich acoustic interfaces : Investigating audemes as referential non-speech audio cues

    Författare :Mexhid Ferati; USA Indiana University; []
    Nyckelord :NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Computer Science; Datavetenskap;

    Sammanfattning : To access interactive systems, blind and visually impaired users can leverage their auditory senses by using non-speech sounds. The current structure of non-speech sounds, however, is geared toward conveying user interface operations (e.g., opening a file) rather than large theme-based information (e. LÄS MER

  5. 4. From Putsch to Purge. A Study of the German Episodes in Richard Hughes’s The Human Predicament and their Sources

    Författare :Ivo Holmqvist; Engelska; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Weimar Republic; Documentary novel; English historical fiction; The Wooden Shepherdess; The Fox in the Attic; 1900-1976; Hughes; Richard; Rise of Nazism; Hitler portraits in literature; English language and literature; Engelska språk och litteratur ;

    Sammanfattning : The two last novels by Richard Hughes (1900-1976), the first in his planned The Human Predicament series, are partly set in Germany in the years between the First and the Second World War. Much of the action in The Fox in the Attic (1961) takes part in and around Munich, culminating in a fictional reconstruction of the so-called Hitler Putsch on November 8-9, 1923, the future dictator's aborted early bid for power. LÄS MER