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Thinking Through Binaries: Conceptual Strategies for Interdependence
Everywhere in the world people map themselves as world-central with all others as relatively peripheral. Hence the primary interest here is not cartography but cultures. These maps serve as a visible manifestation of mental constructs.
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American Drama: Text and Video
Balir discusses barriers to the study of drama in American Studies and how they can be overcome. One barrier results from the separation in the academy of its two indispensable components: play texts and theater.
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Change and Cultures: Reality Presumptions in China and the West
Compares Western & Chinese concepts of change. In the Chinese classic, Yijing (I Ching), change is seen as the fundamental reality whose threats to human welfare are best fended off by emphasis on continuity & longevity. Western thought, beginning with the Greeks, affirms the existence of invariable essences presumed to be the fundament of reality. Change functions as a secondary & variably understood phenomenon in Western history, & was inconceivable during the Middle Ages. Ironically, Chinese culture has earned a reputation for inflexibility as it seeks stability to counter the fundamental threat of change, whereas the modern West is loud with contestation over which ideas & practices conform to the always not-yet-discovered essence. Reality is a cultural artifact. Modified AA
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David Murray
The bagpipes was a lifelong hobby, which resulted in a summons to play for a state banquet (General Idi Amin was not one to be refused). The difficult political situation and family needs prompted a move back to Scotland, and David's later years were as a single handed GP in Methven, a small town in the country just north of Perth, from 1975 until 1989.
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Blackface Minstrels in Cross-Cultural Perspective
The role of the blackface minstrels in the cultures of the US and UK is analyzed from a cross-cultural perspective. The blackface ninstrels serve to promote a greater sense of ethnocentrism by promoting racism through the use of ridiculous stereotypes.
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James Shearer Frew
After the second world war, he trained as a physician, and was appointed in 1950 consultant at Maryfield Hospital and later Ninewells Hospital, Dundee University Medical School.
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