Each of these discourses may be understood to support cultural regionalism not merely as an end in itself, but as part of a larger articulation of capitalist modernity wherein local elites, state institutions, private ...

This study deals with the development of seblang and gandrung, two of the oldest rural performance traditions of the Banyuwangi region in East Java. When, as a result of the conquest of Blambangan (the last Hindu state on ...

This is a study of the musical and cultural interaction of the Mundas, an adivasi (tribal, aboriginal) group of east-central India, with Hindu caste communities living in the same region. Over the last three hundred years, ...

*This dissertation is a compound document (contains both a paper copy and a CD as part of the dissertation). The CD requires the following system requirements: Windows MediaPlayer or RealPlayer.

This study in divided into five chapters. Chapter one provides an introduction to the study. Chapter two provides the brief overview of general Korean history of the nineteenth century, and a historical survey of Western ...