Essays about: "culture colonization"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 19 essays containing the words culture colonization.

  1. 1. Cultural Clash and Colonial Consequences: A Comprehensive Analysis of Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart

    University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

    Author : Foosey Abdulgadir; [2023]
    Keywords : European missionaries; Christianity; Postcolonialism; Igbo culture; Cultural clash; Christian missionaries; ancestral spirits; British colonialists;

    Abstract : This paper explores Chinua Achebe's novel Things Fall Apart (1958) within the context of postcolonial theory, focusing on the clash between traditional Igbo culture and the forces of European imperialism. Achebe's work serves as a response to Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness (1899) and challenges the stereotypical portrayal of Africans. READ MORE

  3. 2. The Conversion of Indigenous Peoples to Pentecostalism in Times of Decolonization and its Potential Consequences on Identity Perception : A narrative research study in Bolivia

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

    Author : Fanny Hagberg; [2023]
    Keywords : Indigenous; religion; Bolivia; La Paz; Quellani; Copacabana; Cochabamba; Decolonization; Pentecostalism; Catholicism; conversion; syncretism; identity perception; narrative analysis. ;

    Abstract : The research was carried out to show the potential consequences of the conversion of indigenous peoples in Bolivia to Pentecostalism. The research was based on a research conducted by Canessa in 2000 on two movements already taking place at the time of his research, the rise of Indigeonus recognition in society and the rise of Pentecostalism. READ MORE

  4. 3. Exploration of ways to utilize wheat chaff through fungal substrate conversion : a base for animal feed or substrate for cultivation of edible mushrooms

    University essay from SLU/Department of Molecular Sciences

    Author : Caroline Sandberg; [2022]
    Keywords : harvest residues; chaff; oyster mushroom; agro-waste reduction; mushroom production;

    Abstract : The shift towards a more sustainable food system emphasises a need for increased circularity and valorisation of available resources. Chaff constitutes one of three main fractions obtained upon harvest of certain crops, during which it is generally discarded on the field. READ MORE

  5. 4. The Site of an Unidentified Greek Settlement? New Surveys in Coda Volpe on Eastern Sicily

    University essay from

    Author : Michael Bratell; [2020-06-30]
    Keywords : Archaeology; Archaic Age; Catania; Coda Volpe; Greek Colonization; Micro-archaeology; Periphery; Post-Colonial Theory; Sicily; Survey; Symaetus;

    Abstract : This study examines Greek colonisation’s potential for archaeology in relation to Coda Volpe district on eastern Sicily where necropoleis indicate the existence of unidentified both Greek and Roman settlements. Recent initial surveys near the Simeto delta suggests the location of a periphery, without any previous systematic study, prospecting or geophysical survey. READ MORE

  6. 5. Decolonizing Ecology: How Do Indigenous Knowledge and Decolonization Contrast and Challenge Eurocentric Conceptions of Ecological Moral Worth?

    University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Religionsvetenskap

    Author : Alexandra Silvestru; [2020]
    Keywords : Decolonization; Colonization; Indigenous Knowledge; Human Rights; Human Ecology; Environmental Ethics;

    Abstract : In a world on the brink of climate apocalypse the question if modern conceptions on the moral worth of nature are failing is no longer rhetorical. During this time of reckoning questioning core ideologies and the places where they originate from is necessary. READ MORE