El trabajo argumenta que los saberes de los pueblos indígenas deben
ser incorporados a las estrategias de desarrollo rural de las instituciones del
Estado, a fin de minimizar o evitar los impactos ecológicos y culturales de
los nuevos sistemas agrícolas…

El autor aborda la fitotoponimia de una zona rural del Estado Mérida (Venezuela),
conocida como parroquia o micro-región Mucurubá, territorio en el que tal categoría está representada por numerosos nombres geográficos. Se analiza la significación social de los fitotopónimos, específicamente…

This dissertation examines the administration of Islamic family law in the British Straits Settlements and the Netherlands Indies through the lens of Arab merchants in colonial courts from 1860 till 1942. During this period, Arab communities tended to seek justice…

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Early Americans defined themselves, and the nation, through their relations with the world. This dissertation explores a crucial aspect of these relations, examining how global commerce, and Americans' ideas about global commerce, produced theories and practices of power. It approaches…

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This dissertation explores the conception of Jewish practice developed in the writings of Moses Mendelssohn (1729-1786). Although this eighteenth-century figure is often described as the "founder" of modern Jewish thought and as a leading philosopher of the late Enlightenment, considerable…

PICTURES OF PATRIARCHS: THE ILLUSTRATED LIFE AND ACTS OF HÔNEN









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This dissertation is a study of the Illustrated Life and…

Little has been written about the component provision problem (programming plans and domain concepts) for the repositories of knowledge in program understanding systems and reports that specifically address this issue are unknown. Model-driven and plan-driven approaches use repositories where construction…