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Cultural Contestation as a Tool for Examining Ethnic Conflict

Cultural crossings of care: An appeal to the medical humanities

Modern medicine is confronted with cultural crossings in various forms. In facing these challenges, it is not enough to simply increase our insight into the cultural dimensions of health and well-being. We must, more radically, question the conventional distinction between the 'objectivity of science' and the 'subjectivity of culture'. This obligation creates an urgent call for the medical huma...

The Rough and Rosy Road: Sites of Contestation in Malaysia's Shackled Media Industry

A recent article by a regular commentator in Malaysia's Sun newspaper called for the resignation of a minister over a scandal involving government attempts to eradicate the pervasive problem of forged driving licenses.' True, the affair he referred to happened more than three years ago and the minister in question had since retired anyway, but the implications of his call and the general thrust...

Realistic Walkthrough of Cultural Heritage Sites-Hampi

In this paper we discuss the framework for a realistic walkthrough of cultural heritage sites. The framework includes 3D data acquisition, different data processing steps, coarse to fine 3D reconstruction and rendering to generate realistic walkthrough. Digital preservation of cultural heritage sites is an important area of research since the accessibility of state of the art techniques in comp...

ideological and cultural orientations in translation of narrative text: the case of hajji baba of isfahan

در میان عواملی که ممکن است ذهن مترجم را هنگام ترجمه تحت تأثیر قرار دهند، می توان به مقوله انتقال ایدئولوژی از طریق متن یا گفتمان اشاره کرد. هدف از این تحقیق تجزیه و تحلیل جنبه های ایدئولوژیکی و فرهنگی متن مبدأ انگلیسی نوشته جیمز موریه تحت عنوان سرگذشت حاجی بابای اصفهانی ( 1823) و ترجمه فارسی میرزا حبیب اصفهانی(1880) بوده است.