• Hurdy-gurdy: new articulations 

  Nowotnik, Piotr (2016)

  The purpose of this thesis is to expand existing literature concerning the hurdy-gurdy as a contemporary musical instrument. Notably, it addresses the lack of hurdy-gurdy literature in the context of contemporary composition ...

• Creating legitimacy in decentralized Indonesia: Joko 'Jokowi' Widodo’s path to legitimacy in Solo, 2005 - 2012 

  Mas'udi, Wawan (2017)

  This dissertation analyses the process of creating political legitimacy in Indonesia’s decentralized transitional democracy. In a transitional context, the authoritarian mode of legitimation was no longer effective, but ...

• Genuine anguish, genuine mind: 'loyal' Buddhist monks, poetics and soteriology in Ming-Qing transition-era Southern China 

  Bell, Corey (2016)

  The best known genre of Chinese Buddhist poetry is the ‘nature’ or ‘landscape’ poems, which were seen to have religious value because they promoted ‘detachment’ from society and used the tranquillity of a secluded scene ...

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