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An outline of the development of Chinese and Japanese-style calligraphy in Japan from pre-Edo to modern times
(1999)This thesis focuses on the development, from pre-Edo to modern times, of Japan's two main traditions of calligraphy- namely wayo (Japanese style) and karayo (Chinese style). Emphasis has been placed on the Edo period, in ... -
Refuge or turmoil? : Somali adolescent refugees in Christchurch schools : intercultural struggle and the practices of exclusion
(1998)Somali refugees have resettled in New Zealand since 1993. Yet, there is a dearth of information about their experience in this country. This thesis moves into uncharted territory by considering the adaptation of Somali ... -
Young & restless : negotiating youthful gender identities in a "postfeminist" era
(1999)Within contemporary 'western', industrial culture the nature and experience of femininity and masculinity is characterised by tension and contradiction. This thesis looks at how young, subcultural women and men ... -
A pool of anglepoised light : the legacy of colonialism in three Indian novels written in English
(2000)This thesis examines the work of three major Indian novelists belonging to consecutive generations whose responses to the legacy of colonialism emerges from and signals important historical shifts in postcolonial India. ... -
The construction of exotic otherness :representation and colonial politics in the Pacific
(1999)This thesis works to deconstruct and dismantle the construction and representation of the West and the Pacific, portrayed respectively as Self and Other in a variety of textual mediums, including explorers' accounts, ... -
Stripping men : a comparison of the New Zealand play Ladies Night and the British film The Full Monty as they (re)define maleness in the post-feminist world
(2000)In what appears to be a reversal of conventional gender roles the male characters of the New Zealand play Ladies Night (1987) and the British film The Full Monty (1997) strip for a female audience. The phenomenal ... -
The role of the press in maintaining social ideology
(1998)The press perform a crucial role in facilitating the social, economic and political spheres which combine to bind society together. This thesis looks at the relationship between the press and ideology. It provides an account ... -
Dretske's representational thesis
(1999)The aim of this thesis is to defend the negative thesis that it is not the case that all mental facts are facts about indicator functions. That which I am arguing against is Fred Dretske's Representational Thesis. The ... -
The crack of the whip? : party cohesiveness and institutional consensus
(1987)Although numerous studies of the New Zealand Parliament have characterised MPs and their parties as exhibiting a high degree of discipline and cohesiveness in their legislative behaviour, none have provided more than a ... -
Three New Zealand cause groups : a look at motivation
(1976)This study began as a simple inquiry into why a certain type of pressure group, the cause group, as opposed to the economic interest group, existed in the New Zealand political system. It was prompted by the writer's ... -
'Preaching the social gospel' : Methodist pacifism, 1935-1945
(1988)This thesis is a study of pacifism in the Methodist Church during the 1930's and World War 11. It concentrates particularly on the nature of Methodist Pacifism at this time. This was based on Christian pacifism, the ... -
The depiction of women : a study of lead stories in three New Zealand women's magazines
(1999)This study examines the issues which surround the portrayal of women in three New Zealand women's magazines; New Zealand New Idea, New Zealand Woman's Day and New Zealand Woman's Weekly. This thesis takes the form ... -
Agreement in Bimanese
(2000)This thesis is primarily concerned with the nature and behaviour of actor agreement clitics in the Indonesian language Bimanese (Central Malaya-Polynesian; Sumbawa). In addition to qualifying these morphemes as both ... -
An Analysis of Young Adults in New Zealand's Engagement with All Right Mental Health Campaigns
(2022)This analysis employs both qualitative and quantitative approaches to identify how young adults in New Zealand aged 18-25 years old have engaged with All Right? campaign material. A survey targeting young adults returned ... -
The fighting manner of javelin-men and other light troops and their effectiveness in Greek warfare from the beginning of the Peloponnesian War to the Second Battle of Mantinea
(2000)"And when one of the Athenian allies afterwards once sneeringly asked one of the prisoners from the island [of Sphacteria] if those dead were fair and brave, he answered him that the spindle, meaning the arrow, would be ... -
Dorothy Kate Richmond, 1861-1935
(1994)Traditional art history has neglected the significance of Dorothy Kate Richmond as one of the first generation of New Zealand-born women to have successfully negotiated her career as an artist. This thesis presents a ... -
From plain to square : the architectural history of Cathedral Square, Christchurch, as an urban space, 1850-1974
(1994)Cathedral Square has been an important focus for the people of Christchurch and Canterbury since the beginning of the Province in 1850. The aim of this thesis is to trace its architectural development as an urban space ... -
The New Zealand diplomatic service : a bureaucratic elite
(1977)This thesis uses a modified social background approach to elite analysis as a basis for examining the New Zealand Diplomatic Service. The approach is conventional in that it draws heavily on data about the social origins ...