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  • Appropriation is performed by the dominant culture -- i.e. European/Western tradition.

    More on Cultural Appropriation Hal Duncan 2006

  • Appropriation is performed by the dominant culture -- i.e. European/Western tradition.

    Cultural Appropriation Hal Duncan 2006

  • Debate on the Budget, which is formally called the Appropriation (Financial Year 2011) Bill, will kick-start next Tuesday with the response of Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley.

    newsday.co.tt 2010

  • Now, once a year Parliament has to pass a bill called the Appropriation

    History of Australia and New Zealand From 1606 to 1890 George Sutherland 1880

  • And Rose Fox’s post also has a link to Nisi Shawl’s Appropriate Cultural Appropriation, which is light years ahead of anything Spinrad has to say.

    Instead of Spinrad | Spontaneous ∂erivation 2010

  • Congressmen's Retroactive Appropriation which is to come up, either in this or the next session.

    The Gilded Age A tale of today Charles Dudley Warner 1864

  • Congressmen's Retroactive Appropriation which is to come up, either in this or the next session.

    The Gilded Age, Part 5. Charles Dudley Warner 1864

  • We will once again be able to recognize and restore the intrinsic meaning to entities, if only we can learn to practice a phenomenological comportment sensitive to the "Appropriation" (her somewhat old-fashioned translation of Ereignis), an ontological truth event that — even after the end of ontotheology – still "takes away that which is its own from boundless unconcealment" (as Heidegger puts it in the 1962 essay, "Time and Being", in a passage White quotes).

    Archive 2007-04-01 enowning 2007

  • I was fortunate enough to be able to get the changes we did, says Evans, who was House Appropriation Committee chairman.

    How state lawmakers pump up pensions in ways you can't 2011

  • I was fortunate enough to be able to get the changes we did, says Evans, who was House Appropriation Committee chairman.

    How state lawmakers pump up pensions in ways you can't 2011

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