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Melanesia a catalogue of the ethnographical collection in Exeter City Museum
Published 1982 Subjects: “…Melanesians Material culture Catalogs…”
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Mechanics of pre-industrial technology : an introduction to the mechanics of ancient and traditional material culture /
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The Other Side of Society. Reflections on Waste and its Place
Published 2016-03-01Subjects: Get full textThis paper presents us with waste; buried, burnt, flushed away, it nevertheless lies at the very heart of our (all too?) material culture, its presence a malodorous affront to what we call “society”. In reading in its decomposing forms the “spirit” of a people that once inhabited and enlivened it (P...
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Objects of Stereotype: the role of material culture in the construction of the 16th century imaginary of Brazilian indigenous people
Published 2023-12-01Subjects: Get full textWith the opening of the Atlantic routes and the encounter between Europeans and indigenous populations, several sources and information started to circulate about the inhabitants of the New World. Literary accounts, graphic representations and ethnographic objects began to be disseminated, greatly i...
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“Saying ‘I Do’ All Over Again”
Published 2018-10-01Subjects: Get full textThis article details a project that involved collecting the necessary items to produce a set of wedding pictures. While photographs have long been understood as indexical signs, the process of collecting the items via trips to thrift stores reveals a host of additional indexical signs through the s...
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Preliminary bibliography on traditional science technology in the Pacific islands : partly annotated /
Published 1992 Subjects: “…Material culture Oceania Bibliographies.…”
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Large-surface Rubbish Dumps of the Modern Period. Genesis, Possibilities of Protection, and Research by the Use of Archaeological Methods
Published 2019-02-01Subjects: Get full textThis article describes the origin of large-scale landfill in the second half of the 19th and at the beginning of the 20th century. Policy related to waste management in selected European cities and methods of their utilisation and segregation are discussed. The author later presents the possibiliti...
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From Beyond the Grave: The Affective Power of James VII and II's Relics
Published 2025-06-01Subjects: Get full textStimulated by the recent acquisition by National Museums Scotland of a silver locket said to contain the pericardium of James VII and II’s heart, this paper considers the part played by such relics and their containers, the reliquaries, in supporting the Stuart challenge to Hanoverian rule, and the...
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Reconsidering North African lutes: ʻūds and kwītras in La Musique Arabe dans le Maghreb
Published 2023-12-01Subjects: Get full textThis article explores North African lutes in Jules Rouanet’s La musique arabe dans le Maghreb (Rouanet, 1922, p. 2829, 2920, 2927). In particular, it draws attention to the fuzzy boundaries between Tunisian ʻūd, ʻūd ‘arbī, and Algerian kwītra. In combining techniques such as analysis of texts and a...
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Antropologie, archeologie a interpretativní přístup: příklad domova
Published 2014-06-01Subjects: Get full textThe article compares how two differentdata sets – archaeological data about a Neolithicsettlement and anthropological data from aninterview and mental map about home – couldfi ll the theoretical concept of home by KimberlyDovey (1985). The idea is to show the differencesbetween the data and the simi...
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La materialidad de lo común: apuntes para una aproximación arqueológica a los comunales en el sur de Europa
Published 2021-11-01Subjects: Get full textThe last decades have resulted in a strong renewal of the academic interest of the common lands, even more in a context of revaluation of the rural world and the local scale as alternatives to the globalizing process. A renewal which has motivated different ways for approaching the common lands, inc...
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Medieval weaponry from the River Dziwna, the Wolin Commune, in the light of metallographic analyses
Published 2015-01-01Subjects: Get full textTechnological examinations of weaponry found in the River Dziwna near Wolin were carried out in the Laboratory for Bio- and Archaeometry of the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences. The examined assemblage included: four axes, one incompletely preserved langsax a...
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The Australian aboriginal heritage : an introduction through the arts /
Published 1973 Subjects: “…Australian aborigines Material culture Exhibitions.…”
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An Intimate Collection of Pocket Diaries: Material Emotions and Fragmented Narratives
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Perspectivas múltiples. El intercambio de objetos entre etnólogos e indígenas en las tierras bajas de América del Sur
Published 2014-09-01Subjects: “…material culture…”This essay investigates the multifaceted meanings of objects within the scope of scientific expeditions into the lowlands of South America. It therefore concentrates on the journeys undertaken by German anthropologists around the late 19th and early 20th century. The analysis, which considers both E...
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Making parasocial identification tangible: Can film memorabilia strengthen travel intention?
Published 2024-12-01Subjects: Get full textPurpose: The main purpose of this paper is to expand on the theories of parasocial identification and transitional objects, and to pioneer the investigation into how imaginative practices become tangible aspects of tourist behavior. Methods: Based on a survey data with 385 Game of Thrones fans, a...
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Low-cost mobile 3D scanning of heritage objects to facilitate long-distance research collaboration - a technical note
Published 2025-07-01Subjects: Get full textWhile three-dimensional visualization has become a common tool in various cultural heritage applications, the emphasis has been on high fidelity representation, essentially the generation of digital twins or digital reconstructions. Overlooked appears to be the utility of 3D in research collaboratio...
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La cultura médica instrumental: los viajes políticos de los esfigmógrafos entre Europa y América.
Published 2006-12-01Subjects: Get full textGenerally explained by the association between precision and instrument, the instrumental dominion of medicine in actual days is assumed as a natural and necessary destiny. Placed in the practices of Mexican physicians of the XIX century, I discuss this naturalized image of medical instruments. Taki...
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‘[t]he Vessel containing the Sacred oyle’: Negotiating Kingship in the Scottish Coronation of Charles I
Published 2025-06-01Subjects: Get full textTaking place over seven years after Charles I’s accession to the throne in 1625, his Scottish coronation was the topic of much contemporary discussion until its eventual fruition in 1633. This resulted in several prescriptive orders of ceremony being penned, plus various accounts of the actual even...
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