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Showing 1 to 20 of 100 for “"Artisans"”.
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Distribution channel for Moroccan artisans
… despite their talent and expertise, Morocco's artisans are struggling to reach markets other than local regional or national markets. The main distribution model used so far has been the classic retail distribution model, which does not add value to the artisans' work, with most downstream …
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a place for creation: artisans' retreat
… eye, and soul. The vehicle for this study is an artisans' retreat placed on the ridge line of Brush Mountain located in Blacksburg, Virginia. This project explores the idea of separation and the moments it creates at many scales: man to nature, maker to made, public to private, structure to skin, …
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Artisans and consumption in sixteenth-century Verona
… documentation. The experience of Veronese artisans is placed in a variety of urban contexts, for example, within the different trades, guild structures and patterns of sociability. There is also an exploration of the importance of Verona’s geographical position for trade and cultural …
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Making mathematical practice : gentlemen, practitioners and artisans in Elizabethan England
… direct negotiation with patrons, statesmen and artisans, and presented to a lay public now addressed through the impersonal medium and market of the printed book. The work of my practitioners encompassed a broad range of Renaissance mathematical arts; geometry, mathematical astronomy, surveying, …
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Artisans, Vendors, and Practitioners from the Eastern Mediterranean in Early Modern Italy
This thesis investigates the contribution of artisans, vendors, and practitioners from the Eastern Mediterranean to cultural, scientific, and artisanal production, experimentation, and innovation in early modern Italy, from the mid-sixteenth to the later seventeenth centuries. In recent years, …
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The making of art: sculptors, artisans, and artists in the Apuan Alps
… of carving activities. In the sculpture firms, artisans fabricate works for their clients, which may involve different degrees of automation and creative input. In private studios, amateurs and professionals share spaces to make art, for themselves and for others. The thesis’ approach to this …
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Application of bi-directional ICT channels to increase livelihoods for artisans in rural India
… in 1991. Today, however, millions of artisans face a lack of infrastructure, stagnation and mis-alignment with a rapidly changing market, intense competition, decline of the natural materials on which they depend, and the lack of the information and skills needed to benefit from new …
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Germans on the Western Waters: Artisans, Material Culture, and Hybridity in Virginia's Backcountry, 1780-1830
This study examines the socioeconomic lives of artisans of German descent who worked within Wythe County, Virginia from 1780 to 1830. It is particularly concerned with how a distinct German-American culture manifests over time as seen through these artisans' produced materials and structures. This …
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Consumer product preferences of cultural textile products: co-design with textile artisans from Guatemala and Peru
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To Learn Weaving Below the Rock: Making Zapotec Textiles and Artisans in Teotitlan Del Valle, Mexico
… first half of the study, images of indigenous artisans specific to the post-Mexican revolutionary period and specific to an economy most recently geared towards exporting textiles to the Southwestern US are described as constituting the discursive and economic context of Zapotec textile …
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Unreliable Drunkards or Honorable Citizens? Artisans in Search of Their Place in the Cusco Society (1825-1930)
… the economic, social, and political history of artisans of the city of Cusco, Peru, from independence to the Great Depression. We stress the heterogeneous structure of provincial artisan sectors and reject the notion of an urban artisan class because a common social and political identity among …
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Total rewards a study of artisan attraction and retention within a South African context
… quantum of total rewards that attract and retain artisans, including artisans from various race groups and age cohorts (cohort 29 and less; cohort 30-39; cohort 40-49; and cohort 50+). Motivation for the study. The shortage of scarce skills, like those experienced in South Africa should not only …
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Lives in the informal art trade : an ethnographic case study of Maputo, Mozambique
… The research points to a swell in numbers of artisans in Maputo over the past dozen years. Tourism has developed in Mozambique; expanding the clientele for Maputo's informal artisans. The increase of artisans has had a few negative effects including a drop in prices due to competition and a …
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Kalani : product development and leadership in a new venture
… in those steps. Kalani was created to work with artisans to promote their disappearing crafts, thus supporting their economies and providing an opportunity for the continuation of the craft. The first product was to create blankets in Portugal, with artisans in a village in Serra de Estrela. The …
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Respectable militants : the Lancashire textile machinery makers, c.1800-1939
… Britain. Throughout this industry's history its artisans retained characteristics of respectability and militancy allied with a strong sense of local independence. (Chapter 1) As the industry expanded in the 1830's and 1840's the artisans fought to retain control over the labour process and …
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Sustaining cultural heritage : the impact of eBannok on the Akha women of Thailand
… of social and cultural heritage of female artisans. The results support a pedagogy and curriculum that focuses on learning about cultural heritage producers, fair trade outlets and artisan cooperatives, and about female producers culturally situated and relational identities in their …
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The promiscuity of freedom : development and governance in the age of neoliberal networks
… intellectual property rights among traditional artisans as tools for rural development, and a national effort to encourage the uptake of free/libre and open source software based resources. Promising to modernize government and prepare citizens for the global, information-based economy, these …
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Working with your hands : essays on craft occupations in India
… of such gains. This paper, by studying how artisans and traders in a wood and lacquerware cluster in India vary prices across buyers, demonstrates the importance of product attachment in understanding price discrimination. Drawing on a field audit study where trained buyers purchase …
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Comb-making in medieval Novgard (950-1450). An industry in transition
… hair. Hundreds of these products of professional artisans made out of skeletal materials and wood forming the basis of this research, derive from major excavation sites investigated during 1951-2000 in the medieval town of Novgorod (NW Russia). The site covers the extensive overall area of over …
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