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Showing 1 to 20 of 39 for “"Cultural artefacts"”.
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Exploring the Biocybernetic loop: Classifying Psychophysiological Responses to Cultural Artefacts using Physiological Computing
… real-time adaptive technology in the context of cultural heritage. The proposed system was designed to infer the interest or intention of the user and to augment elements of the cultural heritage experience interactively through implicit interaction. Implicit interaction in this context is the …
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User-appropriate viewer for high resolution interactive engagement with 3D digital cultural artefacts.
The core mission of museums and cultural institutions is the preservation, study and presentation of cultural heritage content. In this technological age, the creation of digital datasets and archives has been widely adopted as one way of seeking to achieve some or all of these goals. However, …
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Re–placing memories : time, space and cultural expression in Ivan Vladislavić's fiction
… on the interpretation of the past and of cultural artefacts such as cityscapes, buildings, monuments, photographs, and fine art within the South African context. No study has yet considered Vladislavić's entire oeuvre in terms of the interaction between time and space and their particular …
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Music, Cinema and the Representation of Africa
… in which films potentially serve as historico-cultural artefacts. By analysing the musical texts alongside the visual narratives and against the backdrop of the societies in which they are created a more nuanced articulation of the tensions and specificities of African societies can be …
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Cyber-História: estratégias e possibilidades do ensino de História aliadas ao desenvolvimento de jogos digitais com o uso do Rpg Maker
… their history, classifications, potential as cultural artefacts, and use as historical sources, providing support for teachers who wish to apply the strategy in the classroom. The second chapter analyses research in the field of History that has explored the use of digital games, organizes …
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Stir it up: interdisciplinary popular musicology and creative industries
… engagements with post-1968 British and American cultural artefacts and scenes in which Popular Music predominantly figures. Secondly: that these critical engagements seek to identify the political import and functions of these artefacts and scenes in the light of the failure of the grand …
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Saints and subverters : the later Covenanters in Scotland c.1648-1682
… memory studies, the thesis draws upon a range of cultural artefacts in order to reconsider the intellectual and social dynamics of Covenanting opposition to the Restoration regime. In particular, journals, diaries, memoirs, histories, correspondence and printed polemic are examined to explain how …
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Innovative representations of trauma: trauma in popular culture
… twenty-first century popular culture. Dominant cultural trauma theory tends to focus on high cultural avant-garde works. However, more recent studies increasingly examine trauma representation in popular culture. This thesis sets out to add to these studies, uncovering new themes and techniques …
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The design and social meaning of Australian type specimen books, 1880-1901
… between 1880 and 1901, analysing them as cultural artefacts that offer a rich and previously unexplored source of information on colonial typography. The books were designed to promote typography, showcasing the various letterforms and visual devices used by colonial printers, though we …
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Sunset Warriors: Cowboys, Samurai, and the Crisis of Masculinity
… to the crisis of masculinity as a social and cultural phenomenon. It is experienced and responded to by men and women, and it is reflected in and developed through the narratives of cultural artefacts such as film. Through close analysis of film texts informed by interdisciplinary research I …
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Exploring the figured worlds of teachers and pupils in the primary mathematics classroom: Five illustrative cases
… and their notions of; identity, dialogue and cultural artefacts, Belenky, Clinchy, Goldberger & Tarule’s (1986) ways of coming to know and Sfard’s (1998) metaphors for learning, I was able to offer a new way of viewing the contrasting learning environments of these mathematics classrooms. …
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To repatriate or not to repatriate: developing a guidance framework for assisting in the resolution of cultural property disputes
Repatriation is the process of returning cultural artefacts, sacred objects and human remains to countries, communities and indigenous peoples where a rightful claim has been established. Museums and other repositories may willingly repatriate items to those legitimately seeking their return and so …
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Urban Water History of Shahjahanabad, Delhi (1639-1857): Situating Mughal Hydrology and Urbanism in the ‘Persianate World’
… It presents infrastructural systems as cultural artefacts and explores contours of control, access, and use of ‘water’ in the capital region through a study of Shah Nahr, the Mughal canal. As a revivalist homage to antecedent water management practices in Central Asia & Iran, the …
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An ecosystem for the sentient object - Two new taxonomic models for New Zealand museums
… be demonstrated that both indigenous and western artefacts possess a life essence, what kind of ecosystem would they live in, and could this premise be applied to better care for our collections in the wider museum context? In my thesis, I explore what can be learnt from the cultural and spiritual …
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Capturing Culture: The Practical Application of Holographic Recording for Artefacts Selected from the Heritage and Museums of the Arabian Peninsula
Recording cultural heritage is one of the most important issues for consideration in the twenty- first century. Safeguarding, protecting and preserving heritage, through effective mechanism, is of crucial importance. Holographic technology has the potential to offer an appropriate solution to solve …
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Common pleasures : low culture in Sydney 1887-1914
… dominant order was commonly articulated through cultural codes and practices. Moreover these were historically specific, determined by contemporaneous facts and conditions. The historic period under discussion spans the transition from Victorian to modern culture. It saw the spectacular growth of …
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Practice-led research into ways the museum is explored as a house of wonder in contemporary sculpture
… to the two sites chosen, using the aesthetics of cultural artefacts, natural specimens, and skeleton galleries found in museums of natural history and ethnography. The form and materiality of these objects intends to defy didactic interpretation. The dissertation reveals that, as a result of its …
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Constructing identity : collecting Oceanic art/artefacts in New Zealand : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Museum Studies at Massey University
… and the increasing market promotion of cultural artefacts as fine art works. The study concludes that there has been an increasing interest by collectors of contemporary New Zealand fine art to incorporate Oceanic historic and contemporary art forms into their fine art collections. The …
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An investigation of bioremediation for the conservation of petroleum-contaminated stone monuments
Today, great effort is made for the protection of cultural heritage. Natural or anthropogenic factors decrease the conservation condition of the cultural artefacts, while their protection and survival mainly depends on political, financial, and technological issues. This project concerns the …
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The local community's cognition of the development of gaming facilities in Richards Bay and environs
… between natural wildlife and modernised African cultural artefacts and facilities for attracting tourists. (c) a gaming studies and research institute should be established at a local provincial university, so as to facilitate tourism education among the populace, as well as gaming-based skills …
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