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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Historical references"”.
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Mutants: Ceramic Objects
… paper details the conceptual underpinnings, art historical references, and vital-materialistic philosophy of the exhibition titled Mutants, installed in the Edgar Heap of Birds Family Gallery February 25, 2023. This exhibition consists of eleven ceramic objects that encompass a representative …
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Printing the Pandemic: An Analysis of H1N1 Vaccine News Coverage
… and those it overlooked, and the cultural and historical references it invoked. Although news headlines initially depicted an ominous message of doom, over time the framing of the disease shifted as the severity of the illness failed to live up to its worst-case projections. The research shows …
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Paleoethnobotanical Analysis of 38Bk1633
… consists of an Ashley phase farmstead with historical references tying the land to the Etiwan Indians. Cultural resource investigations indicated the presence of early Ashley phase (A.D. 1590-1620) and Late Ashley phase (A.D. 1620-1670) occupations ending prior to the founding of nearby …
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The People's Republic of China's Preeminent Power Ambitions: An Assessment of Its Maritime Efforts
Historical references play a significant role in the determination of the People's Republic of China's ambitions and strategic doctrine. The imperial era laid the foundation for China's regional sphere of influence, and its self-proclaimed status as the "Middle Kingdom" and period of "humiliation" …
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Reading Ineffability and Realizing Tragedy in Stuart Moulthrop's <i>Victory Garden</i>
… Moulthrop incorporates poetry, fiction, historical references, and low-tech graphic novel type elements. Among the graphic components are all-black and all-white screens that function as variables. Overtly, these screens speak of closure and signify unconsciousness; however, their …
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The setting and practice of open-air judicial assemblies in medieval Scotland: a multidisciplinary study
… approach which utilises place-name, historical and archaeological evidence is adopted. Representative case studies are investigated and the results of geophysical and topographical survey presented. Place-names derived from Gaelic, Scots, Old Norse and English indicative of …
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The archaeology of coastal shell middens in Ireland
… The liminal character of the coastal zone, historical references to religious and folk beliefs concerning the coast, and inclusions of ritual deposits such as burials are examined as separate from but interwoven with the economic value of the shells.
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Preserving Tchaikovsky’s legacy: a translation and critical commentary on Kirill Kondrashin’s interpretation of Tchaikovsky’s symphonies
… is annotated to clarify rehearsal terminology, historical references, and interpretive assumptions embedded in the original. Special attention is given to Kondrashin’s distinctive use of metaphor and rhetorical language, as well as to the rehearsal-based idioms and conductor-specific vocabulary …
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Still Life and Death Metal: Painting the Battle Jacket
… jacket makers between 2014 and 2016. Recent art historical studies of still life painting have used a materialist critique of historic works to demonstrate the uniqueness of painting as a method of analysis. The context for my practice involves historical references such as seventeenth century …
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NATIONAL SELF AND NARRATIVE OF IDENTITY: CONSTRUCTION OF NATIONALISM IN MODERN PERSIAN LITERATURE AND FILM
… interest in using pre-Islamic mythological and historical references, themes and events in their writings. Such literary production functioned as a literary resistance to the policies of the Islamist rulers.To substantiate the findings about the use of pre-Islamic legacy in modern Persian …
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Ground penetrating radar characterization of wood piles and the water table in Back Bay, Boston
… and compared with ground truth derived from historical references, water level data from monitoring wells, observations from recent excavations, and the results of a resistivity survey. The results of this study indicate that modifications of this technique may allow more definite …
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From lost industrial edifices to a contemporary fantasia: A practice based investigation which examines the character and form of the post industrial shopping mall environment.
… of a pastiche and layering of post-modern historical references. The second aim was to develop a body of visual work through a systematic enquiry of practice based research which would together with a written commentary present both the outcomes of this research and the new knowledge …
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Διδακτικές ανακατασκευές της ιστορίας των μαθηματικών : η καθιέρωση της ονομασίας Θεώρημα του Θαλή στη νεοελληνική εκπαίδευση
Η χρήση αναφορών από την Ιστορία της Επιστήμης στα σχολικά εγχειρίδια γίνεται μέσα από μια ιδιότυπη ερμηνεία των ιστορικών πηγών από τους συγγραφείς τους, εντός των διαφορετικών κοινωνικών και πολιτισμικών πλαισίων κάθε εποχής, η οποία στοχεύει στην εξυπηρέτηση διδακτικών αναγκών και για το λόγο …
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FICCIÓN ESPECULATIVA EN NARRADORES CUBANOS DE LA GENERACIÓN CERO
… the first chapter I collect the theoretical and historical references that provide the basis for this work, this is achieved in three sections. The first, addresses the demarcation of the speculative fiction concept. The last two cope with the historical, political and social context in which the …
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The architectural character of Islamic institutions in the West
… images for their Institutions in cultures which historically have been unaware of the true nature of Islamic civilizations in the world. This study attempts to understand the complexities involved in designing for such building programs, which include mediating between the clients' insistence on …
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Online Specificity: Live Event Artworks and the Inner Continuity of the Network.
… artworks. Furthermore, through a genealogy of historical references the research selects a number of offline and online artworks to analyse their experiential aspect in relation to their time experience, materiality and method of realisation. The nature of web-based artworks and their encounter …
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The Spatialization of Knowledge and Power at the Astronomical Observatories of Sawai Jai Singh II, c. 1721-1743 CE
… historiography and calls for a reading of the historical landscape that recognizes both the power and the limitations of the agency of the local patron and populace. In this study, I demonstrate that the observatory outside the walls of Shahjahanabad functioned as the primary site for …
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How to wear utopia: A dress manual for a convivial future
… the research process: firstly, a theoretical and historical examination of utopian thought, and secondly, a practice-based investigation focusing on curatorial practice and art-based research. This dual approach allows for a broader exploration of the subject from multiple perspectives – both …
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<i>Segunda Parte de la Historia General Llamada Índica</i> (1572) de Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa. Estudio y Edición Anotada.
… of the chronicle. Specifically, I focus on its historical references, which studies the sociopolitical climate in which the text germinated, thus explaining its position among the cultural and ideological influences of its time. This critical study was guided by the theoretical frame on colonial …
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Ahumoana tawhito (ancient aquaculture): The translocation of toheroa (Paphies ventricosa) and other marine species by Māori
… a later date. An examination of anthropological, historical and traditional knowledge was conducted to explore the human elements of toheroa translocation. Specifically, I wanted to better understand the reasons why early-Māori might have wanted to translocate toheroa, as well as the capacity and …