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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Historical sites"”.
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Analysis of ceramic assemblages from four Cape historical sites dating from the late seventeenth century to the mid-nineteenth century
… then applies it to a number of Dutch and British historical sites in the south-western Cape region of South Africa in order to trace patterns of change in the availability and use of domestic ceramics in the colony. The system accommodates the wide range of African, Asian and European ceramics …
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The tourism potential of Zululand north of the Tugela River with special reference to Zulu culture and history
This thesis highlights historical sites with tourism potential between the Tugela and Lower Umfolozi Rivers up to Kosi Bay and the Mozambique border. This is roughly the area administered by the Uthungulu Regional Council today. These historical sites are monitored and administered by two most …
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Gaming and the simulation of history constructing perspectives of Machu Picchu
… I have developed a new method for depicting historical sites using game-design concepts and technologies. I argue that using computer games, design environment researchers can integrate and consolidate historical documents, challenging the dichotomy of space and time as two discrete …
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Living the Downtown: The era of new neighborhood cities
… vital cities globally. It is not just because of historical sites, monuments, and political power, but it is a home for a diverse population and an increasingly diverse economy. Almost twenty years ago, the city planning department envisioned the plan of "Living Downtown," which is now …
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Modelling visitor experience: a case study from World Heritage Sites, Thailand.
… Experience: A Case Study from World Heritage Sites, Thailand. The research is conducted in three historical parks in Thailand by using an inductive approach of Grounded Theory. This aims to propose a model of visitor experience of heritage. It focuses on experience consumption related to what, …
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Bone Artifacts at Mont Repose: Possible Motivationos for Production and Trade
… and their uses can assist in contextualizing historical sites. At Mont Repose, a rice plantation inhabited during colonial and antebellum times, a structure has been partially excavated. Included in a collection of bone artifacts unearthed from this site are bone buttons, bone toothbrushes, …
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FROM RIVER ROAD PLANTATIONS TO THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD: BRINGING THE TRUE STORY OF AMERICAN SLAVERY TO THE PRESENT RACIAL DIVIDE
… back to American slavery, using a visit to five historical plantations and Colson Whitehead’s <em>The Underground Railroad</em> to illustrate the persistence of injustice beyond slavery to Jim Crow laws, color-blind rhetoric, and mass incarceration. At each plantation, I encounter a varied …
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A magic prison
… the landmark Pioneer Inn, and walks through the historical sites of ancient Lahaina, once the home of Hawaiian royalty. We discover what it is like to work at a commercial luau and how she became a chef on Kauai.
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LiDAR-Based Analysis of Antebellum-Era Sugar Mill Remains in Brazoria County, Texas: Investigations from Above and Below
… digital elevation models in identifying historical surficial features, effectively complementing the conventional excavation and geophysical surveying methods employed thus far. The study involves the acquisition and processing of LiDAR data to construct accurate digital elevation models …
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From the Frontline to the Picket Line: Public History and the Cultural Labor Revolution
… to highlight the specific ways that public historical work prevents social movements. This thesis will build upon an existing yet nascent scholarship on public historical labor to contextualize this moment in a way that will appeal to a broad cross section of cultural workers. This analysis …
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By the Road: Fordism, Automobility, and Landscape Experience in the British Columbia Interior, 1920-1970
… Beginning in the late 1950s it did the same with historical sites: Barkerville, Fort Steele, and several others are examined here. These and other parks and historic sites were established, developed, and managed as roadside amenities, and were used to deliver lessons about nature and history to …
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Trauma Of Empire: Violence, Minor Affect, And The Cold War Transpacific
… thereby collectively act out and work through historical damage. In these sites of wounded sociality, trauma appears not just as catastrophic but also as ordinary; rather than displaying itself as an individual psychic pathology, trauma is reconfigured as a collective affective labor that …
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Cultural and historical tourism as core for local economic development at eNdondakusuka Municipality
… being recommended for the area. Cultural and Historical tourism was seen as one of the ways to explore in order to provide solutions to the declining social and economic facets of the area. This study, therefore has established its route and baseline measure along the lines of the above but …
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Archeological Inventory and Monitoring Plan
… Dinosaur's cultural resources. Archeological and historical sites abound in the monument. Each has its own special needs in regards to preservation. The purpose of the Archeological Inventory and Monitoring Plan is the documentation and protection of archeological resources. The use of the plan …
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Rethinking representations of slave life a historical plantation museums: towards a commemorative museum pedagogy
Historical plantation museums have been criticized for biased interpretation practices that marginalize the historical presence of enslaved African Americans. This is a curriculum question that is relevant to historical museums that are wrestling with impacting social change and developing …
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Immersive, Participatory, Community-Based Research and Learning
… for the first study was collected from archival historical sites, extant literature, news sources, biographies, and Jane Addams’s numerous publications. Using theoretically guided textual analysis and archival research methods, the researcher connected the origin of immersive, participatory, …
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The Site-specific Intervention as a Transitional Phase of Reconstruction: A Syrian Context
… and collective memory. It focuses on two historical sites in the old city of Aleppo: hammam Yalbugha and bimaristan Arghun. These structures were both badly damaged during Syria’s civil war, and are currently unusable and left to fall further into ruin. Reflecting upon the significance of …
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From scientific framing to architectural reconstruction : the creation of an ideal image at Didyma
… product of a certain "golden age" from the historical processes in which it accumulated its meaning. The 1895-1896 "Beaux Arts" excavations and reconstruction seem to be the most representative example of such a codification. By the end of the 19th century reconstruction drawings represented …
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