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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Humans and things"”.
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Animistic Fictions: German Modernism, Film, and the Animation of Things
… animated objects in German modernist literature and film between roughly 1900 and 1930. Rainer Maria Rilke's 1902 remark that "all community has withdrawn from things and humans" corresponds to a more general reflection in German literary modernism on a new estrangement and distance between human …
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Interpretation at the Controller's Edge: The Role of Graphical User Interfaces in Virtual Archaeology
… GUIs provide interactive capabilities and contextual information for 3D content such as structure-from-motion (SFM) models, and can represent the difference between "raw data" and thoughtful, skilled scholarly publications. This project explores the implications of a GUI created with …
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The Material of Polytheism in Archaic Greece: Understanding Greek Religion Through Patterns of Dedicatory Practice and Thought, ca.750–480 BCE
… patterns of dedicatory practice across Greece, and then use these patterns as a window onto the mindset of ancient worshippers in relation to their many gods. I use new materialist perspectives to address religious and theological questions concerning Greek polytheism, including how ancient …
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Forest insects, personhood and the environment: Harurwa (edible stinkbugs) and conservation in south-eastern Zimbabwe
… organisms (a unique species of insects), and natural forests in a specific environment, Norumedzo, in the south-eastern region of rural Zimbabwe. Based on ethnographic fieldwork undertaken in the aforementioned region between December 2011 and December 2012, the study interrogates the …
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Mellan människor och ting : En interaktionistisk analys av samlandet
… importance of human interaction for the understanding of societies, is a well established fact. In this study, the focus is the interaction between human beings and material things as it is occurring in practice. Such an approach with its important consequences for understanding both social life …
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Supporting User Interactions with Smart Built Environments
… recent advances in sensing, actuation, computing and communication technologies, the integration between the digital and the physical environment was limited. Humans linked those two worlds by collecting data about the physical environment before feeding it into the digital environment, and by …