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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"material cultural"”.
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Making Mongols: Representations of Culture, Identity, and Resistance
… in Northern China fear the end of a distinct cultural identity. Until the late 19th century, cultural differences between Mongols and Han could be seen through differences in each group's traditional way of life. Mongols were nomadic pastoralists. Han were sedentary farmers. Recent economic …
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"Blackfeet Belong to the Mountains": Blackfeet Relationships with the Glacier National Park Landscape and Institution
… has historically been very important to their material, cultural, and spiritual well-being. This relationship, like those of many other Native peoples, has been severely disrupted by the establishment and presence of the national park, resulting in prolonged conflict between tribes and parks. …
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"Blackfeet Belong to the Mountains": Blackfeet Relationships with the Glacier National Park Landscape and Institution
… has historically been very important to their material, cultural, and spiritual well-being. This relationship, like those of many other Native peoples, has been severely disrupted by the establishment and presence of the national park, resulting in prolonged conflict between tribes and parks. …
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Social Transformations and Ceramic Production during the 4th millennium BCE in the Shahrizor Plain and Bazyan Valley, Iraqi Kurdistan. A Geochemical and Petrographic Study.
… and economic organisation, increasing material cultural homogeneity, resource accumulation and (re)-distribution. The Uruk Phenomenon (traditionally dated to c.3600-3200 BCE) is characterised by the presence of a distinctive suite of southern material culture including pottery, …
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Accumulation: embroidery palimpsests
… Through the gradual accretion of fibrous material over extended periods of time, I produce stratified composite structures which serve as metaphors for material cultural advancement and highlight the role of decoration in examining the past, particularly its ability to mark an epoch. The …
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A Lost Cause Found: Vestiges of Old South Memory in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia
… Valley of Virginia. I analyze a whole range of material cultural practices throughout the entire region centered on the memory of the Civil War including monuments, battlefields, museum exhibits, burial rituals, historical reenactments, paintings, and dramatic performances. These mnemonic sites …
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MIGRATIONS INTERCONTINENTALES D¿OBJETS VERS LA CARAÏBE D¿EXPRESSION FRANÇAISE
This study investigates the presence of material culture in the French‐speaking Caribbean, through a literary corpus that brings together three Francophone territories: Guadeloupe, Martinique and Haiti. Drawing on research in anthropology, ethnology and sociology, we highlight the active role …
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Increasing multimedia literacy in composition for multilingual writers: a case study of art analysis
… for incorporating art analysis and material cultural artifacts are offered"--Leaf iv.</p>
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A sortie into the archaeology of the Moravian mission station, Genadendal
… of reinventing themselves in a changing world. Material evidence of both the Khoekhoen and the mission itself (excluding the architecture) during this period proved to be elusive, in contrast to the wealth of documentary records. The reasons for this elusive material expression of the 18th and …
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The Necrogeography of Melungeon Cemeteries in Central Appalachia
Previous historical and cultural geographic studies of the cemetery suggest that gravemarkers are surrogates for ethnicity and cultural assimilation. While studies of this type among single ethnic groups are common, examination of the multiethnic cemetery has largely been ignored. This study …
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Healthiness, through the material culture of the late iron age and roman large urban-type settlements of South-East Britain.
… data concerning the sites, contexts, dates, materials, types, forms, colours and decoration ofthese objects, and any associated archaeological remains found with these items. Given the social nature ofthis work, a contextual approach was central to the design. The research takes an …
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The archaeology of Mapela Hill, South-Western Zimbabwe
… theories and analyses in order to classify the material cultural objects recovered at Mapela Hill. Ceramic studies have been used to identify the cultural groups which occupied the site, and tight radiocarbon dates were established, giving insight to the chronology of the site. The results …
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Vernacular religion and contemporary spirituality: studies in religious experience and expression
… the work has also taken into consideration the material, cultural tradition and popular culture aspects of religion. By these means, it has been possible to provide original data on how people experience the spiritual dimension of their lives in a variety of traditions.<br/><br/>The scope of the …
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Cultural values change in the rehabilitation of historic schools in Portugal
… of architectural rehabilitation decisions on the cultural significance of historic buildings. Architectural heritage conservation literature has focused almost exclusively on providing principles and guidelines, describing intervention methodologies, and discussing predicted impacts of design on …
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A Transformative Morphology of the Unique: Situating Psychogeography's 1990s Revival
… the instances of extra-institutional cultural practice that drove this revival, primarily in a UK context. The exploration of psychogeography thus becomes a kind of Archimedean point: developing new angles on both the avant-garde practices of Surrealism and the Situationist …
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Ethnic Identity and the Consolidation of Imperial Power in the Grand Khitan Empire (AD 907-1125) Burial Art as Evidence for Ethnogenesis in a Multi-ethnic Society
… of Asia. By deliberate political strategies of cultural construction and the materialization of ethnic ideology, Khitan leaders maintained a multi-ethnic social fabric, consolidated their imperial power, made the ethnic Khitan distinct with the rise of their state, and ultimately proclaimed a …
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Modesty, Dress-codes and ‘Local Taste’: Examining Abaya-led Fashion Practices in The United Arab Emirates
… To examine this, I explore the cultural implications on design processes that create new localised fashion practices. Through the lens of cultural identity, I analyse competing interpretations of modesty and situated embodiment, discourses on national identity visualised through …
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The Making of Martyrs. Uprising, Cultural Sacralization and Death in Downtown Cairo after 2011
… Egyptian uprising by exploring the visual and material cultural representations of selected events in the form of unofficial memorials (predominantly graffiti), official monuments, and anniversary commemorations. These narratives were produced and reproduced in the streets and squares of Cairo, …
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Making Sense of Everyday Dress: Integrating multisensory experience within our understanding of contemporary dress in the UK
… participants, both men and women, incorporating material culture analysis. Contextualised within the specific social and cultural lives of the participants, the analysis of this data is distinctive in that it weaves together material, cultural,social, phenomenological and sensory perspectives. …
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A comparison of hunter-gatherer material culture from Matjes River Rock Shelter and Nelson Bay Cave
… thesis investigates whether or not there is a material cultural expression of the economic (and by inference, social) difference seen in the stable isotope values of human skeletons from Robberg/Plettenberg Bay and Matjes River Rock Shelter between 4500 and 2000 B.P. After 2000 B.P. the …
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