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Atrio., 2013 This article aims to show the recent evolution of concepts such as Cultural Heritage, by offering a survey of the architectural restoration project methodology of the Cuenca Cathedral.
Joaquín Ibáñez Montoya +1 more
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National Relics: Secular Sacrality, Museums, and Heritage‐Making in Nineteenth‐Century Chile
Museum Anthropology, Volume 49, Issue 2, Fall 2026.ABSTRACT This article examines how objects and bodily remains are transformed and ritualized into national relics through collecting and exhibiting practices in museums. Focusing on nineteenth‐century Chile, it draws on archival sources, material culture theory, and the anthropology of religion to argue that objects associated with Chile's nation‐state
Hugo Rueda Ramírez
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Contested heritage landscapes for Arabic language learning in a postcolonial France
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 1, May 2026.Abstract This article analyzes the contested and multiple meanings of “heritage” that emerge for advanced Arabic language learners in a postcolonial France. A linguistic life histories approach reveals a fraught duality of privileged access and exclusionary adversity for heritage students of Arabic.
Chantal Tetreault +2 more
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Basket-Handle Arch and Its Optimum Symmetry Generation as a Structural Element and Keeping the Aesthetic Point of View [PDF]
, 2019 The arches were a great advance in construction with respect to the rigid Greek linteled architecture. Its development came from the hand of the great Roman constructions, especially with the semicircular arch. In successive historical periods, different
Alcayde García, Alfredo +5 more
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Program Note: Benjamin Britten, War Requiem [PDF]
, 2014 This is a program note to Benjamin Britten's War Requiem, performed by the Boston University Symphony Orchestra & Chorus (David Hoose & Scott Allen Jarrett, conducting) at Symphony Hall, Boston University on November 24, 2014.
Schmidt, James
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Orbis Litterarum, Volume 81, Issue 2, Page 140-154, April 2026.Abstract This article considers mental and poetic “maps” of London in their respective relationships to Harry Beck's famous 1930s “circuit‐diagram” map of the underground railway system. This iconic image distorts and radically stylizes London geography; thus, it functions as a tool for planning individual travel itineraries but leads to a ...
Craig Melhoff
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, 2009 My research has for many years been concerned with ceremonial objects, the spaces they occupy and other associated elements (music, ritual, contemplation).
Howard, Ashley
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Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice, 2014 I wish to thank the European Research Council, Grant on Analysis of Learning in Regulatory Governance (http://centres.exeter.ac.uk/ceg/research/ALREG/index.php). The following friends provided helpful suggestions before the plenary session in Grenoble: Colin Provost, Alessia Damonte, Nikos Zahariadis and Tony Zito. The usual disclaimer applies.
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A note on the St. John Co-Cathedral marble tombstones : the artisans, foreign and Maltese [PDF]
, 1999 The aim of this brief study is to modestly review the documentation principally in the notarial archives concerning the tombstones, mainly in the period 1678 to 1819 and the marble craftsmen, local and foreign, who executed their masterpieces so expertly.
Debono, John
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