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Collecting Coins and Medals in 18th-Century Sweden
Artium Quaestiones, 2023 During the 18th century, collections of coins and medals were familiar sights. The collectors ranged from scholars to amateurs, men and women and the collectables tempted collectors for various reasons: they signified wealth and knowledge, they rendered ...
Ylva Haidenthaller
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Cult collectors: Nostalgia, fandom and collecting popular culture, by Lincoln Geraghty
Transformative Works and Cultures, 2014 Review of Lincoln Geraghty, Cult Collectors: Nostalgia, Fandom and Collecting Popular Culture. New York: Routledge, 2014. $39.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-415-61766-6.
Michael S. Duffy
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Journal of Pollination Ecology, 2016 Up to 60% of the bee species of a region are oligolectic; they collect pollen only from a closely related group of plants though nectar-collecting choices are often broader.
Vince Tepedino +2 more
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Mobile objects: the space of shells in eighteenth-century France [PDF]
, 2006 The frequent distinction made between scientific and purely amateur collections misrepresents the specificity of the field of eighteenth-century natural history.
Dietz, Bettina
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Slovenský Národopis, 2021 Collecting activities were an important cultural and social phenomenon in 19th century Europe. Women also participated in these activities, although in many cultures their role and the results of their collecting work have not yet been adequately ...
Urbancová Hana
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Agriculture, 2022 Given the problem of the low tensile performance of the plastic film used in China, which brings about difficulties in curl-up film collecting, in this study, a contrast test was carried out on the tensile property of high-performance film for full ...
Jie Liu +5 more
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Recaudación real y prácticas de poder ejercidas en el siglo XV por recaudadores judíos en Galicia
Hamsa, 2015 Although medieval legislation in Castilian kingdom forbade Jewish people to work as tax collectors, some of them, appointed by the king, practiced this activity. The Jewish collectors, as king´s representatives, had the same power than the Christian ones
María Gloria de Antonio Rubio
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A practical framework for data collection in wireless sensor networks
, 2008 Optimizing energy consumption for extending the lifetime in wireless sensor networks is of dominant importance. Groups of autonomous robots and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) acting as mobile data collectors are utilized to minimize the energy ...
Hanoun, Samer, Nahavandi, Saeid
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21: Inquiries into Art, History, and the VisualBy 1956, the Philadelphia Museum of Art had acquired a major collection of Indian sculpture from Stella Kramrisch and appointed her as the Curator for Indian art.
Brinda Kumar
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The cultural capitalists: notes on the ongoing reconfiguration of trafficking culture in Asia [PDF]
, 2017 Most analysis of the international flows of the illicit art market has described a global situation in which a postcolonial legacy of acquisition and collection exploits cultural heritage by pulling it westwards towards major international trade nodes in
Bourdieu P +26 more
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