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Mozambique's Colonial-Era Non-Human Primate Collection at the National Museum of Natural History and Science of Lisbon: Taxonomy, Provenance, and Historical Context. [PDF]
Am J Biol AnthropolABSTRACT Objectives This study reviews Mozambique's non‐human primate collection housed at the National Museum of Natural History and Science (MUHNAC) in Lisbon. The collection originates from the Zoological Missions of Mozambique (1948 and 1955) carried out under Portuguese colonial administration. The objectives of this work were to: i.
Osório M, Veracini C.
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Bioarcheological Perspectives on the Timing of Adolescence in Rural Avar-Age Austria, 7th-9th Centuries ce. [PDF]
Am J Biol AnthropolABSTRACT Objectives This study provides insights into adolescent development during the early medieval period in Austria and offers a point of comparison of the timing of sexual maturation relative to the Imperial Roman and the late medieval periods. Materials and Methods The timing of adolescent development of 89 individuals in two rural cemeteries ...
Klostermann P +7 more
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#hoops #basketballhistory @Hoops_Heritage: examining possibilities for basketball heritage within the context of higher education, critical museology and digital redirections [PDF]
Sport in History, 2021 Until recently, social, economic and political investment into sport heritage in the United \ud Kingdom has been sporadic, variable and inconsistent. This is particularly the case for sports \ud conventionally not considered significant to popular national interest. In the UK, this \ud classification extends to basketball and its heritage.
Geoffery Z. Kohe +2 more
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Instagram as a participatory tool: A comparative analysis of six Spanish museums
Communication & Society (Formerly Comunicación y Sociedad), 2023 Digital media is usually understood as a tool that helps the social and participatory ideal of museums and cultural institutions to materialize. This ideal has its roots in the reflections that, since the 1980s, new museology and critical museology ...
Andrea Kaiser-Moro +1 more
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From Ancient Techniques to Modern Solutions: In Situ Synthesis of C-S-H for Sandstone Conservation. [PDF]
Adv Sci (Weinh)Herein, this work presents a paleo‐inspired approach to synthesizing and optimizing C‐S‐H‐based grouting mortars for conserving the sandstone of Beishan Grottoes, Dazu Rock Carvings, China. By achieving an optimal recipe compatible with natural sandstone, this work demonstrates the pivotal role of hydrogen bonding in the adhesion between C‐S‐H mortars ...
Jia M +9 more
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Museum & Society, 2021 This article reflects on the exhibition Arts of Resistance: Politics and the Past in Latin America, showing how the project challenged common representations of Central and South American art and history by displaying local, often Indigenous, ways of ...
Laura Osorio Sunnucks
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Museos de arte, públicos y pandemia. Análisis de dos casos argentinos
Les Cahiers ALHIM, 2023 In this article we will analyse one of the communication and interaction strategies used by two Argentinean museums in the confinement during the pandemic caused by SARS COV-2: The Latin American Museum of Art of Buenos Aires (MALBA), privately managed ...
Ana Bugnone, Verónica Capasso
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THE ANONYMOUS NARRATIVE: INTERPRETING HISTORY THROUGH VISUAL ANALYSIS [PDF]
Езиков святThe article presents a research-creative project, which examines the concept of “anonymous narratives” through the study of a woven raffia artifact held at the Théodore Monod Museum in Dakar, Senegal.
Savina TOPURSKA
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Museum Worlds, 2013 Synthesizing work carried out by the author over the past twenty-five years, this article proposes a tentative disciplinary definition of critical museology, distinguishing its related methodological interdictions and describing its distinctiveness from what is here defined as operational museology.
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Journal of Conservation and Museum Studies, 2017 In this critical assessment of the ‘museology of science’ I cherry-pick recent scholarship and practice to unpack the functions of science collections. Some practices (exhibition, engagement, study) have already attracted considerable attention, others ...
Samuel J M M Alberti
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