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Historical Memory of Ainu through Material Culture in Japanese Literary Text: An Analysis of Tsushima Yuko’s Work

open access: yesIzumi, 2021
This research discusses the elements of material culture in the literary text of Jakka Dofuni Umi no Kioku no Monogatari by Tsushima Yuko in presenting historical memories of the Ainu as one of the indigenous people in Japan.
Wawat Rahwati   +2 more
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Fighting Illicit Trafficking of Cultural Goods—The ENIGMA Project

open access: yesRemote Sensing, 2023
Cultural heritage is a testimony of past human activity, and, as such, cultural objects exhibit great variety in their nature, size, and complexity, from small artefacts and museum items to cultural landscapes, and from historic buildings and ancient ...
Petros Patias, Charalampos Georgiadis
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Embodying the colonial memory. White colonists and “implicated subjects” in photographs from Equatorial Guinea

open access: yesCulture & History Digital Journal, 2023
Except for explicitly colonial approaches, academic research on the visual culture of former colonies tends to adopt an allegedly critical perspective towards colonial history, as a way to participate in the construction of a conscious memory that helps
Inés Plasencia Camps
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Mnemonic Communities of Displaced Indigenous People

open access: yesNalans, 2023
The displaced indigenous people in Northeast India, belong to multiple ethnic groups scattered across the region. Most communities have a shared traumatic experience as the base of their collective remembering.
Athira Baburaj, Dhishna Pannikot
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Religio-cultural heritage of libation, memory and Obang cultural history, Northwest Cameroon

open access: yesHTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2020
This article argues that libation, often associated with the ancestors, artefacts, images and pre-Christian religious devotions, constitutes sources for articulating authentic African cultural history of Obang community in the Northwest Region of ...
Felix K. Esoh, Chammah J. Kaunda
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9/11 Revisited

open access: yesRevista de Estudos Literários, 2023
Over the last two decades, 9/11 established itself as an object of interest for the academia, news outlets and the arts, generating a multitude of cultural artefacts that allow us, collectively, to revisit the event, reread it in different circumstances,
Diana Gonçalves
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Heterotopic and Neo-Victorian Affinities: Introducing the Special Issue on Neo-Victorian Heterotopias

open access: yesHumanities, 2022
The introduction to this special issue on Neo-Victorian Heterotopias investigates the affinities between the spaces designated by Michel Foucault’s ambivalent and protean concept of ‘heterotopia’ and the similarly equivocal, shifting, and adaptable ...
Marie-Luise Kohlke   +2 more
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Memory of the Kindertransport in Britain and Germany, and the current refugee crisis

open access: yesDiasporas: Circulations, Migrations, Histoire, 2020
This article sets out to categorise and analyse the ways Holocaust memory can be supportively deployed. It does so by example of memory of the Kindertransport, the rescue of over 10,000 Jewish children from Nazism prior to the outbreak of the Second ...
Amy Williams, Bill Niven
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Cultural and Educational Practices in the Museum Environment: Transmission of Cultural Heritage

open access: yesChanging Societies & Personalities, 2020
In the age of digitalisation and globalisation, one of the essential tasks addressed at the level of cultural policy, having relevance for all generations, consists in the preservation of cultural heritage.
Natalia A. Simbirtseva   +2 more
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