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The World Heritage and cultural landscapes

PASOS Revista de turismo y patrimonio cultural, 2006
Landscapes have a range of values that communities recognize as important and want to conserve. Cultural and natural values are the qualities which make a place or landscape important. In particular, we can consider Cultural Landscapes an important and constitutional part of the World Heritage.
Esposito, Mark, Cavelzani, Alessandro
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On the Prospects for African Philosophy in Australia

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper grapples with the situation of people of African descent in Australia by working through the constitution of the body of academic philosophy in the country. It contends with the parochialism of the Australian philosophical community and the prospects for the cultivation of greater pluralism. Taking African philosophy as one possible
Bryan Mukandi
wiley   +1 more source

Reconstructing Van Gogh’s palette to determine the optical characteristics of his paints

Heritage Science, 2018
The colors of Field with Irises near Arles, painted by Van Gogh in Arles in 1888, have changed considerably. To get an idea of how this painting, as well as other works by Van Gogh, looked shortly after their production, the Revigo (Re-assessing Vincent ...
Muriel Geldof, Art Ness Proaño Gaibor, Frank Ligterink, Ella Hendriks, Eric Kirchner   +4 more
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Computing for Cultural Heritage [PDF]

, 2020
A recent job advertisement for a curatorial role at the British Library, the national library of the United Kingdom, reflects the changing nature, and digital competency requirements for professionals working in cultural heritage and research libraries: · Contribute to and undertake work on digitisation and digital projects · Assist in implementing new
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How Do I Answer This? A Queer Critique of Australian Census Forms and the Reification of Cisheteronormative Families

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper presents a critical examination of Australia's 2021 household, individual and interviewer census forms. Using a form‐led analysis, this research scrutinises the underlying cisheteronormative logic that implicitly shapes the Census process, from data collection to distribution of findings.
Xavier Mills, Sal Clark
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RETHINKING MAIURI: ENHANCEMENT OF STUCCO FINDINGS FROM THE HERCULANEUM ARCHAEOLOGICAL PARKq

Ochrona Dziedzictwa Kulturowego, 2019
The subject of this study is a group of ninety stucco fragments from the Herculaneum Archeological Park, which were part of the decoration of the Tetrapylon’s barrel vault located in the Decumanus Maximus.
Filippo Edoardo Capasso, Francesca Castiello, Simona Dichiara, Manuel Giandomenico, Natalie Iacopino, Erika Maddalena, Camilla Mauri, Sokol Muca, Mariagiulia Roscigno, Sofia Schiattone   +9 more
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Olympic legacy and cultural tourism: Exploring the facets of Athens' Olympic heritage [PDF]

, 2013
This study examines the effects of the Olympic Games on Athens’ cultural tourism and the city’s potential to leverage the Olympic legacy in synergy with its rich heritage in order to enhance its tourism product during the post-Games period.
Alexiou C., Ashworth G.J., Asprogerakas E., Boniface B.G., Brown G., Burbank M.J., Chalip L., Creswell J.W., Denzin N.K., Derrett R., Gammon S., Georgios Boustras, Gold J.R., Gold M.M., Gold M.M., Irish Tourist Board, Kalogeropoulou H., Kitroeff A., Kostof S., Koutoulas D., MacAloon J.J., Mangan J.A., Miles M., Milionis S., Nikolaos Boukas, Papageorgiou-Venetas A., Ritchie J.R.B., Roche M., Sykianaki C., Traganou J., Travlou P., Tyler N., Vassilios Ziakas, Weed M., Yin R.K., Zentelis P., Zografos G.   +36 more
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Realising Aboriginal Community Controlled Approaches to Child Reunification

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Reunification rates for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in out‐of‐home care (OOHC) in Australia are critically low, even though reunification is the preferred permanency outcome for children following removal, and despite a range of mechanisms and strategies ostensibly to support effective reunification. To better understand the
B. J. Newton, Paul Gray, Kathleen Falster, Ilan Katz, Kyllie Cripps   +4 more
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Study on the Bronze Weapons Excavated from Xichuan, China

Metals
The collection of twelve bronze artifacts discovered in Xichuan provides invaluable historical insights into the Warring States period (476 BC to 221 BC) of ancient China.
Shengwei Zhao, Xin Liu, Zhen Chen, Siyu Zhang, Qing Niu, Xing Zhao   +5 more
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Geotourism and Cultural Heritage

Geoconservation Research, 2018
Geotourism is often thought to refer solely to ‘geological tourism’, however, more recent views suggest that the term in fact refers much more broadly to encompass not only geology, but also fauna and flora as well as cultural aspects. An area’s geo-heritage can be defined as the geological base that, when combined with climate, has shaped the plants ...
Olson, Kerran, Dowling, Ross
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