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Cultured Representation

Journal of Social Archaeology, 2004
A rock-painting panel in the Matopo Hills, Zimbabwe, illustrates the distinctive features of the formling motif, a striking peculiarity of Zimbabwean San (Bushman) rock-art. The debate regarding the derivation and meaning of this motif has proceeded unabated until very recently.
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Is representational guidance culturally relative?

Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Computer supported collaborative learning - CSCL'09, 2009
The basic hypothesis of this research project is that since the perception and appropriation of affordances vary across cultural dimensions, representational guidance may be culturally relative. An experimental study was conducted to evaluate this hypothesis.
Vatrapu, Ravi, Suthers, Daniel
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Culture as an Internal Representation

Psychiatry, 1979
IN ADDITION to many of the more traditional anthropological views of culture, it may be understood as a phenomenon in the minds of individuals. This "internal representation" of culture may be seen as the product, viewed from the inside, of the experience through the life cycle of the emotional attachment to a cultural group. Not only does the internal
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Narrative as cultural representation

Narrative Inquiry, 2020
Abstract This paper addresses issues related to narrative, cognition, and culture within the framework of foreign- or second-language (L2) narrative discourse, using a methodology of connecting the story- and language-related qualities of narrative discourse.
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Cultural Representations of Therapeutic Cultures

2010
In the previous chapter, I provided an introduction to key thinkers in the sociology of therapeutic cultures who work at the macro level, offering broad ideas of the emergence of therapeutic ways of thinking in society, the state and the workplace.
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Museums, material culture, and cultural representations

2018
Museums are key sites for the public presentation of culture. The 'verbal register' refers to the range of textual materials used in the museum, including object ID labels, wall panels, audio guides, and what in David Dean's typology of museum text types are referred to as 'distributed materials'. Innovative forms of curation, particularly in regard to
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Place/culture/representation

Journal of Historical Geography, 1995
Greg Wassmansdorf, James Duncan, David Ley   +2 more
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Integrative oncology: Addressing the global challenges of cancer prevention and treatment

Ca-A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, 2022
Jun J Mao,, Msce, Lorenzo Cohen, Karen M Mustian   +2 more
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Cultural Representations of Torture

2017
Scenes of torture are central to the Western imaginary of law, animating questions of power, authority and legitimacy. This examination of key cultural representations of torture provides some historical background on torture in the Western imaginary and focuses on its contemporary significance.
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