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Cultural Commentary: The American Arts and Crafts Movement (c. 1880-1920) [PDF]
, 1984 In the last quarter of the nineteenth century there developed in. Europe and America a new style in the decorative arts known as the Arts and Crafts movement. It rejected the excesses, pretense and formality of Victorian style homes and furnishings.
Dunn, Roger T.
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Improvement in the English Translations of Albrecht von Haller's Usong (1771)
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.Abstract The political novel Usong (1771), written by the Swiss physiologist Albrecht von Haller (1708–1777), is set in the fifteenth century and tells the story of a Mongolian prince who becomes the Emperor of Persia and redesigns the government of his empire to promote the happiness of his subjects.
Laura Tarkka
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HeliyonTo better meet the emotional needs of older residents and to improve the design of age-friendly indoor interface forms, this study uses Kansei engineering as the theoretical basis for an exploration of the mapping relationship between emotional needs and
Feng Wang +3 more
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UK Ceramic Manufacturing strategies, marketing and design in response to globalization c1990-2010. [PDF]
My research is considering the impact of the Far East on the UK Ceramic Industry, design, marketing and consumption, c1990-2010. The Conference is jointly organised by Parsons and Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, and one of the themes is ...
Ewins, Neil
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The Ancestral Caddo Ceramic Assemblage from the D. W. Moye Site (41JP3) on the Angelina River, Jasper County, Texas [PDF]
, 2017 The D. W. Moye site (41JP3) was recorded by Gus E. Arnold in June 1940 as part of the WPA archaeological survey of East Texas. The site, estimated to cover ca.
Perttula, Timothy K.
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Feelings Without Emotion: Rethinking Male Friendship and the Value of Personal Reticence
American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In various Euro‐American contexts, commentators have highlighted how emotional reticence inhibits men's ability to understand themselves and connect with others. More generally, public discourses of affective expressivity often present curtailed emotion as a form of “repression.” Through an ethnographic account of male railway enthusiasts ...
Thomas Yarrow
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American Ethnologist, EarlyView.Abstract In 2012 the UN Security Council and the European Union bolstered US economic sanctions on Iran, disembedding the country's economy from financial markets. Since then, the sanctions have radically devalued Iran's currency, leading Iranians to seek a viable standard of value elsewhere. They have done so through ghachagh (fugitive) configurations
Emrah Yıldız
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Phantasmic Encounters in the Arctic: Haunting Materialities Beyond the Ghosts of War
Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In the vast north, ghostly experiences are common for locals and outsiders alike. Here, we explore how cultural‐natural attributes, like remoteness and extreme seasonal variation, compound experiences of the haunting in visceral ways. This provides the Arctic region with an unusually pronounced baseline of other‐than‐human agency, which in the
Aki Hakonen, Oula Seitsonen
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Drivers and challenges of RIS3‐related university engagement: Insights from five European regions
Regional Science Policy &Practice, EarlyView., 2022 Abstract Universities have long been considered key players in regional innovation systems and innovation‐driven regional development. In addition, as part of the quadruple helix, they can play a major role in RIS3 design and implementation by acting as civic universities.
Sabrina Tomasi +9 more
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Introduction to Heritage Assets: 19th- and 20th-Century Convents and Monasteries [PDF]
, 2014 A short description of the history and architecture of English nineteenth and twentieth-century convents and monasteries, with an emphasis on their most significant ...
Brittain-Catlin, Timothy
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