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Calle 14: Revista de Investigación en el Campo del Arte, 2015 A partir de la comprensión de la fiesta popular se discuten dos temas importantes sobre Bolivia: la conexión democratización social y forma estatal y la dispar articulación de disponibilidad social. En tal sentido, argumenta que, aunque la fiesta popular
Cleverth Cárdenas Plaza
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Medicine for the Material World
Archaeometry, EarlyView.ABSTRACT It is clear that many of the inorganic materials of antiquity have been used both as medicines for human ills and also as agents in technological processes. This paper speculates that there might have been a stronger link between these two functions in the past, based on the concept of “active agents”—materials that are efficacious at curing ...
A. M. Pollard
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Back to the Land: Museum Practices, Collections, and Other‐Than‐Human Politics in Southern Chile
Curator: The Museum Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Since the 2000s, Mapuche communities' participation has transformed the Mapuche Museum of Cañete. This participation shifted the institution's concept, curation, and conservation practices. From the second half of the 2010s onwards, other‐than‐human politics reshaped the participatory process.
Lucas da Costa Maciel
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Private and professional life in autobiographies of Lithuanian women writers
Autobiografia, 2015 The article analyzes women’s autobiographies published in the most recent edition of Soviet Lithuanian writers’ autobiography collection Tarybinių Lietuvos rašytojų auobiografijos (Autobiographies of Soviet Lithuanian writers, ed ...
Solveiga Daugirdaité
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Business Modeling of the Application Architecture of the Bulgarian Folklore Artery [PDF]
, 2011 In an attempt to answer the need of wider accessibility and popularization of the treasury of Bulgarian folklore, a team from the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences has planned to develop the Bulgarian folklore ...
Goynov, Maxim +2 more
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The Geographical Journal, EarlyView.Short Abstract This paper explores the relationships between Bedouin rights, citizenship and indigeneity in cultural heritage sites in Jordan. Through interviews and ethnographic fieldwork with Bedouin communities, we argue that a more critical engagement with indigeneity is necessary in Jordan.
Taraf Abu Hamdan, Olivia Mason
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PERIPHERY TO CENTRE STAGE: THE SARRASANI CIRCUS IN WEIMAR GERMANY
German Life and Letters, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The modern European circus was more than just entertainment: it was a powerful platform where fantasies of empire, ideas of national identity, and notions of racial difference came together and were put on public display. In interwar Germany, the Sarrasani Circus — the largest circus enterprise in the country at the time — built on the legacy ...
Sabine Hanke
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Grieg Festival: Folklore and Nature, November 3, 2007 [PDF]
, 2007 This is the concert program of the Grieg Festival: Folklore and Nature performance on Saturday, November 3, 2007 at 4:00 p.m., at the Tsai Performance Center, 685 Commonwealth Avenue.
School of Music, Boston University
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Material Aspirations, Cultural Change, and the Transition Toward Sustained Growth
International Economic Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We highlight the role of economic materialism as a cultural phenomenon of significance in relation to economic transformation and development. By inducing material aspirations, an endogenous cultural change toward more widespread adherence to materialistic values is both a cause and an effect of productivity growth.
Evangelos V. Dioikitopoulos +1 more
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This issue of Play and Folklore has a special focus on children’s outdoor play. We hear many stories about the constraints placed on children’s play by adults – the growing number of ‘bannings’ include handstands, cartwheels, throwing things, playing ...
Gwenda Beed Davey +2 more
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