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Cognitive Theories of Galant Music at the Margins of Experience

Music Analysis, Volume 44, Issue 3, Page 293-339, October 2025.
ABSTRACT Leading cognitive studies of galant music treat schematism as both a device and an ethos. The devices – whether called pre‐fabs, tiles or schemata – undergird a mechanistic and passive ethos of inventiveness. In vision and practice, this constellation of approaches directs inquiry away from a musical depth that one contemplates and towards a ...
Edmund J. Goehring
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Schemata as the primary modelling system of culture: Prospects for the study of nonverbal communication

Sign Systems Studies, 2014
The art historian Ernst Gombrich asserted that both artists and viewers are constrained by specific cultural mental sets within which they operate: he used “schemata” to refer to both actual sketches and our mental sets.
Jui-Pi Chien
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Tantric religion and social change

The Australian Journal of Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 2, Page 268-279, August 2025.
Abstract During the period between the seventh and 11th centuries, several religious innovations occurred in Indic religions (which I refer to anachronistically as ‘Hinduism’). In particular, during this period, we see the rise of tantric traditions based on a new revelation of texts, some of whose followers regarded themselves as transcending the ...
Gavin Flood
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The importance of being Ernst: a reassessment of E. H. Gombrich’s relationship with psychoanalysis [PDF]

Journal of Art Historiography, 2012
This study aims to explore and counter the assumption that Prof. Ernst Gombrich was wary, and even dismissive, of psychoanalysis as a discipline. Though renowned for his interest in the psychology of viewing, new research suggests that, from his earliest
Rachel Dedman
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Audio description for all? The benefits and concerns of extending access provision to sighted people

Curator: The Museum Journal, Volume 68, Issue 2, Page 387-403, April 2025.
Abstract Audio description (AD) is an established part of museums' access programs for blind and partially blind (BPB) people. This paper explores the merits and caveats regarding “AD for all”, rolling out the provision for sighted people as well.
Ellen Adams
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Blog: Review of: Uwe Fleckner and Peter Mack, The Afterlife of the Kulturwissenschaftliche Bibliothek Warburg: Volume 12 (Vortrage Aus Dem Warburg-Haus), Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter 2015 [PDF]

Journal of Art Historiography, 2016
This volume celebrates the eightieth anniversary of the Warburg Library’s transportation from its home in Hamburg to London covering the years from its move to the late fifties when Ernst Gombrich published Art and Illusion.
Richard Woodfield
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Child Ordination in Sri Lankan Buddhist Monasteries: Is It a Cultural Exception or a Cause for Concern?

Child Abuse Review, Volume 34, Issue 2, March/April 2025.
ABSTRACT The purpose of this article is to explore the practice of ordaining young children in Sri Lanka from a rights‐based perspective with reference to the United Nation's Convention of the Rights of Child. According to some estimates, 60,000 children are living in more than 12,000 monasteries scattered across the country.
Chandana Namal Rathnayake
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PAINTING HISTORY: PICTURE, WITNESS, AND ANCIENT HISTORIOGRAPHY

History and Theory, Volume 63, Issue 3, Page 403-431, September 2024.
ABSTRACT This article treats an analogy that is used persistently in the history of historiography: the equation of historiography with painting and the identification of the historiographer with the painter. In examining the conceptual stakes of this (auto)identification, the article mobilizes the analogy in order to explore larger issues of ...
LUUK DE BOER
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‘Aby Warburg, Homo victor’ [A translation (back into English, and with some revisions) of the article that appeared in French: ‘Aby Warburg, Homo victor’, in Cahiers du Musée national d’art moderne 118, 2011/12, 81-101] [PDF]

Journal of Art Historiography, 2014
This essay reflects on the reception of Aby Warburg’s writings in the last several decades. A common theme of the recent literature is that Warburg was misunderstood or misread by the scholars who looked after the library and the legacy in London, in ...
Christopher S. Wood
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VALIDATING HISTORICAL INTERPRETATIONS: AN APPROACH FROM CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY

History and Theory, Volume 63, Issue 3, Page 384-402, September 2024.
ABSTRACT Historians and anthropologists share a common problem of setting criteria for the validation of their interpretations. While many features are shared and explicit—for example, that a full range of data needs to be considered and that information should be reliably sourced—the actual criteria for assessing supportable interpretations are ...
LAWRENCE ROSEN
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