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Dutch teratological collections and their artistic portrayals. [PDF]
Abstract Several teratologic collections containing specimens with malformations and syndromes are maintained in a number of Dutch anatomical museums. Technically, these are not works of art or antiquities. However, many have been depicted in illustrations of such high quality that they merit discussion here.
Boer LL, de Rooy L, Oostra RJ.
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Projekt kuratorsko-artystyczny FEMININE / kobieca kunstkamera [PDF]
The article presents the works of Polish female artists belonging to the curato- rial-artistic project FEMININE. It can be also called a kind of ongoing interven- tion. The first exhibition took place in 2011 in the gallery Wozownia in Torun and has continued since then.
Katarzyna Lewandowska
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From kip to leather: revisiting the reconstruction of the traditional technology of material processing among the Altai people (early 20th century) [PDF]
Based on the analysis of literary and archival sources, all stages of hand currying of animal skins, representing the full cycle of technological processes of their transformation into leather among the Northern and Southern Altaians, are reconstructed ...
Diachenko V.I.
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Abstract The Greek colony of Chersonesos was founded in the 5th century BC on the coast of the Crimean Peninsula in the northern Black Sea region. Extensive archeological research has investigated the timing and mode of the Greek land seizure and the responses of the local Taurian tribes, focusing on a large necropolis dating to the earliest period of ...
Hannes Rathmann +2 more
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The article examines the circumstances and history of delivery to Russia of ethnographic collections by the First Russian Expedition to Ceylon and India (1914-18).
Igor Yu. Kotin +2 more
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India of 1920s as Seen by Soviet Playwright, Consulting Indologists, Theater Critics
The authors of this contribution analyze the circumstances and the history of a popular play that was staged in the Soviet Union in 1927-1928. Titled Jumah Masjid, this play was devoted to the anti-colonial movement in India.
Igor Yu. Kotin +2 more
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The challenge of the time: reproduction of ‘forgotten’ traditions in the modern Kazakh culture [PDF]
This paper is based on the materials on the traditional and modern Kazakh culture. The author analyzes some ritual practices of the life cycle, which are founded on the traditional scenario but understood by the modern Kazakhs at a new level and often ...
Stasevich I.V.
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TO THE HISTORY OF CHANGES IN THE TRADITIONAL ECONOMY OF THE NORTHERN SELKUPS (XX-XXI CENTURIES)
The article examines the technical innovations that came to the traditional life of the northern Selkups in the Soviet and post-Soviet periods, as well as the new social ties they generate.
Stepanova O.B.
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TO THE HISTORY OF DRAFT DOG BREEDING OF THE NORTHERN SELKUPS
The article is devoted to the study of draft dog breeding of the Northern Selkups. This topic still remains a blank spot in ethnographic science, which emphasizes its scientific novelty.
Stepanova O.B.
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D. Vergun’s maps as a tool for structuring Russian nationalist idea in the early 20th century
The article analyzes geographical maps used in the periodical press of the early 20th century Russian Empire to form the image of a particular space, which was prescribed to be a subject of political control or to be part of the national territory of ...
M. M. Ryzhova
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