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Dismantling the genus Tarenna (Rubiaceae: Pavetteae) in Africa and Madagascar, with the description of three new genera

open access: yesTAXON, EarlyView.
Abstract As presently circumscribed, the Paleotropical genus Tarenna, belonging to the tribe Pavetteae (Rubiaceae), comprises about 200 species and has its centres of diversity in tropical Asia and Africa. Previous molecular phylogenetic studies of the tribe revealed the polyphyly of Tarenna, suggesting that the genus needs to be recircumscribed ...
Petra De Block   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Correctable or not? The case of plant epithets derived from the Elbrus/Elburs Mountains in Iran, with further notes on taxonomic grey literature

open access: yesTAXON, EarlyView.
Abstract Plant name epithets (as well as names of other organisms governed by the ICN), which are derived from geographic names, are not correctable when their original spelling was intentional and based on contemporary linguistic realities, even if it is currently considered outdated.
Alexander N. Sennikov, Irina V. Belyaeva
wiley   +1 more source

Creating Change: Art Activism and Leadership Development

open access: yesNew Directions for Student Leadership, Volume 2025, Issue 185, Page 61-65, Spring 2025.
ABSTRACT This article advocates the inclusion of the arts, and specifically, art activism, as a beneficial pedagogical approach to leadership development. Focus is given to using examples of art activism to introduce the student leader activist identity continuum (SLAIC), the exploration of leadership identity, and situating activism as transformative ...
Jessica A. Cruz   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

S’approprier un modèle français en Iran ? L’architecte André Godard (1881-1965) et la conception des musées iraniens

open access: yesLes Cahiers de l'École du Louvre, 2017
The history of museums in Iran began in the second half of the nineteenth century and experienced its most significant phase in the 1930s, when the Mūze-ye Irān-e Bāstān, the national archaeological museum designed by the French architect André Godard ...
Sarah Piram
doaj   +1 more source

From mammoth to miniature: ‘Model of a summer encampment of the Yakuts’ as a narrative object Du mammouth à la miniature : La maquette de camp d’été des Yakoutes comme objet de narration

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Classic anthropological accounts of miniature objects have focused on their spatial and aesthetic dimensions, with more recent work addressing their communicative potential, connections with play, and role in protecting threatened cultural knowledge. This article analyses responses to a miniature landscape model of yhyakh, a festival celebrated in the ...
Alison K. Brown
wiley   +1 more source

Business, Education, and Enjoyment: Stakeholder Interpretations of the Gettysburg Museum and Visitors Center

open access: yes, 2015
An anthropological study of the Gettysburg Museum and Visitors Center undertaken to understand the ways in which the visitor experience is conditioned by their own personal background, as well as filtered through the carefully constructed historical ...
Muhr, Ava M.
core  

Memento Mori : Memento Maori – moko and memory [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Moko patterns, mau moko, “wearing ink” is often explained as an act of remembrance, a symbol of honour or success, of grieving or loss. Memento mori, remembering the dead and remembrance of death, pervades the Maori world, and is profoundly expressed in ...
Te Awekotuku, Ngahuia
core   +1 more source

The Early Upper Palaeolithic in British caves: problems and potential Le Paléolithique supérieur ancien dans les grottes de Grande‐Bretagne : problèmes et potentiels

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Recent years have seen landmark progress in our understanding of early Homo sapiens occupation of Europe, owing to new excavations and the application of new analytical methods. Research on British sites, however, continues to lag. This is because of limitations inherent in existing cave collections, and limited options for new fieldwork at known sites.
Robert Dinnis
wiley   +1 more source

Museums as conflict zones: the Canadian War Museum and Bomber Command

open access: yesMuseum & Society, 2009
This paper examines a recent controversy at the new Canadian War Museum over its exhibition on the Allied Bomber Offensive campaign in the Second World War.
David Dean
doaj  

Examining the Influence Taken by the Audiences from the Memorial Elements of the War Museum Based on the Symbology Components (Case Study: the Audience of the National Museum of the Islamic Revolution and Holy Defense) [PDF]

open access: yesنگره
Showing and presenting various cultures and events require providing different spatial and temporal conditions. War, as one of the most important events of human societies, affects different strata of people all over the world, it is necessary to ...
Matin Rostami
doaj   +1 more source

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