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MARKING OF SACRED PLACES; pp. 129–144 [PDF]
For most religions, nature has been an important medium and, to a smaller or greater extent, all religions use nature or its sacredness as a metaphor for religion.
Mare Kõiva +4 more
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The beginnings of museology [PDF]
In this paper, we deal with the beginnings of museology, trying to find the common origin of its many contemporary offspring. Rather than define museology, we aim to discuss the idea of museology.
Milan Popadić
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Leopolis collection, Museum of Independence – wellspring of knowledge, state of research and recommendations [PDF]
The Leopolis Collection (at the Museum of Independence) constitutes a valuable source of knowledge on the past of Lviv and its surroundings as well as the fate of the Polish people living there.
Jolanta Załęczny
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Some Hellenistic and late Roman terracotta lamps in the Sinop Archaeological Museum in northern Turkey [PDF]
The paper considers some terracotta lamps from recent rescue excavations by the Sinop Archaeological Museum in ancient Sinope, classifying them by types and chronological groups, from the 2nd century BC to the 7th century AD.
Gülseren Kan Şahín, Eray Aksoy
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Comparison between virtual museums
Drawing a taxonomy of virtual museum, that can fit to represent all the known cases of virtual museum in the last years, I tried to try my meta-model of classification in two very different examples of virtual museums, to prove the validity of my ...
Simona Caraceni
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Design in Gunther Kress’s social semiotics
Gunther Kress’s multimodal and social semiotic theory of communication has moved beyond the realm of linguistics, which originally framed his work, and has reached out to inform other fields, such as those of education, museum studies, as well as the ...
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Critical Museology: A Critique (Kritika kritické muzeologie) [PDF]
Recently, museological scholarly literature has seen a lot critiques of current museum practice and even attempts at a coherent theory of critical museology or critical heritage studies.
Jan Dolák
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In the Soviet studies on Russian cultural history popular fairs (a variety of games, amusements, and leisure) in the pre-revolutionary era were among the most important aspects of Russian culture.
Albin M. Konechnyi
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The British Museum archive preserves hundreds of letters sent by antiquities dealers based in Baghdad who regularly wrote to sell archaeological artefacts to the department of Egyptian and Assyrian antiquities (the former name of today’s Middle East ...
Nadia Ait Said-Ghanem
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What Can Museum Anthropology Do in the Twenty-first Century?
This article sets out to tackle the question: ‘what can museum anthropology do in the twenty-first century?’ It does so by focusing on the doing in a double-sense: on what museum anthropology can do, as in affecting, impacting and achieving, as well as ...
Philipp Schorch
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