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Review Article: Resistant visitors and the development of empathy
Museum & Society, 2017 Rose, Julia. Interpreting Difficult History at Museums and Historic Sites. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2016, paperback £23.95, hardback £49.95, pp. xvi+215. Gokcigdem, Elif M. Fostering Empathy Through Museums.
Amy Levin
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The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.Abstract The Late Triassic–Early Jurassic fissures of the Bristol Channel area (southwest England and south Wales) are renowned for their diverse vertebrate faunas. These assemblages have yielded an array of predominantly small‐bodied forms that are crucial to our understanding of the early evolution of several major tetrapod clades.
Ewan H. Bodenham +4 more
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Museum & Society, 2013 As a platform for the display of cultures and a structuring agent in their formation, museums play a unique role in the negotiation of social identities.
Katelyn L. Bolhofner
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Practice Makes ‘Museum People’
Museum & Society, 2017 This article examines how museum work is evaluated, and how it affects museum professionals’ identities. The empirical material consists of biographical interviews of Finnish museum professionals.
Inkeri Hakamies
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The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.Abstract Differences in skull and tooth morphology, stomach contents, and estimated bite force between medium‐to‐large sized (≥100 kg) predatory theropod dinosaurs have long been suspected to correlate with differences in their diets and dietary guilds (e.g., hypercarnivory, piscivory).
Cassius Morrison +9 more
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Playing with fire: struggling with ‘experience’ and ‘play’ in war tourism
Museum & Society, 2011 This paper takes up the ambiguities of embracing ‘experiential’ and ‘playful’ ways of learning at war sites. It takes as its point of departure the widespread tendencies in the heritage industry to align communication to new emotional and playful ways of
Mads Daugbjerg
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Museum & Society, 2017 Although many museums nowadays provide multilingual services, translations in museums have not received enough attention from researchers. The issue of how ideology is embedded in museum texts is translated is particularly underresearched.
Chia-Li Chen, Min-Hsiu Liao
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The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.Abstract In a large sample of adult crab‐eating macaques, we quantified sexual dimorphism in size, shape, and covariance across the whole skull and among anatomical regions of the cranium and mandible. All regions showed significant mean sex differences, but the magnitude of size and shape dimorphism varied substantially.
Andrea Cardini, Paul O'Higgins
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Journal of Conservation and Museum Studies, 2015 Multispectral imaging systems are used in art examinations to map and identify pigments, binders and areas of retouching. A monochromatic camera is combined with an appropriate wavelength selection system and acquires a variable ...
Antonino Cosentino
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