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Unconventional & Unexpected: Quilts Below the Radar 1950-2000 is a stunning collection of approximately 150 quirky, eccentric, maverick and extraordinary quilts made predominantly by anonymous quilters in the United States during the last... more
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      EngineeringMuseum Anthropology
This essay provides an analysis of the Andaman Islands exhibit at the Colonial and Indian Exhibition of 1886. It explores the ways in which a display of near-life-size clay models, complete with indigenous-made manufactures, presented a... more
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      History of IndiaMuseum AnthropologySculptureBritish Imperial and Colonial History (1600 - )
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Once viewed as an embarrassing superstition, the theatrical religious performances of Korean shamans—who communicate with the dead, divine the future, and become possessed—are going mainstream. Attitudes toward Korean shamanism are... more
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      ReligionFolkloreFilm StudiesTelevision Studies
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      ArtMuseum StudiesMuseumColonialism
Titilsíða, efnisyfirlit, fyrsti kafli bókarinnar og ágrip á ensku
(Title page, table of contents, first chapter, and abstracts in English)
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      Cultural HistoryAnthropologyFolkloreMuseum Studies
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Syllabus for Native American Perspectives on Museums
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      Indigenous StudiesMuseum StudiesMuseum AnthropologyDecolonizing Methodologies
This work is a book review considering the title A Companion to Heritage Studies, edited by William Logan, Máiread Nic Craith, and Ullrich Kockel.
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This contribution draws on ethnography conducted in Istanbul to analyse the Museum of Shame, an amateur exhibition dedicated to the memory of leftist militants who were victims of state violence following the 1980–1983 military coup in... more
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      Museum AnthropologyTurkeyMartyrdomMuseums
Este trabalho apresenta os artefatos Ameríndios amazônicos da Coleção Etnográfica do Centro Studi Americanistici 'Circolo Amerindiano', na Itália. Uma das mais importantes coleções etno-gráficas dedicadas aos povos Ameríndios, esta possui... more
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      AnthropologyMuseum StudiesEthnographyMaterial Culture Studies
The Islamic Period Museum of Iran was established, almost 16 years after the Islamic Revolution, as an addition to the previous National Museum building – the Iran Bastan, or Ancient Iran Museum – in 1996. By examining the components of... more
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      Cultural StudiesMuseum StudiesCultural HeritageIranian Studies
about Simon Janashia Museum of Georgia
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      Museum learningMuseum StudiesMuseumMuseum Education
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      Visual AnthropologyUrban AnthropologyMuseum AnthropologyDemocratic Republic of Congo
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The book remains the primary, most worthy route through which scholarly knowledge is disseminated. With the easy access to low-cost technology, new opportunities are emerging to expand knowledge transfer beyond the academic book. Using a... more
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      Digital HumanitiesMuseum StudiesDocumentary (Film Studies)Social and Cultural Anthropology
"Earlier provisional title was "Archaeology, Tourism, Museum...." "This chapter is divided into two distinct sections that are positioned in a point-counterpoint structure of dialogue. These two position statements invoke the... more
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      Cultural HistoryCultural StudiesGeographyArchaeology
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Julius Nestler, high school teacher and amateur archaeologist from Prague, brought home more than 3,500 archaeological and anthropological artifacts from his expedition to Bolivia (1909–1912). At present they are in the possession of the... more
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      ArchaeologyMuseum Anthropology
Hallel. Carmel. Bezalel The Exhibitions: Halel. Carmel Winery 'Judaica Now!': Goblets and Kiddush Cups of the Bezalel School These two exhibitions: "Halel. Carmel Winery" and "'Judaica Now!': Goblets and Kiddush Cups of the Bezalel... more
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      BusinessArt HistoryJewish StudiesDesign
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      Museum StudiesLandscape ArchaeologySettlement PatternsMuseum Anthropology
This document was published as a centrepiece for Post Lifestyle, The Post Newspaper in 2010. It is technically a profile of the Livingstone National Museum in Zambia and is stored here by the author purely for archival purposes.
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      African StudiesMuseum learningMuseum StudiesMuseum
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      AnthropologyMedical AnthropologyArtMuseum Studies
An earlier version of this text appeared in German in the publication "Museum unplugged – Eine Selbstbefragung" (2015), eds. Friedrich von Borries and Roland Nachtigäller, on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the museum Marta... more
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      Cultural StudiesArt HistoryMedia and Cultural StudiesMuseum Studies
[Paper presented at 2015 conference in Kokshetau, Kazakhstan.] As a contribution to the international conference of "Valikhanov’s Readings," this paper briefly summarizes recent and on-going research and museum partnerships of the Asian... more
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      Russian StudiesAnthropologySocial and Cultural AnthropologyMuseum Anthropology
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Looking beyond Poland's internationally lauded new Jewish museums, this article asks how Jews are represented in longer-standing folk and ethnographic museums whose mandates have been to represent the historical culture of the Polish... more
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      Eastern European StudiesFolkloreJewish StudiesMuseum Studies
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      Museum StudiesMuseum AnthropologyMuseologyExhibition, Museum, Expositions and Worlds Fairs
Бойко-Гагарін А.С. Застосування соціальних мереж у музейному маркетингу / А.С. Бойко-Гагарін // Матеріали міжнародної науково-практичної конференції, присвяченої 75-річчю Ізмаїльського державного гуманітарного університету ["Дунайські... more
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      MarketingTourism MarketingMuseum learningMuseum Studies
Se analiza iconografía de una serie de estelas grabadas, descontextualizadas pero con probable sitio de hallazgo cercano a la frontera con Argentina. De alli que su filiación seria la CULTURA YAVI. Las imagenes grabadas confirman el... more
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      IconographyMuseum AnthropologyFrontier StudiesRock art research
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      Visual AnthropologyMuseum StudiesSoundscape StudiesMuseum Anthropology
Empathy is one's ability to connect with others by relating to their personal experiences. It takes insight and a willingness to engage. The Empathetic Museum posits that cultural institutions can relate to their communities in the same... more
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      Museum learningMuseum StudiesMuseum EducationMuseum Anthropology
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      Museum StudiesMuseum EducationMuseum AnthropologyMuseums and Exhibition Design
Frank Gouldsmith Speck (1881–1950), acknowledged as one of the most prolific anthropologists of the early 20th century, served as chair of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania for nearly four decades... more
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      Native American StudiesMuseum AnthropologyRepresentations of Native America in MuseumsFrank Speck
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      Museum StudiesMuseum AnthropologyHistory of MuseumsMuseums
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      Irish StudiesMuseum AnthropologyUlster MueumInclusive Museum
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      HistorySociologyConservationMuseum Anthropology
Museology is a science.of museum. management and the main aim of this study-cum-training course is to train persons in such a way that they will be in a better position by being well qualified to develop and maintain museums. Museology by... more
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      Museum StudiesMuseumMuseum AnthropologyMuseology
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      Native American StudiesArchaeologyMaritime ArchaeologyIndigenous Studies
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      CommunicationMuseum StudiesCultural HeritageMuseum Anthropology
Geschichte soll nicht nur gelesen, sie muss erzählt werden. Der Bericht Johan Adrian Jacobsens, der Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts die amerikanische Nordwestküste und Alaska bereiste, bietet ein eindrückliches Zeitdokument, das als Vorlage für... more
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      Museum AnthropologyProvenance researchPacific Northwest Coast archaeologyNorthwest Coast Art
Curs Master Studii Vizuale şi Societate, an 1, Facultatea de Ştiinţe Politice, Şcoala Naţională de Studii Politice şi Administrative. 2015
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Autorka prezentuje współczesne techniki badań mumii egipskich oraz ich rozwój, począwszy od badań inwazyjnych, polegających głównie na rozwijaniu mumii, poprzez nieinwazyjne badania radiologiczne, a skończywszy na laboratoryjnych... more
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      ParasitologyEgyptologyMuseum StudiesEgyptian Art and Archaeology
The Norwegian Adrian Jacobsen collected seven thousand objects on the northwest coast of America and in Alaska for the Ethnological Museum in Berlin. He had close ties with the Hamburg zoo director Carl Hagenbeck, both in business and in... more
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      Museum AnthropologyProvenance researchPacific Northwest EthnographyBella Coola
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      Museum AnthropologyPapua New Guinea (Pacific Islands art)Papua New GuineaPacific Art