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Communicating the past in the digital age
"Recent developments in the field of archaeology are not only progressing archaeological fieldwork but also changing the way we practise and present archaeology today. As these digital technologies are being used more and more every day on excavations or in museums, this also means that we must change the way we approach teaching and communicating archaeology as a discipline. This volume pres…
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- 9781911529859
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- XVII, 203 p.
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- 930.1 HAG c
Culture and sustainable development in the Pacific
Sustainable development; Social life; Customs; Civilazation; Pacific area
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- 192094222X
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- xv, 227 p. ; 22 cm.
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- Pacific policy papers
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- 909.09823 HOO c
People, texts and artefacts: cultural transmission in the medieval Norman worlds
This volume is based on two international conferences held in 2013 and 2014 at Ariano Irpino, and at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. It contains essays by leading scholars in the field. Like the conferences, the volume seeks to enhance interdisciplinary and international dialogue between those who work on the Normans and their conquests in northern and southern Europe in an original way. This coll…
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- 9781909646568
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- xvii, 284 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
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- 940.146 PEO p
The Heritage of Arung Palakka: a history of South Sulawesi (Celebes) in the s…
A History of South Sulawesi in the seventeeth century
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- 9789004287228
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- ix, 353 p., [9] p. of plates : maps ; 24 cm.
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- Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde ; 91
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- 959.84 AND t
The quest for an appropriate past inliterature, art and architecture
This volume explores the various strategies of construing appropriate pasts in scholarship, literature, art, architecture and literature, in order to create “national”, regional or local identities, in late medieval and early modern Europe. Readership: All those interested in the reception of Antiquity and high medieval history (true and false) in early modern in literature, architecture an…
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- 9789004378216
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- XXXIII, 784 p.
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- 904.7 ENE q
Made in China journal: volume 5, issue 1, 2020
With these words, the great Soviet poet addressed the key question of how to bring art to people and people to art in a new world in which old aristocracies, elites, and their aesthetic privileges were fading away. In the words of art theorist Boris Groys, ‘the world promised by the leaders of the October Revolution was not merely supposed to be a more just one or one that would provide great…
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- 22069119
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- 232p. : ill.
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- 951 MAD m
The Flamingo bay dialect of the Asmat language
Indonesia
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- 9789004286108
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- 380 p.; 22 cm.
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- Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde; 46
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- 909 VOO f
Shaping natural history and settler society : Mary Elizabeth Barber and the n…
This book explores the life and work of Mary Elizabeth Barber, a British-born settler scientist who lived in the Cape during the nineteenth century. It provides a lens into a range of subjects within the history of knowledge and science, gender and social history, postcolonial, critical heritage and archival studies. The book examines the international importance of a marginalized scientist, th…
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- 9783030226398
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- xxiv, 360p. : ill.
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- 968.703092 HAM s
Historicizing the uses of the past
This book presents new developments in Scandinavian memory cultures related to World War II and the Holocaust by combining this focus with the perspective of history didactics. The theoretical framework of historical consciousness offers an approach linking individual and collective uses and re-uses of the past to the question how history can and should be taught. It also offers some examples o…
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- 9783837613254
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- 948.062 HIS h
Society, law, and culture in the Middle East : "modernities" in the making
Society, Law, and Culture in the Middle East: “Modernities” in the Making is an edited volume that seeks to deepen and broaden our understanding of various forms of change in Middle Eastern and North African societies during the Ottoman period. It offers an in-depth analysis of reforms and gradual change in the longue durée, challenging the current discourse on the relationship between soc…
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- 176 p.
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- 956.03 TOL s
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