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Boorn, Alida S. "Interpreting the transnational material culture of the 19th-Century North American Plains Indians: creators, collectors, and collections." Diss., Kansas State University, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/34472.
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Doctor of Philosophy<br>Department of History<br>Bonnie Lynn-Sherow<br>American Indian material culture collections are protected in tribal archives and transnational museums. This dissertation argues that the Plains Indian people and Euroamerican people cross pollinated each other’s material culture. Over the last two hundred years’ interpretations of transnational material culture acculturation of the 19th - Century North American Plains Indians has been interpreted in venues that include arts and crafts, photography, museums, world exhibitions, tourism destinations, entertainments and literature. In this work, exhibit catalogs have been utilized as archives. Many historians recognize that American Indians are vital participants and contributors to United States history. This work includes discussions about North American Indigenous people and others who were creators of material culture and art, the people who collected this material culture and their motives, and the various types of collections that blossomed from material culture and oral history proffering. Creators included Plains Indian women who tanned bison hides and their involvement in crafting the most beautiful art works through their skill in quillwork and beadwork. Plains Indian men were also creators. They recorded the family’s and tribe’s histories in pictograph paintings. Plains Indian storytellers created material that was saved and collected through oral tradition. Euroamerican artists created biographical images of the Plains Indian people that they interacted with. Collections of objects, legends, and art resulted from those who collected the creations made by the creators. Thus today there exists fine examples of ethno-heirlooms that pay tribute to the transnational acculturation and survival of the American Indian people of the Great Western Northern American Plains. What is most important is the knowledge, and an appreciation for the idea that a transnational cross-pollination of cultures enriched and became rooted in United States history.
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Tacheenie-Campoy, Glory 1952. "Collectors of Navajo rugs: An analysis and comparison of the Marjorie Merriweather Post and Washington Matthews Smithsonian Collection." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/291582.
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Navajo blankets and rugs collected by Washington Matthews and Marjorie Merriweather Post are now held by the Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. Matthews, medical doctor and anthropologist, actively collected Navajo blankets; to preserve them in museums and gather knowledge about them in publications. His goal was to learn about the Navajos before they merged into dominate American culture. Post, philanthropist, art collector, and socialite, collected Navajo blankets and rugs as status symbols, decorations and souvenirs when they were marketed by traders and weavers. Her collections once exhibited at her estates are now exhibited at the Hillwood Museum and the Museum of Natural History, in Washington, D.C. This thesis is about the collectors, their collections and why they collected Navajo blankets and rugs. Tables and photographs illustrate the collection.
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Terjesen, Lori Ann Martin. "Collecting the Brücke: Their Prints in Three American Museums, A Case Study." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1291164225.
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Herrmann, Andrew F. "Stigmatized at the Comic Book Shop? An Ethnography of Collectors, Accumulators, and Other Forms of Geek." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2014. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/803.
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Diamond, Laurie K. "Antecedents and consequences of emotional dissonance understanding the relationships among personality, emotional dissonance, job satisfaction, intention to quit and job performance /." [Tampa, Fla.] : University of South Florida, 2005. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0001044.
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Harrington, Kaysie Marie. "The American Studio Glass Movement: A Regional Study of its Birth in Northwest Ohio." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1542125173303787.
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Vignon, Charlotte. "Londres – New York – Paris : le commerce d’objets d’art de Duveen Frères entre 1880 et 1940." Thesis, Paris 4, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010PA040235.
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Pourquoi tant d’objets d’art décoratifs de collections européennes se trouvent-ils aujourd’hui dispersés aux quatre coins des Etats-Unis ? A partir de documents d’archives inédits et d’une lecture critique des sources, cette thèse appréhende l’exode du patrimoine européen vers les Etats-Unis du début du vingtième siècle à travers le parcours d’acteurs importants de ce phénomène : les marchands Joel, Henry et Joseph Duveen à la tête de la prestigieuse galerie d’objets d’art et de tableaux, Duveen Frères, établie à Londres et New York dès la fin du dix-neuvième siècle et en 1908 à Paris. Sont d’abord étudiés les stratégies commerciales qui projetèrent les Duveen à la première place du commerce d’objets d’art de l’époque (I). Vient ensuite une analyse précise du commerce d’objets d’art de la firme : celui des porcelaines de Chine, puis des meubles et objets d’art du dix-huitième siècle français et enfin des objets médiévaux et de la Renaissance (II). Finalement, est abordé, l’activité de décorateur de la firme (III)<br>Why are so many European objets d’art found in collections across the United States today ? This PhD dissertation explores the exodus of decorative arts objects originating from the private collections of Europe’s cultural elite at the beginning of the twentieth century by providing a new interpretation of unpublished archival materials and an in-depth study of the three key figures who contributed to this phenomenon : Joel, Henry, and Joseph Duveen of Duveen Brothers, the prestigious international art firm established in London and New York at the close of the nineteenth century, and in Paris in 1908. Beginning with an examination of the strategies employed by Duveen Brothers to monopolize the American art market and become the preeminent dealers of their time (I), this thesis is followed by a meticulously researched exploration of their dealings in Chinese porcelains, eighteenth-century French decorative arts, and medieval and Renaissance art (II), and concludes with a thorough analysis of the firm’s activities in the area of interior decoration (III)
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Haight, Sarah M. "American Art Lending, 1895-1975." Thesis, School of Information and Library Science, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1901/344.
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This paper documents the range of art lending in the United States to individuals by libraries, museums, and other cultural institutions from roughly 1895-1975. The historical analysis includes the reasons and motivations behind the creation of each kind of lending scheme and what its proponents hoped to accomplish, as well as how these collections fit into the broader goals of each type of institution. Loans of originals and reproductions are discussed.
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Halsban, Megan. "Stereographs as Scholarly Resources in American Academic Libraries and Special Collections." Thesis, School of Information and Library Science, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1901/543.
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This paper examines stereographic images as scholarly resources, and begins with a brief history of the stereograph. A discussion and review of the literature related to the stereograph as well as the preservation of photographic objects follows the introduction. In addition to the literature review, collections of stereographs at four repositories were evaluated for usability: The Keystone-Mast Archive at the University of California, Riverside; The Eliot Elisofon Archive at the Smithsonian Institution; the George Eastman House; the Library of Congress. The paper ends with suggestions for future work with the stereograph, in order to facilitate access and use by researchers.
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Hendrickson, Mitchel James. "Design analysis of Chihuahuan polychrome jars from North American museum collections." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/MQ64918.pdf.
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Bell, Robert A. "The changing voice of Left history, new Left journals and radical American history." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp02/NQ52025.pdf.
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Anderson, Lorna. "Double masks of the Northwest Coast of America in museum collections." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/28148.
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Sixty masks that open to reveal another mask inside have been examined and are described in detail. Colour photographs and sketches illustrate these "double masks", which were made by native people of the Northwest Coast. The sample described here represents approximately 60% of the double masks in museum collections. Such a substantial number of double masks has not been described previously. These data help fill an existing gap in our knowledge of Northwest Coast masks.
The main sources of data for this thesis are museum records, collectors notes, and ethnographies. There is little specific information about the ceremonial use of double masks. Literary sources suggest that double masks were probably used in a similar way to most single masks.
Analysis of form and style shows that double masks are carved and painted in the specific style of each Northwest Coast group. However, although the styles of the double masks vary, the basic form is consistent. Eighty-five percent of the masks have a human image inside and the image of another creature outside. This observation supports the idea that Northwest Coast native people consider there is a close relationship between humans and other creatures.
Recently, this type of mask has often been classified as a "transformation mask", but older records and ethnographies do not use this term. The word "transformation" is complex, and the recent term "transformation mask" may be misleading. This thesis serves to remind anthropologists that we should be cautious in our use of language. We should be careful to speak of other cultures and societies in ways that reflect their ideas and meanings.
The essential feature of double masks is that they open up to reveal another mask inside. For this reason double masks are versatile and dramatic. They provide an innovative masking technique for ceremonial dances.<br>Arts, Faculty of<br>Anthropology, Department of<br>Graduate
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El-Khodary, Ihab Ahmad Fahmy. "Commodity flows within Ontario and between Ontario and the United States of America." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/nq21343.pdf.
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Sweeden, R. Renee. "Personal Archaeology: Poems." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1992. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc500646/.
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A collection of poems focused primarily on rural America and the South, the creative writing thesis also includes material concerned with the history of Mexico, particularly Mexico at the time of the Spanish Conquest. The introduction combines a personal essay with critical material discussing and defining the idea of the Southern writer.
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McIntyre, Shona Helen. "Morphological and biochemical variability within eastern North American populations of Asterionella Hassall, possible taxonomic implications." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1996. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/nq21412.pdf.
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Picknell, Amy Lynn. "The American Art Museum and the Internet: Public Digital Collections and Their Intersections of Discourse." The Ohio State University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1374224652.
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Derksen, Christopher Peter. "Integrating passive microwave remotely sensed imagery and gridded atmospheric data, a study of North American Prairie snow cover." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp05/NQ65231.pdf.
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Leclerc-Caffarel, Stephanie. "Exchange relations between Fijians and Euro-Americans (1774-1854), with reference to museum collections." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2013. https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/49688/.
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This thesis is an interpretative study of early museum collections from Fiji. It combines art-‐historical, historical and anthropological approaches to museum items, in order to investigate exchange relations between Fijians and Euro-‐ Americans between 1774 and 1854. It proposes two ways of considering early museum objects from Fiji. First, it suggests they can, and to some extent must, be primarily regarded as exchanged objects — i.e. as the results of reciprocal transactions and the agents of a shared history between Fiji, Europe and the U.S.A. Secondly, it argues that museum artifacts can be used as major evidences to study early exchange relations between Fijians and Euro-‐Americans, at least as important as contemporaneous literary and pictorial sources — most of them European or American. Four chapters (2-‐5) explore and justify the above arguments. Based on historical case studies, the demonstration exemplifies the extent of reciprocity in Fiji-‐West early transactions, as well as the exchangeability of their objects. Especially, attention is called to the political agencies, material values and intellectual representations at stake between 1774 and 1854, projected onto objects from both sides of the exchanges. The first section sets the reflexion in its intellectual context, by explaining its methodologies and briefly reviewing the literature that helped in framing the research. The concluding chapter examines possible consequences for research and museum policies today, with regards to current Fijian concerns and interests.
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Labar, Morgan. "La gloire de la bêtise : régression et superficialité dans les arts depuis la fin des années 1960." Thesis, Paris 1, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018PA01H055.
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Depuis la fin des années 1960 se sont développées différentes pratiques artistiques délibérément bêtes, assumant et parfois même revendiquant leur bêtise. Dans une approche ancrée à la fois dans l'histoire culturelle et la théorie esthétique, prenant en compte les paramètres que sont les modalités d'exposition, l'industrie du divertissement et le rôle des collectionneurs, il s'agit de comprendre comment un phénomène à l'origine excentré, marginal et parfois contestataire, est devenu une donnée centrale de la production artistique contemporaine. Le premier mouvement revient sur la tradition de la bêtise en histoire de l'art. Partant de l'expression « bête comme un peintre », y est proposé une relecture du « retour à la peinture» du début 1980 (Figuration Libre, Mülheimer Freiheit à Cologne, bad painting américaine). Le deuxième moment porte sur les mécanismes de diffusion, d'expansion, de légitimation et d'institutionnalisation de l'art bête dans les années 1990 et 2000, abordant notamment les pratiques Martin Kippenberger, Jeff Koons, Paul McCarthy, Mike Kelley, Richard Jackson, Gelitin, Wim Delvoye ou encore Damien Hirst. Le troisième et dernier temps consiste en une généalogie alternative de cette histoire de la bêtise en prenant la Californie comme paradigme. On y développe l'hypothèse qu'à Los Angeles sont en germe, depuis le milieu des années 1960, les formes de bêtise artistique qui s'imposent à l'échelle internationale depuis les années 1990 : l'industrie du divertissement et le culte du succès, de la célébrité et de la richesse, et son contre-point dynamique, son envers dévoyé, le modèle du bad boy made in L.A<br>Stupidity (bêtise) can be apprehended as bodily, vulgar, even regressive. Or it can simply be understood as foolish, silly or childish. I investigate all of these strains of "bêtise" in order to demonstrate the key role it has played in shaping aesthetic styles and debates about contemporary art from the late 1960s to the present day. The dissertation thus traces these fluctuations by looking at the shift from the 1960-l 970s, when dumbness, used as a critical tool, occupied a position at the margins of the art world, to the l 980-1990s when "bêtise" began to constitute an autonomous aesthetics mobilized by the art world's biggest stars. What used to be marginal then became preeminent, what used to be popular culture became high art, while lowbrow turned into highbrow. The first part takes a look back at the tradition of stupidity in art history. Viewed from the popular phrase "stupid as a painter", I propose a reevaluation of the so-called "return to painting" in the early 80s (Figuration libre, Bad Painting, Mülheimer Freiheit Grup in Koln) as an initial step. The second section analyses the mechanisms of diffusion, expansion, legitimation and institutionalization of "dumb art" in the 90s and 2000s, focusing on practices of artists like Martin Kippenberger, JeffKoons, Paul McCarthy, Mike Kelley, Gelitin, Wim Delvoye or Damien Hirst. The third and last part is an attempt to write an alternative narrative to this history of stupidity, in which I propose California as a paradigmatic model. The entertainment industry and the cult of success, fame and wealth, and its dynamic counterpoint, its dark side, the made-in-L.A.-bad-boy model played major roles in that process
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Shubinski, Julianna. "FROM EXCEPTION TO NORM: DEACCESSIONING IN LATE TWENTIETH CENTURY AMERICAN ART MUSEUMS." Lexington, Ky. : [University of Kentucky Libraries], 2007. http://lib.uky.edu/ETD/ukyarhi2007t00632/SHUBINSKI_THESIS.pdf.
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Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kentucky, 2007.<br>Title from document title page (viewed on September 4, 2007). Document formatted into pages; contains: v, 57 p. : ill. (some col.). Includes abstract and vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 52-56).
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Donaghy, Greg. "Hegemonic hug Canada and the reordering of North American relations, 1963-68 /." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape17/PQDD_0010/NQ32825.pdf.
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Tyler, William D. "The Paleoindian Chipola : a site distribution analysis and review of collector contributions in the Apalachicola River Valley, northwest Florida." [Tampa, Fla] : University of South Florida, 2008. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0002353.
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Canonge, Stéphane. "De l'individuel au collectif: dynamiques d'agrégation et choix collectifs chez un arthropode grégaire, la blatte Periplaneta americana." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/209860.
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En milieu naturel, la vie en société implique que de nombreuses actions, activités ou décisions soient réalisées en groupe. Dans la littérature, nous retrouvons un certain nombre de définitions concernant ces décisions collectives, mais très peu de travaux se sont intéressés aux mécanismes gouvernant l'apparition de ces formes de coopération. En particulier, l'étude d'espèces d’arthropodes sociaux ou grégaires a été délaissée au profit des espèces eusociales et des groupes de vertébrés. <p><p>Ce travail de thèse repose sur un ensemble d'expériences et de modélisations destinées à approfondir notre compréhension des mécanismes gouvernant les décisions collectives chez les insectes grégaires. Pour mener à bien ce travail, nous avons quantifié les réponses individuelles et collectives chez la blatte Periplaneta americana, dans un milieu caractérisé par la présence de sites de repos (de qualité identique ou différente). Il s'agit de comprendre et de caractériser les différentes dynamiques qui, sur base des préférences individuelles pour les différents sites de repos et des interactions sociales, permettent à l'échelle de la population l'émergence d’un choix collectif, et au niveau individuel, à l’exploitation optimale de son environnement. <p><p>Nos résultats ont montré que malgré l'absence de communication ou de perception à longue distance (ex :orientation visuelle, phénomènes de suivi de piste), sans comparaison ni connaissance parfaite du milieu (ex :la localisation et le nombre d’abris ou de congénères) les blattes sont capables de discriminer collectivement entre des alternatives spatialement dispersées et de faire le meilleur choix (associé au maintien de la cohésion). Ce phénomène de choix collectif est un sous-produit des différentes dynamiques agrégatives gouvernées par les compétitions entre processus d’amplification et permet au groupe de résoudre un problème qui est au-dessus des capacités individuelles. Dans nos expériences, cela se manifeste par une double augmentation en fonction de la taille du groupe: (1) un individu tend à s'installer plus souvent dans un site de repos et (2) un individu a plus de chances de se retrouver sous le site de repos optimal. Une analyse plus fine des comportements individuels, rendue possible par l'utilisation de la RFID, a montré qu’au sein des blattes, deux stratégies existaient: les initiateurs et les explorateurs. Enfin, l'utilisation de robots (sociétés mixtes blattes/robots) nous a permis de valider notre modèle théorique mais aussi d’introduire artificiellement des conflits d'intérêt entre les membres du groupes :la présence de ces individus clefs peut modifier la réponse collective de manière dramatique.<p><p>Après avoir comparé nos travaux avec la littérature actuelle, nous avons discuté de la valeur générique de tels processus agrégatifs, prérequis essentiel pour la coordination et la synchronisation des activités des individus. L'agrégation constitue une des conditions nécessaires et indispensables à l'apparition d’une vie sociale permettant le développement d’une coopération plus élaborée.<p><br>Doctorat en Sciences<br>info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished
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Botero, Clara Isabel. "The construction of the pre-Hispanic past of Colombia : collections, museums and early archaeology, 1823-1941." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2001. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:9256d5c9-5f0f-4b46-9878-9d53d9c037c8.
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This study examines the construction of the pre-Hispanic past of Colombia from the 1820's to the 1940s. It describes and analyses the reception, dissemination and appropriation of knowledge about ancient Colombian societies. It analyses the works by Colombian and foreign antiquarians, savants and archaeologists and the formation of Colombian pre-Hispanic collections in the Museo Nacional in Bogotá and in three major European Museums : the Museum für Völkerkunde in Berlin, the British Museum in London and the Musée d'Etnographie du Trocadero in Paris. The study shows the ways Colombian archaeological objects were viewed in the course of this history. At its outset, during the Colonial period, Colombian pre-Hispanic objects were first seen as "Idols of the devil"; in Europe, they were initially considered as curiosities and as works or art. During the nineteenth century, archaeological objects began to be valued and interpreted by Colombian and foreign scholars and antiquarians as antiquities and also as art objects. How Colombia was presented and represented in the National Museum in Bogotá and in international exhibitions during the second half of the nineteenth century is described and analysed, and how pre-Hispanic artefacts came to form part of a representation of Colombia nationally and internationally. The final chapters deal with the first four decades of the twentieth century, when the pre-Hispanic period received a new degree of recognition in Colombia with the enactment of official measures for the protection of antiquities, the building of archaeological collections in the National Museum in Bogotá and in research done by foreign and Colombian archaeologists, which began to define archaeological areas scientifically. The final chapter examines the background for the establishment of the Colombian scientific tradition in archaeology during the 1930's with the creation of the Servicio Arqueológico Nacional, the Institute Etnológico Nacional and two archaeological museums, the Museo Arqueológico Nacional and the Museo del Oro.
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Bailey-Shimizu, Pamelalee. "First Nations Tribal Library and Social Research Center." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2000. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1952.
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Chichkoyan, Kayayan Karina Vanesa. "Initial human dispersal and native fauna at the South American southern cone, Argentina. An example case from the revision of the fossil collections." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/404087.
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La falta de registres directes com intervencions biològiques (marques de tall i marques de carnívors) no ha permès la discussió de com serien les relacions paleoecològiques de competència i depredació entre humans, megaherbívors i carnívors durant la primera dispersió humana a les Amèriques. Buscar aquest tipus d’informació en fonts no tradicionals dins de la investigació arqueològica, com les col•leccions vuitcentistes de fauna nativa, és una manera alternativa d’obtenir dades. Aquesta temàtica permet entendre com Homo sapiens intervingué en un ecosistema natiu establert i que mai havia estat alterat per la presencia homínida. El primer poblament humà a les Amèriques pot ser caracteritzat com a invasiu, ja que aquesta espècie no nativa va tenir una ràpida dispersió.
Es va fer ús de la tafonomia per diferenciar intervencions biològiques, d’altre tipus de modificacions. A partir de les espècies registrades amb marques biològiques, els humans haurien depredat (i/o carronyejat) sobre especies que posseïen defenses desenvolupades per confrontar carnívors holàrtics (gigantisme en el cas de Megatherium americanum o cuirassa en Glyptodontidae) mentre que especies més petites dins la megafauna (Mylodontidae) haurien estat explotades per carnívors i humans.
Així els carnívors haurien aprofitat alguns taxons d’aquesta megafauna en diferents moments del Pleistocè. Aquesta situació es va mantenir malgrat les fluctuacions ambientals. Al final d’aquest període, l’ingrés d’ Homo sapiens, va suposar afegir un nou carnívor en la cadena tròfica, que hauria depredat una major varietat d’espècies, moltes d’elles no explotades pels carnívors presents. Els grups humans haurien modificat els nitxos ecològics existents i colonitzat les vacants afectant les relacions de competència i depredació establerta. Aquest fet va provocar impactes directes i indirectes en la cadena tròfica nativa, que a llarg termini hauria afectat la sostenibilitat d’aquest ecosistema.<br>La escasez de registros directos como intervenciones biológicas (huellas de corte y marcas de carnívoros) no ha permitido la discusión de cómo serían las relaciones paleoecológicas de competencia y depredación entre humanos, megaherbívoros y carnívoros durante la primera dispersión humana en las Américas. Buscar este tipo de información en fuentes no tradicionales dentro de la investigación arqueológica, como las colecciones decimonónicas de fauna nativa, es una manera alternativa de obtener datos. Esta temática permite entender cómo Homo sapiens intervino en un ecosistema nativo establecido y que nunca había sido alterado por la presencia homínida. El primer poblamiento humano en las Américas puede ser caracterizado como de invasivo, ya que esta especie no nativa tuvo una rápida dispersión.
Se hizo uso de la tafonomía para diferenciar intervenciones biológicas, de otro tipo de modificaciones. A partir de las especies registradas con marcas biológicas, los humanos habrían depredado (y/o carroñado) sobre especies que poseían defensas desarrolladas para confrontar carnívoros holárticos (gigantismo en el caso de Megatherium americanum o coraza en Glyptodontidae) mientras que especies más pequeñas dentro de la megafauna (Mylodontidae) habrían sido explotada por carnívoros y humanos.
Así los carnívoros habrían aprovechado algunos taxones de esta megafauna en distintos momentos del Pleistoceno. Esta situación se mantuvo a pesar de las fluctuaciones ambientales. Al final de este período, el ingreso de Homo sapiens, supuso añadir un nuevo carnívoro en la cadena trófica, que habría depredado una mayor variedad de especies, muchas de ellas, no explotadas por los carnívoros presentes. Los grupos humanos habrían modificado los nichos ecológicos existentes y colonizado los vacantes, afectando las relaciones de competencia y depredación establecidas. Esto provocó impactos directos e indirectos en la cadena trófica nativa, lo que a largo plazo habría afectado la sustentabilidad de este ecosistema.<br>The scarcity of direct evidence as biological interventions (cut maks or carnivore marks) made difficult the discussion of how paleoecological relationships (e.g.. depredation an competition) should have been between humans, megaherbivores and carnivores during first humans’ dispersal in the Americas. To search this type of evidence in non-traditional archaeological sources, such as nineteenth collections of native fauna, is an alternative way to obtain information. This allows the understanding of how Homo sapiens has intervened in the established native ecosystem that has never been changed by hominid presence. First human dispersal in the Americas can be characterized as invasive, as this non-native species had a fast dispersion.
Taphonomy was used to differentiate biological interventions from other types of modifications. Considering the identified species with biological marks, humans should have depredate (or scavenge) over species that possessed defences to confront holartic carnivores (gigantism in Megatherium americanum case or armor in Glyptodontidae case). Smaller species of the megafauna, such as Mylodontidae, should have been exploited by carnivores and humans.
Therefore carnivores should have consumed some taxa of the megafauna in different moments of the Pleistocene period. This situation was sustained thought time despite environmental fluctuations. At the end of the Pleistocene, Homo sapiens entrance should have implied the addition of a new carnivore in the trophic chain. This new species had depredated over a major variety of fauna, even those ones not exploited by the native carnivores. Humans should have modified the existing ecological niches and colonized the empty ones affecting the established competition and depredation relationships. This provoked direct and indirect impacts in the native trophic chain. In long term, this situation should have affected the sustainability of this ecosystem.
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Dartt-Newton, Deana Dawn. "Negotiating the master narrative : museums and the Indian/Californio community of California's central coast /." Connect to title online (Scholars' Bank) Connect to title online (ProQuest), 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/9926.
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Yuellig, Amber J. "Fort Walton ceramics in the Perry Collection, Apalachicola Valley, Northwest Florida." [Tampa, Fla.] : University of South Florida, 2007. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0001997.
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Andrews, Erin L. "Old stories, new narratives public archaeology and the politics of display at Georgia's official Southeastern Indian interpretive center /." Atlanta, Ga. : Georgia State University, 2009. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/anthro_theses/30/.
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Thesis (M.A.)--Georgia State University, 2009.<br>Title from title page (Digital Archive@GSU, viewed June 22, 2010) Despina Margomenou, committee chair; Jeffrey Glover, Emanuela Guano, committee members. Includes bibliographical references (p. 94-100).
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Birker, Matthieu. "La défense contentieuse des intérêts collectifs devant les commissions et cours régionales des droits de l'homme." Thesis, Strasbourg, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012STRAA008.
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La tension entre la singularité de chaque individu et la dimension sociale de l’être humain est souvent réduite par le droit à une contradiction. Fondé sur la nécessité de protéger la dignité individuelle et les droits qui lui sont attachés contre les atteintes portées par la collectivité et ses institutions, le droit européen des droits de l’homme fait ainsi figure de rempart à la suprématie du groupe sur l’individu. Cependant, le développement de nouveaux systèmes régionaux de protection des droits de l’homme en Amériques et en Afrique fondés sur des traités moins empreints de l’antagonisme entre l’individuel et le collectif, ainsi que la multiplication de groupes sociaux prétendant détenir et faire valoir leurs intérêts, mettent en évidence la dimension sociale de l’individu et font entrer les intérêts collectifs dans la sphère juridique. Cette étude vise à rechercher si cette dimension est, à ce point, constitutive de l’humanité de l’individu que les intérêts que ce dernier détient conjointement et indissociablement avec tout ou partie ses semblables sont des droits de l’homme, qui devraient être consacrés et défendus comme tels<br>The tension between the uniqueness of each individual and the social dimension of the human being is often reduced by law to a contradiction. European human rights law is seen as a bulwark against the supremacy of the group over the individual, as it is based on the need to protect individual dignity and the rights attached to it against attacks by the wider community and its institutions. However, the development of new regional systems of human rights protection in the Americas and Africa based on conventions that are less imbued with the antagonism between the individual and the collective, as well as the proliferation of groups claiming to have interests and to defend them, highlight the social dimension of the individual and bring collective interests to the legal sphere. This study aims to investigate whether this dimension is so inherent to the humanity of the individual, that the interests that the latter owns jointly and inseparably with all or part of his fellows are human rights, which should be enshrined and defended as such
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López-Castaño, Carlos E., and Martha C. Cano-Echeverri. "Considerations About The First Settlements In Northwestern South America: Approaches From The Inter-Andean Magdalena River Valley, Colombia." Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2014. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/113602.
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This article presents key data and discussion about the initial peopling of northwestern South America, highlighting its strategic significance in the continental context, cultural variability and landscape change over time. In Colombia there is very little relevant information regarding occupations prior to 12,000 BP; in contrast, the information is abundant relative to a number ofearly contexts during the Pleistocene-Holocene transition. The variability among unifacial and bifacial lithic assemblages reported in different physiographic regions indicates alternative models on early settlement to regional level. Considering the importanceof the inter-Andean valley of the Magdalena River, this article emphasizes the archaeological contexts and paleoenvironmental information, highlighting environmental impacts associated not only to global climate change, but in particular of the effects ofvolcanism. The article stresses the findings and chronologies of bifacial lithic assemblages of the Magdalena Valley in relation to the early archaeology of northwestern South America.<br>En este artículo se presentan los principales datos y reflexiones asociados al poblamiento inicial del noroccidente de Sudamérica debido a su significado estratégico en el marco continental, se destacará la variabilidad cultural y se enfatizarán los cambios depaisajes en el transcurso del tiempo. En Colombia existe muy poca información relevante relacionada con las ocupaciones anterioresa 12.000 AP; en contraste, la información es abundante en cuanto al número de contextos tempranos durante la transición Pleistoceno-Holoceno. La variabilidad entre los conjuntos líticos unifaciales y bifaciales reportados en distintas regiones fisiográficas plantea propuestas de modelos alternativos sobre el poblamiento temprano a escala regional. Considerando la importancia del valle interandino del río Magdalena, se recalcan los contextos arqueológicos e información paleoambiental. Asimismo, se destacan los impactos ambientales que demuestran por qué no perduraron las evidencias del Pleniglacial, lo que podría deberse a efectos asociados no solo al cambio climático global, sino, en particular, a causa del vulcanismo. Este trabajo resalta los hallazgos y cronologías de los conjuntos líticos bifaciales del valle del Magdalena en relación con la arqueología temprana del noroccidente de Sudamérica.
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Ragen, Helen. "Norton Simon: The Man with "Two Hats"." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2015. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/638.
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Norton Simon was a unique collector because he let passion guide his collecting interests, but he controlled his passion by making his purchases based on smart economic decisions bolstered by years of experience in successful business negotiations. The Norton Simon Museum, today in Pasadena, California, displays the eccentric collectors life work as he created one of the greatest and most recognized collections on the west coast. By examining the progression and establishment of Norton Simon Inc., alongside the creation of the Norton Simon Art Foundation, multiple parallels can be drawn between Simons’ unique approach to business and the application of his unorthodox techniques to his purchases in the art world – Norton Simon’s “two hats”.
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Louckx, Audrey. "Empowering voices: testimonial literature and social justice in contemporary American culture." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/209257.
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Within the last three decades, contemporary North America came to reinvent a socially focused genre of literary personal narratives. These new editorial and writing projects, published in the form of collections of personal narratives, emerged as a tool for the socially voiceless to secure some measure of agency in their contemporary social and cultural situation. Projects such as the Freedom Writers’ Diary or volumes of the Voice of Witness book series fit in the process that is currently labeled social empowerment. Witnesses express a deep urge to share their story in the hope to denounce their experience of an enduring social injustice. The written word, primary a means for self-disclosure, serves to exorcise the suffering associated to this specific predicament. The narrators engage in a powerful self-investigative gesture oriented towards resilience and renewed enfranchisement in regaining control over their life and environment. At the moment of publication, however, these testimonies come to be validated as authentic examples of the injustices they disclose. These examples serve an educational purpose: raising the audience’s awareness and opening deliberative fora for these issues to be discussed and for solutions to be hammered out and eventually implemented. <p>The purpose of this dissertation is to propose a theoretical model for the subgenre of testimonials of social empowerment. With the concept of empowerment as groundwork, the model develops a textual approach framed in a psychosocial structure. I argue that testimonials may be described as examples of Jürgen Habermas’s communicative action. As speech acts aimed at reaching understanding, testimonials capitalize both on the binding and bonding aspects of illocutionary force in the hope to secure with their audience an ongoing dialogue over issues of social justice. The volumes, as unofficial public spheres, mobilize the normative and practical dynamics at work in social movements. These dynamics express as two narrative guiding threads: an aesthetic based on impact, and an ethics based on responsibility. The texts’ aesthetic develops a form of perlocutionary realism instantiating a sense of authenticity and sincerity embodied in the narrators’ voices. The resulting impact is coupled to moral concerns based on a polysemic understanding of social responsibility, on which narrators seek to build their narratives’ ethical potential. A series of case studies allowed to demonstrate that both narrative threads are realized as an appropriation of four paradigmatic forms of rhetorical ethos, each based on a specific realm of the social world: intimacy, justice, spirituality and activism.<p><br>Doctorat en Langues et lettres<br>info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished
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Kiszko, Martin Edmund. "The origins and place of the balalaika in Russian culture : its migration to the USA, and the dissemination of balalaika orchestras in America, with particular reference to the Kasura and Kutin collections at the University of Illinois." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1983/63aa1b7e-5ac5-4e6e-ab2f-11d611e694be.
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Mattson, Linda Karen. "Examination of the systems of authority of three Canadian museums and the challenges of Aboriginal peoples." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/nq25108.pdf.
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Evers, Daniel. "Everything UoB Collections Search For: evers blessed Clear Search Box Search Advanced Search Browse Search 'If it were not for all these blessed revolutions, I should sink into hopeless lethargy' : a comparison of British and American literary responses to the European revolutions of 1848-51." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2015. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.689671.
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I will compare British and American literary responses to the European revolutions of 1848-51, focussing particularly on the 1848 French and 1849 Italian revolutions. Such a comparison has not previously been made, despite the fact that writers on both sides of the Atlantic were inspired to think about political and social issues through the lens of mid-nineteenth-century European events. Although they often thought differently about revolutionary history and key ideas such as democracy and republicanism, many writers from Britain and America supported the European revolutions through their works. Some, including Arthur Hugh Clough, Margaret Fuller, Robert Browning, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning (EBB), witnessed the revolutions firsthand, either as travellers or expatriates. Even those who did not, such as Wait Whitman and Matthew Arnold, were affected by them and drew analogies between events in Europe and in their own countries. I argue that the European revolutions were central to the formation of some of the best-known works of nineteenth-century poetry, including Arthur Hugh Clough's Amours de Voyage (1849), EBB's Casa Guidi Windows (1848-5 1), and Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass (1855). The political influences that shaped these works have often been overlooked in literary history and criticism, and yet the political landscape was not only influential but vital to the creativity of writers in the mid-nineteenth century. My introduction outlines the intersection of politics and literature that occurred during the revolutions. Chapters on Arnold and Clough, on Margaret Fuller, on Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning, and on Whitman, make the case for a political reading of the literary works I discuss. Although the thesis is author-based, I emphasise throughout the links between writers and texts, direct and indirect, which set them in dialogue with each other.
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Mantellatto, Aline Meira Bonfim [UNESP]. "Padrões de distribuição histórica, relações filogenéticas e filogeográficas de veado-mateiro-pequeno, Mazama bororo DUARTE, 1996 (Mammalia: Cervidae)." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/144487.
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Previous issue date: 2016-10-03<br>Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)<br>Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)<br>Considerada a espécie de cervídeo brasileira mais ameaçada de extinção, Mazama bororo, foi recentemente descrita em 1996. Devido a isso, aspectos básicos de sua biologia ainda são desconhecidos. Dessa maneira, o presente trabalho teve como objetivo utilizar DNA extraído de espécimes recentes e de museus para descrever a sua distribuição histórica, investigar a existência de padrões filogeográficos, avaliar a taxonomia da espécie e os erros de identificação no material analisado pertencente aos acervos científicos de museus. Para tanto, foi realizada a extração de DNA de 200 amostras de ossos turbinais obtidos em museus de história natural e 78 destes espécimes foram identificados a partir de iniciadores do gene citocromo b (224bp). O total de 22 espécimes identificados como pertencentes à espécie Mazama bororo permitiu conhecer áreas inéditas da distribuição histórica e, possivelmente atuais, da espécie, como os estados de Rio Grande do Sul, Minas Gerais, Goiás, Espírito Santo e Bahia. Além disso, a comparação entre o DNA dos holótipos de Mazama bororo e de Mazama americana jucunda indica que a espécie M. bororo corresponde à subespécie M. americana jucunda, descrita em 1913, demonstrando a necessidade de elevar essa subespécie à categoria de espécie. Análises filogeográficas da espécie demonstram que M. bororo não apresenta uma estruturação populacional histórica e que diversidade genética é baixa quando comparada a outras espécies, um indicativo de que políticas de manutenção e conservação dessa espécie são essenciais a sua permanência. Comparando-se as identificações morfológicas presentes nos museus com as identificações obtidas a partir do marcador molecular utilizado observa-se que a taxa de erro decorrente da classificação baseada em caracteres morfológicos foi de 26%. Entretanto, espera-se que, com o auxílio do DNA de coleções científicas, a seleção de caracteres morfológicos não convergentes para este grupo seja possível, permitindo assim a realização de identificações morfológicas corretamente.<br>Mazama bororo was recently described in 1996 and is considered the most threatened species of Brazilian deer. Due to this, basic aspects of its biology are still unknown. Thus, this research project aims to use DNA extracted from recent specimens and from natural history collections to review the taxonomy, to describe historical distribution and to investigate the existence of phylogeographic patterns on M. bororo. For this purpose, we extracted DNA from 200 samples of turbinate bones obtained from natural history collections and 78 of these were identified from cytochrome b initiator (224bp). We obtained a total of 22 specimens identified as M. bororo. This result allowed identify unpublished areas on historical and perhaps current distribution of M. bororo in states such as Rio Grande do Sul, Minas Gerais, Goiás, Espírito Santo and Bahia. Moreover, the comparison among the DNA from holotype of M. bororo and Mazama americana jucunda indicates that M. bororo corresponds to the subspecies M. americana jucunda, described in 1913, highlighting the need to raise this subspecies to full species status. Our results also demonstrates that M. bororo did not show a genetic structuration of their populations and that their genetic diversity is lower than other species, highlighting the need to increase conservation and environment policy efforts to maintenance of this species. Finally, when we compare the morphological identification available on natural history collections with the identification obtained from molecular markers we found that the error rate resulting from the classification based on morphological characters was 26%. Nevertheless, we expect with the help of DNA from natural history collections will be possible to select non-convergent morphological characters for this group, allowing thus correct morphological identifications.<br>FAPESP: 2013/05944-7
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Boyne, Erica Lynn. "The Realization of the Cathlapotle Plankhouse: Reflections on Cross-Cultural Collaboration in the Post-NAGPRA Era." PDXScholar, 2011. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/692.
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In the last two decades, a shift in the museological paradigm has changed the way in which Native American history and culture is interpreted and represented to the general public. As legal mandates and growing institutional pressures increasingly call for the integration of tribal representatives into the decision-making bodies of museums and authoritative institutions, cross-cultural collaboration and partnerships have increased significantly. With little precedent guiding public historians and museum professionals through this new and complex system of collaboration, the path unfolding in the journey towards the “indigenization”; of museums has been marked with achievements and challenges that have both taught and tested historical professionals. The following is a case study that examines the ways in which this unfolding shift in Native American representation manifested itself in the reconstruction of a Chinookan plankhouse in the early 21st century. With a common objective of educating visitors about the significant cultural and natural history of the former site of the Cathlapotle village, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Chinook Indian Nation teamed up to design, fund, construct and interpret the Cathlapotle Plankhouse in Ridgefield, Washington. Despite sharing a common goal for the reconstruction of a full-scale Chinookan plankhouse, different motivations and agendas guided the decision-making process and required both partners to make compromises that challenged each other’s understanding and expectations of the project. In this work, I analyze how these two organizations navigated the rewarding yet challenging realm of cross-cultural collaboration to create a meaningful and significant heritage site for a wide range of user groups. From this analysis, I hope to provide public historians and museum professionals a detailed example of a cross-cultural partnership that will assist them as they move forward through a continuously unfolding and largely uncharted system of collaboration.
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Archibald, Samantha L., and University of Lethbridge Faculty of Arts and Science. "Contested heritage : an analysis of the discourse on The spirit sings." Thesis, Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Faculty of Arts and Science , 1995, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/10133/27.
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This thesis contributes to the knowledge of museology, anthropology and Native American studies. It is an analysis of the discourse that surrounded The Spirit Sings: Artistic Traditions of Canada's First Peoples, an exhibition prepared by the Glenbow in Calgary as the 'flagship' of the Olympic Arts Festival in 1988. After the Lubicon Indians of Northern Alberta called for a boycott of The Spirit Sings, in attempt to draw critical attention to their long outstanding lands claim, a large and heated debate ensued involving several disciplines, particularly anthropology and museology. Much of this debate took place in the print media, therefore a large body of material remains to be reviewed and studied. The intent of this thesis is to illustrate that the issue of museological representation of First Nations was one of the most central themes discussed in the discourse, but to argue that the major players dealt with this issue on only the most concrete level and therefore largely neglected to recognize that the issue of First Nation's representation was not just a concern over museum interpretation but more importantly an issue of the contested authenticity of national and cultural claims.<br>vi, 335 p. ; 29 cm.
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Elenton, Ivona. "Governor Ralph Carr : An Archival Research Handbook to a Colorado Governor's Collection." Thesis, Uppsala University, Department of ALM, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-126553.
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<p>The governor collections at the Colorado State Archives are a rich source for research and information about social science and the history of the state, but they are not always easy to research due to their differences in taxonomy through different eras. In my work with creating an archival research handbook for a governor collection I chose governor Ralph Carr to both illustrate the challenges as well as the thrills with historical research in a collection from the office of the governor.</p><p>Ralph Carr's collection takes patience to research. Some series will have inconsistent taxonomy and other series lack sub-series, and if a researcher is not familiar with the terminology of state affairs, many documents can pose a challenge. It is my hope that this handbook will be of use for both amateur researchers as well as provide a few short-cuts for more seasoned scholars. Governor Carr's collection covers some of the most dramatic years in Colorado history, the first part of WWII, and it is frequently requested for research, but many researchers get stuck between the vast amount of documents only sorted by dates, for instance in the series marked "Council of Defense", which contains many interesting documents about the Japanese-Americans who were to be deported to the Granada Relocation camp, or Camp Amache, as it was popularly called. It is my hope that the guide will not only provide such researchers some relief, but also to get the reader a sense for Colorado History, The Colorado State Archives and for the Governor collections in general.</p>
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MAYER, ERIC RENE. "Contribution au developpement des ecotechniques en amerique latine et au venezuela." Paris 7, 1987. http://www.theses.fr/1987PA077224.
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Bilan des differentes actions en genie solaire menee dans le cadre d'une mission de cooperation scientifique et technique effectuee au venezuela:deshumidification de l'air dans une installation qui utilise le potentiel thermique du sous-sol et l'energie solaire. Concentrateur solaire constitue de deux portions de spirales logarithmiques destine a servir de recepteur secondaire dans une installation de production de vapeur industrielle; amelioration des conditions de confort de l'environnement construit et elaboration des criteres de dessin d'un habitat climatique pour les conditions specifiques de chaque site; methode de dimensionnement d'un generateur solaire autonome avec stockage saisonnier
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Cabau, Agathe. "L'iconographie amérindienne aux Salons parisiens et aux Expositions universelles françaises (1781-1914)." Thesis, Paris 1, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA010586.
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Cette thèse porte sur les représentations de l’Indien présentées dans les Salons parisiens et dans les sections des Beaux-Arts des Expositions universelles françaises. Elle débute avec la première apparition du thème au Salon, en 1781, et s’achève à sa disparition progressive, au commencement de la Première Guerre Mondiale. Le corpus rassemble des œuvres hétérogènes dont l’étude s’articule autour de trois grandes campagnes de représentation marquées par l’histoire des relations entre les Blancs et les Amérindiens. L’iconographie amérindienne dévoile une figure à la fois attractive et répulsive ; à l’esthétique de la disparition du «bon sauvage» répondent des mises en scène dégradantes. Notre étude rend ainsi compte des sources des imaginaires collectifs et des stéréotypes raciaux assignés à la représentation de l’Indien. Mais l’iconographie amérindienne survient également des impressions d’artistes ayant été à la rencontre de leur sujet. Pour ce groupe de quelques Français et Américains, la question de la représentation de l’«Autre» ne se joue pas exclusivement à travers les schèmes esthétiques abordés auparavant. Les déplacements répétés sur le continent nord-américain et l’attention portée à l’art amérindien favorisent un élargissement des horizons artistiques. Cette thèse est enfin l’occasion d’étudier l’image de l’«Autre» dans le cadre compétitif des Expositions universelles, où la figure de l’Indien tergiverse entre recherche de vraisemblance et sujet d’art. Il en ressort la constitution d’un discours visant à encourager la construction d’une identité esthétique nationale américaine au contact de l’art français<br>This Ph. D. dissertation investigates images of Native Americans displayed at the Paris Salons and in the Fine Art sections of the Great Exhibitions of 1855, 1868, 1878, 1889 and 1900. My analysis starts with the first outbreak of the theme at the 1781 Salon and ends following its gradual dismissal at the beginning of the First World War. The body of artworks I analyze documents three main campaigns of representation marked by the history of Native Americans and Whites relations. These representations reveal an artistic figure both attractive and repulsive at the same time. The rhetoric of the disappearance of the “Noble Indian” alternates with degrading images of the “Savage Indians”. Our study reveals the origins of collective imagination and racial stereotypes that originate representations of “Indians”. But this iconography is also based on artists’ itinerancies and their migration to the West in order to meet their models. The artistic production of this small group of French and American artists can not be reduced exclusively to the two aesthetic patterns previously discussed. Their travels on the North American territory and their attention to Native American Art encourage new artistic horizons at the Paris venues. This thesis is also an opportunity to study the image of the Native American “Others” displayed in the competitive Fine Art sections of the Great Exhibitions. It brings out a discourse promoting the figure of the “Indian” to build an American art with its own aesthetic in response to French artistic influences
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Gullion, Chris S. "The Manning cache : an examination of the McWhinney heavy stemmed point." Virtual Press, 2008. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1397375.
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This thesis will explore the significance of a cache of Late Archaic lithics found in Randolph County, Indiana by Bobby Manning. These points, thought to mostly be of the McWhinney Heavy Stemmed type are unique in that very few caches of these points have found been in such good condition in unmixed contexts. The McWhinney Heavy Stemmed point, as currently defined, is not well represented in the archaeological record. Point typology is important to archaeology because point types indicate the age and cultural affiliation of most surface sites. Point typologies, then, require accurate description of good samples from unmixed contexts. By presenting background data concerning the McWhinney Heavy Stemmed point and known morphological correlates this thesis aims to provide a better description of the point type. Also this data, coupled with the data from the Manning cache is used to produce results that determine the significance of the cache and determine if this isolated cache reflects a new variant in the McWhinney type or, if justified, a new type altogether.<br>Department of Anthropology
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Ferey, Vanessa. "La collection ethnographique du cabinet d’Histoire naturelle du Muséum national de Versailles 1767 – 2007 : trajectoire et interprétations des patrimoines de l’Amérique du Nord." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017USPCA083.
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La muséologie développée en France et en Amérique du Nord, bien qu’ayant été explorée par les chercheurs en muséologie, a encore peu exploité la richesse informative des collections françaises d’Amérique du Nord. L’histoire de la collection de la famille Fayolle, ayant donné naissance au cabinet de Sérent à Versailles, a été étudiée sur l’ensemble de la période de la Nouvelle-France jusqu’à nos jours afin de contribuer aux recherches futures des historiens de l’art et des conservateurs français. L’origine privée de cet ensemble raisonné datant de 1767 a été explorée pour favoriser une écriture plus objective de l’histoire des musées de France, dont celle de l’éphémère Muséum national de Versailles. Ce rassemblement d’objets s’est révélé comme un cas d’école issu du développement et de la culture de la muséologie française au contact d’une culture matérielle nord-américaine singulièrement conservée dans l’espace du « musée » en France. Les pratiques de formation ont été abordées à partir d’une histoire institutionnelle française en considérant cette collection comme un patrimoine muséographique nord-américain. Une histoire effective des lieux, mais également des acteurs de ce patrimoine a été rédigée à partir d’archives et de documents redécouverts ou majoritairement inédits. Le rôle majeur des interactions individuelles et sociales au sein des environnements muséaux, dans l’interprétation du phénomène de collection française dans les territoires américains, a ainsi été réaffirmé. L’analyse jusqu’en 2007 de l’exposition des objets de ce cabinet en tant qu’élément patrimonial de la muséographie française, a témoigné de l’existence d’un continuum culturel entre la France et l’Amérique du Nord. Sur la période étudiée (1767-2007), une praxis franco-américaine de la muséologie a été mise en évidence à travers la diversification des milieux professionnels et universitaires de la muséologie française. De plus, des logiques muséales propres aux espaces de collection nord-américaine en France sont apparues. Ces conclusions caractérisant la collection Fayolle, témoignent d’une théorisation partagée de la discipline qu’est la Muséologie<br>The museological relations developed between France and North America have been explored by researchers in museology but these have hardly exploited the wealth of information contained in the French collections of North American objects. The history of the making of the Fayolle Collection, which gave birth to the Cabinet of Sérent at Versailles has been studied over a period starting with New-France and going as far as our present days, in order to gather material that could be of help to future research by art historians and French curators. The private origin of this collection dating 1767 has been explored at length to favour a more objective writing of the history of the museums in France, among which that of the short-lived Versailles National Museum. This collection has proved to be a case study of the development and culture of French museology in contact with a North American material culture, exceptionally preserved in the space of French museums. Its collecting practices have been approached not only from the point of view of a French institutional history but also considering it as a North American museographical heritage. An actual history of the places, but also a descriptive work of the actors of this heritage has been written using archives and documents either rediscovered or mostly unpublished. The major role played by individual and social interactions within museum environments in the interpretation of French collecting in American territories has been reaffirmed. The analysis going as far as 2007 of the exhibition of the objects of this cabinet as a patrimonial element of French museography has testified to the existence of a cultural continuum between France and North America. Over the period of time under study a French-American praxis of museology has been revealed through the diversification of professional and academic circles of French museology. Moreover museum logics specific to spaces devoted to North American collections in France have appeared. Those conclusions characterize the Fayolle collection, a witness to a shared theorization of the field that is Museology
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Muñoz, Torreblanca Marina. "La recepción de "lo primitivo" en las exposiciones celebradas en España hasta 1929." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/7450.
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En España, al igual que en el resto de países europeos a finales del siglo XIX y principios del XX, se hace exhibición de "lo primitivo": personas (indígenas procedentes de los nuevos territorios colonizados) y objetos (piezas de arte y artefactos de la cultura material de los indígenas procedentes de las colonias). Algunas de estas muestras coinciden con las primeras exposiciones organizadas en España: Exposición General de las Islas Filipinas en Madrid (1887), Exposición Universal de Barcelona (1888) y Exposición Internacional de Barcelona (1929). El presente trabajo analiza la presencia o ausencia de "lo primitivo" (personas y objetos) en los principales acontecimientos expositivos españoles, su relación con acontecimientos homónimos en otros países europeos y su posible recepción en colecciones museísticas (museos de antropología, etnología y misionales).<br>In Spain, as in the rest of European countries at the end of the nineteenth century and beginning of the twentieth, aboriginal from the new colonized territories and "primitive" objects (art and artefacts from the material culture of the colonies) were also exhibited. Some of these events coincide with the first organized Exhibitions in Spain: General Exhibition of the Philippines Islands in Madrid (1887), Barcelona World Exhibition (1888) and Barcelona International Exhibition (1929). This work analyzes the presence or absence of "the primitive" (people and objects) in the major Spanish exhibitions, the relationship with similar events in other European countries and the possible reception in museum collections (museums of anthropology, ethnology and missionary).
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Arnold-Levene, Elise Hope. "Lydia Cabrera, the Storyteller as Collector." Thesis, 2016. https://doi.org/10.7916/D8R49R2N.
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Lydia Cabrera, the acclaimed 20th-century Cuban writer and ethnographer, is widely recognized for her pioneering studies, beginning in the 1920s, of Afro-Cuban religions and cultures. The broad scope of her contribution to Cuban culture, one that encompasses both Cuba’s African and European cultural heritage, however, has been all but overlooked in critical studies. Often categorized as either fiction or ethnography, Cabrera’s work tends to be dismantled and the various pieces, when not altogether ignored, relegated to critical study from distinct academic disciplines (anthropology and literary studies, and to a lesser extent, lexicography and ethnomusicology). In this study I set aside these disciplinary distinctions by viewing the different parts of Cabrera’s career as a coherent whole.
In conjunction with her Afro-Cuban story collections and her extensive ethnographic work documenting Afro-Cuban cultures, which produced not only El monte but also dictionaries and glossaries of Afro-Cuban languages and traditions, I examine Cabrera’s lesser known projects related to Cuba’s colonial European cultural foundations, and particularly her work on decorative arts and the restoration and curation of Cuba’s colonial architecture. I argue that these apparently unrelated and even conflicting facets of her career are not only related but in fact indivisible.
To bring together her work on Afro-Cuba and her work on Cuba’s Spanish colonial history, I address two physical and conceptual spaces that overlap and intersect in Cabrera’s career as they do in Cuban culture: the vieja casa criolla, or the traditional Cuban home, and the monte—the sacred ancestral forest. Part I of my study centers on the vieja casa criolla, an intimate and majestic space characterized by Spanish colonial architecture, period furniture and decorative arts. I use the concept of the vieja casa criolla broadly to include religious architecture and artistic traditions associated with Cuba’s Spanish colonial influences. I propose that Cabrera’s work to conserve Spanish colonial architecture and antiques beginning in the 1920s and continuing through the 1950s was not an aberration in her career but integral to her effort to create a living archive of Cuba’s cultural history, both African and European. In the same way that she painstakingly documented Afro-Cuban religions, oral traditions, and cultural practices, she worked to conserve, restore and promote Cuba’s European material culture.
Part II of my study focuses on the physical and textual spaces of the monte in Cabrera’s work and in Afro-Cuban culture. I explore the monte (the place) in Cabrera’s fiction and ethnographic writing and move into a discussion of El monte (the book). As the home to Afro-Cuban spirits and the source of traditions and ritual objects, I demonstrate that the monte mirrors Cuba’s casa criolla and religious architecture. Accordingly, in El monte and its complementary studies of Afro-Cuban liturgical languages and customs Cabrera curates the plants and mythology of the monte in the same way that she does her art and antique exhibitions. Cabrera’s conservation of colonial architecture and her documentation of Afro-Cuban religions and cultures together represent integral components for understanding and preserving Cuba’s cultural history.
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Watrelot, Michaela. "Wilhelm von Bode a medzinárodný trh s umením: nepublikovaná korešpondencia s Rudolphom Kannom a Josephom Duveenom." Doctoral thesis, 2021. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-438464.
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Wilhelm von Bode and the International Art Market: the Unpublished Correspondence with Rudolphe Kann and Joseph Duveen This dissertation explores changing trends in the European and American art market in the late 19th and beginning of the 20th Centuries, in particular their influences, presented from the perspective of Wilhelm von Bode, renowned connoisseur and, at the time, director general of the Berlin Museums and explored predominantly through his relationship with the private collector Rudolphe Kann and art dealer Joseph Duveen. At the time, the collection of Rudolphe Kann was considered to be one of the most refined among the European private collections, yet it hasn't received much attention by contemporary scholars. This dissertation therefore offers the most systematic review of Kann's collection since 1907, the year when Bode compiled the revised catalogue. Wilhelm Bode was actively involved in building the Kann collection, as shown by the extensive numbers of private, previously unpublished, correspondence, which provided the foundation of this research. After the dealer Joseph Duveen bought the entire art collection of this prominent Parisian collector in the summer 1907 and subsequently sold almost all of the artworks to American collectors, the competitiveness of European private...
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Stinnett, Graham. "Rebel collectors: human rights and archives in Central America and the Human Rights Commission of El Salvador and the Resource Center of the Americas, 1978-2007." 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1993/4061.
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The invaluable historical records of human rights non-governmental organizations have contributed to the protection of human rights and important social changes (such as the abolition of slavery in the West) at the local, national, and global levels over the last 200 years. This thesis stresses the importance of these records creators and their records in a case study of two human rights non-governmental organizations that responded to human rights violations in El Salvador in the late twentieth century: Comision de Derechos Humanos de El Salvador (San Salvador) and the Resource Center of the Americas (Minneapolis). The other primary and related concern of this thesis is to emphasize the role of the archivist as social justice activist through his or her efforts to include in the archive evidence of marginalized voices that can widen our understanding of peoples' history. As archivists are active shapers of historical memory through archival practice, they must forge alliances with those in the human rights non-governmental sphere to further the contribution of archives to social justice. By actively engaging the world’s memory of the disenfranchised (the archive of justice) archives can play an increasingly important societal role.
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Lee, Elizabeth Lightfoot. "White fantasies : dirt, desire, and art in late nineteenth-century America /." 2002. http://americanart.si.edu/collections/exhibits/thayer/index.html.
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"Cultures of Collection in Late Nineteenth Century American Natural History." Doctoral diss., 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.9101.
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abstract: Natural history is, and was, dependent upon the collection of specimens. In the nineteenth century, American naturalists and institutions of natural history cultivated and maintained extensive collection networks comprised of numerous collectors that provided objects of natural history for study. Effective networks were collaborative in nature, with naturalists such as Spencer Baird of the Smithsonian trading their time and expertise for specimens. The incorporation of Darwinian and Neo-Lamarckian evolutionary theory into natural history in the middle of the century led to dramatic changes in the relationship between naturalists and collectors, as naturalists sought to reconcile their observations within the new evolutionary context. This dissertation uses the careers of collectors Robert Kennicott, Frank Stephens, Edward W. Nelson, E.A. Goldman, and Edmund Heller as case studies in order to evaluate how the changes in the theoretical framework of late nineteenth century natural history led to advances in field practice by assessing how naturalists trained their collectors to meet new demands within the field. Research focused on the correspondence between naturalists and collectors, along with the field notes and applicable publications by collectors. I argue that the changes in natural history necessitated naturalists training their collectors in the basics of biogeography - the study of geographic distribution of organisms, and systematics - the study of the diversity of life - leading to a collaborative relationship in which collectors played an active role in the formation of new biological knowledge. The project concludes that the changes in natural history with regard to theory and practice gradually necessitated a more professional cadre of collectors. Collectors became active agents in the formation of biological knowledge, and instrumental in the formation of a truly systematic natural history. As a result, collectors became de facto field naturalists, the forerunners of the field biologists that dominated the practice of natural history in the early and middle twentieth century.<br>Dissertation/Thesis<br>Ph.D. History 2011