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Hall, Mark. "Whithorn's Medieval Material Culture on Display." Scottish Archaeological Journal 27, no. 1 (2005): 89–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/saj.2005.27.1.89.
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Petrov, Julia. "Cross-Purposes: Museum Display and Material Culture." CrossCurrents 62, no. 2 (2012): 219–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1939-3881.2012.00231.x.
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Crooke, Elizabeth. "Memory politics and material culture: Display in the memorial museum." Memory Studies 12, no. 6 (2017): 617–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1750698017727805.
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When private grief is brought into the memorial museum, this transfer is a deliberate act that is seeking public acknowledgement and action. By considering the life history of a collection of objects now in the Museum of Free Derry (Northern Ireland), the use of objects in private mourning and as agents in the collective processes of public remembering is demonstrated. The story is one of loss and mourning that is intensified by the political context of the deaths. As cherished possessions, these objects are active in the private processes of grieving and recovery. In the memorial museum, they are agents in an evolving justice campaign, embedded in the political negotiations of the region.
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Lehrer, Erica. "The Matter of Jewishness: Rules for the Collection and Display of Material Culture." International Journal of the Inclusive Museum 1, no. 4 (2009): 45–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.18848/1835-2014/cgp/v01i04/44533.
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Gemmill, Elizabeth. "Debt, distraint, display and dead men’s treasure: material culture in late medieval Aberdeen." Journal of Medieval History 46, no. 3 (2020): 350–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03044181.2020.1746924.
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설배환. "A New Challenge to Understand Production and Circulation of East Asian Material Culture." Korean Cultural Studies 32, no. ll (2017): 219–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.17792/kcs.2017.32..219.
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EVANGELISTI, SILVIA. "MONASTIC POVERTY AND MATERIAL CULTURE IN EARLY MODERN ITALIAN CONVENTS." Historical Journal 47, no. 1 (2004): 1–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0018246x03003480.
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This article discusses the meaning of material culture in early modern Italian convents. Although nuns were required to give up private property rights and embrace religious poverty, many of them brought into the convent a vast range of material objects and goods for their personal use. These goods could also be given away, exchanged, or lent to others within the monastic community and even outside it. By exploring the circulation of objects, money, and goods, we get an interesting picture of how female monastic institutions worked internally and interacted with the city. We also gain a better understanding of the role of objects in articulating religious discipline and regulating the networks of interpersonal relations within cloistered communities.
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Stefano, Michelle L. "Colonial collecting and display: Encounters with material culture from the Andaman and Nicobar Islands." Asian Anthropology 13, no. 2 (2014): 163–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1683478x.2014.974135.
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Vilkner, Nicole. "The Opera and the Omnibus: Material Culture, Urbanism and Boieldieu's La dame blanche." Cambridge Opera Journal 32, no. 1 (2020): 90–114. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0954586720000130.
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AbstractIn the summer of 1828, the Entreprise générale des Dames Blanches launched a fleet of white omnibuses onto the streets of Paris. These public transportation vehicles were named and fashioned after Boieldieu's opéra comique La dame blanche (1825): their rear doors were decorated with scenes of Scotland, their flanks painted with gesturing opera characters, and their mechanical horns trumpeted fanfares through the streets. The omnibuses offered one of the first mass transportation systems in the world and were an innovation that transformed urban circulation. During their thirty years of circulation, the omnibuses also had a profound effect on the reception history of Boieldieu's opera. When the omnibuses improved the quality of working- and middle-class life, bourgeois Parisians applauded the vehicles’ egalitarian business model, and Boieldieu's opera became unexpectedly entwined in the populist rhetoric surrounding the omnibus. Viewing opera through the lens of the Dames Blanches, Parisians conflated the sounds of opera and street, as demonstrated by Charles Valentin Alkan's piano piece Les omnibus, Op. 2 (1829), which combines operatic idioms and horn calls. Through these examples and others, this study examines the complex ways that material culture affects the dissemination and reception of a musical work.
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Santesmases, María Jesús. "Circulating biomedical images: Bodies and chromosomes in the post-eugenic era." History of Science 55, no. 4 (2017): 395–430. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0073275317701145.
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This essay presents the early days of human cytogenetics, from the late 1950s until the mid 1970s, as a historical series of images. I propose a chronology moving from photographs of bodies to chromosome sets, to be joined by ultrasound images, which provided a return to bodies, by then focused on the unborn. Images carried ontological significance and, as I will argue, are principal characters in the history of human cytogenetics. Inspired by the historiography of heredity and genetics, studies on visual cultures, the conceptualization of circulation, and the sociology of pregnancy, I suggest that cytogenetics, through its focus on pregnancy, pregnant women, and their offspring, found strategic living materials that stabilized human chromosome studies as a biomedical, post-eugenics practice. The historicity of each path displays a wide circulation of objects, tools, and methods that condensed on images that shared in the centuries-old visual expertise that medicine and botany had manufactured.
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Baglo, Cathrine. "The disappearance of the Sea Sámi as a cultural display category." Nordisk Museologi 27, no. 3 (2020): 25–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.5617/nm.7725.
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While the Sea Sámi had a prominent position in an industrial exposition held in Tromsø in northern Norway in 1870, this category of display was no longer present in an industrial exposition held in the same city in 1894. In this article I explore this change and how the display of Sámi culture at the Tromsø expositions fit into a larger societal picture. Moreover, I argue that the creation of material regimes emphasizing reindeer herding culture as the only genuine Sámi culture, contributed to the marginalization of the Sea Sámi early on in an exhibition context.
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Holtz Schramek, Evangeline, and Carolyn L. Kane. "Opulent Servitude: Shoplifting in a Culture of Material Excess and Systemic Racism." Fashion Studies 2, no. 1 (2019): 1–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.38055/fs020109.
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Why did the latter part of the nineteenth century witness a sudden growth of white, middle class female shoplifters? Psychology tells us that shoplifting is a mental deficiency manifested in women as “kleptomania” (Abelson 4). Given the subsequent international growth of shoplifting, we argue instead that shoplifting is in many ways condoned in contemporary culture: used as a form of social and political control in a late capitalist society. This article first turns to female consumers as shoplifters in the late nineteenth century, alongside the growth of mass production, large-scale department stores, and visually spectacular forms of display. In line with feminist critiques of Marx’s Capital, we uphold the conditions prescribed to women under capitalism and extend this argument to newer forms of systemic racism in the consumer sphere, which ensure that women of colour and of lower economic standing face even greater obstacles to success. Using a broad historical view, we analyze the act of shoplifting in two forms of cultural media, both set in Paris. The first is Émile Zola’s novel The Ladies’ Paradise (1883), based on Paris’s first department store, Le Bon Marché. Due to Zola’s commitment to verisimilitude, we argue, his work offers the strongest corroboration of the ways in which new forms of visual display and a new class of psychologically-entitled females worked together to generate astounding accounts of theft. Our analysis then turns to a work of cinema produced nearly a century and a half later, Céline Sciamma’s 2014 Girlhood. Sciamma portrays a group of young French African girls who navigate their paths into adulthood from the vantage of Bagnolet, a lower income immigrant suburb over four kilometers from Paris’s city centre. The girls experience racial profiling and demonstrate varying forms of resistance, one of them shoplifting. While shoplifting then appears to be an enduring weapon of the weak and strategy of resistance by the dispossessed, leading to, not surprisingly, tacitly permissibility for white middle class women and harsher consequences for women of colour, we conclude that the activity is leveraged to perpetuate pre-existent forms of gendered social control and cultural stereotyping.
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Jasperse, Jitske. "Matilda, Leonor and Joanna: the Plantagenet sisters and the display of dynastic connections through material culture." Journal of Medieval History 43, no. 5 (2017): 523–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03044181.2017.1378918.
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Lederballe Pedersen, Thomas. "Materialkultur og territorialbevidsthed i Acta." Dansk Teologisk Tidsskrift 74, no. 2 (2011): 98–115. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/dtt.v74i2.106378.
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Material culture either upheld or established by authorities within the Roman empire can be interpreted as vehicles for describing the territorial expansion of Christianity in the Acts of the Apostles. Acts 17:16-34 and 18:24-19:40 display an emphasis on the role played by material culture, notably images in Athens and Ephesus, in defining urban political and cultural centres. Roman material culture also sheds light on the metaphorical meaning of the recurrent expression “the way” in Acts. Acts 8:26-40 provides indications of this, suggesting that the meaning of the expression is informed by the ubiquitous road system in the Roman empire and by the symbolic and metaphorical significance of the roads in describing Roman territory.
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Launius, Roger D. "Abandoned in Place: Interpreting the U.S. Material Culture of the Moon Race." Public Historian 31, no. 3 (2009): 9–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/tph.2009.31.3.9.
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Abstract The U.S. space race of the 1960s was an enormous undertaking, costing $$25.4 billion (about $$125 billion in 2009 dollars) with only the building of the Panama Canal rivalling the Apollo program's size as the largest nonmilitary technological endeavor ever undertaken by the United States. In the process, the United States built a massive infrastructure to support missions to the Moon. In the aftermath of the successful completion of the program, much of this infrastructure was abandoned, some was altered for other uses, and much torn down. This paper surveys six major cultural landmarks of the Moon race, assessing their differing fates:1. The Apollo Launch Pads——LC 39A and B——Kennedy Space Center, Florida.2. The Vertical Assembly Building (VAB), Kennedy Space Center, Florida.3. Mission Control Center (MCC), Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas.4. Six Apollo landing sites on the Moon.5. Lunar Landing Research Facility, Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia.6. Apollo Command Modules on display in various museums around the nation, and in London.
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Gedeeva, Daria B. "Об убранстве кибитки по материалам калмыцких деловых документов XVIII в." Бюллетень Калмыцкого научного центра Российской академии наук 16, № 4 (2020): 104–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.22162/2587-6503-2020-4-16-104-112.
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Introduction. The monuments of Kalmyk business writing are valuable sources for studying the material culture of the Kalmyks. However, they remain out of the focus of ethnographers and the documented information is stored in the archives. In this regard, the research work on identifying and introducing valuable ethnographic material into scientific circulation is quite relevant. The goal of this article is to present the information from the Kalmyk business texts of the XVIII century. The article deals with the materials about the traditional decoration of the Kalmyk nomadic kibitka. The article describes such household items as wall and bed curtains, bed sheets, blanket, pillows, felt quilted carpets, chests. The official documents from the I-36 Fund of the National Archives of the Republic of Kalmykia namely the official letters and property registers are used as the materials for this article. Conclusions. Thus, the article for the first time introduces into scientific circulation the ethnographic material about the decoration of kibitka from the monuments of the Kalmyk business writing of the XVIII century. The material is valuable because it is obtained from sources in the Kalmyk language written by the representatives of nomadic culture themselves.
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André, Richard Gonçalves. "AS DIMENSÕES MATERIAIS DA FOTOGRAFIA: CULTURA MATERIAL E RETRATOS DE FAMÍLIA * THE MATERIAL DIMENSIONS OF PHOTOGRAPHY: MATERIAL CULTURE AND FAMILY PORTRAITS." História e Cultura 5, no. 2 (2016): 205. http://dx.doi.org/10.18223/hiscult.v5i2.1549.
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Resumo: Este artigo reflete teoricamente sobre a fotografia para além do discurso visual, chamando a atenção para sua materialidade. Enfoca-se os retratos de família, imagens que representam diferentes dimensões da memória familiar, tais como a infância, os ritos religiosos, as formaturas, os casamentos e mesmo a morte. Compreende-se a cultura material, de acordo com as proposições do historiador Ulpiano Toledo Bezerra de Meneses, como processos cognitivos encarnados, inclusive em sua visualidade. Como discussão, sugere-se que, considerando que as fotos são coisas, é importante compreendê-las em seu processo de produção, circulação, recepção e ação, na medida em que, ultrapassando o tempo de vida de seus produtores, as fotografias ganham apropriações e usos específicos, inserindo-se em redes sociais híbridas, como sugere Bruno Latour.Palavras-chave: Retratos. Família. Cultura material. Abstract: This paper reflects theoretically about photography beyond the visual discourse, calling attention to its materiality. It delimits the so-called family portraits, images that represent different dimensions of family memory, such as childhood, religious rites, graduations, weddings and even death. Material culture is understood, according to the propositions of historian Ulpiano Toledo Bezerra de Meneses, as embodied cognitive process, including its visuality. As discussion, it is suggested that, considering photos are things, it is important to understand them in their process of production, circulation, reception and action, since they surpass the time life of their producers and get specific appropriations and uses, being inserted in hybrid social networks, as suggests Bruno Latour.Keywords: Portraits. Family. Material culture.
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Sera-Shriar, Efram. "Colonial collecting and display. Encounters with material culture from the Andaman and Nicobar Islands by Wintle, Claire." Social Anthropology 23, no. 1 (2015): 121–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1469-8676.12096_26.
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Merrill, Elizabeth M. "Zaha Hadid’s Center for Contemporary Art and the perils of new museum architecture." Architectural Research Quarterly 23, no. 3 (2019): 210–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1359135519000204.
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As epitomised in the works of Renzo Piano, Frank Gehry, and Daniel Libeskind, the ‘new museum’ of art claims its own architectural typology. With asymmetrical silhouettes, gallery spaces that eschew the much derided ‘white cube’, and cleverly conceived circulation systems, the new museum has been heralded as revolutionising the display of art. Yet its function extends beyond the display and conservation of art. The new art museum is conceived as a multifaceted cultural centre – a public forum – where art and culture are democratised, and families, scholars, students, tourists, and teachers come together. At the same time, the new museum competes with other entertainment venues on a commercial level. As a cultural factory replete with an ambitious programme of temporary exhibitions, media facilities, restaurants, and shops, the new museum emphasises consumption as much as it does contemplation. In fact, the array of non-artrelated diversions contained in the new museum is often more important to the institution’s success than the art itself.
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Purniati, Tia, Turmudi Turmudi, Dadang Juandi, and Didi Suhaedi. "Ethnomathematics Exploration of The Masjid Raya Bandung Ornaments in Transformation Geometry Materials." Journal of Medives : Journal of Mathematics Education IKIP Veteran Semarang 5, no. 2 (2021): 235. http://dx.doi.org/10.31331/medivesveteran.v5i2.1639.
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The mosque is the result of acculturation between Islamic culture and local culture. Many mosque ornaments use geometric motifs. This research is an ethnomathematics study that aims to explore the ethnomathematics aspects of mosque ornament, especially the material of geometric transformation Ethnomathematics research is part of qualitative research, so this research uses qualitative research. The purpose of ethnomathematics research is to study the mathematical ideas contained in a culture, so the method used is ethnographic. The research location is Masjid Raya Bandung which was selected by purposive sampling. The researcher acts as an instrument that collects data through observation, documentation, and literature review. The research data were analyzed through data condensation, data display, and concluding. The results showed that there are ethnomathematics aspects of Masjid Raya Bandung ornaments in the material of transformation geometry, namely translation, reflection, rotation, and dilation. The mosque ornaments can be used as an alternative source of learning in mathematics learning, especially transformation geometry material.
 Keywords: ethnomathematics, transformation geometry, mosque ornament.
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Carannante, Anna, Cecilia Fazio, Arianna Neri, et al. "Meningococcal B vaccine antigen FHbp variants among disease-causing Neisseria meningitidis B isolates, Italy, 2014–2017." PLOS ONE 15, no. 11 (2020): e0241793. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0241793.
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Background Typing of Neisseria meningitidis isolates is crucial for the surveillance of invasive meningococcal disease (IMD). We performed a molecular epidemiology study of N. meningitidis serogroup B (MenB) causing IMD in Italy between 2014 and 2017 to describe circulating strains belonging to this serogroup, with particular regards to the two factor H-binding protein (FHbp) subfamilies present in the bivalent MenB vaccine. Materials and methods A total of 109 culture positive and 46 culture negative MenB samples were collected within the National Surveillance System (NSS) of IMD in Italy and molecularly analyzed by conventional methods. Results Overall, 71 MenB samples showed the FHbp subfamily A and 83 the subfamily B. The subfamily variants were differently distributed by age. The most frequent variants, A05 and B231, were associated with cc213 and cc162, respectively. All MenB with the FHbp A05 variant displayed the PorA P1.22,14 and 85.7% of them the FetA F5-5. The majority of MenB with the FHbp B231 variant showed the PorA P1.22,14 (65.4%) and 84.6%, the FetA F3-6. Conclusion MenB circulating in Italy were characterized by a remarkable association between clonal complex and FHbp variants, although a high degree of genetic diversity observed over time. A dynamic trend in clonal complexes distribution within MenB was detected. Our results stress the importance of continued meningococcal molecular surveillance to evaluate the potential vaccine coverage of the available MenB vaccines.
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Saville, Alan. "Treasure Trove in Scotland." Antiquity 76, no. 293 (2002): 796–802. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0003598x00091262.
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The Treasure Trove system in Scotland operates to protect portable antiquities and ensure their preservation in perpetuity for the benefit of the nation. A broad interpretation is taken of ‘portable antiquities’, encompassing those items of past material culture to which archaeological, historical and/or cultural importance may be attached. Objects which are ‘museumworthy’ might be another way of expressing this, though ‘worthiness’ applies not just to items with obvious display potential but also to those likely to reside in study collections as reference material.
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Burns, Emily C. "Circulating Regalia and Lakȟóta Survivance, c. 1900." Arts 8, no. 4 (2019): 146. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/arts8040146.
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This essay offers object biographies of two examples of Lakȟóta beaded regalia that traveled with Wild West performers to France in 1889 and in 1911, respectively, as exemplars of Gerald Vizenor’s concept of survivance. By examining the production of the objects by women artists within the Lakȟóta community and visually analyzing their designs, this article highlights the regalia as an opposition to both settler colonial political suppression and enforced attempts of cultural assimilation. The article stresses that the beadwork’s materiality bears traces of its intended circulation and public display that are enacted when Lakȟóta individuals wore the regalia in the context of Wild West performance in France. Both when rooted in the Lakȟóta community and when circulating through Wild West shows, the objects evince Lakȟóta survivance. When the regalia was acquired by non-Native individuals in France, who projected new meanings onto the objects, the function of the regalia as a public statement of Lakȟóta survivance subtly continued to operate through generated revenue for the community and through the visibility of Lakȟóta culture through continued circulation.
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Cole, Anne Jodon, and Eva Petersson Brooks. "Toy Story: Childhood versus Children in Toy Museums." Museum and Society 14, no. 2 (2017): 294–312. http://dx.doi.org/10.29311/mas.v14i2.675.
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Toys are considered to be children’s cultural objects, yet when placed in a toy museum context they become a collection for adult viewing. This article uses Kress and van Leeuwens’ concept of ‘semiotic landscape’ wherein the exhibit provides a specific context of communication that becomes a mediating device between adults and children. The question then becomes, how does a display of static toys speak to a child’s culture of play? Through interviews with toy museum curators and personal observations it was found that the exhibition was designed to have adults share and reflect stories about the toys with children. Such activity reflects a representation of toys as collections for adults (child’s perspective) rather than the playthings of children (children’s perspectives). Material culture of children was implicitly represented through playful, sensory, and affective engagement.Key words: toy exhibits, material culture of children, semiotic landscape, play, narratives
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Sanders, Mija A. "Yezidis in ancient India, or Indians in ancient Mesopotamia?: Re-imagining Ancient Yezidi Origins." Journal of Ethnic and Cultural Studies 6, no. 2 (2019): 68. http://dx.doi.org/10.29333/ejecs/255.
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Members and leaders of the Kurdish speaking Yezidi diaspora in Phoenix, Arizona—and transnationally—are in dialogue with members of the Indian diaspora about their common historical connections. “Are Yezidis from ancient India, or are Indians from ancient Mesopotamia?” Both of these claims and hypotheses situate Yezidis on the outside of a historical Muslim world, and have material effects. They add validity to non-Muslim traditions, by imagining a historical cultural root structure between India and Mesopotamia. They also help both Hindu nationalists and Yezidis to displace historical Muslim culture and dominance to somewhere else while reinforcing tropes of Islam synonymous with the “war on terror.” By de-historicising Islam and its presence in the Middle East and in India, Hindu and Yezidi community leaders co-imagine a pan-polytheism with roots in ancient Persian (Kurdish) Yezidi culture and language. The symbols that can be recognized today that span both traditions— the peacock, the peacock statue (sanjak), and the use of fire in places of worship—give testament to that imagined past. The contradictions of that historical narrative point to the limits of this historical work in the two communities, and find limits in modern identity articulations of Yezidi identity and Hindu identity alike. Material effects of the historical narrative include Indian imagery on the wall of Lalish, online circulating images and articles equating Yezidis to Hindus, and common activism, fundraising, and humanitarianism between Yezidi and Hindu communities in Phoenix, India, and in the Middle East.
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Quero, Tania, Maria Clara Martinelli, and Letterio Giordano. "The Neolithic Site of San Martino — Sicily: Working and Circulation of Obsidian from Lipari." Open Archaeology 5, no. 1 (2019): 65–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/opar-2019-0006.
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AbstractThe settlement of San Martino was found in 2008 on the Northern coast of Sicily (near the city of Spadafora — Messina). It is located on a hill slope about 4 km from the coast of the Tyrrhenian Sea, near an ancient river which is no longer present today. The stratigraphy included two Neolithic levels: the oldest one belonged to the Stentinello culture (middle Neolithic — 6th-5th millennium BC cal) and the later one belonged to the Diana culture (Late Neolithic — 4th millennium BC cal). The San Martino lithic assemblage consists of a very significant amount of obsidian knapping products that have allowed us to examine the procurement, exploitation and circulation of this raw material, from the source on the island off the coast of Sicily, during the Neolithic period. Considering its strategic location and some analogies with other settlements nearby, the site of San Martino was probably part of the Lipari obsidian networks of exchange.
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Swann, Marjorie. "The Politics of Fairylore in Early Modern English Literature*." Renaissance Quarterly 53, no. 2 (2000): 449–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2901875.
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This essay argues that Stuart fairy poetry, rooted in Shakespeare's innovative representation of tiny, consumeristic fairies, attempts to indigenize new forms of elite material display. Rather than the fairies of popular tradition or courtly mythography, Stuart poets depict miniaturized Mabs and Oberons who are notable for their wardrobes, banquets, coaches, and the decor of their palaces. The fairy poetry of William Browne, Michael Drayton, and Robert Herrick must be interpreted not as playful escapism, but as a self-consciously politicized literary mode which reveals these writers’ deep ambivalence toward elite culture — and toward their own artistic role within that culture.
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Zerené Harcha, Joaquin, and Paula Cardoso Pereira. "Revolutions of Resolution." tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique. Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society 12, no. 1 (2014): 315–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v12i1.510.
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Digital technologies have profoundly transformed the process of production and transmission of visual information and images. From a critical perspective on visual culture this article proposes an analysis of low-resolution digital images, here treated as poor images (Steyerl), in today’s “class society of images”. Resolution refers to a material dimension of images that needs to be explored. A critical approximation to the role of poor images in today’s transnational and global communication asks for a focus on their modes of circulation, politics of accessibility and property rights as well as on the role of materiality in the economy of contemporary visual culture.
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Zerené Harcha, Joaquin, and Paula Cardoso Pereira. "Revolutions of Resolution." tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique. Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society 12, no. 1 (2014): 315–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.31269/vol12iss1pp315-327.
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Digital technologies have profoundly transformed the process of production and transmission of visual information and images. From a critical perspective on visual culture this article proposes an analysis of low-resolution digital images, here treated as poor images (Steyerl), in today’s “class society of images”. Resolution refers to a material dimension of images that needs to be explored. A critical approximation to the role of poor images in today’s transnational and global communication asks for a focus on their modes of circulation, politics of accessibility and property rights as well as on the role of materiality in the economy of contemporary visual culture.
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Buckland, Adelene. "“THE POETRY OF SCIENCE”: CHARLES DICKENS, GEOLOGY, AND VISUAL AND MATERIAL CULTURE IN VICTORIAN LONDON." Victorian Literature and Culture 35, no. 2 (2007): 679–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1060150307051716.
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DESPITE THE WELL-ESTABLISHED CONNECTIONSbetween Dickens's novels and Victorian popular entertainment, and between Victorian show business and the display and dissemination of science, critics have not yet explored the possible links between scientific shows and Dickens's fiction. Work on Dickens and science has proliferated since George Levine's work inDarwin and the Novelists, but its central problem has been the fact that, as Francis O’Gorman described it, Dickens's scientific reading was “nugatory” (252). The most well-represented branch of science on his bookshelves was natural history; in even this, Dickens displayed only the “intelligent interest that would be expected of a man of the world” (Hill 203). Levine's influential “one culture” model surmounted the problem by pointing out the similar structural patterns implicit in the worlds described by Dickens and Darwin, but in an attempt to develop more direct links between Dickens's work and evolutionary science, almost all subsequent studies have focused on Dickens's 1860s novels, written after the publication of theOrigin of Species(1859) (Morris 179–93; Fulweiler 50–74; Morgentaler 707–21). There has not been a study that explores Dickens's acquaintance with natural history at different points in his career, or through the visual and material cultures with which he was so familiar.
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van Kessel, Elsje. "The inventories of the Madre de Deus." Journal of the History of Collections 32, no. 2 (2019): 207–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jhc/fhz015.
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Abstract This article examines the impact made by the taking of the ship Madre de Deus in 1592 on the circulation of Asian material culture in England. As a Portuguese cargo ship on its way from Goa, the Madre de Deus was filled with precious and exotic objects – an immense treasure for the English privateers who seized it. An examination of the extensive archival record generated by the ship’s capture allows for a reconstruction of the cargo. Probing inventories and other documents for their material and formal qualities as much as for their contents, the article argues that written documents became an instrument with which the English authorities tried to control the uncontrollable movements of the booty. The pathways subsequently followed by some of the items recovered are traced, and the question of how they affected England’s artistic culture is addressed.
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Pacor, Sabrina, Alberto Grillo, Luka Đorđević, et al. "Effects of Two Fullerene Derivatives on Monocytes and Macrophages." BioMed Research International 2015 (2015): 1–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/915130.
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Two fullerene derivatives (fullerenes1and2), bearing a hydrophilic chain on the pyrrolidinic nitrogen, were developed with the aim to deliver anticancer agents to solid tumors. These two compounds showed a significantly different behaviour on human neoplastic cell linesin vitroin respect to healthy leukocytes. In particular, the pyrrolidinium ring on the fullerene carbon cage brings to a more active compound. In the present work, we describe the effects of these fullerenes on primary cultures of human monocytes and macrophages, two kinds of immune cells representing the first line of defence in the immune response to foreign materials. These compounds are not recognized by circulating monocytes while they get into macrophages. The evaluation of the pronecrotic or proapoptotic effects, analysed by means of analysis of the purinergic receptor P2X7 activation and of ROS scavenging activity, has allowed us to show that fullerene2, but not its analogue fullerene1, displays toxicity, even though at concentrations higher than those shown to be active on neoplastic cells.
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Dong, Wen Ying, Wen Xiao Ye, and Yao Cheng. "Inspiration of New Chinese-Style Interior Design from Ming-Style Furniture." Applied Mechanics and Materials 361-363 (August 2013): 484–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.361-363.484.
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Ming-style furnitures design features can be analyzed and summarized from its appearance and cultural connotation, display in the material of natural beauty, diverse and unified design, function and aesthetic, rich cultural connotation, etc. And discuss how to use them in new Chinese-style interior design. Accordingly, New Chinese-style home decorating can keep the traditional lingering charm of Chinese classical culture, adapt to the rhythm of modern life and satisfy peoples functional and artistic requirements.
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Wasiucionek, Michał. "Introduction: Objects, Circuits, and Southeastern Europe." Journal of Early Modern History 24, no. 4-5 (2020): 303–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15700658-12342658.
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Abstract The scope of the paper is to provide the overview of the methodological developments that contributed to the growing interest in the nexus of material culture, circulation, and social networks, as well as the place of early modern Southeastern Europe, within the wider historiographical trends. To this end, it examines the very notion of Southeastern Europe and its impact on historical research in the region, while also providing a short discussion of the studies included in the issue.
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Chomitzky, Katya. "Pandemic, but Make It Fashion: Ukrainian Embroidered PPE in the Time of COVID-19." FOLKLORICA - Journal of the Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Folklore Association 24 (July 16, 2021): 27–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.17161/folklorica.v24i.15689.
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Embroidered pandemic wear has become one of the newest cultural fashion trends to emerge in Ukraine and within its Canadian diaspora. This article explores the ways in which embroidery as a traditional form of culture retains meaning within modern contexts, while also serving as a vehicle for experimenting with atypical applications of cultural symbols and representations. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, cloth masks have been recommended by public health officials, including the World Health Organization, as a preventative measure to limit the spread of the virus. On the basis of digital fieldwork, I discuss the meanings and inspirations behind these embroidered masks, while conducting a material culture analysis of the objects themselves. I argue that, through a subversion of their common purpose— to hide one’s identity— masks have been used in the pandemic as an open/performative display of culture. I contend that this display acts as a means to promote tradition through ephemera and assert cultural importance. This, coupled with the personal/private use of embroidery as a protective talisman, has fueled a trend of embroidered personal protective equipment in popular culture. In this article, I examine the purpose, use, and form of these masks in order to bring light to the ways in which cultural traditions and objects act (and developed prevalence) as a form of pandemic response.
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Vetter, Jordan. "Through the eyes of the Potala Palace: Difficult heritage and memory in Tibet." IJournal: Graduate Student Journal of the Faculty of Information 6, no. 1 (2020): 1–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.33137/ijournal.v6i1.35270.
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The Potala Palace in Lhasa, Tibet serves as an important religious symbol and an embodiment of Tibetan culture. Ever since Chinese troops invaded Tibet in the 1950s, the Chinese government has attempted to control Tibet, including converting the Potala Palace and its rich material culture into a secular institution on display for tourists. Now void of the Dalai Lama and most of its contents, the Potala has become a façade for public consumption of Chinese state-led narratives and a symbol of cultural oppression. Through their approaches to heritage management and tourism, and with the aid of the Potala’s listing as a UNESCO World Heritage site, China is capitalizing on Tibet’s cultural heritage, undermining the Tibetan people and their culture, and controlling the narrative of Tibetan history to alter the collective memory of Tibetans.
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Hess, Aaron, and Carlos Flores. "Simply more than swiping left: A critical analysis of toxic masculine performances on Tinder Nightmares." New Media & Society 20, no. 3 (2016): 1085–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1461444816681540.
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Launching in September 2012, Tinder has become a popular phenomenon in the world of online dating and hookup culture. Simultaneously, it carries notorious reputation for being home to hypersexual and toxic masculine expressions. This analysis examines Tinder Nightmares, an Instagram page featuring failed attempts at hooking up, as a site that promotes counter-disciplining the deliberate toxic masculine performances on Tinder. Through a Foucauldian lens, we argue that this page delimits the toxic masculine performances through the outward display of crude performances, the showcasing of witty responses from Tinder users, and the extension of counter-discipline through digital circulation practices on the page. Given that Tinder is a location-aware app, the discipline offered through Tinder Nightmares surfaces in interpersonal, physical, and networked spaces, as Tinder users become multiply implicated public subjects of shame across media platforms.
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Appelgren, Staffan, and Anna Bohlin. "Growing in Motion: The Circulation of Used Things on Second-hand Markets." Culture Unbound 7, no. 1 (2015): 143–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.3384/cu.2000.1525.1571143.
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From having been associated with poverty and low status, the commerce with second-hand goods in retro shops, flea markets, vintage boutiques and trade via Internet is expanding in Sweden as in many countries in the Global North. This article argues that a significant aspect of the recent interest in second-hand and reuse concerns the meaning fulness of circulation in social life. Using classic anthropological theory on how the circulation of material culture generates sociality, it focuses on how second-hand things are transformed by their circulation. Rather than merely having cultural biographies, second-hand things are reconfigured through their shifts between different social contexts in a process that here is understood as a form of growing. Similar to that of an organism, this growth is continuous, irreversible and dependent on forces both internal and external to it. What emerges is a category of things that combine elements of both commodities and gifts, as these have been theorized within anthropology. While first cycle commodities are purified of their sociality, the hybrid second-hand thing derives its ontological status as well as social and commercial value precisely from retaining ‘gift qualities’, produced by its circulation.
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Tang, Jun, and Yu Lin Zeng. "Intelligent Traditional Chinese Hairstyle System in Computer Animation." Applied Mechanics and Materials 530-531 (February 2014): 915–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.530-531.915.
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Traditional Chinese hairstyle is an important part of the traditional Chinese culture, which provides rich material for computer animation. The creation process of traditional Chinese hairstyle model in computer animation is complex working and time-consuming. This study establishes the traditional Chinese hairstyle database, which covers from Tang Dynasty to Qing Dynasty. According to the characteristics of the traditional Chinese hairstyle, this study develops an Intelligent Traditional Chinese Hairstyle System by MEL, which can display the condition of traditional Chinese hairstyle models in real time and change attributes related with models efficiently. The system is the combination among computer technology, animation art and traditional Chinese culture. It will improve the efficiency and quality in the computer animation creation.
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Sarauw, Torben. "Danish Bell Beaker pottery and flint daggers – the display of social identities?" European Journal of Archaeology 11, no. 1 (2007): 23–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1461957108101240.
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This article summarizes and discusses recent research into the Danish Bell Beaker phenomenon c.2350–1950 BC. Its focus is on the meaning of material culture here represented by Bell Beakers and bifacial lanceolate flint daggers, both seen from a social perspective. The Bell Beaker pottery is known to have had a very wide distribution. However, questions remain as to why Bell Beakers were only adopted in some regions and what meaning this special pottery had? Similarly the Danish type I daggers, which were manufactured within the context of the Danish Bell Beaker phenomenon in the northern parts of Jutland, had a wide distribution. Daggers of this type, which in general denote male identity, were exported in vast quantities, especially to Norway and the western parts of Sweden. In both case studies the evidence from a Danish Bell Beaker settlement site excavated in recent years – Bejsebakken – plays a major part.
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Pitcher, Ben. "The touch of iconoclasm." European Journal of Cultural Studies 23, no. 3 (2018): 454–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1367549418761794.
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This article reflects on some depicted intentional acts of iconoclasm undertaken by Isis in Northern Iraq and viewed as online videos. It attempts to consider what makes these moving images compelling to audiences who share an orientation to the protection and preservation of ancient artefacts. In doing so, it prompts a reflection on their circulation as part of stories that get told about cultural heritage, and particularly the simple civilizational oppositions that get set up between ‘Western’ and ‘Islamic’ culture. Centring on the significance of the sensation of touch to practices of cultural inscription, it suggests that the Northern Iraq videos animate forms of synaesthesic material engagement that are denied by the modernist technologies of museum culture.
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Piwowarski, Juliusz, and Wojciech Czajkowski. "Behavioural and Motivational Factors of Individual’s Behaviour in Emergency Situations." International conference KNOWLEDGE-BASED ORGANIZATION 24, no. 2 (2018): 362–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/kbo-2018-0116.
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Abstract In the presented research project we observed the influence of physical culture on the level of security culture, on personality, behavioural and axiological determinants of individual’s functioning in the context of physical activity under threatening conditions. We focused on testing of a group of people who were trained to act in the roles closely professionally related to security, including to hand-to-hand combat. It was assumed that their personality will develop in the direction of specific characteristics associated with security culture and display these characteristics. Considering this issue we took a securitological perspective focusing in particular on the first (of three: mental, organizational and material) dimension of security culture. In the research we referred the issue of personality and normative modifications of behaviour. We also touched on the subject of interpretation of people’s behaviour in the axiological categories which are essential for the full image of martial arts
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KILBURN-TOPPIN, JASMINE. "GIFTING CULTURES AND ARTISANAL GUILDS IN SIXTEENTH- AND EARLY SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY LONDON." Historical Journal 60, no. 4 (2017): 865–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0018246x16000583.
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AbstractThis article reconsiders the gift within London's sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century livery companies. Previous research into guild gift-giving cultures has focused exclusively upon substantial bequests of money and property by mercantile elites to the ‘great twelve’ livery companies. Through charitable gifts, citizens established godly reputations and legacies, perpetuated through the guild institution. It is argued here that a rich culture of material gift-giving, hitherto overlooked by historians, also thrived within London's craft guilds. Drawing on company gift books, inventories, and material survivals from guild collections, this article examines typologies of donors and gifts, the anticipated ‘returns’ on the gift by the recipient company, and the ideal spatial and temporal contexts for gift-giving. This material approach reveals that master artisans negotiated civic status, authority, and memory through the presentation of a wide range of gifted artefacts for display and ritual use in London's livery halls. Moreover, this culture of gift-giving was so deep-rooted and significant that it survived the Reformation upheavals largely intact. Finally, the embellishment of rituals of gifting, and the synchronization of gifting and feasting rites from the second half of the sixteenth century, are further evidence for the resurgence of English civic culture in this era.
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Sinopoli, Carla M. "Colonial Collecting and Display: Encounters with Material Culture from the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. ClaireWintle. Oxford: Bergahn Books, 2013. 264 PP." Museum Anthropology 37, no. 2 (2014): 164–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/muan.12062.
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Bulyk, Natalia. "In Austrian, Polish and Soviet Lviv: prosopographical portrait of Markiyan-Orest Smishko." Materials and studies on archaeology of Sub-Carpathian and Volhynian area 24 (December 24, 2020): 11–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.33402/mdapv.2020-24-11-46.
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This article is dedicated to famous Lviv archaeologist Markian-Orest Smishko, whose 120-th anniversary is celebrated by the scientific community on November 7, 2020. The life and scientific activity of archaeologists during periods of different political regimes are displayed on the basis of a large source base. Lion’s share of the researcher’s archives is preserved in Lviv. However, most of them, in particular, materials from the family archive, were introduced into scientific circulation for the first time. M. Smishko was born, lived and worked all his life in Lviv. His formation as an archaeologist can be dated back to the interwar period and is associated with the Polish University of Lviv. Till 1939, he discovered, researched, and put into scientific circulation a large number of archaeological sites that made his name well-known. Special place in his scientific research of this time belongs to sites of the Early Roman period. Simultaneously, M. Smishko conducted classes for students, took part on scientific grants, organized archaeological collection of the University and restored archaeological finds. He was one of L. Kozłowski’s favorite pupils. The next stage of M. Smishko’s life is connected with academic archeology of Lviv. From 1940 to 1961, M. Smishko headed the Department of Archeology, which was a leading academic institution in western Ukraine. Initially, it was Lviv Department of the Institute of Archeology of Academy of Sciences of USSR, and since February 1951 – Department of Archeology of the Institute of Social Sciences of Academy of Sciences of USSR. Here M. Smishko showed himself best as a scientist and organizer of academic activity, carried out his most resonant field research, published most important scientific works, including «Карпатські кургани І тисячоліття нашої ери» («Carpathian barrows of the first millennium AD») (1960) in which he distinguished a separate archaeological culture of Carpathian Tumuli, defended his doctoral dissertation (1965), raised a whole constellation of his pupils and followers. Key words: Markian Smishko, barrows, cemeteries, burial sites, Early Slavic archeology, Roman period, Carpathian Tumuli culture, glass workshop, Komariv.
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Grad én, Lizette. "Dressed in a Present from the Past: The Transfers and Transformations of a Swedish Bridal Crown in the United States." Culture Unbound 2, no. 5 (2010): 695–717. http://dx.doi.org/10.3384/cu.2000.1525.10238695.
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Ever since the emigration from the Nordic countries the Old world and the New world have maintained an exchange of ideas, customs, and material culture. This cultural heritage consists of more than remnants of the past. Drawing on theories of material culture and performance this article highlights the role of gifts in materializing relationships between individuals, families and organizations in the wake of migration. First, I build on a suggested coinage of the term heritage gifts as a way of materializing relationships. Thereafter, I map out the numerous roles which a Swedish bridal crown play in the United States: as museum object, object of display and loaned to families for wedding ceremonies in America. The transfers and transformations of the bridal crown enhances a drama of a migration heritage. This dynamic drama brings together kin in Sweden and America and maps specific locations into a flexible space via the trajectory of crown-clad female bodies.
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Wan, Jian, Yan Huang, Pengcheng Zhou та ін. "Culture of iPSCs Derived Pancreatic β-Like Cells In Vitro Using Decellularized Pancreatic Scaffolds: A Preliminary Trial". BioMed Research International 2017 (2017): 1–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/4276928.
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Diabetes mellitus is a disease which has affected 415 million patients in 2015. In an effort to replace the significant demands on transplantation and morbidity associated with transplantation, the production of β-like cells differentiated from induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) was evaluated. This approach is associated with promising decellularized scaffolds with natural extracellular matrix (ECM) and ideal cubic environment that will promote cell growth in vivo. Our efforts focused on combining decellularized rat pancreatic scaffolds with mouse GFP+-iPSCs-derived pancreatic β-like cells, to evaluate whether decellularized scaffolds could facilitate the growth and function of β-like cells. β-like cells were differentiated from GFP+-iPSCs and evaluated via cultivating in the dynamic circulation perfusion device. Our results demonstrated that decellularized pancreatic scaffolds display favorable biochemical properties. Furthermore, not only could the scaffolds support the survival of β-like cells, but they also accelerated the expression of the insulin as compared to plate-based cell culture. In conclusion, these results suggest that decellularized pancreatic scaffolds could provide a suitable platform for cellular activities of β-like cells including survival and insulin secretion. This study provides preliminary support for regenerating insulin-secreting organs from the decellularized scaffolds combined with iPSCs derived β-like cells as a potential clinical application.
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Mills, Victoria. "Charles Kingsley’s Hypatia, Visual Culture and Late-Victorian Gender Politics." Journal of Victorian Culture 25, no. 2 (2020): 240–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jvcult/vcz059.
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Abstract Charles Kingsley’s Hypatia or New Foes with an Old Face was first published in Fraser’s Magazine in 1852, but was reissued in numerous book editions in the late nineteenth century. Though often viewed as a novel depicting the religious controversies of the 1850s, Kingsley’s portrayal of the life and brutal death of a strong female figure from late antiquity also sheds light on the way in which the Victorians remodelled ancient histories to explore shifting gender roles at the fin de siècle. As the book gained in popularity towards the end of the century, it was reimagined in many different cultural forms. This article demonstrates how Kingsley’s Hypatia became a global, multi-media fiction of antiquity, how it was revisioned and consumed in different written, visual and material forms (book illustrations, a play, painting and sculpture) and how this reimagining functioned within the gender politics of the 1880s and 1890s. Kingsley’s novel retained a strong hold on the late-Victorian imagination, I argue, because the perpetual restaging of Hypatia’s story through different media facilitated the circulation of pressing fin-de-siècle debates about women’s education, women’s rights, and female consumerism.
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Drucker, Johanna. "Digital Ontologies: The Ideality of Form in/and Code Storage—or— Can Graphesis Challenge Mathesis?" Leonardo 34, no. 2 (2001): 141–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/002409401750184708.
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Digital media gain their cultural authority in part because of the perception that they function on mathematical principles. The relationship between digital images and their encoded files, and in other cases, between digital images and the algorithms that generate them as display, lends itself to a conviction that the image and the file are mutually interchangeable. This relationship posits a connection of identicality between the file and the image according to which the mathematical basis and the image seem to share similar claims to truth. Since the history of images within Western culture is fraught with charges of deception and illusion, the question arises whether the ontological condition of the digital image, its very existence and identity, challenges this tradition. Or, by contrast, does the material instantiation of images, in their display or output, challenge the truth claims of the mathematically based digital file?
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Sheller, Mimi. "Response." Transfers 9, no. 1 (2019): 87–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/trans.2019.090107.
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This special section elucidates intersections between the historiography of mobilities and the interdisciplinary field of mobilities research. The articles highlight relationships between mobilities and stabilization, circulation and place-making, deterritorialization and reterritorialization. This response essay seeks to dispel three myths about mobility studies: (1) that it is purely about the contemporary world, rather than the historical dimensions of mobile processes; (2) that it focuses solely on material phenomenon of physical transport (i.e., of things and people) and ignores the movement of ideas, knowledge, and culture; and (3) that it is purely about “flows” and “circulation” and has little to teach us about friction, resistances, blockages, or uneven power relations. The most important intersections of the histories of mobilities and the field of mobility studies can be found in the ways in which each emphasizes power differentials, blockages, friction, and the relation between mobilities and immobilities.