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Terrains of Settler Nationhood
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Nadia Abu El-Haj
Published: 01 February 2002
...Discrete material-cultural artifacts, ornamentations, and styles of architecture were interpreted as exemplars of Jewish artistic forms and achievements. They were invoked as emblems of continuity, signifiers of the lasting presence of Jewish communities, after the fall of the Second Temple...
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Setting Limits
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Richard Taruskin
Published: 02 December 2008
... correctness as virtue Stravinsky Igor Fyodorovich Griffiths Paul Kleiber Carlos cultural artifacts musical structure theories of musical performance art critics As the son and brother of lawyers, I couldn't be more delighted to be asked to address this symposium as a keynoter. But I have some...
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Places of Shared Stories
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Michael Nitsche
Published: 05 December 2008
...Video games have become widespread cultural artifacts. As a result, video game spaces increasingly become places of cultural practice and cultural significance. How do they incorporate this quality? This chapter follows the development of story maps as they enter a shared cultural sphere...
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Belonging to Gender: Social Identities, Symbolic Boundaries and Images
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Ana Flávia do Amaral Madureira
Published: 21 November 2012
.... In this paper, I consider the analytical and methodological relevance of images as data sources in the context of psychological science. G S B M R H J C F V A E N T L D gender social identities symbolic boundaries meaning-making processes images as cultural artifacts … To affirm the identity...
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Epilogue: Trading Places
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Hoyt Long
Published: 14 December 2011
... that he and his works have historically circulated in the market for cultural objects, focusing on the publication of the first zenshū . It also traces a genealogy of the fundamental ways his value in the market for cultural artifacts has intersected with his value in the market for places...
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Introduction
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Richard D. Sawyer and Joe Norris
Published: 29 November 2012
...This introductory chapter provides an overview of duoethnography. It explains that a dialogic context in duoethnography is not only a conversation between people, but between people and their insights of cultural artifacts that generate new meanings. Duoethnographers work in tandem to dialogically...
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Published: 14 May 2020
... transnational organized crime antiquities trafficking cultural artifacts Palermo Convention Nicosia Convention 1970 UNESCO Convention UN Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC) 1995 UNIDROIT Convention cultural property cultural heritage This chapter will concentrate primarily on the peacetime regime...
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Trafficking in Cultural Artifacts
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A. J. G. Tijhuis
Published: 18 September 2012
...Cultural artifacts encompass both antiquities and works of art. Global crime related to cultural artifacts can be divided into several types. This article discusses these types and look at the nexus with other types of crime. It focuses on art crimes that involve cross-border activities...
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The Bible, Women, and Video Games
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Linda S. Schearing
Published: 10 November 2020
... the memory of the biblical story whose themes have been told and retold in Jewish, Christian, and Muslim writings throughout the centuries. As a story ubiquitous in Western popular culture, its symbols often function as cultural artifacts. As such, these symbols inform the social construction of gender...
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Getting the Word Around
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Alejandro L. Madrid
Published: 21 March 2008
...This chapter explores the different distribution strategies adopted by members of the Nortec Collective. It shows the development of a Nor-tec scene which did not necessarily take place in specific places or sites, but rather through the unlocalized consumption of cultural artifacts, products...
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The Nature of Moral Norms in Xunzi’s Philosophy
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Philip J. Ivanhoe
Published: 22 April 2025
... divisions ritual evil cultural artifacts This chapter explores a problem in Xunzi’s ethical philosophy concerning the nature and status of moral norms. 1 By “moral norms” I mean broadly the virtues, principles, expectations, and practices that constitute that realm of human life we recognize...
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Recruiting Race: The Commodification of Mexicana/o Bodies from the U.S.-Mexico Border
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Michael J. Montoya
Published: 18 March 2011
...This chapter reviews the ways in which racialized DNA samples operate as value-generating cultural artifacts, and also explores the diabetes enterprise through three phases: (1) production (2) circulation, and (3) consumption of knowledge generally and race and ethnicity in particular...
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Conclusion: In the Present and Looking Ahead
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Matt Malzkuhn and Ted Supalla
Published: 17 April 2025
...Home Movies Hardly Silent . Matt Malzkuhn and Ted Supalla, Oxford University Press. © Oxford University Press 2025. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780197663172.003.0010 This chapter explores how Deaf home movies serve as cultural artifacts, blending personal narratives with broader Deaf...
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Scenes and Scenarios: Reading Aright1 1
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Koritha Mitchell
Published: 01 October 2011
...This chapter argues that blacks living during lynching's height accurately read the discourses and practices of their historical moment, and their cultural artifacts reflect their insights. Namely, the plays by black dramatists contain specific characterizations of the nature of lynching...
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The Great Social Laboratory: Subjects of Knowledge in Colonial and Postcolonial Egypt
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Omnia El Shakry
Published online: 20 June 2013
Published in print: 29 October 2007
... and cultural artifacts, ranging from the ethnographic museum, to architectural designs, to that pinnacle of social scientific research—“the article.” The book explores the interface between European and Egyptian social scientific discourses, and interrogates the boundaries of knowledge production in a colonial...
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Prospects for a Global Networked Cultural Heritage: Law versus Technology?
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Stanley N. Katz
Published: 08 August 2011
...This chapter addresses the preservation of and access to digital cultural artifacts, including the many contradictions that emerge with it. For one, the new copyright and IP battles between rights holders and consumers make one wonder whether technology shapes the law, or whether the law shapes...
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Published: 01 September 2009
... of the twenty-first century, a people who only four decades earlier were feared and despised, had become cultural exemplars of Blackness. In Jamaica, morally configured Black identities like Rastafari draw deeply upon the cultural resources of racialized moral economies. These are cultural artifacts created...
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The origins of cultural diversity
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Janusz K. Kozłowski
Published: 11 July 1996
... in the anthropological sphere, which is the ‘living’ culture of prehistoric man. In particular, the chapter focuses on the reasons for the diversity of cultural artifacts both of those independent of humans as well as of man-dependent diversities which may have an arbitrary or symbolic character. The identification...
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Stoics on Stuff: Stoic Consolations on the Destruction of Cultural Heritage in War
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Nancy Sherman
Published: 09 March 2023
... cultural artifacts and edifices, the historic and ritual monuments of a culture or religion, are classified as “indifferents,” to be preferred rather than dispreferred, but themselves not the kinds of things that can make or break our happiness. The views strikes many of us as inhumane and an expression...
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