Modern Colonialism and Cultural Continuity Through Material Culture: An Example from Guam and CHamoru Plaiting
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DOI: 10.1007/s10761-021-00626-3
Abstract: This article analyzes cultural persistence in Guam through plaiting, material culture, and maintenance activities, a set of daily practices that are essential to social continuity and well-being. The colonization of Guam began in 1668 with… read more here.
Keywords: modern colonialism; continuity; colonialism cultural; material culture ... See more keywords
Quantifying object similarity: Applying locality sensitive hashing for comparing material culture
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2020.105257
Abstract: We present a novel technique that compares and quantifies images used here to compare similarities between material cultures. This method is based on locality sensitive hashing (LSH), which uses a relatively fast and flexible algorithm… read more here.
Keywords: sensitive hashing; similarity; locality sensitive; object similarity ... See more keywords
Fishing practices at the Kryvina Peat Bog as evidenced by the material culture of Asaviec 2 settlement (2008–2017 field seasons)
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DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2019.06.001
Abstract: Abstract Asaviec 2 is one of the most studied settlements of the Kryvina peat bog in Northeastern Belarus. Its anaerobic environment allowed for excellent preservation of organic materials in the cultural layer dating to the… read more here.
Keywords: peat bog; material culture; fishing; culture ... See more keywords
Violence, Kinship and the Early Chinese State: The Shang and their world, by Roderick Campbell, 2018. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; ISBN 978-1-107-19761-9 hardback $99.99. xxx + 331 pp., 42 b/w figs, 48 tables
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DOI: 10.1017/s0959774319000076
Abstract: selected categories of material culture (brooches, sleeve clasps and spearheads). Although it could be noted that certain material has been excluded from the study and it may therefore be reinforcing particular ways of thinking, overall… read more here.
Keywords: three periods; material culture; cambridge; archaeology ... See more keywords
Scale alignment: on the role of material culture for urban design
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DOI: 10.1057/s41289-018-0071-2
Abstract: Globalisation has led to the transformation and proliferation of urban borders. Old hierarchies and relations between centres and sub-centres and centres and peripheries are challenged, and new alliances between different places and districts are formed.… read more here.
Keywords: role material; urban design; material culture; design ... See more keywords
Writing histories for late-medieval objects: The engagement of conservation with theoretical perspectives on material culture
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DOI: 10.1080/00393630.2016.1210752
Abstract: The current discipline of conservation lacks a satisfactory theoretical and methodological framework to guide historical writing beyond scientific methods. To address this gap, this paper evaluates disciplinary shortcomings and proposes a solution for a project… read more here.
Keywords: perspectives material; late medieval; conservation; theoretical perspectives ... See more keywords
Introduction: rethinking protohistories: texts, material culture and new methodologies
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DOI: 10.1080/00438243.2019.1621773
Abstract: ABSTRACT This introduction problematizes the use of the term protohistory across a wide range of cultures and periods. The methodological issues surrounding periodization and the integrated use of different, multiple evidence streams is discussed, especially… read more here.
Keywords: texts material; culture new; rethinking protohistories; protohistories texts ... See more keywords
Boots, material culture and Georgian masculinities
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DOI: 10.1080/03071022.2017.1368231
Abstract: Abstract Writings on footwear tend to emphasize a fundamental division between those made for men and women: men’s are plain, sturdy and functional, whereas women’s are decorative, flimsy and impractical. Of all male footwear, boots… read more here.
Keywords: georgian masculinities; boots material; culture georgian; material culture ... See more keywords
Gender and Material Culture in Britain since 1600, edited by Hannah Greig, Jane Hamlett and Leonie Hannan
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DOI: 10.1080/09612025.2016.1203121
Abstract: and morality. In the young or the unmarried the problem was seen as sexuality inappropriate for their time of life or civil status, and even as manifesting degeneration. However, the clitoris was also operated upon… read more here.
Keywords: surgery; culture britain; gender material; orgasm ... See more keywords
Zen and Material Culture
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DOI: 10.1080/17432200.2020.1720422
Abstract: I found this collection of essays surprising in some of what they do and how they do it. I was expecting chapters describing and analyzing such classical instructions as found in Dōgen’s “Merit of ... read more here.
Keywords: zen material; material; material culture;
The ‘souvenirization' and ‘touristification' of material culture in Thailand – mutual constructions of ‘otherness' in the tourism and souvenir industries
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DOI: 10.1080/1743873x.2019.1611835
Abstract: ABSTRACT The aim of this paper is to deal with the effects of touristic imaginations of what is ‘typically’ Thai in terms of the local handicraft production and the souvenir business and its development since… read more here.
Keywords: material culture; tourism; thailand; souvenirization touristification ... See more keywords