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Martial Culture and Historical Martial Arts in Europe and Asia
This open access book is the first publication to provide a comparative framework for the study of martial culture and historical martial arts in Europe and Asia, in particular in Italy and China. Due to the interdisciplinary nature of martial studies, contributors to this volume include historians, archeologists, art historians, scholars of fencing literature, metallurgists, as well as contemp…
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- 1
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- 978-981-19-2037-0
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- Martial Studies
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- XXII, 381
50 Years World Heritage Convention: Shared Responsibility – Conflict & Reco…
This open access book identifies various forms of heritage destruction and analyses their causes. It proposes strategies for avoiding and solving conflicts, based on integrating heritage into the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. It reflects on the identity-building role of heritage, on multidimensional conflicts and the destruction of heritage, and considers conflict-solving strategies …
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- 1
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- 978-3-031-05660-4
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- Heritage Studies
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- XL, 504
Heritage Conservation and Tourism Development at Cham Sacred Sites in Vietnam
This open access book considers the growing field of heritage tourism from community perspectives. It explores how the Cham—Vietnam’s large ethnic minority—reconcile their needs for economic development with the boundaries circumscribed by their traditional culture. It examines struggles that local minority stakeholders like the Cham face when trying to participate in areas of development…
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- 978-981-99-3349-5
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- XIX, 234
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Cultural Policy is Local
This Open Access edited collection calls for a greater understanding of ‘the local’ within the ways the arts, culture and creative practices are governed, promoted, regulated, resourced and valued. Cultural policy studies tends to privilege the national (and international) as the primary site at which cultural policy is enacted, and focuses on the ‘local’ as a case study of practice, ra…
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- 978-3-031-32311-9
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- XIX, 267
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Whistled Languages A Worldwide Inquiry on Human Whistled Speech
The main focus of this monograph on whistled speech is the result of a worldwide inquiry primarily based on the author’s unprecedented fieldwork and laboratory experience. The different questions raised by the origin and the evolution of whistled forms of languages are also explored, including the role of environmental constraints in the emergence of whistled speech, their phonetic and phonol…
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- 978-3-662-45837-2
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Archaeological Heritage in a Modern Urban Landscape: The Ancient Moche in Tru…
Archaeological Heritage in a Modern Urban Landscape evaluates issues about the preservation, social role and management of archaeological sites in the Trujillo area, north coast of Peru, specifically those of the Moche culture (100-800 AD). Moche was one of the great civilizations of ancient Peru, with spectacular ceremonial adobe architecture and settlements distributed across a landscape form…
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-3-319-15470-1
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- XI, 96
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- SpringerBriefs in Archaeology
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- 712.5 GAM a
The Ethics of Cultural Heritage
It is widely acknowledged that all archaeological research is embedded within cultural, political and economic contexts, and that all archaeological research falls under the heading ‘heritage’. Most archaeologists now work in museums and other cultural institutions, government agencies, non-government organisations and private sector companies, and this diversity ensures that debates contin…
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- 1
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- 978-1-4939-1649-8
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- XVII, 219, 21 illustrations in colour
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- Ethical Archaeologies: The Politics of Social Justice
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Inside Installations
In installatiekunst is alles mogelijk. De korte levensduur van de gebruikte materialen, technieken en media kunnen de beheerder van het werk echter tot wanhoop drijven. Wat bedoelde de kunstenaar? Hoe zijn de installaties ontstaan? Hoe kunnen deze geconserveerd en gedocumenteerd worden? Dit boek beschrijft de resultaten van een grondig onderzoeksproject, uitgevoerd door een internationale groep…
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- 9789048513659
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Bougainville before the conflict
One of the most beautiful island groups of the Pacific, Bougainville has a remarkable history. Tragically, it is as the site of devastating civil conflict that Bougainville is perhaps best known. In exploring the rich environmental, cultural and social heritage of Bougainville before the conflict, this collection provides an insight into the long-term causes of the crisis. In doing so, it surve…
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- 9781921934230
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Materializing Colonial Encounters: Archaeologies of African Experience
This volume investigates the material production and expression of colonial experiences in Africa. It combines archaeological, historical, and ethnographic sources to explore the diverse pathways, practices, and projects constructed by Africans in their engagement with the forces of colonial modernity and capitalism. This volume is situated in ongoing debates in archaeological and anthropologic…
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- 978-1-4939-2633-6
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