The Object of Conservation. An Ethnography of Heritage Practice, Paperback - Thomas Yarrow

The Object of Conservation examines how historic buildings, monuments and artefacts are cared for as valued embodiments of the past. It tells the f...

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Reducere. Financial collapses--whether of the junk bond market, the Internet bubble, or the highly leveraged housing market--are often explained as the inevi...

Liquidated uses ethnographic research, traditionally used to study distant societies, to dissect the culture of high finance on New York's famous W...

The first ethnography of Wikipedia's organization, governance, and power structure, Common Knowledge argues that many criticisms of Wikipedia have ...

A history of modern Jewish literature that explores our enduring attachment to the book as an objectPublisher: Yale University PressAuthor(s): Barb...

This volume provides a collection of texts on the conservation of art and architecture. Aimed at students of art history as well as conservation, t...

Reducere. Anthropologist John Fox sets off on a worldwide adventure to thefarthest reaches of the globe and the deepest recesses of our ancientpast to answer...

Most incidents of urban unrest in recent decades - including the riots in France, Britain and other Western countries - have followed lethal intera...

This volume provides a striking account of the life, destruction, rediscovery, and cultural significance of the Roman town of Herculaneum and its g...

Sonic ethnography reveals how sound plays a central role in the performance of local identities in the southern Italian region of Basilicata. By ex...

Challenging the view that globalization signifies a 'clash' of cultures, this book here develops friction in its place as a metaphor for the confli...

Reducere. George Washington Carver (ca. 1864-1943) is at once one of the most familiar and misunderstood figures in American history. In My Work Is That of C...

Reducere. DescriptionImagining Transgender is an ethnography of the emergence and institutionalization of transgender as a category of collective identity an...

A rich ethnography of ecopolitics in Hong Kong in the late 1990sPublisher: Duke University PressAuthor(s): Timothy ChoyIllustration(s): 2 figuresNu...

Publisher: Edinburgh University PressAuthor(s): Thomas NailIllustration(s): 50 Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 304Publication date: ...

The first English-language book to comprehensively discuss the history and methodology of conserving medieval polychrome wood sculpture. Medieval p...

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Publisher: Transcript VerlagAuthor(s): Frauke MoerikeNumber of pages: 300Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 147 x 225 x 27Cover type: Paperback / so...

Reducere. In this book, Bruno Latour pursues his ethnographic inquiries into the different value systems of modern societies. After science, technology, reli...

Reducere. In People of the Saltwater, Charles R. Menzies explores the history of an ancient Tsimshian community, focusing on the people and their enduring pl...

Publisher: Edinburgh University PressAuthor(s): Thomas NailIllustration(s): 50 Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 304Publication date: ...

DescriptionThrough an ethnographic study of an internationally renowned NGO situated in Rajasthan, India, this book investigates the methods and pr...

An ethnographic and historical study of the main Albania-Greece highway, exploring the post-Cold War political and cultural transformation of Europ...

Wandering the Wards provides a detailed and unflinching ethnographic examination of life within the contemporary hospital.Publisher: Taylor & Franc...

DescriptionSoqotra, the largest island of Yemen's Soqotra Archipelago, is one of the most uniquely diverse places in the world. A UNESCO natural Wo...

Reducere. For many communities around the world, the revitalization or at least the preservation of an indigenous language is a pressing concern. Understandi...

Reducere. Labor and Legality: An Ethnography of a Mexican Immigrant Network, Tenth Anniversary Edition, is an ethnography of undocumented immigrants who work...

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Reducere. From Slave Ship to Harvard is the true story of an African American family in Maryland over six generations. The author has reconstructed a unique ...

Since Ma died, Orla has lived alone in a woodshed by the river. Her garden provides everything she needs. But when people begin to fall sick, Gover...

A robust guide to practicing ethnographic research in the private sector.

This textbook explores practices, first-hand experiences and emerging ideas within organizational ethnography, providing a toolkit that prepares et...

Publisher: Museum Tusculanum PressAuthor(s): Julio Hans Casado JensenNumber of pages: 166Publication date: 2004Dimensions: 229 x 153 x 13Cover type...

Being Ethnographic is an essential introductory guidebook to the methods and applications of doing fieldwork in real-world settings. It discusses t...

In this book Almaas demonstrates that healthy ego development is part of the continuum of spiritual development. He also establishes the possibilit...

Shifts the dialogue about modernist photography from an emphasis on the subject and the image to the actual photographic object, created by a certa...

Publisher: Cornell University PressAuthor(s): Morten Axel PedersenIllustration(s): 19 Halftones, black and white; 1 ChartsNumber of pages: 294Publi...

Reducere. Privileges of War is a collection of positive stories about wartime service during one of the most negative and controversial periods in American h...

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Garth Owen-Smith"Garth Owen-Smith has spent almost his entire working life fighting - not against a conventional enemy but ...

Reducere. Now in PaperbackA unique study of the maritime heritage of the Great Lakes from an Artist's viewpoint featuring over fifty paintings & drawings of ...

Now fully revised and updated in its second edition, An Introduction to Conservation Biology is well suited for a wide range of undergraduate cours...

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