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Popular Economic Botany
- or, Description of the Botanical and Commercial Characters of the Principal Articles of Vegetable Origin, Used for Food, Clothing, Tanning, Dyeing, Building, Medicine, Perfumery, Etc.
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Thomas Croxen 1817-1885 Archer
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This volume introduces the Cross-Cultural Interaction Model (CCIM),
a visual tool for studying the exchanges that take place between
different cultures in borderland areas or across long distances.
The model helps researchers untangle complex webs of connections
among people, landscapes, and artifacts, and can be used to support
multiple theoretical viewpoints. Through case studies, contributors
apply the CCIM to various regions and time periods, including Roman
Europe, the Greek province of Thessaly in the Late Bronze Age, the
ancient Egyptian-Nubian frontier, colonial Greenland in the
eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the Mississippian realm of
Cahokia, ancient Costa Rica and Panama, and the Moquegua Valley of
Peru in the early Middle Horizon period. They adapt the model to
best represent their data, successfully plotting connections in
many different dimensions, including geography, material culture,
religion and spirituality, and ideology. The model enables them to
expose what motivates people to participate in cultural exchange,
as well as the influences that people reject in these interactions.
These results demonstrate the versatility and analytical power of
the CCIM. Bridging the gap between theory and data, this tool can
prompt users to rethink previous interpretations of their research,
leading to new ideas, new theories, and new directions for future
study.
This impressive and inspiring volume has as its modest origins the
documentation of a contemporary collecting project for the British
Museum. Informed by curators' critiques of uneven collections
accompanied by highly variable information, Sillitoe set out with
the ambition of recording the totality of the material culture of
the Wola of the southern highlands of Papua New Guinea, at a time
when the study of artefacts was neglected in university
anthropology departments. His achievements, presented in this
second edition of Made in Nuigini with a new contextualizing
preface and foreword, brought a new standard of ethnography to the
incipient revival of material culture studies, and opened up the
importance of close attention to technology and material
assemblages for anthropology. The `economy' fundamentally concerns
the material aspects of life, and as Sillitoe makes clear, Wola
attitudes and behaviour in this regard are radically different to
those of the West, with emphasis on `maker users' and egalitarian
access to resources going hand in hand with their stateless and
libertarian principles. The project begun in Made in Niugini, which
necessarily restricted itself to moveable artefacts, is continued
and extended by the newly published companion volume Built in
Niugini, which deals with immoveable structures and buildings. It
argues that the study of material constructions offers an
unparalleled opportunity to address fundamental philosophical
questions about tacit knowledge and the human condition.
In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the use of
experimental approaches to the study of media histories and their
cultures. Doing media archaeological experiments, such as
historical re-enactments and hands-on simulations with media
historical objects, helps us to explore and better understand the
workings of past media technologies and their practices of use. By
systematically refl ecting on the methodological underpinnings of
experimental media archaeology as a relatively new approach in
media historical research and teaching, this book aims to serve as
a practical handbook for doing media archaeological experiments.
Doing Experimental Media Archaeology: Practice is the twin volume
to Doing Experimental Media Archaeology: Theory, authored by
Andreas Fickers and Annie van den Oever.
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The Dutchman
(Hardcover)
Wanda Dehaven Pyle; Cover design or artwork by Alexander Von Ness
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As a result of rapid advancements in computer science during recent
decades, there has been an increased use of digital tools,
methodologies and sources in the field of digital humanities. While
opening up new opportunities for scholarship, many digital methods
and tools now used for humanities research have nevertheless been
developed by computer or data sciences and thus require a critical
understanding of their mode of operation and functionality. The
novel field of digital hermeneutics is meant to provide such a
critical and reflexive frame for digital humanities research by
acquiring digital literacy and skills. A new knowledge for the
assessment of digital data, research infrastructures, analytical
tools, and interpretative methods is needed, providing the
humanities scholar with the necessary munition for doing critical
research. The Doctoral Training Unit "Digital History and
Hermeneutics" at the University of Luxembourg applies this
analytical frame to 13 PhD projects. By combining a hermeneutic
reflection on the new digital practices of humanities scholarship
with hands-on experimentation with digital tools and methods, new
approaches and opportunities as well as limitations and flaws can
be addressed.
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