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Music and Democracy : Participatory Approaches
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Abstract: Music and Democracy explores music as a resource for societal transformation processes. This book provides recent insights into how individuals and groups used and still use music to achieve social, cultural, and political participation and bring about...
SignGram Blueprint : A Guide to Sign Language Grammar Writing
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Abstract: We gratefully acknowledge the financial support of COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology), funded by the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme of the European Union. Current grammatical knowledge about particular sign languages is fragmentary...
Negotiating the Pandemic : Cultural, National, and Individual Constructions of COVID-19
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Abstract: This book centers on negotiations around cultural, governmental, and individual constructions of COVID-19. It considers how the coronavirus pandemic has been negotiated in different cultures and countries, with the final part of the volume focusing on ...
Magnetic Hybrid-Materials : Multi-scale Modelling, Synthesis, and Applications
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Abstract: Externally tunable properties allow for new applications of magnetic hybrid materials containing magnetic micro- and nanoparticles in sensors and actuators in technical and medical applications. By means of easy to generate and control magnetic fields,...
Archaeological Perspectives on Conflict and Warfare in Australia and the Pacific
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Abstract: When James Boswell famously lamented the irrationality of war in 1777, he noted the universality of conflict across history and across space – even reaching what he described as the gentle and benign southern ocean nations. This volume discusses archae...
Embracing New Perspectives in History, Social Sciences, and Education : Proceedings of the International Conference on History, Social Sciences, and Education (ICHSE 2021), Malang, Indonesia, 11 September 2021
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Abstract: This book provides a collection of articles resulting from the International Conference on History, Social Sciences, and Education (ICHSE), which was held on 11 September 2021. The Department of History of Malang State University choose'Embracing New P...
Archaeology on the Apulian – Lucanian Border
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Abstract: The broad valley of the Bradano river and its tributary the Basentello separates the Apennine mountains in Lucania from the limestone plateau of the Murge in Apulia in South East Italy. For millennia the valley has functioned both as a cultural and pol...
Honiara : Village-City of Solomon Islands
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Abstract: Nahona`ara—means'facing the `ara', the place where the southeast winds meet the land just west of Point Cruz. Nahona`arabecame Honiara, the capital city of Solomon Islands with a population of 160,000, the only significant urban centre in a nation of 7...
Uncovering Pacific Pasts : Histories of Archaeology in Oceania
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Abstract: Objects have many stories to tell. The stories of their makers and their uses. Stories of exchange, acquisition, display and interpretation. This book is a collection of essays highlighting some of the collections, and their object biographies, that we...
A Quaint & Curious Volume: Essays in Honor of John J. Dobbins
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Abstract: John J. Dobbins, Professor of Roman Art and Archaeology, taught at the University of Virginia in the Department of Art from 1978 until his retirement in 2019. His legacy of research and pedagogy is explored in A Quaint & Curious Volume: Essays in Honor...