Sentences with phrase «ethnological documentalist»

The purposes of the Association shall be to advance anthropology as the science that studies humankind in all its aspects through archaeological, biological, ethnological, and linguistic research.

Taking finds in ethnological museums as a starting point, he distinguishes between two different concepts of repair: the patched vessels, statuettes and writing tablets in the ethnological collections very openly display their joints and clamps, and with them their histories as objects.

My interest in masquerade drew me to a lot of ethnological collections and so - called «primitive» art when creating these works — stark expressions and minimal information forming a face - like image — and this, along with an interest in the German expressionists, helped to inform my process.

These cases act as would - be ethnological displays providing an imagined museological context while at the same time serving as three - dimensional sketchbooks.

Ethnological expositions of the 19th and 20th centuries where those who were born different — dwarves, albinos, microcephalics and hunchbacks, as well as indigenous peoples from other continents — were displayed in circuses, paired with animals or kept in cages or menageries, are the genesis for Lavar Munroe's «Zoo at the Edge of the World» A Continuum of the Exotic» exhibit in ALH's main gallery.

She is the author of Mohawk Interruptus: Political Life Across the Borders of Settler States (Duke University Press, 2014), winner of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association's Best First Book in Native American and Indigenous Studies Prize, the Laura Romero Prize from the American Studies Association as well as the Sharon Stephens Prize from the American Ethnological Society (2015).

Current and Upcoming: Humboldt Forum at the Ethnological Museum Berlin, East Asian rooms (ongoing) until opening 2019 and the analogueNOW!

His perspective changed as a Harvard freshman where, in a course on primitive art, he studied African masks in the ethnological museum, and then saw recently made films and heard audio recordings of rites in which similar masks were used.

Trips to ethnological museums like Museum für Völkerkunde in Berlin and Munich, and tomes like Walter Lehmann's Kunstgeschichte des Alten Peru (1923) and Marguerite and Raoul d'Harcourt's Les Tissus Indiens du Vieux Pérou (1924), offered Albers a first glimpse into the ancient textile art of Peru, which would go on to become one of her greatest influences.

Safavi combines multi-layered cultural and art historical references in the form of objects, materials and pictures transporting them from the resources of her own multicultural background, her travels and her ethnological research.

Tina Kohlmann «s own reinterpretations of ethnological artefacts are realised in her brightly coloured textile installation named after the inuit sea mammal specialty «Mattak» (2014), while Fabio Marco Pirovino «s «Drawing (Scribble) VIII» (2014) presents abstract drawings using its eponymous digital «Scribble Pen'that allows its user to scan colour in the «real» world and transfer it to a tablet or mobile device and thus a virtual one.

A native of Los Angeles, California, and current New York resident, Sanford Biggers uses the study of ethnological objects, popular icons, and the Dadaist tradition to explore cultural and creative syncretism, art history, and politics.

Swiss museum returns Nazi - looted 17th - century ornaments The Historical and Ethnological Museum in St Gallen, Switzerland, yesterday returned two 17th - century ornaments to the heirs of German - American and Jewish collector Emma Budge.

Plus: Manhattan's DA is forming an antiquities trafficking unit Jewish Museum cuts ties with Jens Hoffmann Stoke - on - Trent museum raises funds to buy Iron Age torcs and Berlin's Ethnological Museum will return stolen Alaskan objects

Highlights of the installation include the diptych slide projection Dispossession (2013), which explores Attia's research on the Vatican's collection of ethnological artifacts; Artificial Nature (2014), a floor sculpture constructed of many antique prosthetic legs; and a work composed of two large - scale reproductions of historical paintings depicting Catholic masses, Émile Jean - Horace Vernet's The First Mass in Kabylia (1854) and Victor Meirelles's The First Mass in Brazil (1861).

No other ethnological demographic was included upon the massive arks of humanity making their fledgling voyage to the stars Read more about Earth's Diverse Populace Completely Unsurprised As White People Leave To Fight Class War In Outer Space -LSB-...]

Ideally located in the historic district of Vielha, the main town in the Aran valley, the hotel is within walking distance from the Plaza de la Iglesia square, the romanesque Sant Miquèu church, the ethnological museum and most restaurants and bars.

It will include elements encompassing architectural, cultural, ethnological and gastronomic experiences, all of which will be unveiled at WTM 2010.»

Day 11 Further cruising, then transfer to Hanoi (4 hrs) to visit the Ethnological Museum.

This whitewashed town has a handsome church and an old windmill which is now an ethnological museum, as well as a cultural centre which hosts all kinds of cultural events.

Day 18 Hanoi sightseeing including the One Pillar Pagoda, Ho Chi Minh's home and Mausoleum, Temple of Literature, history and ethnological museums, Hoan Kiem Lake and the old quarter.

The provinces are further grouped into 17 regions which are based on geographical, cultural, and ethnological characteristics.

[2] He brought back to the Ethnological Museum of Berlin the last still complete Tepukei from the Santa Cruz Islands.

The Maunga Nefe, which may be the only surviving original tepukei, is in the Ethnological Museum of Berlin.

To understand the town's culture better, a visit to the Archaeological Museum and an Ethnological Museum is a must.

Acting as translator and cultural interpreter, Mawuli cleverly bridges the ethnological gap.

«Ethnological data collection such as ours, including the collection of terms in the local vernacular, can open new avenues of research about variations in ecology, fauna and flora,» they conclude.

A nation was an ethnological term - it referred to a people group.

All that exist today are writings about their descendants; Mayan hieroglyphics, which are slowly being transliterated; and ethnological observations of the present Maya Indians, whose food habits have changed little in twenty centuries.

The ethnological story explains in terms of the «past» observable phenomena relating to known tribes and ethnic groups.

(Erland Nordenskiöld Picture - Writings and Other Documents of the Cuna Indians («Comparative Ethnological Studies,» Vol.

The structural dualism introduced by Van der Leeuw in the phenomenology of the Supreme Being is particularly evident in the contrast between the otiositas which is attributed to many Supreme Beings of the ethnological world, and the intense activity of Yahweh.

It was conceived in a broad, encyclopedic attempt to review the life and growth of society; it was determined by the interest in an application of «scientific» methods («laws») to sociohistorical phenomena including religious ideas and institutions (theory of stages of development), and finally by the endeavor to include the material gathered in anthropological and ethnological research.

(a) Philosophical preoccupation with the various types of cultural activities on an idealistic basis (Johann Gottfried Herder, G. W. F. Hegel, Johann Gustav Droysen, Hermann Steinthal, Wilhelm Wundt); (b) legal studies (Aemilius Ludwig, Richter, Rudolf Sohm, Otto Gierke); (c) philology and archeology, both stimulated by the romantic movement of the first decades of the nineteenth century; (d) economic theory and history (Karl Marx, Lorenz von Stein, Heinrich von Treitschke, Wilhelm Roscher, Adolf Wagner, Gustav Schmoller, Ferdinand Tonnies); (e) ethnological research (Friedrich Ratzel, Adolf Bastian, Rudolf Steinmetz, Johann Jakob Bachofen, Hermann Steinthal, Richard Thurnwald, Alfred Vierkandt, P. Wilhelm Schmidt), on the one hand; and historical and systematical work in theology (church history, canonical law — Kirchenrecht), systematic theology (Schleiermacher, Richard Rothe), and philosophy of religion, on the other, prepared the way during the nineteenth century for the following era to define the task of a sociology of religion and to organize the material gathered by these pursuits.7 The names of Max Weber, Ernst Troeltsch, Werner Sombart, and Georg Simmel — all students of the above - mentioned older scholars — stand out.

The ethnological legend arises to account for — which generally means to give the origin of — the characteristics and nature and geography relating to known tribes and ethnic groups.

Underlying many of the legends is a central ethnological theme — the explanation of how the people of Israel rightfully possess the land of Canaan.