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Cultural Artefacts (cultural + artefact)
Selected AbstractsPANOPTIC VISIONS OF LONDON: POSSESSING THE METROPOLISART HISTORY, Issue 2 2009DANA ARNOLD The role of sight in the experience of the metropolis as a cultural artefact had a special significance in the opening years of the nineteenth century. The visual register of the city was at once static , the panoptic vision , and fluid , the mobile and subjective gaze of the flâneur/euse. This scrutiny of the city as cultural capital operated on several levels. I want to demonstrate the complexities of the interaction of city, consumer/viewer and the role/agency of the textual/visual interlocutor. Any exploration of London as cultural capital must take into account this broader pan European phenomenon. The aim here is not to produce a comparative history, but rather to benefit from the specific points of contact between London and its near neighbour Paris as regards the consumption of the city and its emergence as cultural capital by a range of publics. My frame is the Benjaminian notion of the city as fragment or miniature as played out in his Arcades Project [source] Cultural Property, Restitution and ValueJOURNAL OF APPLIED PHILOSOPHY, Issue 3 2003Janna Thompson abstract,Demands for restitution of cultural artefacts and relics raise four main issues: 1) how claims to cultural property can be justified; 2) whether and under what conditions demands for restitution of cultural property are valid , especially when they are made long after the artefacts were taken away; 3) whether there are values, aesthetic, scholarly and educational, which can override restitution claims, even when these claims are legitimate; and 4) how these values bear on the question of whether artefacts should be returned to their place of origin. I argue that a proper conception of cultural property emphasises the role that artefacts play in the practices and traditions of a collectivity. On the basis of this conception, some restitution claims can be defended as legitimate. However, many demands for restitution are not justified (including the Greek claim to the Parthenon Marbles). Moreover, a case for restitution can be more or less strong, and other considerations sometimes prevail over rights of cultural property. [source] Organizational Differentiation through Badging: Investors in People and the Value of the SignJOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES, Issue 8 2002Emma Bell This paper explores the meaning of the state,sponsored initiative for people management, Investors in People (IiP), through deconstruction of the signifiers that represent its articulation. Semiotic analysis is employed in order to consider the sign,value that is associated with IiP and to explore the symbolic meaning of cultural artefacts, such as ,the badge' and ,the flag', which feature in the experience of managers and employees in six case study organizations. This post,structuralist approach enables us to focus on the discursive construction of textual meaning surrounding IiP as a ,readerly' as well as a writerly project. It is suggested that organizations are subject to a process of image production and consumption. This process requires them to seek differentiation from other organizations by acquiring quality initiatives that constitute a system of objects. In particular, the meaning of IiP signifiers as emblems of achievement is explored and the extent to which these become simulacra is considered. It is argued that there is a significant gap between writerly intentions as to what quality initiatives ought to signify and their organizational, context,bound, indeterminate meanings. By elucidating the conditions of IiP's signification it is shown that this discourse has the potential to undermine the very philosophy it asserts. Finally, drawing on this analysis, we outline the way that badge acquisition develops over time through processes of accumulation and adaptation. [source] burial (version 1.0): a method for testing genetic similarity within small groups of individuals using fragmentary data setsMOLECULAR ECOLOGY RESOURCES, Issue 3 2001Birgitt Schönfisch Abstract Biologists are frequently facing the problem of dealing with data sets with a small amount of data and a high proportion of missing information. We were particularly interested in analysing fragmentary data sets generated by the application of molecular methods in palaeoanthropology in order to determine whether individuals are genetically related. In this note, we announce the release of the software burial (version 1.0) to test the null hypothesis that the observed grouping of individuals at a particular burial site reflects random placement of genotypes. The proposed test, however, can also be applied to data sets whose objects can be grouped according to nongenetic criteria such as the style of clothing, the kind of burial gifts or cultural artefacts. The C + + source code and binary executables for Windows and Linux are available for download at: http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/uni/bcm/BURIAL/index.html. [source] The ICCROM Library: fifty years serving researchersMUSEUM INTERNATIONAL, Issue 3 2009Marie-Christine Uginet Founded in 1959, ICCROM's Library has become one of the world's leading libraries for the conservation of movable and immovable cultural artefacts. This article describes how the institution's document collections have developed and how its research tools have been made available to researchers. [source] | ||||||||||