Thus, it serves as a cultural artifact, reflecting the fears of the time in which it is written, and also possessing the same capability for the time in which it is read. Many of the darkest aspects of society reflected by American Gothic fiction in the twentieth century stem from science...
The theft of Cambodia's cultural treasures — thousands of sacred stone, bronze and gold artifacts from religious sites across the country — might just be the greatest art heist in history. It began nearly a century ago when Cambodia was colonized by France, but in the 1970s...
Prairie Edge prides itself on carrying the finest art of the Northern Great Plains created by regional and nationally acclaimed artists. We are also purveyors of Native American arts, original art and artifact reproductions. A wide range of mediums from painting, sculpture, drawings, icons, photog...
While this is likely at least partly an artifact of the inherent difficulty in detecting prospectors, one reason why individuals do not prospect more may be that it is too costly (Bonte et al., 2012; Emlen, 1982; see Section 2.2 for an outline of these costs). Although the costs of ...
Artifact hunters looted Craig Mound between 1933 and 1935, tunneling into the mound and breaking through the Great Mortuary's log wall. They found many human burials, together with their associated grave goods. The looters discarded the human remains and the fragile artifacts, which were made of...
diagnosed by the observing scholar-botanist. While formalists seek to describe the function of a textual whole, anti-formalist ideology-critics look for the artifact’s “cultural work,” treating the text as an expressive source that—if put on the couch and probed for its suppressed depths—...
This is a reckoning that has taken place within cultural and art history, classics, and related disciplines and there is much that we can still learn from their examples. In this keynote, I will discuss how cultural aesthetics intersect with our theoretical approaches to history-telling by ...
Several other examples demonstrate instances of resilience, continuity, and the maintenance of cultural identities throughout the recent colonial period (Oland et al.2012; Preucel2002; Reséndez2005; Spielmann et al.2009; Schrieber and Mitchell2010; see also Lightfoot2005); my final example comes fro...
workers serving American Indian and Alaska Native communities. Examples include strengths-based approaches and language, acknowledgment of the historical influence of pandemics, accommodating differences between urban and rural communities, and promoting connectedness to ameliorate social and cultu...
While the markers may take on any suitable form, in keeping with the spirit of the present game the markers 20 are preferably formed to represent a symbol or artifact of native American culture, such as the teepee 20 shown in FIG. 3. The use of these markers 20 is described below. ...