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Collecting and displaying Japanese culture in 19th-century Scotland
Disciplinary boundaries are inevitable within a complex academic system and as those boundaries shift with time, the problem of speaking across them only increases. The scholars today who study the Japanese collections held by British museums are primarily art historians or archaeologists, but the context in which these collections were...Buckland, Rosina
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Conference paper (published)
The dichotomy in Romano-Celtic syncretism: Some preliminary thoughts on vernacular religion.
Goldberg, D Martin
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Conference paper (published)
Chitenje: the production and use of printed cotton cloth in Malawi. In Textile Society of America Symposium Proceedings. Paper 888
‘To wear a commemorative cloth is to visually communicate that one has either a relationship with the person or event or identifies with the subject of the cloth’s design’ (Perani and Wolff 1999: 30) Historic links between Scotland and Malawi date back to the mid-1800s when Scottish missionary explorer David...Worden, Sarah
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Conference paper (published)
Cybraphon: collecting the physical or the digital at National Museums Scotland?
In 2013, National Museums Scotland collected Cybraphon, an interactive autonomous internetconnected robot band, created in 2009 by artists’ collective and musicians FOUND. Cybraphon obsessively Googles itself every 15 seconds to see how popular it is. All Cybraphon activity rests in the hands of the online community and as such provides...Taubman, Alison
Cybraphon. Device art. Social media interaction. Digital culture. Museum collecting.
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Digging Birnie, 1998-2009: The story (so far) of an Iron Age power centre
Hunter, Fraser