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Ian Willis deposited Colonial hotel is still serving in the group
History on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months agoThe Plough and Harrow Inn at 75-79 Argyle Street is the second oldest hotel in Camden and is still on the original site. The Camden Inn (1841) was the first hotel in Camden. Located on the Great South Road, the Plough and Harrow was part of the fabric of Macarthur’s private village of Camden within the Cowpastures. By the early 20th century,…[Read more]
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Elton Barker deposited Journeying through Space and Time with Pausanias’s Description of Greece in the group
History on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months agoSometime in the second century CE, Pausanias of Magnesia (modern-day Turkey) wrote the Description of Greece. Ostensibly a tour of the places to see on the Greek mainland, the Description also provides historical accounts related to the topography through which Pausanias moves. Little attention has been given to how these building blocks of…[Read more]
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Samuel Adu-Gyamfi deposited Contemporary History of the Increasing Use of Traditional Medicine among the Asante of Ghana: A Focus on Afigya Kwabre South District in the group
Public Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months agoUsing a qualitative method of research, the study investigated the increasing use of traditional medicine in Ghana, focusing on Afigya Kwabre South District. Traditional medicine has gone through various stages since time immemorial, especially with regard to how its patronage has evolved over time. The period ranges from the pre-colonial era,…[Read more]
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Marko Demantowsky deposited ‘Innovationitis’ and Humanities in the group
Public Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months agoYou read it everywhere. Everyone talks about it, always as a value in itself. We are all haunted by it, not least at universities, not least in the humanities, by the ubiquitous requirement to be innovative. Projects that do not require innovation would not receive the grace of funding in an academic system that is both bloated and thinned out at…[Read more]
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Samuel Rosado-Zaidi deposited Presentación para el Foro “Cuenca Atoyac-Zahuapan entre la devastación y la esperanza” in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months agoUna breve presentación con resultados de la tesis “Análisis geoespacial e hidrográfico del deterioro ambiental y su impacto en las enfermedades crónico degenerativas en la cuenca Atoyac-Zahuapan”, utilizados para la edición 186 de la Jornada del Campo: https://www.jornada.com.mx/2023/03/18/delcampo/index.html
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Ian Willis deposited Camden History, Journal of the Camden Historical Society. March 2023 v5n5 in the group
History on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months agoCamden History is the Journal of the Camden Historical Society NSW. The journal is published bi-annually, an anthology of historical stories about people and places drawn from Camden and district. The current edition includes Cowells Camellia Nursery; Onslow Assembly Hall, Camden; JD Rankin; Artwork Life Blood; Frederick Sharpe; CD Noble; Photo essay.
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Ian Willis deposited A marvellous Edwardian building in the group
History on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months agoThe former Foresters’ Hall occupies one of the most prominent sites in the Camden Town Centre at 147 Argyle Street on the corner of Oxley Street and Argyle Street. On its opening in 1908, the hall was considered the best in New South Wales by the Order of Royal Foresters.
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Ian Willis deposited The Enduring Face of the Camden Showgirl in the group
History on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months agoThe Camden Miss Showgirl competition is, in many ways, an anachronism from the past. It has survived for 49 years under the onslaught of feminism, post-modernism, globalization and urbanisation. A worthy feat indeed.
The competition is still popular, and the local press is always a strong supporter. The 2010 Camden Showgirl competition attracted…[Read more] -
Ian Willis deposited Miss Showgirl an enduring anachronism in the group
History on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months agoOnce again, country show societies are gearing up for the annual New South Wales Miss Showgirl competition. In 2008 500 young women entered the pageant at a local level representing 120 show societies, with the Sydney Royal Easter Show finals. The 2011 Camden Miss Showgirl has attracted seven young local women – four of the seven are university s…[Read more]
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Cagdas Dedeoglu deposited Posthumanism for Sustainability: A Scoping Review in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months agoThe purpose of this study is to explore the relationship between posthumanism and sustainability and contribute to the interdisciplinary concept of posthuman sustainability. We conducted a scoping review of 45 peer-reviewed journal articles that met our inclusion criteria and employed co-occurrence analysis based on the clustering techniques of…[Read more]
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Lawrence K Wang deposited Me and the Helpless Universe in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoLu, Toh-Ming (2023). Me and the helpless universe, In: “Global Humanities and Liberal Arts”, Wang, Lawrence K. (Editor) , Volume 2023, Number 3A, 2023(3A), March 2023; 40 pages, Lenox Institute Press, MA, USA. Lenox.Institute@gmail.com; lut@rpi.edu. ……………ABSTRACT: This electronic book contains a collection of oil paintings tha…[Read more]
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Eliseo Ferrer deposited Eliseo Ferrer / Preámbulo del libro «Sacrificio y drama del Rey Sagrado». Una visión diferente de los orígenes cristianos. in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoPreámbulo del libro SACRIFRICIO Y DRAMA DEL REY SAGRADO, de Eliseo Ferrer. (Se añade índice y bibliografía).
Vaya por delante que ésta no es una obra de consenso académico; y tampoco una obra guiada por la fe religiosa, ni por los presupuestos decimonónicos del ateísmo antirreligioso y anticristiano. Decía el mitólogo Joseph Campbell que la hu…[Read more] -
Eliseo Ferrer deposited Eliseo Ferrer / El significado del Mito en las culturas primitivas, como paradigma de realidad y explicación del cosmos. in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoLas filosofías racionalistas y la teología de la Iglesia ocultaron a lo largo de dos mil años el verdadero significado de los mitos y de la mitología antigua, para reducir su significado a aquello que, presentado como verdad aparente en un discurso, resultaba ser falso en realidad. En este sentido, un mito vendría determinado por la narr…[Read more]
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Paulino Capdepon deposited La capilla musical de la colegiata de Talavera de la Reina en la primera mitad del siglo XIX in the group
History on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoAfter the period of splendour experienced by the musical chapel of the Collegiate Church of Santa María la Mayor in Talavera de la Reina during the 18th century, we witnessed a period of decline, which was part of the crisis experienced by Spanish religious music during the 19th century. The effects of the War of Independence, the successive…[Read more]
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Paulino Capdepon deposited Música de tecla en la España del siglo XVIII: Domenico Scarlatti y el padre Antonio Soler in the group
History on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoThis article focuses on Spanish music in the 18th century, which experienced one of the most brilliant periods in its history. This was undoubtedly due to the splendour achieved by keyboard music, which reached an extraordinary level of development after the arrival in Spain of the Neapolitan composer Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757), harpsichord…[Read more]
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Paulino Capdepon deposited El Patrimonio musical de Talavera de la Reina in the group
History on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoThe musical chapel of the Collegiate Church of Santa María la Mayor in Talavera de la Reina is a significant case of how an ecclesiastical institution articulates the musical life of a city: in this sense, it can be stated that the main musical activity in the aforementioned Toledan city has revolved around the chapel of the Collegiate Church…[Read more]
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Paulino Capdepon deposited La recepción cervantina en el Romanticismo: la ópera Don Chisciotte de Manuel García (1826) [The reception of Cervantes in Romanticism: the opera Don Chisciotte by Manuel García] in the group
History on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoThe publication of Cervantes’ Don Quixote served as inspiration from the very moment of its creation for a whole series of artistic manifestations, among which those related to the art of sound stand out. Among the famous Spanish composers of Romanticism, the Sevillian composer Manuel del Pópulo García shines and stands out with his own light. H…[Read more]
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Paulino Capdepon deposited La capilla musical de la Catedral de Segorbe en los siglos XVI y XVII [The chapel music at the Segorbe Cathedral in 16th and 18th centuries] in the group
History on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoThe music chapel of the Cathedral of Segorbe has historically played a primordial role in the history of Spanish music, constituting a focus of musical activity that attracted a numerous group of singers, instrumentalists, organists and chapel masters who formed part of the aforementioned chapel, whose antecedents date back to the mid-13th…[Read more]
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Anne Pasek deposited The world wide web of carbon: Toward a relational footprinting of information and communications technology’s climate impacts in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoThe climate impacts of the information and communications technology sector—and Big Data especially—is a topic of growing public and industry concern, though attempts to quantify its carbon footprint have produced contradictory results. Some studies argue that information and communications technology’s global carbon footprint is set to rise dra…[Read more]
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Bernd Brabec deposited Academic (In)Discipline, Research (In)Sanity and the Conundrum of (Indigenous) Timescapes in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoThis contribution focuses on strategies to bridge what in anthropology is called ontological incommensurability: Indigenous worlds often seem inaccessible to modern thought. Instead of trying to open Indigenous worlds to Westerners, I rather intend to make Western worlds accessible to Indigenous thought; and likewise, academic disciplines…[Read more]
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