From stories to material culture: European scholars in the Arctic. HIMMELHEBER, Hans, 2000 Where the echo began: and other oral traditions from southwestern Alaska, Recorded by H. Himmelbert, translated by Kurt and Ester Witt, edited and Annoted by Ann Fienup-Riordan, Fairbanks, The University of Alaska Press, 224 pages Larsen, Helge, 2001 Deering: a men's house from Seward Peninsula, Alaska, Copenhagen, National Museum of Denmark, Dept. of Ethnography: SILA, the Greenland Research Centre, Ethnographical Series 19, 145 pages. MARY-ROUSSELIÈRE, Guy, 2002 Nunguvik et Saatut: sites paléoeskimaux de Navy Board Inlet, île de Baffin, Hull, Canadian Museum of Civilization, Archaeological Survey of Canada, Mercury Series 162, 199 pages.

... I shall attempt to summarize the various archaeological activities that occurred in the Arctic and subarctic during the last summer. ... Members of a party called Operation Hazen organized by the Defence Research Board as part of the Canadian program for the International Geophysical Year worked on archaeological remains on Ellesmere Island, discovering four sites of aboriginal structures. One, about twenty miles north of Lake Hazen; one on the shores of Lake Hazen; and two along the Ruggles River. Few artifacts were uncovered since they did no digging. These sites, however, are of considerable significance for not only are they the northernmost sites in the Canadian Arctic but they are situated along the hypothetical route of migration from the Canadian Arctic to Greenland. ... Dr. Jorgen Meldgaard of the National Museum of Denmark, returned to the Alarnerk Site in the Igloolik area on the Melville Peninsula after two season's absence. ... Most of these early pre-Dorset remains appear to belong to an early and late period having burins, micro-blades, side-blades, small end-blades, and other artifacts indicating a close relationship with both the Cape Denbigh Flint Complex of Alaska as well as with Sarqaq of Greenland. The sequential changes in his artifact types from these pre-Dorset remains closely parallel change of types from the four middle cultural phases from the Firth River in the Canadian Yukon. ... Mr. William E. Taylor of the National Museum of Canada undertook preliminary excavation and survey in the interior as well as the coast and adjacent islands of the northern part of the Ungava Peninsula. His activities in the interior were at Payne Lake where he found about forty house remains, of which he excavated four. All of these were Dorset with one having a slight overlay of Eskimo remains. On the coast at the estuary of the Payne River, he uncovered another Dorset site as well as one Dorset burial. ... At Sugluk, seven sites were investigated and five of these appear to be Dorset villages with semi-subterranean rectangular houses. My endeavours were in the southern part of the Yukon Territory between Johnsons Crossing, Kluane Lake, Dawson City, and Mayo. Ninety-seven sites were discovered as well as about 1,000 artifacts. The sites seem to belong to at least six different artifact complexes, four of which were below the volcanic ash layers dated about 300 A.D. Twenty-eight of the sites are micro-blade sites. In Alaska, Dr. Ivar Skarland of the Department of Anthropology of the University of Alaska, during the last part of the summer, investigated interior sites on which "Puma" projectile points have been found. Mr. Gordon Lowther, of the McCord Museum of McGill University of Montreal, undertook archaeological survey in the Old Crow Flats in the Yukon Territory. He was most successful in finding fourteen archaeological sites as well as places at which mammoth bones occurred. As yet, his materials have not been analysed ....

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MatteRealities: Historical Trajectories and Conceptual Futures for Material Culture Studies

Open Cultural Studies ◽

10.1515/culture-2019-0027 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 3 (1) ◽

pp. 308-316

Author(s):

Ingrid Gessner ◽

Miriam Nandi ◽

Juliane Schwarz-Bierschenk

Keyword(s):

Material Culture ◽

Large Scale ◽

National Museum ◽

Human Beings ◽

Research Organizations ◽

Theatrical Performances ◽

History Of ◽

And Performance ◽

The University ◽

Political Character

Abstract “No ideas but in things!” William Carlos Williams’s leitmotif for the modernist epic Paterson seems to anticipate the current renewal of academic attention to the materialities of culture: When the Smithsonian Institution accounts for The History of America in 101 Objects (Kurin) or when Neil MacGregor, designated director of the Humboldt Forum in Berlin, aims at telling The History of the World in 100 Objects (2011), they use specimens of material culture as register and archive of human activity. Individual exhibitions explore the role of objects in movements for social and political change (Disobedient Objects, Victoria and Albert Museum, London). Large-scale national museum projects like the new Humboldt Forum in Berlin or the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C., draw attention to the long existence of collections in Western institutions of learning and reveal the inherently political character of material culture—be that by underscoring the importance of institutional recognition of particular identities or by debates about provenance and restitution of human remains and status objects. The plethora of objects assembled in systematic as well as idiosyncratic collections within and outside the university is just beginning to be systematically explored for their roles in learning and education, funded by national research organizations such as the German BMBF.1 In theatrical performances, things function as discussion prompts in biographical work (Aufstand der Dinge, Schauspielhaus Chemnitz) or unfold their potential to induce a bodily experience (The Force of Things: An Opera for Objects, GK Arts Center, Brooklyn, NY). Things are present: as heritage, as commodities, as sensation; they circulate in processes of cognition and mediation, they transcend temporal and spatial distantiations. Things figure in narration and performance, in our everyday life practices, in political activism. They build knowledge of ourselves and others, influence the ways in which we interact with our fellow human beings, and in which we express or control our feelings. They combine the apparently concrete and the fleetingly abstract. Overall, things make us do things.

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Samuel H. Elbert and Torben Monbeeg (ed. and tr.): From the two canoes: oral traditions of Rennell and Bellona Islands. (Language and Culture of Rennell and Bellona Islands, Vol. I.) X, 428 pp., 6 plates, 2 maps. Copenhagen: Danish National Museum in cooperation with the University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, 1965.

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies ◽

10.1017/s0041977x00059930 ◽

1966 ◽

Vol 29 (2) ◽

pp. 459-460

Author(s):

J. E. Buse

Keyword(s):

Oral Traditions ◽

National Museum ◽

Language And Culture ◽

The University

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WOJCIECH ANTONI JANUSZ GLUZIŃSKI (1922–2017)

Muzealnictwo ◽

10.5604/01.3001.0010.4748 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 58 (0) ◽

pp. 0-0

Author(s):

Elżbieta Gajewska-Prorok

Keyword(s):

Material Culture ◽

Department Head ◽

National Museum ◽

History Of ◽

Methodological Problems ◽

Theorie Und Praxis ◽

The University ◽

The City ◽

Long Term Studies

Wojciech A.J. Gluziński, a philosopher and an outstanding Polish theoretician of museology, passed away on 26 March 2017. He was born on 31 March 1922 into an intellectual family in Lviv. He commenced studying philosophy in 1945 at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow, and continued at the Faculty of Humanities at the University & Polytechnic in Wrocław. He got an MA in philosophy in 1952, but even in 1949 he had already started working in the Old Townhouse (later the Historical Museum of the City of Wrocław), a branch of the Silesian Museum (since 1970 the National Museum) in Wrocław. He was connected with the National Museum until the end of his career. In the following years he held the posts of Head of Historical Department, Head and later Curator of the Department of History of Material Culture, and was the museum’s advisor and counsellor from 1991 to 1995. He organised a dozen permanent and temporary exhibitions during more than 40 years of working. He wrote numerous articles published in such periodicals as: “Annual of the Kłodzko Region”, “Annual of Silesian Ethnography” and “Annual of Silesian Art”. His long-term studies on the theory of museology resulted in a doctoral dissertation entitled Philosophical and methodological problems of museology written under the supervision of Prof. Kazimierz Malinowski in 1976 in the Institute of Conservation and Historic Monuments Studies at the Copernicus University in Toruń. The edited work was published in 1980 as a book entitled Underlying museology. Gluziński shared his opinions at numerous conferences abroad, and published articles in post-conference materials, including in “ICOFOM Study Series”, “Muzeologické Sešity” and in “Neue Museumskunde. Theorie und Praxis der Museumsarbeit”.

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János M. Bak, and Géza Pálffy. Crown and Coronation in Hungary, 1000–1916 A.D. Budapest: Research Centre for the Humanities and Hungarian National Museum, 2020. Pp. 263.

Austrian History Yearbook ◽

10.1017/s0067237821000187 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-2

Author(s):

James W. Oberly

Keyword(s):

Research Centre ◽

National Museum

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Interview with Stuart Walker

Pós Revista do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Arquitetura e Urbanismo da FAUUSP ◽

10.11606/issn.2317-2762.v24i43p12-20 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 24 (43) ◽

pp. 12

Author(s):

Marilia Riul ◽

Ingrid Moura Wanderley ◽

Maria Cecilia Loschiavo dos Santos

Keyword(s):

Product Design ◽

Solid Waste ◽

Mass Production ◽

Social System ◽

Design Research ◽

National Policy ◽

Human Values ◽

Research Centre ◽

Design For Sustainability ◽

The University

Stuart Walker is Professor of Design for Sustainability and Co-Director of the Imagination Lancaster design research Centre at Lancaster University. Focused on design for sustainability; product aesthetics and meaning; practice-based design research and product design that explores and expresses both human values and notions of spirituality. He was interviewed in his second visit to Brazil to attend the Conference and Workshop "Design and the national policy of solid waste: dialogues on sustainability," held in the Sustainability Laboratory (Lassu) at the University of São Paulo (USP) in 2013, an activity of the research project sponsored by CNPq: Product design, sustainability and national policy on solid waste, coordinated by Professor Maria Cecilia Loschiavo dos Santos. Through the suggested questions, Professor Stuart Walker built a severe critique of our social system of mass production and reminded us that values really matter to our journey.

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HISTORY OF ARCTIC EXPLORATION: A SHORT BIBLIOGRAPHIC REVIEW

Northern Archives and Expeditions ◽

10.31806/2542-1158-2021-5-2-80-87 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 5 (2) ◽

pp. 80-87

Author(s):

E.N. Kasyanchuk ◽

Keyword(s):

Development Strategy ◽

Industrial Development ◽

Public Access ◽

The Arctic ◽

Geographical Society ◽

History Of ◽

High Quality Information ◽

Arctic Exploration ◽

Northern Territories ◽

The University

The paper presents the activities of the Scientific Library of the Siberian Federal University on the development and implementation of the project “Creation of a Scientific and Educational Geographical Library in SFU”. This project was launched jointly with the Russian Geographical Society. The goal of the project is to form and provide users with high-quality information and educational resource on the profile and topics of the main directions of development of geographical sciences, popularization of geographical knowledge. The activity of the library in the field of formation of unified information scientific and educational space, in the context of the main directions, reflecting the development strategy of the SibFU is analysed. The study of the Arctic is one of the priority tasks of the university. The Arctic vector plays an important role in creating a new library model, in the context of the formation of information resources: the works of SibFU scientists related to the study of Siberia and the Arctic, and providing public access to the accumulated knowledge. The basis of this collection is a unique collection of documents by S. B. Slevich, Doctor of Geographical Sciences, Professor, Academician of the Russian Ecological Academy. The paper discusses the activities for the implementation of the project. The library forms a collection of documents on topics - indigenous peoples, ecology of the Far North, industrial development of northern territories, construction on permafrost and digitizes rare publications. A geographic reading room has been opened to organize access to resources. Together with the Presidential Library. B.N. Yeltsin annually held a scientific and practical seminar “Arctic Day at the Siberian Federal University”. Ways of further work to promote the project have been identified.

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ADHD, Self-Harm, and the Importance of Early Childhood Intervention - In Conversation with Dr. Melissa Mulraney

10.13056/acamh.17233 ◽

2021 ◽

Keyword(s):

Child Mental Health ◽

Associate Editor ◽

Mental Health Research ◽

Social Neuroscience ◽

Early Childhood Intervention ◽

Research Centre ◽

Senior Lecturer ◽

Childhood Intervention ◽

Self Harm ◽

The University

In this podcast, we talk to Dr. Melissa Mulraney, Senior Lecturer and co-leader of the Child Mental Health Research Centre at the Institute for Social Neuroscience in Melbourne, Australia, Honorary Research Fellow at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute in the Department of Paediatrics at the University of Melbourne, and Associate Editor of CAMH.

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Arctic Science and Technology Information System

The Charleston Advisor ◽

10.5260/chara.23.2.5 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 23 (2) ◽

pp. 5-7

Author(s):

Jane C. Duffy

Keyword(s):

Information System ◽

North America ◽

Science And Technology ◽

The Arctic ◽

Free Text ◽

Bibliographic Database ◽

Research Projects ◽

Search Terms ◽

University Of Calgary ◽

The University

ASTIS offers over 83,000 records that provide freely available access to publications, including research and research projects, about Canada's north. This database is a product of the Arctic Institute of North America at the University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada which also maintains subsidiary regional, subject, and initiative-based databases. The subsidiary databases are all housed within and accessible through the main ASTIS database. Examples of the smaller databases include: ArcticNet Publications Database, the Nunavik Bibliography, and the Northern Granular Resources Bibliographic Database. ASTIS offers the ability to browse through its access points, including its own thesauri, thus permitting users to select and use a variety of free-text and controlled search terms.

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