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Free Download Tim McNeese, "Isabel Allende (The Great Hispanic Heritage)"
English | 2006 | pages: 113 | ISBN: 0791088367 | PDF | 1,3 mb
Isabel Allende, one of the world’s most widely read Latin American writers, is a Chilean novelist who, like Gabriel García Márquez, was strongly influenced by her grandparents. Her vivid fiction, such as The House of the Spirits, blends realism with magical elements and spotlights political and often feminist concerns. Here is a wonderful introduction to Isabel Allende that will help students understand how her family and upbringing set the stage for her life’s work and success. Full-color photographs combine with readable text and informative features.

Free Download Heritage, Pilgrimage and the Camino to Finisterre: Walking to the End of the World By Cristina Sánchez-Carretero (eds.)
2015 | 211 Pages | ISBN: 3319202111 | PDF | 11 MB
This book presents research concerning the effects of the Camino to Finisterre on the daily lives of the populations who live along the route, and the heritagization processes that exploitation of the Camino for tourism purposes involves. Rather than focusing on the route to Santiago de Compostela and the pilgrimage itself, it instead examines a peculiar part of the route, the Camino to Finisterre, employing multiple perspectives that consider the processes of heritagization, the effects of the pilgrimage on local communities, and the motivations of the pilgrims. The book is based on a three-year research project and is the result of a multidisciplinary collaboration between anthropologists, sociologists, historians and archaeologists. Instead of ending in Santiago, as the rest of the Caminos do, this route continues to the cape of Finisterre on the Galician Atlantic coast. This part of the Camino de Santiago is not officially recognized by the Catholic Church and does not count as part of reaching Compostela, the recognition granted by the Catholic Church to those pilgrims who have walked at least 100 km. For this reason, as well as its relationship with the sun cult, many pilgrims call this route "the Camino of the atheists." In fact, the Catholic Church is a strong force for the heritagization of the rest of the Caminos, and maintains a clear ignoratio strategy concerning the Finisterre route: Officially, the church neither opposes nor recognizes this route.

Free Download Heritage Paien de La Russie – Tome 1 (L’) By Francis Conte
1997 | 214 Pages | ISBN: 2226089187 | PDF | 37 MB
Aujourd’hui libérée du système soviétique, la Russie retrouve son passé et la richesse de la culture du monde paysan, que ni le tsarisme ni le communisme n’ont réussi à faire disparaître.S’appuyant sur des enquêtes effectuées à la fin du siècle dernier (notamment par les ethnographes) et sur le renouveau actuel des recherches, Francis Conte, professeur de civilisation russe et directeur de l’UFR d’études slaves à l’université Paris-Sorbonne, évoque cette mosaïque faite de mythes et de croyances. Par-delà les caricatures du moujik popularisées en Occident, ce livre – qui sera suivi d’un second volume consacré aux représentations de la mort et de l’au-delà – traite du monde alentour : les éléments, la forêt, les animaux, la maison (l’izba) avec lesquels la paysannerie russe a toujours entretenu des relations spécifiques, fondées sur un ordre symbolique transmis par les contes et légendes, mais aussi par les rituels liés aux grands événements de la vie. Cette perception du sacré intimement mêlée à la foi orthodoxe forme une religiosité originale toujours vivace en dépit des ruptures, un néo-paganisme singulier qui s’inscrit dans le courant de redécouverte, par les Russes, du sens de leur longue histoire.

Free Download Heritage: Critical Approaches By Rodney Harrison
2012 | 288 Pages | ISBN: 0415591953 | PDF | 4 MB
Historic sites, memorials, national parks, museums…we live in an age in which heritage is ever-present. But what does it mean to live amongst the spectral traces of the past, the heterogeneous piling up of historic materials in the present? How did heritage grow from the concern of a handful of enthusiasts and specialists in one part of the world to something which is considered to be universally cherished? And what concepts and approaches are necessary to understanding this global obsession?Over the decades, since the adoption of the World Heritage Convention, various ‘crises’ of definition have significantly influenced the ways in which heritage is classified, perceived and managed in contemporary global societies. Taking an interdisciplinary approach to the many tangible and intangible ‘things’ now defined as heritage, this book attempts simultaneously to account for this global phenomenon and the industry which has grown up around it, as well as to develop a ‘toolkit of concepts’ with which it might be studied. In doing so, it provides a critical account of the emergence of heritage studies as an interdisciplinary field of academic study. This is presented as part of a broader examination of the function of heritage in late modern societies, with a particular focus on the changes which have resulted from the globalisation of heritage during the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.Developing new theoretical approaches and innovative models for more dialogically democratic heritage decision making processes, Heritage: Critical Approaches unravels the relationship between heritage and the experience of late modernity, whilst reorienting heritage so that it might be more productively connected with other pressing social, economic, political and environmental issues of our time.

Free Download Handbook of Space Engineering, Archaeology, and Heritage By Ann Garrison Darrin (ed.), Beth Laura O’Leary (ed.)
2009 | 1035 Pages | ISBN: 1420084313 | PDF | 29 MB
Handbook of Space Engineering, Archaeology and Heritage, published this month by CRC Press Taylor and Francis Group, brings together 43 anthropologists, historians, physicists, and engineers, a scientific team as culturally diverse as the crew of any science fiction cruiser. They offer a range of novel historical and technological perspectives on humankind’s experience in space. This ambitious work presents an informative, thought-provoking, and educational text that discusses the evolution of space engineering, spacecraft reliability and forensics, field techniques, and mission planning, as well as space programs for the future. The book is edited by a pair of scientists from different sides of the campus: Ann Garrison Darrin, aerospace engineer and NASA veteran and Beth Laura O’Leary, anthropologist and member of the World Archaeological Congress Space Heritage Task Force.The handbook delves into the evolution of space archaeology and heritage, including the emerging fields of Archaeoastronomy, Ethnoastronomy, and Cultural Astronomy. It also covers space basics and the history of the space age from Sputnik to modern day satellites. It discusses the cultural landscape of space, including orbital artifacts in space, as well as objects left on planetary surfaces and includes a look at the culture of Apollo as a catalog of manned exploration of the moon. It also considers the application of forensic investigation to the solving of cold case mysteries including failed Mars mission landing sites and lost spacecraft, and even investigates the archaeology of the putative Roswell UFO crash site and appraises material culture in science fiction.

Free Download Marinos Ioannides, Dieter Fellner, Andreas Georgopoulos, "Digital Heritage"
English | 2010 | pages: 561 | ISBN: 3642168728 | PDF | 27,1 mb
This volume comprises the proceedings of the Third International Euro-Mediterranean Conference (EuroMed 2010) on the historical island of Cyprus. The focal point of this conference was digital heritage, which all of us involved in the documentation of cultural heritage continually strive to implement. The excellent selection of papers published in the proceedings reflects in the best possible way the benefits of exploiting modern technological advances for the restoration, preservation and e-documentation of any kind of cultural heritage. Above all, we should always bear in mind that what we do now may be used by people in another century to repair, rebuild or conserve the buildings, monuments, artifacts and landscapes that seem important. Recent events like earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, fires and insurrections show that we can never be too prepared for damage to, and loss of, the physical and, non-tangible elements of our past and, in general, our cultural heritage. To reach this ambitious goal, the topics covered included experiences in the use of innovative recording technologies and methods, and how to take best advantage of the results obtained to build up new instruments and improved methodologies for do- menting in multimedia formats, archiving in digital libraries and managing a cultural heritage. Technological advances are very often reported in detail in specialized fora. This volume of proceedings establishes bridges of communication and channels of co- eration between the various disciplines involved in cultural heritage preservation.

Free Download Heritage Traces in the Making: A Communicational Analysis of Modes of Heritagization
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1786309440 | 306 Pages | PDF | 7 MB
Communicational analysis shows that these traces have acquired the status of heritage by becoming communicative beings imbued with a new social life. Up until the 1970s and 1980s, granting this status was the prerogative of the state. New modes then emerged, increasingly involving social actors and the publicization of knowledge. Today, the heritage recognition of these traces also depends on interpretative schemes that circulate in society, notably through the media.

Free Download Digital Cultural Heritage: Challenges, Solutions, and Future Directions
English | 2024 | ISBN: 103263054X | 259 Pages | PDF (True) | 12 MB
This book explores how digital technologies are transforming cultural heritage preservation, documentation, and archiving. It delves into the technical aspects of digitalization techniques, digital preservation strategies, and the use of advanced technologies like virtual reality and augmented reality in the context of cultural heritage.

Free Download Explorations in the History and Heritage of Machines and Mechanisms: 8th International Symposium on History of Machines and Mechanisms (HMM) by Marco Ceccarelli, Irem Aslan Seyhan
English | EPUB (True) | 2024 | 392 Pages | ISBN : 3031548752 | 142.1 MB
This book gathers the latest advances in the field of history of science and technology, as presented by leading international researchers at the 8th International Symposium on History of Machines and Mechanisms (HMM), held in Ankara, Turkey on April 18-20, 2024. The Symposium, which was promoted by the permanent commission for the History of Machine and Mechanism Science (MMS) of IFToMM, provided an international forum to present and discuss historical developments in the field of MMS. The contents cover all aspects of the development of MMS from antiquity until the present era and its historiography: modern reviews of past works, engineers in history and their works, the development of theories, history of the design of machines and mechanisms, historical developments of mechanical design and automation, historical developments of teaching, the history of schools of engineering, the education of engineers. The contributions, which were selected by means of a rigorous international peer-review process, highlight numerous exciting ideas that will spur novel research directions and foster multidisciplinary collaborations.

Free Download Cultural Heritage Education in the Everyday Landscape: School, Citizenship, Space, and Representation by Camilla Casonato, Bertrando Bonfantini
English | EPUB (True) | 2022 | 287 Pages | ISBN : 3031103947 | 106.6 MB
This book summarizes work being undertaken within the School Activates Resources-stitching the lost heritage of the suburbs (ScAR) project, which addressed cultural heritage in a broad sense, as a system of values identified by the populations and in constant evolution. This tangible and intangible heritage fuels the promotion of intergenerational and intercultural dialogue and represents an opportunity for resilient social and territorial development. The book ponders the experience gained and the points of view of the different disciplines involved, examines issues such as children and youth participation in civil life or education in cultural heritage and landscape, and presents real-world experiences of heritage education in everyday landscape in difficult contexts and/or concerning poorly recognized and valued cultural heritage.