45 research outputs found

    L'Aigle and HMS Blonde, the Use of History in the Study of Ethnography

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    Notes & Queries: The Edinbugh Hawaiian Feathered Cloak

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    Rembrandt Peale's Hawaiian Ethnographic Still Life

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    The Great Adze in the Smithsonian Institution: History and Provenance

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    The assignment of provenance to museum objects that are considered to be archaeological-even though they were not found in archaeological contexts-such as adzes, has long been left to archaeologists, or to museum curators or technicians who, because they have handled similar objects before, are expected to deduce by comparative analysis where an object came from. Visitors and scientists give solicited and unsolicited views about attributions, uses, and meanings to objects that they have never seen before, while curators evaluate this information depending on the known background, status, and trust of the person giving the information. Most museum curators and technicians record these opinions into what I have termed "museum guessalogs" which masquerade as catalogues.</p

    La danza y el concepto de estilo

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    El uso del término estilo se examina con respecto a la danza y se explora su relación con la estructura, la forma y el contenido social. La mayor dimensión conceptual considerada es la forma (es decir, la entidad de contenido), que consiste en la estructura más el estilo. Se explican los motivos y coremas como la base de las danzas, importantes para el estudio tanto de la estructura como del estilo. Luego se examinan éstos últimos como aspectos de competencia y ejecución. La danza polinesia se describe en términos de canon, estructura y estilo, y se emplean cuatro versiones del hula pahu hawaiano llamado Kaulilua para ilustrar las diferencias estilísticas. Un concepto que subyace en el artículo es que tanto la estructura como el estilo son émic

    Yearbook for Traditional Music - Volume 41

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    Yearbook for Traditional Music - Volume 28

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    xi, 243 hal ; 23 c

    Acculturation in Hawaiian Dance

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    Human Skeletal Collection From Hawaii

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