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ItemConsidering Evidence in Art Fraud(Routledge - Taylor & Francis, 2016)Securing the evidential link between the work and the artist who is purported to have produced it requires a rigorous analytical approach; one that not only accepts particular evidence that may support the assertion of authenticity, but which can also contest evidence that is not correct. Such an approach is by its very nature multidisciplinary, often bringing together knowledge of art history, the art market, cultural materials conservation, chemistry, law and policing. What constitutes evidence of authenticity is generally based on considerations of provenance, art historical context, including facts about the artist and scientific enquiry. Building the chain of evidence for art authentication is a complex and carefully constructed activity that ensures that works can be legitimately, and verifiably, linked to the artist who is purported to be their source.
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ItemMethodological and ethical concerns associated with digital ethnography in domestic environments: participation burden and burdensome technologies(Palgrave Macmillan, 2016)This chapter reflects on methodological and ethical issues arising in a digital ethnography project conducted in domestic environments. The participatory aims of the methodological approach required participants to produce a series of videos exploring domestic digital environments. The videos were then uploaded using an ethnographic software application. Early in the project it became evident that researchers had limited control over important aspects of the technology, and that the technology itself was having disruptive effects in households. Further, although the study was designed to be engaging and playful for participants, the tasks of producing the videos was perceived by some participants as requiring onerous levels of creativity and digital media literacy. The chapter discusses these methodological and ethical issues, and how they were largely resolved.
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ItemOvercoming the tyranny of distance? High speed broadband and the significance of place(University of Adelaide, 2016)This paper examines how HSB is configured in the production of place through the services provided by the National Broadband Network (NBN) across 22 technologically and geographically diverse households by drawing out properties of connectedness and distinction. In this paper, which reports on preliminary data from a longitudinal ARC-funded research project, we are particularly interested to examine how HSB intersects with the other spatial elements that make place meaningful for our participants. We take the standpoint that the uptake and appropriation of a technological innovation, such as HSB, is a process – not an event. We seek to examine the dynamics of this process, what HSB means for the ‘tyranny of distance’ and what HSB means for the significance of place.
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ItemNo Preview Available'La cara e buona imagine paterna di voi': Ideal images of Patriarchs and Patrons as Models for the Right Ordering of Renaissance Florence(Brepols, 2016)In the circle of Hell set aside in the Divine comedy for the violent against nature, the sodomites, Dante was dismayed to encounter ser Brunetto Latini, the late thirteenth-century Florentine master of rhetoric and philosophy whose teaching and treatises, the Tresor and Tesoretto, helped to shape the civic ethos of the Florentine commune in its golden age.
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ItemNo Preview AvailableHoly War and Proto-Crusading. Twelfth-Century Justifications for the Campaigns against the Pomeranians and Prussians(Brepols Publishers, 2016-01)
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ItemFrontiers, Security, and Military Policy(John Wiley & Sons, 2016-03-07)
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ItemFinding Place in Antarctica(Palgrave Macmillan, 2016-08-31)This chapter explores the idea of ‘place’ in Antarctica in contrast to dominant visions of a uniform Antarctic space. This chapter historicizes and critiques the idea of Antarctica as a whole or unified space, illuminating the imperial Cold War, and geopolitical projects behind such visions, and the implications of ‘global commons’ projects for Antarctica. In contrast to these visions, this chapter explores the experiences and contours of place and place-making in Antarctica through the history of biology, ecology, conservation, and environmental protection and management efforts since the signing of the Antarctic Treaty in 1959, and through the history of environmentalists’, artists’ and writers’ engagements with the region since the 1980s. This attention to place reveals the many projects and strategies of human engagement with Antarctica.
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ItemNuminous tree and stone: re-animating the Minoan landscape.(Peeters, 2016)Iconographic scenes of inferred cultic activity, including the hugging or leaning upon of aniconic stones and the apparent appearance of epiphanic figures in proximity to trees, are suggestive of an animistic conception of the natural world. Architectonic evocations of the numinous sacred landscape, through iconographic representation, cultic paraphernalia, palatial architectural features, extant baetyls and peak sanctuaries, reflect strategies of elite status legitimisation through advertisement of relational associations with landscape. Scenes of epiphanic ritual depicted within apparently natural settings – amongst trees and stones free from architectural elaboration – are suggestive of elite interaction with perceived numinous elements within the landscape, while images of envisioned epiphany imply direct communication between human ritual actors and the animate landscape, achieved through interaction with tree or stone. Stepped cult structures such as shrines and openwork platforms, which may be sat upon by women or surmounted by trees, may have symbolised mountains and facilitated the replication of peak sanctuary ritual in an architecturally elaborated, possibly urban, setting. Interaction with baetyls may appropriate qualities of solidity and permanence, while also enhancing claims to status and authority through evoking ancestor veneration. Evidence of feasting in association with baetyls may suggest their function within programs of social cohesion and the naturalisation of hierarchy in which elites expressed status and generated ritual indebtedness through conspicuous generosity and display. These elements of the Minoan sacred landscape will here be analysed through the lens of animism. In contrast with the influential primitivist evolutionary epistemology expounded by the Victorian comparative ethnologists, animism drawn from cultural anthropology posits a relational epistemology, in which a reflexive relatedness exists between people and the natural environment, which is perceived as being sentient. Rather than providing inert backdrops to ritual performance, the landscape is here reconfigured as sentient and numinous, functioning as a politicised, active agent in the enactment of power.
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ItemUniversities and Conscription: The Yes Campaign and the University of Melbourne(Monash University Publishing, 2016)