Cultural artifact

take up conservation as a specialization. Within the American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (AIC), there are specialty groups for book and paper, paintings, textiles, photographic materials, objects, wooden artifacts, and architecture. This is one possible categorization on this basis. It suffices the theory of segmentation that’s picking up across the sectors. And it gives more time to preserve a particular art piece provided given more time and core…

In 1966, Chairman Mao Zedong, China’s Communist party leader at the time, launched a social-political movement that became formally known as the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. Its official goal was to change and correct the direction in which the current Communist leaders were leading China, and to preserve “true” Communist ideology. To rid all possible aspects of capitalism in the country, he shut down the entire nation’s schools and called for a mass assemblage of the country’s youth.…

the marked shows featuring African Americans was the Cosby Show (1984-1992). “The Cosby Show portrayal positive image of African American family the character never dealt directly with race, but their blackness was subtly expressed through on set artifacts…

first to have a recorded excavation in 1784. By using methods such as stratigraphy and deductive reasoning, archaeologists of this time were able to touch on the deeper questions of our human past and antiquity. In Thomsen’s Three Age System, artifacts are classified into one of three eras. These three different periods of time are the Stone Age, Bronze Age and the Iron Age. Moreover, the Stone Age is divided into two categories, the Paleolithic (Old Stone Age) or the Neolithic (New Stone…

Your eyes are the door to your soul”, there many poems with these phrase, many believe that to trust someone you just must look into their eyes, and maybe that is truth. But to know from where someone came from, how they live and how they died, their eyes will not help because when we died they close forever, and in that moment when not even our faces are recognizable the truth about ourselves lies in our bones. People often think that our bones are not more than a part of our bodies that help…

At least 3 million Chinese citizens were killed during Mao’s Cultural Revolution, and an estimated 100 million were permanently affected by it either, financially, emotionally, physically, or socially. Those of the Red Guard who had not chosen to leave China and opted to stay in the countryside eventually returned to the cities, but had issues becoming employed due to their violent role in the Cultural Revolution and their lack of formal education. A bitter grudge was held between…

does art serve? Use any type of art which you would like to explain the anthropological perspective on art. Be sure to refer to some key concepts discussed in the class lectures related to art. Part B: The anthropology of art does not treat such artifacts as “exotic objects,” but instead examines them for the roles they play in people’s lives. According to the class lecture, how were exotic “artificial curiosities” the antithesis of an anthropological understanding of art? Typically from an…

Fan Shen began as a good little revolutionary. Revolution was his birthright, a heritage passed down to him by his family. A legacy denoted in his name, “’Fan,’ my given name, means ‘ordinary—one of millions of working people,’” because only working people could be true revolutionaries.” The indoctrination of the Chinese Communist Party caused generations of Chinese to partake in unnecessary violence and hardship, and Fan Shen was no exception. However, he resisted the Communist Party. Fan Shen…

worldwide face the moral dilemma of what to showcase in their collections. Some governments and citizens have questioned the legitimacy of the entitlement to some ancient artifacts that were taken during circumstances like war. Countries have requested cultural repatriation of their artistic works. Cultural repatriation is the return of cultural relics that have been taken from their homeland. Items from around the world, such as Rome, Scotland, and Africa have faced this difficult situation. …

Cohorts are groups of people working together. The Business Insider speaks in terms of Gen X and Gen Y, baby boomer and millennials depending on what year you were born will define the category you belong in. Cohorts are explained as an unclear grouping of people within these generational groups as having common involvements. In other terms we could say that the dividing line is just a mix of the two groups (Nisen, 2013). “The greatest generation,” a term invented by broadcaster Tom Brokaw…