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    Series series Ambiances, Atmospheres and Sensory Experiences of Spaces
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  • Elements of Architecture

    Assembling archaeology, atmosphere and the performance of building spaces

    Edición de Mikkel Bille, Tim Flohr Sorensen ...
    Series series Archaeological Orientations
    Elements of Architecture explores new ways of engaging architecture in archaeology. It conceives of architecture both as the physical evidence of past societies and as existing beyond the physical environment, considering how people in the past have not just dwelled in buildings but have existed within them. The book engages with the meeting point between these two perspectives. For although ... Leer más

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  • Being Bedouin Around Petra

    Life at a World Heritage Site in the Twenty-First Century

    de Mikkel Bille ...
    Petra, Jordan became a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1985, and the semi-nomadic Bedouin inhabiting the area were resettled as a consequence. The Bedouin themselves paradoxically became UNESCO Masterpieces of Oral and Intangible Heritage in 2005 for the way in which their oral traditions and everyday lives relate to the landscape they no longer live in. Being Bedouin Around Petra asks: How could ... Leer más

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  • Homely Atmospheres and Lighting Technologies in Denmark

    Living with Light

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    Series series Home
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  • An Anthropology of Absence

    Materializations of Transcendence and Loss

    In studying material culture, anthropologists and archaeologists use meaningful physical objects from a culture to help understand the less tangible aspects of that culture, such as societal structure, rituals, and values. What happens when these objects are destroyed, by war, natural disaster, or other historical events? Through detailed explanations of eleven international case studies, the ... Leer más

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    How the Built Environment Shapes Our Lives

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