Remaking the People’s Park: Heritage Renewal Troubled by Past Political Struggles?

Sensor Technology and the Remaking of Instruments from the Past

Starting from a parallelism between the effervescence of the 1920s in the exploration of new ways of controlling music and the actual revolution in the design of new control possibilities, this paper aims to explore the possibilities of rethinking instruments from the past towards instruments of the future. Through three examples (the experience of the Persephone, the design of the Persephone2 ...

Ethno-cultural heritage of the peoples of west Pamir.

The paper presents a study on the West Pamir communities (Badakhshan, Tajikistan) based on language data of the Pamir languages of East-Iranian origin. At present, the ethnic groups of the West Pamir: Shughni, Rushani, Bartangi, Roshorvi, Khufi, Ishkashimi and Wakhi are communities of the Ismaili Shia Islam faith. The underlying concept of the paper is that ethnic and cultural key-concepts take...

Virtual Heritage: Living in the Past

Virtual Heritage (VH) is the use of electronic media to recreate or interpret culture and cultural artifacts as they are today or as they might have been in the past (Moltenbrey, 2001; Roehl, 1997). By definition, VH applications employ some kind of three dimensional representation; the means used to display it range from still photos to immersive Virtual Reality. Virtual Heritage is a very act...

Introduction to Endangered Peoples of Africa and the Middle East : Struggles to Survive and Thrive

Xxxi Indian Social Science Congress a Note on Peoples' Struggles and Movements for Equitable Society

Indian Academy of Social Sciences (ISSA) has resolved to devote the 31st session of Indian Social Science Congress (XXXI ISSC) on ‘Peoples’ Struggles And Movements For Equitable Society’ with a view to discovering, developing and disseminating a new scientific knowledge relevant to creating a new democratic global society free from hunger, poverty, literacy, unemployment and violence of any sor...