Most studies of solitude have focused on the modern individualized sense of solitude, located or originating in urbanized Western cultures where solitude is seen as a companion to urban modernity. In this perspective the larger historical and cultural context goes almost unnoticed together with the fact that the preoccupation with solitude, in various forms and functions, has been around for a ...

Refugees from Burma have comprised the largest group of refugees resettling in the United States over the past decade, with nearly 90,000 people, and 19 percent of the total refugee population. However, very little literature exists that describes the cultural context and displacement experiences of this population. This article addresses that gap in the literature by examining historical, soci...

Evolutionary theorists since Darwin have been interested in the parallels and interactions between biological and cultural evolution. Recent applications of empirical techniques originally developed to analyze molecular genetic data to linguistic data offer new insights into the historical evolution of language, revealing fascinating parallels between language change and biological evolution. T...

Protection and preservation of our cultural and literary historical and documentary heritage are particularly relevant today. The paper presents methods for creating digital resources of historical artifacts related to the Balkan war. Special attention is paid to the process of 3D scanning of objects. The methodology will be used in building an electronic archive and Virtual Museum.

The authors follow up the issues of cultural tourism in their relationship with and historical heritage context education young people. methods analysis, forecasting, method expert assessment, sociological are used at article. Emphasizing importance globalizing world, consider it as a factor collective identity formation, which is important for national stability safety ensuring. In authors’ op...

Because of the remarkable interest in preserving architectural heritage Kingdom Saudi Arabia and emergence multiple models adaptively reused buildings historic Jeddah area, it is necessary to ensure their correct usage, periodic evaluation, sustainability. This study develops a model for evaluating adaptive reuse historical preserve integrity originality. It adopts qualitative approach analyzes...

Today, the field-oriented architecture of the historical context of the most important topics in the field of architecture Because of the inherent value and practical concepts and is directly related to the knowledge, awareness and decision-making at the individual or individuals. No matter how much knowledge is more valuable than the deeper, more complete and more accurate will be extracted ...