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Archives of Traditional Music
The Indiana University Archives of Traditional Music holds over 100,000 individual audio and video recordings across over 3500 collections of field, broadcast, and commercial recordings. Its holdings are primarily focused on audiovisual recordings relating to research in the academic disciplines of ethnomusicology, folklore, anthropology, linguistics, and various area studies.
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  • 28 Nov 2022
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Documentation of Cultural Property
The documentation of cultural property is a critical aspect of collections care. As stewards of cultural property, museums collect and preserve not only objects but the research and documentation connected to those objects, in order to more effectively care for them. Documenting cultural heritage is a collaborative effort. Essentially, registrars, collection managers, conservators, and curators all contribute to the task of recording and preserving information regarding collections. There are two main types of documentation museums are responsible for: records generated in the registration process—accessions, loans, inventories, etc. and information regarding research on objects and their historical significance. Properly maintaining both types of documentation is vital to preserving cultural heritage.
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  • 25 Oct 2022
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Eye Tracking and Visual Attention to Live Streaming
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to the development of a new business model, “Live Streaming + Ecommerce”, which is a new method for commercial sales that shares the goal of sustainable economic growth (SDG 8). As information technology finds its way into the digital lives of internet users, the real-time and interactive nature of live streaming has overturned the traditional entertainment experience of audio and video content, moving towards a more nuanced division of labor with multiple applications. Researchers have used eye tracking technology in order to understand consumers’visual search methods and decision-making processes.
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  • 06 Jul 2022
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The Colors in Medieval Illuminations of Alfonso X
The intellectual action associated with Alfonso X, king of the Crown of Castile (r. 1252-84), known as the Learned, is one of the most brilliant cultural enterprises of the medieval West. 
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  • 17 Jan 2024
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Mother’s Day
Mother's Day is an annual celebration observed in numerous countries around the world to honor and appreciate mothers, motherhood, and the influence of maternal figures in society. Typically held on the second Sunday of May in many countries, it involves cultural, familial, and often commercial practices aimed at expressing gratitude, love, and recognition of maternal roles.
  • 710
  • 08 May 2025
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Digital Folklore of Rural Tourism in Poland
Numerous development techniques and attributes that define the unique essentiality of archaic rural tourism websites in Poland have been identified. However, the use of e-folklore graphics on the websites heretofore has not been analysed. 
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  • 21 Jan 2022
Topic Review
Easter Day
Easter Day, also known as Resurrection Sunday, is a central celebration in Christianity, commemorating the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Beyond its religious significance, Easter encompasses a rich tapestry of cultural, economic, and social traditions worldwide. This article explores the historical origins of Easter, its theological foundations, diverse global customs, and its contemporary relevance, drawing upon peer-reviewed literature to provide a comprehensive understanding of this multifaceted observance.
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  • 17 Apr 2025
Topic Review
Children of a Lesser Clod
Template:Infobox Simpsons episode "Children of a Lesser Clod" is the 20th episode of The Simpsons' twelfth season. It first aired on the Fox network in the United States on May 13, 2001. In the episode, after spraining his knee during a basketball game, Homer begins taking care of the neighborhood kids to cure his boredom, prompting jealousy from Bart and Lisa, who feel that Homer is giving the kids the attention they never had. The episode is written by current show runner, Al Jean, and directed by Michael Polcino. The title is a parody of the play/movie Children of a Lesser God.
  • 680
  • 11 Oct 2022
Topic Review
A Caribbean Genealogy of "Energy"
The story of the rise of “energy” usually centers on the Industrial Revolution and the coal-powered steam engine in nineteenth-century Western Europe. Although it often escapes notice, the Caribbean was actually the site of the first known use of a steam engine to power industrial manufacturing (on a sugar plantation) and the world’s first oil well (drilled by a US company in southern Trinidad). These “firsts” point toward energy’s roots in colonial and imperial projects of extraction in the Caribbean, revealing the centrality of race and the plantation in understanding energy capitalism and the current climate crisis. This article traces a Caribbean-attuned genealogy of “energy”. Today, energy is taken for granted as an abstract universal, but the concept was bound to specific forms of racial governance during the transition from sugar to fossil fuels as apex capitalist commodities. In tracing this genealogy, I rewrite the first two “laws of energy” as ethico-political statements on racial governance rather than descriptions of a pre-existing natural order. Adding to scholarship that has laid bare the relationship between biological sciences and race, I argue that energy sciences have also been central to sustaining (while occluding) racialized hierarchy. I then look at conceptions of energy in perhaps the world’s oldest petro-state (Trinidad, with brief comparisons to neighboring Venezuela) to elaborate Caribbean-attuned, speculative alternatives to the “laws of energy”.
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  • 04 Mar 2025
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An Introduction to the Foundation of the Concept of the Individual in Western Ways of Thinking Between Antiquity and Medieval Times
The individual, as found primarily in modern Western civilization, is defined as “the independent, autonomous and thus (essentially) nonsocial moral being”, “the rational being” who is “the normative subject of institutions”. This is the definition of the individual we adhere to in this text. This text delves into the intricate dimensions of the concept of the individual by exploring the theological foundations inherent in Western thought. Rooted in Max Weber’s assertion regarding the theological meanings of Man’s self-perception, the entry emphasizes the pivotal role of theological understandings in shaping the concept of the individual. Focusing on the influence of Christian perspectives on the development of the concept of the individual, the article traces the historical entwining of theology and the concept of Man between antiquity and medieval times.
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  • 10 Mar 2025
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Ethical Dialogue through Reflexive Autoethnography
This review outlines the mechanisms of social interaction, focusing on how individuals and groups construct identity and regulate behavior within society. It examines the role of social structures, norms, and cultural narratives in shaping personal and collective storytelling, drawing on insights from sociology, psychology, and cultural studies. Key developments, current applications, and future research directions are presented objectively to support interdisciplinary understanding.
  • 308
  • 29 Jul 2025
Topic Review
A Critical Review of the Function of Intangible Cultural Heritage as a Driver for Social Resilience and Cohesion
Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) is increasingly recognised as a potential factor that can strengthen social cohesion and societal resilience. Yet, existing scholarship often valorises ICH without fully examining the challenges, exclusions, and political tensions it can produce. This article addresses that gap by critically reviewing UNESCO frameworks, case studies, and academic literature to evaluate both the opportunities and the limitations of ICH in contemporary societies. Our analysis highlights how ICH can contribute to shared identity, intergenerational transmission, and adaptive ecological knowledge, while also noting the risks of standardisation, misappropriation, and nationalistic appropriation. Using a comparative and critical literature review approach, we synthesise examples from diverse contexts to illustrate the dual role of ICH as both a community resource and a contested political tool. The findings do not suggest that ICH universally or inevitably generates resilience or cohesion. Rather, they map the paradigms in which ICH has been mobilised for these purposes, showing both the potential benefits and the risks. On this basis, the article offers policy recommendations that emphasise community-led safeguarding, integration of traditional knowledge into resilience frameworks, and vigilance against exclusionary or exploitative uses of ICH.
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  • 06 Nov 2025
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