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Towards a People's Europe - Reflections on Europe's 'Soul' Based on a Bilateral Study in Two European Cities
Archer, Keith - In: European Business Review 12 (2000) 2
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A Social Economist Examines the Moral Poverty of Twentieth Century Europe
Conway O′Brien, John - In: International Journal of Social Economics 21 (1994) 10, pp. 185-193
displacement of religion as a subject worthy of study has now reached its zenith. Discusses the Nazi Holocaust and the Gulag … traditional religion and moral values. Concludes that Western society is like a ship without a rudder.  …
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Muslims in Europe : a critique of occidentalist views
Alam Choudhury, Masudul - In: International Journal of Social Economics 22 (1995) 6, pp. 53-64
Undertakes a critical review of the book, Muslims in Europe , to bring out the localized analysis of Islam and Muslims … in contemporary Europe which is given in much of the occidentalist literature. Shows that such a localized view does not … Europe is to be examined. Examines the alternative view of this global approach to the study of Muslims in Europe. In this …
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Museums, collectors, and value manipulation: tax fraud through donation of antiquities
Yates, Donna - In: Journal of Financial Crime 23 (2016) 1, pp. 173-186
Purpose – This paper aims to discuss the key aspects of the international trade in antiquities and the practice of … antiquities donation incentivisation schemes which leave them open to manipulation and fraud. Findings – The valuation of … antiquities is subjective and problematic, and the operations of both the antiquities market and the museums sector are …
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The Reincarnation of the Aura: Challenging Originality with Authenticity in Plaster Casts of Lost Sculptures
Bigliardi, Victoria - In: International Journal of Semiotics and Visual Rhetoric … 1 (2017) 1, pp. 72-80
the aura, I outline the proliferation of plaster casts of sculptures in 18th- and 19th-century Europe, placing contextual …
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Challenges and opportunities for the development and promotion of Ibaloy crafts as tourism products
Ona, Jamaica Gayatin; Solis, Leticia Susan Lagmay - In: International Journal of Culture, Tourism and … 11 (2017) 4, pp. 593-607
Purpose The Ibaloy is an indigenous ethnic group in the Northern Philippines. Due to modernization, changes in lifestyle, livelihood and spiritual inclination many have forgotten about their culture. Income-generating activities such as handicraft businesses and food security are among their...
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Commerce, empire and faith in Safavid Iran: the caravanserai of Isfahan
Bryce, Derek; O'Gorman, Kevin D.; Baxter, Ian W.F. - In: International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management 25 (2013) 2, pp. 204-226
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is twofold: to explore how commercial hospitality has contributed to the development of urban areas in relation to commerce, hospitality, religious and imperial patronage in early modern, Safavid Iran (c. seventeenth century). Second, to combine material...
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Early history and distribution of trade ceramics in Southeast Asia
Witkowski, Terrence H. - In: Journal of Historical Research in Marketing 8 (2016) 2, pp. 216-237
Purpose This paper aims to investigate the history and distribution of trade ceramics in Southeast Asia over a thousand-year period stretching from the ninth to the early nineteenth century CE. Design/methodology/approach The study takes a material culture approach to the writing of marketing...
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Objects for a “healthy lifestyle”: children's material culture and physical activities
Garnier, Pascale - In: Young Consumers 14 (2013) 4, pp. 331-341
Purpose – The aim of the research is to emphasise the role of material culture, and especially the role of objects related to physical activities, in children's socialization. It involves children's bodies but also symbolic meanings and values which introduce children to the universe of...
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Licensing and the rhetoric of fun: the cute and the cool
Brougère, Gilles - In: Young Consumers 14 (2013) 4, pp. 342-350
Purpose – This paper was presented at the CTC conference of Milan 2012. It aims to analyse how licensing is used in the different ways of addressing items to children. This way of addressing the child can be called rhetoric in that it is a way of persuading, seducing, capturing children with...
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