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What is socially engaged art history? Art history is typically understood as a discipline in which academics produce scholarship for consumption by other academics. Today however, an increasing number of art historians are seeking to broaden their understanding of art historical praxis and look beyond the academy and towards socially engaged art history. This is the first book-length study to focus on these growing and significant trends. It presents various arguments for the social, pedagogical, and scholarly benefits of alternative, community-engaged, public-facing, applied, and socially engaged art history. The international line up of contributors includes academics, museum and gallery c...
Tuberculosis has plagued humans and animals for thousands of years. Though apparently in decline with the advent of effective chemotherapy and improved living conditions, sanitation, and diet during the first half of the 20th century, TB has reawakened in both developed and developing countries, particularly among susceptible populations with immunodeficiency disorders. These authors offer a detailed study of the history of this persistent and important infectious disease, covering its etiology, epidemiology, and pathogenesis. Beginning with a discussion of the epidemiology, clinical signs and symptoms of tuberculosis, and skeletal changes associated with it, Roberts and Buikstra examine evi...
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Her poor knowledge of English is only one of the handicaps experienced by a Spanish-speaking girl from Arizona spending several months with relatives in San Francisco.
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Accompanying catalogue for 'Of this Tale, I cannot guarantee a single word', an exhibition curated by graduating students from the Curating Contemporary Art Department. Exploring the way in which stories are told, 'Of this Tale, I cannot guarantee a single word' looked to literature, comic books, cinema, documentary and oral traditions. Equally the writing in this catalogue not only explores the artists in the show, but also the different genres and media through which we come to learn the stories that form our shared history.