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The history of our world in 18 minutes

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David Christian narrates a complete history of the universe, from the Big Bang to the Internet, in a riveting 18 minutes. This is "Big History": an enlightening, wide-angle look at complexity, life and humanity, set against our slim share of the cosmic timeline.

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Five Historical Misconceptions

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Five common misconceptions about history debunked in an entertaining video.

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Culture, Commerce, Economics and Anthropology

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Grant McCracken looks at the places where culture and commerce, anthropology and economics meet. Through his highly-customized presentations, he provides audiences with a comprehensive―but incisive―review of contemporary culture, including its foundations, current state, and future trends―and strategies for managing it.

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Doing Anthropology. Thoughts on Fieldwork

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In this short film, three members of MIT's Anthropology Department, Stefan Helmreich, Erica James, and Heather Paxson, talk about their current work and the process of doing fieldwork.

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A World of Art: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Founded in 1870, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City is a three dimensional encyclopedia of art history. Produced for Public Television by Great Museums TV.

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Do Museums Still Matter?

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Increasingly, our world is filled with tablets, smart phones and lap tops. We move at a pace that would have been unimaginable only a few decades ago. Steven Conn's book "Do Museums Still Need Objects" uses museums as a lens to explore 21st century challenges around public space and civic identity. How have globalization, technology and progress influenced our relationship with the museum? Steven Conn joins a panel of world-renowned experts to debate the importance of having a public space to be among tangible artifacts which connect us to the past.

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A world without tax credits

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World Without Tax Credits: The Consequences for Historic Preservation is a presentation given by Andrew Potts at the 2012 National Historic Preservation Conference in Spokane, WA.

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Using 3D Modeling to Reconstruct Ancient Spaces

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Art professor Caroline Bruzelius has teamed with a group of computer science and visual studies colleagues to teach students how to digitally model ancient sculpture and medieval architecture to give viewers a virtual experience of history.

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Overview of Ethnography and Participant Observation

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A lecture on ethnography and managing the research role by Graham R Gibbs taken from a series on research methods and research design given to masters students at the University of Huddersfield. This is part 1 of two, and examines the nature of ethnography, looks at some classic examples of ethnographic work using participant observation and considers some of the issues of managing the research role when doing participant observation.

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How to Setup an Archaeology Grid

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Dr Martin Gibbs explains how to set up a 1 m grid square ahead of excavation using hand-tapes.

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