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...

These works take place in the geographical information retrieval context. Our purpose is to exploit local cultural heritage document repositories whose content is strongly attached to a territory (i.e. geographical information). Geographical information is composed of a spatial feature, a temporal feature and a theme feature. This paper focuses on temporal feature. We first propose a model for ...

Cultural heritage institutions are fantastic resources of multimedia content. Rich metadata structures, able to capture the diversity of the media, the subject matter and the context around each information asset, are required to make this content accessible. This paper describes how the CIDOC CRM Core format can be used to structure cultural heritage metadata for multimedia by making the appro...

1082-4006/06/1201-01$5.00 ©2006 The International Association of Chinese Professionals in Geographic Information Science (CPGIS) Abstract This research is part of an ongoing larger project dealing with the historical origins of the Tai in southern China and Southeast Asia. The sinification of ethnic minorities, such as the Tai, has been a long and ongoing historical process in China. One indica...

Yet even those who acknowledge the importance of the broader context wrestle with questions about how to study the complex interactions among changing cultural, historical, and developmental factors. . . . Researchers who are particularly interested in cultural factors in development face the challenge of conceptualizing culture in a way that can be studied empirically. . . . A narrative approa...

The subjects of this paper are two maps from the 13th century Psalter, found in London. These Psalter World Map and List Map. Both designed shape a circular disk, modeled on medieval mappae mundi T-O type. first is pictorial map, second descriptive. primary goal these was not to objectively present geographical reality, but express biblical symbolism Christian cosmology thus serve as reminder d...

Squares as urban spaces are the arena for people formed by physical proportions and variety offunctions such as religious, commercial, cultural, etc. Shohada square as a focal point in Mashhad , is one of themain arteries of access to Holly shrine of Imam Reza and makes access to utilities and major axes . According tothe former urban pattern and its position in the traditional context of surro...

The border between two countries is not only a passway to travel across, and legal trade transit; it also the cause of socio-economic cultural transmission, sometimes can create political criminal activities. This paper highlights how Nepal India has created contestation with different activities from sociocultural celebration economic relations, terrorism It traces historical contexts setting ...