4 resultados para Historic conscience. Country of Mossoró . Memory. Spatiality.
em DRUM (Digital Repository at the University of Maryland)
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Psychological research has strongly documented the memory-enhancing effects of emotional arousal, while the effects of acute aerobic exercise on memory are not well understood. Manipulation of arousal has been shown to enhance long-term memory for emotional stimuli in a time-dependent fashion. This presents an opportunity to investigate the role of acute exercise in memory modulation. The purpose of this study was to determine the time-dependent relationship between acute exercise-induced arousal and long-term emotional memory. Participants viewed pleasant, neutral, and unpleasant images before or after completing a high-intensity session of cycling exercise. Salivary alpha-amylase, a biomarker of central norepinephrine, was measured as an indicator of arousal. No effects of exercise on recognition memory were revealed, however; a single session of high-intensity cycling increased salivary alpha-amylase. Our results also indicate that the influence of exercise on emotional responsiveness should be considered in further exploration of the memory-enhancing potential of acute exercise.
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Master final project submitted to the faculty of the Historic Preservation Program of the School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation of the University of Maryland, College Park, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Historic Preservation, 2013.
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(M. Historic Preservation) -- University of Maryland-College Park, 2015 Faculty Advisor: Dr. Constance Werner Ramirez. Program Director: Dr. Donald W. Linebaugh
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In this dissertation, I demonstrate how improvisations within the structures of performance during Montserrats annual festivals produce rhythms of change that contribute to the formation of cultural identities. Montserrat is a small island of 39.5 square miles in the Caribbeans Leeward Islands, and a volcanic disaster in the 1990s led to the loss of villages, homes, and material possessions. The crisis resulted in mass displacement and emigration, and todays remaining population of 5,000 is now in a stage of post-volcano redevelopment. The reliability of written archives for establishing cultural knowledge is tenuous, and the community is faced with re-energizing cherished cultural traditions. This ethnographic research traces my embodied search for Montserrats history through an archive that is itself intangible and performative. Festivals produce some of the islands most visible and culturally political events, and music and dance performances prompt on- and off-stage discussions about the islands multifaceted heritage. The festival cycle provides the structure for ongoing renegotiations of what it means to be Montserratian. I focus especially on the islands often-discussed and debated triangular heritage of Irishness, Africanness, and Montserratianness as it is performed during the festivals. Through my meanderings along the winding hilly roads of Montserrat, I explored reconfigurations of cultural memory through the islands masquerade dance tradition and other festival celebrations. In this work, I introduce a Cast of Characters, each of whose scholarly, artistic, and public service work on Montserrat contributes to the shape and transformation of the islands post-volcano cultural identities today. This dissertation is about the kinesthetic transmission of shared (and sometimes unshared) cultural knowledge, the substance of which echoes in the rhythms of Montserrats music and dance practices today.
