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The integration of science with art is a complex process of analysis and the knowledge and understanding of the need to save and protect works of art as well as preserve and restore cultural heritage. This is generally provoked by the living necessity, profoundly human, to leave our inheritance to new generations, as intact as is possible, the testimonies of the past.The issues approached interfere with artistic criticism, for example, biological and physico-chemical analyses, and intelligent mathematical modeling systems such as Marker-less Augmented Reality, 3D Reconstruction, intelligent combinations of digital image analysis functions to recognize and estimate the possible evolution of color and shape to help experts make the best decisions about authenticating and preserving-restoring art objects.Advanced technical devices such as digital databases and other tools and materials can allow for the eradication of offenses such as false art and falsification.

Social Sciences and Humanities --- Social Sciences --- Archaeology --- Material Culture

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Modern warfare is a unique cultural phenomenon. While many conflicts in history have produced dramatic shifts in human behaviour, the industrialized nature of modern war possesses a material and psychological intensity that embodies the extremes of our behaviours, from the total economic mobilization of a nation state to the unbearable pain of individual loss. Fundamentally, war is the transformation of matter through the agency of destruction, and the character of modern technological warfare is such that it simultaneously creates and destroys more than any previous kind of conflict.

World war --- children --- British --- History --- Social aspects --- Material culture --- Social life and customs --- 20th Century --- War and society --- Great Britain

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This is a volume about the life and power of ritual objects in their religious ritual settings. In this Special Issue, we see a wide range of contributions on material culture and ritual practices across religions. By focusing on the dynamic interrelations between objects, ritual, and belief, it explores how religion happens through symbolic materiality. The ritual objects presented in this volume include: masks worn in the Dogon dance; antique ecclesiastical silver objects carried around in festive processions and shown in shrines in the southern Andes; funerary photographs and films functioning as mnemonic objects for grieving children; a dented rock surface perceived to be the god’s footprint in the archaic place of pilgrimage, Gaya (India); a recovered manual of rituals (from Xiapu county) for Mani, the founder of Manichaeism, juxtaposed to a Manichaean painting from southern China; sacred stories and related sacred stones in the Alor–Pantar archipelago, Indonesia; lotus symbolism, indicating immortalizing plants in the mythic traditions of Egypt, the Levant, and Mesopotamia;

ritual --- rituality --- ritualism --- digital games --- assassination --- initiation --- nizarism --- Templar Order --- Abui --- Alor --- Lamòling --- Alor-Pantar Archipelago --- oral legends and myths --- traditional religions --- Manichaeism --- ritual manual --- Xiapu manuscripts --- Buddhist worship and repentance ritual --- Diagram of the Universe --- children --- objects --- funerary photography --- death ritual --- continuing bonds --- Hinduism --- India --- material culture --- ritual --- Vi??u’s footprint --- place of pilgrimage --- sacred geography --- imaginative embodiment --- Ravana --- Sri Lanka --- Sinhalese Buddhist Majority --- ritualizing --- procession --- healing --- ritual creativity --- Nilotic lotus --- sacral tree --- ankh --- sema-taui --- Bible --- kingship --- libation ritual --- South America --- colonial period --- religious transfer of meaning --- multiple readings of images --- mask --- Dogon --- funeral --- performance --- symbol --- embodiment --- Hinduism --- India --- Govardhan puja --- cow dung --- gender --- ritual art --- nature --- human-nonhuman sociality --- symbolic anthropology --- ethnography