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‘Globalizing the Local, Localizing the Global’: Writing Space in the Arab Gulf Region
Architecture_MPS, 2021 The United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Qatar are taking the lead in the urbanization boom that is drastically transforming the spatial fabric of the Arab Gulf region.
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The House of Kwee Sik Poo an Indonesian-Chinese Merchant From Pasuruan [PDF]
, 2017 The Kwee family is an old Indonesian-Chinese family from Pasuruan, in East Java, and one of a few merchant families of either Chinese or Arab ethnic origin which led successful lives in this small town in the nineteenth century.
Sien, K. H. (Kwee)
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Crossroads of the Life of Vittorio Alfieri
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines Vittorio Alfieri's Life as a deliberately constructed narrative of cultural, linguistic, and political self‐fashioning within eighteenth‐century European intellectual networks. Rather than treating the autobiography as a transparent record of experience, the article argues that Alfieri retrospectively reorganizes his ...
Sara Gallegati
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Power, identity and antiquarian approaches in modern Chinese art [PDF]
, 2014 The pursuit of antiquity was important for scholarly artists in constructing their knowledge of history and cultural identity in late Imperial China. Following various publications by Bi Yuan 畢沅 (1730-1797), Wu Yi 武億 (1745-1799) and Qian Daxin 錢大昕 (1728 ...
Yang, Chia-Ling
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Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In 2019, the Dadan Archaeological Project (CNRS/RCU/AFALULA) identified a Late Antique village 1 km south of ancient Dadan in the al‐ʿUlā valley (northwest Saudi Arabia). Three excavation seasons at this site (2021–2023) have uncovered a massive building constructed in the late third or early fourth cent.
Jérôme Rohmer +11 more
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Leaving the Middle Behind -- Wisconsin at a Turning Point [PDF]
, 2010 Illustrates salient long-term economic, agricultural, demographic, and political trends in the state through the stories of individuals and businesses.
John Gurda
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Late Antique Allāh: Ancestral Arabian Religion and the Monotheistic Zeitgeist
Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This essay addresses the ongoing scholarly tension between the monotheistic interpretations of late pre‐Islamic Arabian religion, pioneered by G. Hawting and P. Crone, and the traditional accounts of rampant Arabian polytheism found in later Islamic literary sources.
Ahmad Al‐Jallad, Hythem Sidky
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Alans and Germans in the Bosporan Kingdom in the second half of the 3rd century
Античная древность и средние века, 2018 According to antique authors, Alans from 1st century AD were neighbors of Asian part of the Kingdom of the Cimmerian Bosporus and wandered between the lower current of the Volga and Don rivers, and also in northern and east coast of the Azov Sea, up to ...
Alexander Aibabin
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Selected Aspects of the Tourist Space of the Lublin Region (Case Study) [PDF]
, 2014 The article presents the results of studies on the tourist space of the Lublin Region conducted so far by employees of the Department of Regional Geography and Tourism at the Faculty of Earth Sciences and Spatial Management of the Maria Curie-Skłodowska ...
Brzezińska-Wójcik, Teresa +5 more
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Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This essay examines the controversy surrounding the Bhoot Vidya certificate program proposed by the Faculty of Ayurveda at Banaras Hindu University in 2019. Drawing on media coverage, curricular materials, and government policy, I analyze how the debate reveals broader tensions in the politics of contemporary Ayurveda, nationalism, and ...
Thomas Seibel
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