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Au pays de Cîteaux. Étude sur le développement d’une architecture religieuse (xie-xve siècles) [PDF]
Bulletin du Centre d’Études Médiévales d’Auxerre, 2006 Le “Nuiton” ou “pays de Citeaux” est une micro-region situee en Cote-d’Or, entre Beaune et Dijon, et correspondant etroitement aux limites administratives contemporaines du canton de Nuits-Saint-Georges . Le Nuiton a acquis, depuis l’Antiquite tardive , une forte identite viticole et est repute, surtout depuis le xiiie siecle, pour son terroir et ses ...
Sylvain Demarthe
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Architecture religieuse à Agadez et dans l'Air
Journal Des Africanistes, 1982 Cressier Patrice. Architecture religieuse à Agadez et dans l'Air. In: Journal des africanistes, 1982, tome 52, fascicule 1-2. pp. 171-172.
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Looking Beyond Jerusalem: A Fifteenth‐Century Exercise in Image Comparison
Art History, Volume 46, Issue 4, Page 640-666, September 2023., 2023 Critical image comparison is a widespread art‐historical practice. This essay explores why a Brabantine artist encouraged viewers to exercise it in the late fifteenth century. At the time, northern European artists tested out how images could be means of transcending the visible world while simultaneously showcasing their very constructedness. The self‐
Hanna Vorholt
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La concession familiale Bamiléké: un exemple d'architecture endogène au Cameroun
Canadian Geographer / Le géographe canadien, Volume 67, Issue 2, Page 304-315, Summer / été 2023., 2023 Cet article aborde la question de l'architecture vernaculaire ou endogène dans les villes camerounaises à partir d'une étude de cas de la concession familiale Bamiléké en tant que forme bien spécifique d'organisation de l'habitat au sein de la communauté traditionnelle de Pète‐Bandjoun.
Joseph Esoh Elamé +1 more
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On Islam and Portraiture: Lithography, Glass Painting, and Photography in Senegal
Art History, Volume 45, Issue 4, Page 774-797, September 2022., 2022 Scholars have for decades challenged the popular belief that Islam is intrinsically and implacably hostile to anthropomorphic art. Rooted in this literature, this essay argues that Islam was responsible for popularizing portraiture in Senegal, which previously featured none.
Giulia Paoletti
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Atmospheric resonance: sonic motion and the question of religious mediation
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 28, Issue 2, Page 613-631, June 2022., 2022 Abstract Because of its material characteristics, the sonic poses a challenge to the influential paradigm of religion as mediation. This article makes a case for a neo‐phenomenological analytic of atmospheres in order to do justice to the sonic in anthropological approaches to religion.
Patrick Eisenlohr
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 28, Issue 2, Page 651-675, June 2022., 2022 Abstract Among producers of Shi‘i Islamic media in Pakistan, the quality of being live as an atmosphere capable of mediation has gained efficacy along with changes in media for religious dispensation. Central to the importance of live recordings are the ways they are perceived to most effectively mediate the ethical, ritual, and transhistorical ...
Timothy P.A. Cooper
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UNINTENTIONAL MONUMENTS, OR THE MATERIALIZING OF AN OPEN PAST
History and Theory, Volume 61, Issue 2, Page 242-268, June 2022., 2022 ABSTRACT This article examines the emergence of a new epistemic value that was attributed to remnants of the past during the broad debate on historical evidence in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: the unintentionality of the testimony.
LISA REGAZZONI
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Medicalising the Jewish Ritual Bath: Women, Health and Purity in the Late Ottoman Empire
Gender &History, Volume 33, Issue 3, Page 683-700, October 2021., 2021 Abstract Menstrual impurity is among the most important religious practices in Jewish lore. Examining two case studies of Judeo–Spanish Ottoman Jewry: discussions of the temperature of the ritual bath water; and purity, hygiene and the collective of the Jewish body, this article demonstrates that menstrual impurity in Ottoman Judaism underwent an ...
Anabella Esperanza
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Upland pioneers: an introduction
Social Anthropology, Volume 29, Issue 3, Page 635-650, August 2021., 2021 Drawing on various ethnographic case studies from upland Southeast Asia, this special issue explores uplanders’ pioneering agency and challenges the stereotype of the remote and marginal uplander. We consider upland areas as dynamic sites of future‐making and change – initiated by pioneering individuals or local elites who seek out and explore ...
Rosalie Stolz, Oliver Tappe
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