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Études des peintures murales médiévales soudanaises de 1963 à nos jours – Essai d’historiographie
Afriques, 2019 The discovery of the Faras Cathedral in the early 1960s by a Polish mission, during the International Campaign of Nubia, revealed to archaeologists an unsuspected treasure: more than 150 large-scale bright murals, witnesses to half a millennium of the ...
Magdalena M. Wozniak
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La tête qui fume de l’église de Nārgā
Afriques, 2010 In the church of Nārgā Śellāsē, built in the years 1738-50, a very unusual sculpture depicts a man smoking. This representation is surprising for we generally think that smoking was highly condemned in the Christian society. It is however what texts from
Claire Bosc-Tiessé
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Afriques, 2022 Iron production has played a key role in the history of Africa for more than 3,000 years. The study of this human activity has demonstrated its exceptional significance, its historical antiquity and an astonishing variability of practice.
Caroline Robion-Brunner +4 more
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AfriquesThis paper compares two fields of analysis: on the one hand, hydrosociology, theorized by geographers and anthropologists, which conceptualizes the uses and landscapes of water as a reflection of the social organization of the group; on the other hand ...
Chloé Capel
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Afriques, 2011 Describing space in Mesḥāla Māryām (Manz, Ethiopia) entails relating remains on the ground and features of the landscape to an old royal camp, which was said to have been set up there in the mid-15th century.
Marie-Laure Derat
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Afriques, 2011 Bilād al-Nūbaholds a special place in the Arab-Islamic juridical and ideological nomenclature. As a consequence of the failure to conquer Nubia in the 7th century, a peace treaty was signed that singled out this territory.
Robin Seignobos
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L’île de Bilāq dans le Kitāb Nuzhat al-Muštāq d’al-Idrīsī (XIIe siècle). Généalogie d’une confusion
Afriques, 2011 The 12th-century description of Bilāq Island by al-Idrisi contrasts with his predecessors’ accounts and only partly fits the small island of Philae with which Bilāq was usually identified. Bilāq, normally placed a little above the first cataract, became,
Robin Seignobos
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Arts rupestres, écritures et protoécritures en Afrique : l’exemple du libyque
Afriques, 2011 Some pre- or protohistoric rock pictures in the Sahara have been interpreted as a protoscript that might have evolved into the Libyco-Berber script by integrating a stock of regional signs (tattoos, tribal marks, etc.).
Jean-Loïc Le Quellec
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À propos d’une géométrie vernaculaire : pratiques d’orientation en pays touareg
Afriques, 2011 What practical knowledge do the Tuareg, who have neither maps nor compasses, develop to orient and mentally situate themselves in space? This know-how is no different from what we use everyday. Our day-by-day spatial orientation has little to do with the
Dominique Casajus
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Espaces centrés et pouvoirs décentrés : l’exemple des fédérations villageoises dogon au XIXe siècle
Afriques, 2011 In the 19th century, the southern part of the land of the Dogon stood out owing to its unusual political landscape, a mosaic of small village federations each of which grouped, in a territorial unit, a dozen or so localities unrelated by kinship.
Éric Jolly
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