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Le coût de la mort dans les communautés chrétiennes en Éthiopie

Afriques, 2012
In Orthodox Christian communities in Ethiopia, the loss of a person entails a considerable economic cost for the families concerned, due to funeral ceremonies and the number of attendees. Death is an occasion for transfers of material goods and exchanges
Stéphane Ancel
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Pas de provenance sans contexte

Afriques, 2019
If one of the aims of art history is to understand better the original meaning of the works studied, then an historical methodology is absolutely essential to the identification and interpretation of precolonial objects.
Peter Mark
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La mort dans quelques qenē en amharique

Afriques, 2012
Twenty qenē, poems in Amharic with a double meaning, are presented, the original text along with an annotated translation in French. The theme of death is handled variously.
Daniel Assefa
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Paths in the eastern Congo rainforest: Vernacular histories, colonial interpretations and linguistic data on the settlement of the lower Lualaba

Afriques
The early history of the lower Lualaba, the region between Kisangani and Lowa, is mostly known from Moeller’s Les grandes lignes des migrations des Bantous de la Province Orientale du Congo belge (1936). This work is largely based on vernacular histories
Birgit Ricquier, Laurent Nieblas Ramirez, Alexandre Livingstone Smith, Shingo Takamura, David Kopa Wa Kopa, Daou Véronique Joiris   +5 more
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Teaming up with termites—Appraising termites’ contributions to earth technologies in West Africa

Afriques
This essay explores the role and impact of termites in the social and cultural history of West Africa. It proposes an integrated understanding of a wide range of hitherto symbolically or metaphorically understood practices related to the mining of iron ...
Jan Jansen, James R. Fairhead
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The National Museum of Jos as an Archaeological Archive: A Model for Museum-Based Research in sub-Saharan Africa

Afriques
This article set out to address a methodological challenge that has become increasingly urgent for African archaeology: how can the archives of archaeology, including collections of artefacts, field documentation, registers, and ‘grey literature’, be ...
Abubakar Sule Sani
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Towards the creation of archaeological archives in Ghana: Reflections from Begho

Afriques
Begho, an ancient market town located in Ghana, was the focus of archaeological and ethnographic research in the 1970s due to its past trade links with Jenne in the Niger Bend.
Daniel Kumah
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Chantiers d’histoire : enquêtes sur les archives de l’archéologie africaine

Afriques
This article introduces a thematic issue focused on the archives of African archaeology. Produced during field operations that are often irreversible, these archives—including notes, drawings, photographs, correspondence, and artefact collections ...
Léa Roth, Gérard Chouin
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Mechanical memory and dosing influence stem cell fate. [PDF]

Nat Mater, 2014
Yang C, Tibbitt MW, Basta L, Anseth KS.
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Reopening the archives of archaeology at Ile-Ife, Nigeria: Towards a history of the Osangangan Obamakin sacred grove

Afriques
In 1953, the archaeologists Bernard Fagg and A.J.H. Goodwin excavated sacred grove sites in Ile-Ife, south-western Nigeria, where they hoped to uncover artefactual and stratigraphic evidence of the town’s early history. They were especially interested in
Tomos Llywelyn Evans
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