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Yoruba Histories of Marriage and Belonging: Gender, Power and Innovation in Eighteenth‐Century West Africa

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
wiley   +1 more source

Jewish studies 6: Studies, archival and memorial materials about the history of the Jews in Belgrade, Jewish Historical Museum - Belgrade [PDF]

open access: yes, 1992
Uprava Muzeja odlučila je da ovaj šesti broj Zbornika posveti Jevrejima u Beogradu. U okvirima zajedničke teme - "Prošlost Jevreja u Beogradu" našli su se radovi iz istorije, etnologije, arhitekture, istorije umetnosti, demografije, privredne istorije ...

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Secularism, Gender and Masculinity in Nineteenth‐Century Cremation in Europe and the USA

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay explores, from transnational perspectives, the early history of modern cremation, which developed in the long nineteenth century with secularist connotations. I argue that the beginnings of modern cremation were shaped by bourgeois men who claimed certain identifiers for themselves in a gendering and Othering way.
Carolin Kosuch
wiley   +1 more source

ORCHESTRATING DIFFERENCE AND SIMILARITY: Black Fungibility, and the Spatial Redrawing of Racial Categories in Spanish Colonial Morocco, Sahara and Guinea

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article I dissect the spatial strategies through which the Spanish attempted to orchestrate both racial difference and similarity in the African colonies of Morocco, Western Sahara and Equatorial Guinea during the first half of the twentieth century.
Pol Fité Matamoros
wiley   +1 more source

Jewish Ashkenazi temple in Sarajevo [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
Hram Jevreja aškenaza, izgrađen u Sarajevu 1902. godine, jedan je od najznačajnijih arhitektonskih objekata iz perioda austrougarske uprave u Bosni i Hercegovini.
Božić, Jelena
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«Assimilation» or «Diversity» of Jewish Architects and Jewish Architecture in Italy during the 20th Century. Notes on the Debate and the Reflection of Bruno Zevi

open access: yes, 2021
Attempting a historiographical definition of the identity of Jewish architecture in general or in a specific place and time – the Italian 20th century, for example – most likely means establishing a topic that is too broad, and that, while intuitive ...
Matteo Cassani Simonetti
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far east

open access: yesПроект Байкал, 2020
A little more than one and a half centuries ago, far eastern provinces became a part of Russia. A short but rich biography of this area remains poorly studied both by historians and theorists of architecture and urbanism.
Елена Григорьева   +1 more
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The Impact of Religious Culture on Organization of Houses [PDF]

open access: yesTaḥqīqāt-i Farhangī-i Īrān, 2010
Culture is the principal element in forming houses and it also plays an important role in social sustainability. In this way, it will become so important to survey in vernacular culture in order to recognize behavioral patterns of divers religions and ...
Gholam Hossein Memarian   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Addressing the Challenges of Translating LRRK2 Biology into Disease‐Modifying Therapies: The LRRK2 Investigative Therapeutics Exchange Initiative

open access: yes
Movement Disorders, EarlyView.
Esther Sammler   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

DECOLONIZING CREATIVE GEOGRAPHIES OF ART BIENNIALS: A Study of Istanbul's Yeditepe Biennial through the Cultural Politics of Turkish Islamic Nationalism

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the Yeditepe Biennial—Turkey's first Islamic and traditional arts biennial—as a creative festival shaped by the socio‐political and spatial dynamics of Turkish‐Islamist nationalism. Counterposed against the Istanbul Biennial and the Western‐oriented secular cultural legacy of the Turkish Republic, the Yeditepe Biennial ...
Hulya Arik, Sabrien Amrov
wiley   +1 more source

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