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