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The spaces of religion: a view from South Asia★
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 29, Issue 3, Page 553-572, September 2023., 2023 Abstract Anthropologists have spilt much ink deconstructing concepts inherited from the Enlightenment. Religion, possibly the most misleading such concept, has proved highly resistant to the acid of cross‐cultural comparison. Debates about the nature of religion go back to sociocultural anthropology's beginnings as a discipline and beyond.
David N. Gellner
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Knowledge and the Picturesque: Encountering Syria in the Eighteenth Century
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 46, Issue 3, Page 365-383, September 2023., 2023 Abstract This essay looks at the West's engagement with Syria in the eighteenth century, through the writings of travellers and through the history of the publications they brought back from their travels. It argues that these publications provoked a rethinking of various tropes in the description of the Levant, helping to define attitudes to ruins as ...
Alexis Tadié
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Ideas for Mapping Lifeworld and Everyday Life in Practical Social Pedagogy
Educational Theory, Volume 73, Issue 4, Page 593-614, August 2023., 2023 Abstract Since the 1970s, the concepts of “lifeworld” and “everyday life” have been part of the discourse of social pedagogy and social and educational work in general. Xavier Úcar's objective in this article is to generate and communicate socio‐pedagogical knowledge that helps social pedagogues to build socio‐educational relationships that are more ...
Xavier Úcar
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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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Myths of Modernism: Austrian Art after 1918
Art History, Volume 46, Issue 2, Page 256-281, April 2023., 2023 The development of art in Austria after 1918 remains little explored; the main focus of research continues to be fin‐de‐siècle Vienna. Where interwar Austrian modernism is studied at all, interest is mostly limited to the municipal housing sponsored by the Social Democratic council.
Matthew Rampley
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Natural Resources Forum, Volume 47, Issue 1, Page 22-41, February 2023., 2023 Abstract Throughout the low‐income world, agricultural producers have a motivation to slash‐and‐burn rainforests as they cannot afford inorganic fertilizers. Farmers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), who are predominantly women, are often forced to walk long distances to cultivate more productive lands, when fertility near their villages ...
Willy Mulimbi +3 more
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Une lecture de Eine Übertragung de Wolfgang Hilbig à la lumière de Paul Ricœur
Tr@jectoires, 2009 L’objet de cette étude est de comprendre le roman de Wolfgang Hilbig (1941-2007) Eine Übertragung (1989) à partir de La Métaphore vive de Ricœur et de l’analyse des différents sens du titre du roman (métaphore, transfert, transposition).
Bénédicte Terrisse
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La tortura y la nueva erupción de la eterna barbarie
Trayectorias Humanas Trascontinentales, 2023 Para entender las nuevas manifestaciones de la tortura—práctica amparada en la imposibilidad de extirpar el poder— se debe analizar el profundo nihilismo que penetra las estructuras del actual mundo globalizado de la vida.
Jorge Mario Rodríguez
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Présence du biographique chez Marcel Arland
Revue Italienne d'Etudes Françaises, 2018 Marcel Arland est un auteur peu connu, et pourtant, précurseur de la « modernité » à plus d’un titre. L’hybridation générique qu’il met en œuvre, entre ses écrits « intimes » et ses recueils de nouvelles, se traduit par la présence d’« autobiographèmes ».
Victoire Diethelm
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American, British and Canadian Studies Journal, 2021 According to Giorgio Agamben, the Greek term for ‘habitual dwelling place,’ or ‘habit,’ is ethos. The rise to prominence in the twentieth century of the modern idea of the suburb, or ‘suburbia,’ held open the door to the potential realization of the ...
HOWARD DAVID BRIAN
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