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The spaces of religion: a view from South Asia★
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
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
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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‘Kalemin Dansı Göstergenin Oyunu Seküler Emperyalist Epistemoloji’ başlığını taşıyan ve Mısırlı Müslüman düşünür Abdülvahab M. el-Messiri tarafından kaleme alınan bu kitap, yazarın 1994-2006 yılları arasında modernite, sekülarizm, emperyalizm ve çağdaş ...
Hicret Kiraz Toprak
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La concession familiale Bamiléké: un exemple d'architecture endogène au Cameroun
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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“Tabula Rasa” planning: creative destruction and building a new urban identity in Tehran [PDF]
The concept of Tabula Rasa, as a desire for sweeping renewal and creating a potential site for the construction of utopian dreams, is presupposition of Modern Architecture.
Mehan, Asma
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Myths of Modernism: Austrian Art after 1918
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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VIVRE LA MODERNITE, VIVRE SON AUTHENTICITE [PDF]
Résumé : Dans ce texte, il est question pour nous de scruter la substance et l’idéal de la modernité, son principe originel, ses implications ainsi que son idéal dissimulé dans la notion d’authenticité.
Thomas NDJEKAMBUDI Nkoy
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Irkçılık Düşüncesinin İlk Formu: Proto-ırkçılık
Bu çalışma ırkçılığın egemen anlatısının dışına çıkıp, gölgede kalan alternatif ırkçılık anlatısını görünür kılmaya çalışmaktadır. Bu doğrultuda, ilk olarak ırkçılığın egemen anlatısını inceledik.
Hasan Yeniçırak
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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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