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Museum Photo Archives and the History of the Art Market: A Digital Approach

Arts, 2019
Digital images with metadata contain unique potential for research into the history of the art market. The embedding of digital images in a database allows for the possibility of an association with their historical context due to the presence of ...
Lukas Fuchsgruber
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Modernity, Its Crisis and Islamic Revivalism

Religions, 2022
Modernity is a global condition of an ongoing socio-cultural, economic, and political transformation of human experience, with tradition or religion having no significant role to play.
Jan A. Ali
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Unwrapping the Spontaneous Flora: On the Appropriation of Weed Labour

Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai Sociologia, 2018
Part of the raw material accumulation for the medicinal plant industry in Romania is reliant on gathering plants from the so-called spontaneous flora. The imagery of medicinal plants played upon by medicinal plant product manufacturers is often abundant ...
Ábrán Ágota
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Modernity in Iran and Turkey: Patterns and Problems [PDF]

Religious Inquiries, 2020
Modernity implies ways of social and organizational life that began to improve in seventeenth-century Europe and gradually developed into the rest of the world.
Younes Nourbakhsh
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Anfal and Modernity: A Paradoxical Study of Modernity [PDF]

Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities, 2016
This paper attempts to enter the fields of history, sociology and political sciences and finds a link between their theoretical and practical bases. Therefore, the main concern in this paper is to find the relationship between Anfal (a historical and ...
R. Abbastabar, Kh. Mohammad hoseinpour
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On handling urban informality in southern Africa [PDF]

, 2013
In this article I reconsider the handling of urban informality by urban planning and management systems in southern Africa. I argue that authorities have a fetish about formality and that this is fuelled by an obsession with urban modernity.
AAPS, Abdoul M., Amin A., Amin Y. Kamete, AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL, Bauman Z., Bayat A., Beall J., Berman M., Blunch N.‐H., Bromley R., Bromley R., Butcher C., Caldeira T. P. R., Campbell E. K., Castells M., CHRA, CITY of HARARE, CITY of HARARE, Cresswell T., de soto H., Foucault M., Friedman E., García canclini N., Ghertner D. A., Gospodini A., Gueye C., Hansen K. T., Hart K., Holston J., ILO, Jimu I. M., Kamete A. Y., Kamete A. Y., Kamete A. Y., Kamete A. Y., Kayuni H. M., King K., Legg S., Lindell I., Lindell I., Llobera J. R., Maloney W. F., Marcuse H., Meagher K., Misztal B. A., Misztal B. A., Mooya M. M., Moser C. O. N., MPSLSW, MPSLSW, Mubvami T., Odendaal N., Popke E. J., Prakash G., Rakodi C., Rakodi C., Robins S., Roy A., Roy A., Roy A., Roy A., Roy A., Rupiya M., Samers M., Sandercock L., SDI, SDI, Simone A., Simone A., Simone A., Stern R. E., Stren R. E., Swilling M., Thomas J., Tibaijuka A. K., Tipple A. G., Tokman V. E., UN‐HABITAT, UN‐HABITAT, Watson V., Watson V., Wekwete K. H., Yiftachel O.   +83 more
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How does Modernity Taste? Tomatoes in the Societal Change from Modernity to Late Modernity

Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research, 2011
The aim of this article is to discuss how changes in tomato food regulation, production and consumption, can be seen as part of a broader societal change from Modernity to Late Modernity.
Lena Ekelund, Håkan Jönsson
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Unsung Heroes of Mission Bible Translation in Colonial West Africa: Ludwig Adzaklo of the Bremen Mission in German Togoland

Religions
The Africanisation of Christianity in Africa is closely linked to the availability of the Bible in African mother tongues. However, mission-led Bible translation in Africa in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was not solely the work of ...
Michael F. Wandusim
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Between Modernity and Post-Modernity

American Journal of Islam and Society, 1994
Kazuo Shimogaki 's working paper, number fourteen in the IMES series, is a critical essay of The Islamic Left, a so-far one-time-only privately produced journal. Three of its five articles are written by Hasan Hanafi, a professor at Cairo University, and
Eric Winkel
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The ghost of Alcestis [PDF]

, 2010
This chapter considers a complex of materials centred on the Alcestis of Euripides and its reception history as an opera (Lully, Gluck) in early modern France. The interest of this particular text is that its operatic setting by Lully generated a polemic
Wygant, A.
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