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Conservation Initiatives/Assessments in Rock-Carved Churches Specific to the Göreme Saklı Church

open access: yesJournal of Architectural Sciences and Applications, 2023
Cappadocia contains historical, documentary, aesthetic, artistic, symbolic, social, economic, religious and spiritual values. Many structures and places produced by the rock carving technique have been destroyed and/or are on the way to extinction ...
Leyla Kaderli, Sümeyye Ertürk
doaj   +1 more source

Counting the ‘Cavaliers’: Two Contemporary Analyses of the Political Wing of the Scots Jacobite Underground in the Union Parliament1

open access: yesParliamentary History, Volume 42, Issue 3, Page 309-347, October 2023., 2023
Abstract Underground movements are understandably reluctant to record the names and numbers of their adherents because any such compilation is manifestly a hostage to fortune. Hence very few lists of politically active Jacobites actually compiled by the Jacobites themselves have survived to the present day. In the French foreign ministry archives at La
Daniel Szechi, Christopher A. Whatley
wiley   +1 more source

Infrastructure and American religion: Sites, methods, and theories for a changing field

open access: yesReligion Compass, Volume 17, Issue 8, August 2023., 2023
Abstract This article reviews the literature on infrastructure in the study of American religions, examining its recent emergence as a topic of study and demonstrating its deeper role in the canons of the field. It argues that infrastructure has quickly become a multivalent conceptual term in the field, as well as a site for research. This latter point
Isaiah Ellis
wiley   +1 more source

Stones in Motion: monuments and chiefly title histories in central Vanuatu

open access: yesArchaeology in Oceania, Volume 58, Issue 1, Page 20-32, April 2023., 2023
ABSTRACT This paper addresses the ways in which stones have anchored stories and people in central Vanuatu. Three different sets of stones, and stories about those stones, cast light from different angles on the history of the distinctive chiefly title system of this region.
Chris Ballard
wiley   +1 more source

The Results of New Studies of the Rock-Hewn Churches of the Historical Regions of Endärta and Tämben (Tigray Region, Ethiopia) [PDF]

open access: yesProceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Architecture: Heritage, Traditions and Innovations (AHTI 2020), 2020
exaly   +2 more sources

Equity before ‘Equity’

open access: yesThe Modern Law Review, Volume 86, Issue 1, Page 85-121, January 2023., 2023
The notion of ‘equity’ is undergoing conceptual repositioning in international law today, embracing individuals as well as states and gaining an association with human rights and the politics of protest. In the context of these developments, the present paper enquires into the premodern roots of this ancient and rich term through three historical ...
Stephen Humphreys
wiley   +1 more source

Goodnight Colston. Mourning Slavery: Death Rites and Duppy Conquering in a Circum‐Atlantic City

open access: yesAntipode, Volume 54, Issue 4, Page 1251-1276, July 2022., 2022
Abstract In the wake of the riotous procession that toppled the statue of Edward Colston, this essay sketches an ethnographic itinerary through the spectral geographies of Bristol, a circum‐Atlantic city haunted by the ghosts of slavery. The paper offers a Caribbean cosmological reading of the toppling and aqueous burial as a kind of duppy conquering ...
Adom Philogene Heron
wiley   +1 more source

Worlding on the Hudson: Frederic Church and Global Histories of Art

open access: yesArt History, Volume 45, Issue 3, Page 518-544, June 2022., 2022
The ‘Persian’ interior of the American landscape painter Frederic Church is a place crowded with paintings, objects and architectural ornament orchestrated as an installation that the artist both accrued and designed over a thirty‐year period. This regional orientalism, with its cosmopolitan claims and internationally networked cultural politics, is ...
Mary Roberts
wiley   +1 more source

Indigenous‐Based Adult Education Learning Material Development: Integration, Practical Challenges, and Contextual Considerations in Focus

open access: yesEducation Research International, Volume 2022, Issue 1, 2022., 2022
Indigenous perspectives hold promising opportunities for education and practice. It is possible to entertain indigenous knowledge into adult education through modelling, guided practice, and application approaches. However, there are several limiting factors to do so.
Yalalem Assefa   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Review of InfraRed Thermography and Ground‐Penetrating Radar Applications for Building Assessment

open access: yesAdvances in Civil Engineering, Volume 2022, Issue 1, 2022., 2022
The first appearance of concern for the good condition of a building dates back to ancient times. In recent years, with the emergence of new inspection technologies and the growing concern about climate change and people’s health, the concern about the integrity of building structures has been extended to their analysis as insulating envelopes.
Iván Garrido   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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