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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
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Goodnight Colston. Mourning Slavery: Death Rites and Duppy Conquering in a Circum‐Atlantic City
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
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Worlding on the Hudson: Frederic Church and Global Histories of Art
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
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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
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The article is devoted to the results of research focused on three rock-hewn churches, which are not well-represented in literature, in Kola Tembien of the Tigray region in Ethiopia.
Klyuev, Sergey A., Semenova, Valeria N.
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Review of InfraRed Thermography and Ground‐Penetrating Radar Applications for Building Assessment
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
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Lithologic combinations in Romanesque churches of Álava, northern Spain
Certain windows and doorways on twenty five Romanesque churches of Álava (XII–XIII centuries) were built using six types of rock in nine different combinations. These compositions were intended to highlight the contrast in colour between different rocks,
L. M. Martínez-Torres
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The Survival of Byzantine Sacred Art from Cappadocia in the 21st Century [PDF]
Located in Central Anatolia, the historical region of Cappadocia (approximately 91,000 square kilometres) in antiquity included parts of the current provinces of Kayseri, Kırşehir, Aksaray, Niğde and Nevşehir in Turkey.
Oana NESTERIUC
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Rock-hewn and monolithic architecture of northern Ethiopia [PDF]
Title: Rock-hewn and monolithic architecture of northern Ethiopia Abstract This bachelor thesis focuses on enumeration and closer characteristic of rock-hewn and monolitic architecture in northern Ethiopia, specifically the Tigray and Amhara regions.
Kudláková, Agáta
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An interesting and highly structured medieval complex, Dobrun has been attracting attention of scholars for a long time. Unlike the ruins of medieval fortifications, the remains of wall-painting in the former monastery church received most of the ...
Popović Marko Đ.
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