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British Environmental Orientalism and the Palestinian Goat,1917–1948
British colonial understanding of arid Mediterranean environments was characterised by the idea of degradation: these environments were seen as an aberration from the ‘norm’ of the lush and fertile British forests and grasslands.
Mona Bieling
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L’oasis de Sabria (Tunisie) : un patrimoine à préserver
L’objectif de cet article c’est de mettre en valeur le patrimoine oasien de Sabria, un village du sud tunisien crée par la sédentarisation des nomades du Sahara, où la production de dattes est la principale activité.
NUNES Natália
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Adrar et l’urbanisme ou la sédentarisation erratique des oasis du Touat
The urban space of an oasis is paradoxical, it displays traces of permanent settlement, while avoiding to calque the prints of former inhabitance. It seems that the ground anchor of buildings will be all the more durable as it has been conceived in an ...
Jean-Pierre Frey
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Nouvelles mobilités pastorales : cas des éleveurs d’ovins de la wilaya de Djelfa, Algérie
Les évolutions socioéconomique, démographique, politique et climatique que la steppe algérienne a connues au cours des dernières décennies ont induit de profondes transformations au niveau des pratiques d’élevage, tout particulièrement en matière de ...
Dihia Gaci +4 more
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This article examines how development initiatives in northern Kenya, led by NGOs, international organisations, missionary groups and state actors, interact with Samburu pastoralist institutions and imaginaries.
Giordano Marmone, Alfred Lenaola
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Villages du Néolithique en Méditerranée occidentale. Sédentarisation et habitat groupé
It is commonly assumed that Neolithic groups were organised in village communities. Yet the use of the term “village” is inappropriate for the Neolithic since several sociological or political criteria used to define a village are outside the reach of ...
Jean Vaquer, Muriel Gandelin
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ABSTRACT The agroecological practices of ethnic minority farmers in Vietnam's northern uplands are being reshaped by intersecting pressures of land‐use reform, market integration, and state‐backed crop promotion. Among Hmong communities in the south of Lào Cai Province (former Yên Bái Province) cinnamon was once valued primarily for its medicinal ...
Mélie Monnerat, Sarah Turner
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The main focus of this paper is mapping the ethnolinguistic groups with contemporary migrations and impacting urban space in the borderland town of the North-Western frontier of the People’s Republic of China (PRC).
Katarzyna Golik
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¿Hacia el fin de la itinerancia? Isabel I de Castilla
Malgré l’installation de certains organes de l’administration du royaume dans des lieux précis et quelques indices de sédentarisation, comme l’établissement de la maison du Prince Juan à Almazán, la cour d’Isabelle la Catholique est, comme celle de ses ...
Mª Isabel del Val Valdivieso
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Villaggi, fortezze, ‘città’: vivere in Armenia e dintorni nell’Età del Bronzo e del Ferro
This article aims to provide a general overview of settlement patterns in Armenia and neighbouring areas from the Early Bronze Age to Early Hellenistic times. The southern Caucasus presents unique features.
Castelluccia, Manuel
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