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Imperial debris : on ruins and ruination
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ISBN: 9780822353485 9780822353614 082235361X Year: 2013 Publisher: Durham ; London : Duke University Press,

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Vacance des lieux
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ISBN: 9782701164830 2701164834 Year: 2013 Publisher: [Lieu de publication inconnu]: Belin,

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Cet ouvrage s’intéresse aux lieux laissés vacants, avec le projet de débusquer le sens caché que recouvre leur mise à l’écart du jeu social. Il aborde leur « renaturation », qui leur confère une valeur mémorielle, ainsi que leur réaménagement ou leur restauration. Autrement dit, il s’essaie à décrypter le jeu subtil de l’oubli et de la mémoire qui s’y joue, entre enfouissement et résurgence. Parmi ces lieux, l’auteur examine particulièrement les friches et étudie celles-ci sous leurs multiples facettes : en référence à leur statut, qu’on les qualifie de rurales, urbaines, industrielles, militaires, touristiques… même si le plus souvent elles sont tout cela à la fois ; en rapport à leur durée, variable, car il en est d’immémoriales mais aussi d’éphémères, d’involontaires et de circonstanciées ; et au regard de leur finalité, au moment où elles sont réappropriées par des activités patrimoniales, touristiques… L’idée ici soutenue serait que les espaces délaissés deviennent des lieux de mémoire par le biais de leur réappropriation patrimoniale, dès lors qu’une recherche identitaire s’accommode de leur mise en tourisme. La friche est donc présentée ici comme un fondement de l’illusion mémorielle, une nostalgie du rétro ?


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Foundation Myths and Politics in Ancient Ionia
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ISBN: 9781107037496 9781139775410 9781108729963 1108729967 1107037492 1107461375 1139892673 1107472164 1107468582 1107465087 1139775413 1107473179 1306211816 9781107465084 9781461953586 1461953588 9781107461376 9781139892674 9781107472167 9781107468580 9781107473171 Year: 2013 Volume: *109 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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This book examines foundation myths told about the Ionian cities during the archaic and classical periods. It uses these myths to explore the complex and changing ways in which civic identity was constructed in Ionia, relating this to the wider discourses about ethnicity and cultural difference that were current in the Greek world at this time. The Ionian cities seem to have rejected oppositional models of cultural difference which set in contrast East and West, Europe and Asia, Greek and Barbarian, opting instead for a more fluid and nuanced perspective on ethnic and cultural distinctions. The conclusions of this book have far-reaching implications for our understanding of Ionia, but also challenge current models of Greek ethnicity and identity, suggesting that there was a more diverse conception of Greekness in antiquity than has often been assumed.


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Late antique Arabia : Ẓafār, capital of Ḥimyar : rehabilitation of a "decadent" society : excavations of the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg 1998-2010 in the highland of the Yemen
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ISBN: 9783447069359 344706935X 9783447391542 Year: 2013 Publisher: Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz,

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The first unification of Arabia emanated from the capital of the Himyarite tribal confederacy, Zafar. Paradoxically, as early as the Islamic Caliphate this site and its civilisation were characterised as ‚decadent‘ representatives of a dark age. New results correct a distorted image. The book by Paul Yule contextualises the data accumulated prior to the untimely termination of the field project as a result of civil strife.In the field of South Arabian Studies, excavation reports are rare and non-existent for the late pre-Islamic period – which this one accents. By no means alone, Zafar is and needs to be understood in relation to other sites in Arabia. The circumstances surrounding the downfall of the Himyar and post-Himyarite history are fraught with difficulty which this interdisciplinary report strives to illuminate. The often impressionist nature of the archaeological literature is countered by database documentation for the excavation operations and contexts. New are discussions of archaeological finds as well as those regarding art history, religion and linguistics. Detailed data including inscriptions as well as zoological and botanical data illuminate the situation. The author had the rare advantage of working in an area which amounted to an informational vacuum, but which was a centre for the development of early Judaism, Christianity and Islam. The latter was by no means the enemy of Himyar, but rather perhaps its closest descendant. Backed up by the internet image base HeidICON which contains over 4500 drawings and photos, not to omit preliminary reports, lectures as well as a travelling exhibition which provide discussion platforms, the book seeks to remedy this vacuum.

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