TY - BOOK ID - 19340868 TI - Maaloula, XIXe-XXIe siècles, du vieux avec du neuf : histoire et identité d'un village chrétien de Syrie AU - Pichon, Frédéric AU - Heyberger, Bernard. PY - 2010 SN - 9782351593196 PB - Presses de l’Ifpo DB - UniCat KW - Syriac christians KW - Syriac Christians KW - Group identity KW - Christians KW - Regions & Countries - Asia & the Middle East KW - History & Archaeology KW - Middle East KW - Religious adherents KW - Collective identity KW - Community identity KW - Cultural identity KW - Social identity KW - Identity (Psychology) KW - Social psychology KW - Collective memory KW - Syrian Christians KW - History KW - History. KW - Maʻlūlā (Syria) KW - Historiography. KW - Maʻlūlah (Syria) KW - arabisme KW - islam KW - Mandat français KW - identité KW - folklorisation KW - orientalisme KW - sanctuaires partagés KW - christianisme KW - néoaraméen occidental KW - anthropologie religieuse UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:19340868 AB - Maaloula, the last place in the world where the language of Christ, Aramaic, is spoken ... Nestled in the hollow of the Qalamoun mountains, the small village has never ceased to fascinate all travelers since the end of the 18th century. Indeed since that time, it has remained a sort of Orientalist "commonplace" where European scholars and missionaries thronged until the first half of the 20th century. The greatest orientalists like Theodor Nöldeke, adventurers such as Richard Burton and even Alexandre Dumas knew about the existence of Maaloula and devoted a few pages to him. Today, Maaloula has become a major tourist center which attracts no less than 150,000 annual visitors, Europeans of course but especially Iranians who come to seek in addition to the picturesque places, the illusions of a return to the sources. By crossing archives and speeches on Maaloula for almost two centuries, Frédéric Pichon brings to light, along with the Christian memory of a rural Syrian community, the multiple facets of the identity of the last "Aramaeans" in Syria. ER -