Search results for "Ethnology"

GOLD MINING AND JULA INFLUENCE IN PRECOLONIAL SOUTHERN BURKINA FASO

2007

ABSTRACTThe ‘Lobi’ region in what is today southern Burkina Faso is frequently mentioned in historical accounts of gold mining in West Africa. However, little is known about the actual location of the gold mines or about the way gold mining and trade were organized in precolonial times. This article points out that some previous hypotheses about precolonial gold mining, trade and the sociopolitical organization of this region are flawed, partly because ‘Lobi’, as the name for both the region and its inhabitants, is misleading. In fact, the references to ‘Lobi’ merge two distinct gold-producing zones along the Mouhoun river, about 200 km from each other. The present-day populations of southe…

The Death of Charles IX Valois: An Assassin's or a Martyr's Blood?: The Image of Kingship during the French Wars of Religion

2014

Lo scopo di questo articolo è quello di analizzare le opere legate alla morte di Carlo IX Valois. In particolare, ci concentreremo sull'immagine del sangue del re morto. L'analisi dell'autopsia di Carlo, così come il resoconto dell'intrigo di corte che ha caratterizzato gli ultimi mesi della sua vita, fornisce il contesto in cui si è svolto questo flusso di propaganda. Fonti cattoliche, in particolare i sermoni funebri del predicatore di corte Arnaud Sorbin, gettano luce sull'immagine del sangue di Carlo IX come sangue di un re "santo" e "martire". Mostreremo anche come i sermoni di Sorbin si riferissero alla successione al trono di Enrico III data la situazione tesa a corte. Infine, l'anal…

El clero secular en Europa en la Baja Edad Media. Bibliografía

2005

The bibliography covers all aspects of Medieval Studies about the Secular Clergy within the date range 1100 to 1500. The geographical range is the continent of Europe of catholic tradition. Items are classified by countries.

Displaced lives in the Americas. A review of three cross-border ethnographies

2020

'– ''The Migrant Passage: Clandestine Journeys from Central America 'by Noelle K. Brigden. Cornell University Press, 2018. '– ''Contraband Corridor: Making a Living at the Mexico-Guatemala Border', by Rebecca B. Galemba. Stanford University Press, 2018. '– Lives in Transit: Violence and Intimacy on the Migrant Journey', by Wendy A. Vogt. University of California Press, 2018.

States of Division: Border and Boundary Formation in Cold War Rural Germany, by Sagi Schaefer

2017

Not only peasants: the myth of continuity in the irrigation communities of Valencia, Spain, in the medieval and early modern periods

2017

AbstractThe Horta of Valencia is a large irrigated area managed by eight communities of landowners. Traditionally, it was considered that these communities were composed of peasants, that they were self-managed and self-governed, and that they had remained immutable over time. However, the historical evidence shows that this is not true for pre-modern times. This article examines a possible Islamic origin of these institutions, the rupture caused by the Christian conquest of Valencia in the thirteenth century, the structure of the communities, and the social diversity of their members within the framework of feudalism. We conclude that irrigation communities cannot be used as examples of in…

Fugitives in transit. The Spanish Republican exile through Portugal (1936-1950)

2017

Despite scant attention from historiography, Portugal played an important role as a way station on the road to exile for many Republicans during and after the Spanish Civil War. The situation in the neighbouring country was not easy for these people, as Antonio Oliveira de Salazar’s regime —officially allied with Franco’s Spain— did not recognize them as political refugees, but as illegal immigrants to be returned to Spain, which would have catastrophic consequences for many of them. Through the analysis of abundant primary sources in archives from Spain, Portugal, Mexico and the United States, we seek to understand the details of this Portuguese stage of the exile. We discover how, despite…

Violencia y sociedad en una villa medieval : Castellón de la plana en el siglo XV

2006

On the evidence of local court rolls, this paper studies the patters of violence in a valencian small town oriented to a great extent toward agrarian activities. It was especially a structural and daily violence, that usually it was not caused by habitual criminals but by common people and even by members of the ruling group. Abuse of force usually taked place from poweful to weak (from richs to poors, from masters to serviants, from husbands to wives, from christians to muslims), so that these forms of violence reaffirmed internal hierarchies that divided local community.

Forbidden and sublime forest landscapes: narrated experiences of Latvian national partisan women after World War II

2015

At the beginning of the Cold War, tens of thousands of Baltic people headed for the forests. It was the largest and longest such experience of human and forest interaction in the history of the three Baltic countries. The forest was turned into a political concept and had abruptly become a doubly sensitive zone: to the authorities it was a space of revolt subject to their control; to the locals, the forests were transformed into sites of both resistance and shelter when life was endangered. Based on recorded life story interviews, this article examines how women experienced the changes in their native landscapes after World War II in the occupied Baltic states, and what it meant for them to…

La ‘Première’ dans les activités de nature: une performance, un record?

2018

Dans les activités de nature, la « première » est une forme de performance particulière. L’analogie entre les premières et les records sportifs doit être questionnée. L’objet de cet article est de démontrer les spécificités des premières par rapport aux records sportifs et d’en tirer une meilleure compréhension de l’identité des activités de nature. Nous nous appuyons sur une analyse socio-historique des premières et de leur valorisation dans différents médias, propres à une communauté de pratiquants ou grand public. Nos principaux résultats révèlent que, les premières et les records se rejoignent sur certaines caractéristiques liées notamment à la performance physique. Néanmoins, derrière …