Norms beyond Empire seeks to rethink the relationship between law and empire by emphasizing local normative production. Its ten chapters explore normative production by focusing on case studies from ...the Iberian empires in China, India, Japan, and the Philippines. ; Readership: All interested in legal history, the history of Christianity in Asia, the history of Spanish and Portuguese imperialism, early modern colonialism, missionary history, global history, and legal pluralism.
Au commencement était la source… Puis vinrent les difficultés. Chaque source pose en effet des problèmes spécifiques. Le présent recueil, issu de deux journées d’étude organisées à l’Institut ...catholique d’études supérieures (La Roche-sur-Yon), s’efforce d’en brosser un panorama, à partir de cas relevant de disciplines, de périodes et de corpus suffisamment variés pour présenter au chercheur en sciences humaines une vue générale des questions que suscitent ses propres pratiques en lien avec de telles sources. À la lumière de ces études, des questions récurrentes déterminent la recherche documentaire : ce que sont les sources, par quel examen critique les évaluer, comment les organiser, enfin comment élaborer un récit scientifique fidèle, autant que possible, à leurs enseignements. La source est-elle intègre, authentique, sincère, représentative ? Son témoignage, parfois polémique, est lacunaire aussi, parce que séparé de la culture dans laquelle il s’intégrait et que cherche à reconstituer le chercheur, à la manière d’un puzzle dont il ne subsisterait que quelques pièces. La critique des sources navigue entre une lecture littérale et une lecture hypercritique. Cette dernière risque de disqualifier par principe tout récit historien fondé sur des sources qui ne seraient jugées ni sûres, ni vérifiables, ni exploitables, comme les récits légendaires de la fondation de Rome. L’esprit critique, pourtant nécessaire à la déontologie scientifique, peut paralyser le discours savant quand il est systématisé. Mais comment apprécier un degré approprié de critique et un degré excessif ? La question des sources en vient donc à en ouvrir une autre, une interrogation de nature épistémologique et philosophique : comment fonder le savoir ?
Ethnicity and aboriginality Levin, Michael, D
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Ethnonationalism is a phenomenon of great importance in many parts of the world today. In this collection of papers, nine distinguished anthropologists focus on Canadian and international case ...studies to show how ethnonational claims of cultural groups have been expressed and developed in specific historical and political situations.
This innovative volume is the first to address the
conservation of contemporary art incorporating biological materials
such as plants, foods, bodily fluids, or genetically engineered
organisms. ...Eggshells, flowers, onion peels, sponge cake,
dried bread, breast milk, bacteria, living organisms-these are just
a few of the biological materials that contemporary artists are
using to make art. But how can works made from such perishable
ingredients be preserved? And what logistical, ethical, and
conceptual dilemmas might be posed by doing so? Because they are
prone to rapid decay, even complete disappearance, biological
materials used in art pose a range of unique conservation
challenges. This groundbreaking book probes the issues associated
with displaying, collecting, and preserving these unique works of
art. The twenty-four papers from the conference present a range of
case studies, prominently featuring artists' perspectives, as well
as conceptual discussions, thereby affording a comprehensive and
richly detailed overview of current thinking and practices on this
topic. Living Matter is the first publication to explore
broadly the role of biological materials in the creative process
and present a variety of possible approaches to their preservation.
The free online edition of this open-access publication is
available at www.getty.edu/publications/living-matter/ and includes
videos and zoomable illustrations. Also available are free PDF,
EPUB, and Kindle/MOBI downloads of the book.
Over one hundred presentations from the thirty-fourth Charleston Library Conference (held November 5-8, 2014) are included in this annual proceedings volume. Major themes of the meeting included ...patron-driven acquisitions versus librarian-driven acquisitions; marketing library resources to faculty and students to increase use; measuring and demonstrating the library's role and impact in the retention of students and faculty; the desirability of textbook purchasing by the library; changes in workflows necessitated by the move to virtual collections; the importance of self-publishing and open access publishing as a collection strategy; the hybrid publisher and the hybrid author; the library's role in the collection of data, datasets, and data curation; and data-driven decision making. While the Charleston meeting remains a core one for acquisitions, serials, and collection development librarians in dialog with publishers and vendors, the breadth of coverage of this volume reflects the fact that the Charleston Conference is now one of the major venues for leaders in the information community to shape strategy and prepare for the future.Over 1,600 delegates attended the 2014 meeting, ranging from the staff of small public library systems to CEOs of major corporations. This fully indexed, copyedited volume provides a rich source for the latest evidence-based research and lessons from practice in a range of information science fields. The contributors are leaders in the library, publishing, and vendor communities.
The most authoritative publication in nearly fifty years on
the subject of conserving paintings on canvas. In 2019,
Yale University, with the support of the Getty Foundation, held an
international ...conference, where nearly four hundred attendees from
more than twenty countries gathered to discuss a vital topic: how
best to conserve paintings on canvas. It was the first major
symposium on the subject since 1974, when wax-resin and glue-paste
lining reigned as the predominant conservation techniques. Over the
past fifty years, such methods, which were often destructive to
artworks, have become less widely used in favor of more minimalist
approaches to intervention. More recent decades have witnessed the
reevaluation of traditional practices as well as focused research
supporting significant new methodologies, procedures, and synthetic
materials for the care and conservation of paintings on fabric
supports. Conserving Canvas compiles the proceedings of
the conference, presenting a wide array of papers and posters that
provide important global perspectives on the history, current
state, and future needs of the field. Featuring an expansive
glossary of terms that will be an invaluable resource for
conservators, this publication promises to become a standard
reference for the international conservation community. The free
online edition of this open-access publication is available at
getty.edu/publications/conserving-canvas. Also available are free
PDF and EPUB downloads of the book.
L'art de l'argumentation ne cède pas ses droits en situation de guerre. Au contraire, la préparation des conflits, la conduite des opérations et la reconstruction de la paix sont d'intenses moments ...de persuasion, de négociation et de confrontation dans lesquels l'art oratoire occupe toute sa place. Fruit d'une collaboration active entre historiens et juristes, cet ouvrage propose une réflexion novatrice sur les usages et les fonctions du discours en situation de conflit armé. Les articles réunis ici transportent le lecteur des plaines du Péloponnèse et de l'Italie romaine au Tribunal international de La Haye, en passant par les guerres d'Attila et de Bourgogne, par les conflits religieux et ceux de la monarchie absolue, ou encore par la guerre de Sécession et les deux conflits mondiaux. S'y révèlent les modalités et les enjeux de la parole en guerre : qu'elle s'efforce de justifier ou de contester l'engagement, la violence ou les buts de guerres ; de convaincre les autorités politiques et l'opinion publique d'entrer dans le conflit ou les combattants de sacrifier leur vie ; qu'elle implore le pardon ou réclame des réparations ; qu'elle cherche à s'emparer de la gloire d'une victoire ou à repousser la honte d'une défaite.
Possible Pasts George, Robert Blair St; Studies, McNeil Center for Early American; Culture, Omohundro Institute of Early American History amp
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Possible Pasts represents a landmark in early American studies, bringing to that field the theoretical richness and innovative potential of the scholarship on colonial discourse and postcolonial ...theory. Drawing on the methods and interpretive insights of history, anthropology, history of art, folklore, and textual analysis, its authors explore the cultural processes by which individuals and societies become colonial.Rather than define early America in terms of conventional geographical, chronological, or subdisciplinary boundaries, their essays span landscapes from New England to Peru, time periods from the sixteenth to the mid-nineteenth century, and topics from religion to race and novels to nationalism. In his introduction Robert Blair St. George offers an overview of the genealogy of ideas and key terms appearing in the book.Part I, Interrogating America, then challenges readers to rethink the meaning of early America and its relation to postcolonial theory. In Part II, Translation and Transculturation, essays explore how both Europeans and native peoples viewed such concepts as dissent, witchcraft, family piety, and race. The construction of individual identity and agency in Philadelphia is the focus of Part III, Shaping Subjectivities. Finally, Part IV, Oral Performance and Personal Power, considers the ways in which political authority and gendered resistance were established in early America. Possible Pasts represents a landmark in early American studies, bringing to that field the theoretical richness and innovative potential of the scholarship on colonial discourse and postcolonial theory. Drawing on the methods and interpretive insights of history, anthropology, history of art, folklore, and textual analysis, its authors explore the cultural processes by which individuals and societies become colonial. Rather than define early America in terms of conventional geographical, chronological, or subdisciplinary boundaries, their essays span landscapes from New England to Peru, time periods from the sixteenth to the mid-nineteenth century, and topics from religion to race and novels to nationalism. In his introduction Robert Blair St. George offers an overview of the genealogy of ideas and key terms appearing in the book. Part I, Interrogating America, then challenges readers to rethink the meaning of early America and its relation to postcolonial theory. In Part II, Translation and Transculturation, essays explore how both Europeans and native peoples viewed such concepts as dissent, witchcraft, family piety, and race. The construction of individual identity and agency in Philadelphia is the focus of Part III, Shaping Subjectivities. Finally, Part IV, Oral Performance and Personal Power, considers the ways in which political authority and gendered resistance were established in early America.
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