Social milieus and worldviews in Mamluk adab-encyclopedias: The example of poverty and wealth

The economic and cultural rise of parts of the ʿāmma due to the particular economic and infrastructural conditions of the Mamluk era fostered the emergence of new intermediate levels of literature that were situated between the literature of the elite and that of the utterly ignorant and unlettered populace, between the Arabic koiné (al-ʿarabīya al-fuṣḥā) and the local dialects (ʿāmmīya-s), between written and oral composition, performance and transmission. The paper proposes to analyze the composition of three Mamluk adab-encyclopedias and their treatment of poverty and wealth in light of the social milieus of their authors and publics.

Scientific & technical dictionaries, encyclopedias & handbooks.

"& handbooks" crossed out on title of Mann copy.

A bibliography of encyclopedias and dictionaries dealing with military, naval and maritime affairs, 1577-1961.

Mode of access: Internet.

The imaging of Samoa in illustrated magazines and serial encyclopedias in the early 20th-century

Drawing on English language sources and material relating to the colonial administrations of Western Samoa (now Samoa) and American Samoa, this examination of photographically illustrated serial encyclopaedias and magazines proposes an alternative historical analysis of the colonial imaging of Samoa, the most extensively covered field in Oceanic photographic studies. Though photographs published between 1890s and World War II were often 'recycled', without acknowledging the fact that they were taken much earlier, and despite claims in the text of illustrated publications of an unchanged, enduring, archaic tradition in Samoa, the amazing variety of photographic content often offered contradictory evidence, depicting a modern, adaptive and progressive Samoa. Contrary to orthodox historical analysis, the images of Samoa in illustrated magazines and encyclopaedias were not limited to a small repetitive gallery of partially clothed women and costumed chiefs; and the ways in which readers understood Samoa from photographs and text raises questions still to be explored.

Da 'portugalidade' à lusofonia

Tese de Doutoramento em Ciências da Comunicação (Especialidade em Teoria da Cultura)

Tableau encyclopedique et methodique des trois règnes de la nature: Botanique.

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Tableau encyclopedique et methodique des trois règnes de la nature: Botanique.

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Tableau encyclopedique et methodique des trois règnes de la nature: Botanique.

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Encyclopédie méthodique. Botanique / par m. le chevalier de Lamarck.

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Encyclopédie méthodique. Botanique / par m. le chevalier de Lamarck.

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Encyclopédie méthodique. Botanique / par m. le chevalier de Lamarck.

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Encyclopédie méthodique. Botanique / par m. le chevalier de Lamarck.

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Encyclopédie méthodique. Botanique / par m. le chevalier de Lamarck.

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Encyclopédie méthodique. Botanique / par m. le chevalier de Lamarck.

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Encyclopédie méthodique. Botanique / par m. le chevalier de Lamarck.

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