39 projects
Musiklexikon der Schweiz
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Musiklexikon der Schweiz

Das MLS stellt fundierte Information über die AkteurInnen, Institutionen, Orte, Objekte und Phänomene zur Verfügung, die für die Musikgeschichte Schweiz über alle Sparten und Stile relevant sind.

GeschichteMusikMusikwissenschaft
Operative TV: Audiovisual Closed-Circuits from the Military to the Classroom, 1930s-1990s
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Operative TV: Audiovisual Closed-Circuits from the Military to the Classroom, 1930s-1990s

The SNSF PRIMA project “Operative TV: Audiovisual Closed-Circuits from the Military to the Classroom, 1930s-1990s” studies the uses of TV in industrial, medical, educational and military contexts.

Closed-Circuit TelevisionCultural TechniquesMedia History
Participation in Social Health Protection: An Anthropological Case Study in Tanzania
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Participation in Social Health Protection: An Anthropological Case Study in Tanzania

This project calls for a broad view of social health protection, comprising health care funding and people’s ubiquitous but less visible strife for participation in self-organized groups and networks.

EthnologyParticipationSocial health protection
Photo Archive of the Cultural Anthropology Switzerland (CAS)
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Photo Archive of the Cultural Anthropology Switzerland (CAS)

With its approximately 500,000 photo objects from across the world, the photo archive of the CAS fosters new approaches to the study and consumption of photographs.

AfghanistanAnthropologyCultural Heritage
Portraits of Unbelonging: Photography, the Ottoman State, and the making of Armenian emigrants 1896-1908
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Portraits of Unbelonging: Photography, the Ottoman State, and the making of Armenian emigrants 1896-1908

How do photography and statecraft intersect in the making and unmaking of citizens? How and why did photography become a new media for unmaking subjects in late 19th c Ottoman empire?

Ottoman empirecitizenshipemigration
Symbolism of light in Early Christian sacred buildings in the Swiss Alpine valleys
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Symbolism of light in Early Christian sacred buildings in the Swiss Alpine valleys

Were early Christian churches aligned with the sun or the moon? A study across Switzerland and Northern Italy explores the links between the sky and sacred architecture.

Early Christianitysacred Christian buildingsSwitzerland
Tall al-Hamidiya Online
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Tall al-Hamidiya Online

The Swiss excavations at Tall al-Hamidiya (NE Syria) revealed a 245-ha Late Bronze Age city. Architecture and texts make it likely that the site was Taidu, the royal residence of the Mitanni empire.

MitanniAssyriapalaces
Textures of Sacred Scripture
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Textures of Sacred Scripture

Textures of Sacred Scripture. Materials and Semantics of Sacred Book Ornament in the Western Middle Ages, 780-1300

Medieval book art780–1300Materiality
The Churches of Rome in the Middle Ages, 1050-1300. Liturgical Furnishing and Architecture (Corpus Cosmatorum II)
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The Churches of Rome in the Middle Ages, 1050-1300. Liturgical Furnishing and Architecture (Corpus Cosmatorum II)

Each Roman church that was affected by building work in the High Middle Ages is presented in alphabetical order, including its architecture (with associated annexes) and its liturgical furnishing

AntikenrezeptionArcheologyArchäologie