41 projects
Martial Culture in Late Medieval Towns
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Martial Culture in Late Medieval Towns

The multifaceted martial culture of the late Medieval European town is sketched by this research project describing the ownership, handling, symbolism, use, and materiality of medieval weapons, and their cultural impact on urban society.

Martial CultureMedieval HistoryUrban History
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)
Ongoing
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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
Rome in the Early Middle Ages: Arts and Culture
Ongoing
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Rome in the Early Middle Ages: Arts and Culture

The project addresses the visual culture of the city of Rome (Vth-XIth ct.) by means of an interdisciplinary approach (art history, architecture, archaeology archaeometry, liturgy, epigraphy).

paintingmosaicvisual culture
Symbolism of light in Early Christian sacred buildings in the Swiss Alpine valleys
Finished
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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