Symbolische Repräsentation und Wirklichkeit nomadischen Lebens

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This essay collection brings together contributions from two research colloquia of the Collaborative Research Center “Difference and Integration. The interaction between nomadic and settled forms of life in the civilizations of the Old World”, based at the Martin Luther University …

Raum – Landschaft – Territorium

Zur Konstruktion physischer Räume als nomadischer und sesshafter Lebensraum

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The essays collected in this volume discuss the construction, development and perception of spaces from an interdisciplinary perspective and demonstrate how they evolve into culturally or politically defined "areas," "landscapes" or "territories."

Der imaginierte Nomade

Formel und Realitätsbezug bei antiken, mittelalterlichen und arabischen Autoren

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When a pre-modern author writes about nomads, his writing is immediately suspected of being soaked with literary formulae. This suspicion, which is no doubt justified, is for the historian linked to the question: what kind of reality can be seen …

Existenzsicherung und Mobilität im ariden Marokko

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The living conditions of former nomads in the arid mountain and desert regions of Morocco have been subject to dramatic change during the last decades. New economic and social dynamics imply new opportunities, but also entail risks, becoming manifest, for …