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Cet ouvrage étudie la fiscalité douanière de la province romaine d'Égypte selon une approche centrée sur les pratiques du contrôle douanier dans les différentes circonscriptions administratives de la province. Fondée sur un corpus documentaire se constituant principalement de papyrus et ostraca en langue grecque et, dans une moindre mesure, d'inscriptions lapidaires, l'enquête est structurée en trois parties. La première, intitulée 'Les pratiques du contrôle douanier: une approche documentaire' s'intéresse au vocabulaire fiscal, notamment aux appellations des impôts douaniers et des postes et bureaux douaniers relevés, en tâchant de préciser leurs caractéristiques géographiques et administratives. Elle traite dans un deuxième temps des différentes typologies des écrits douaniers conservés en étudiant dans le détail les formulaires aussi bien que leurs fonctions spécifiques dans les contrôles douaniers. Elle aborde dans un troisième temps les formes d'authentification des documents produits par les personnels douaniers. La deuxième partie, intitulée 'Personnels douaniers et production documentaire' s'intéresse plus particulièrement aux acteurs qui intervenaient dans la production et dans la validation des documents douaniers conservés. Les résultats de cette enquête permettent ensuite d'esquisser les grandes lignes d'une hiérarchie des personnels douaniers, selon les différentes régions concernées, puis de préciser pour chacune d'entre elles les milieux sociaux et ethniques de recrutement. La troisième partie de l'ouvrage est consacrée aux formes de 'supervision publique des contrôles douaniers'. Il est ici ainsi question d'examiner les différents contrôles mis en oeuvre par les autorités publiques dans le champ des écritures fiscales et des transactions financières et les personnels qui y étaient préposés. Sont ensuite étudiés les contrôles policiers réalisés au moyen de corps de garde plus ou moins spécialisés selon les régions et les époques, ainsi que la part jouée par le corps de garde fluviale dans ce contexte. Ces éléments ont permis enfin de proposer une reconstitution du maillage territorial des contrôles douaniers, dont sont dégagées les pratiques écrites et factuelles.

Customs administration.

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Tibet is known for its broad range of marriage practices, particularly polyandry, where two or more brothers share one wife. With economic development and massive Chinese social and political reforms, including new marriage laws prohibiting plural marriages, polyandry was expected to disappear from Tibetan social lives. This book describes the surprising increase in polyandry in Panam valley during the 1980s. It explores married lives in polyandrous houses and develops a theory of a flexible kinship of potentiality through the lens of a farming village in Tibet Autonomous Region. It is the first book-length ethnography to explore kinship and marriage in Tibet under Chinese rule.

Marriage customs and rites.

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Il volume contiene le lettere scritte da Scipio Slataper (1888-1915) alle «tre amiche» triestine, Anna Pulitzer, Elody Oblath e Gigetta (Luisa) Carniel, tra l'estate del 1909 e il 3 dicembre 1915, quando egli cadde in combattimento sul Podgora, in vista del tanto amato Carso triestino. In queste lettere, che fungono anche da pagine di diario poiché in Scipio sovente la lettera è un "di sé a sé stesso", si rispecchia un'incandescente vicenda esistenziale ed intellettuale: di amicizia, di amore, di dolore, di ricerca del senso della vita, di impegno culturale e civile, di creazione artistica; mentre le ultime, a Gigetta, testimoniano i pochi mesi di vita al fronte. La cognizione del dolore, e quindi della vita, che gli venne dalla tragica morte di Anna, con cui visse una brevissima storia d'amore, fece riconoscere a Scipio il senso e il valore, e quindi il compito, da dare alla propria esistenza: amare gli uomini e operare per il loro bene. Una nozione più ampia e inclusiva dell'amore, che trascende quello a due, dall'estate del 1911, ricambiato, per Gigetta, ch'egli sposò nel settembre del 1913, mentre a Elody continuò a legarlo un'amicizia vera e profonda, «provata su tutti i frangenti». This volume presents the letters (approximately 600) that Scipio Slataper wrote between late 1909 and December 1915 to his "three friends" from Trieste, Anna Pulitzer, Gigetta (Luisa) Carniel, and Elody Oblath. These letters bring to light complex existential and intellectual storylines: of friendship, love, and pain, of the search of the purpose of life, cultural commitment, and artistic creation.

Manners and customs.

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Marriage can be understood as a rite of passage that marks a fundamental transformation in a person?s life, legally, politically, and economically, and often in that person?s self-conception, as an individual and in terms of his or her place in society. This transformation combines and blurs various themes. We focus here on the following aspects, which are integral to the articles in this issue: the private and the public, tradition and innovation, the collective and the individual. The media play a crucial role in shaping all of these categories and their relationship. Finally, we consider the connections between marriage and religion, for a wedding is not per se religious. In the contemporary European context in particular, a wedding can take the form simply of the signing of a socio-legal contract. But nevertheless? or perhaps exactly therefore? marriages are often staged ritualistically and linked to religious symbols, worldviews, and norms.

Marriage customs and rites.

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Restaging the Past is the first edited collection devoted to the study of pageants in Britain, ranging from its Edwardian origins to the present day. The volume highlights pageants as a key aspect of community history during a period of great social and political change.

Manners and customs.