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Place Experience of the Sacred Silence and the Pilgrimage Topography of Mount Athos
This book explores the topography of Mount Athos, emphasizing the significance of silence and communal ritual in its understanding. Mount Athos, a...
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Border Versus Boundary: The Holy Mountain and the Inhabitation of Its Periphery
A twenty-minute drive from Ouranoupolis (a small sea-shore village of north Greece), along the border that divides Mount Athos from the rest of the...
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In the Shadow of the Mountain: Tracing the Hesychast Inhabitation of Mount Athos
This chapter examines the role of silence and communal ritual in the experience of the southern part of Mount Athos, a semi-independent peninsula in...
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Static Archetypes and Mobile Mountains: Upland Landscapes in the Historical Mediterranean
Deep-seated mythologies and powerful stereotypes have driven perceptions of mountain landscapes for millennia. Particularly damaging is the concept...
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Nocturnal Seafaring: the Reduction of Visibility at Night and its Impact on Ancient Mediterranean Seafaring. A Study Based on 8–4th Centuries BC Evidence
The practice of nocturnal navigation in the Mediterranean Sea could be inferred from both archaeological and written records. While there is...
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Mountains and Megastructures: Neo-Geologic Landscapes of Human Endeavour
At a time when more people are living in cities that are growing ever higher, and when the scale of buildings can resemble vast geologic, landscape...
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Conquering Dragons
This paper explores Alpine landscapes as networks of interrelated human and natural infrastructures through a comparative investigation of the...
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Mountains as a Way of Seeing: From Mount of Temptation to Mont Blanc
Mountains move as we shift our gaze. Yet, mountain encounters have also shaped and reflected shifting ways of seeing. Not only are mountains the most...
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Economic Thought, Ritual, and Religion
This chapter theorizes that much of our analysis of religion and ritual relies on ideas about economic markets and reciprocal exchanges where they in...
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Minority Language Communities and the Web in Italy
This chapter aims at evaluating in a critical way the potentialities provided by the Web in terms of identity community building, (self)...
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Anomalies on the Map
The continued attachment of 50-odd scattered overseas territories around the world to European states, the United States, Australia and New Zealand...
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On Transport Geography and Political Transportability (a Prevailing Starting Point)
How do transport systems develop, and how do they become ‘geo-political issues’? The present chapter attempts to answer these two questions by diving...