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Here you will find an overview of current and completed PhD and Master's theses in the field of history at Swiss universities. Compiled in collaboration with the Swiss Historical Society (SSH)

You will find copies of the competed works in the library of the university where they were drafted.

Status: 2024/2025

Picturing Secrecy - A History of the Visualization of "Secret Societies" in Historical Photographs from West Africa

AutorIn Name
Nanina
Guyer
Academic writing genre
PhD thesis
Status
abgeschlossen/terminé
DozentIn Name
Prof.
Patrick
Harries
Institution
Departement Geschichte
Place
Basel
Year
2014/2015
Abstract
There is an awkward tension in the fact that the danger of looking at secretive things is inherent in many concepts of African secrecy – even more, an uninitiated onlooker is believed to die more...