ERC Consolidator Grant · 2021
The UseFool project studies the knowledge and manipulation of nature applied to entertainment and fraud, as described in the Arabic technical literature dealing with the practice of charlatans and performers along the streets and in the markets. At the core of UseFool’s textual corpus are four Arabic handbooks composed between the 6th/12th and the 9th/15th century, combined with other sources, such as the handbooks for the inspector of the market that focus on artisanal impostures. The project will reconstruct the refined technical notions mastered by marginal social groups, showing how the lightly dismissed ‘popular knowledge’ was actually a form of ‘street science’. The project’s goal is…
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