Material culture and cultural identity : a study of Greek and Roman coins from Dora /
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The ancient harbour town of Dor/Dora in modern Israel has a history that spanned from the Bronze Age until the Late Roman Era. The story of its peoples can be assembled from a variety of historical and archaeological sources derived from the nearly thirty years of research at Tel Dor - the archaeological site of the ancient city. Each primary source offers a certain kind of information with its own perspective. In the attempt to understand the city during its Graeco-Roman years - a time when Dora reached its largest physical extent and gained enough importance to mint its own coins, numismatic sources provide key information. With their politically, socio-culturally and territorially specific iconography, Dora's coins indeed reveal that the city was self-aware of itself as a continuous culture, beginning with its Phoenician origins and continuing into its Roman present.
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1 online resource : illustrations (black and white). :
Specialized. :
Includes bibliographical references. :
9781784910938 (PDF ebook) :
Cultural tourism : tourism at world heritage cultural sites : the sites manager's hand book /
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"This is one of a new series of ICOMOS Scientific Publications released on the occasion of its 10th General Assembly in Colombo, 30 July-4 August 1993, sponsored by the Sri Lankan National Committee of ICOMOS"--T.p. verso.
At head of title : International Scientific Committee, 10th General Assembly.
English with preliminary pages in English and French. :
132 pages ; 28 cm. :
Bibliography : pages 111-123. :
9556130322
Coptic culture : past, present and future /
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Selected papers from a conference held May 2008 at the Coptic Orthodox Church Centre. :
xii, 238 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 26 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references. :
9781935488279 :
https://catalog.loc.gov/vwebv/staffView?searchId=263&recPointer=0&recCount=25&searchType=0&bibId=17859301
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Cultures in contact : from Mesopotamia to the Mediterranean in the second millennium B.C. /
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"Most of the essays published in this volume were presented at "The Raymond and Beverly Sackler Symposium: Beyond Babylon: art, trade and diplomacy in the second millennium B.C." held on December 18 and 19, 2008 and "The Friends of Inanna scholars' day workshop" held on February 4, 2009 ... held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York"-- Title page verso.
"The Metropolitan Museum of Art Symposia". :
xvii, 354 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 26 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references (p. 320-352). :
9780300185034
0300185030
Islamic culture.
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volume 1, number 1 (Jan. 1927)-volumes 78, number 4 (Oct. 2004) :
Editors : -Oct. 1936, Marmaduke Pickthall ; Jan. 1937- Oct. 1938, Muhammad Asad-Weiss.
Subtitle varies: <1927-1947>, The Hyderabad quarterly review ; <1948->, An English quarterly. :
volumes : plates (some color) ; 24-29 cm :
Quarterly :
0021-1834
Reality and Culture : Essays on the Philosophy of Bernard Harrison.
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More than being a volume about the philosophy of Bernard Harrison, this volume is about how Harrison conceptualizes the creation of the human world. One might be tempted to classify Harrison as a major voice in many diverse discussions-philosophy of literature, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, color studies, epistemology, metaphysics, moral philosophy, philosophy of culture, Wittgenstein, antisemitism, and more-without recognizing a unifying strand that ties them together. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Harrison contests and destabilizes a persistent and misleading alignment of culture with subjectivity-whether found in unexamined distinctions between nature and culture or appearance and reality. His general aim has been to undermine the belief that human culture deals in smoke and mirrors, and that the only realities are those of extra-human nature. He emphasizes the paraxial foundation of meaning, and argues that the creative inventions of language and culture are as real as any extra-linguistic reality. While granting the existence of extra-human reality, he holds it to be, in itself, conceptually unorganised, but nevertheless cognitively accessible by way of sense-perception and physical manipulation. This volume offers new critical essays that examine Harrison's corpus, written by distinguished voices in philosophy and literary studies. It bridges many of the abysses of conflicting opinion opened by the culture wars of the past half-century. Importantly, it includes an opening essay by Harrison that elucidates the unifying strand running through his variegated philosophical writings, and concludes with a chapter in which he replies to and reflects on the other critical essays herein.
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1 online resource (294 pages) :
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. :
9789401210669 :
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
Science in Culture : Translated from the Polish by Hugh McDonald.
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This book tries to uncover science's discoverer and explain why the conception of science has been changing during the centuries, and why science can be beneficial and dangerous for humanity. Far from being hermetic, this research can be interesting for all who want to understand deeper what really conditions the place of science in culture.
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1 online resource (351 pages) :
9789401203852 :
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
The cultures of Maimonideanism : new approaches to the history of Jewish thought /
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In the history of Jewish thought, no individual scholar has exercised more influence than Maimonides (1138-1204) - philosopher and physician, legal scholar and communal leader. This collection of papers, originating at the 2007 EAJS colloquium, places primary emphasis on this influence - not on Maimonides himself but the many movements he inspired. Using Maimonideanism as an interpretive lens, the authors of this volume - representing a variety of fields and disciplines - develop new approaches to and fresh perspectives on the peculiar dynamic of Judaism and philosophy. Focusing on social and cultural processes as well as philosophical ideas and arguments, they point toward an original reconceptualization of Jewish thought.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references (p. [409]-436) and index. :
9789047427964 :
Available to subscribing member institutions only.