Modern and Postmodern Crises of Symbolic Structures : Essays in Philosophical Anthropology /
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In debates about philosophical anthropology human beings have been defined in different ways. In Modern and Postmodern Crises of Symbolic Structures , the contributors view the human being primarily as animal symbolicum. They examine how the human being creates, interprets and changes symbolic structures, as well as how he is affected and impacted by them. The focus lies on the context of modernity and postmodernity, which is characterized by a number of interrelated crises of symbolic structures. These crises have affected the realms of science, religion, art, politics and education, and thus provoked crucial changes in the human being's relations to himself, others and reality. The crises are not viewed merely as manifestations of dysfunctions, but rather as complex processes of transformation that also provide new opportunities.
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1 online resource. :
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9789004440968
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Kinship and family in ancient Egypt : archaeology and anthropology in dialogue /
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"In this interdisciplinary study, Leire Olabarria examines ancient Egyptian society through the notion of kinship. Drawing on methods from archaeology and sociocultural anthropology, she provides an emic characterisation of ancient kinship that relies on performative aspects of social interaction. Olabarria uses memorial stelae of the First Intermediate Period and the Middle Kingdom (ca 2150-1650 BCE) as her primary evidence. Contextualising these monuments within their social and physical landscapes, she proposes a dynamic way to explore kin groups through sources that have been considered static. The volume offers three case studies of kin groups at the beginning, peak, and decline of their developmental cycles respectively. They demonstrate how ancient Egyptian evidence can be used for cross-cultural comparison of key anthropological topics, such as group formation, patronage, and rites of passage"--
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xv, 279 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 26 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9781108498777
Geometric period Plithos burial ground at Chora of Naxos Island, Greece : anthropology report /
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This report aims offers glimpses of the human condition on Naxos Island, Greece, focussing on the archaeoanthropologic study of the human skeletal remains along with associated contexts of faunal materials recovered from the Geometric (9th -7th BC) component of the burial ground site of Plithos in Chora at Naxos island.
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1 online resource : illustrations (colour). :
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9781784913045 (PDF ebook) :
Gudenus Cave : the earliest humans of Austria /
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Summarising 60 years of research by the author at the earliest human occupation site known in Austria (1962 to 2021), this book describes the strategies and methods of studying a Pleistocene cave site that had been regarded as fully excavated, and their long-term applications.
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Also issued in print: 2022. :
1 online resource : illustrations :
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9781803273853 (PDF ebook) :
The Mongol Empire between myth and reality : studies in anthropological history /
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In The Mongol Empire between Myth and Reality , Denise Aigle presents the Mongol empire as a moment of contact between political ideologies, religions, cultures and languages, and, in terms of reciprocal representations, between the Far East, the Muslim East, and the Latin West. The first part is devoted to "The memoria of the Mongols in historical and literary sources" in which she examines how the Mongol rulers were perceived by the peoples with whom they were in contact. In "Shamanism and Islam" she studies the perception of shamanism by Muslim authors and their attempts to integrate Genghis Khan and his successors into an Islamic framework. The last sections deal with geopolitical questions involving the Ilkhans, the Mamluks, and the Latin West. Genghis Khan's successors claimed the protection of "Eternal Heaven" to justify their conquests even after their Islamization.
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1 online resource. :
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9789004280649 :
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Marsa Matruh : the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology's excavations on Bates's Island, Marsa Matruh, Egypt, 1985-1989 /
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"The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology's Expedition to Marsa Matruh"--Pref.
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2 volumes : illusturations, maps ; 29 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
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Searching for ancient Egypt : art, architecture, and artifacts from the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology /
: Exhibition venues: Dallas Museum of Art, Sept. 28, 1997-Feb. 1, 1998; Denver Art Museum, Apr. 3-Aug. 2, 1998; Seattle Art Museum, Oct. 15, 1998-Jan. 17, 1999; Joslyn Art Museum, Mar. 27-July 25, 1999; Birmingham Museum of Art, Oct. 3, 1999-Jan. 16, 2000; Honolulu Academy of Arts, Mar. 15-July 23, 2000. : 342 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 26 cm. : Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-330) and index. : 0801434823 (alk. paper)
Eastern Roman mounted archers and extraordinary medico-surgical interventions at Paliokastro in Thasos Island during the Protobyzantine period : the historical and medical history records and the archaeo-anthropological evidence /
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A recent archaeological discovery at Paliokastro (Thasos, Greece), and the subsequent study of the human skeletal remains interred in four monumental funerary contexts, provide for the first time through the archaeological record of the region a unique insight of the mounted archers and their female kin during the turbulent ProtoByzantine period.
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"Available both in print and Open Access"--Home page. :
1 online resource (iv, 50 pages) : illustrations (colour). :
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9781789696028 (ebook) : :
Open access.
Salvation through Spinoza : a study of Jewish culture in Weimar Germany /
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Despite his reputation as a heretic, Baruch Spinoza was one of the major heroes of the Jewish cultural Renaissance in Weimar Germany. This study traces Weimar Jewry's infatuation with Spinoza as it was manifested in scholarship, the popular press, and novels. It tells of how Jews, who found themselves oscillating between the social pressures to both assimilate and remain authentic, sought refuge in a thinker who epitomized both the rationality and liberalism of the Weimar Republic's enlightened defenders as well as the mysticism of its neo-romanticist challengers. In recapturing this forgotten chapter in the history of Spinozism this book sheds an original light on Weimar Germany's reknown Jewish culture.
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1 online resource (x, 234 pages) : illustrations. :
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9789004209213 :
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