Text, context, and performance : Gagauz folk religion in discourse and practice /
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Past scholarship on the Gagauz people has focused on their ethnic origins and the tension between their Christian faith and Turkish linguistic identity. This study, based on extensive fieldwork in the Republic of Moldova, approaches the problem of this central dichotomy in Gagauz identity through the lens of daily religious practices. This empirical approach reveals how scholarly discourses on 'folk religion' guide the local fieldworker's identification of what are 'folk' religious practices and thus actualises 'folk religion' in a given context.The book offers a fresh methodological perspective on 'folk religion' as discourse and object of study and is the first monograph in a Western European language on the religion, history and identity of this under-studied European people.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. :
9789004216341 :
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Olbia : eine altgriechische Stadt im nordwestlichen Schwarzmeerraum /
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This book presents a completely new and up-to-date archaeological and historical study of the Black Sea city-state of Olbia. More comprehensive than any other yet produced, it ranges through the millennium of its existence from the Archaic to the Roman period and includes the full range of material remains found in the city and its region. Themes treated include building and architecture, agriculture, the economy of the city (the food economy, crafts, trade and coins), art and religion. The illustrations are copious, well-chosen, and present much material which will be new to Western readers. Also there are many useful maps and reconstructions of buildings. This presentation of the results of the research of scholars from the former Soviet Union into a Greek Pontic city has long been awaited and will form a reliable basis for the next generation of research into the theme.
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1 online resource (x, 168 pages, [94] pages of plates) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-160) and index. :
9789004329546 :
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Les Sites archéologiques en Crimée et au Caucase durant l'Antiquité tardive et le haut Moyen-Age /
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The volume is devoted to the archaeological finds of late Roman and early Mediaeval periods in the northern Black Sea littoral and eastern Pontus. This collection of articles discusses the relationship between West and East, North and South in Roman and Mediaeval times. Most of the articles offer analysis of archaeological finds and sites in the Crimea studies in recent years. This book is richly illustrated.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004502628
9789004117464