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History Painting Crossing Borders, A Transnational History of Modern Art in Early Twentieth-Century China and Japan /
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This book explores the transcultural relationship between China and Japan as it was negotiated through the practice of history painting from the 1890s to the 1940s. During this period, ancient China was reimagined to be an idealized cultural entity that accommodated divergent views on conceptualizing East Asian identities. Focusing on two pioneering artists in Japan and China, Nakamura Fusetsu (1866-1943) and Xu Beihong (1895-1953), this book highlights how historical connections across East Asia led to modern nations and artistic traditions. By comparing two artists through the lens of genre, this book has connected art practice and historiography in new ways.
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1 online resource (180 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004733022
The diaspora of Brazilian religions /
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The Diaspora of Brazilian Religions explores the global spread of religions originating in Brazil, a country that has emerged as a major pole of religious innovation and production. Through ethnographically-rich case studies throughout the world, ranging from the Americas (Canada, the U.S., Peru, and Argentina) and Europe (the U.K., Portugal, and the Netherlands) to Asia (Japan) and Oceania (Australia), the book examines the conditions, actors, and media that have made possible the worldwide construction, circulation, and consumption of Brazilian religious identities, practices, and lifestyles, including those connected with indigenized forms of Pentecostalism and Catholicism, African-based religions such as Candomblé and Umbanda, as well as diverse expressions of New Age Spiritism and Ayahuasca-centered neo-shamanism like Vale do Amanhecer and Santo Daime.
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1 online resource (409 pages) :
9789004246034 :
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The propaganda of power : the role of panegyric in late antiquity /
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The 13 essays presented here shed new light on the role of panegyric in the western and eastern Roman Empire in the late antique world. Introductory chapters give an overview of panegyrical theory and practice, followed by studies of major writers of the early empire and the anonymous Panegyrici latini . The core of the volume deals with prose and verse panegyric under the Christian Roman Empire (4th-7th century): key themes addressed are social and political context, the 'hidden agenda', and the impact of Christianity on the pagan tradition of the panegyric, including the portrayal of patriarchs and holy men.
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1 online resource (x, 378 pages) :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004351479 :
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The poetics of grammar and the metaphysics of sound and sign /
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This book examines the seemingly universal notion of a grammatical cosmos. Individual essays discuss how many of the great civilizations provide cognitive maps that emerge from a metaphysical linguistics in which sounds, syllables and other signs form the constructive elements of reality. The essays address cross-cultural issues such as: Why does grammar serve as a template in these cultures? How are such templates culturally contoured? To what end are they applied - id est, what can one do with grammar - , and how does it work upon the world? The book is divided into three sections that deal with the metaphysics of linguistic creation; practices of encoding and decoding as a means of deciphering reality; and language in the widest sense as a medium for self- and cultural transformation. Contributors include: Jan Assman, Sara Sviri, Michael Stone, M. Finkelberg, Yigal Bronner, Martin Kern, Brouria Bitton-Ashkelony, Dan Martin, Jonathan Garb, Tom Hunter, David Shulman, and Sergio La Porta.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789047421658 :
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Ancient worlds in film and television : gender and politics /
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More than a century ago, filmmakers made their primary focus innovative and widely promulgated visions of antiquity, creating a profound effect on the critical, popular, and scholarly reception of antiquity. In this volume, scholars from a variety of countries and varying academic disciplines have addressed film's way of using the field of Classical Reception to investigate, contemplate, and develop hypotheses about present-day culture, society, and politics, with a particular emphasis on gender and gender roles, their relationship to one another, and how filmic constructions of masculinity and femininity shape and are shaped by interacting economic, political, and ideological practices.
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1 online resource (vii, 332 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color) :
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9789004241923 :
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Migration and mobility in the ancient Near East and Egypt
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About the Contributors Abbreviations Part 1. PoliticsAaron A. Burke: Creating Crisis: Empire and Refugees at the End of the Bronze Age in the Eastern Mediterranean Andrew Burlingame: “To the King, My Master”: Epistolary Evidence for Ugaritian Agents AbroadYoram Cohen and Eduardo Torrecilla: Shepherds, Armies, and Prisoners of War in Late Bronze Age Hittite Syria Susan Cohen: Mobility of Boundaries in the Middle Bronze Age Southern Levant Steven Garfinkle: Mobile Patronage: Amorite Spatial and Social Mobility under the Third Dynasty of UrJacob Lauinger: Movements of Persons and Populations at Middle and Late Bronze Age AlalakhEllen Morris: How to Tell “Moving” Tales of Female Captivity in the Ancient World Jana Mynářová: Crossing Borders, Reaching Limits: Boundaries in the Late Bronze Age LevantSeth Richardson: First Causes, Individual Focus: Displacement and Inequality, Babylon, Seventeenth Century BCEPart 2. Ideas, Concepts, and LanguagesLudovica Bertolini: Crossing Life Stages: Dressing, Undressing, and Changing Clothes as Navigating through LifePaul Delnero: Going to Heaven, Hell, and Egypt: Mesopotamian Myths and Scribal Training at Amarna Federico Giusfredi: Was Hurrian Spoken in Central Anatolia during the Middle Bronze Age and the Early Age of Hatti?Anne Goddeeris: Ceci n’est pas un kudurru: Or How Adad-ēṭir Climbs the Social Ladder Adam E. Miglio: Uta-napišti’s Reconnaissance-Birds as Celestial Signs and the Transmission of Antediluvian Knowledge Kevin McGeough: Migration, Mobility, Diffusion, Social Evolution, and Culture History: How Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Archaeological Theory Has Impacted Our Vision of the Bronze Age Part 3. Materiality and AdministrationJacob C. Damm: Pottery as Practice: Multilevel Social Analyses of Egyptian-style Ceramics in the Late Bronze Age Southern Levant Ann-Kathrin Jeske: The Expansion of the Egyptian Administrative-Economic System in the Southern Levant: A Comparison of the Proto- and Early Dynastic Period (Late EB IB) and the Eighteenth Dynasty (LB I to IIA) Marie-Kristin Schröder: Migration and Mobility in the Archaeological Record of the “C-Group” Culture between Egypt and Kerma Sandra Veprauskienė: The Establishment of the Western Frontier: A Study of the Middle Kingdom Enactment Practices in Dakhla Oasis
Buddhist encounters and identities across East Asia /
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Encounters, networks, identities and diversity are at the core of the history of Buddhism. They are also the focus of Buddhist Encounters and Identities across East Asia , edited by Ann Heirman, Carmen Meinert and Christoph Anderl. While long-distance networks allowed Buddhist ideas to travel to all parts of East Asia, it was through local and trans-local networks and encounters, and a diversity of people and societies, that identities were made and negotiated. This book undertakes a detailed examination of discrete Buddhist identities rooted in unique cultural practices, beliefs and indigenous socio-political conditions. Moreover, it presents a fascinating picture of the intricacies of the regional and cross-regional networks that connected South and East Asia.
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1 online resource. :
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9789004366152 :
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History in the Public Domain /
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History is a hot topic in popular politics of the public domain. Pressures from different kinds of ideological positions and politics of identities of various kinds put serious constraints on the practice and writing of history. Despite the challenges, scholarship has continued to grow. Current historiographical thrusts illustrate how a whole range of themes and issues are dealt with by professional historians from a variety of perspectives with reference to sources and evidence. For instance, issues relating to the complex interactions between religion and political culture are no longer being swept under the carpet. This collection of short essays and extended discussions on current research aims to intervene in public debates on what exactly happened in history. Given the situation, attempts of this kind can possibly help in somewhat bridging the wide gap between serious academic research and misplaced assumptions of popular histories. Much as historians are accused of merely speaking to themselves (and boring others), they need to be taken seriously when intervening in public debates using specialized historical methods and practices. Historical research conducted in universities can inform popular debates in newspapers, television channels, social media, and roadside dhabas for that matter, to lift the discussion to an informed intellectual plank and to bring about historical literacy and civility in the public domain.
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1 online resource (260 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004751538