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Mapping the past : from sampling sites and landscapes to exploring the 'archaeological continuum' : proceedings of the XVIII UISPP World Congress (4-8 June 2018, Paris, France).
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These papers reflect on the need to develop sustainable and reliable approaches to mapping our landscape heritage, guided by the crucial concept termed the 'archaeological continuum'.
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Conference proceedings.
"Available in both print and Open Access"--Homepage.
Also issued in print: 2020. :
1 online resource (94 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour) :
Specialized. :
Includes bibliographical references. :
9781789697148 (ebook) :
After orientalism : critical perspectives on western agency and eastern re-appropriations /
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The debate on Orientalism began some fifty years ago in the wake of decolonization. While initially considered a turning point, Edward Said's Orientalism (1978) was in fact part of a larger academic endeavor - the political critique of "colonial science" - that had already significantly impacted the humanities and social sciences. In a recent attempt to broaden the debate, the papers collected in this volume, offered at various seminars and an international symposium held in Paris in 2010-2011, critically examine whether Orientalism, as knowledge and as creative expression, was in fact fundamentally subservient to Western domination. By raising new issues, the papers shift the focus from the center to the peripheries, thus analyzing the impact on local societies of a major intellectual and institutional movement that necessarily changed not only their world, but the ways in which they represented their world. World history, which assumes a plurality of perspectives, leads us to observe that the Saidian critique applies to powers other than Western European ones - three case studies are considered here: the Ottoman, Russian (and Soviet), and Chinese empires. Other essays in this volume proceed to analyze how post-independence states have made use of the tremendous accumulation of knowledge and representations inherited from previous colonial regimes for the sake of national identity, as well as how scholars change and adapt what was once a hegemonic discourse for their own purposes. What emerges is a new landscape in which to situate research on non-Western cultures and societies, and a road-map leading readers beyond the restrictive dichotomy of a confrontation between West and East. With contributions by: Elisabeth Allès; Léon Buskens; Stéphane A. Dudoignon; Baudouin Dupret; Edhem Eldem; Olivier Herrenschmidt; Nicholas S. Hopkins; Robert Irwin; Mouldi Lahmar; Sylvette Larzul; Jean-Gabriel Leturcq; Jessica Marglin; Claire Nicholas; Emmanuelle Perrin; Alain de Pommereau; François Pouillon; Zakaria Rhani; Emmanuel Szurek; Jean-Claude Vatin; Mercedes Volait
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Original French title: Après l'orientalisme : l'Orient créé par l'Orient.
Includes index. :
1 online resource (xiii, 289 pages) :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004282537 :
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Abū ʼl-ʿAbbās al-Lawkarī (d. after 503/1109): Bayān al-ḥaqq bi-ḍamān al-ṣidq. An Early 'Reader' in Avicenna's Philosophy : Al-ʿIlm al-ṭabīʿī 1 & 2: Physics & De caelo. Editio Princeps Based on the Paris...
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This edition comprises the first two books of the natural philosophy section of a unique teacher's manual on Avicenna's philosophy, authored by his second-generation student Abū 'l-ʿAbbās al-Lawkarī (d. after 503/1109). Al-Lawkarī was the person responsible for promoting Avicenna's philosophy in Khorasan at a time when theologians like Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī (d. 505/1111) condemned its most fundamental tenets. The importance of this work lies in al-Lawkarī's endeavour to provide the resources for a condensed yet comprehensive lecture course on Avicenna's philosophy, with the aim of perpetuating his ideas. His covert use of the work of his teacher Bahmanyār (d. 458/1066) is especially noteworthy, here as well as in other sections of this work.
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1 online resource (260 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004725485
Les instruments de musique en Irak et leur role dans la societe traditionnelle /
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258 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-250).
Discography: page 250. :
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Poliorcétique au Proche-Orient à l'âge du bronze : fortifications urbaines, procédés de siège et systèmes defénsifs /
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Added title pages, table of contents, and introductory matter in Arabic.
"Ouvrage publié avec le concours du ministère des Affaires étrangères (DGMDP) et du Centre national de la recherche scientifique (UMIFRE 6, USR 3135)."
Revised version of author's doctoral dissertation, Université de Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, 2010. :
xiv, 307 pages : Illustrations, maps ; 29 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references (pages [273]-299) and indexes. :
9782351593691 :
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Networks and monumentality in the Pacific : proceedings of the XVIII UISPP World Congress (4-9 June 2018, Paris, France), volume 7, session XXXVIII /
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This volume reflects the tremendous progress made in Pacific island archaeology in the last 60 years which has considerably advanced our knowledge of early Pacific island societies, the rise of traditional cultural systems, and their later historical developments from European contact onwards.
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Conference proceedings.
"Available in both print and Open Access"--Homepage.
Also issued in print: 2020. :
1 online resource (vi, 89 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour). :
Specialized. :
Includes bibliographical references. :
9781789697162 (PDF ebook) : :
Open access.
NVMEN, the academic study of religion, and the IAHR : past, present and prospects /
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Nvmen publishes papers representing the most recent scholarship in all areas of the history of religions ranging from antiquity to contemporary history. It covers a diversity of geographical regions and religions of the past as well as of the present. The approach of the journal to the study of religion is strictly non-confessional. While the emphasis lies on empirical, source-based research, typical contributions also address issues that have a wider historical or comparative significance for the advancement of the discipline. Numen also publishes papers that discuss important theoretical innovations in the study of religion and reflective studies on the history of the discipline. Brill is proud to present this special volume of articles compiled to celebrate the occasion of the 60th anniversary of NVMEN: International Review for the History of Religions in 2014. The articles in this volume have been selected under the auspices of the International Association for the History of Religions (IAHR), and reflect critically on the past, present, and future of NVMEN, the IAHR and the study of the History of Religions.
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1 online resource. :
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The arts of ornamental geometry : a Persian compendium on similar and complementary interlocking...
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This collective study focuses on a unique anonymous medieval document on ornamental geometry featuring geometrical constructions and textual instructions in Persian. Selections from the unpublished work of Alpay Özdural (d. 2003) on this subject have been updated with original contributions by Jan P. Hogendijk, Elaheh Kheirandish, Gülru Necipoğlu, and Wheeler M. Thackston. The chapters interpreting this fascinating document are followed, for the first time, by a facsimile, transcription, and translation, as well as drawings of incised construction lines invisible in the photographed facsimile. This publication intersects with the current interest in Islamic geometrical patterning as an inspiration for tessellation and parametrically derived forms in contemporary architecture and the arts. It aims to make this celebrated source more accessible, given its multifaceted relevance to historians of art, architecture, and science, as well as mathematicians, physicists, artists, and architects. For those who wish to obtain a copy of the full, unedited original book manuscript of Alpay Özdural, where he discusses the mathematical properties of all geometrical constructions in the Anonymous Compendium as well as the step-by-step method for drawing each one, his work is available online at https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.5255416
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1 online resource. :
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9789004315204 :
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'The Heathen in his Blindness...', Asia, the West and the Dynamic of Religion.
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Today, most intellectuals agree that (a) Christianity has profoundly influenced western culture; (b) members from different cultures experience many aspects of the world differently; (c) the empirical and theoretical study of both culture and religion emerged within the West. The present study argues that these truisms have implications for the conceptualization of religion and culture. More specifically, the thesis is that non-western cultures and religions differ from the descriptions prevalent in the West, and it is also explained why this has been the case. The author proposes novel analyses of religion, the Roman 'religio', the construction of 'religions' in India, and the nature of cultural differences. Religion is important to the West because the constitution and the identity of western culture is tied to the dynamic of Christianity as a religion.
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1 online resource. :
9789004378865
Do All Roads Lead to Jerusalem? : The Making of Indian Religion /
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Do All Roads Lead to Jerusalem? traces the history of western encounters with other cultures on two occasions - the 'pagans' of Greece and Rome and the 'heathens' in India. The West has produced many descriptions of other cultures. A close examination of these descriptions reveals that they tell us more about western culture than about the cultures the West has attempted to describe. This overarching theme is developed by examining one element in western culture, viz. religion. This book argues that religion is not a cultural universal and the belief that all cultures have religion is an assumption on the part of all scholars of religion. The reason for this is that western culture has been shaped by religion so that members of this culture are conceptually compelled to describe other cultures from within the framework of religion. From Biblical scholarship to the Enlightenment, from the Reformation to the Romantics, from believers to atheists, the cognitive scheme is the same - one that has been set in place by the experiential framework of Christianity. Is it any wonder that members of such a culture saw religion wherever they went? By means of methodical arguments and lucid explanations this book demonstrates that religion is not a cultural universal and explains why it is believed to be so. Scholars in the field of religious and cultural studies will find this work illuminating, original, and deeply compelling.
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1 online resource (308 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004751590
Journal asiatique.
: t. 1-11, juil. 1822-dec. 1827; [2. ser.] t. 1-16, jan. 1828-dec. 1835; 3. ser., t. 1-14, jan. 1836-dec. 1842; 4. ser., t. 1-20, jan. 1843-dec. 1852; 5. ser., t. 1-20, jan. 1853-novolumes/dec. 1862; 6. ser., 6. 1-20, jan./fevolumes 18-63-oct./novolumes/dec. 1872; 7. ser., t. 1-20, jan. 1873-oct./novolumes/dec. 1882; 8. ser., t. 1-20, jan. 1883-novolumes/dec. 1892; 9. ser., t. 1-20, jan./fevolumes 1893-novolumes/dec. 1902; 10. ser., t. 1-20, jan./fevolumes 1903-novolumes/dec. 1912; 11. ser., t. 1-20, jan./fevolumes 1913-oct./d�ec. 1922; t. 202-jan./mars 1923- : volumes illustrations, maps ; 23 cm : 2 no. a year, 1996- : 0021-762X : Ser. 2-3, 1828-42 (issued as ser. 3, v. 14, Nov./Dec. 1842); Ser. 4-5, 1843-62 (issued as ser. 5, v. 20, Nov./Dec. 1862); Ser. 6, 1863-72 (issued as ser. 6, v. 20, Nov./Dec. 1872); Ser. 7, 1873-82 (issued as ser. 7, v. 20, no. 3); Ser. 8, 1883-92, in ser. 8, v. 20; Ser. 9, 1892-1902, in ser. 9, v. 20; Ser. 10, 1903-12, with ser. 10, v. 20; Ser. 11, 1913-22. 1 v.; Vols. 202-221, 1923-32, with v. 220-221; 13. se��r, 1933-42. 1 v.; 14. se��r., 1943-52. 1 v.
Unbridled Calling : A Biography of Alberto Gerchunoff /
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How can a child born in the Russian Pale at the end of the 19th century become one of the most celebrated journalists in Latin America and a writer admired by Jorge Luis Borges? In this biography, Mónica Szurmuk, delves into the different aspects of the life of writer, journalist, and politician Alberto Gerchuinoff. Thoroughly researched in four different continents, this book is as much an account of the life of Alberto Gerchunoff, as an investigation into the Jewish world of the first half of the twentieth century, and the different spaces where Jewish and Latin American cultural and political life intersect.
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1 online resource (306 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004703520