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Cinematic Histospheres: on the theory and practice of Historical Films
In this Open Access book, film scholar Rasmus Greiner develops a theoretical model for the concept of the histosphere to refer to the “sphere” of a cinematically modelled, physically experienceable historical world. His analysis of practices of modelling and perceiving, immersion and empathy, experience and remembering, appropriation and refiguration, combine approaches from film studies, s…
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- 9783030705909
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- xvi, 219p.: ill.
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- 791.43 GRE c
Developing heritage - developing countries : Ethiopian nation-building and th…
The history of development has paid only little attention to cultural projects. This book looks at the development politics that shaped the UNESCO World Heritage programme, with a case study of Ethiopian World Heritage sites from the 1960s to the 1980s. In a large-scale conservation and tourism planning project, selected sites were set up and promoted as images of the Ethiopian nation. This sto…
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- 9783110681017
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- XII, 204 p.
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- Africa in Global History, 1
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- 963 HUB d
Occult roots of religious studies: on the Influence of non-hegemonic currents…
The historiographers of religious studies have written the history of this discipline primarily as a rationalization of ideological, most prominently theological and phenomenological ideas: first through the establishment of comparative, philological and sociological methods and secondly through the demand for intentional neutrality. This interpretation caused important roots in occult-esoteric…
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- 9783110664270
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- XII, 283 p.
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- 201.5 OCC o
Asianisms: regionalist interactions and Asian integration
At the core of this book is a seemingly simple question: What is Asia? the answer involves an investigation of the multifarious discursive and material constructions of Asia within the region and in the West. It reconstructs regional constellations, intersections and relations in their national, transnational and global contexts. Moving far beyond the more well-known Japanese Pan-Asianism of th…
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- 9789971698591
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- ix, 283p.:
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- 950 ASI a
Animism, materiality, and museums: how do Byzantine things feel?
Among our most cherished modern assumptions is our distance from the material world we claim to love or, alternately, to dominate and own. As both devotional tool and art object, the Byzantine icon is rendered complicit in this distancing. According to well-established theological and scholarly explanations, the icon is a window onto the divine: it focuses and directs our minds to a higher unde…
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- 9781942401742
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- x, 167p.: ill.
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- 709.0214 PEE a
Mesopotamian eye disease texts : the nineveh treatise
There is to date no comprehensive treatment of eye disease texts from ancient Mesopotamia, and no English translation of this material is available. This volume is the first complete edition and commentary on Mesopotamian medicine from Nineveh dealing with diseases of the eye. This ancient work, languishing in British Museum archives since the 19th century, is preserved on several large cuneifo…
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- 9781501506550
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- XII, 404 p.
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- Die babylonisch-assyrische Medizin in Texten und Untersuchungen
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- 610 GEL m
A sociology of transnational constitutions : social foundations of the post-n…
This volume focuses on the rise of transnational constitutional laws, primarily created by the interaction between national and international courts, and by the domestic transformation of international law. Through detailed analysis of patterns of institutional formation at key historical junctures in a number of national societies, it examines the social processes that have locked national sta…
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- 9781139833905
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- x, 520p. : ill.
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- 342.029 THO s
Primary sources and Asian pasts
This conference volume unites a wide range of scholars from diverse fields in an effort to explore new perspectives and methods in the study of primary sources from the premodern world. It represents the culmination of the ERC's Synergy project Asia Beyond Boundaries, a research consortium of the British Museum, the British Library and the School of Oriental and African Studies, in partnership …
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- 9783110674088
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- X, 389 p.
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- Beyond Boundaries, 8
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- 950 PRI p
Genetic resources, justice and reconciliation : Canada and global access and …
When the oral history of a medicinal plant as a genetic resource is used to develop a blockbuster drug, how is the contribution of indigenous peoples recognized in research and commercialization? What other ethical, legal, and policy issues come into play? Is it accurate for countries to self-identify as users or providers of genetic resources? This edited collection, which focuses on Canada, i…
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- 9781108557122
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- xix, 279p. : ill.
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- 346.710469534 GEN g
Using ostraca in the ancient world : new discoveries and methodologies
Throughout Egypt’s long history, pottery sherds and flakes of limestone were commonly used for drawings and short-form texts in a number of languages. These objects are conventionally called ostraca, and thousands of them have been and continue to be discovered. This volume highlights some of the methodologies that have been developed for analyzing the archaeological contexts, material aspect…
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- 9783110712902
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- VI, 245 p.
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- Materiale Textkulturen, 32
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- 930 USI u
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