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…
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 …
This book is the first political biography of Aung San Suu Kyi covering both her years in opposition and all her years in power from 2016 onwards. It offers a new interpretation of Aung San Suu Kyi by presenting a balanced and thorough account of Suu Kyi’s policies. In the last 30 years there has not been a person in global politics who has risen so high and fallen so low – and so quickly â…
The contributions to this book address a series of ´confrontations`—debates between intellectual communities, the interplay of texts and images, and the intersection of monumental architecture and physical terrain—and explore the ways in which the legacy of these encounters, and the human responses to them, conditioned cultural production in early South Asia (c. 4th-7th centuries CE).
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…
Situated at the disciplinary boundary between prehistory and history, this book presents a new synthesis of Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Greece, from the rise and fall of Mycenaean civilization, through the "Dark Age," and up to the emergence of city-states in the Archaic period. This period saw the growth and decline of varied political systems and the development of networks that would …
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…
Through the study of archaeological, ethnographic, linguistic, and historical evidence from northern Peru to northern Chile, Bolivia, and northwest Argentina, the authors in this volume show the significance of ritual from pre-contact to present day in the Andes. These volume essays deal with theoretical and methodological concerns in anthropology and archaeology including non-human and human a…
Buku ini menggambarkan motif dalam cerita asal-usul suku dan nenek moyang yang terdapat di pulau Alor, Pura, dan Pantar Kabupaten Alor, NTT. Adapun beberapa motif yang terdapat dalam cerita asal-usul nenek moyang yang berhasil dikumpulkan dalam penelitian ini meliputi motif nenek moyang turun dari langit, nenek moyang sebagai pencipta, penjelmaan makhluk, kepemilikan benda ajaib, nenek moyang m…
Buku biografi berjudul Paul Permadi : Sang Penggagas Presidential Library merupakan bentuk apresiasi dan pengakuan atas jasa dan kontribusi Paul Permadi dalam dunia perpustakaan dan kepustakawan Indonesia. Sebagai tokoh kepustakawanan yang sukses, beliau adalah figur yang layak menjadi teladan karena pengetahuan dan pengalamannya yang luas, serta atas kepedulian dan sumbangsihnya dalam bida…