Cleaning and Value
Interdisciplinary Investigations
Edited by Isabel Bredenbröker, Christina Hanzen, Felix Kotzur | 2020
This volume combines scholarly contributions on the relation between values and cleaning processes in different places, cultures and times. The core disciplines are archaeology and anthropology with interdisciplinary additions from sinology, classic philology, philosophy, sociology…
Hellenistic Architecture and Human Action
A Case of Reciprocal Influence
Edited by Annette Haug & Asja Müller | 2020
This book examines the mutual influence of architecture and human action during a key period of history: the Hellenistic age. During this era, the profound transformations in the Mediterranean’s archaeological and historical record are detectable,…
Pandemien und Krisen
Entfernte Zeiten so nah
Edited by Lutz Käppel, Cheryl Makarewicz & Johannes Müller | 2020
Archäologie leistet einen Beitrag für das gesellschaftliche Verständnis von Krisen, einschließlich gegenwärtiger und potentieller zukünftiger Notlagen. Auch Krankheiten wie Pandemien wurden und werden von der Archäologie in vergangenen Gesellschaften beobachtet. Einige solche Beispiele finden sich…
Pandemics and Crises Reloaded
Distant Times So Close
Edited by Lutz Käppel, Cheryl Makarewicz & Johannes Müller | 2020
Archaeology is all about how the present came into existence. Thus, it contributes to the social understanding of crises, including present and potential future adversities. Even diseases, such as pandemics in past societies, were and…
Ci, Gender and Social Change among the Asmat of Papua, Indonesia
Onesius Otenieli Daeli | 2020
Ci is the Asmat word for dugout canoe. The ci is an integral part of the everyday life of the Asmat – an ethnic group residing in eastern Indonesia in Papua province (formerly Irian Jaya)…
Stereotype
The role of grave sets in Corded Ware and Bell Beaker funerary practices
Karsten Wentink | 2020
Throughout northern Europe, thousands of burial mounds were erected in the third millennium BCE. Starting in the Corded Ware culture, individual people were being buried underneath these mounds, often equipped with an almost rigid set…
The Compassionate Bodhisattva
Unique Southeast Asian images of the Bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara
Sofia Sundström | 2020
Southeast Asia has a long history with Buddhism that continues to the present day. Centuries ago, Buddhism spread to various areas of Southeast Asia, where some of the greatest Buddhist images and monuments were produced…
Cleaning and Value
Interdisciplinary Investigations
Edited by Isabel Bredenbröker, Christina Hanzen, Felix Kotzur | 2020
This volume combines scholarly contributions on the relation between values and cleaning processes in different places, cultures and times. The core disciplines are archaeology and anthropology with interdisciplinary additions from sinology, classic philology, philosophy, sociology…
Hellenistic Architecture and Human Action
A Case of Reciprocal Influence
Edited by Annette Haug & Asja Müller | 2020
This book examines the mutual influence of architecture and human action during a key period of history: the Hellenistic age. During this era, the profound transformations in the Mediterranean’s archaeological and historical record are detectable,…
Pandemien und Krisen
Entfernte Zeiten so nah
Edited by Lutz Käppel, Cheryl Makarewicz & Johannes Müller | 2020
Archäologie leistet einen Beitrag für das gesellschaftliche Verständnis von Krisen, einschließlich gegenwärtiger und potentieller zukünftiger Notlagen. Auch Krankheiten wie Pandemien wurden und werden von der Archäologie in vergangenen Gesellschaften beobachtet. Einige solche Beispiele finden sich…
Pandemics and Crises Reloaded
Distant Times So Close
Edited by Lutz Käppel, Cheryl Makarewicz & Johannes Müller | 2020
Archaeology is all about how the present came into existence. Thus, it contributes to the social understanding of crises, including present and potential future adversities. Even diseases, such as pandemics in past societies, were and…
Ci, Gender and Social Change among the Asmat of Papua, Indonesia
Onesius Otenieli Daeli | 2020
Ci is the Asmat word for dugout canoe. The ci is an integral part of the everyday life of the Asmat – an ethnic group residing in eastern Indonesia in Papua province (formerly Irian Jaya)…
Stereotype
The role of grave sets in Corded Ware and Bell Beaker funerary practices
Karsten Wentink | 2020
Throughout northern Europe, thousands of burial mounds were erected in the third millennium BCE. Starting in the Corded Ware culture, individual people were being buried underneath these mounds, often equipped with an almost rigid set…
The Compassionate Bodhisattva
Unique Southeast Asian images of the Bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara
Sofia Sundström | 2020
Southeast Asia has a long history with Buddhism that continues to the present day. Centuries ago, Buddhism spread to various areas of Southeast Asia, where some of the greatest Buddhist images and monuments were produced…
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