Julfār, an Arabian Port
Author: John Hansman
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 146
ISBN-13: 0947593012
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1985. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Archaeology
Author: Bethany Walker
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2020-10-27
Total Pages: 1024
ISBN-13: 0199987882
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBorn from the fields of Islamic art and architectural history, the archaeological study of the Islamic societies is a relatively young discipline. With its roots in the colonial periods of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, its rapid development since the 1980s warrants a reevaluation of where the field stands today. This Handbook represents for the first time a survey of Islamic archaeology on a global scale, describing its disciplinary development and offering candid critiques of the state of the field today in the Central Islamic Lands, the Islamic West, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Asia. The international contributors to the volume address such themes as the timing and process of Islamization, the problems of periodization and regionalism in material culture, cities and countryside, cultural hybridity, cultural and religious diversity, natural resource management, international trade in the later historical periods, and migration. Critical assessments of the ways in which archaeologists today engage with Islamic cultural heritage and local communities closes the volume, highlighting the ethical issues related to studying living cultures and religions. Richly illustrated, with extensive citations, it is the reference work on the debates that drive the field today.
The Archaeology of Identities
Author: Timothy Insoll
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007-01-24
Total Pages: 350
ISBN-13: 1134120516
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis definitive sourcebook collates seminal articles from this increasingly important field, to present a comprehensive and well-balanced representation of approaches and interests in a single volume for students, lecturers and researchers.
Slaves of One Master
Author: Matthew S. Hopper
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2015-01-01
Total Pages: 319
ISBN-13: 0300192010
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMatthew S. Hopper's wide-ranging history of the African diaspora and slavery in Arabia in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries examines the interconnected themes of enslavement, globalization, and empire, and challenges previously held conventions regarding Middle Eastern slavery and British imperialism. Linking the personal stories of enslaved Africans to the impersonal global commodity chains their labor enabled, this provocative and deeply researched study contradicts the conventional historiography that regards the Indian Ocean slave trade as fundamentally different from its Atlantic counterpart and disputes the triumphalist antislavery narrative that attributes the end of the East African–Persian Gulf slave trade to the efforts of the British Royal Navy.
The Archaeology of Plural and Changing Identities
Author: Eleanor Casella
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2005-09-08
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9780306486944
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs people move through life, they continually shift affiliation from one position to another, dependent on the wider contexts of their interactions. Different forms of material culture may be employed as affiliations shift, and the connotations of any given set of artifacts may change. In this volume the authors explore these overlapping spheres of social affiliation. Social actors belong to multiple identity groups at any moment in their life. It is possible to deploy one or many potential labels in describing the identities of such an actor. Two main axes exist upon which we can plot experiences of social belonging – the synchronic and the diachronic. Identities can be understood as multiple during one moment (or the extended moment of brief interaction), over the span of a lifetime, or over a specific historical trajectory. From the Introduction The international contributions each illuminate how the various identifiers of race, ethnicity, sexuality, age, class, gender, personhood, health, and/or religion are part of both material expressions of social affiliations, and transient experiences of identity. The Archaeology of Plural and Changing Identities: Beyond Identification will be of great interest to archaeologists, anthropologists, historians, curators and other social scientists interested in the mutability of identification through material remains.
The Persian Gulf in History
Author: L. Potter
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2009-01-05
Total Pages: 323
ISBN-13: 0230618456
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExploring the history of the Persian Gulf from ancient times until the present day, leading authorities treat the internal history of the region and describe the role outsiders have played there. The book focuses on the unity and identity of Gulf society and how the Gulf historically has been part of a cosmopolitan Indian Ocean world.
Gulf in World History
Author: Allen James Fromherz
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2018-07-31
Total Pages: 481
ISBN-13: 1474430686
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnalyses of Ranciere's philosophy and its potential for understanding the conversation between contemporary politics and art cinema
Introduction to Islamic Archaeology
Author: Marcus Milwright
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2010-02-05
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 0748629955
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTraces archaeology's contribution to Islamic culture from its earliest manifestations to the present This introduction to the archaeology of the Islamic world traces the history of the discipline from its earliest manifestations through to the present and evaluates the contribution made by archaeology to the understanding of key aspects of Islamic culture. The author argues that it is essential for the results of archaeological research to be more fully integrated into the wider historical study of the Islamic world. His organisation of the book into broad themes allows a focus on issues that are relevant across different regions and periods, and the broad geographical scope reflects the main focus of archaeological work in the Islamic world to the present day. Key Features Includes short case studies to allow the reader to examine the ways in which archaeologists collect and interpret material in specific contexts Considers archaeological work conducted in the area stretching from Afghanistan and the Central Asian republics in the east to Spain in the west Draws comparisons with Islamic regions of sub-Saharan Africa and the Indian subcontinent Includes a Glossary of archaeological terminology and Arabic, Persian and Turkish terms
Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies
Author: Honarary Research Fellow Centre for Middle East and Islamic Studies Janet Starkey
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 412
ISBN-13:
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The Materiality of Color
Author: Andrea Feeser
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-07-05
Total Pages: 440
ISBN-13: 1351542737
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlthough much has been written on the aesthetic value of color, there are other values that adhere to it with economic and social values among them. Through case studies of particular colors and colored objects, this volume demonstrates just how complex the history of color is by focusing on the diverse social and cultural meanings of color; the trouble, pain, and suffering behind the production and application of these colors; the difficult technical processes for making and applying color; and the intricacy of commercial exchanges and knowledge transfers as commodities and techniques moved from one region to another. By emphasizing color's materiality, the way in which it was produced, exchanged, and used by artisans, artists, and craftspersons, contributors draw attention to the disjuncture between the beauty of color and the blood, sweat, and tears that went into its production, circulation, and application as well as to the complicated and varied social meanings attached to color within specific historical and social contexts. This book captures color's global history with chapters on indigo plantations in India and the American South, cochineal production in colonial Oaxaca, the taste for brightly colored Chinese objects in Europe, and the thriving trade in vermilion between Europeans and Native Americans. To underscore the complexity of the technical knowledge behind color production, there are chapters on the 'discovery' of Prussian blue, Brazilian feather techn?and wallpaper production. To sound the depths of color's capacity for social and cultural meaning-making, there are chapters that explore the significance of black ink in Shakespeare's sonnets, red threads in women's needlework samplers, blues in Mayan sacred statuary, and greens and yellows in colored glass bracelets that were traded across the Arabian desert in the late Middle Ages. The purpose of this book is to recover color's complex-and sometimes morally troubling-past, and in doing so,
