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Author: Timothy Insoll
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-10-28
Total Pages: 601
ISBN-13: 1136774971
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 2005. This study results from an intensive years fieldwork completed in Bahrain in 2001. This comprised two seasons of both excavations and surveys (February-May and September-November), separated by the Bahraini summer when it was deemed too hot to work effectively in the field.
Author: Vilas Sarang
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Published: 1993
Total Pages: 208
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the story of Pramod, a young Indian, who, like many others, goes to the USA hoping to live a more meaningful life, but is quickly disillusioned and, in desperation, opts for a totally unknown place which happens to be Basra in Iraq. This is an area of the world known as the cradle of human civilization , the land of Enki, who was an all-powerful Sumerian god the ancient mythical equivalent of today s totalitarian dictators. Pramod s existential concerns quickly fade away as he awakens to the political reality around him. Observing the effects of a repressive regime on everyday human life, he begins to think of individual freedom as the most essential value till subsequent experiences make him feel that the alternative to an iron order is often not freedom but chaos. It seems to be a choice of nightmares . Pramod s gradually deepening awareness is a process anyone can easily identify with, just as the absence of easy solutions is a condition we have come to accept. A political novel in the broader sense, this book, in a quiet probing manner, raises more questions than it answers. Vilas Sarang is a leading novelist and academic. A bilingual writer, Sarang has published several books in Marathi and English. The original Marathi of In the Land of Enki won a Maharashtra Government award and the D. B. Mokashi Memorial award.
Author: Karen Eva Carr
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Published: 2022-07-18
Total Pages: 456
ISBN-13: 1789145775
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA deep dive into the history of aquatics that exposes centuries-old tensions of race, gender, and power at the root of many contemporary swimming controversies. Shifting Currents is an original and comprehensive history of swimming. It examines the tension that arose when non-swimming northerners met African and Southeast Asian swimmers. Using archaeological, textual, and art-historical sources, Karen Eva Carr shows how the water simultaneously attracted and repelled these northerners—swimming seemed uncanny, related to witchcraft and sin. Europeans used Africans’ and Native Americans’ swimming skills to justify enslaving them, but northerners also wanted to claim water’s power for themselves. They imagined that swimming would bring them health and demonstrate their scientific modernity. As Carr reveals, this unresolved tension still sexualizes women’s swimming and marginalizes Black and Indigenous swimmers today. Thus, the history of swimming offers a new lens through which to gain a clearer view of race, gender, and power on a centuries-long scale.
Author: Peter van Dommelen
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010-09-23
Total Pages: 406
ISBN-13: 1136903453
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMaterial Connections eschews outdated theory, tainted by colonialist attitudes, and develops a new cultural and historical understanding of how factors such as mobility, materiality, conflict and co-presence impacted on the formation of identity in the ancient Mediterranean. Fighting against ‘hyper-specialisation’ within the subject area, it explores the multiple ways that material culture was used to establish, maintain and alter identities, especially during periods of transition, culture encounter and change. A new perspective is adopted, one that perceives the use of material culture by prehistoric and historic Mediterranean peoples in formulating and changing their identities. It considers how objects and social identities are entangled in various cultural encounters and interconnections. The movement of people as well as objects has always stood at the heart of attempts to understand the courses and process of human history. The Mediterranean offers a wealth of such information and Material Connections, expanding on this base, offers a dynamic, new subject of enquiry – the social identify of prehistoric and historic Mediterranean people – and considers how migration, colonial encounters, and connectivity or insularity influence social identities. The volume includes a series of innovative, closely related case studies that examine the contacts amongst various Mediterranean islands – Sardinia, Corsica, Sicily, Crete, Cyprus, the Balearics – and the nearby shores of Italy, Greece, North Africa, Spain and the Levant to explore the social and cultural impact of migratory, colonial and exchange encounters. Material Connections forges a new path in understanding the material culture of the Mediterranean and will be essential for those wishing to develop their understanding of material culture and identity in the Mediterranean.
Author: Sebastian Maisel
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2009-02-17
Total Pages: 606
ISBN-13: 0313344434
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis extremely timely and helpful ready reference will familiarize all students and readers with the Gulf region and Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Dubai, the UAE, Kuwait, Oman, Yemen, and Qatar. These states are bound by the desert culture, the Gulf, new oil economy, and Islam, to name some commonalities. Most Americans know something about the region, such as oases, dates, camels, oil, Bedouin tribes, and the legends of Lawrence of Arabia to Osama bin Laden. Islamic concepts and practices are still unfamiliar. On one extreme, Saudi Arabia, the cradle of Islam, has been largely closed off to Western tourists. On the other extreme, Dubai courts tourist dollars as it constructs modern architectural showcases. This is the first A-Z encyclopedia to focus on the Gulf, illuminating the land, people, religion, culture and traditions, institutions, economy, and much more for general readers. The more than 200 essay entries have a current focus with historical context as necessary. The breadth of coverage means that this resource will be of use for a wide range of researchers and browsers. Besides individual entries on each state, major cities and regions are also profiled. The natural environment and human adaptation to it receives significant space. Islamic customs and rules and various interpretations are clearly explained. Essays on topics such as key public figures, institutions, major events, politics, and state structures—some based on sources often not available in English—make this two-volume set the first-choice resource for accurate information. Suggestions for further reading accompany most entries; a chronology, selected bibliography, and photos also complement the text.
Author: Serge Cleuziou
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Published: 2021-01-14
Total Pages: 582
ISBN-13: 1789697891
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book, first published in 2007, offered the first and only summary of decades of archaeological research in the Oman Peninsula. The original eleven chapters are expanded and enhanced in this new edition by a number of new ‘windows’, written by a new generation of scholars, in order to include more recent research and interpretations.
Author: Seth M. N. Priestman
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Published: 2023-10-31
Total Pages: 513
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis monograph comprises the final publication of a study supported by the British Institute of Persian Studies and undertaken by Seth Priestman and Derek Kennet at the University of Durham. The work presents and analyses an assemblage of just under 17,000 sherds of pottery and associated paper archives resulting from one of the largest and most comprehensive surveys ever undertaken on the historic archaeology of southern Iran. The survey was undertaken by Andrew George Williamson (1945–1975), a doctoral student at Oxford University between 1968 and 1971, at a time of great progress and rapid advance in the archaeological exploration of Iran. The monograph provides new archaeological evidence on the long-term development of settlement in Southern Iran, in particular the coastal region, from the Sasanian period to around the 17th century. The work provides new insights into regional settlement patterns and changing ceramic distribution, trade and use. A large amount of primary data is presented covering an extensive area from Minab to Bushehr along the coast and inland as far as Sirjan. This includes information on a number of previously undocumented archaeological sites, as well as a detailed description and analysis of the ceramic finds, which underpin the settlement evidence and provide a wider source of reference. By collecting carefully controlled archaeological evidence related to the size, distribution and period of occupation of urban and rural settlements distributed across southern Iran, Williamson aimed to reconstruct the broader historical development of the region. Due to his early death the work was never completed. The key aims of the authors of this volume were to do justice to Williamson’s remarkable vision and efforts on the one hand, and at the same time to bring this important new evidence to ongoing discussions about the development of southern Iran through the Sasanian and Islamic periods.
Author: John Moreland
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Published: 2017-10-09
Total Pages: 366
ISBN-13: 178491682X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRichard Hodges, one of Europe’s preeminent archaeologists, has, throughout his career, transformed the way we understand the early Middle Ages; this volume pays tribute to him with a series of reflections on some of the themes and issues which have been central to his work over the last forty years.
Author: Karen Exell
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-04-22
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13: 131715648X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHeritage projects in the Arabian Peninsula are developing rapidly. Museums and heritage sites are symbols of shifting national identities, and a way of placing the Arabian Peninsula states on the international map. Global, i.e. Western, heritage standards and practices have been utilised for the rapid injection of heritage expertise in museum development and site management and for international recognition. The use of Western heritage models in the Arabian Peninsula inspires two key areas for research which this book examines: the obscuring of indigenous concepts and practices of heritage and expressions of cultural identity; and the tensions between local/community concepts of heritage and identity and the new national identities being constructed through museums and heritage sites at a state level.
Author: Mark Juergensmeyer
Publisher: SAGE
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 1529
ISBN-13: 0761927298
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents entries A to L of a two-volume encyclopedia discussing religion around the globe, including biographies, concepts and theories, places, social issues, movements, texts, and traditions.
