Symbolische Repräsentation und Wirklichkeit nomadischen Lebens

Symbolische Repräsentation und Wirklichkeit nomadischen Lebens

Author: Ute Pietruschka

Publisher: Dr Ludwig Reichert

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9783895006579

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English description: This essay collection brings together contributions from two research colloquia of the Collaborative Research Center "Difference and Integration. The interaction between nomadic and settled forms of life in the civilizations of the Old World", based at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg and the University of Leipzig. The colloquium "Symbolic Representations of Nomadic Identities" examined to what extent the representation of nomadic life from the "external" perspective of settled communities and the nomadic "internal" perspective has taken a symbolic form. The colloquium "Camel, Horse and Reindeer - Herd Animals and the Mobility of Nomads" engaged with the topic of nomad herd animals, which symbolically represent nomadic life and are also an essential element of the reality of nomadic life. German description: Der vorliegende Band vereint Beitrage zweier Kolloquien des Sonderforschungsbereichs 586 "Differenz und Integration. Wechselwirkungen zwischen nomadischen und sesshaften Lebensformen in Zivilisationen der Alten Welt" der Martin-Luther-Universitat Halle-Wittenberg und der Universitat Leipzig. Das Kolloquium "Symbolic Representations of Nomadic Identities" untersuchte, inwiefern die Reprasentation nomadischen Lebens in der sesshaften "Aussensicht" wie auch der nomadischen "Innensicht" symbolisch gepragt sein kann. Das Kolloquium "Kamel, Pferd und Rentier - Herdentiere und die Mobilitat der Nomaden" beschaftigte sich mit den nomadischen Herdentieren, die nomadisches Leben symbolisch reprasentieren und zugleich essentieller Bestandteil nomadischer Lebenswirklichkeit sind.


Camels in the Biblical World

Camels in the Biblical World

Author: Martin Heide

Publisher: Penn State Press

Published: 2021-07-20

Total Pages: 433

ISBN-13: 1646021703

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Camels are first mentioned in the Bible as the movable property of Abraham. During the early monarchy, they feature prominently as long-distance mounts for the Queen of Sheba, and almost a millennium later, the Gospels tell us about the impossibility of a camel passing through a needle’s eye. Given the limited extrabiblical evidence for camels before circa 1000 BCE, a thorough investigation of the spatio-temporal history of the camel in the ancient Near and Middle East is necessary to understand their early appearance in the Hebrew Bible. Camels in the Biblical World is a two-part study that charts the cultural trajectories of two domestic species—the two-humped or Bactrian camel (Camelus bactrianus) and the one-humped or Arabian camel (Camelus dromedarius)—from the fourth through first millennium BCE and up to the first century CE. Drawing on archaeological camel remains, iconography, inscriptions, and other text sources, the first part reappraises the published data on the species’ domestication and early exploitation in their respective regions of origin. The second part takes a critical look at the various references to camels in the Hebrew Bible and the Gospels, providing a detailed philological analysis of each text and referring to archaeological data and zoological observations whenever appropriate. A state-of-the-art evaluation of the cultural history of the camel and its role in the biblical world, this volume brings the humanities into dialogue with the natural sciences. The novel insights here serve scholars in disciplines as diverse as biblical studies, (zoo)archaeology, history, and philology.


Barāqish/Yathill (Yemen) 1986-2007

Barāqish/Yathill (Yemen) 1986-2007

Author: Sabina Antonini

Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd

Published: 2021-05-06

Total Pages: 944

ISBN-13: 178969471X

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This richly illustrated volume presents the remarkable results of the Italian Archaeological Mission's investigations at the site of the walled town of Barāqish in interior Yemen, ancient Yathill of the Sabaeans and Minaeans, between 1986 and 2007.


SlaveCity

SlaveCity

Author: Joep van Lieshout

Publisher:

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 165

ISBN-13: 9781900829267

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the albion gallery, london presents a large show of ink on canvas drawings made by joep van lieshout, the founder of atelier van lieshout, along with several large models, made by atelier van lieshout. the show is all about life and work in slavecity, a dystopian metropolis. joep van lieshout has been developing this project since 2005.together with the exhibition a publication of new and recent drawings of joep van lieshout will be presented. it is the first publication of drawings of joep van lieshout (19 color and 64 b&w illustrations). the book features a conversation between joep van lieshout and winy maas, architect and one of the founders of architect office MVRDV, based in rotterdam.


The Shaping of Arithmetic after C.F. Gauss's Disquisitiones Arithmeticae

The Shaping of Arithmetic after C.F. Gauss's Disquisitiones Arithmeticae

Author: Catherine Goldstein

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2007-02-03

Total Pages: 579

ISBN-13: 3540347208

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Since its publication, C.F. Gauss's Disquisitiones Arithmeticae (1801) has acquired an almost mythical reputation, standing as an ideal of exposition in notation, problems and methods; as a model of organisation and theory building; and as a source of mathematical inspiration. Eighteen authors - mathematicians, historians, philosophers - have collaborated in this volume to assess the impact of the Disquisitiones, in the two centuries since its publication.


Aesthetic Anxiety

Aesthetic Anxiety

Author: Laurie Ruth Johnson

Publisher: Brill Rodopi

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 267

ISBN-13: 9789042031135

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Aesthetic Anxiety analyzes uncanny repetition in psychology, literature, philosophy, and film, and produces a new narrative about the centrality of aesthetics in modern subjectivity. The often horrible, but sometimes also enjoyable, experience of anxiety can be an aesthetic mode as well as a psychological state. Johnson's elucidation of that state in texts by authors from Kant to Rilke demonstrates how estrangement can produce attachment, and repositions Romanticism as an engine of modernity.


Aerocene

Aerocene

Author: Eva Horn

Publisher: Skira Editore

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9788857234731

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The Aerocene project consists of a series of airborne sculptures that will achieve the longest emissions-free journey around the world becoming buoyant only by the heat of the Sun and infrared radiation from the surface of Earth.


Literature Matters

Literature Matters

Author: J. Hillis Miller

Publisher:

Published: 2020-10-09

Total Pages: 170

ISBN-13: 9781013286421

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This new collection of J. Hillis Miller's essays centres on the question "why and to what end should we read, teach, and spend our time with literary and/or cultural studies?" At a time when electronic media seem to dominate the market completely, and jobs follow the money flows into electronic and technical fields, literary and cultural studies might appear as a decorative addenda but not really necessary for the process of growth and development, neither in business nor in the area of personal development. This question is not really new, it has many facets, requires differentiated answers which depend and mirror the political and cultural climate of a society. This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.


The Freedom of the Migrant

The Freedom of the Migrant

Author: Vilem Flusser

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 2003-04-02

Total Pages: 142

ISBN-13: 9780252028175

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"The Freedom of the Migrant presents a series of reflections on national, ethnic, and cultural identity, offering a unique perspective on such topics as communication, nomadism, housing, nationalism, migrant cultures, and Jewish identity."--BOOK JACKET.


Germania Semitica

Germania Semitica

Author: Theo Vennemann gen. Nierfeld

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 764

ISBN-13: 3110301091

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Germania Semitica explores prehistoric language contact in general, and attempts to identify the languages involved in shaping Germanic in particular. The book deals with a topic outside the scope of other disciplines concerned with prehistory, such as archaeology and genetics, drawing its conclusions from the linguistic evidence alone, relying on language typology and areal probability. The data for reconstruction comes from Germanic syntax, phonology, etymology, religious loan names, and the writing system, more precisely from word order, syntactic constructions, word formation, irregularities in phonological form, lexical peculiarities, and the structure and rules of the Germanic runic alphabet. It is demonstrated that common descent is neither a necessary nor a sufficient condition for reconstruction. Instead, lexical and structural parallels between Germanic and Semitic languages are explored and interpreted in the framework of modern language contact theory.