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The Social Lives of Figurines: Recontextualizing the Third Millennium BC Terracotta Figurines from Harappa (Pakistan)
by Sharri R. Clark
After more than 80 years of research, the Indus Civilization (ca. 2600-1900 BC) remains largely enigmatic. In this geographically extensive civilization, which still has no known monumental art and undeciphered texts, the largest corpus of representational art at many Indus sites is terracotta figurines. The figurines are one of the richest sources of information regarding Indus ideology and society. Unfortunately, the figurines often have been ...
Hardback. Not yet published - advance orders taken. Publisher's Price US$40.00, Our Price US$29.95
Epigraphic Approaches to Indus Writing
by Bryan Wells
Epigraphic Approaches to Indus Writing is a comprehensive look at one of the last undeciphered Old World scripts. It has defied decipherment for 90 years because of the terse nature of the texts and the lack of a comprehensive corpus and detailed sign list. This book presents the analysis of a comprehensive, computer-based corpus using the most detailed sign list yet compiled for the Indus script. Custom computer programs allowed the ...
Hardback. Price US$35.00
Seals, Sealings and Tokens from Gandhara
by Harry Falk
Ancient seals say much about people, their names, preferred styles and self-esteem. Over many decades, Aman ur Rahman has built a large collection of seals from North-Western Pakistan, which were produced during Hellenistic times up to the Guptas. He classifies them and explains their pictorial content, while Harry Falk, a professor of Indology at Berlin, reads all epigraphs in Kharosthi and Brahmi and provides an introduction on the scribal ...
Hardback. Price US$151.00
Sheri Khan Tarakai and Early Village Life in the Borderlands of North-West Pakistan: Bannu Archaeological Project Surveys and Excavations 1985-2001
edited by Cameron A. Petrie, with contributions by F. Khan, J.R. Knox, K.D. Thomas and J.C. Morris
Between 1985 and 2001, the collaborative research initiative known as the Bannu Archaeological Project conducted archaeological explorations and excavations in the Bannu region in what was then the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) of Pakistan, now Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. The Project involves scholars from the Pakistan Heritage Society, the British Museum, the Institute of Archaeology (UCL), Bryn Mawr College and the University of Cambridge. ...
Hardback. Price US$80.00
Grounding Knowledge/Walking Land: Archaeological Research and Ethno-historical Identity in Central Nepal
by Christopher Evans, with Judith Pettigrew, Yarjung Kromchain Tamu and Mark Turin
Tracking knowledge down to ground concerned with trail-based archaeology, journeys and histories; this is a volume of both firsts and thick context. At face-value it documents almost a decade of groundbreaking investigations within the Annapurna highlands of Nepal. Including survey recording of fort and settlement sites, from the outset the project's focus was the extraordinary ruins of Kohla Sombre - Kohla, The Three Villages - the ancestral ...
Hardback. Price US$80.00
Archaeology of Seafaring in Ancient South Asia
by Himanshu P. Ray
Himanshu Prabha Ray looks at the maritime orientation of communities of the Indian subcontinent prior to European expansion. She uses archaeological data to reveal the connections between the early history of peninsular South Asia and its Asian and Mediterranean partners in the Indian Ocean region. Differing from traditional works on the subject, the book discusses maritime history in the broader sense of ancient seafaring activity, religious ...
Paperback. Publisher's Price US$45.00, Our Price US$19.98
Fragmented Dhaka: Analysing everyday life with Henri Lefebvres Theory of Production of Space
by Elisa T. Bertuzzo
Bangladesh's capital city Dhaka is one of the world's fastest growing cities, passing from a population of one million to twelve million people in its extended area within three decades (1970-2000). This confronts its inhabitants, observers as well as planners with contradictions that ask for redefining our ways of living in and thinking about the city. In particular, Western conceptions of public space and urban societies are challenged by a ...
Paperback. Price US$89.00
The Baloch and Others: Linguistic, Historical and Socio-Political Perspectives on Pluralism in Balochistan
edited by Carina Jahani, Agnes Korn and Paul Titus
This publication continues the volume, The Baloch and Their Neighbours (Reichert Verlag 2003; special set of these two volumes now available).
Throughout history, Balochistan has been an important contact zone between the Indian Subcontinent and the Iranian Plateau. Today Balochistan is a land divided among several states. It is a region where a variety of languages intermingle, different religions jostle for attention, and ...
Hardback. Price US$100.00
Coins and Token from Ancient Ceylon: Ancient Ruhuna. Sri Lankan-German Archaeological Project in the Southern Province. Vol. 2
by Ronald Walburg; edited by H.-J. Weisshaar, S. Dissanayake, W. Wijeyapala
Coins are our principal source to elucidate both the pattern of trade between Sri Lanka and the western world in late antiquity and the islands monetary and economic history of this period. Of the specimens discovered in Sri Lankan soil only two sorts were of significance: Indian silver punch-marked coins and their imitations were used as an all purpose money or general currency, whereas Late Roman chicken feed copper coins and their imitations ...
Hardback. Price US$140.00
Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde Südasiens LI/2007-2008: Vienna Journal of South Asian Studies LI/2007-2008
edited by Gerhard Oberhammer, Karin Preisendanz, and Chlodwig H. Werba
Contents include:
G. Jan Meulenbeld, A Quest for Poison Trees in Indian Literature, Along with Notes on Some Plants and Animals of the Kautiliya Arthasastra; Eva Allinger, A Pala-Period Astasahasrika Prajnaparamita Manuscript Distributed Between Five Collections; Philipp Maas, The Concepts of the Human Body and Disease in Classical Yoga and Ayurveda; Cristina Pecchia, Is the Buddha Like "a Man in the Street"? Dharmakirti's Answer; Ernst ...
Paperback. Price US$70.00
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