Cultural Studies
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The Shepherd, the Volk, and the Middle Class: Transformations of Pastoral in German-Language Writing, 1750-1850 [Hardback]
Elystan Griffiths(Author)
$99.00ISBN: 9781640140646
Published by : Camden House
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
Volume: 210
European pastoral tradition traces its roots to Theocritus's Idylls and Virgil's Eclogues, which portrayed herdsmen pursuing love and art. While the lives of shepherds, or of country folk generally, remain the ostensible subject of p... .... Learn More -
The Fight for Greek Sicily: Society, Politics, and Landscape [Paperback]
Melanie Jonasch(Editor)
$70.00Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9781789253566
Published by : Oxbow Books
The island of Sicily was a highly contested area throughout much of its history. Among the first to exert strong influence on its political, cultural, infrastructural, and demographic developments were the two major decentralized civilizations of ... .... Learn More -
Art in the Archaeological Imagination [Paperback]
Dragos Gheorghiu(Editor)
$49.99Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9781789253528
Published by : Oxbow Books
The present volume shows the archaeological thinking as a form of art, revealing the poetics of the archaeological imagination. It shows that, in their work, archaeologists, without being inspired by contemporary artists, use creative methods, and... .... Learn More -
Travelling Ideas in the Long Nineteenth Century [Paperback]
Petra Broomans(Editor); Janke Klok(Editor)
$49.95ISBN: 9789492444936
Published by : Barkhuis
Series: Studies in Cultural Transfer and Transmission
Volume: 8
Travelling Ideas in the Long Nineteenth Century is about how ideas travel on the waves of cultural transfer. The volume focuses in particular on the exchange of ideas, knowledge and culture between the Nordic countries and continental Europ... .... Learn More -
Early Christianity in South-West Britain: Wessex, Somerset, Devon, Cornwall and the Channel Islands [Paperback]
Elizabeth Rees(Author)
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ISBN: 9781911188551
Published by : Windgather Press
This book offers a new assessment of early Christianity in south-west Britain from the fourth to the tenth centuries, a rich period which includes the transition from Roman to native British to Saxon models of church. The book will be based on evi... .... Learn More -
A Taste for Green: A global perspective on ancient jade, turquoise and variscite exchange [Hardback]
Carlos Rodríguez-Rellán(Editor); Ben A. Nelson(Editor); Ramón Fábregas Valcarce(Editor)
$70.00Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9781789252743
Published by : Oxbow Books
Often along vast expanses, ancient societies traded certain commodities that were considered valuable either for functional or symbolic reasons – or, rather, a mixture of both factors. A Taste for Green addresses latest research into ... .... Learn More -
The Arras Culture of Eastern Yorkshire – Celebrating the Iron Age: Proceedings of “Arras 200 – celebrating the Iron Age.” Royal Archaeological Institute Annual Conference [Paperback]
Peter Halkon(Editor)
$55.00Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9781789252583
Published by : Oxbow Books
In 1817 a group of East Yorkshire gentry opened barrows in a large Iron Age cemetery on the Yorkshire Wolds at Arras, near Market Weighton, including a remarkable burial accompanied by a chariot with two horses, which became known as the King&rsqu... .... Learn More -
The Native Greenlander: Folktales of Greenland [Paperback]
Heinrich Rink(Editor); Aron of Kangeq(Illustrator)
$20.00ISBN: 9780996748087
Published by : International Polar Institute
The remarkable oral tradition of the Inuit, unaffected by few outside influences, is traced through their history on the land and addresses both spirtual and cultural practices. Many of the stories describe the clashes between the Norse and the In... .... Learn More -
The Mediterranean as a Source of Cultural Criticism.: Myth, Literature, Anthropology [Paperback]
Andrea Benedetti(Editor); Ulrich van Loyen(Editor)
$26.00ISBN: 9788869771361
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Anthropology
The essays contained in this volume explore the historical trajectories along which the Mediterranean has been conceptualized as a cultural, religious and economical resource and how these various aspects are intertwined. While staying clear of a ... .... Learn More -
Nairi Lands: The Identity of the Local Communities of Eastern Anatolia, South Caucasus and Periphery During the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age. A Reassessment of the Material Culture and the Socio-Economic Landscape [Hardback]
Guido Guarducci(Author)
$95.00Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9781789252781
Published by : Oxbow Books
This study analyses the social and symbolic value of the material culture, in particular the pottery production and the architecture, and the social structure of the local communities of a broad area encompassing Eastern Anatolia, the South Caucas... .... Learn More
