Cultural Studies
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Creed & Grievance: Muslim-Christian Relations & Conflict Resolution in Northern Nigeria [Hardback]
Abdul Raufu Mustapha(Editor); David Ehrhardt(Editor); Abdul Raufu Mustapha(Contributor); Adam Higazi(Contributor); Aminu Gamawa(Contributor)
$90.00ISBN: 9781847011060
Published by : James Currey
Series: Western Africa Series
Volume: 11
In northern Nigeria, high levels of ethnic diversity have coincided with acute polarization between Muslims and Christians, increasingly fuelling violent conflict. The climate of insecurity threatens northern Nigeria's development, accentuates the... .... Learn More -
Prehistoric Pottery from Dakhleh Oasis, Egypt [Paperback]
Ashton R. Warfe(Author)
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ISBN: 9781785708244
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Dakhleh Oasis Project Monograph
Volume: 18
As one of the few surviving artifacts from the late prehistory of northeast Africa, pottery serves as an essential material category by which to explore long-term human development. This book presents a major study on the ceramics recovered from e... .... Learn More -
Islamic Seapower during the Age of Fighting Sail [Hardback]
Philip MacDougall(Author)
$115.00ISBN: 9781783272303
Published by : Boydell Press
Studies of the "Age of Fighting Sail" have tended to focus on the British or American navies, or sometimes on those of France or Spain. However, there were also at this time very significant navies built by the Islamic powers: theNorth A... .... Learn More -
Bodies of Clay: Prehistoric Humanised Pottery [Paperback]
Heiner Schwarzberg(Editor); Valeska Becker(Editor)
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ISBN: 9781785706967
Published by : Oxbow Books
Since the earliest use of pottery, vessels have been associated with both the general shape and specific parts of the human body. The production of human-shaped pottery might be understood as one element of the spectrum of figural art in prehistor... .... Learn More -
Radio in der Nussschale: Aus den Sammlungen der Museumsstiftung Post und Telekommunikation [Hardback]
Veit Didczuneit(Author)
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Word and Image in Literature and the Visual Arts [Paperback]
Carmelina Concilio(Editor); Maria Festa(Editor); Federico Vercellone(Other)
$13.00ISBN: 9788869770838
Published by : Mimesis International
The publication will investigate the multiple interactions between the written word and images. Literary works (drama, fiction, poetry, essays), films, photography and the fine arts will be studied with a comparative approach. The interrelationshi... .... Learn More -
Challenges to Living Together: Transculturalism, Migration, Exploitation for a Semioethics of Human Relations [Paperback]
Susan Petrilli(Editor)
$36.00ISBN: 9788869770937
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Philosophy
Extending the gaze to all signs of life, semiotics as global semiotics evidences the condition of interrelatedness and interdependency not only among the sign systems forming the anthroposphere, but also between the latter and those forming the bi... .... Learn More -
The Emergence of Pottery in West Asia [Hardback]
Akiri Tsuneki(Editor); Olivier Nieuwenhuyse(Editor); Stuart Campbell(Editor)
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ISBN: 9781785705267
Published by : Oxbow Books
Over the past fifty years or so early pottery complexes in the wider region of West Asia have hardly ever been investigated in their own right. Early ceramics have often been unexpected by-products of projects focussing upon much earlier aceramic ... .... Learn More -
Dress and Society: contributions from archaeology [Paperback]
T. F. Martin(Editor); R. Weech(Editor)
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ISBN: 9781785703157
Published by : Oxbow Books
While traditional studies of dress and jewelry have tended to focus purely on reconstruction or descriptions of style, chronology and typology, the social context of costume is now a major research area in archaeology. This refocusing is largely a... .... Learn More -
Widows in European Economy and Society, 1600-1920 [Hardback]
Beatrice Moring(Author); Richard Wall(Author)
$120.00ISBN: 9781783271771
Published by : Boydell Press
2017 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title
"A terrific piece of work". JANE HUMPHRIES, Professor of Economic History and Fellow of All Souls College, University of Oxford
Widows are often viewed as being marginalised in soc... .... Learn More
