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A collection of essays on ancient Egyptian, Semitic, and Afroasiatic linguistics, reexamining the position of ancient Egyptian in the Afroasiatic phylum and the closeness of its connections with languages that were spoken in Africa and the Ancient Near East.
A Graphic Novel Adaptation of Pascal Boyer's Religion Explained
These are some of the most fundamental and enduring questions we have about the mysteries of religion, and they may well hold the key to humankinds future on this earth.
This new edition includes a preface by the author covering Sendak’s life, work, and cultural impact in the years since 1994.
Over the course of more than ninety books, in a career that spanned six decades, Maurice Sendak became the most influential and, at times, the most controversial creator of works for children. Each of ......
Pets and Social Change in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Explores how thinking about pets in eighteenth-century Britain reflected and influenced the great social and cultural debates of the day, including struggles over gender, race, class, and national identity.
Pets and Social Change in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Explores how thinking about pets in eighteenth-century Britain reflected and influenced the great social and cultural debates of the day, including struggles over gender, race, class, and national identity.
Analysis of the roles of those involved in the herding of domestic animals and the distribution of animal products in a Sumerian city of the late third millennium. Discussed are: animal breeds, the organization of animal production, the distribution of production animals, the distribution of animal products, officials and employees involved in ......
Art, Animals, and European Court Culture, 1400-1550
Animal Sightings challenges two common ideas about the depiction of animals in early modern European court art: first, that the human figure relegated animals to peripheral and often symbolic roles, both compositionally and conceptually, and second, that the representation of animals during this period was predominantly tied to a growing interest ......
The Creaturely in Museums, Zoos, and Natural History
A collection of essays on the historical representation and display of animals. Using examples from the eighteenth century to the present, the essays situate case studies in historical and sociocultural context while addressing the importance of visibility for the arrangement and sustenance of human-animal ......
The Creaturely in Museums, Zoos, and Natural History
A collection of essays on the historical representation and display of animals. Using examples from the eighteenth century to the present, the essays situate case studies in historical and sociocultural context while addressing the importance of visibility for the arrangement and sustenance of human-animal ......
