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Proceedings of the 59th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale Held at Ghent, Belgium, 15-19 July 2013
A collection of 26 essays delivered at the 2013 yearly meeting of the Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale on archaeological, philological, and historical topics related to order and chaos in the Ancient Near East.
A collection of English translations of all the official inscriptions of Sargon II, king of Assyria (721-705 BC), as well as those of his wife and officials.
The Leon Levy Expedition to Ashkelon continues its final report series with a study of the Iron Age I. Following the dramatic collapse of the Mediterranean world at the end of the Bronze Age, new groups emerged across the Levantine littoral. One of those groups was the Philistines, famous archenemies of the Israelites in the Hebrew Bible. This ......
Explores the life, career, and intellectual debates of art historian Meyer Schapiro, who worked at the nexus of artistic and intellectual practice and from there confronted some of the twentieth century’s most abiding questions.
Meditations on Literature, Culture, and Cuisine in Colombia
Winner of the 2006 Andrés Bello Award for Memory and Ibero-American Thought
In this evocatively written book, Germán Patiño Ossa presents the cultural universe and national identities of Colombia through the lens of traditional cuisine. Focusing on the Cauca Valley, a fertile area ......
Writing Art and History in Nineteenth-Century France
Demonstrates the crucial role that art-writing played as a tool of historical analysis in the work of the Romantic historian Jules Michelet’s work, decisively influencing his most important historical concepts, his idea of history, and his view of the practice of the historian.
Stripped examines the ways in which erotic bodies communicate in performance and as cultural figures. Focusing on symbols independent of language, Maggie M. Werner explores the signs and signals of erotic dance, audience responses to these codes, and how this exchange creates embodied rhetoric.
A complete corpus of the extant royal inscriptions of the Neo-Babylonian kings Ame l-Marduk (561-560 BC), Neriglissar (559-556 BC), and Nabonidus (555-539 BC), who were three of the last native kings of Babylonia before the conquest of Cyrus the Great.
Texts and Voices from Colonial and Postcolonial Worlds
A collection of essays exploring how scholars can discern the voices, thoughts, activities, and motivations of indigenous Christians of Asia, Africa, and the Americas in texts produced in the context of European domination from 1500 to the present.
