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Religion And Power - Divine Kingship In The Ancient World And Beyond

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 The purpose of the conference was to examine more closely concepts of kingship in various regions of the world and in different time periods. The study of kingship goes back to the roots of fields such as anthropology and religious studies, as well as Assyriology and Near Eastern archaeology.
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Pomp, Circumstance, And The Performance Of Politics - Acting Politically Correct In The Ancient World

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 Bringing together scholars working in a wide variety of disciplines and time periods, from prehispanic Mesoamerica and Early Historic India to the Assyrian Empire and papal Rome, this book takes a bottom-up approach to evaluating the risks and rewards of acting "politically correctly" or incorrectly in the ancient world.
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Outward Appearance Versus Inward Significance - Addressing Identities Through Attire In The Ancient World

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 This volume takes a multidisciplinary and comparative approach to dress studies in the ancient world. Spanning a wide geographic spectrum, from the Near East and North Africa to the Mediterranean world and the Americas, it explores the cultural, social, and political significance of attire.
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Outward Appearance Versus Inward Significance - Addressing Identities Through Attire In The Ancient World

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 This volume takes a multidisciplinary and comparative approach to dress studies in the ancient world. Spanning a wide geographic spectrum, from the Near East and North Africa to the Mediterranean world and the Americas, it explores the cultural, social, and political significance of attire.
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Pomp, Circumstance, And The Performance Of Politics - Acting Politically Correct In The Ancient World

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 Bringing together scholars working in a wide variety of disciplines and time periods, from prehispanic Mesoamerica and Early Historic India to the Assyrian Empire and papal Rome, this book takes a bottom-up approach to evaluating the risks and rewards of acting "politically correctly" or incorrectly in the ancient world.
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Seen Not Heard - Composition, Iconicity, And The Classifier Systems Of Logosyllabic Scripts

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 Contributors from the fields of Egyptology, Sinology, Hittitology, and Assyriology, together with Mesoamericanists, art historians and a sign language specialist, interrogate writing as a medium that is not simply a handmaiden to oral and aural exchange but a communication system that is richly layered and experienced.
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Seen Not Heard - Composition, Iconicity, And The Classifier Systems Of Logosyllabic Scripts

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 Contributors from the fields of Egyptology, Sinology, Hittitology, and Assyriology, together with Mesoamericanists, art historians and a sign language specialist, interrogate writing as a medium that is not simply a handmaiden to oral and aural exchange but a communication system that is richly layered and experienced.
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The Late Third Millennium In The Ancient Near East - Chronology, C14, And Climate Change

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 Three major topics are covered: The radiocarbon evidence for the mid to late third millennium BC Near East, the chronological implications of new dates and how historical/archaeological chronologies should/could be adapted, and - based on this evidence - if and how climate change can be related to transitions in the late Early Bronze Age.
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Heaven On Earth - Temples, Ritual, And Cosmic Symbolism In The Ancient World

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 The volume is the result of the eighth Annual University of Chicago Oriental Institute Seminar, held on March 2-3, 2012. Seventeen speakers, from both the US and abroad, examined the interconnections between temples, ritual, and cosmology from a variety of regional specializations and theoretical perspectives.
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Household Studies In Complex Societies - (Micro) Archaeological And Textual Approaches

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 Scholars specialising in the Old and New World from Europe and the US came together to find new approaches in the study of households in complex societies. Presents case studies from the Near East, Egypt and Nubia, the Classical World, and Mesoamerica, including three comparative responses from the perspective of the different disciplines.
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Slaves And Households In The Near East

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 Seventh in the Oriental Institute Seminar Series, this volume contains papers that emerged from the March 2010 seminar 'Slaves and Households in the Near East'. Includes micro-historical examinations of slavery in contexts spanning almost four millennia.
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Divination And Interpretation Of Signs In The Ancient World

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 The concept of sign, a portent observed in the physical world, which indicates future events, was first developed in ancient Mesopotamian texts. This branch of Babylonian scientific knowledge extensively influenced other parts of the world, and similar texts written in Aramaic, Sanscrit, Sogdian, and other languages.
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Iconoclasm And Text Destruction In The Ancient Near East And Beyond

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 The eighth in the Oriental Institute Seminar Series. The purpose of the conference was to analyze the cases of and reasons for mutilation of texts and images in Near Eastern antiquity. Explores iconoclasm and text destruction through examination of the anthropological, cultural, historical, and political aspects of these practices.

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