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  • Rethinking Empire

    Materiality, Metaphysics, and Imperial Politics

    Series series School for Advanced Research Advanced Seminar Series
    A new and characteristically innovative work from the School for Advanced Research's Seminar Series.This groundbreaking volume explores how dynamic interactions between human actors, material objects, and metaphysical beliefs shaped and sustained empires. From Han Chinese water management to Xiongnu drinking vessels, from Hittite royal imagery to Teotihuacan animal sacrifices, from Andean anti ... Leer más

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  • Heritage Forensics

    Culture on the Front Lines of the Armenia-Azerbaijan Conflict

    Heritage Forensics introduces a new framework for investigating cultural heritage caught up in war, ethnic cleansing, and secrecy. The book combines satellite-based spatial analysis with humanistic research and humanitarian concern to document the impact of the protracted conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan on the medieval and modern heritagescape of the South Caucasus. Drawing on the findings ... Leer más

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  • Uzbekistan - Culture Smart!

    The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture

    Series series Culture Smart!
    Culture Smart! Uzbekistan will take you beyond the standard descriptions of minarets, kebabs with vodka, embroidered skullcaps, and Soviet-style bureaucracy. It will make you aware of the value systems, attitudes, and behaviors of the different cultural groups in the country, and offer an insider's view of Uzbekistan's fascinating history, national traditions, various cuisines, and cultural scene. ... Leer más

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  • Who Owns Antiquity?

    Museums and the Battle over Our Ancient Heritage (New in Paper)

    de James Cuno ...
    Whether antiquities should be returned to the countries where they were found is one of the most urgent and controversial issues in the art world today, and it has pitted museums, private collectors, and dealers against source countries, archaeologists, and academics. Maintaining that the acquisition of undocumented antiquities by museums encourages the looting of archaeological sites, countries ... Leer más

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  • Does Science Need a Global Language?

    English and the Future of Research

    An exploration of how English became the world's speech for communicating scientific information.In 2012, the global scientific community erupted with news that the elusive Higgs boson had likely been found, providing potent validation for the Standard Model of how the universe works. Scientists from more than one hundred countries contributed to this discovery—proving, beyond any doubt, that a ... Leer más

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  • Ethnographies of the State in Central Asia

    Performing Politics

    With fresh and provocative insights into the everyday reality of politics in post-Soviet Central Asia, this volume moves beyond commonplaces about strong and weak states to ask critical questions about how democracy, authority, and justice are understood in this important region. In conversation with current theories of state power, the contributions draw on extensive ethnographic research in ... Leer más

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  • When Greeks and Turks Meet

    Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Relationship Since 1923

    Edición de Vally Lytra ...
    Series series Publications of the Centre for Hellenic Studies, King's College London
    The relationship between the history, culture and peoples of Greece, Turkey and Cyprus is often reduced to an equation which defines one side in opposition to the other.The reality is much more complex and while there have been and remain significant divisions there are many, and arguably more, areas of overlap, commonality and common interest.This book addresses a gap in the scholarly literature ... Leer más

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  • Architects Without Frontiers

    From the targeted demolition of Mostar’s Stari-Most Bridge in 1993 to the physical and social havoc caused by the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami, the history of cities is often a history of destruction and reconstruction. But what political and aesthetic criteria should guide us in the rebuilding of cities devastated by war and natural calamities? The title of this timely and inspiring new book, ... Leer más

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  • Post-Ottoman Coexistence

    Sharing Space in the Shadow of Conflict

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    Series Libro 16 - Space and Place
    In Southeast Europe, the Balkans, and Middle East, scholars often refer to the “peaceful coexistence” of various religious and ethnic groups under the Ottoman Empire before ethnonationalist conflicts dissolved that shared space and created legacies of division. Post-Ottoman Coexistence interrogates ways of living together and asks what practices enabled centuries of cooperation and sharing, as ... Leer más

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  • Mobilities, Boundaries, and Travelling Ideas

    Rethinking Translocality Beyond Central Asia and the Caucasus

    This collection brings together a variety of anthropological, historical and sociological case studies from Central Asia and the Caucasus to examine the concept of translocality. The chapters scrutinize the capacity of translocality to describe, in new ways, the multiple mobilities, exchange practices and globalizing processes that link places, people and institutions in Central Asia and the ... Leer más

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  • Azan on the Moon

    Entangling Modernity along Tajikistan's Pamir Highway

    Series Libro 26 - Central Eurasia in Context
    Azan on the Moon is an in-depth anthropological study of people's lives along the Pamir Highway in eastern Tajikistan. Constructed in the 1930s in rugged high-altitude terrain, the road fundamentally altered the material and social fabric of this former Soviet outpost on the border with Afghanistan and China. The highway initially brought sentiments of disconnection and hardship, followed by ... Leer más

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  • Post-Soviet Armenia

    The New National Elite and the New National Narrative

    Series series BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies
    Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Armenia has struggled to establish itself, with a faltering economy, emigration of the intelligentsia and the weakening of civil society. This book explores how a new national elite has emerged and how it has constructed a new national narrative to suit Armenia’s new circumstances. The book examines the importance of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict with ... Leer más

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