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Perspectives on the history of ancient Near Eastern studies
The present volume collects eighteen essays exploring the history of ancient Near Eastern studies. Combining diverse approaches--synthetic and analytic, diachronic and transnational--this collection offers critical reflections on the who, why, and how of this cluster of fields. How have political co...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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University Park, Pennsylvania :
Eisenbrauns,
[2020]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- Perspectives on the History of Ancient Near Eastern Studies: An Introduction
- Part I The Edge of the Abyss: The Study of Antiquity Under Totalitarian Threat
- Chapter 1 Hittite Studies at the Crossroads: Albrecht Goetze's and Hans Gustav Güterbock's Flight from Nazi Germany
- Chapter 2 Language and Race in Assyriology: From Benno Landsberger to Wolfram von Soden
- Chapter 3 Assyriology in Nazi Germany: The Case of Wolfram von Soden
- Chapter 4 Carthage the Deceitful and Perfidious Albion: The Phoenicians and the British in Fascist Italy
- Chapter 5 The Sharing Out of Antiquities in Syria During the Interwar Period: Sir Leonard Woolley's Excavation at Tell Sheikh Yusuf (Al- Mina)
- Chapter 6 "Die Assyriologie nicht weiter unberücksichtigt bleiben dürfte": On the (Non-)Existence of Assyriology at the German University in Prague (1908-1945)
- Part II Intellectual History and Ancient Near Eastern Studies: Some Case Studies
- Chapter 7 Notes on the History of the Historiography of Cuneiform Mathematics
- Chapter 8 Feudalism and Vassalage in Twentieth- Century Assyriology
- Chapter 9 Nation Building in the Plain of Antioch from Hatti to Hatay
- Part III From Our Stories to the History of Ancient Near Eastern Studies
- Chapter 10 The Historiography of Assyriology in Turkey: A Short Survey
- Chapter 11 Ancient Near Eastern Studies and Portuguese Academia: A Love Affair Under Construction
- Chapter 12 Near Eastern Archaeology and the Czech- Speaking Lands
- Chapter 13 Tintin in Mesopotamia: The Story of Belgian Assyriology (1890-2017)
- Chapter 14 Assyriology in Iran?
- Chapter 15 Assyriology in China
- Chapter 16 Looking for a Tell: The Beginnings of Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology at the University of Barcelona
- Part IV Current Prospectives, Future Perspectives
- Chapter 17 Big Data, Big Deal: Use of Google Books Ngram Viewer and JSTOR Data for Research for Charting the Rise of Assyriology
- Chapter 18 The Future of the Past: How the Past Contributes to the Construction of Syrian National Identity
- Conclusions
- References