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Cultural Encounters in Near Eastern History
ISBN: HB: 9788763543873,
University of Chicago Press,
Museum Tusculanum Press,
March 2019
224 pp., 24.1x16.1 cm, 2 colour plates, 22 halftones, 3 line drawings, 4 maps
224 pp., 24.1x16.1 cm, 2 colour plates, 22 halftones, 3 line drawings, 4 maps
Globalization and cheaper travel have led to a rapid increase in cross-cultural encounters worldwide – which makes understanding problems of conflict, prejudice, interaction, and adaptation ever more important. Fortunately, we have a powerful histori...
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£45,00
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Fortunate Man
ISBN: PB: 9788763544245,
University of Chicago Press,
Museum Tusculanum Press,
September 2018
820 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
820 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
Per Sidenius seemingly has it all. As the twentieth century dawns, this son of a poor minister has put his sad childhood behind him: he's quickly becoming famous as a forward and freethinking man of the "New Age" and is about to marry a wealthy Jewis...
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£27,00
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Language and Prehistory of the Indo-European Peoples
A Cross-Disciplinary Perspective
ISBN: HB: 9788763545310,
University of Chicago Press,
Museum Tusculanum Press,
March 2018
350 pp., 24.1x16.1 cm, 4 colour plates, 7 halftones, 2 maps, 3 line drawings
350 pp., 24.1x16.1 cm, 4 colour plates, 7 halftones, 2 maps, 3 line drawings
Our knowledge of neolithic and bronze age Europe is growing rapidly, and this book offers a major contribution to our understanding of the language and history of the peoples of that period. The editors have taken a deliberately cross-disciplinary ap...
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£61,50
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Governor's Residence in Tranquebar
The House and the Daily Life of Its People, 1750-1845
ISBN: HB: 9788763543880,
University of Chicago Press,
Museum Tusculanum Press,
March 2018
432 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm
432 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm
The history of contacts between India and Europe tends to be dominated by the British, but Denmark also played a role on the subcontinent in the colonial era. This book offers insight into that history via a close look at one very specific part of it...
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£45,00
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Angmagsalik Eskimo
Notes and Corrections to Vol. 39 of Monographs on Greenland
ISBN: PB: 9788763522694,
University of Chicago Press,
Museum Tusculanum Press,
October 2017
64 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
64 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
This is a facsimile edition of the original 1917 volume, which contains a critical and acerbic reply by Thomas Thomsen of the Ethnographical Department at the National Museum of Denmark to Vol. 39 of Monographs on Greenland, titled Ammassalik Eskimo...
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£13,50
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Eskimo Tribes
Their Distribution and Characteristics, Specially in Regard to Language. With a Comparative Vocabulary, and a Sketch-Map
ISBN: PB: 9788763514064,
University of Chicago Press,
Museum Tusculanum Press,
October 2017
316 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
316 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
The purpose of the first section of this book is to show what conclusions it is possible to draw from the mode of life, the customs and usages of the Eskimo, so far as regards the migrations by which they have spread over their present territory. But...
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£38,50
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Fragmente des Sog".Sothisrituals" von Oxyrhynchos aus Tebtynis
ISBN: HB: 9788763543644,
University of Chicago Press,
Museum Tusculanum Press,
October 2017
211 pp., 31.8x21.6 cm
211 pp., 31.8x21.6 cm
The book contains the edition of a hieratic written text from the Tebtunis temple library, dating to the 1st - 2nd century AD. The ritual text is a compilation of fumigation and libation spells for the main deities of the designed ritual place, the P...
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£35,50
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Ethnologia Europaea 46:1
Special Issue: Muslim Intimacies
ISBN: PB: 9788763544870,
University of Chicago Press,
Museum Tusculanum Press,
October 2017
131 pp., 24.1x16.5 cm
131 pp., 24.1x16.5 cm
In every society, individual choice and freedom are shaped at least to some degree by the needs of familial and marital institutions. Currently, negotiations between individuals and families are undergoing transformations due to late modern processes...
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£16,50
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Buried Norsemen at Herjolfsnes
An Archaeological and Historical Study
ISBN: PB: 9788763523226,
University of Chicago Press,
Museum Tusculanum Press,
October 2017
268 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
268 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
This is the facsimile version of the fascinating book, originally published in 1924, in which Poul Norlund gives the first gathered, concise description of the old Norse settlement of Herjolfsnes on the south tip of Greenland, presenting the archaeol...
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£36,00
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Brattahlid
ISBN: PB: 9788763524261,
University of Chicago Press,
Museum Tusculanum Press,
October 2017
163 pp., 27.9x21 cm
163 pp., 27.9x21 cm
This is the facsimile edition of the original 1934 volume describing the process and findings of the archaeological expedition carried out over three months, from June till September, in 1932 to the old Viking settlement of Brattahlid ("Brattahlio" o...
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£21,00
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