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Political Science
National Identity Politics and Postcolonial Sovereignty Games Greenland, Denmark, and the European Union
Pram Gad Ulrik
ISBN: PB: 9788763545020, University of Chicago Press, Museum Tusculanum Press, January 2017
148 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 3 colour plates, 3 halftones, 5 figures
Though it's many miles away from tiny Denmark, Greenland is administered as an autonomous country within the Danish Realm. It's a relationship that at first glance appears unusual, and, as Ulrik Pram Gad shows, that relationship is quietly predicated...
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Archaeology & Paleontology
Problems of Canonicity and Identity Formation in Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia
Ryholt Kim, Barjamovic Gojko
ISBN: HB: 9788763543729, University of Chicago Press, Museum Tusculanum Press, October 2016
357 pp., 23.5x14 cm, 1 colour plate, 11 halftones, 20 tables
The term "canonicity" implies the recognition that the domain of literature and of the library is also a cultural and political one, related to various forms of identity formation, maintenance, and change. From the very earliest days of writing, text...
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Literary Criticism
Castration Story from the Tebtunis Temple Library
Serida Rana
ISBN: HB: 9788763544320, University of Chicago Press, Museum Tusculanum Press, October 2016
122 pp., 29.8x20.9 cm, 15 plates colour plates
This volume by Rana Serida presents the first complete edition of a hitherto unattested narrative from the Tebtunis temple library in Egypt (1st-2nd century AD). The story seems to have formed part of the so-called Inaros Cycle, a sequence of stories...
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Archaeology & Paleontology
Catalogue of Egyptian Funerary Papyri in Danish Collections
Christiansen Thomas, Ryholt Kim
ISBN: HB: 9788763543743, University of Chicago Press, Museum Tusculanum Press, October 2016
156 pp., 37.5x29.2 cm, 106 colour plates
Published here for the first time, the "Catalogue of Egyptian Funerary Papyri in Danish Collections" presents an exhaustive assemblage of Egyptian funerary manuscripts in Danish collections. The volume features sixteen papyrus manuscripts, two of whi...
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Travel
Dolce far niente in Arabia Georg August Wallin and His Travels in the 1840s
Berg Patricia, Haggman Sofia, Ohrnberg Kaj, Hameen-Anttila Jaakko, Palva Heikki
ISBN: PB: 9788763543040, University of Chicago Press, Museum Tusculanum Press, November 2015
144 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm, 14 colour plates, 1 halftone, 7 maps
In the 1840s the Finnish orientalist Georg August Wallin traveled in the Middle East, where he collected material on Arabic dialects. Considered an eminent scholar by his contemporaries, he died an untimely death shortly after his seven-year journey...
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Ideas in History Journal of the Nordic Society for the History of Ideas 8:2
Dorfman Ben
ISBN: PB: 9788763543262, University of Chicago Press, Museum Tusculanum Press, September 2015
104 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"Ideas in History" is the result of collaborative efforts between nearly a dozen universities and colleges to further awareness of research, resources, and activities in the field of intellectual history in Nordic countries and internationally. It en...
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Philosophy
Kierkegaard and Political Theory Religion, Aesthetics, Politics and the Intervention of the Single Individual
Avanessian Armen, Wennerscheid Sophie
ISBN: PB: 9788763541541, University of Chicago Press, Museum Tusculanum Press, February 2015
336 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
Soren Kierkegaard's radical protestant philosophy of the individual – in which a person's leap of faith is favored over general ethics – has become a model for many contemporary political theorists. Thinkers such as Slavoj Zizek and Alain Badiou have...
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