Author: Edward Burnett TylorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anthropology, Prehistoric
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Researches Into the Early History of Mankind and the Development of Civilization
Author: Edward Burnett TylorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anthropology, Prehistoric
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Researches into the Early History of Mankind and the Development of Civilization
Author: Edward Burnet TylorResearches Into the Early History of Mankind and the Development of Civilization
Author: Edward Burnett TylorPublisher: London : J. Murray
ISBN:
Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Researches Into the Early History of Mankind and the Development of Civilization
Author: Edward Burnett TylorPublisher: London : J. Murray
ISBN:
Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Researches Into the Early History of the Violin Family
Author: Carl EngelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bowed stringed instruments
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Primitive Culture
Author: Sir Edward Burnett TylorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civilization
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Researches Into the Early History of Mankind
Author: Sir Edward Burnett TylorPublisher:
ISBN: 9780415113496
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
History in the Making
Author: J. H. ElliottPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300187017
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
From the vantage point of nearly sixty years devoted to research and the writing of history, J. H. Elliott steps back from his work to consider the progress of historical scholarship. From his own experiences as a historian of Spain, Europe, and the Americas, he provides a deft and sharp analysis of the work that historians do and how the field has changed since the 1950s.The author begins by explaining the roots of his interest in Spain and its past, then analyzes the challenges of writing the history of a country other than one's own. In succeeding chapters he offers acute observations on such topics as the history of national and imperial decline, political history, biography, and art and cultural history. Elliott concludes with an assessment of changes in the approach to history over the past half-century, including the impact of digital technology, and argues that a comprehensive vision of the past remains essential. Professional historians, students of history, and those who read history for pleasure will find in Elliott's delightful book a new appreciation of what goes into the shaping of historical works and how those works in turn can shape the world of thought and action.
Perspectives on the History of Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Author: Agnès Garcia-VenturaPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 1646020898
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
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 contexts determined the conduct of research? How do academic agendas reflect larger social, economic, and cultural interests? How have schools of thought and intellectual traditions configured, and sometimes predetermined, the study of the ancient Near East? Contributions treating research during the Nazi and fascist periods examine the interpenetration of academic work with politics, while contributions dealing with specific national contexts disclose fresh perspectives on individual scholars as well as the conditions and institutions in which they worked. Particular attention is given to scholarship in countries such as Turkey, Portugal, Iran, China, and Spain, which have hitherto been marginal to historiographic accounts of ancient Near Eastern studies. In addition to the editors, the contributors are Selim Ferru Adali, Silvia Alaura, Isabel Almeida, Petr Charvát, Parsa Daneshmand, Eva von Dassow, Hakan Erol, Sebastian Fink, Jakob Flygare, Pietro Giammellaro, Carlos Gonçalves, Katrien de Graef, Steven W. Holloway, Ahmed Fatima Kzzo, Changyu Liu, Patrick Maxime Michel, Emanuel Pfoh, Jitka Sýkorová, Luděk Vacín, and Jordi Vidal.
The Early History of Heaven
Author: J. Edward WrightPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195348494
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
When we think of "heaven," we generally conjure up positive, blissful images. Heaven is, after all, where God is and where good people go after death to receive their reward. But how and why did Western cultures come to imagine the heavenly realm in such terms? Why is heaven usually thought to be "up there," far beyond the visible sky? And what is the source of the idea that the post mortem abode of the righteous is in this heavenly realm with God? Seeking to discover the roots of these familiar notions, this volume traces the backgrounds, origin, and development of early Jewish and Christian speculation about the heavenly realm -- where it is, what it looks like, and who its inhabitants are. Wright begins his study with an examination of the beliefs of ancient Israel's neighbors Egypt and Mesopotamia, reconstructing the intellectual context in which the earliest biblical images of heaven arose. A detailed analysis of the Hebrew biblical texts themselves then reveals that the Israelites were deeply influenced by images drawn from the surrounding cultures. Wright goes on to examine Persian and Greco-Roman beliefs, thus setting the stage for his consideration of early Jewish and Christian images, which he shows to have been formed in the struggle to integrate traditional biblical imagery with the newer Hellenistic ideas about the cosmos. In a final chapter Wright offers a brief survey of how later Jewish, Christian, and Islamic traditions envisioned the heavenly realms. Accessible to a wide range of readers, this provocative book will interest anyone who is curious about the origins of this extraordinarily pervasive and influential idea.