university of texas press heraldry for the dead memory identity and the engraved stone plaques of neolithic iberia sep 2008
university of texas press heraldry for the dead memory identity and the engraved stone plaques of neolithic iberia sep 2008
... prehistorians of his time,
he continued to argue for an eastern origin of the plaques.
Plaque studies and indeed the study of the Late Neolithic of the Iberian
Peninsula—made their greatest ... Pen-
insula prior to the period of the engraved plaques as well as the social and po-
litical landscape of the peninsula during their use. Material culture he...
university of texas press negotiating for the past archaeology nationalism and diplomacy in the middle east 1919-1941 jul 2007
... Yahya, and the
anonymous readers chosen by the Universityof Texas Press. My colleague
10 Negotiating for the Past
excavations in their own homelands. Turkey and Egypt led the way, and
by the late ... Islamic world, that everything of worth there had
derived from earlier civilizations. They searched for the roots of Western
civilization and of the Bible, and...
university of texas press thelma & louise live the cultural afterlife of an american film nov 2007
... sweep of the American West, situating the personal develop-
ment of the characters into the visual iconography of the American cine -
ma and history. In Thelma & Louise: The Last Journey and ... critics of the film. In the film, after exuberant expressions
of agency and mobility, the women are driven to their deaths, hunted to the
brink by social forces i...
university of texas press death and the classic maya kings jan 2009
... to enter the afterlife. e feast, he observed,
marked the end of this period and the celebration of the soul’s arrival into the
land of the dead, indicated by the now-dry bones and the reestablishment ... performed for the departure from the
house, departure from the hut, and the return to the house, identical to those
marking the preliminal per...
university of texas press before the volcano erupted the ancient cerén village in central america mar 2002
... Over most of the rest of the valley were less
dense forests of deciduous trees that would largely
shed their leaves at the height of the dry season, but
would remain lush for most of the year. ... the
dated events are the death of the grass used for roof-
ing thatch and the growth of the tree rings com-
prising the wood. The target event is the ev...
university of texas press in the maw of the earth monster studies of mesoamerican ritual cave use feb 2005
... vehicle of these offerings, the people hoped to remove
the obstacles placed there by the activities of the rich and to restore the benefits
intrinsic to the exchange between humans and the forces of nature.
Preparations ... theUnderworld,two of which are throughcaves:
the north entrance by the ‘‘cave of thewinds,’’ which is the access to theworld of
the de...
university of texas press signs of the inka khipu binary coding in the andean knotted-string records aug 2003
... products was often obvious from the type of nu-
merical signs employed Attheendofthetext, the name of the
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SIGNS OF THE INKA ... that there were configurations of strings,
knots, colors, and other features that were linked to, and therefore pro-
vided cues for, recitations of formulaic info...
university of texas press the religion of the etruscans feb 2006
... proceeded to do a formal
written version of their papers, taking into account the con-
tributions of others.
The table of contents for TheReligionoftheEtruscansre-
veals the range of topics. The aim is ... Sometimes, as in the case
of Hercle, they are clearly both. We learn the names of the
donors, the ritual formulas, and forms of votive gifts and of
fun...
university of texas press the teotihuacan trinity the sociopolitical structure of an ancient mesoamerican city dec 2007
... goddess on the
Teocalli, Tenochtitlan 157
8.12 Southerly view of the Plaza of the
Moon 159
8.13 Plan of the Building of the Altars 160
8.14 Calendrical page of the Codex
Féjérvary-Mayer 161
x the teotihuacan ... to me-
ander along these narrow paths only to emerge
on the broad expanse of the Avenue of the Dead.
This contrast between the more restrictive p...
Cambridge.University.Press.The.Crisis.of.Literature.in.the.1790s.Print.Culture.and.the.Public.Sphere.Nov.1999.pdf
... became part of the same story of the fragmentation
of the ideal of literature as a public sphere. The excesses gener-
ated by the French Revolution, on the one hand, and by the infor-
mation ... rank, of every
age, and of both sexes. They are intimately acquainted with
every language, the dead as well as the living. To the culti-
vation of letters they...
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