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Ornaments and Other Ambiguous Artifacts from Franchthi

Volume 2, the Neolithic

By: Catherine Perlès

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Ornaments and Other Ambiguous Artifacts from Franchthi

Volume 2, the Neolithic

By: Catherine Perlès

The famous Franchthi Cave excavations in Greece brought to light an exceptionally long sequence of ornaments, spanning from the earliest Upper Paleolithic to the end of the Neolithic. This volume focuses on the Neolithic, whose assemblages are far more diversified than those of earlier times. The introduction during the Neolithic of entirely artificial shapes, geometric and anthropomorphic, creates a marked departure from earlier periods and shows new directions in creativity by the bead makers. It also denotes a conceptual break in the treatment of shell, no longer solely a natural element barely modified by perforation, but now also a raw material rendered anonymous by workmanship. Due to the systematic sieving of the sediments and its location by the sea, the Franchthi cave and its outdoor settlement, the Paralia, yielded one of the richest collection of ornaments for Neolithic Greece.

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Indiana University Press

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0253067766

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9780253067760

The Mistral

A Windswept History of Modern France

By: Catherine Tatiana Dunlop

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The Mistral

A Windswept History of Modern France

By: Catherine Tatiana Dunlop

An in-depth look at the hidden power of the mistral wind and its effect on modern French history. Every year, the chilly mistral wind blows through the Rhône valley of southern France, across the Camargue wetlands, and into the Mediterranean Sea. Most forceful when winter turns to spring, the wind knocks over trees, sweeps trains off their tracks, and destroys crops. Yet the mistral turns the sky clear and blue, as it often appears in depictions of Provence. The legendary wind is central to the area’s regional identity and has inspired artists and writers near and far for centuries. This force of nature is the focus of Catherine Dunlop’s The Mistral, a wonderfully written examination of the power of the mistral wind, and in particular, the ways it challenged central tenets of nineteenth-century European society: order, mastery, and predictability. As Dunlop shows, while the modernizing state sought liberation from environmental realities through scientific advances, land modification, and other technological solutions, the wind blew on, literally crushing attempts at control, and becoming increasingly integral to regional feelings of place and community.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226827550

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9780226827551

Sarasvatī: Riverine Goddess of Knowledge

From the Manuscript-carrying Vīṇā-player to the Weapon-wielding Defender of the Dharma

By: Catherine Ludvik

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Sarasvatī: Riverine Goddess of Knowledge

From the Manuscript-carrying Vīṇā-player to the Weapon-wielding Defender of the Dharma

By: Catherine Ludvik

This is a fascinating depiction of the transformation of the Indian riverine goddess from the manuscript-carrying vīṇā-player to the Buddhist weapon-wielding defender of the Dharma. Drawing on Sanskrit and Chinese textual sources, as well as Hindu, Jain, and Buddhist art historical representations, this book traces the conceptual and iconographic development of the riverine goddess of knowledge Sarasvatī from some time after 1750 B.C.E. to the seventh century C.E. Through the study of Chinese translations of no longer extant Sanskrit versions of the Buddhist Sutra of Golden Light the author sheds light on Sarasvatī's interactions with other Indian goddess cults and their impact on one another.

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BRILL

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9047420365

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9789047420361

Political Topographies of the African State

Territorial Authority and Institutional Choice

By: Catherine Boone

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Political Topographies of the African State

Territorial Authority and Institutional Choice

By: Catherine Boone

This study brings Africa into the mainstream of studies of state-formation in agrarian societies. Territorial integration is the challenge: institutional linkages and political deals that bind center and periphery are the solutions. In African countries, rulers at the center are forced to bargain with regional elites to establish stable mechanisms of rule and taxation. Variation in regional forms of social organization make for differences in the interests and political strength of regional leaders who seek to maintain or enhance their power vis-a-vis their followers and subjects, and also vis-a-vis the center.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521532647

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9780521532648

Les Industries lithiques taillées de Franchthi (Argolide, Grèce), Volume 2

Les Industries du Mésolithique et du Néolithique Initial, Fascicle 5

By: Catherine Perlès

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Les Industries lithiques taillées de Franchthi (Argolide, Grèce), Volume 2

Les Industries du Mésolithique et du Néolithique Initial, Fascicle 5

By: Catherine Perlès

This is the second volume of Catherine Perlès's study of the chipped/flaked stone tools found at Franchthi Cave, the first of its kind in Greek archaeology, if not in the whole of southeastern European prehistory. In French.

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Indiana University Press

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0253044634

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Brittany

By: Françoise Leymarie-Legars,Catherine Bray,Isabelle du Boucher,Sophie Bogrow

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Brittany

By: Françoise Leymarie-Legars,Catherine Bray,Isabelle du Boucher,Sophie Bogrow

The writing is superb... each (Nelles) guide is delightfully comprehensive, a solid source of reliable information for the traveller... All travel guides claim to be comprehensive, but we found Nelles Guides superior". -- Arizona Senior World "(The Nelles Guides are) . . . beautifully photographed . . . the maps are better than Insight's, and practical information is integrated with the text, not relegated to the end". -- National Geographic Traveller -- Quality writing, often by native writers -- Detailed sections on the history, culture, special features and festivals -- Accommodations, restaurant guides, sights to see, places to shop, how to get around

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Nelles Verlag

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3886183890

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9783886183890

Kulli culture

its origins and its relations with Indus civilization

By: Jean-François Jarrige,Gonzague Quivron,Catherine Jarrige

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Kulli culture

its origins and its relations with Indus civilization

By: Jean-François Jarrige,Gonzague Quivron,Catherine Jarrige

Les fouilles conduites de 1962 à 1965 par la mission archéologique de l'Indus, avec le soutien du Ministère des Affaires étrangères et européennes et la collaboration du département d'archéologie et des musées du Pakistan, sur le site de Nindowari dans le Balochistan méridional, n'avaient encore jamais été publiées, exception faite d'un court rapport sur les deux premières campagnes. Cette publication reprend l'ensemble de la documentation laissée par Jean-Marie Casal (1905-1977) sur la seule fouille jamais réalisée d'une agglomération de la culture de Kulli qui, au IIIe millénaire avant notre ère, a été en partie contemporaine de la civilisation de l'Indus. Ces données anciennes, réinterprétées dans le cadre de travaux archéologiques plus récents, permettent de présenter une véritable synthèse sur l'origine et le développement de la culture de Kulli, ainsi que sur la question de ses relations avec la civilisation de l'Indus et l'ensemble des sites des régions indo-iraniennes au cours du IIIe millénaire avant notre ère.

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Ginkgo Editeur

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2846790868

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Les Industries lithiques taillées de Franchthi (Argolide, Grèce), Volume 2

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