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Spätantikes Kleidungszubehör aus Nordafrika I
Trägerkreis, Mobilität und Ethnos im Spiegel der Funde der spätesten römischen Kaiserzeit und der vandalischen Zeit
This study is the first to give a comprehensive account of extant dress accessories, especially brooches and belt buckles, from late ancient North Africa. In the first of two...
Politics of Qat
The Role of a Drug in Ruling Yemen
For Imam Yahya, one of Yemen’s last kings, qat was a delight that he praised in poems. For his adversary, the revolutionary al-Zubayri, the plant was the “devil in the shape of a...
Capua – Grab und Gemeinschaft
Eine kontextuelle Analyse der Nekropole Fornaci (570 bis 400 v. Chr.)
The tombs of pre-Roman Capua are known for their extraordinary finds, yet the excavations in the necropoleis of this most important Campanian centre have left a problematic...
Die Inschriften des Landkreises Weilheim-Schongau
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Der Band enthält 340 Editionen von Inschriften und Inschriftengruppen des Landkreises Weilheim-Schongau von der...
Building the Sherpa’s New Present in the Age of Globalization
The construction of a novel tradtion as well as a collective Sherpa identity in a new place through the performance of Tibetan Buddhist ritual celebrations: a close look at the present revitalisation of Sherpa Buddhism, culture, and society
The central concern of this book is a detailed examination of both the strategy and the means employed whereby the Sherpas have been successfully managing the creation of a novel...
Caucasus during the Mongol Period – Der Kaukasus in der Mongolenzeit
The anthology takes a comparative approach to reconstructing the perceptions that the Armenians and Georgians developed of their Mongol conquerors in the 13th and 14th centuries....
Weise Frauen und geheimnisvolle Zeichen
Texte zum Volksglauben in Georgien
This volume is the first attempt to present omen and taboo texts from Georgia in a structured form, and to make this type of traditional culture accessible for systematic...
Die Masken aus der Nekropole von Lipari
In the necropolis of Lipari (Italy) a great amount of terracotta masks from the 4th and early 3rd century B. C. have been found –– an important local speciality. Their study as...
People from the Desert
Pre-Islamic Arabs in History and Culture
“People from the Desert. Pre-Islamic Arabs in History and Culture” provides a collection of text-based studies that investigate different aspects of the history, culture and...
Frühe Quellen zum buddhistischen Stufenweg in Tibet
Indische und tibetische Traditionen im »dPe chos« des Po-to-ba Rin-chen-gsal
During the 11th and 12th centuries, Tibetan culture underwent fundamental changes. It was during this period that Buddhism became firmly rooted on the Tibetan plateau and its...
»Gott liebt das Handwerk«
Moral, Identität und religiöse Legitimierung in der mittelasiatischen Handwerks-risala
The present book is the first large-scale research on the Central Asian crafts’ risala, a pre-Soviet code of conduct, and describes the crafts spiritual and social roots by...
Pastoréalismes
Anthropologie historique des processus d’intégration chez les Kirghiz du Tian Shan intérieur
The book examines the relations between an economic phenomenon, pastoralism, and a social one, patrilineal descent-reckoning. These relations are described and analyzed on the...
Ethnologie im Nationalsozialismus
Julius Lips und die Geschichte der »Völkerkunde«; Teil 1: Julius Lips, Martin Heydrich und die (Deutsche) Gesellschaft für Völkerkunde; Teil 2: Eva und Julius Lips: Kontexte ihres Wirkens
When in November 1933 the American anthropologist Leslie Spears responded to a letter by Martin Heydrich, editor of the German academic journal “Ethnologischer Anzeiger”, he...
Georgische Gegenwartsliteratur
Eine Anthologie georgisch-deutsch
This anthology illustrates the literary work of the historical development of Georgia over the last 30 years for German readers. It includes in particular such works, which - to...
Aromata in der iranischen Kultur
unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der persischen Dichtung
This volume is the result of more than 10 years' research in Persian culture from the Achaemenid period (559 B.C.) until the end of the Safavids’ time (1722 A.D.). The main...
Symbolische Repräsentation und Wirklichkeit nomadischen Lebens
This essay collection brings together contributions from two research colloquia of the Collaborative Research Center “Difference and Integration. The interaction between nomadic...
The Sherpa »Dumji« Masked Dance Festival
An ethnographic description of the ›great liturgical performance‹ as celebrated annually according to the tradition of the Lamaserwa clan in the village temple of Gonpa Zhung, Solu
Probleme touristischer Entwicklung auf der Insel Soqotra
Vom Missverständnis »Ökotourismus« zu nachhaltigem Tourismus?
The island of Soqotra, belonging to the Republic of Yemen, is a part of the UNESCO world natural heritage site since the summer of 2008. Its development prospects are...
Shibam – Leben in Lehmtürmen
Weltkulturerbe im Jemen
"Shibam - Leben in Lehmtürmen" is a unique representation of the ancient oasis city in Yemen that was declared a World Heritage Site because of its spectacular clay towers. From...
Raum – Landschaft – Territorium
Zur Konstruktion physischer Räume als nomadischer und sesshafter Lebensraum
The essays collected in this volume discuss the construction, development and perception of spaces from an interdisciplinary perspective and demonstrate how they evolve into...