Cultural studies

Tibetan Pastoralists and Development

Negotiating the Future of Grassland Livelihoods

The unique pastoralist economy, society, and culture on the Tibetan plateau has experienced profound changes during the 20th century: An ever closer integration into the Chinese...

Wohnkultur im spätantiken Ostia

Between the 3rd and 5th centuries AD, the Roman Empire changed in many respects, but the core of the social order remained the same. The residential culture of the elites of the...

Mauenheim und Bargen

Zwei Grabhügelfelder der Hallstatt- und Frühlatènezeit aus dem nördlichen Hegau

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Die Monographie behandelt das hallstattzeitliche Gräberfeld von Immendingen-Mauenheim (Kr. Tuttlingen) mit 23...

Die Inschriften der Stadt Stralsund

This extensively annotated edition consists of 454 catalogue articles presenting the Latin and German inscriptions of Stralsund, next to Lübeck the most important Hanseatic city...

Amicus und Amelius im europäischen Mittelalter

Erzählen von Freundschaft im Kontext der Roland-Tradition. Texte und Untersuchungen

For the Middle Ages Amicus and Amelius were the epitome of friendship. Narratives of the two friends however not only touch upon medieval ideals of friendship but also on...

Dance in Iran

Past and Present

This volume is an extraordinary history of dance, full of mystery and humor. The various developments in the history of this art in Iran have never before been presented in a...

Orientalische Bibelhandschriften aus der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – PK / Oriental Bible Manuscripts from the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – PK

Eine illustrierte Geschichte / An Illustrated History

The collection of Oriental manuscripts at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz forms with its 42,000 volumes one of the most significant collections of its...

Die Inschriften der Stadt Regensburg

III. Der Dom St. Peter (2. Teil 1501 bis 1700)

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Der zweite Band der Inschriften des Regensburger Doms, des Domkreuzgangs, des Kapitelhauses, des Domfriedhofs...

History Making in Central and Northern Eurasia

Contemporary Actors and Practices

This volume seeks to extend our understanding of how knowledge about the past was and is being produced in central and northern Eurasia. Its authors use the methods of several...

Bukharan Jews in the Soviet Union

Autobiographical Narrations of Mobility, Continuity and Change

Each of the autobiographical narrations presented in this study on Bukharan Jews is unique. Seen collectively, they amount to a comprehensive survey of Bukharan Jewish experiences...

Die Inschriften der Stadt Düsseldorf

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Der Band enthält in 226 Katalognummern die mittelalterlichen und frühneuzeitlichen Inschriften, die, ob erhalten...

Hiob zwischen Selbstbezichtigung und Protest

Gedichte aus Mittelasien (19. bis 20. Jahrhundert)

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In mehreren Handschriften überliefert sind Ghasele und andere Gedichte von einem Dichter, der sich Ayyub (Hiob)...

Die Inschriften des Landkreises Northeim

The volume contains 410 inscriptions of the Northeim area (Landkreis) up to the year 1650 including 79 that are originated from the Gandersheim monastery up to 1700. The precise...

The Civil Basilica

The volume is about the architecture and archaeology of the Civil Basilica of Aphrodisias, a huge public building built in the late first century AD. The book presents a detailed...

Überlieferungsgeschichte transdisziplinär

Neue Perspektiven auf ein germanistisches Forschungsparadigma

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Die Überlieferungsgeschichte gehört zu den bedeutendsten Forschungsparadigmata, welche die Altgermanistik resp....

Versteckt – Verirrt – Verschollen

Reisen und Nicht-Wissen

Since the Early Modern Period, traveling becomes a central strategy enhancing knowledge. At the same time, travel seems to deliver a gateway for the incalculable and unfathomable....

Die Beduinen der Mamluken

Beduinen im politischen Leben Ägyptens im 8./14. Jahrhundert

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During the fourteenth century, the Bedouins (ʿarab) of Egypt experienced a significant increase in power. The...

Ritual und Religion im archaischen Sizilien

Formations- und Transformationsprozesse binnenländischer Kultorte im Kontext kultureller Kontakte

This work centres on the detailed examination of inland ritual sites dating from the Archaic period in Sicily (late 8th to early 5th centuries BC), which is based on an emic...

Climate and Settlement in Southern Peru

The Northern Río Grande de Nasca Drainage between 1500 BCE and 1532 CE

The cultures thriving during the course of the millennia on the arid Peruvian South Coast between the valleys of Chincha and Yauca had a crucial impact on the history of the...

Das Herakles-Heiligtum von Kleonai

Architektur und Kult im Kontext

Kleonai’s sanctuary of Herakles is located approximately 500 metres southwest of the ancient city. It consists of a tetrastyle and prostyle doric temple and an opposing peribolos....