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Staatsbürgerschaft an der Grenze
Die georgischsprachigen Ingiloer in Aserbaidschan
The present book “Citizenship at the Border. The Georgian-speaking Ingiloys in Azerbaijan” ethnographically explores, on the one hand, the relationship between state and citizens...
Translated by: Fähnrich, Heinz
Der Mythos Niko Pirosmani
Auf den Spuren eines kuriosen Künstlerlebens im Georgien der Jahrhundertwende. Übersetzt aus dem Georgischen von Heinz Fähnrich
Today, Niko Pirosmani (1865-1919) is considered one of the most important painters in the history of 20th century art. As a self-taught, penniless vagabond and artist in life, his...
Die Orts- und Gewässernamen der neuassyrischen Zeit
Teil 3
Historical geography is one of the most important disciplines which allow a reconstruction of the history of the Ancient Near East. There are principally the cuneiform sources...
Fiktionalität trans- und intermedial
Arthurische Möglichkeitsräume in Mittelalter und Moderne
In this dissertation the author asks if the people in the Middle Ages already had an awareness of fictionality in today’s sense. She investigates this question through a...
In cooperation with: Vogt, Burkhard
In kaiserlichem Auftrag – Die Deutsche Aksum-Expedition 1906 unter Enno Littmann
Band 3: Ethnographische, kirchenhistorische und archäologisch-historischeUntersuchungen
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Die Deutsche Aksum-Expedition von 1906 und deren umfangreiche mehrbändige Publikation von 1913 zählen...
Traditional South Asian Medicine TSAM, Vol. 9
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Traditional South Asian Medicine is devoted to the study of all aspects of traditional South Asian medical...
Die Orts- und Gewässernamen der neuassyrischen Zeit
Teil 2. Zentralassyrien und benachbarte Gebiete, Ägypten und die arabische Halbinsel
Historical geography is one of the most important disciplines which allow a reconstruction of the history of the Ancient Near East. There are principally the cuneiform sources...
Chorographies
Les mises en discours de la ville
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Die Stadt gilt als eines der bedeutungsträchtigsten Sinnbilder für die kulturelle Entwicklung des Menschen, im...
Karabalgasun – Stadt der Nomaden
Die archäologischen Ausgrabungen in der frühuigurischen Hauptstadt 2009–2011
Archaeological research on settlemets of late nomadic tribes in eastern Central Asia is just at the beginning. Scientific research carried out in the Uygur capital Karabalgasun by...
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....
Verkehrswege in Kaukasien
Ein Integrationsproblem des Zarenreiches 1780–1870
This study investigates Russia’s 100 year expansion into her southern periphery, and the gradual integration of this new territory through infrastructure. These measures...
Editor: Tandaschwili, Manana; Gippert, Jost
Translated by: Kamarauli, Luka
Der Pass der Flüchtlinge
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Als Ende der 1980er Jahre die Sowjetunion auseinanderfiel und sich aus den ehemaligen Sowjetrepubliken neue,...
Die rote Feinkeramik von Aizanoi als lokaler Kulturträger
Untersuchungen zum Verhältnis von lokaler roter Feinkeramik und importierter Sigillata
The subject of this survey is the local red glaze ware of Aizanoi found in several architectural complexes during excavations in the years 1980 to 2001. Beside the red glaze ware,...
Repression, Anpassung, Neuorientierung
Studien zum Islam in der Sowjetunion und dem postsowjetischen Raum
How did Islam survive in the Soviet Union, how did Muslims re-establish Islam in the post-Soviet public sphere? In specific case studies and longitudinal surveys, senior...
Nomadische Ressourcennutzung und Existenzsicherung im Umbruch
Die osttibetische Region Yushu (Qinghai, VR China)
On the basis of a précis of available knowledge on traditional nomadic ways of life and livelihoods on the Tibetan Plateau this book presents an analysis of current conditions of...
KartenWissen
Territoriale Räume zwischen Bild und Diagramm
This collection of essays covers all periods of cartography’s history from antiquity to the present time, all kinds of maps from star maps and sea charts to land maps and street...
In kaiserlichem Auftrag – Die Deutsche Aksum Expedition 1906 unter Enno Littmann
Band 2: Altertumskundliche Untersuchungen der DAE in Tigray/Äthiopien
The second part of the series “In kaiserlichem Auftrag” has the subheading “Archeological Studies of the DAE in Tigray / Ethiopia”. In more than 25 articles, authors will discuss...
The Baloch and Others
Linguistic, Historical and Socio-Political Perspectives on Pluralism in Balochistan
Throughout history Balochistan has been an important contact zone between the Indian Subcontinent and the Iranian Plateau. Today Balochistan is a land divided among several...
The Traditional Architecture of Ras al-Khaimah (North)
»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...