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The Future of Egyptology
‘Monica Hanna has been leading the charge against the looting of ancient sites across the country' - National Geographic A firebrand Egyptologist presents her brilliantly argued, unexpected, and deeply rewarding journey into the future – via ancient history. Think of Ancient Egypt, and you’re likely to think of hieroglyphic-covered tombs being unsealed by Victorian explorers, revealing ‘wonderful things’ – as Howard Carter famously remarked on seeing Tutankhamun’s treasures for the first time. But how did the practice known as ‘Egyptology’ become the domain of wealthy Europeans? And what can be done in future to give agency back to the country where it all began? Dr. Hanna ...
MONICA, Monograph and Multimedia Sourcebook
Designed for a wide readership interested in heart disease, stroke, lifestyle, risk factors, public health policy and epidemiology. It explains what the MONICA study was about, describes participating populations, and contains abstracts of MONICA publications plus 80 graphics of the key MONICA results, with explanatory notes. In addition two CD-ROMs incorporate MONICA documents and quality assessment reports; data books tabulating all the results; slide shows of the main MONICA topics; and lastly a 20% subset of the database for explanatory analysis.
Border Cinema
The rise of digital media and globalization’s intensification since the 1990s have significantly refigured global cinema’s form and content. The coincidence of digitalization and globalization has produced what this book helps to define and describe as a flourishing border cinema whose aesthetics reflect, construct, intervene in, denature, and reconfigure geopolitical borders. This collection demonstrates how border cinema resists contemporary border fortification processes, showing how cinematic media have functioned technologically and aesthetically to engender contemporary shifts in national and individual identities while proposing alternative conceptions of these identities to those promulgated by the often restrictive current political rhetoric and ideologies that represent a backlash to globalization.
Women in Historical and Archaeological Video Games
This volume focuses on the depiction of women in video games set in historical periods or archaeological contexts, explores the tension between historical and archaeological accuracy and authenticity, examines portrayals of women in historical periods or archaeological contexts, portrayals of female historians and archaeologists, and portrayals of women in fantastical historical and archaeological contexts. It includes both triple A and independent video games, incorporating genres such as turn-based strategy, action-adventure, survival horror, and a variety of different types of role-playing games. Its chronological and geographical scope ranges from late third century BCE China, to mid first century BCE Egypt, to Pictish and Viking Europe, to Medieval Germany, to twentieth century Taiwan, and into the contemporary world, but it also ventures beyond our universe and into the fantasy realm of Hyrule and the science fiction solar system of the Nebula.
Forms of Dictatorship
An intra-ethnic study of Latina/o fiction written in the United States from the early 1990s to the present, Forms of Dictatorship examines novels that depict the historical reality of dictatorship and exploit dictatorship as a literary trope. This literature constitutes a new sub-genre of Latina/o fiction, which the author calls the Latina/o dictatorship novel. The book illuminates Latina/os' central contributions to the literary history of the dictatorship novel by analyzing how Latina/o writers with national origin roots in the Caribbean, Mexico, and Central and South America imaginatively represent authoritarianism. The novels collectively generate what Harford Vargas terms a "Latina/o co...
The Future of Egyptology
Think of Ancient Egypt, and you're likely to think of hieroglyphic-covered tombs being unsealed by Victorian explorers. But how did the practice which became known as 'Egyptology' become the domain of wealthy Europeans? And what can be done in future to give agency back to the country where it all began? Dr Monica Hanna has spent her career monitoring and trying to disrupt the flow of Ancient Egyptian antiquities out of her home country. In The Future of Egyptology, she presents a broad and generous vision of Egyptology: a subject not only concerned with the glitz and glamour of the Pharaohs, but with connecting the ancient world with the Egypt of today – as well as reclaiming its treasures. Hanna argues that only by disentangling Egyptology from its problematic past of looting, racism and Euro-centric thinking can the subject truly find a way forward. The Future of Egyptology is a brilliant, unexpected and deeply rewarding journey into the future, via ancient history.
Testing the Canon of Ancient Near Eastern Art and Archaeology
This volume addresses and problematizes the formation and transformation of the ancient Near Eastern art historical and archaeological canon. The 'canon' is defined as an established list of objects, monuments, buildings, and sites that are considered to be most representative of the ancient Near East. In "testing" this canon, this project takes stock of the current canon, its origins, endurance, and prospects. Boundaries and typologies are examined, technologies of canon production are investigated, and heritage perspectives on contemporary culture offer a key to the future.
What Photographs Do
What are photographs ‘doing’ in museums? Why are some photographs valued and others not? Why are some photographic practices visible and not others? What value systems and hierarchies do they reflect? What Photographs Do explores how museums are defined through their photographic practices. It focuses not on formal collections of photographs as accessioned objects, be they ‘fine art’ or ‘archival’, but on what might be termed ‘non-collections’: the huge number of photographs that are integral to the workings of museums yet ‘invisible’, existing outside the structures of ‘the collection’. These photographs, however, raise complex and ambiguous questions about the ways ...
The Future of the Novel
We're used to the novel being declared dead, dying, or endangered. Seemingly every few years, a critic will read it the last rites – yet the form remains more popular than ever with readers. In The Future of the Novel, author Simon Okotie presents a bold future for long-form fiction, and suggests its evolution is far from over. Using John Carruthers' 1927 book Scheherezade, or The Future of the English Novel, as a starting point, Okotie then cites others who have since meditated on the direction of the form, including Henry James, D. H. Lawrence, William Burroughs, Anaïs Nin, Zadie Smith and China Miéville. All of which informs Okotie's own vision for the novel of tomorrow – one that extends even further into the reaches of the subconscious, and doesn't shy away from the uneasy role artificial intelligence will inevitably play in coming decades. The Future of The Novel is a rich and immersive portrait of an artform which, despite constant claims to the contrary, is more alive and exciting than ever.
Lonely Planet Egypt
Lonely Planets Egypt is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Discover the pyramids of Giza, cruise the Nile, and dive in the Red Sea; all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of Egypt and begin your journey now! Inside Lonely Planets Egypt Travel Guide: Up-to-date information - all businesses were rechecked before publication to ensure they are still open after 2020s COVID-19 outbreak NEW top experiences feature - a visually inspiring collection of Egypts best experiences and where to have them NEW pull-out, passport-size 'Just Landed' card with wi-fi, ATM and transport info - all you nee...
