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Material Culture and (Forced) Migration argues that materiality is a fundamental dimension of migration. During journeys of migration, people take things with them, or they lose, find and engage things along the way. Movements themselves are framed by objects such as borders, passports, tents, camp infrastructures, boats and mobile phones. This volume brings together chapters that are based on research into a broad range of movements – from the study of forced migration and displacement to the analysis of retirement migration. What ties the chapters together is the perspective of material culture and an understanding of materiality that does not reduce objects to mere symbols. Centring on ...
This volume comprises a multidisciplinary study of Pisa’s socio-economic, cultural, and political history, art history, and archaeology at the time of the city’s greatest fame and prosperity during the transformative period of the Middle Ages.
Dürfen wir Sie zu einem Symposion einladen? Nein, keine Angst. Nicht zu einem wissenschaftlichen Kongress mit trockenen Vorträgen und noch langweiligeren Analysen. Vielmehr zu einem Symposion wie sie in der griechischen Antike an der Tagesordnung waren. Zum Reden, Diskutieren und Philosophieren. Unsere Autorinnen und Autoren erzählen Geschichten aus und von Griechenland. Über Liebe, Hoffnung und Glauben, über alltäglichen Konfrontationen, Begegnungen und Abschied, über das Leben in der Krise und die Träume für die Zukunft. Eine Tasse Kaffee oder ein Glas Wein gehören dazu, ein Mezé zum Ouzo wird garantiert, bevor Sie nach und nach Spezialitäten serviert bekommen, bis sich beinahe...
Since antiquity classicists have debated the true location of Ithaca, the island home of Homer's mythological hero Odysseus. With Where on Earth Is Ithaca? Cees H. Goekoop expertly guides readers through the existing scholarship on the whereabouts of the island and details the evidence that still has the power to unite and divide scholars. Goekoop mines Homer's original text to unearth a wealth of geographical clues and then offer his own theories. Where on Earth Is Ithaca? intrigues as it informs and will appeal to all who are interested in classical history.
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