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Conceptions of Sin and Divine Punishment in the Mesopotamian Exorcistic Corpus
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How did people in ancient Mesopotamia respond to illness and misfortune that they suspected to be the consequence of their own transgressive actions? Some people could consult an exorcist (āšipu), a ritual and medical specialist whose expertise allowed them to determine the causes of their patients’ suffering, reconcile them with the gods, and restore their health and wellbeing. By examining the theoretical background of relevant ritual texts, this book reveals what the exorcist’s understanding of concepts such as sin, self-curse, and divine punishment can tell us about ideas like ethics, guilt, and atonement in Mesopotamian society and religion.
Conceptions of Sin and Divine Punishment in the Mesopotamian Exorcistic Corpus
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How did people in ancient Mesopotamia respond to illness and misfortune that they suspected to be the consequence of their own transgressive actions? Some people could consult an exorcist (āšipu), a ritual and medical specialist whose expertise allowed them to determine the causes of their patients’ suffering, reconcile them with the gods, and restore their health and wellbeing. By examining the theoretical background of relevant ritual texts, this book reveals what the exorcist’s understanding of concepts such as sin, self-curse, and divine punishment can tell us about ideas like ethics, guilt, and atonement in Mesopotamian society and religion.
Volume 26 of the Israel Oriental Studies Annual, Linguistics in Israel: New Frontiers, brings together fifteen original studies, eight in English and seven in Hebrew, reflecting the breadth of contemporary linguistic research in Israel. The volume covers four themes: Semitic languages and the historical stages of Hebrew; Spoken Hebrew and Interactional Linguistics; Syntax and Semantics of Hebrew and Other Languages; and Hebrew in social media. Together, the contributions highlight Israel as a vibrant meeting point of historical, empirical, and theoretical linguistic research.
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Israel Oriental Studies
Volume 26 of the Israel Oriental Studies Annual, Linguistics in Israel: New Frontiers, brings together fifteen original studies, eight in English and seven in Hebrew, reflecting the breadth of contemporary linguistic research in Israel. The volume covers four themes: Semitic languages and the historical stages of Hebrew; Spoken Hebrew and Interactional Linguistics; Syntax and Semantics of Hebrew and Other Languages; and Hebrew in social media. Together, the contributions highlight Israel as a vibrant meeting point of historical, empirical, and theoretical linguistic research.
This collection is selected from Analysis and Forecast of China's Social Situation (2021), published in Chinese. Chapter one provides an overview of China's social conditions in 2020–2021. This is followed by 19 topical reports on a wide range of social issues written by experts from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and other universities. These include income and consumption, employment, social security, education reform, public security, healthcare during COVID-19, poverty alleviation, social class structure, cultural and tourism consumption, university students' health, digital practices among youth, urban couriers, online public opinion, food and drug safety, environmental protection, workforce resumption, and others. A statistical overview of China's social development in 2020 is given in the last chapter.
This collection is selected from Analysis and Forecast of China's Social Situation (2021), published in Chinese. Chapter one provides an overview of China's social conditions in 2020–2021. This is followed by 19 topical reports on a wide range of social issues written by experts from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and other universities. These include income and consumption, employment, social security, education reform, public security, healthcare during COVID-19, poverty alleviation, social class structure, cultural and tourism consumption, university students' health, digital practices among youth, urban couriers, online public opinion, food and drug safety, environmental protection, workforce resumption, and others. A statistical overview of China's social development in 2020 is given in the last chapter.
What did literature reveal about climate change, extraction, species loss and environmental transformation before the term “Anthropocene” was coined? With a global and comparative perspective, this handbook illuminates how writers before 1945 envisioned the interconnectedness of humans, animals, technologies, and environments. Covering multiple literary forms and genres like mythology, colonial writing, avant-garde poetry, Black naturalism, novels, short fiction, the volume traces literary responses to land transformation, mining, terraforming, colonialism, and more-than-human worlds. Handbook to the Literary History of the Early Anthropocene offers fresh insight into how literary history can be rethought from a contemporary ecocritical perspective, and how literature engaged with planetary change long before it became a recognized framework for understanding human history.
What did literature reveal about climate change, extraction, species loss and environmental transformation before the term “Anthropocene” was coined? With a global and comparative perspective, this handbook illuminates how writers before 1945 envisioned the interconnectedness of humans, animals, technologies, and environments. Covering multiple literary forms and genres like mythology, colonial writing, avant-garde poetry, Black naturalism, novels, short fiction, the volume traces literary responses to land transformation, mining, terraforming, colonialism, and more-than-human worlds. Handbook to the Literary History of the Early Anthropocene offers fresh insight into how literary history can be rethought from a contemporary ecocritical perspective, and how literature engaged with planetary change long before it became a recognized framework for understanding human history.
Interrogating Mental Illness in Anglophone African Fiction
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Marking one of the first contributions to the nascent field of postcolonial medical humanities, this study explores the role that Anglophone African literatures play in conversations about mental health and psychology: The novels and short stories selected for this book resist the colonial thrust and systemic racism of Western psychology, foregrounding culture-specific and individual visions of mind, body, health and illness. For instance, the spirits in Emezi’s Freshwater are decidedly not a sign of dissociative identity disorder. Embedded in Igbo cosmology, the novel plays with readers' possible expectations of psychological fiction. The study throws into relief how literature articulates and constructs a plurality of psychologies, combining literary studies, transcultural and African psychology, critical disability studies, postcolonial and translation theory and critical medical humanities. As the study argues, the narratives demonstrate that one system of diagnosis and treatment is not enough and literature works to decolonize psychology.
Interrogating Mental Illness in Anglophone African Fiction
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Marking one of the first contributions to the nascent field of postcolonial medical humanities, this study explores the role that Anglophone African literatures play in conversations about mental health and psychology: The novels and short stories selected for this book resist the colonial thrust and systemic racism of Western psychology, foregrounding culture-specific and individual visions of mind, body, health and illness. For instance, the spirits in Emezi’s Freshwater are decidedly not a sign of dissociative identity disorder. Embedded in Igbo cosmology, the novel plays with readers' possible expectations of psychological fiction. The study throws into relief how literature articulates and constructs a plurality of psychologies, combining literary studies, transcultural and African psychology, critical disability studies, postcolonial and translation theory and critical medical humanities. As the study argues, the narratives demonstrate that one system of diagnosis and treatment is not enough and literature works to decolonize psychology.
Protokolleinheiten in der Weimarer Republik, im Nationalsozialismus und in der DDR
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Die Studie untersucht in der Weimarer Republik, „Drittem Reich“ und der DDR, wie militärische Traditionen, Rituale und Repräsentation überdauern oder sich wandeln. Anhand verschiedener in Berlin stationierter Wachverbände zeigt Frank Hüther, welche dauerhaften Prägungen bestehen, wie das herrschende politische System Einfluss nimmt und welche Varianten sich unter wechselnden politischen Systemen ergeben. Neben Einheiten von Reichswehr, Wehrmacht und NVA werden auch politische Wachverbände wie die Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler und das Wachregiment Feliks Dzierzynski berücksichtigt, um erstmals eine groß angelegte Studie in vergleichender Perspektive zu ermöglichen. Ergebnis ist ein tiefer Einblick in Kontinuität und Wandel der protokollarischen Staatsrepräsentation, eine vergleichende Analyse der einschlägigen Dienstvorschriften sowie eine Organisationsgeschichte der einzelnen Verbände.
Protokolleinheiten in der Weimarer Republik, im Nationalsozialismus und in der DDR
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Die Studie untersucht in der Weimarer Republik, „Drittem Reich“ und der DDR, wie militärische Traditionen, Rituale und Repräsentation überdauern oder sich wandeln. Anhand verschiedener in Berlin stationierter Wachverbände zeigt Frank Hüther, welche dauerhaften Prägungen bestehen, wie das herrschende politische System Einfluss nimmt und welche Varianten sich unter wechselnden politischen Systemen ergeben. Neben Einheiten von Reichswehr, Wehrmacht und NVA werden auch politische Wachverbände wie die Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler und das Wachregiment Feliks Dzierzynski berücksichtigt, um erstmals eine groß angelegte Studie in vergleichender Perspektive zu ermöglichen. Ergebnis ist ein tiefer Einblick in Kontinuität und Wandel der protokollarischen Staatsrepräsentation, eine vergleichende Analyse der einschlägigen Dienstvorschriften sowie eine Organisationsgeschichte der einzelnen Verbände.
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How did Europeans attempt to make peace visible after the First World War, and why did those efforts ultimately fail? This book traces how French pacifists used posters, photomontages, and illustrations to reshape public understandings of war through powerful gendered imagery. Mothers, children, and wounded soldiers became central figures in a visual language that challenged militarism and redefined political responsibility. Moving from the hopeful activism of the 1920s to the despair of the late 1930s, it reveals how art functioned as both persuasion and protest. Bridging peace studies, interwar European history, and French cultural history, this study offers a vivid new account of how images shaped, and continue to shape, the politics of war and peace.
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How did Europeans attempt to make peace visible after the First World War, and why did those efforts ultimately fail? This book traces how French pacifists used posters, photomontages, and illustrations to reshape public understandings of war through powerful gendered imagery. Mothers, children, and wounded soldiers became central figures in a visual language that challenged militarism and redefined political responsibility. Moving from the hopeful activism of the 1920s to the despair of the late 1930s, it reveals how art functioned as both persuasion and protest. Bridging peace studies, interwar European history, and French cultural history, this study offers a vivid new account of how images shaped, and continue to shape, the politics of war and peace.
Israhel van Meckenem’s Great Passion in Three Manuscript Prayerbooks ca. 1500
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Praying through Prints examines three early modern prayerbooks organized around Israhel van Meckenem’s Great Passion series: Sloane 3981, a late fifteenth- or early sixteenth-century Horae (Book of Hours); Metropolitan Museum 2003.476, known as the Groenendael Passion and dated ca. 1500; and BnF, Ms. Lat. 1173, the Heures de Charles d’Angoulême, composed between ca. 1480 and 1496. In all three cases, the print series proves generative of the prayers surrounding it, not merely illustrating them but instead functioning as if they were the prayers’ point of origin.
Israhel van Meckenem’s Great Passion in Three Manuscript Prayerbooks ca. 1500
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Praying through Prints examines three early modern prayerbooks organized around Israhel van Meckenem’s Great Passion series: Sloane 3981, a late fifteenth- or early sixteenth-century Horae (Book of Hours); Metropolitan Museum 2003.476, known as the Groenendael Passion and dated ca. 1500; and BnF, Ms. Lat. 1173, the Heures de Charles d’Angoulême, composed between ca. 1480 and 1496. In all three cases, the print series proves generative of the prayers surrounding it, not merely illustrating them but instead functioning as if they were the prayers’ point of origin.
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Mapping the Past, Volume: 10
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Drawing upon surviving maps, and practices and processes of surveying and mapmaking, this book presents a comprehensive history of scientific surveying in order to shape scholarly understandings of scientific cultures in its many complexities. It focuses on the region of Assam, and examines how northeastern India was ordered into a neat frontier through cartographic representations on maps and atlases. It argues that colonial ideas and theories of visualising Assam – which did not always necessarily translate into practice – were made possible through the Survey of India’s unconventional and ad hoc mechanisms of field-practices, often seen through customised adaptation to Assam’s unique topography.
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Mapping the Past, Volume: 10
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Drawing upon surviving maps, and practices and processes of surveying and mapmaking, this book presents a comprehensive history of scientific surveying in order to shape scholarly understandings of scientific cultures in its many complexities. It focuses on the region of Assam, and examines how northeastern India was ordered into a neat frontier through cartographic representations on maps and atlases. It argues that colonial ideas and theories of visualising Assam – which did not always necessarily translate into practice – were made possible through the Survey of India’s unconventional and ad hoc mechanisms of field-practices, often seen through customised adaptation to Assam’s unique topography.
Instant Voices in the Press Across the Empire
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Eurasian Studies Library
A vibrant plurality of voices emerged after the collapse of tsarism in the Russian Empire and the introduction of press freedom in the spring of 1917. Twenty essays in this anthology explore a variety of newspapers and their visions of the future in response to the February Revolution. The collection takes a broad view. It features press landscapes of the metropoles of Petrograd and Moscow as well as the provincial press from across the empire, including, alongside Russian-language periodicals, newspapers in Arabic, Estonian, Finnish, Georgian, Hebrew, Swedish, Turkish, and Ukrainian. The February Revolution is re-evaluated as a moment of genuine possibility, awakening hopes for a democratic future. Rather than viewing February 1917 retrospectively through the lens of the October Revolution, this volume restores the sense of openness and contingency that shaped revolutionary experiences.
Instant Voices in the Press Across the Empire
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Eurasian Studies Library
A vibrant plurality of voices emerged after the collapse of tsarism in the Russian Empire and the introduction of press freedom in the spring of 1917. Twenty essays in this anthology explore a variety of newspapers and their visions of the future in response to the February Revolution. The collection takes a broad view. It features press landscapes of the metropoles of Petrograd and Moscow as well as the provincial press from across the empire, including, alongside Russian-language periodicals, newspapers in Arabic, Estonian, Finnish, Georgian, Hebrew, Swedish, Turkish, and Ukrainian. The February Revolution is re-evaluated as a moment of genuine possibility, awakening hopes for a democratic future. Rather than viewing February 1917 retrospectively through the lens of the October Revolution, this volume restores the sense of openness and contingency that shaped revolutionary experiences.
