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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"ancient culture"”.
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Death on the Horizon: Osteoethnography of the People of Akhetaten
… is the analysis and description of an ancient culture through the bioarchaeological and archaeological evidence, utilizing cultural anthropological theories and techniques. An osteoethnographic narrative is presented in this dissertation, which describes the embodied lives of the people …
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The birth and growth of Indo-Anglian literature and its contributions to English literature
… expression, gleaned from the genius of their ancient culture. Thus, it runs through the whole history of India, through its three or four thousand years, a high road, or it is perhaps more accurate to say, a high mountain path of literature. With the exception of China, Max Muller tells us, …
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‘Answering the calls of the living’: collaborative practice in archaeology and ancient Egyptian daily life exhibitions in Western museums
… are in need of an overhaul. The study of the ancient Egyptian past and the methods by which museums represent this past are affected by over two hundred years of Western tradition. This tradition, founded in a time of nation-building, led to the establishment of a narrow set of understandings …
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An iconographic investigation of the attributes and functions of Ancient Egyptian canine deities and their relation to death.
The Ancient Egyptians have always had a strong connection with their animals. This can be seen in the depictions of their gods as well as in their way of writing in hieroglyphics, in which multiple animal figures are used. The Ancient Egyptians are also associated strongly with the afterlife and …
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Jewish toleration, assimilation, and citizenship in the British imagination, 1655-1755
… could accommodate the values of non-Christian cultures. Early Enlightenment political theorists like John Selden and Thomas Hobbes appropriated Jewish political theory, in particular the Jewish understanding of the relationship between the Jewish polity and the State, for their own theories of …