Ancient Egypt in the Modern Imagination - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ancient Egypt in the Modern Imagination write by Eleanor Dobson. This book was released on 2020-01-23. Ancient Egypt in the Modern Imagination available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Ancient Egypt has always been a source of fascination to writers, artists and architects in the West. This book is the first study to address representations of Ancient Egypt in the modern imagination, breaking down conventional disciplinary boundaries between fields such as History, Classics, Art History, Fashion, Film, Archaeology, Egyptology, and Literature to further a nuanced understanding of ancient Egypt in cultures stretching from the eighteenth century to the present day, emphasising how some of the various meanings of ancient Egypt to modern people have traversed time and media. Divided into three themes, the chapters scrutinise different aspects of the use of ancient Egypt in a variety of media, looking in particular at the ways in which Egyptology as a discipline has influenced representations of Egypt, ancient Egypt's associations with death and mysticism, as well as connections between ancient Egypt and gendered power. The diversity of this study aims to emphasise both the multiplicity and the patterning of popular responses to ancient Egypt, as well as the longevity of this phenomenon and its relevance today.
The Glad Eye and Other Stories
The Glad Eye and Other Stories - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Glad Eye and Other Stories write by Stan Barstow. This book was released on 1985. The Glad Eye and Other Stories available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Short stories, and one novella, in all of which women, and men's understanding of women, are central.
Mata Hari's Glass Eye and Other Stories
Mata Hari's Glass Eye and Other Stories - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mata Hari's Glass Eye and Other Stories write by Martyn Barber. This book was released on 2007-03-01. Mata Hari's Glass Eye and Other Stories available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Published to coincide with the centenary of the first ever aerial balloon photograph taken of Stonehenge - a photograph which was to change the whole world of archaeology, this book explains the significance of this photograph and the changes it made to the understanding of the landscape.
Mata Hari's Last Dance
Mata Hari's Last Dance - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mata Hari's Last Dance write by Michelle Moran. This book was released on 2016-07-19. Mata Hari's Last Dance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Paris, 1917. The notorious dancer Mata Hari sits in a cold cell awaiting freedom ... or death. Alone and despondent, Mata Hari is as confused as the rest of the world about the charges she's been arrested on: treason leading to the deaths of thousands of French soldiers. As Mata Hari waits for her fate to be decided, she relays the story of her life to a reporter who is allowed to visit her in prison. Beginning with her carefree childhood, Mata Hari recounts her father's cruel abandonment of her family as well her calamitous marriage to a military officer. Taken to the island of Java, Mata Hari refuses to be ruled by her abusive husband and instead learns to dance, paving the way to her stardom as Europe's most infamous dancer.
The Lands West of the Lakes
The Lands West of the Lakes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Lands West of the Lakes write by Stephen C. Druce. This book was released on 2009-01-01. The Lands West of the Lakes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The period 1200-1600 CE saw a radical transformation from simple chiefdoms to kingdoms (in archaeological terminology, complex chiefdoms) across lowland South Sulawesi, a region that lay outside the ‘classical’ Indicized parts of Southeast Asia. The rise of these kingdoms was stimulated and economically supported by trade in prestige goods with other parts of island Southeast Asia, yet the development of these kingdoms was determined by indigenous, rather than imported, political and cultural precepts. Starting in the thirteenth century, the region experienced a transition from swidden cultivation to wet-rice agriculture; rice was the major product that the lowland kingdoms of South Sulawesi exchanged with archipelagic traders. Stephen Druce demonstrates this progression to political complexity by combining a range of sources and methods, including oral, textual, archaeological, linguistic and geographical information and analysis as he explores the rise and development of five South Sulawesi kingdoms, known collectively as Ajattappareng (the Lands West of the Lakes). The author also presents an inquiry into oral traditions of a historical nature in South Sulawesi. He examines their functions, their processes of transmission and transformation, their uses in writing history and their relationship to written texts. He shows that any distinction between oral and written traditions of a historical nature is largely irrelevant, and that the South Sulawesi chronicles, which can be found only for a small number of kingdoms, are not characteristic (as historians have argued) but exceptional in the corpus of indigenous South Sulawesi historical sources. The book will be of primary interest to scholars of pre-European-contact Southeast Asia, including historians, archaeologists, anthropologists, linguists and geographers, and scholars with a broader interest in oral tradition and the relationship between the oral and written registers.
