Osiris, Volume 37 - 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 Osiris, Volume 37 write by Tara Alberts. This book was released on 2021-06-21. Osiris, Volume 37 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Highlights the importance of translation for the global exchange of medical theories, practices, and materials in the premodern period. This volume of Osiris turns the analytical lens of translation onto medical knowledge and practices across the premodern world. Understandings of the human body, and of diseases and their cures, were influenced by a range of religious, cultural, environmental, and intellectual factors. As a result, complex systems of translation emerged as people crossed linguistic and territorial boundaries to share not only theories and concepts, but also materials, such as drugs, amulets, and surgical tools. The studies here reveal how instances of translation helped to shape and, in some cases, reimagine these ideas and objects to fit within local frameworks of medical belief. Translating Medicine across Premodern Worlds features case studies located in geographically and temporally diverse contexts, including ninth-century Baghdad, sixteenth-century Seville, seventeenth-century Cartagena, and nineteenth-century Bengal. Throughout, the contributors explore common themes and divergent experiences associated with a variety of historical endeavors to “translate” knowledge about health and the body across languages, practices, and media. By deconstructing traditional narratives and de-emphasizing well-worn dichotomies, this volume ultimately offers a fresh and innovative approach to histories of knowledge.
Ancient Egyptian Literature, Volume III
Ancient Egyptian Literature, Volume III - 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 Egyptian Literature, Volume III write by Miriam Lichtheim. This book was released on 2006-04-03. Ancient Egyptian Literature, Volume III available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. First published in 1973 – and followed by Volume II in 1976 and Volume III in 1980 – this anthology has assumed classic status in the field of Egyptology and portrays the remarkable evolution of the literary forms of one of the world’s earliest civilizations. Volume I outlines the early and gradual evolution of Egyptian literary genres, including biographical and historical inscriptions carved on stone, the various classes of literary works written with pen on papyrus, and the mortuary literature that focuses on life after death. Introduced with a new foreword by Antonio Loprieno. Volume II shows the culmination of these literary genres within the single period known as the New Kingdom (1550-1080 B.C.). With a new foreword by Hans-W. Fischer-Elfert. Volume III spans the last millennium of Pharaonic civilization, from the tenth century B.C. to the beginning of the Christian era. With a new foreword by Joseph G. Manning.
Osiris and the Egyptian Resurrection
Osiris and the Egyptian Resurrection - 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 Osiris and the Egyptian Resurrection write by Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge. This book was released on 1911. Osiris and the Egyptian Resurrection available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Reinterpreting The Keynesian Revolution
Reinterpreting The Keynesian Revolution - 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 Reinterpreting The Keynesian Revolution write by Robert Cord. This book was released on 2013-05-02. Reinterpreting The Keynesian Revolution available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Various explanations have been put forward as to why the Keynesian Revolution in economics in the 1930s and 1940s took place. Some of these point to the temporal relevance of John Maynard Keynes's The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money (1936), appearing, as it did, just a handful of years after the onset of the Great Depression, whilst others highlight the importance of more anecdotal evidence, such as Keynes’s close relations with the Cambridge ‘Circus’, a group of able, young Cambridge economists who dissected and assisted Keynes in developing crucial ideas in the years leading up to the General Theory. However, no systematic effort has been made to bring together these and other factors to examine them from a sociology of science perspective. This book fills this gap by taking its cue from a well-established tradition of work from history of science studies devoted to identifying the intellectual, technical, institutional, psychological and financial factors which help to explain why certain research schools are successful and why others fail. This approach, it turns out, provides a coherent account of why the revolution in macroeconomics was ‘Keynesian’ and why, on a related note, Keynes was able to see off contemporary competitor theorists, notably Friedrich von Hayek and Michal Kalecki.
A History of Religious Ideas Volume 1
A History of Religious Ideas Volume 1 - 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 A History of Religious Ideas Volume 1 write by Mircea Eliade. This book was released on 2014-02-14. A History of Religious Ideas Volume 1 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “Everyone who cares about the human adventure will find new information and new angles of vision.”—Martin E. Marty, The New York Times Book Review This extraordinary work delves into the subject of religion in the prehistoric and ancient worlds—humankind’s earliest quests for meaning. From Neanderthal burials to the mythology of the Iron Age, to the religions of Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, Israel, India, and beyond, it offers both an appreciation of the wide-ranging diversity of religious expression—and a consideration of the fundamental unity of religious phenomena. “Will arouse the interest of all historians of western religion, since it includes chapters on the religions of Canaan and Israel. However, the book must be read cover to cover if one wants to grasp the significance of its gigantic historical scope.”—Church History
