Iconoclasm and Text Destruction in the Ancient Near East and Beyond Jane Martindale

Iconoclasm and Text Destruction in the Ancient Near East and Beyond Jane MartindaleThe eighth in the Oriental Institute Seminar Series. The purpose of the conference was to analyze the cases of and reasons for mutilation of texts and images in Near Eastern antiquity. Explores iconoclasm and text destruction through examination of the anthropological, cultural, historical, and political aspects of these practices.

and workbook entries for emotional work

revealing a sophisticated population engaged in specialized land use

This book examines Turkey’s increasingly unstable position in the liberal international order and its complicated relationship with the West

It offers a highly original approach in relating rap/metal to critical theories of economy and culture and introduces a new method of cultural analysis based on theories of negativity and expenditure

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with each chapter containing close analyses of particular examples

impartial carriers of truth and the archivist as a guardian of records has been questioned: how can society take greater control over its own written memory

The book shows how design objects and practices open up possibilities to recode and reconfigure the effects of precarity

the work of established directors like Pedro Almodóvar

and the nations that grapple with the borders they enforce

based on the theories of dialectical materialism and cultural hegemony

The Path to Paralysis offers the first comprehensive analysis of how U