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The bronze age begins
This book focuses on economic and social changes, particularly during the opening phase of the Minoan civilization on the island of Crete. New developments in ceramics that reached Crete at the end of the Neolithic period greatly contributed to the creation of economic, technological and religiou...
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Paulus hector mair's ars athletica volume 2
To those who study the physical culture of arms in medieval Europe, the German Fechtbücher—treatises on combat arts—are among the most important surviving documentary sources: no other region in Europe produced such an extensive body of writings on the techniques of medieval combat. Among thes...
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In the name of humanity
On the centenary of the signing of the Lausanne Convention, the American School of Classical Studies at Athens mounted an exhibition highlighting the American relief aid offered to Greece from 1918 to 1929. The exhibition drew on a rich array of sources, which are presented in this volume for the...
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Wall paintings and social context
The iconography of Late Bronze Age wall paintings is presented in their social context within the Cycladic island of Kea and the wider Aegean world. Town, land, and seascapes illustrate the community of this harbor. This book is lavishly illustrated with many color drawings, visualizations, and p...
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Mochlos iia
The results of excavations carried out at two Late Minoan III sites at Mochlos in eastern Crete are presented. The stratigraphy and architecture of a total of 31 tombs and 11 houses are discussed together with a complete list of artifacts, ecofacts, and skeletal remains from each context.
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Hunters, heroes, kings
This monograph considers the painted frieze on the facade of Tomb II at Vergina (ca. 330-280 B.C.) as a visual document that offers vital evidence for the public self-stylings of Macedonian royalty in the era surrounding the reign of Alexander the Great.
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Beyond hatti
This collection of essays honours the life and work of Gary Beckman, Professor of Hittite and Mesopotamian Studies at the University of Michigan. The essays traverse ancient Anatolia, Syria, Mesopotamia and beyond. Beckman’s interest in the reception and adaptation of Syro-Mesopotamian culture by...
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The sanctuary of demeter and kore: terracotta figurines of the classic
About 24,000 figurines and fragments were found during excavations at the Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore, greatly enriching the known body of Corinthian figurines not only in number but also in the addition of many entirely new types and styles
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The middle ages in the athenian agora
From ornate Early Christian carving to the colourful green and brown glazed pottery that distinguished the city, this booklet shows how medieval Athens was a lively, bustling town with a rich artistic tradition.
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Introduction to aegean art
This textbook is a compilation of the author's more than 35 years of teaching and excavation experience in the field of Aegean Bronze Age art history and archaeology. It is geared toward an audience of undergraduate and graduate students as an introduction to Bronze Age art objects and architecture.
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The neolithic settlement
This volume complements Lerna V: The Neolithic Pottery of Lerna, by K. D. Vitelli, and completes the primary publication of the results of the Neolithic remains retrieved during the excavations conducted by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens from 1952 through 1958 at Lerna in the ...
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Visible language
Current perspectives on the origins and development of writing in Mesopotamia and Egypt, providing an overview of each writing system and its uses. This richly illustrated volume, issued in conjunction with an exhibit at the Oriental Institute, provides a perspective on, and appreciation of, an i...
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Funerary sculpture
Funerary Sculpture is the first volume on sculpture from the Agora in over 50 years, bringing together all the sculpted funerary monuments of the Athenian Agora, Classical through Roman periods, which were discovered during excavation from 1931 through 2009.
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A dictionary of cuneiform luvian
Luvian was a language spoken in second millennium B.C. ancient Anatolia, now Turkey,. It is preserved in documents written in cuneiform script important for our knowledge of religion and culture during the Hittite Empire. The dictionary includes definitions as well as a grammatical introduction, ...
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Terracotta lamps ii
This volume discusses more than 400 lamps and lamp fragments dating from the Late Archaic to the Byzantine period found over several decades at the Sanctuary of Poseidon at Isthmia.
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Vessel glass
The authors present 404 glass vessels excavated in the Athenian Agora. Although mostly fragmentary, examples are given of almost every type of glass known from the Classical, Hellenistic, and Roman periods, and representative finds from Byzantine and later times.
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Ayioryitika
Ayioryitika, a large settlement in Arcadia in central Greece, is particularly important for its beautifully decorated Middle Neolithic pottery and for its figurines of human figures and animals. Excavated in 1928 by Carl Blegen, the research was never published.This volume provides the fragmentar...
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Industrial religion
This study focuses on the "saucer pyres," a series of 70 deposits excavated in the residential and industrial areas bordering the Athenian Agora. Each consisted of a shallow pit, its floor sometimes marked by heavy burning, with a votive deposit of pottery and fragments of burnt bone, ash, and ch...
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Studies in attic epigraphy, history, and topography presented to eugene vanderpool
Twenty-six papers on the epigraphy, history, and topography of ancient Greece presented to the famous scholar by his eminent students and friends.
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Corinthian countrysides
A large-scale intensive survey in the eastern territory of Corinth investigated the Isthmus west of the Corinth Canal, a transport corridor and densely settled area from prehistory to the present day. This book presents the datasets and analyses of the survey, a new archaeological resource for un...
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Mochlos ic
Mochlos is a Minoan town in northeast Crete. Three volumes present the results of the excavations in the Neopalatial levels of the Artisans' Quarter, and at the farmhouse at Chalinomouri: Mochlos IA presents the process of excavation and the architecture; volume IB presents the pottery; and volum...
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Crete in transition
This work presents a classification system and absolute chronology for black-gloss wares from Crete, establishing the first local and regional ceramic sequences during the period from 600 to 400 B.C.
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Corinthian conventionalizing pottery
This book provides a full and comprehensive study of Corinthian Conventionalizing pottery found during the American School's excavations at ancient Corinth.
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Presence
This book charts a psychologist's journey to understand one of the most unusual experiences known to humankind: the feeling that someone or something is there when we are alone. A tour-de-force through contemporary psychology, psychiatry, neuroscience and philosophy, Presence is the story of who ...
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Power, politics and influence at work
Argues that the changing world of work cannot be divorced from several overlapping power dynamics that have resonance to wider societal debates: issues of labour market inclusion and exclusion or marginalisation, profit and wealth distribution, political influence and employment regulation, unio...
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Judicial tribunals in england and europe, 1200–1700
This book is about trials, civil and criminal, ecclesiastical and secular, in England and Europe between the thirteenth and the seventeenth centuries, providing a rounded view of trials conducted according to different procedures within contrasting legal systems, including English common law and ...
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Crafted with pride
This collection explores queer craft and the material cultures of LGBTQ+ activism in Britain since the 1980s. It includes contributions from academics, artists, activists, curators, and heritage professionals. The first book of its kind, it weaves together an important web connecting queerness, c...
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Socially engaged creative practice
This collection is the second in the Performance and Communities series. Contributions from academics and artists engage with both these notions of performance – that of identities in and through time and space - and of more formal instances of specific time-limited performances (textual/ embodie...
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Obsessions of a showwoman
The book foregrounds the important lineage of incredible women working across performance, live art and cabaret and asks how the term 'Showwoman' can transgress the figure of the showman as a provider of the spectacular. It encourages the showgirl to finally graduate into adulthood. 60 illus.
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Global culture after gombrich
The volume presents essays by 10 eminent historians of art and culture provoked by the work of Ernst Gombrich. The collection shows Gombrich’s concerns to have initiated lines of enquiry that spread beyond Europe and across the globe, and makes a vital contribution to the contemporary debate arou...
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Popular music ethnographies
This interdisciplinary book takes the reader on global journeys from the UK to China, from Ecuador to Jamaica, through a melange of music genres. In doing so, it raises key questions as the contributors reflect upon doing and communicating ethnographic research on popular music. 14 b&w illus.
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Architecture, film, and the in-between
Architecture, Film, and the In-Between: Spatio-Cinematic Betwixt brings together some of the most prominent thinkers in contemporary architectural discourses with an investigation of the filmic imagination of architectural in-betweenness, as well as the in-between spaces within the architectural ...
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Shaping global cultures through screenwriting
A powerful testament to the impact of an international collection of female screenwriters, this is a celebration of the women writers who use their artistic lens to educate and empower others. It brings long-overdue attention to the vital role women take in shaping the global cultural landscape. ...
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Becoming a visually reflective practitioner
Considers how self-study using arts-based methods can enable purposeful reflection toward understanding and envisioning professional practice. Presents a self-study model highlighting arts-based methods for examining areas of professional practice: professional identities, work cultures, change a...
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Wild renaissance
Offers a new and original way of understanding the current ecological turmoil through the lens of art, philosophy and ecology. Draws on a new concept of renaissance and proposes a 360° vision on how to dwell on Earth. The role of art and design appear of paramount importance and play a crucial ro...
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Music by numbers
This edited collection examines statistics within the music industry. Its aim is to expose the historical and contemporary use and abuse of these numbers, both nationally and internationally. It addresses their impact on consumers’ choices, upon the careers of musicians and upon the policies that...
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Designing and conducting practice-based research projects
A practical guide to conducting practice-based research projects in the arts, specifically aimed at undergraduates and new researchers. This is a textbook aimed primarily at upper undergraduate and Master’s students, including practical guidance, examples, exercises, and further resources. 10 b&a...
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Schechner plays
A collection of performance texts ranging from orthodox plays to group-devised texts. The book traces from most recent to earliest Schechner's work as a "writer" and a "wrighter" -- the author of plays and the conceptualizer and leader of teams of artists. 20 b&w illus.
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Media materialities
Brings together a breadth of perspectives addressing media materialities, and their significance to the study of media, culture, and society. Offers new thinking and perspectives on media materialities, including work that explores media materiality, and the past, physical and digital tensions an...
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Performance generating systems in dance
Analyzes the self-organizing dramaturgies of dance works that generate performance systematically. Provides effective resources for those who wish to study or realize the potential of performance generating systems in dance within the fields of choreography and dance dramaturgy, dance education, ...
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Phenomenology for actors
This book explores how phenomenology – the study of how the world shows itself to conscious experience – can provide new insights into acting and theatre-making. It explores Being-in-the-world in everyday life with practical exercises for rehearsal and performance. 7 b/w illus.
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Applied theatre, third edition
Applied Theatre is recognized as the key text in the field of applied theatre and has been adopted by teaching programs around the world. Recipient of the Distinguished Book Award from the American Alliance for Theatre Education in 2010. Third edition includes refreshed case studies, providing ex...
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Digital embodiment and the arts
A timely examination of the use of emerging technologies in the arts in recent decades, from the first wave of Virtual Reality through to the current use of Mixed, Augmented and Extended Realities. It highlights the necessity of understanding technological experiences through the assumption that ...
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A cultural history of the punisher
A close reading of one of the most murderous characters in popular culture. First introduced in 1974, the Punisher has inspired three movies, a Netflix series, and more than one thousand comics and graphic novels. His stories have celebrated, interrogated, and satirized the politics of vengeance....
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Disrupting white mindfulness
Disrupting White Mindfulness offers a timely commentary on the dominant narratives and norms that shape the Mindfulness Industry. Mindfulness is now common throughout the West, but this book reveals how the industry is infused with whiteness and late capitalism.
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On trial
The book explores the early days of industry-sponsored clinical research in psychiatry. Examining how the clinic, patients, doctors, nursing staff, corporations, and authorities interacted, it reconstructs the experimental practices in a psychiatric hospital from 1940-80 whilst telling a larger s...
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The leibniz-clarke correspondence
n 1715 Leibniz wrote to his friend the Princess of Wales to warn her of the dangers Newton's philosophy posed for natural religion. Seizing this chance of initiating an exchange between the two greatest minds in Europe, the princess showed his letter to the eminent Newtonian scientist and natural...
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David bowie, enid blyton and the sun machine
A dazzling act of literary-critical rebellion, casting new light on the lives of David Bowie and Enid Blyton
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