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Pearls of Meanings

Studies on Persian Art, Poetry, Ṣūfīsm and History of Iranian Studies in Europe

2020 || Paperback || Hans de Bruijn || Leiden University Press

Pearls of Meaning offers a collection of essays by J.T.P. (Hans) de Bruijn, a leading scholar in the field of Persian Studies, in which essential domains of Persian culture such as poetry and Sufism are analyzed in an exemplary fashion. While poetry plays a pivotal position in these essays, the reception of the Persian literary tradition in Europe is another focus of the volume. De Bruijn evaluates the works of a generation of scholars such as A. Reland (1676-1718), C.H. Ethé (1844-1917), J....

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Herensha - Herencia

Reflecties op Antilliaans erfgoed. Deel 2. Nu en verder

2021 || Paperback || Gert Oostindie e.a. || Leiden University Press

Het Antilliaanse culturele erfgoed verdient het om meer aandacht te krijgen en nader te worden onderzocht. Dit tweedelige boek, geschreven door een team van Antilliaanse en Nederlandse wetenschappers, biedt een staalkaart van reflecties op het culturele erfgoed van Aruba, Bonaire en Curaçao en van de Antilliaanse diaspora in Nederland. In het eerste deel, Toen en nu, wordt onderzocht hoe in het koloniale verleden werd aangekeken tegen de lokale culturen en hoe die culturen zich langzamerhand...

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Ñuu Savi: Pasado, Presente, Futuro

Descolonización, Continuidad Cultural y Re-apropiación de los Códices Mixtecos en el Pueblo de la Lluvia

2020 || Paperback || Omar Aguilar Sánchez || Leiden University Press

Este trabajo es un estudio decolonial de los manuscritos pictóricos del Ñuu Savi (Pueblo de la Lluvia), México, y busca el entendimiento de sus valores culturales a través del estudio holístico y diacrónico de su herencia viva y patrimonio histórico-cultural, teniendo como base la reintegración de la memoria cultural con fundamento en la continuidad cultural, vinculando el pasado y el presente a través de la lengua de la lluvia (Sahan Savi) y desde la perspectiva del propio Ñuu Savi...

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The League Against Imperialism

Lives and Afterlives

2020 || Paperback || Michele Louro e.a. || Leiden University Press

The League against Imperialism explores the dramatic and engaging story of a global institution that brought together activists across geographical and political borders for the goal of eradicating colonial rule worldwide. The League against Imperialism (LAI) attracted anticolonial activists like India’s Jawaharlal Nehru, Indonesia’s Sukarno, and Kenya’s Jomo Kenyatta, as well as prominent figures like Albert Einstein, Ernst Toller, Romain Rolland, Upton Sinclair, Mohandas Gandhi, and M...

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Liquid Footprints

Water, Urbanism, and Sustainability in Roman Ostia

2020 || Paperback || Mark A. Locicero || Leiden University Press

This publication examines the archaeological evidence from three city blocks in Ostia, focusing on elements of the water systems identified by past excavations and within unpublished archival material. Inspired by the diversity of research approaches currently used to assess the sustainability of water in contemporary cities, this study presents the Roman Water Footprint, which diachronically assesses changes to all parts of a hydraulic system (supply, usage, drainage). At the same time, the ...

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Changes in the Cultural Landscape and their Impacts on Heritage Management

A Study of Dutch Fort at Galle, Sri Lanka

2020 || Paperback || Uditha Jinadasa || Leiden University Press

This 47th volume of the ASLU series focuses on the practical challenges of managing a World Heritage listed historic city in a South Asian context. The Indian Ocean island of Sri Lanka’s Galle Fort, a walled town, identified as the best-preserved colonial fort in South Asia, is the subject of this study. The book analyses the costs and benefits of the fort’s World Heritage recognition to its local urban community and to the colonial fort itself, as a monument. It shows how thirty years of...

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The Company Fortress

Military Engineering and the Dutch East India Company in South Asia, 1638-1795

2020 || Paperback || Erik Odegard || Leiden University Press

The remains of Dutch East India Company forts are scattered throughout littoral Asia and Africa. But how important were the specific characteristics of European bastion-trace fortifications to Early-Modern European expansion? Was European fortification design as important for Early-Modern expansion as has been argued? This book takes on these questions by studying the system of fortifications built and maintained by the Dutch East India Company (VOC) in present-day India and Sri Lanka. It unc...

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The potters’ perspectives

A vibrant chronological narrative of ceramic manufacturing practices in the valley of Juigalpa, Chontales, Nicaragua (cal 300 CE-present)

2020 || Paperback || Natalia R. Donner || Leiden University Press

The work of Fernand Braudel (1949) should have revolutionized the way archaeology conceptualizes temporal scales and builds chronological narratives. Even though Braudel’s general views did impact archaeological theory deeply, his three different time-scales, together with insights into duration as the inner dialectic between different temporalities, remain neglected in archaeological practice.

Nowadays, ceramic chronology building in archaeology still relies on two main variables: time-spa...

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Being a Slave

Histories and Legacies of European Slavery in the Indian Ocean

2020 || Paperback || Alicia Schrikker e.a. || Leiden University Press

"Being a slave" brings together scholars and writers who try to come to terms with the histories and legacies of European slavery in the Indian Ocean. This volume discusses a variety of qualitative data on the experience of being a slave in order to recover ordinary lives and, crucially, to place this experience in its Asian local context. Building on the rich scholarship on the slave trade, this volume offers a unique perspective that embraces the origin and afterlife of enslavement as well ...

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Designating Place

Archaeological Perspectives on Built Environments in Ostia and Pompeii

2020 || Paperback || Hans Kamermans e.a. || Leiden University Press

Spatial analysis on the basis of material culture has always been one of the mayor topics in archaeological research. Designating place analyses the urban space of Roman Ostia and Pompeii in different ways: geophysical analysis, spatial analysis, iconographic analysis and epigraphic analysis. This book is based on the work of Hanna Stöger, the Leiden scholar who died in 2018. Hanna’s work in Ostia was not finished and this book contains contributions from people who inspired her, people sh...