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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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Archaeological studies Leiden University (ASLU) Tiempo, Cosmos Y Religión Del Pueblo Ayuuk (Mexico)
|| Juan Carlos Reyes Gómez || Leiden University Press
El pueblo ayuuk es uno de los pueblos indígenas de México que ha preservado hasta hoy día gran parte de su patrimonio cultural y lingüístico. En este trabajo presentamos un análisis de su concepción espacio-temporal, su sistema de cómputo del tiempo y su pensamiento religioso, los cuales rigen la vida social y espiritual de este pueblo.
A casi 500 años de la invasión europea y el inicio de la colonización y la evangelización -aunadas las políticas asimilacionistas impuestas por e...
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Archaeological studies Leiden University (ASLU) Heritage and Rights of Indigenous Peoples
patrimonio y Derechos de Los Pueblos Indígenas
2017 || Paperback || Manuel May Castillo e.a. || Leiden University Press
The heritage of Indigenous Peoples has long been researched and commented upon from the outside. This book adopts an innovative approach by engaging with the heritage of Indigenous Peoples from the 'inside'.
On 13th September 2007, member states of the United Nations adopted the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), a momentous occasion marking wide political recognition of Indigenous Peoples' rights. Ten years on, this book explores the areas -both substantive and geogr...
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Archaeological studies Leiden University (ASLU) Reconstructing the Settled Landscape of the Cyclades
the Islands of Paros and Naxos during the Late Antique and Early Byzantine Centuries
2017 || Paperback || Konstantinos Roussos || Leiden University Press
The Islands of Paros and Naxos during the Late Antique and Early Byzantine Centuries
The aim of this book is to offer a fresh approach to the history and archaeology of the Cyclades in Late Antiquity and the Byzantine Early Middle Ages in light of current archaeological investigations. It is an attempt to interpret human-environmental interaction in order to "read" the relationship between islands, settlements, landscapes and seascapes in the context of the diverse and highly interactive Medit...
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Hidden complexities of the Frankish castle / druk 1
social aspects of space in the configurational architecture of Frankish castles in the Holy Land, 1099-1291
|| Paperback || Eva Mol || Leiden University Press
Dit volume in de ASLU-serie bestudeert Frankische kastelen met als doel het in kaart brengen van de relatie van de toenmalige bewoners met de geconstrueerde ruimte. Dit onderzoek biedt nieuwe inzichten in het functioneren van het fort, zowel in de functie als bescherming tegen vijandige machten, als de invloed van het gebouw op het gedrag van de bewoners binnen de muren van deze kastelen.
- Met een uitgeklede versie van dit werk won Eva Mol de Leidse Universitaire Scriptieprijs in het jaar 20...
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Archaeological studies Leiden University (ASLU) Los tlamatque, guardianes del patrimonio
dinámicas interculturales en la sociedad naua (México)
|| Raúl Macuil Martínez || Leiden University Press
Este trabajo integra la memoria oral y documental de las comunidades nauas
de México con el conocimiento, en el seno familiar, de los discursos, las
rogativas y los rituales que se siguen celebrando y la visión del mundo desde
los ojos, los corazones y los rostros de los tlamatque ("sabios").
La investigación consistió en un acercamiento al mundo religioso de la
cultura naua contemporánea, tanto en la comunidad de Santa Catarina
Acaxochitlan (Hidalgo) como en la región naua de Tlaxcala (de do...
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Archaeological studies Leiden University (ASLU) Troubled Waters
developing a New Approach to Maritime and Underwater Cultural Heritage Management in Sub-Saharan Africa
2017 || Paperback || Jonathan Sharfman || Leiden University Press
This volume of the ASLU series examines perspectives on maritime and underwater cultural heritage (MUCH) in southern Africa and proposes new management approaches to advance protection and public engagement. By redefining the maritime historical narratives in countries that have predominantly interpreted their maritime past through colonial shipwrecks, it is possible to create an environment in which stakeholders become active participants in heritage management. The application of a broad ma...
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Weneya'a - "quien habla con los cerros"
Memoria, mántica y paisaje sagrado en la Sierra Norte de Oaxaca
2019 || Paperback || Caroll Davila || Leiden University Press
Este trabajo documenta e interpreta el patrimonio cultural saa (zapoteco) de los Bene Ya’a/En’ne I’ya, los habitantes zapotecos de la Sierra Norte de Oaxaca. Dicho patrimonio es estudiado a partir de los símbolos transmitidos por las personas encargadas de los rituales, weneya’a— las personas « que hablan con los cerros ».
Los individuos weneya’a transmiten valores culturales fundamentales de sus comunidades y son indispensables para la identidad y la cultura de los Bene Ya’a...
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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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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...