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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 Heirs of Vijayanagara
Court Politics in Early Modern South India
2021 || Paperback || Lennart Bes || Leiden University Press || met inkijkexemplaar
This comparative study investigates court politics in four kingdoms that succeeded the south Indian Vijayanagara empire during the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries: Ikkeri, Tanjavur, Madurai, and Ramnad. Building on a unique combination of unexplored Indian texts and Dutch archival records, this research offers a captivating new analysis of political culture, power relations, and dynastic developments.
In great detail, this monograph provides both new facts and fresh insights that contest exi...
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Debates on Islam & Society: Jihad and Islam in World War I
studies on the ottoman jihad on the centenary of snouck hurgronje’s “holy war made in germany”
|| Paperback || Erik-Jan Zürcher || Leiden University Press
The proclamation of Jihad by the Sultan-Caliph in Constantinople, after the Ottoman Empire's entry into World War I, made the headlines. This book investigates the background and nature of the Ottoman Jihad proclamation in addition to its effects in the wider Middle East - both among the Arabs and the Turks, and among Sunni Muslims as well as Shi'ites. It brings to light the German hopes for and British fears of a worldwide uprising of Muslims in the colonial empires at that time. Moreover, i...
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Archaeological studies Leiden University (ASLU) Tiempo y Comunidad
herencias e interacciones socio-culturales en mesoamérica y occidente
2015 || Paperback || Maarten Jansen e.a. || Leiden University Press
Herencias e Interacciones Socioculturales en Mesoamérica y Occidente
The existence of communities and peoples develops over time, in a diachronic line of heritage and cultural memory as well as in a synchronous coexistence with the cosmos, marked by cyclically returning rituals. Under the pressure of "clock time" ("time is money") these organic "other times" of identity are eroding rapidly. In these respects, modernity has come to be characterized by a deep, dramatic and often violent conflic...
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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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Camering: Fernand Deligny on Cinema and the Image
2022 || Paperback || Marlon Miguel || Leiden University Press
Fernand Deligny (1913-1996), ‘poet and ethologist’, is mostly known for his work with autistic children and for his influence on the revolutions in French post-war psychiatry. Though neither director nor a theorist of the image, cinema is constantly called into his social, pedagogical, and clinical experimentations. More interested in the processes of making, he distinguishes ‘camering’ from filming, thus emphasizing not the finished film but a ‘film to come’. This volume provides...
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World History for International Studies
2022 || Paperback || Isabelle Duyvesteyn e.a. || Leiden University Press
Studying change in the course of human history, in different places, through the lens of a diverse set of core themes, World History for International Studies offers readers a set of windows into different debates historians have been conducting. Key themes, such as communication, trade, order, slavery, religion, war, identity, modernity, norms and ecology, are linked to specific world regions, which tell a story about how local ideas and individual contacts developed, started to overlap and ...
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The Historiography of Landscape Research on Crete / druk 1
2008 || Paperback || Marina Gkiasta || Leiden University Press
Analyse van geschiedschrijving van archeologisch landschapsonderzoek op Kreta
In 'The Historiography of Landscape Research' on Crete evalueert Marina Gkiasta de geschiedschrijving van een eeuw archeologisch landschapsonderzoek op het Griekse eiland Kreta. Sinds het begin van deze discipline (1900) wordt een aantal relevante projecten uitgelicht en grondig geanalyseerd. Gkiasta benoemd vijf tradities ofwel manieren van aanpak binnen onderzoek naar oude landschappen. Ze toont aan dat deze tr...
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Sharia incorporated / druk 1
a Comparative Overview of the Legal Systems of Twelve Muslim Countries in Past and Present
2012 || Paperback || Leiden University Press
The aim of Sharia Incorporated is to provide unbiased and contextual information about a topic that has of late been hijacked by politics in the West. Sharia Incorporated is an ambitious study of the development and incorporation of sharia and Islamic and customary law traditions into national legal, political, and social state structures. Sharia Incorporated also explores the sensitive topic of 'Western' human rights and rule of law standards in a Muslim world. This book provides an in-depth...