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Playing and Vitality in Psychoanalysis

Playing and Vitality in Psychoanalysis

Building on their long-lasting scientific partnership Civitarese and Ferro offer an array of thought-provoking writings bolstered by extensive clinical material attesting to their shared interpretation of psychoanalysis not only as a treatment for psychic suffering but also as inherently pleasurable and vitalizing. In chapters that reflect inclinations fantasies and obsessions that are both shared and personal and by engaging with topics various enough to include dreams ethics emotions and aesthetics the authors demonstrate how the practice of psychoanalysis might no longer be an insidiously moralistic or ideological exercise but rather a practice aimed at opening up and liberating the mind. By providing detailed engagement with the work of Bion and Ogden as well as insights from their own substantial expertise the authors explore how the synonymous concepts of playing and vitality can meaningfully inform and change clinical psychoanalytic practice. With rich clinical material and a strong foundation in established theory this book will appeal to psychoanalysts psychoanalytic therapists and postgraduate students hoping to make more room in the psychoanalytic lexicon for words like pleasure dreaming creativity hospitality and growth. | Playing and Vitality in Psychoanalysis

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Administrative Vitality The Conflict with Bureaucracy

Administrative Vitality The Conflict with Bureaucracy

Originally published in 1960. This title presents a discussion of bureaucracy and enterprise and how they are related and might be combined. Case studies of various businesses including Marks and Spencer are used to illustrate this idea. Most of the companies examined are large and have all been at least partially successful in solving some of the difficulties of administration that businessmen and government officials constantly encounter. The present book was an attempt to break new ground to suggest some new syntheses to seek some practical explanations and to propose some practical solutions. This title will be of interest to students of Business Studies and Management. | Administrative Vitality The Conflict with Bureaucracy

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The Vitality of Karamojong Religion Dying Tradition or Living Faith?

The Vitality of Karamojong Religion Dying Tradition or Living Faith?

How long can a traditional religion survive the impact of world religions state hegemony and globalization? The ’Karamoja problem’ is one that has perplexed colonial and independent governments alike. Now Karamojong notoriety for armed cattle raiding has attracted the attention of the UN and USAID since the proliferation of small arms in the pastoralist belt across Africa from Sudan to stateless Somalia is deemed a threat to world security. The consequences are ethnocidal but what makes African peoples stand out against state and global governance? The traditional African religion of the Karamojong despite the multiple external influences of the twentieth century and earlier has remained at the heart of their culture as it has changed through time. Drawing on oral accounts and the language itself as well as his extensive experience of living and working in the region Knighton avoids Western perspectivism to highlight the successful reassertion of African beliefs and values over repeated attempts by interventionists to replace or subvert them. Knighton argues that the religious aspect of Karamojong culture with its persistent faith dimension is one of the key factors that have enabled them to maintain their amazing degree of religious political and military autonomy in the postmodern world. Using historical and anthropological approaches the real continuities within the culture and the reasons for mysterious vitality of Karamojong religion are explored. | The Vitality of Karamojong Religion Dying Tradition or Living Faith?

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Sustaining Rural Systems Rural Vitality in an Era of Globalization and Economic Nationalism

Sustaining Rural Systems Rural Vitality in an Era of Globalization and Economic Nationalism

This book examines the interplay between rural places and the competing narratives of globalization and nationalism. Through case studies from Croatia Belgium Australia the USA Argentina Bolivia Ecuador Mexico Italy and Spain this volume highlights the contemporary status of rural change through the lens of sustainability and set within current competing narratives of globalization and economic nationalism. The multiplicity of roles that rural communities play in economic and social systems are often overlooked in conversations about globalization and economic nationalism. Yet rural communities economies and landscapes are closely tied to global industries migrant flows and markets while simultaneously subject to nationalist economic policies and strategies. The chapters in this book seek to elucidate the nuanced ties between people and industries that are at once intensely local and simultaneously tied to regional and global processes. The volume challenges us to critically examine oversimplified messaging of highly complex systems and provides insights into processes of change at local scales across major global regions. Sustaining Rural Systems will be of great interest to upper-level students researchers and scholars in the areas of rural sociology human geography and development studies. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the Geographical Review. | Sustaining Rural Systems Rural Vitality in an Era of Globalization and Economic Nationalism

GBP 120.00
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Women's Informal Associations In Developing Countries Catalysts For Change?

Women's Informal Associations In Developing Countries Catalysts For Change?

Informal associations among women in developing countries constitute an important source of vitality and integrity for women. This book evaluates the impact of development programs on women’s informal associations and sharpens our understanding of them. The participation of women in development via their informal networks presents a dilemma insofar | Women's Informal Associations In Developing Countries Catalysts For Change?

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Ecocriticism and the Anthropocene in Nineteenth-Century Art and Visual Culture

Ecocriticism and the Anthropocene in Nineteenth-Century Art and Visual Culture

In this volume emerging and established scholars bring ethical and political concerns for the environment nonhuman animals and social justice to the study of nineteenth-century visual culture. They draw their theoretical inspiration from the vitality of emerging critical discourses such as new materialism ecofeminism critical animal studies food studies object-oriented ontology and affect theory. This timely volume looks back at the early decades of the Anthropocene to query the agency of visual culture to critique create and maintain more resilient and biologically diverse local and global ecologies. | Ecocriticism and the Anthropocene in Nineteenth-Century Art and Visual Culture

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Curriculum Histories in Place in Person in Practice The Louisiana State University Curriculum Theory Project

Curriculum Histories in Place in Person in Practice The Louisiana State University Curriculum Theory Project

This book situates the Curriculum Theory Project at Louisiana State University within a larger historical framework of curriculum work examining the practices which have sustained this type of curricular vitality over the lifetime of the field’s existence. Divided into seven parts the authors illuminate seven practices which have sustained the scholarship graduate programs mentorship and networking that have been critical to maintaining a web of international relationships. This exploration and coming together of intergenerational stories reveals a more complete and nuanced narrative of the development of curriculum theory over the last 60 years. Crucially the project exemplifies the continuing resilience of curriculum theory despite ongoing neo-liberal aspirations to reframe education as a business. Reflecting upon the lived experiences and articulated memories of those who have participated in the project and analysis of documents collected over its 25-year history it considers curriculum history(ies) writ large through and from this lens of practice. As such it opens up fresh insights for cultivating the vitality and vigor of curriculum theory more broadly on an international scale and with a view to future directions for the field. It will appeal to both new and experienced scholars working across education foundations urban education philosophy of education and higher education and researchers from across history sociology anthropology ethnic studies and gender studies. | Curriculum Histories in Place in Person in Practice The Louisiana State University Curriculum Theory Project

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Debating the Afropolitan

Debating the Afropolitan

This volume evaluates the vitality of the term ‘Afropolitan’ within the fields of African and Afro-diasporic studies. A hotly debated and malleable term its wide circulation has allowed for Afropolitanism to become a contested space for critical inquiry. The contributions to this book are representative of the lively discussions that Afropolitan aesthetics identity politics and Afro(cosmo)politanisms have sparked in recent years. The book aims to continue the debates around these concepts foregrounded by earlier works in the fields of postcolonial literature African cultural studies and studies of diaspora and transnationalism. This book was originally published as a special issue of the European Journal of English Studies. | Debating the Afropolitan

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Near Eastern Cities from Alexander to the Successors of Muhammad

Near Eastern Cities from Alexander to the Successors of Muhammad

Near Eastern Cities from Alexander to the Successors of Muhammad compares the evolution of several cities in the Near East from the time of Alexander the Great until the beginning of the Islamic 'Abbasid Dynasty. This volume examines both archaeological remains and literary sources to explain the diversity of imperial cultural and religious influences on urban life. It offers several case studies chosen from different regions of the Roman Near East demonstrating that Greco-Roman and Islamic culture spread unevenly through these various cities and that it is impossible to make broad generalizations. It argues instead that there were different patterns of urbanism that demonstrate a continued vitality of civic life up to the 'Abbasid revolution. Near Eastern Cities from Alexander to the Successors of Muhammad will be of particular interest to students of this period in the Ancient Near East as well as those studying ancient cities and everyday life.

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British Defence in the 21st Century

British Defence in the 21st Century

This book analyses UK defence as a complex interdependent public-private enterprise covering politics management society and technology as well as the military. Building upon wide-ranging applied research with extensive access to ministers policy makers senior military commanders and industrialists the book characterises British defence as a phenomenon that has endured extensive transformation this century. Looking at the subject afresh as a complex extended enterprise involving politics alliances businesses skills economics military practices and citizens the authors profoundly reshape our understanding of ‘defence’ and how it is to be commissioned and delivered in a world dominated by geopolitical risks and uncertainties. The book makes the case that this new understanding of defence must inevitably lead to new policies and processes to ensure its health and vitality. This book will be of much interest to students of defence studies British politics and military and strategic studies as well as policy makers and practitioners. | British Defence in the 21st Century

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Biculturalism and Spanish in Contact Sociolinguistic Case Studies

Biculturalism and Spanish in Contact Sociolinguistic Case Studies

Biculturalism and Spanish in Contact: Sociolinguistic Case Studies provides an original and modern analysis of the development of Spanish and its contact with other languages using a sociolinguistic framework from both synchronic and diachronic angles. Split into three sections​ ​(i) Border speech communities​​ (ii) Outcomes and perceptions in situations of language and dialect contact and (iii) Contact and alternation: social boundaries of language switching this collection offers new perspectives in the field of language contact and change. Each chapter presents an original study detailing the social factors that have shaped contact varieties of Spanish providing principal arguments and theories about language use contact and change as well as guided topics for discussion. With its wide scope this book is a landmark in language interaction processes and studies and will be a valuable reference for educators scholars language professionals and students with an interest in the vitality of the Spanish language in contact with other languages. | Biculturalism and Spanish in Contact Sociolinguistic Case Studies

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The Routledge Companion to Literature and Trauma

The Routledge Companion to Literature and Trauma

Literary trauma studies is a rapidly developing field which examines how literature deals with the personal and cultural aspects of trauma and engages with such historical and current phenomena as the Holocaust and other genocides 9/11 climate catastrophe or the still unsettled legacy of colonialism. The Routledge Companion to Literature and Trauma is a comprehensive guide to the history and theory of trauma studies including key concepts consideration of critical perspectives and discussion of future developments. It also explores different genres and media such as poetry life-writing graphic narratives photography and post-apocalyptic fiction and analyses how literature engages with particular traumatic situations and events such as the Holocaust the Occupation of France the Rwandan genocide Hurricane Katrina and transgenerational nuclear trauma. Forty essays from top thinkers in the field demonstrate the range and vitality of trauma studies as it has been used to further the understanding of literature and other cultural forms across the world.

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Liberty and the News

Liberty and the News

This little gem of a book which first appeared in 1920 was written in Walter Lippmann's thirtieth year. He was still full of the passionate faith in democracy that was evident in his writings before the First World War. From today's point of view Lippmann's argument seems unusually prescient. He was troubled by distortions in newspaper journalism but was also deeply aware of the need to protect a free press. Lippmann believed that toleration of alternative beliefs was essential to maintaining the vitality of democracy. Liberty and the News is a key transitional work in the corpus of Lippmann's writings. For it is here that he proposes that public opinion is largely a response not to truths but rather to a pseudo-environment which exists between people and the external world. Lippmann was worried that if the beliefs that get exchanged between people are hollow and bear only a purely accidental relationship to the world as it truly is then the entire case for democracy is in danger of having been built on sand. His concerns remain very much alive and important.

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The Concept of a University

The Concept of a University

Taking on the challenge of the postmodernists of politics Kenneth Minogue argues forcefully and persuasively that the current dominant philosophies of education rest upon a mistake. The fashionable belief that the university is society's handmaiden is confronted by a view of the university as an institution with an independent vitality and function. Minogue at one and the same time reminds us of the sources of admiration for university life in the medieval world and how it rested squarely on its essential autonomy from the very social pressures that have come to define the modern university. The Concept of a University traces many confusions imposed by political ideology to a failure to distinguish academic inquiry from other kinds of intellectual activity such as journalism religious proselytizing and high quality propaganda. Minogue holds that where the university lacks a clear sense of the difference between the academic and the pragmatic its vitality is sapped by conflicting purposes. Much of the present debate about the crisis in universities rests upon a fundamental error of trying to fit them into some scheme of social functions. Minogue's analysis breaks through much muddled thinking on this subject presenting instead a coherent relevant and stimulating approach to higher education. In a new introduction Minogue tells us we have become frightfully tolerant. Anyone can become anything and we all belong to the one practical world of churning problems and solutions. There is no doubt that a new world is being born. It seems to be a world that will have little place for the disinterested pursuit of truth. A great deal of old fashioned scholarship survives-partly by silence cunning and exile' -in the universities' of the present day but little relationship remains between what we used to call universities' and the things called by that name today. Kenneth Minogue is professor emeritus of political science at the London School of Economics. He was born in New Zealand educated in Australia and has made his life and academic career in the United Kingdom. He is the author of The Liberal Mind Nationalism and most recently Democracy and the Moral Life. He is a director of the Centre for Policy Studies and also senior research fellow of the Bruges Group where he remains a member of its academic advisory council.

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First Americans: A History of Native Peoples

First Americans: A History of Native Peoples

Now in its third edition First Americans has been fully updated to trace Native Americans' experiences through the 2020 election and the Biden administration the COVID-19 pandemic and the crisis of murdered and missing indigenous women. This book provides a comprehensive history of Native Americans from their earliest appearances in North America to the present highlighting the complexity and diversity of their cultures and experiences. Contrasting the misconception that Native Americans were consistently victims without power native voices permeate the text and shape its narrative underlining the vitality of native peoples and cultures in the context of regional continental and global developments. The new edition highlights the role of Native Americans as agents of resistance and progress rooted in the perspective that their activism has been instrumental throughout history and in the present day. To enrich student understanding the book also includes a variety of pedagogical tools including short biographical profiles key review questions a rich series of maps and illustrations chapter chronologies a glossary and recommendations for further reading. Spanning centuries of developments into the present day First Americans is the approachable essential student introduction to Native American history. | First Americans: A History of Native Peoples

GBP 89.99
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The Routledge Handbook of Muslim Iberia

The Routledge Handbook of Muslim Iberia

This handbook offers an overview of the main issues regarding the political economic social religious intellectual and artistic history of the Iberian Peninsula during the period of Muslim rule (eighth–fifteenth centuries). A comprehensive list of primary and secondary sources attests the vitality of the academic study of al-Andalus (= Muslim Iberia) and its place in present-day discussions about the past and the present. The contributors are all specialists with diverse backgrounds providing different perspectives and approaches. The volume includes chapters dealing with the destiny of the Muslim population after the Christian conquest and with the posterity of al-Andalus in art literature and different historiographical traditions. The chapters are organised in the following sections:Political history concentrating on rulers and armiesSocial religious and economic groupsIntellectual and cultural developmentsLegacy and memory of al-AndalusOffering a synthetic and updated academic treatment of the history and society of Muslim Iberia this comprehensive and up-to-date collection provides an authoritative and interdisciplinary guide. It is a valuable resource for both specialists and the general public interested in the history of the Iberian Peninsula Islamic and Medieval studies. | The Routledge Handbook of Muslim Iberia

GBP 42.99
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Hinduism: The Basics

Hinduism: The Basics

Hinduism: The Basics introduces readers to the third largest and arguably the oldest living religious tradition. It opens a vista into the rich and dynamic ethos of the Hindu religious tradition in India and other parts of the world. The book explores the variety of philosophical schools priestly rituals and popular practices common in the Hindu faith presenting the layered diversity of its traditions and how they function in everyday life. Chapters unpack key concepts from the tradition and discussions about its various aspects including: The historical development of Hinduism Religious practices such as pilgrimage meditation and life cycle rituals The organisation of Hindu society into castes and related social justice issues The spread of Hinduism around the world the rise of Hindu nationalism and other challenges of modernity The continuum between sacred texts in both elite Sanskrit and in South Asian vernacular languages Hindu worldviews including karma reincarnation and ethics The vitality of indigenous cultures in every form of Hinduism Featuring glossaries timelines suggestions for further reading and a list of key deities as well as practices this is an ideal introduction to Hindu beliefs and traditions for undergraduates and others new to the study of Hinduism.

GBP 14.99
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Tourism and Crisis

Tourism and Crisis

The new millennium has been characterised by several crises ranging from dramatic acts of terror to natural disasters as well as the most significant economic recession since the late 1920s. However despite such challenges the global tourism system has in the main retained its past vitality although in some cases in a different form. The book investigates different kinds of crisis and unpacks understandings of crisis in relation to various components in the contemporary tourism system. The aim of this book therefore is to critically analyse the relationship between tourism and crises. The volume focuses on the roles and potential of tourism for development and relations between tourism environment and broad global process of change at different levels of analysis highlighting different types of crisis. In particular it questions the general conviction that tourism-led development is a sustainable and necessarily solid platform from which to develop local national and regional economies from a range of perspectives. Written by leading academics in the field this book offers valuable insight into tourism’s relationship with socio – cultural environment economic and political crisis as well as the challenges facing future tourism development. | Tourism and Crisis

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Towards an Anthropology of Wealth Imagination Substance Value

Towards an Anthropology of Wealth Imagination Substance Value

Aiming to redefine the concept of wealth which has too often been reduced to merely ‘accumulated assets’ this book views wealth primarily as a question of reproduction relational flows and life vitality. The authors therefore outline wealth as a triangular phenomenon between capital the commons and power. Viewing wealth as firstly a product of relational capacities the book explores the processes wherein it is constantly being pulled at from forces that demand appropriation be that finance community or state. The chapters tackle perceptions (and practices) of wealth in the commons in mythical narrative immaterial substance aristocratic orders antimafia money real and imagined and conspiracy theory with contributions from Melanesia Italy Greece India and Mongolia. The comparative perspective lies at the heart of the book bringing together instances of commonwealth and the commons as well as hierarchical relational and substantial understandings of wealth. As the first collection in recent decades to address the anthropology of wealth openly in a comparative perspective this book will spark discussions of the concept in anthropology not least at the back of a renewed debate over it due to Piketty’s legacy. This book was originally published as a special issue of History & Anthropology. | Towards an Anthropology of Wealth Imagination Substance Value

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Mixed Towns Trapped Communities Historical Narratives Spatial Dynamics Gender Relations and Cultural Encounters in Palestinian-Israeli Towns

Mixed Towns Trapped Communities Historical Narratives Spatial Dynamics Gender Relations and Cultural Encounters in Palestinian-Israeli Towns

Modern urban spaces are by definition mixed socio-spatial configurations. In many ways their enduring success and vitality lie in the richness of their ethnic texture and ongoing exchange of economic goods cultural practices political ideas and social movements. This mixture however is rarely harmonious and has often led to violent conflict over land and identity. Focusing on mixed towns in Israel/Palestine this insightful volume theorizes the relationship between modernity and nationalism and the social dynamics which engender and characterize the growth of urban spaces and the emergence therein of inter-communal relations. For more than a century Arabs and Jews have been interacting in the workplaces residential areas commercial enterprises cultural arenas and political theatres of mixed towns. Defying prevailing Manichean oppositions these towns both exemplify and resist the forces of nationalist segregation. In this interdisciplinary volume a new generation of Israeli and Palestinian scholars come together to explore ways in which these towns have been perceived as utopian or dystopian and whether they are best conceptualized as divided dual or colonial. Identifying ethnically mixed towns as a historically specific analytic category this volume calls for further research comparison and debate. | Mixed Towns Trapped Communities Historical Narratives Spatial Dynamics Gender Relations and Cultural Encounters in Palestinian-Israeli Towns

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Wallace Stevens and the Contemporary Irish Novel Order Form and Creative Un-Doing

Wallace Stevens and the Contemporary Irish Novel Order Form and Creative Un-Doing

Wallace Stevens and the Contemporary Irish Novel is a major contribution to the study of the literary influence of the American modernist poet Wallace Stevens. Stevens’s lifelong poetic quest for order and the championing of the creative affordances of the imagination finds compelling articulation in the positioning of the Irish novel as a response to larger legacies of Anglo-American modernism and how aesthetic re-imagining can be possible in the aftermath of the destruction of certainties and literary tradition heralded by postmodern practice and metatextual consciousness. It is this book’s argument that intertextual influences flowing from Stevens’s poetry towards the vitality of the novelistic imagination enact robust dialectical exchanges between existential chaos and artistic order contemporary form and poetic precursors. Through readings of novels by important contemporary Irish novelists John Banville Colum McCann Ed O’Loughlin Iris Murdoch and Emma Donoghue this book contemporizes Stevens’s literary influence with refence to novelistic style themes and thematic preoccupations that stake the claim for the international status of the contemporary Irish novel as it shapes a new understanding of “world literature” as exchange between national languages cultures and alternative formulations of aesthetic modernity as continuing project. | Wallace Stevens and the Contemporary Irish Novel Order Form and Creative Un-Doing

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The Borghese Collections and the Display of Art in the Age of the Grand Tour

The Borghese Collections and the Display of Art in the Age of the Grand Tour

The redecoration of the exhibition spaces at the Borghese palace and villa undertaken together with the reinstallation of the family's vast art collections was one of the most important events in the cultural life of eighteenth-century Rome. In this comprehensive study Carole Paul reconstructs the planning and execution of the project and explains its multifaceted significance: its place in the history of Italian art architecture and interior design at a complex moment of transition from baroque to neoclassical style as well as its unrecognized but profound influence on the development of the modern art museum. The study shows how the installations and decorations worked together to evoke traditional themes in innovative ways. Addressed primarily to a new audience of tourists from abroad the thematic content of the spaces celebrated the greatness of the Borghese family and of Roman tradition while their stylistic diversity and sophistication made a case for the continued vitality - even modernity - of Roman art and culture. Designed for the exercise of a highly refined social performance these sites helped to model the experience of art as a form of enlightened modern civility. | The Borghese Collections and the Display of Art in the Age of the Grand Tour

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Greek Art in Context Archaeological and Art Historical Perspectives

Greek Art in Context Archaeological and Art Historical Perspectives

This volume gathers together selected contributions which were originally presented at the conference ‘Greek Art in Context’ at the University of Edinburgh in 2014. Its aim is to introduce the reader to the broad and multifaceted notion of context in relation to Greek art and more specifically to its relevance for the study of Greek sculpture and pottery from the Archaic to the Late Classical periods. What do we mean by ‘context’? In which ways and under what circumstances does context become relevant for the interpretation of Greek material culture? Which contexts should we look at – viewing context political social and religious discourse artistic tradition . ? What happens when there is no context? These are some of the questions that this volume aims to answer. The chapters included cover current approaches to the study of Greek sculpture and pottery in which the notion of ‘context’ plays a prominent role offering new ways of looking at familiar issues. It gathers leading scholars and early career researchers from different backgrounds and research traditions with the aim of presenting new insights into archaeological and art historical research. Their chapters contribute to showcase the vitality of the discipline and will serve to stimulate new directions for the study of Greek art. | Greek Art in Context Archaeological and Art Historical Perspectives

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