Khirbet Beit Bassa is an archaeological site located in Beit Sahour, in the district of Bethlehem in Palestine. The site is located on a low hilltop located approximately 3 km to the southeast of Bethlehem, one kilometre southwards from Beit Sahour and about 10 km to the south from the Old City of Jerusalem. The ...

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UK Association of Buddhist Studies, SOAS, University of London, 6 July 2024

22nd International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Communication, Medicine and Ethics, University of Brescia, 26-28 June 2024

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Equinox Publishing, UK and CrossCurrents (University of North Carolina Press). S. Brent Rodriguez-Plate has pointed out that in understanding the relation of religion and art the artwork is often less important than the work of art—that is, the work that art does (Religion and Contemporary Art: A Curious Accord, Bernier and Smith, eds., Routledge, 2023, 424). There is ...

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Archaeologies of Totalitarianism, Authoritarianism, and Repression: Dark Modernities. Edited by James Symonds and Pavel Vařeka. 2020. London: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-3-030-46683-1 Reviewed by: Barbara Hausmair, University of Innsbruck [email protected]  An intriguing conversation about their experiences of growing up and studying archaeology on opposite sides of the Iron Curtain provides James Symonds and Pavel Vařeka with the point of departure ...

The Archaeology of Burning Man: The Rise and Fall of Black Rock City. By Carolyn L. White. Archaeologies of Landscape in the Americas Series. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2020. Hardback, 288 pp. ISBN 978-0826361332. The last sentence of this remarkable book states that ‘ll cities are temporary, but some are more temporary than others’ ...

Rock, Bone, and Ruin: An Optimist’s Guide to the Historical Sciences. By Adrian Currie, 2018. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Hardback, 376 pp. ISBN 9780262037266. In 1959 Umberto Eco published a short fictional essay titled “Fragments” in the avant-garde literary magazine Il Verri. The essay takes the form of an imagined paper read by “Prof. Anouk Ooma ...

Networked Remembrance: Excavating Buried Memories in the Railways Beneath London and Berlin. By Samuel Merrill. Peter Lang Publishing Group. Paperback, 408 pp. ISBN 9781787073814. Travel punctuates our lives: moments of passage, transience, in-between time. Things happen when we travel – good things (meeting someone), and bad things (racial abuse on trains is increasingly common, at least ...

Reluctant Landscapes: Historical Anthropologies of Political Experience in Siin, Senegal. By François Richard, 2018. University of Chicago Press. Paperback, 400 pp. ISBN 9780226252544. Fragmentary time in Atlantic West Africa François Richard’s Reluctant Landscapes describes places that refuse to be fully absorbed into political and commercial systems, and where global -isms themselves remain on-going or unresolved (p. 63). ...

Future Remains: A Cabinet of Curiosities for the Anthropocene. Edited by Gregg Mitman, Marco Armiero and Robert. S. Emmett. 2018. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Paperback, 224 pp. ISBN 9780226508795. This edited volume presents itself, unusually, as a cabinet of curiosities. Inside the cabinet, so to speak, are 15 objects, each of which is held ...

  Lewis and Lund’s book is literally one of a kind, which is saying something given the exponentially productive academic field of comics and religion. I was accordingly impressed by the generous research shared by Lewis and Lund in their “Introduction,” and convinced that books like theirs are necessary given the ignorance and hostility that often ...

  It can be a terribly tenuous thing, being modern. It slips. To be a secular liberal subject, a choosing agent, a person in control of faculties and wits, requires diligence. But if you’re ever unsure of your own enlightenment, it can be reassuring to find someone unenlightened. Even Benjamin Franklin, a healthy, wealthy, wise man—in ...

Abstract The origin story of the Licchavis, retold in two commentaries on Nikāya texts, has received some scant attention in the modern scholastic record, yet has usually been either cast aside as so much myth or has been recast in thematic or structural studies that align it with other tales of incest, foundling narratives, or origin stories of gaṇa-saṅghas. ...

Abstract This article offers a critical reply to the assessment of Bhikkhu Kaṭukurunde Ñāṇananda’s Concept and Reality in Early Buddhist Thought (1971) published by Stephen Evans in Buddhist Studies Review 34(1), 2017. The alleged flaws and inconsistencies detected by Evans — both internal to the presentation in Concept and Reality and vis-à-vis the doctrinal evidence in the early Pali discourses — are ...

    Reviewed by Adam Pryor Affiliation Bethany College, USA. email: [email protected] Keywords embodiment; Christian theology; incarnation; phenomenology; Christology; Bakhtin There are few texts written in Christian theology today that demonstrate the ambition of Ola Sigurdson’s work. At times breathtaking and at others overwhelming in its sheer size and density, Sigurdson has attempted to develop a constructive theological somatology in roughly three ...

by Charlie McCrary These days, Americans choose their religions. Even those who seem to start with a religion, those “raised religious,” must choose to continue to be religious, or to switch religions, or to cease to be religious, maybe become “spiritual” instead, or adopt the label “atheist” or “freethinker” or “agnostic.” Pick one. This imperative, Lincoln ...

Reviewed by Andrew Kunze Michael Altman’s Heathen, Hindoo, Hindu turns a critical eye toward history of Hinduism in America and the nationalist, orientalist discourses of formative debates, from the Colonial era up to Chicago’s World Parliament, in order to revise the standard “Transcendentalist-Theosophist-Vivekananda-1965” trajectory (xvii). Taking a genealogical approach to his historical sources, Altman shows how ‘hazy notions’ ...

  Keywords: Islam; women in religion; Muslims in the UK; Salafism; conversion. The topics of women in Islam and Salafism in Europe have garnered considerable attention from researchers, journalists, policy-makers and the wider public recently. Anabel Inge’s book The Making of a Salafi Muslim Woman, which analyses UK-based Salafi Muslim women’s everyday experiences and is based on ...

Constructing Destruction: Heritage Narratives in the Tsunami City. By Trinidad Rico. London and New York: Routledge, 2016. Hardback, 136pp. ISBN 978-1-62958-437-9. Not long after the Indian Ocean tsunami of 26 December 2004, I visited one of the UK’s seismology monitoring centres in relation to its heritage. I dwelt on a printout that was stuck to the ...

Studies in Forensic Biohistory. Anthropological Perspectives. Edited by Christopher M. Stojanowski and William N. Duncan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Hardback, 350 pp. 76 b/w illus., 7 tables. ISBN 978-1-107-07354-8. ‘Dead people come with a curriculum vitae or resume’ (Katherine Verdery) Why should we care if “Abraham Lincoln had Marfan syndrome” or “all the Romanovs were indeed ...

Stones Tell Stories at Osu: Memories of a Host Community of the Danish Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. By H. Nii-Adziri Wellington. Legon-Accra, Ghana: Sub-Saharan Publishers 2011 (2nd edition in press). Paperback, 342 pp. 76 colour illus. ISBN 978-9988-647-40-7 Denmark’s imperial and colonial history and its role in the trans-Atlantic slave trade remains insufficiently interrogated, despite a few ...

La muerte del verdugo; Reflexiones interdisciplinarias sobre el cadáver de los criminales de masa . Edited by Sévane Garibian. Buenos Aires: Míño y Davíla, 2016. Paperback, 268 pp. ISBN 978-84-16467-63-1. In 1980, a couple went on holiday to Spain with their two girls, ...

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Heritage Keywords: Rhetoric and Redescription in Cultural Heritage. Edited by Kathyrin Lafrenz Samuels and Trinidad Rico. Boulder: University of Colorado Press. Authenticity. Civil society. Cultural diversity. Cultural property. Democratization. Difficult heritage. Equity. Heritage at risk. Heritage discourse. Intangible heritage. Memory. Natural heritage. Place. Rights. Sustainability. These “keywords” serve as chapter titles for this volume, framed by ...

By Eve Hooper An Archaeology of the Iron Curtain: Material and Metaphor. By Anna McWilliams, Södertörns Högskola, 2013. Paperback, 252 pp. ISBN 978-9-186-06978-0. Minnen från vår samtid: Arkeologi, materialitet och samtidshistoria (English: Memories of our Time: Archaeology, Materiality and Contemporary History). By Maria Persson, Gothenburg University, 2014. Hardback, 329 pp. ISBN 978-9-185-24555-0. Archaeology of the contemporary past ...

An Archaeology of the Iron Curtain: Material and Metaphor. By Anna McWilliams, Södertörns Högskola, 2013. Paperback, 252 pp. ISBN 978-9-186-06978-0. Minnen från vår samtid: Arkeologi, materialitet och samtidshistoria (English: Memories of our Time: Archaeology, Materiality and Contemporary History). By Maria Persson, Gothenburg University, 2014. Hardback, 329 pp. ISBN 978-9-185-24555-0. Archaeology of the contemporary past is not merely ...

By Eve Hooper Archäologie an Tatorten des 20. Jahrhunderts (English: Archaeology at Crime Scenes of the Twentieth Century). By Claudia Theune. Archäologie in Deutschland, Sonderheft 6/2014, Paperback, 112 pp. ISBN 978-3-8062-2961-5. Archäologie an Tatorten des 20. Jahrhunderts is special issue of the popular science magazine Archäologie in Deutschland, presenting recent work in contemporary archaeology. Its author, ...

By Eve Hooper Archäologie an Tatorten des 20. Jahrhunderts (English: Archaeology at Crime Scenes of the Twentieth Century). By Claudia Theune. Archäologie in Deutschland, Sonderheft 6/2014, Paperback, 112 pp. ISBN 978-3-8062-2961-5. Archäologie an Tatorten des 20. Jahrhunderts is special issue of the popular science magazine Archäologie in Deutschland, presenting recent work in contemporary archaeology. Its author, ...

Archäologie an Tatorten des 20. Jahrhunderts (English: Archaeology at Crime Scenes of the Twentieth Century). By Claudia Theune. Archäologie in Deutschland, Sonderheft 6/2014, Paperback, 112 pp. ISBN 978-3-8062-2961-5. Archäologie an Tatorten des 20. Jahrhunderts is special issue of the popular science magazine Archäologie in Deutschland, presenting recent work in contemporary archaeology. Its author, Claudia Theune, focuses ...

By Nawal Nasrallah Everybody Loves Salsa Mustard and Vinegar Sauce خل وخردل The perfect salsa for your grilled dishes: In modern Iraq what first comes to one’s mind at the mention of the words sauceand salsa is a store-bought bottle of steak sauce similar to A1, which we use primarily with hamburger sandwiches. We think of salsa as ...

By Nawal Nasrallah Everybody Loves Salsa Mustard and Vinegar Sauce خل وخردل The perfect salsa for your grilled dishes: In modern Iraq what first comes to one’s mind at the mention of the words sauceand salsa is a store-bought bottle of steak sauce similar to A1, which we use primarily with hamburger sandwiches. We think of salsa as ...

By Nawal Nasrallah Everybody Loves Salsa Mustard and Vinegar Sauce خل وخردل The perfect salsa for your grilled dishes: In modern Iraq what first comes to one’s mind at the mention of the words sauceand salsa is a store-bought bottle of steak sauce similar to A1, which we use primarily with hamburger sandwiches. We think of salsa as ...

By Nawal Nasrallah Everybody Loves Salsa Mustard and Vinegar Sauce خل وخردل The perfect salsa for your grilled dishes: In modern Iraq what first comes to one’s mind at the mention of the words sauceand salsa is a store-bought bottle of steak sauce similar to A1, which we use primarily with hamburger sandwiches. We think of salsa as ...

Making: Anthropology, Archaeology, Art and Architecture. By Tim Ingold, 2013. Paperback, 163 pp. ISBN 978-0-415-36723-7. The first thing you need to know about this book is that, far from being merely a repository of knowledge about the four “A”s of Anthropology, Archaeology, Art and Architecture, it is rather a key that can be used to open ...

Marking Time: Performance, Archaeology and the City. By Mike Pearson. Exeter, UK: University of Exeter Press, 2013. Hardback, 288 pp., 52 halftones, 5 maps. ISBN 978-08-5989-8751 The word ‘performative’ featured fairly heavily in the early days of CHAT (Contemporary and Historical Archaeology in Theory), enthusiastically deployed by its adherents as a useful word for locating what ...

By Nawal Nasrallah Eggplant Sandwich لفّة بيتنجان Laffat Betinjan Vegetarians’ paradise! Eggplant makes easy but bewitchingly scrumptious sandwiches. They are quite popular in Iraq, eaten especially at dinnertime, the time for the smaller meal of the day (for lunch, more serious stuff is offered). Interestingly, Iraqi Jews used to eat it for the Sabbath morning meal, and ...

By Nawal Nasrallah Eggplant Sandwich لفّة بيتنجان Laffat Betinjan Vegetarians’ paradise! Eggplant makes easy but bewitchingly scrumptious sandwiches. They are quite popular in Iraq, eaten especially at dinnertime, the time for the smaller meal of the day (for lunch, more serious stuff is offered). Interestingly, Iraqi Jews used to eat it for the Sabbath morning meal, and ...

By Nawal Nasrallah Eggplant Sandwich لفّة بيتنجان Laffat Betinjan Vegetarians’ paradise! Eggplant makes easy but bewitchingly scrumptious sandwiches. They are quite popular in Iraq, eaten especially at dinnertime, the time for the smaller meal of the day (for lunch, more serious stuff is offered). Interestingly, Iraqi Jews used to eat it for the Sabbath morning meal, and ...

By Nawal Nasrallah Eggplant Sandwich لفّة بيتنجان Laffat Betinjan Vegetarians’ paradise! Eggplant makes easy but bewitchingly scrumptious sandwiches. They are quite popular in Iraq, eaten especially at dinnertime, the time for the smaller meal of the day (for lunch, more serious stuff is offered). Interestingly, Iraqi Jews used to eat it for the Sabbath morning meal, and ...

Archaeology and Heritage of the Human Movement into Space. Edited by Beth Laura O’Leary and P.J. Capelotti. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing, 2015. Hardback, 188 pp. ISBN 978-3-319-07865-6 This is a broad collection of essays on space archaeology, which ambitiously seeks to create an integrated approach to sites and materials relating to the exploration of space ...

Constructing the Colonized Land: Entwined perspectives of East Asia around WWII. Edited by Izumi Kuroishi. Farnham: Ashgate, 2014. Hardback, 266 pp. ISBN: 978-1-4094-2818-3 Anchoring the core of Michel Foucault’s argument about biopolitics as the governance of life are descriptive elements of architecture and infrastructure as technologies of power that manifest political rationalities and through which emerge ...

By Nawal Nasrallah Himmas Kassa: The Mother of all Hummus The Oldest Documented Recipes for Hummus حمّص كسا وصفات عربية قديمة للحمّص بطحينة A fourteenth-century recipe for Himmas Kassa (mashed/pounded chickpeas); for source, see caption below: Recipe from 14th-century Kitab Wasf al-At’ima al-Mu’tada (augmented version of al-Baghdadi’s 13th-century Kitab al-Tabeekh, p. 113; Manuscript copy in ...

Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press. By Timothy Morton, 2013. Hardback, 240 pp, 23 plates. ISBN 9780816689224. In this book, Timothy Morton explores the connection between objects and ecology at a time of environmental crisis that is increasingly being referred to as the “Anthropocene”. From his ...

How Things Shape the Mind: A Theory of Material Engagement. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. By Lambros Malafouris, 2013. Hardback, 304pp. ISBN: 9780262019194. Lambros Malafouris’s book sets out to exposit what he calls “Material Engagement Theory”. Reading the effusive foreword leaves the reader in no doubt that this proposition is firmly rooted in Colin Renfrew’s cognitive archaeology, ...

Wallanderland. Medieturisme og skandinavisk TV-krimi. Studier i krimi og kriminaljournalstik 3. By Anne Marit Waade, 2013. Paperback, 227 pp. ISBN 978-87-7112-077-6. The Danish media theorist Anne Marit Waade explores in this timely study the phenomenon of media tourism, using tourism in the footsteps of Inspector Kurt Wallander as her example. The character of Wallander was invented ...

The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of the Contemporary World. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Edited by Paul Graves-Brown, Rodney Harrison and Angela Piccini, 2013. Hardback, 823 pp. ISBN: 9780199602001. With this publication, the archaeology of the contemporary world joins 16 other fields of archaeological study that have been presented in the series of Oxford Handbooks in ...

Mundane Objects: Materiality and Non-Verbal Communication. UCL Institute of Archaeology Critical Cultural Heritage Series 10. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press. By Pierre Lemonnier, 2012. Hardback, 205pp. ISBN: 9781611320565. Long before the materiality fever in archaeology and the social sciences in general, there was a group of researchers taking things very seriously: the French school of ...

In January 2014 the University of Granada (Spain) launched the Project MEditerraneanMOuntainous Landscapes: a historical approach to cultural heritage based on traditional agrosystems (MEMOLA), funded by the 7th Framework Program of the European Commission. Partnering with the University of Granada are ten other entities, including private companies and universities and research institutions from five different countries. ...

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In recent years several archaeologists have stated, or implied, that “we are all archaeologists now”. On the one hand, this statement can be seen as democratizing the discipline and opening up the field of archaeology to contemporary society at large, in particular to all those who, like professional archaeologists, are interested in engaging with the ...

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Imperial Debris: On Ruins and Ruination. Edited by Ann Laura Stoler. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2013. Paperback, 365 pp. ISBN 978-0822353614. Archaeologists who work on the “contemporary world”—the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries—will resonate with Imperial Debris. Editor Ann Laura Stoler reflexively introduces the volume and its novel concepts; she and the chapter contributors ...

The Archaeology of Science: Studying the Creation of Useful Knowledge. By Michael Brian Schiffer. Manuals in Archaeological Method, Theory and Technique (Volume 9). New York: Springer, 2013. Hardcover and E-Book, 204 pp. ISBN: 978-3-319-00076-3 (Print) 978-3-319-00077-0 (Online). Twenty years ago, perhaps due to the very “intellectual faddism” that the author laments (5), a book similarly titled ...

The following article first appeared in issue 1.1 of Journal of Contemporary Archaeology where it introduces the first of that journal’s ‘Forum’ sections which in this instance is devoted to exploring the notion of the ‘anthropocene. Read the rest of the contributions on the journal site where they are published on an open access basis. We ...

The Archaeology of Hollywood, Traces of the Golden Age. By Paul G. Bahn. Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press, 2014. Hardback, 280 pp. ISBN 978-0-7591-2378-6. Hollywood is a district within Los Angeles where major motion pictures are made, but it is also a place with a significant and underappreciated past. Many have visited Hollywood to take bus tours ...

Archæographies: Excavating Neolithic Dispilio. By Fotis Ifantidis. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2013. Paperback, 112 pp. ISBN: 9781905739622. Archæographies features the photography of Fotis Ifantidis performed during the excavations at the lakeside Neolithic settlement of Dispilio in Greece. Several of these photographs have previously featured on Visualizing Neolithic (http://visualizingneolithic.com), a photography blog active since 2006. The photographs contained in ...

Nekopejte do nás, ještě nejsme mrtví / Don’t dig into us We are not dead yet / 2011 from SVIET on Vimeo. What would you say if anthropologists began to examine your lifestyle; archaeologists searching for fingerprints in the country that you left behind and tried to examine your life through the archaeological remains of your ...