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Contributors include: Inge Adriansen,, Hans Bekker-Nielsen, Francois-Xavier Dillmann, Christine Fell, Pal Hougen, Bo Jansson, Jorgen Hojgaard Jorgensen, Michael Mueller-Wille, Gerd Wolfgang Weber and Sir David Wilson. ...

Drawing on extensive research, which covers a wide geographical area, this volume includes, among others, articles on: Youth, History and Change in the Modern Arab World; The Discovery of Adolescence in the Middle East; Discovering the Other: "Arab/Jewish" Youth Encounters in Arab Films; Youth, Moral and Islamism: Spending Leisure Time with Hamas in Palestine; The Construction of "Youth" in Public Discourse in Turkey; and, and, Youth Culture and ...

This study examines traditions in late-Antique sculpture, including conservation, modernisation and production. In the Roman world, marble sculpture could be reworked for several reasons. The most common form of reworking, generally easy to recognise, could be termed functional - a portrait could be re-cut to represent another person, or a complete sculpture modified for a new setting. In consequence, much Roman sculpture, including well-known ...

This volume challenges the orthodox view that fishing and fish played only a marginal role in the economy of the ancient world. In fact, there is archaeological evidence for ancient fish processing on a commercial scale not only in the Mediterranean itself, but also on the Atlantic coast and in the Black Sea region, especially the Crimea. Our literary sources testify to the widespread culinary and medicinal use of salted fish and fermented fish ...

The Coptic text known as the "Sermon on the Great War" is a primary source for the philosophy and rituals of the Manichees. The narrative describes the "great war" in which the Manichees will be persecuted, the "peaceable kingdom" which will follow, the coming of Christ and the end of the world. ...

Will membership in the European Community stand in the way of social democratic reform strategies? Are EC market liberalisations threatening national social democratic achievements? Questions like these have characterised the sceptical approach of many Western European social democratic parties to European integration. Not least this has been the case in Britain and Denmark, two of the most reluctant EC member states. Yet, by the early 1990s, ...

This volume presents a new and comprehensive bid concerning the manner in which landscapes in Western pictorial art may be interpreted in relation to the cultures that created them. Its point of departure is a hitherto unexplored development pattern that characterizes landscape representation from Paleolithic cave paintings to 19th-century modernity. Through a structuralist comparison between this pattern and three additional fields of analysis ...

In 1989, the Rockwool Foundation Research Unit at the Central Danish Bureau of Statistics initiated a research project focused on the relationship between Danes and their politicians and, in a more general sense, their perception of the political system. In the first part of this book, the results of the project are summarized. In the second part, two politicians and a former leading civil servant present their views of the problem. Finally, the ...

The material from this investigation illustrates the changing cultural relations in Bahrain throughout more than three millenniums. The results of further excavations in the area will be published in the following volumes in this series. ...