LIBROS DEL AUTOR: lynn meskell

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  • Future in Ruins
    Lynn Meskell
    Best known for its World Heritage program committed to 'the identification, protection and preservation of cultural and natural heritage around the world considered to be of outstanding value to humanity,' the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) was founded in 1945 as an intergovernmental agency aimed at fostering peace, humanitarianism, an...
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    31,09 €

  • Private Life in New Kingdom Egypt
    Lynn Meskell
    Much of the literature on ancient Egypt centers on pharaohs or on elite conceptions of the afterlife. This scintillating book examines how ordinary ancient Egyptians lived their lives. Drawing on the remarkably rich and detailed archaeological, iconographic, and textual evidence from some 450 years of the New Kingdom, as well as recent theoretical innovations from several field...
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    61,26 €

  • Object Worlds in Ancient Egypt
    Lynn Meskell
    Egypt looms large in the Western imagination. Whether it is our attraction to pharaonic art, the pyramids or practices of mummification, Egypts unique understanding of materiality speaks to us across space and time. Is it because the ancient Egyptians fetishized material objects that we find their culture captivating today? And what exactly do Egyptian remains tell us about bio...
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    73,18 €

  • Embodied Lives
    Lynn M. Meskell / Rosemary A. Joyce
    Studying a wide range of archaeological data, and exploring issues such as sexual body, mind/body dualism, body modification, and magical practices, the book offers a new look at the Ancient Egyptian and Mayan understanding of embodiment. ...
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    82,92 €

  • Archaeology Under Fire
    Lynn Meskell
    Archaeology Under Fire addresses archaeology’s role in current political issues, whether it be the ethnic cleansing in the Balkans, the division of Cyprus, or the continued destruction of Beirut. ...
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    77,24 €