{"product_id":"perspectives-on-the-history-of-ancient-near-eastern-studies-9781575068367","title":"Perspectives on the History of Ancient Near Eastern Studies","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe present volume collects eighteen essays exploring the history of ancient Near Eastern studies. Combining diverse approaches—synthetic and analytic, diachronic and transnational—this collection offers critical reflections on the who, why, and how of this cluster of fields. How have political contexts determined the conduct of research? How do academic agendas reflect larger social, economic, and cultural interests? How have schools of thought and intellectual traditions configured, and sometimes predetermined, the study of the ancient Near East? Contributions treating research during the Nazi and fascist periods examine the interpenetration of academic work with politics, while contributions dealing with specific national contexts disclose fresh perspectives on individual scholars as well as the conditions and institutions in which they worked. Particular attention is given to scholarship in countries such as Turkey, Portugal, Iran, China, and Spain, which have hitherto been marginal to historiographic accounts of ancient Near Eastern studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn addition to the editors, the contributors are Selim Ferru Adali, Silvia Alaura, Isabel Almeida, Petr Charvát, Parsa Daneshmand, Eva von Dassow, Hakan Erol, Sebastian Fink, Jakob Flygare, Pietro Giammellaro, Carlos Gonçalves, Katrien de Graef, Steven W. Holloway, Ahmed Fatima Kzzo, Changyu Liu, Patrick Maxime Michel, Emanuel Pfoh, Jitka Sýkorová, Luděk Vacín, and Jordi Vidal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Perspectives on the History of Ancient Near Eastern Studies: An Introduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLorenzo VERDERAME \/ Agnès GARCIA-VENTURA\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart I. The Edge of the Abyss: the Study of Antiquity under the Totalitarism Threat\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. Hittite Studies at the Crossroads: Albrecht Goetze’s and Hans Gustav Güterbock’s Flight from Nazi Germany\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSilvia ALAURA\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2. Language and Race in Assyriology: from Benno Landsberger to Wolfram von Soden\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSebastian FINK\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3. Assyriology in Nazi Germany: the Case of Wolfram von Soden\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJakob FLYGARE\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4. Carthage the Deceitful and Perfidius Albion: the Phoenicians and the British in Fascist Italy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePietro GIAMMELLARO\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5. The sharing out of Antiquities in Syria during the Interwar Period: Sir Leonard Woolley’s Excavation at Tell Sheikh Yusuf (Al Mina).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePatrick Maxime MICHEL\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6. “Die Assyriologie nicht weiter unberücksichtigt bleiben dürfte…”: On the (Non-)Existence of Assyriology at the German University in Prague (1908–1945)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLudìk VACÍN \/ Jitka SÝKOROVÁ\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart II. Intellectual History and Ancient Near Eastern Studies: some Case Studies\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7. Notes on the History of the Historiography of Cuneiform Mathematics\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCarlos GONÇALVES\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8. Feudalism and Vassalage in Twentieth-Century Assyriology\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEmanuel PFOH\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e9. Nation-building in the Plain of Antioch, from Hatti to Hatay\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEva VON DASSOW\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart III. From our Stories to the History of Ancient Near Eastern Studies\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e10. The Historiography of Assyriology in Turkey: A Short Survey\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSelim Ferruh ADALI \/ Hakan EROL\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e11. Ancient Near Eastern Studies and Portuguese Academia: a Love-affair under Construction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIsabel ALMEIDA\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e12. Near Eastern Archaeology and the Czech-speaking Lands\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePetr CHARVÁT\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e13. Tintin in Mesopotamia. The Story of Belgian Assyriology (1890-2017)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKatrien DE GRAEF\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e14. Assyriology in Iran?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eParsa DANESHMAND\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e15. Assyriology in China\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChangyu LIU\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e16. Looking for a Tell. The Beginnings of Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology at the University of Barcelona\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJordi VIDAL\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart IV. Current Prospectives, Future Perspectives\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e17. Big Data, Big Deal: Use of Google Books Ngram Viewer and JSTOR \u003ci\u003eData for Research\u003c\/i\u003e for Charting the Rise of Assyriology\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSteven W. HOLLOWAY\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e18. The Future of the Past. How the Past Contributes to the Construction of Syrian National Identity\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAhmed Fatima KZZO\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes on Contributors\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex of Authors\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pennsylvania State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53188739367255,"sku":"9781575068367","price":122.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/perspectives-on-the-history-of-ancient-near-eastern-studies-9781575068367","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}