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El(-GOD) as “Father in Regalness”. Mine M in Serabit el Khadim as a Middle-Bronze-Age (c. 1900 BC) Working Space sacralised by Early Alefbetic Writing
(2023-09)
This paper grew out of an archaeological field season conducted in southwestern Sinai by the Department of Egyptology at the University of Bonn during November and December 2022. It specifically discusses the social and ...
The Power of Biblical Authors: A Risk Analysis of ‘Living’ Sacred Texts
(2023-06)
New Testament authors claim immense (interpretive) power and generate strong
asymmetrical dependencies between themselves and the communities they address. They are
convinced that they have the resource of ‘salvation’, ...
Dependency at the Centre and Periphery of the Tibetan Empire: Sayings, Doings and Interagency
(2023-06)
This paper presents a microhistory of ninth-century asymmetrical social relations in the centre
and on the periphery of the Tibetan empire (ca. 600–850 CE), as well as relations between the
periphery and the centre. ...
In the land of the apu: Cerro Llamocca as a sacred mountain and central place in the pre-Columbian Andes of southern Peru
(2023-05-24)
Cerro Llamocca is a mountain with a summit elevation of 4,487 m asl in the southern Peruvian Andes. This paper presents a first overview of recent archaeological and paleoenvironmental research in its vicinity, and introduces ......
Moving Workers: Historical Perspectives on Labour, Coercion and Im/Mobilities
(2023-10-04)
This book explores how workers moved and were moved, why they moved, and how they were kept from moving. Combining global labour history with mobility studies, it investigates moving workers through the lens of coercion.
The ...
