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| 12TH NORDIC SYMPOSIUM ON SEDIMENTS : 2-5 May 1984, Skallingen, Denmark [Kaj Henriksen (ed)] Features reports of the symposium from the Botanical Institute, University of Aarhus. { 124pp, 150x200mm, June 1984; PB, £7.50, 8787600102:9788787600101 , Aarhus University Press } |
| ACTIVITY THEORY & SOCIAL PRACTICE : Cultural Historical Approaches [Seth Chaiklin, Mariane Hedegaard & Uffe Juul Jensen (eds)] Activity theory and the cultural-historical approach to psychology have their roots in the research of Lev S Vygotsky and Alexei N. Leontiev, starting in the 1920s in the Soviet Union. In the 1970s, this research tradition gained the attention of researchers, especially in Western Europe, and now enjoys expanding attention and interest throughout world. In 1998, the Fourth Congress of the International Society for Activity Theory and Cultural Research was held in Aarhus, Denmark. This quadrennial Congress is an important occasion events in the further development of this tradition. The present volume is based on extensively revised versions of the invited keynote lectures and several invited panel presentations that were presented at the Congress by some of the most prominent researchers working within the tradition. In this volume, one finds comprehensive presentation of some central theoretical topics and problems within the tradition. Highlights include one of Vasily Davydov's last papers in which he proposes a new structure for the study of activity. There are also cogent analyses of activity presented by Peeter Tulviste, Bernd Fichtner, and Vladislav Lektorsky. The volume also includes several examples of current research efforts that are either extend the scope of the theoretical tradition, or present challenges for further development. Highlights include discussions of gender issues by Martha Nussbaum and Vera John-Steiner; infant development by Jerome Bruner; and societal practices by Terence Turner and Ethel Tobach. Finally, several chapters explore topics related to individual development within institutional and societal practices. Highlights include studies of cultural identity in Spain by Amelia Alvarez and Pablo del Rio, the role of culture in school by Mariane Hedegaard, and the dynamics of work organisation by Yrj Engestrm, Ritva Engestrm, & Tarja Vhaho. The volume also includes an introductory chapter by the editors which presents some of the historical development of the Congresses, and provides a perspective on the chapters for further research, as well as a memoir by Vygotsky's daughter, Ghita Vygotskaya, who lovingly presents a personal view of her father and his research. In short, this volume presents a good picture of where activity theory and cultural-historical psychology has been and where it is moving. { 381pp, January 2003; PB, £22.95, 8772889551:9788772889559 , Aarhus University Press } |
| ACTUALITIES OF AURA : Twelve Studies of Walter Benjamin [Dag Petersson & Erik Steinskog (eds)] This volume provides an invaluable overview of Walter Benjamin's writings about technology, history and politics, and the visual. From a variety of theoretical viewpoints, twelve brilliant scholars have come together to map the aura -- perhaps the most elusive concept in Benjamin's philosophy. The collection is a scholarly feat that serves as an introduction to one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, while at the same time providing new perspectives for the advanced reader. The writings of Walter Benjamin once hovered on the margins of modern literary genres. From there he developed a unique type of critical writing, positioned between the technical, historical and political ramifications of dialectical thinking. Today Benjamin is centrally placed in most curricula for modern art, literature, and social sciences, and his text "The Work of Art in the Age of its Technical Reproducibility" is often referred to in contemporary critical theory. It is in this article that readers have to confront the notorious concept of the aura. This concept characterises the typically bourgeois way of relating to art, history, media and perception, but the aura is also a philosophical concept with complex implications for a dialectical sociology, aesthetics and history. Assessing the critical force of Benjamin's concept in our time is the prime achievement of this collection. "Actualities of Aura" will be indispensable reading for anyone engaged in the discourses of visual culture, critical theory and continental philosophy. { 297pp, 150x210mm, December 2005; PB, £15.00, 9188484254:9789188484253 , Aarhus University Press (NSU Press) } |
| AFRICA PROCONSULARIS, VOLUMES 1 & 2 : Regional Studies in the Segermes Valley of Northern Tunisia [Søren Dietz, Habib Ben Hassen & Laila Ladjimi Sebaï (eds)] What was the relationship between city and country in the Roman Empire? The writings which have been preserved show an enormous empire, divided into "cells", each with a city at its centre. But the written sources are few, and focus mainly on the cities of Italy; they do not tell what life was like in the Roman provinces. Through systematic studies of the ancient landscape in Northern Tunisia, archaeologists have reconstructed the day-to-day history and economic activity of the rural population around the city of Segermes. Over 100 persons have been involved in this joint Danish-Tunisian project. The findings presented in these two volumes indicate that in Roman times, the valley was given over to intensive cultivation of wheat and olives, maintained at a high output level by means of extensive irrigation works. The population was dense and, surprisingly, reached its peak between 350 and 550 AD, a period of economic decline elsewhere in the Roman Empire. { 799pp, March 1998; HB, £45.75, 8772887400:9788772887401 , Aarhus University Press } |
| AFRICA PROCONSULARIS, VOLUME 3 : Regional Studies in the Segermes Valley of Northern Tunisia -- Historical Conclusions [ Jesper Carlsen, Habib Ben Hassen, Peter Ørsted & Laila Ladjimi Sebaï (eds)] From 1987 to 1990, in collaboration with several Danish research institutes, the Tunisian Institut National de Patrimoine carried out an extensive archaeological survey in the valley known as the Segermes basin, in Tunisia. The results of that work are contained in three volumes entitled 'Africa Proconsularis' This volume reviews the information and looks at the historical conclusions. { 339pp, December 2000; HB, £34.25, 8772888288:9788772888286 , Aarhus University Press } |
| ALBUM OF ARMENIAN PALEOGRAPHY [Dickran Kouymjian, Henning Lehmann & Michael E Stone (eds)] Provides a comprehensive selection of some 200 definitively dated, hand-written texts, sampled from among the 30,000 manuscripts preserved in the major public collections of Europe, the Middle East, the former USSR and North America. Selected specimen pages from these manuscripts are presented in chronological order, and span the period from AD 862 to 1911. Each text is illustrated by a high-quality colour facsimile of a typical page, and is accompanied by an alphabet table for the folio in question and a sample transcription. All photographs are new, taken especially for the Album. Thanks to the large format of the volume it has been possible to show all manuscript pages (except the very largest) in actual size. In addition, each facsimile page is accompanied by a colour enlargement of several lines of the text, enabling the reader to study the lettering in even greater detail. In a separate section, computerised tables are used to show changes in the forms of individual letters. By following the development of letter shapes, it is possible to discern the evolutionary process of the Armenian scripts in a far more detailed and sophisticated manner than the traditional division of the Armenian hands into types: erkat‘agir, bolorgir, nôtrgir, ðùagir, thereby providing much more precise datings than those previously available to scholars. The foundations are thus laid for a better understanding of the chronology of Armenian manuscripts and the literature and art they contain. This volume will be an indispensable tool for any serious student of the Armenian language, literature and art, and its innovative approach to the study of lettering will be of interest to paleographers and codicologists. { 554pp, March 2002; HB, £140.00, 8772885564:9788772885568 , Aarhus University Press } |
| ALCOHOL IN SOCIETY : Attitudes, Policies & Programmes in Denmark [Knud-Erik Sabroe] This report was made in connection with a project established by the International Labour Office, Geneva and the EU-Commission DG V: 'Alcohol and Drugs in the Workplace'. It contains a quantitative and qualitative survey of the attitudes towards alcohol and other drugs in the Danish workplace. { 198pp, September 1994; PB, £7.50, 8798154990:9788798154990 , Aarhus University Press } |
| ÄLTERE BRONZEZEIT, BAND 4 : Südschleswig-Ost -- Die Kreise Schleswig-Flensburg und Rendsburg-Eckernförde (nördlich des Nord-Ostsee-Kanals) [Ekkehard Aner & Karl Kersten] Text in German. { 360pp, November 1978; HB, £48.99, 3529019534:9783529019531 , Aarhus University Press } |
| ÄLTERE BRONZEZEIT, BAND 5 : Südschleswig-West -- Nordfriesland [Ekkehard Aner & Karl Kersten] Text in German. { 337pp, 245x350mm, January 1979; HB, £74.00, 3529019542:9783529019548 , Aarhus University Press } |
| ÄLTERE BRONZEZEIT, BAND 6 : Nordslesvig -- Syd, Tønder, Åbenrå und Sønderborg Amter [Ekkehard Aner & Karl Kersten] Text in German. { 312pp, 245x350mm, January 1981; HB, £74.00, 3529019550:9783529019555 , Aarhus University Press } |
| ÄLTERE BRONZEZEIT, BAND 7 : Nordschleswig-Nord -- Haderslev Amt -- Kort til bd 6-7 [Ekkehard Aner & Karl Kersten] Text in German. { 388pp, 240x350mm, November 1984; HB, £80.00, 3529019569:9783529019562 , Aarhus University Press } |
| AMBITION & CONFUCIANISM : A Biography of Wang Mang [Rudi Thomsen] { 248pp, December 1988; PB, £17.50, 8772881550:9788772881553 , Aarhus University Press } |
| ANCIENT AKAMAS, PART 1 : Settlement & Environment [Jane Fejfer (ed)] This study is the first of two volumes describing the history and development of the Akamas Peninsula in Northwestern Cyprus during the Roman and early-Byzantine period, based on studies carried out by the Danish Akamas Project during the years 1989-1994.This volume includes inventories of literary and cartographic sources, a survey of the ancient road system, and a full report on underwater excavations in the Roman harbour at Kioni, on the west coast of the peninsula.The book contains contributions from: Tonnes Bekker-Nielsen, Peter Crabb, Lise Hannestad, Niels Hannestad, Peter P Hayes, Jan Heinemeyer, John Leonard and Ole Thomsen. { 200pp, March 1995; HB, £30.50, 8772884819:9788772884813 , Aarhus University Press } |
| ANCIENT FISHING & FISH PROCESSING IN THE BLACK SEA REGION [Tønnes Bekker-Nielsen (ed)] 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 sauces in antiquity, and especially in the first centuries AD. In this book, the authors assess the present state of research on ancient fishing and discuss its implications for the history of the Black Sea region, especially the period of Greek colonisation along its shores. While grain has traditionally been viewed as the main export commodity of the Pontic colonies, the existence of salting-vats on the coast of the Crimea indicate production of salt-fish or fish sauce on a large scale, presumably for export. However, many questions remain unanswered: for instance concerning ownership and organisation of the processing facilities, or how the finished product was transported to distant markets. { 222pp, 210x240mm, June 2004; HB, £21.95, 8779340962:9788779340961 , Aarhus University Press } |
| ANEIGNUNGEN : Ausländisches Fernsehen und nationale Kultur [Barbara Gentikow] Text in German. { 346pp, 155x230mm, November 1993; PB, £14.95, 8772884088:9788772884080 , Aarhus University Press } |
| APOCRYPHON SEVERINI : Studies in Ancient Manichaeism & Gnosticism presented to Søren Giversen [Per Bilde, Helge Kjær Nielsen & Jørgen Podemann Sørensen (eds)] This collection of essays was presented to Professor Soren Giversen on his 65th birthday, 9 January 1993. Their common theme is ancient Gnosticism and its importance to the social, cultural and religious development of the Mediterranean world from Hellenistic to Roman times.Our knowledge of Gnosticism has recently been enriched by the discovery of previously unknown Gnostic texts preserved in Coptic manuscripts and published by Soren Giversen and others. These texts form the point of departure for several of the essays; others deal with Marcion, early Christianity and Judaism and their attitude to crucial Gnostic issues. { 258pp, March 1995; HB, £22.95, 8772881011:9788772881010 , Aarhus University Press } |
| ARCHAEOLGICAL FORMATION PROCESSES : The Representativity of Archaeological Remains from Danish Prehistory [Kristian Kristiansen (ed)] This selection of articles represents a complete national survey of the effect of historical post-depositional factors for archaeological representativity. { 280pp, 220x280mm, March 1985; HB, £14.50, 8748005711:9788748005716 , Aarhus University Press } |
| ARCHAEOLOGY & GEOPHYSIAL PROSPECTIONS [Jytte Høstmark, Mogens Schou Jørgensen & Jens Tyge Møller (eds)] Text in English and Danish. This is a collection of working papers on the use of geophysical prospecting methods in Danish archaeological studies. The authors are archaeologists or geologists who have worked with each other. They describe the theoretical background and the instruments used, and by means of examples they point out the possibilities and limitations of each method. { 215pp, 170x240mm, March 1984; PB, £12.00, 8748005746:9788748005747 , Aarhus University Press } |
| ARCHAEOLOGY & THE MAN-MADE MATERIAL REALITY [Klavs Randsborg] { 104pp, May 1992; PB, £8.95, 8772884126:9788772884127 , Aarhus University Press } |
| ARCHAEOLOGY IN THE DODECANESE [Søren Dietz & Ioannis Papachristodoulou (eds)] Thirty one papers from a 1986 symposium (in Copenhagen) which discussed the developments of archaeological research in the Dodecanese and presented accounts of recent finds in the area. Papers from all over Europe, but chiefly in English, range from Prehistoric to Hellenistic as follows: Prehistory (9), the island of Rhodes (12), the island of Kos (3) and the Dodecanese (7). { 260pp, 220x270mm, December 1988; PB, £24.95, 8748006262:9788748006263 , Aarhus University Press } |
| ARCHAEOLOGY OF MEDIEVAL EUROPE : Volume 1: Eighth to Twelfth Centuries AD [James Graham-Campbell & Magdalena Valor (eds)] The two volumes of 'The Archaeology of Medieval Europe' will together comprise the first complete account of medieval archaeology across Europe. Archaeologists from academic institutions in fifteen countries are collaborating to produce these two books of sixteen thematic chapters each. In addition, every chapter will feature a number of 'box-texts', by specialist contributors, highlighting sites or themes of particular importance. The books will be comprehensively illustrated throughout, in both colour and b/w, including line drawings and specially commissioned maps. This ground-breaking set, which is divided chronologically into two (Volume 1 extending from the 8th-12th centuries AD, and Volume 2 from the 12th-16th centuries -- available 2008), will enable readers to track the development of different cultures, and of regional characteristics, throughout the full extent of medieval Catholic Europe. In addition to revealing shared contexts and technological developments, the complete work will also provide the opportunity for demonstrating the differences that were inevitably present across the Continent -- from Iceland to Italy, and from Portugal to Finland -- and to study why such existed. REVIEW: "The editors and authors of this successful volume have created an invaluable and accessible resource for the teaching of medieval archaeology. In the process, they have demonstrated the richness and variety of medieval research throughout Europe in the last four decades. By engaging an international team of authors, regional patterns are more apparent in medieval archaeology and also in the practice of the discipline." -- Roberta Gilchrist. { 479pp, 170x240mm, December 2007; PB, £35.00, 8779342906:9788779342903 / HB, £50.00, 8779342884:9788779342880 , Aarhus University Press } |
| ARKITEKTURFORTAELLINGER : Om Aarhus Universitets bygninger [Olaf Lind] Walking through the campus of Aarhus University, one is immediately struck by the harmoniousness of its buildings, not only individually but also in relation to each other and the undulating landscape in which they are set. It is therefore somewhat surprising to learn that the University's principal architect often attributed their appearance to "an architecture of chance". Yet what C.F. Møller was referring to was how, during the construction of the first building in 1932 and 1933, donated materials dictated many of the choices that later achieved template status - so that for instance, copper roofs in the early plans were replaced by what are now signature roofs of yellow tile. Issued to mark the diamond jubilee of Denmark's second university, this volume features striking photos that follow the campus buildings through their seasonal course. The chapters, with English summaries, describe the changes in not only the design of successive structures, but also in the buildings' reception. Early on, a local newspaper called Møller "the untalented architect who is being allowed to ruin the northern part of Aarhus", while the King advised him to study the example of Danish manors. But in time, Møller became Denmark's most prolific architect, and the University buildings were hailed internationally as masterworks of functionalism. This handsome volume helps show why. { 240pp, October 2003; HB, £18.95, 8772889721:9788772889726 , Aarhus University Press } |
| ARMENIAN TEXTS TASKS & TOOLS [Henning Lehmann & J J S Weitenberg (eds)] { 128pp, March 1993; PB, £14.95, 8772881119:9788772881119 , Aarhus University Press } |
| ARTIST AS POLYHISTOR : The 'Intellectual Superstructure' in the Work of Per Kirkeby [Lars Morell] It has become a commonplace in Per Kirkeby exhibition catalogues to note that he earned a Master's in geology and participated in five research expeditions to Greenland, and to declare that he therefore paints in layers -- as obviously only a sedimentary geologist can. Not only do curators and critics rarely delve any deeper into the relation between the work of this prolific experimental artist and his background in Arctic Quaternary geology, but they also entirely ignore the many other academic interests that inform his art, both conceptually and visually. Yet Kirkeby himself has proclaimed, “A picture without intellectual superstructure is nothing.” In “The Artist as Polyhistor”, Lars Morell provides the superstructure missing from other critical accounts by examining intellectual content and allusions in the Kirkeby oeuvre from eleven disciplinary perspectives -- everything from theology to genetics and eros to crystallography. In addition, he has drawn on personal conversations with the artist, whose comments on the manuscript have also been incorporated into the final text. Morell maintains that art that is genuinely about something is necessarily full of conflict and unexpected juxtapositions. As a result, the works he has sought out here are rarely beautiful in formal terms, but instead tend to be dissonant and dynamic, featuring breaks and breaches and irreconcilable elements. With 150 handsome illustrations, chiefly in colour, and a wide-ranging but clearly written text, this volume will appeal equally to the general reader and the specialist in contemporary art. { 294pp, 240x250mm, January 2006; HB, £30.95, 8779341543:9788779341548 , Aarhus University Press } |
| ASPECTS OF ANCIENT GREEK CULT : Context, Ritual & Iconography ((Aarhus Studies in Mediterranean Antiquity)) [Jesper Jensen, George Hinge, Peter Schultz & Bronwen Wickkiser (eds)] The papers in this volume illustrate the interplay between the studies of classical archaeology, religion, history, and musicology. The eight papers by the young scholars and their Nestor, Richard Hamilton, offer a fresh look at various aspects of ancient cult, including the use of the word cult in the academic disciplines of Archaeology and the History of Religion; the introduction of Asklepios to Athens, and a detailed study of the same god's sanctuary on the south slope of Akropolis, where it will be demonstrated that the layout of the early sanctuary on the east terrace was carefully designed after one central monument. The book also contains an innovative study of the Philippeion at Olympia, where it is argued that the tholos with its sculpture was a prototype for the use of divine images and royal ideology by Hellenistic rulers. Other papers include a statistical approach to the illustration of baskets on Classical votive reliefs, a theoretical study of the role of music in ancient Greek cult, and analysis of the use of the chorus as one of the most important expressions of ancient cult in Sparta. { 280pp, 170x240mm, November 2008; HB, £22.75, 8779342531:9788779342538 , Aarhus University Press } |
| BAHA’I & GLOBALISATION [Margit Warburg, Annika Hvithamar & Morten Warmind (eds)] Globalisation has become a buzzword that typically refers to the intensifying integration of the world economy, especially as midwifed by technological advances. It also implies a growing political and cultural sense that all humanity is globally interdependent. There have always been individuals of course who have advocated such awareness, one of them being the founder of the Baha'i faith, who formulated a spiritual equivalent as the religion's central doctrine in the late 19th century: “Ye are the fruits of one tree, and the leaves of one branch”. Its emphasis on global unification made Baha'i an obvious candidate for a case study on new religions and globalisation. The chapters in this volume fall into two sections, diachronic and synchronic. The first part is organised chronologically, beginning with the emergence of the globalist tendency in the messianic vision of Babism, the precursor to Baha'i, and concluding with an analytic history of its leaders' changing attitudes to international politics. The second part considers a variety of global themes in contemporary Baha'i practice, including global thought in Baha'i writings, the impact of the internet, and the triumphalist and secular strains in Baha'i identity. Though five million members make it one of the world's most successful new religions, Baha'i has attracted little scholarly attention. Most of the academics concentrating on Baha'i have contributed to this volume, which will appeal not only to students of modern religious movements, but to anyone interested in the ways religions can adapt to -- and embrace -- the modern world. { 309pp, 155x240mm, December 2005; PB, £18.95, 8779341098:9788779341098 , Aarhus University Press } |
| BAPTISM & THE NEW LIFE : A Study of Romans [Søren Agersnap] "Baptism and the New Life" is the first thesis about St. Paul's theology in almost 70 years. The main subject of the book is the Pauline enthusiasm for salvation and the new life expressed in Rom 6.1-14. { 461pp, August 1999; HB, £26.95, 8772886544:9788772886541 , Aarhus University Press } |
| BARBAR TEMPLES, 2-VOLUME SET [H Hellmuth Andersen & Flemming Højlund] This book provides a detailed description of the three ancient temples unearthed between 1954-1961 near Barbar on the northern part of Bahrain island in the Persian Gulf. Two of the structures, from the centuries around 2000 BC, reveal traditions going back to Sumerian temples. A number of spectacular objects were found here, including cylindrical alabaster jars, a human-shaped copper mirror handle and the most famous object from the Barbar Temples, a bull's head of copper. Structurally, a chamber was found over a freshwater spring, indicating the presence of a water cult and perhaps forging a connection to Enki, the Mesopotamian god of the subterranean freshwater ocean, apsu. The temple-apsu is well known from cuneiform sources, but has been extremely difficult to identify in Mesopotamian excavations. The Barbar well chamber may be such an apsu, as the authors point out among their highly detailed descriptions and analysis of the finds. { 429pp, October 2004; HB, £37.95, 8788415279:9788788415278 , Aarhus University Press } |
| BAYT AL-'AQQAD : History & Restoration of a House in Old Damascus [Peter Mortensen (ed)] Today Bayt al-'Aqqad is one of 23 buildings in old Damascus which come under the UNESCO World Heritage programme, but when the Danish Institute in Damascus took over the house in 1997 it had been derelict for 50 years and was in a very sorry state indeed. In the following years Danish architects and restorers worked together with Syrian colleagues on an admirable restoration of the house. Step-by-step new aspects turned up, showing that the building was not only a beautiful house with a long history -- the house is founded on the Roman theatre of Herod -- but also that it contained fine examples of the most important periods in the architectural history of Damascus. In this lavishly illustrated book the story of the house and its "resurrection" is told by architects, restorers, archaeologists and historians and it is a must for anybody who has experienced the joy and fascination of Islamic art and architecture. { 336pp, 210x280mm, December 2005; HB, £30.95, 8779342159:9788779342156 , Aarhus University Press } |
| BEITRÄGE ZUR RELIGIONSFRAGE DER YANONAMI-INDIANER [Gottfried Polykrates] { 35pp, March 1974; PB, £5.25, 8748000507:9788748000506 , Aarhus University Press } |
| BETWEEN ORIENT & OCCIDENT : Studies in Honour of P J Riis [John Lund & Peter Pentz (eds)] For more than two generations Poul Jørgen Riis has played a leading role in Danish Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology. With this book, the Department of International Collections in the Danish National Museum celebrates the 90th birthday of P J Riis on the 26th of May 2000. The book contains essays by some of Riisø' past and present colleagues, collaborators and students touching upon a wide range of subjects within Danish Classical and Near Eastern archaeological research: from Syria to Tunisia, from transport amphoras, and fine ware Arethusa cups to Islamic architecture. { 240pp, January 2001; PB, £18.95, 8789438078:9788789438078 , Aarhus University Press } |
| BLACK SEA IN ANTIQUITY : Regional & Interregional Economic Exchanges [John Lund, T Madsen & Vincent Gabrielsen (eds)] This volume addresses a wide range of issues concerning the economic exchanges that took place within the Black Sea region, and between the Black Sea and Mediterranean areas from about 700 BC to AD 200. The contributing scholars of ancient history and archaeology consider old and new evidence in order to shed new light on central aspects of the economic relationship that existed between these two eminently important regions in antiquity. The authors offer novel approaches and propound a number of fresh interpretations to key questions concerning the relationship between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean. The overarching question is whether the Black Sea and the Mediterranean were organically linked and thus complemented each other in economic terms. { 396pp, 170x240mm, January 2008; HB, £24.90, 8779342663:9788779342668 , Aarhus University Press } |
| BODY, SPORT & SOCIETY IN NORDEN : Essays in Cultural History [Niels Kayser Nielsen (ed)] It has been said that democratic populism is Scandinavia's gift to the modern world. But the critical role that sports has played in the development of this particular form of society has gone largely unremarked. In these 10 essays, Niels Kayser Nielsen analyses how the growth of physical culture in the region has both reflected and contributed to the parallel rise of Scandinavian nationalism during the last two hundred years. Along the way, Nielsen uses contemporaneous travel journals and poetry to show how cultivation of the body began to factor into educational projects in the late 18th century; explores how four Nordic artists painted "the new body" in the early 1900s; and explains why the 1912 “Sunshine Olympics” in Stockholm is a pivotal moment in the cultural history of sport. He also describes how athletics provided Scandinavian workers and peasants in the 20th century with a level playing field, as it were, on which they could compete as equals with the members of the aristocracy and bourgeoisie, and he examines the ways sports halls today promote the consensus thinking and conformity that are hallmarks of the Scandinavian character. { 180pp, 155x240mm, December 2005; PB, £15.95, 8779341772:9788779341777 , Aarhus University Press } |
| BOLIG OG FAMILIE I DANMARKS MIDDELALDER [Else Roesdahl] Text in Danish. { 306pp, May 2006; PB, £21.95, 8788415228:9788788415223 , Aarhus University Press } |
| BORINGHOLM : En østjysk træborg fra 1300-årene [Jan Kock & Else Roesdahl (eds)] Text in Danish. With contributions by Charlotte Boje Hilligsø Andersen, Aoife Daly, Knud Jessen, Ulla Johansen, Hanne Dahlerup Koch, Jan Kock, Claus Malmros, Heidi Maria Møller Nielsen, Else Østergård, Maj Ringgaard, Else Roesdahl, Penelope Walton Rogers, Erik Ulsig and Herluf Winge. { 378pp, 220x280mm, December 2006; HB, £26.95, 8788415368:9788788415360 , Aarhus University Press } |
| BRITISH DRAMA IN THE EIGHTIES : Texts & Contexts [Per Serritslev Petersen & Karl-Heinz Westarp (eds)] { 220pp, July 1986; PB, £11.00, 8772889888:9788772889887 , Aarhus University Press } |
| BUILDING CUSTOMS IN VIKING AGE [Holger Schmidt] This book offers a scholarly view of how people lived, worked and built houses and other structures in the Viking Age. Instead of presenting a complete survey, the author has taken examples of settlements and house-sites -- by now classical ones -- as the basis for his attempt to present a general impression of buildings and building customs in Viking times. Described in detail are buildings, their sites and probable construction techniques, the brief history of the times in which the structures were built and used, the people who inhabited them and how styles and uses changed over time. The excellent drawings show excavations, site plans and architectural details of several buildings and settlements, including a suggested reconstruction and structural techniques of a house of the Fyrkat type, a large bow-sided hall. { 178pp, May 1999; HB, £18.95, 8774683853:9788774683858 , Aarhus University Press } |
| BYZANTINE CHANT : Tradition & Reform -- Acts of a Meeting Held at the Danish Institute at Athens, 1993 [Troelsgard (ed)] The contributors to this volume about Byzantine chant use different approaches to uncover the early development and transmission of the tradition, its constancy and permutations. Considerations include a recent attempt to establish a new date for the "Round notation", one of the earliest transcriptions, and an ethnomusicological study of a religious chant from the island of Zakynthos that may provide clues to specific features of medieval Byzantine intonations. Other articles deal with aspects of Byzantine chants from the 12th century, through the fall of the Empire in 1453 and into the 20th century. Musical examples throughout the text underscore the authors' theories and illuminate the beauty of the medium. { 204pp, March 1997; PB, £18.95, 8772887338:9788772887333 , Aarhus University Press } |
| CASE STUDY IN DIACHRONIC PHONOLOGY : The Japanese Onbin Sound Changes [Bjarke Frellesvig] { 168pp, May 1995; PB, £14.95, 8772884894:9788772884899 , Aarhus University Press } |
| CASTELLA MARIS BALTICI, VOLUME 1 [Knut Drake (ed)] The book investigates the castle as a force and centre of innovation in the Baltic Sea from 1000-1400 and includes a presentation of eight Finnish castles. The purpose of the series is to exchange knowledge of restoration and the research on castles and fortifications in the Baltic Sea region. { 275pp, November 1996; PB, £18.95, 9122015663:9789122015666 , Aarhus University Press } |
| CASTELLA MARIS BALTICI, VOLUME 2 [Magnus Josephson & Mats Mogren (eds)] This book deals with the function of castles and fortified sites around the Baltic Sea AD 900-1500. The purpose of the series is to exchange knowledge of restoration and the research on castles and fortifications in the Baltic Sea region. { 247pp, December 1996; HB, £18.95, 9187794128:9789187794124 , Aarhus University Press } |
| CASTELLA MARIS BALTICI, VOLUMES 3 & 4 [Kaur Alttoa, Knut Drake, Kasimierz Pospieszny & Kari Uotila (eds)] The book looks at the function which town, castle and church have had in the Middle Ages in the Baltic Sea area as well as the function they have had in combination, e.g. town and castle as framework for social structure. The purpose of the series is to exchange knowledge of restoration and the research on castles and fortifications in the Baltic Sea region. { 261pp, November 2001; PB, £18.95, 9519680128:9789519680125 , Aarhus University Press } |
| CASTELLA MARIS BALTICI, VOLUME 5 [Nils Engberg, Jørgen Skaarup & Kjeld Borch Vesth (eds)] The book takes a closer look at everyday life in the medieval castles. The purpose of the series is to exchange knowledge of restoration and the research on castles and fortifications in the Baltic Sea region. { 193pp, November 2001; HB, £18.95, 8788509257:9788788509250 , Aarhus University Press } |
| CASTELLANI FRAGMENTS IN THE VILLA GIULIA, VOLUME 1 [Lise Hannestad] { 176pp, December 1989; PB, £22.95, 8772882417:9788772882413 , Aarhus University Press } |
| CATALOGUE ANCIENT SCULPTURES 1 : Aegean, Cypriote, & Graeco-Phoenician [Pia Guldager, Mette Moltesen & P J Riis] { 115pp, December 1989; PB, £15.25, 8789438019:9788789438016 , Aarhus University Press } |
| CAULDRON OF ARIANTAS : Studies Presented to A N Sceglov on the Occasion of his 70th Birthday [Pia Guldager Bilde, Jakob Munk Højte & Vladimir F Stolba (eds)] In this book 23 scholars from Ukraine, France, Great Britain, Russia, and Denmark celebrate the 70th birthday of the archaeologist, A.N. Sceglov, who is one of the senior professors at the St Petersburg State University. Sceglov is a pioneer in the investigation and history of ancient Crimea, as well as a widely recognised authority in the study of northern Black Sea antiquities. The Tarchankut expedition established by Sceglov in 1959 explored a number of sites in the remote chora of Tauric Chersonesos. Panskoye I ranks among the most prominent of them, and Sceglov has devoted over 30 years of his life to this unique and exceptionally well-preserved Greek settlement. The contributions to this publication shed new light on a vast range of Black Sea issues: from the earliest settlements and their functions to the formation of a Russian science of classical antiquities. In focus are the important Greek cities Histira, Olbia, Chersonesos, and Herakleia Pontike, their material culture and relationship to their own rural territory and to their non-Greek neighbours. Until now most research in this area has been conducted solely by Russians and published in Russian, but now the rest of the world can get a glimpse of the Black Sea area during antiquity. { 397pp, March 2004; HB, £22.75, 8779340857:9788779340855 , Aarhus University Press } |
| CENTRE & PERIPHERY IN THE HELLENISTIC WORLD [Per Bilde, Troels Engberg-Pedersen, Lise Hannestad, Klavs Randsborg & Jan Zahle (eds)] { 360pp, March 1994; HB, £30.50, 8772883170:9788772883175 , Aarhus University Press } |
| CHALKIS AITOLIAS, VOLUME ONE : The Prehistoric Periods [Søren Dietz & Ioannis Moschos (eds)] The Prehistoric Periods is the first volume in a series of publications where the results of the Danish/ Greek excavations 1995 to 2001 in Ancient Chalkis in Aetolia, are published. For the first time ever, stratigraphically excavated deposits from the Final Neolithic, the Early Helladic, Middle Helladic and the Late Helladic periods in Northwestern Greece are published and presented in their proper scientific contexts. In addition to the archaeological contexts geological surveys in the area and studies in the fauna of marine shells and animal bones from the prehistoric layers are submitted. The results are supported by a series of C14 dates. { 280pp, 210x270mm, April 2006; PB, £26.95, 8772888660:9788772888668 , Aarhus University Press } |
| CHARLES DICKENS : Linguistic Innovator [Knud Sorensen] { 176pp, March 1985; PB, £17.95, 8772440090:9788772440095 , Aarhus University Press } |
| CHILCHOS VALLEY REVISITED : Life Conditions in the Ceja de Selva, Peru [Inge Schjellerup, Victor Quipuscoa, Carolina Espinoza, Victor Peña & Mikael Kamp Sørensen] Text in English & Spanish. This book on the Chilchos Valley in the northeastern slopes of the Andes in Peru attempts to understand how human activities have changed the landscape in the montane forests during the last 500 years. Settlements and terraces from the Chachapoya and Inca cultures in the Ceja de Selva (high jungle) witness of an ample use in pre-Hispanic times. Later after a drastic declination of the population in the colonial period the Chilchos Valley was forgotten in hundreds of years and then rediscovered and revisited in 1900. Within the stage of rediscovering the valley, new socio-cultural processes of adaptation to the environment began with migrations from the Sierra. This book includes archaeological, historical, sociological and botanical studies of a corner of Peru, which has hitherto not been given much scientific attention. { 424pp, 168x240mm, February 2006; PB, £12.95, 8776020517:9788776020514 , Aarhus University Press } |
| CHILD AT GUNPOINT : A Case Study in the Life of a Photo [Richard Raskin] Widely regarded as the most haunting image we have of the Holocaust, the photo of a young boy with his hands up being driven from the Warsaw ghetto has served as a touchstone for everyone from the Nuremberg prosecutors to Elie Wiesel, and from Susan Sontag to revisionist ranters on the web. Yet despite its enduring status in both popular and academic circles, this touchstone of inhumanity has elicited surprisingly little sustained commentary. In this book, Richard Raskin provides the first extended consideration of this photo by examining it from multiple perspectives. He begins by attempting to describe it objectively as a photographic artefact, carefully detailing its components and composition. He then presents a history of how it came about: to illustrate a report that SS General Jürgen Stroop compiled in 1943, documenting for Himmler how he had crushed the ghetto uprising that spring. In his subsequent discussion, Raskin draws extensively on the statements of SS officials to shed light on how they experienced their genocidal project, and what the photograph likely meant to those who took it and selected it for the Stroop Report. The next chapter is devoted to the claims made for the identity of the boy with his hands up, as well as for the other captives and the SS man with the machine gun. Clearly and movingly written, “A Child at Gunpoint” will engage the general reader as well as specialists in photography, Holocaust studies, Judaica and World War II. Highly recommended for libraries. { 192pp, December 2004; PB, £18.95, 8779340997:9788779340992 , Aarhus University Press } |
| CHIMU POTTERY : In the Department of Ethnography Fascicule I [Inge Schjellerup] Slipcase with 2 volumes. This catalogue comprises the pottery from the Chimu culture, which has arrived in the Department of Ethnography. The catalogue is a register and is to be regarded as a working tool for scientists and as a source of inspiration to the ceramist of today. { 90pp, 240x310mm, December 1986; HB, £14.95, 8748005797:9788748005792 , Aarhus University Press } |
| CHRISTIAN VIII & NATIONALMUSEET Text in Danish. { 178pp, 185x220mm, January 1999; PB, £12.95, 8789438043:9788789438047 , Aarhus University Press } |
| CHRISTIAN VIII & THE NATIONAL MUSEUM : Antiquities, Coins, Medals [Jørgen Steen Jensen, John Lund & Bodil Bundgaard Rasmussen (eds)] Prince Christian Frederik (1786-1848) became King Christian VIII of Denmark in 1839. His accession to the throne took place at the end of Denmark's 'Golden Age' -- a period haunted by national bankruptcy but, notably, due to a few men of vision also a period in which painting, poetry and science developed intensively. Because of his intelligence, energy and patronage of the arts, King Christian VIII became one of the entrepreneurs of Danish cultural life. After his death in 1848, the King's collection became state property and was transferred to the National Museum. In 1998, in commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the King's death, the National Museum arranged a symposium where a series of papers were presented about the King as a collector and about the importance of the collections. This book, lavishly illustrated with photographs of the collection and other artefacts, contains the symposium papers, which have been revised and expanded. { 180pp, 185x220mm, December 2006; PB, £13.99, 8789438051:9788789438054 , Aarhus University Press } |
| CHRONOLOGIES IN THE BLACK SEA AREA IN THE PERIOD C. 400-100 BC [Vladimir Stolba & Lise Hannestad (eds)] A renewed interest in chronological problems has surfaced in recent years. In this volume deriving from the first international conference of the Danish National Research Foundation's Centre for Black Sea Studies thirteen contributions by scholars from Russia, Ukraine, Romania, USA, Canada, Belgium and Denmark review and discuss the elements on which the chronology used in Black Sea archaeology and history in the period c. 400-100 BC is built up. The subjects include: amphora and amphora stamp chronologies (Mark Lawall; Sergej Ju. Monachov; Niculae Conovici; Vladimir Stolba), coin chronology (François de Callataÿ), the Athenian pottery (Susan I. Rotroff), epigraphic evidence (Jakob Munk Højte), and a number of case studies presenting the material on which is based the dating of a series of Greek and barbarian/non-Greek sites and burial monuments on the northern shores of the Black Sea (Valentina V. Krapivina; Valeria Bylkova; Lise Hannestad, Miron I. Zolotarev, Ju. P. Zaytsev, Valentina I. Mordvinceva). { 360pp, 210x240mm, November 2005; HB, £22.95, 8779341322:9788779341326 , Aarhus University Press } |
| COINAGE IN ROMAN EGYPT : The Hoard Evidence [Erik Christiansen] Durable and iconic, coins are some of the most revealing everyday objects left to us from the ancient world. For the most part, however, they have been considered the special domain of numismatists, who typically seek to assemble as many varieties as possible. But in focusing on the rarities that form a collection's highlights, numismatists slight contextual clues to economic history and the daily use of coins as money. In this volume, Erik Christiansen uses Alexandrian coin hoards -- meaning finds of at least two coins buried together -- to explore the use of money in Egypt from its conquest by Augustus in 30 BC to Diocletian's currency reform in AD 296. Although these finds, with their wide array of Graeco-Roman and Alexandrian reverses, have traditionally been classified as a part of Greek coinage, he demonstrates clearly that they belong to the Roman imperial coinage. The hoards also show that Roman Egypt enjoyed a widespread monetised economy, in addition to the credit system described in extant papyri. The relative abundance of such documents provides Christiansen with a good supplemental source of information for his conclusions. And since financial administration probably was quite uniform throughout the Empire, this book provides a useful window not only on Rome's shifting economic fortunes, but also on monetary policy in other parts of the Empire that did not leave behind the same rich heritage of coins and documents as Egypt. { 208pp, August 2004; PB, £17.95, 8772889640:9788772889641 , Aarhus University Press } |
| COLOR : An Outline of Terms & Concepts [Richard Raskin] { 32pp, December 1987; PB, £3.95, 8772880635:9788772880631 , Aarhus University Press } |
| CONATIONS [Henrik Poulsen] { 160pp, March 1991; PB, £11.25, 8772883588:9788772883588 , Aarhus University Press } |
| CONTRASTS & SOLUTIONS IN THE CAUCASUS [Ole Høiris & Sefa Martin Yürükel (eds)] This survey by scholars, experts and politicians with knowledge of, and influence in, the Caucasus region reflects its many conflicting ethnic groups and nations. An introductory section deals with the entire region from the historical perspective, drawing special attention to its geographical importance and relations with the former Soviet Union and the present Russian Federation. Subsequent essays analyse the ethnic and national problems in North Caucasus, Transcaucasus, Abkhazia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Crimea, Nagorno-Karabakh and Chechenia. The concluding articles discuss the Turkish influence on Caucasian conflicts. { 491pp, November 1998; HB, £22.95, 8772887087:9788772887081 , Aarhus University Press } |
| CONTRASTS & SOLUTIONS IN THE MIDDLE EAST [Ole Høiris & Sefa Martin Yürükel (eds)] This splendid volume provides an interdisciplinary overview of the Middle East from age-old enmities to discussions of current political concerns. In forty-four essays, an international assemblage of scholars, politicians, and experts address the problems of Palestine and Israel; Iran, Syria and Iraq; Turkey; and the Kurdish regions. Concerned with questions of national, religious, or ethnic identification, the authors touch on topics from the definition of the "Middle East", the Salman Rushdie fatwa, the constancy of the Mosque as an institution, mass murders in Iraq, the role of women, the crises affecting the Assyrian Chaldean-Syriacs, torture in Iran, and the peace process. Comprehensive chapters chart the politics, ethnicity, and history of Turkey. { 608pp, September 1997; HB, £30.50, 8772886919:9788772886916 , Aarhus University Press } |
| CONTRIBUTIONS TO ISLAMIC STUDIES : Iran, Afghanistan & Pakistan [Christel Braae & Klaus Ferdinand (eds)] { 156pp, December 1987; PB, £7.50, 8772880392:9788772880396 , Aarhus University Press } |
| CONVENTIONAL VALUES OF THE HELLENISTIC GREEKS [Per Bilde, Troels Engberg-Pedersen, Lise Hannestad & Jan Zahle (eds)] The contributors to this volume seek to decipher the Hellenistic citizens' views on vital elements of their society: the city, the ruler, religion, magic and astrology, everyday life and social relations (family and gender), morality, uses of the past, and the iconography of death. How did the changes in political and social ideas affect actions and practices, which in turn again altered concepts? Moreover, the authors distinguish between the views of the common people and the elite, the evidence from inscriptions (seen as popular sentiment) and the evidence from literature (from the elite). The authors' conclusions have broad ramifications for future scholars in a field that has not hitherto received much attention. This volume is essential reading on the early development of individualism and the history of ideas. { 320pp, August 1997; HB, £22.95, 8772885556:9788772885551 , Aarhus University Press } |
| CORPUS SPECULORUM ETRUSCORUM -- DENMARK 1 : Copenhagen, the Danish National Museum, the Ny Carlsberg Glyptothek [Helle Salskov Roberts] { 132pp, November 1981; HB, £14.95, 8774923234:9788774923237 , Aarhus University Press } |
| CRACKING THE IKE AGE : Aspects of Fifties America [Dale Carter (ed)] Issue 23 of Aarhus University Press's arts and humanities journal "The Dolphin", covering aspects of 1950s America. { 270pp, 150x220mm, April 1993; PB, £11.25, 8772883731:9788772883731 , Aarhus University Press } |
| CRISIS OR CHANGE : The Concept of Crisis in the Light of Agrarian Structural Reorganization in Late Medieval England [Nils Hybel] { 360pp, December 1989; HB, £22.95, 8772882298:9788772882291 , Aarhus University Press } |
| CULTIC THEATRES & RITUAL DRAMA : Regional Development & Religious Interchange Between East & West in Antiquity [Inge Nielsen] This well-illustrated book thoroughly investigates the relations between East and West in the Ancient world as seen through the lens of ancient religious practices. The author has concentrated on one aspect of the cult, the ritual drama, and its setting, the cultic theatre. The point of departure is the presence of a great amount of theatrical structures in the sanctuaries in Greece and Italy. Many of these structures were not proper theatres in the modern sense of the word, but rather primitive rows of seats, 'a place to watch from'. These structures have never before been examined from a functional viewpoint, and the author proposes that their primary raison d'etre was the performance of ritual dramas at the great seasonal feasts. For various reasons, which she describes, the author points to the relative obscurity of this religious institution in the Greek and Roman world, and notes that as a result, it has received scant attention from scholars. In contrast, it is well known that ritual dramas had been performed in the distant past at the great seasonal feasts of the Orient, and the book includes an excellent overview of the development of this institution as well as the setting chosen for it in the Egyptian, Syrio-Phoenician and Anatolian cults, both in their homelands and in their new host countries in the West. This is a fascinating book for archaeologists and classicists, as well as for anthropologists and historians of religion, but it also gives food for thought for those who simply want to learn more about Oriental religious practices and the origins of theatre. { 395pp, March 2000; HB, £30.50, 8772888792:9788772888798 , Aarhus University Press } |
| CULTURAL ENCOUNTERS -- CHINA, JAPAN & THE WEST : Essays Commemorating 25 Years of East Asian Studies at the University of Aarhus [Søren Clausen, Roy Starrs & Anne Wedell-Wedellsborg (eds)] This collection of 20 essays examines cultural encounters between -- and within -- China, Japan and the West. Rather than engaging in the theoretical debate of the cultural concepts as such, the authors present new research on a wide range of topics, from linguistics and literature to the worlds of sociology and political science. Despite the diversity of topics and approaches, the common focus is on the processes of cultural interaction and the dynamics of reception and communication. Celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Institute of East Asian Studies at the University of Aarhus, Denmark, this book includes contributions by scholars associated with the institute, as well as by scholars from Europe, America, China and Japan who have been temporarily attached to it. { 496pp, 180x260mm, March 1995; HB, £22.95, 8772884975:9788772884974 , Aarhus University Press } |
| CULTURE & CHANGE IN CENTRAL EUROPEAN PREHISTORY : 6th to 1st millennium BC [Helle Vandkilde] This book is a cohesive overview of Central European prehistory from the introduction of agriculture around 6000 BC to the state-forming processes that began to emerge during the first millennium BC. A complex mosaic of culture, society and processes is mirrored in the material world and in certain periods involves a large part of the Eurasian continent. Culture and change must be understood as both localised and macro-regional: the book is a cultural-historical tale -- inspired by, for example, the attempts of French historians to integrate different levels of history. Emphasis is laid on the eventful boom periods where innovations and cross-cultural interaction intensified in such a way that history's mainly reproductive pattern was broken. Important turning points are attached, among other things, to the first production of food, copper- and bronze metallurgy, and the sword as a weapon and symbol. These technical innovations were part of a complicated interaction with social and cultural processes, which in many cases are connected in a pattern that can be followed in time and space. { 240pp, 175x250mm, October 2007; HB, £18.95, 8779342450:9788779342453 , Aarhus University Press } |
| CULTURE IN LANGUAGE LEARNING [Hanne Leth Andersen (ed)] Classical and modern foreign language studies no longer have a well-defined subject area, and language and culture can no longer be defined according to nations and national identities. New approaches are being developed with theoretical and methodological points of departure in new areas of research: for example, culture studies, anthropology, sociology, pragmatics and conversation analyses. The aim of modern language studies must therefore be redefined, and be more open for variation and diversity, both in culture and communication. The book discusses the relation between language and culture and is a direct result of the conference Culture in Language Learning, organised under the auspices of the Danish Language and Culture Network, which assembles researchers from language disciplines in Denmark. The aim is to examine how culture comes into the actual language code; into the use of language; and not least, into the learning and teaching of language. One of the book's main problematic areas thus concerns the learning and teaching of foreign and second languages in a globalised world where languages play a new roll, both for the individual person, by virtue of internationalisation of education and work-life, and for co-operation across national borders. The articles elucidate these problematic points in relation to the historic development of foreign language disciplines, the meeting of language and culture, teaching traditions and language appropriation theories. { 160pp, 155x240mm, April 2006; PB, £13.95, 8779342345:9788779342347 , Aarhus University Press } |
| CURRENT SCANDINAVIAN BOTANICAL RESEARCH IN ECUADOR [Ulf Molau & Benjamin Øllgaard (eds)] { 86pp, March 1986; PB, £7.50, 8787600196:9788787600194 , Aarhus University Press } |
| CYROPAEDIA : Xenophon‘s Aims & Methods [Bodil Due] { 256pp, December 1990; HB, £18.95, 8772882468:9788772882468 , Aarhus University Press } |
| DANES & THEIR POLITICIANS : A Summary of the Findings of a Research Project on Political Credibility in Denmark [Gunnar Viby Mogensen] { 88pp, December 1993; PB, £7.50, 8772884517:9788772884516 , Aarhus University Press } |
| DANISH DESIGN OR BRITISH DISEASE? : Danish Economic Crisis Policy 1974-1979 in Comparative Perspective [Peter Nannestad] { 288pp, December 1991; PB, £12.95, 8772883995:9788772883991 , Aarhus University Press } |
| DANISH TOWNS DURING ABSOLUTISM : Urbanisation & Urban Life, 1660-1848 [Søren Bitsch (ed)] This anthology pres-ents in English recent significant research on Denmark's urban development during the Age of Absolutism, 1660-1848, and features 15 articles written by leading Danish urban historians. The years of Absolutism were marked by a general crisis for the Danish urban community, mainly caused by the devastating effects of the seventeenth century warfare. Some few towns, however, stood out with positive development, first and fore-most Copenhagen which flourished in its function as the centre of the Absolutist regime. The book traces both the roots of the urban crisis as well as the regional and temporal variations. Many articles provide an overview of urbanisation in both the Kingdom of Denmark and the Duchy of Schleswig, while other articles focus on the economic. social, and cultural urban functions. { 509pp, 175x250mm, April 2008; HB, £24.95, 8779341527:9788779341524 , Aarhus University Press } |
| DANSK NU -- ENGELSK ARBEJDSHÆFTE : Exercises [Torkild Bisgaard, Gry Clasen & Bjerne Johansen] { 40pp, December 1990; PB, £4.95, 8772883014:9788772883014 , Aarhus University Press } |
| DANSK NU -- FRANSK ARBEJDSHÆFTE : Exercises [Torkild Bisgaard, Gry Clasen & Bjerne Johansen] { 40pp, December 1990; PB, £4.95, 8772883022:9788772883021 , Aarhus University Press } |
| DANSK NU -- TEKSTHAEFTE [Torkild Bisgaard, Gry Clasen & Bjerne Johansen] { 24pp, December 1990; PB, £4.95, 8772883006:9788772883007 , Aarhus University Press } |
| DANSK NU -- TYSK ARBEJDSHÆFTE : Übungen [Torkild Bisgaard, Gry Clasen & Bjerne Johansen] { 40pp, December 1991; PB, £4.95, 8772883030:9788772883038 , Aarhus University Press } |
| DEMOCRATISATION IN THE MIDDLE EAST : Dilemmas & Perspectives [Birgitte Rahbæk (ed)] The main aim of the book is to provide a forum for opinions held by Arabs who are neither Western puppets nor fanatical nationalists or Islamists, but rather academics with a vast knowledge of the Middle East as well as of the West. The authors all support the building of a democratic secular Middle East, but their writings also show that although there is no easy way to achieve this goal, neither is there any excuse for not making the attempt. Contributors: Nader Fergany author of the Arab Human Development Reports; Raymond Hinnebusch professor of International Relations and Middle East Politics, University of St. Andrews; Yezid Sayigh consultant to the international donor community in Palestine; Samir Aita Syrian scholar and dissident; Graham Usher British journalist; Hanan Rabbani Palestinian consultant for Amnesty International; Mai Yamani (Saudi Arabia) research fellow with the Middle East Programme at the Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House; Fowziyah Abu-Khalid Saudi sociologist; Amal Shlash Iraq; Huda Al-Nu'aimi Iraq; Jørgen S. Nielsen Professor, director of the Danish Institute in Damascus. { 180pp, 140x210mm, December 2005; PB, £15.00, 8779342302:9788779342309 , Aarhus University Press } |
| DEN KLASSISKE KØBSTAD : Redigeret af Søren Bitsch Christensen Text in Danish. { 417pp, 180x260mm, August 2008; HB, £28.99, 8779341500:9788779341500 , Aarhus University Press } |
| DER WILLE ZUR ORDNUNG [Lars-Henrik Schmidt] Text in German. { 159pp, 145x205mm, January 1989; PB, £8.95, 8772885254:9788772885254 , Aarhus University Press } |
| DEVELOPMENT EXPERIENCE IN THE SAHEL : Proceedings of the Third Sahel Workshop 7-9 January 1991 [Lars Graudal & Holger Elme Nielsen (eds)] { 144pp, March 1993; PB, £7.50, 8760139099:9788760139093 , Aarhus University Press } |
| DIACHRONIC SETTLEMENT STUDIES IN THE METAL AGES : Report on the ESF Workshop Moesgård, Denmark, 14-18 October 2000 [Henrik Thrane (ed)] Archaeological settlement studies are called diachronic when they deal with chronological development - local or regional - over time. The articles in this book remain within the Bronze Age for the most part, and cover periods that vary from a few hundred to thousands of years. The contributions represent three traditions in European diachronic settlement studies: a Northern, where posthole archaeology has become the norm; a Central European, dominated by other elements, including the crucial role of the Danube in the understanding of innovation; and a South European, dominated by massive, well preserved stone architecture. The aim of this European Science Foundation (ESF) workshop, from which these reports emanated, was to present studies from a wide range of European countries in order to illustrate the different scientific approaches to common problems. By doing this, the participants examined how different research traditions, administrative practices and financial restrictions influence archaeological practices. They then search for new common approaches. The collection of reports cover archaeological studies from Scandinavia, northern Germany, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia and England. This book will be valuable for archaeologists and students of archaeology, not only for the subject matter of each report but also for the theoretical discussions of research methods. { 140pp, March 2004; PB, £18.95, 8788415244:9788788415247 , Aarhus University Press } |
| DIE RATIONALITÄT DER OFFENBARUNGS -- THEOLOGIE : Die Striktur des Theologieverständnisses von Karl Barth [Bent Flemming Nielsen] Text in German. { 238pp, 180x260mm, June 1988; HB, £22.95, 8772881887:9788772881881 , Aarhus University Press } |
| DISPLACED PERSONS [Kirsten Holst Petersen & Anna Rutherford (eds)] Explores the problems faced by refugees and migrants in the rich society of the western world today as they are seen by the refugees and migrants themselves. The main focus is on the literature written by these displaced persons. The writers discuss the issues of language, cultural transmission and racism and give artistic expression to their thoughts and feelings. The book also includes an article by Peter Noble, Sweden's ombudsman for refugees who traces the legal concept of refugees. { 173pp, 165x235mm, June 1998; PB, £8.95, 8772885076:9788772885070 , Aarhus University Press } |
| DOIMINACIÓN Y LEGITIMIDAD POLITICA EN HISPANOAMÉRICA : Un estudio de la historia de las ideas políticas en la experiencia colonial y la formación del estado nacional en Chile [Pablo Rolando Cristoffanini] Text in Spanish. { 182pp, 155x230mm, December 1991; PB, £14.95, 8772883073:9788772883076 , Aarhus University Press } |
| DOWNWARD CAUSATION : Minds, Bodies & Matter [Peter Bøgh Andersen, Peder Voetmann Christiansen, Claus Emmeche & Niels Ole Finnemann (eds)] Downward causation is found in two-level and multi-level systems with complex behaviour generated by many components interacting in a simple or complex way. The term was coined by the social psychologist and philosopher Donald T. Campbell, who asked the question: If many small-scale interactions can create emergent large-scale patterns, can large-scale patterns re-influence the small-scale interactions that generated them? This has led to many further questions, among them: Does the cell as a system reorganise the biochemical processes inside it in a new way? Do psychosomatic illnesses exist? Can life change biochemical laws? Can mind change the body? The chapters in this comprehensive book address these questions from the viewpoints of different disciplines. Part 1 contains a classification of positions regarding 'downward causation', Part 2 covers physics, Part 3 covers biology and psychology, Part 4 covers social and communicative systems, and Part 5 covers general philosophy. { 310pp, January 2000; HB, £22.95, 8772888148:9788772888149 , Aarhus University Press } |
| DRYLAND DEGRADATION : Causes & Consequences [Jonas E Lawesson & Ebbe Poulsen (eds)] This volume contains abstracts and papers presented at the second Danish Sahel Workshop helld at Sandbjerg Manor in 1990. The papers cover natural and social sciences, such as improved utilisation of tree legumes, degradations and desertification, afforestation techniques and problems, ecological monitoring and remote sensing techniques, animal counting in Senegal, the political economy of agricultural development in Burkina Faso, research and development in the Red Sea area, the economic potential of the semi-arid areas, as well as accounts of the research sponsored by DANIDA, integrated projects in Mali and Senegal and the Danish activities with control of parasitic diseases in Africa. { 136pp, March 1991; PB, £9.95, 8772883464:9788772883465 , Aarhus University Press } |
| DYNAMICS OF NORTHERN SOCIETIES : Proceedings of the SILA/NABO Conference on Arctic & North Atlantic Archaeology, Copenhagen, 10th-14th May 2004 [Jette Arneborg & Bjarne Grønnow (eds)] The prehistory and early history of northern societies -- from the Palaeo-eskimo pioneers to the Viking Norse Settlers -- is unfolding through archaeological and historical research and through interdisciplinary studies including natural sciences. The more insight we have gained on Arctic and North Atlantic archae-ology the more we have realised how diverse and dynamic these societies were and how complex their stories are. This volume includes articles on New approaches to dynamic analysis of Palaeo-Eskimo artefacts; Interaction with the environ-ment; Dynamics of small scale societies; Archi-tecture and social organisation of space in Palaeo-Eskimo and Inuit contexts; Origins and spread of the Palaeo-Eskimo and Inuit cultures; Demography, death and burials; Norse culture in Iceland and the Faroe Islands, e.g. outlaws of Viking Age Iceland; Trade and burials in Viking Age Britain. { 415pp, 210x300mm, June 2006; HB, £24.00, 8776020525:9788776020521 , Aarhus University Press (National Museum of Copenhagen) } |
| DYNAMIQUES DU SENS : Études de sémiotique modale [Per Aage Brandt] Text in French. { 283pp, 140x215mm, December 1994; HB, £14.95, 8772885130:9788772885131 , Aarhus University Press } |
| ECUADOREAN PALMS FOR AGROFORESTRY [Henrik Balslev & Henrik Borgtoft Pedersen (eds)] { 122pp, March 1990; PB, £7.50, 8787600307:9788787600309 , Aarhus University Press } |
| ELEMENTS OF PICTURE COMPOSITION : A Digest of Major Contributions to the Study of Design in the Visual Arts [Richard Raskin] { 56pp, 210x150mm, December 1986; PB, £4.95, 8772880333:9788772880334 , Aarhus University Press } |
| ENGLAND OG GRUNDTVIG : Grundtvigs møde med England og dets betydning for hans forfatterskab [Helge Grell] Text in Danish. { 182pp, June 1992; PB, £5.95, 8772884991:9788772884998 , Aarhus University Press } |
| ENGLISH PAST & PRESENT [Knud Sorensen] { 240pp, December 1988; PB, £17.50, 8772881682:9788772881683 , Aarhus University Press } |
| ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION & RATIONALITY : Multidisciplinary Perspectives [Suzanne C Beckmann & Erik Kloppenborg Madsen (eds)] What does it take to change the behaviour of people and businesses with respect to the environment? In the 1990's a group of social scientists gathered to discuss this question from their individual perspectives in disciplines ranging from marketing to theology and jurisprudence to psychology. Rather soon it became clear to them that they first needed to focus on basic assumptions about human motivation and rationality; otherwise it was impossible for say, the economist who regards individuals as calculating maximisers of utility, to understand the sociologist who presumes they are role-playing or norm-guided beings. Prompted by these debates on first principles, this volume gathers together some of the participants' perspectives on rationality. Wherever possible, the authors link the discussion of rationality to matching conceptions of nature and human attitudes toward it. { 224pp, December 2001; PB, £22.95, 8772889128:9788772889122 , Aarhus University Press } |
| ERKLÄRUNGSSTRATEGIEN, SEMANTISCHE FELDER UND MAKROSTRUKTUREN : Eine Fallstudie zur semantischen Architektur von explikativen Texten [Alexandra Kratschmer] Text in German. Erklärungsstrategien, semantische Felder und Makrostrukturen behandelt die genannten, zentralen textsemantischen Themenbereiche theoretisch und praktisch, indem deren Zusammenspiel erstmalig als ein organisches Ganzes beschrieben wird, ermöglicht durch ein neues, vereinheitlichendes Analyseinstrumentarium. Der Corpustext, Montesquieus historische Abhandlung Considérations sur les causes de la grandeur et de la décadence des Romains von 1734, ein deutlich erklärender Text, wird zuerst im Detail analysiert und sodann synthetisiert, während Verteilung und Rolle von erklärenden Strukturen und semantischen Feldern auf allen hierarchischen Textebenen vom Mikro- bis zum Makroniveau beleuchtet werden. Das Zielpublikum umfaßt -- außer Romanisten und Textlinguisten im Allgemeinen -- auch Literaturwissenschaftler, Sprachpsychologen, Sprachphilosophen und Historiker. { 695pp, 170x240mm, December 2005; PB, £37.95, 8779342124:9788779342125 , Aarhus University Press } |
| ESCAPISM OF OPERATIONS RESEARCH [Niels Warrer] { 48pp, April 1992; PB, £9.75, 8772884029:9788772884028 , Aarhus University Press } |
| ESSAYS IN GENERAL PSYCHOLOGY : Presented to Henrik Poulsen [Niels Engelsted, Lars Hem & Jens Mammen (eds)] { 146pp, March 1989; PB, £12.00, 8772882778:9788772882772 , Aarhus University Press } |
| ESSAYS ON PLATO'S REPUBLIC [Erik Nis Ostenfeld (ed)] CONTENTS: How Totalitarian is Plato's Republic; Plato as a Problem-Solver. The Unity of the Polis as a Key to the Interpretation of Plato's Republic; Plato and Xenophon: Two Contributions to the Constitutional Debate in the 4th Century BC; Did Plato ever Reply to those Critics, who Reproached him for 'the Emptiness of the Platonic Idea or Form of the Good'?; The Socratic Paradoxes and the Tripartite Soul; Eudaimonia in Plato's Republic; Plato's Ideal of Science; The Katabasis of Er. Plato's Use of Myths, exemplified by the Myth of Er; Index of Names; Index of Key Terms. { 119pp, December 1998; HB, £12.00, 8772887850:9788772887852 , Aarhus University Press } |
| ET GANSKE LEVENDE DEMOKRATI [Jorgen Goul Andersen] Text in Danish. { 336pp, 155x230mm, April 2007; PB, £21.99, 8779340504:9788779340503 , Aarhus University Press } |
| EUROPEAN ARACHNOLOGY 2000 : 19th European Colloquium of Arachnology, Århus 17-22 July 2000 [Nikolaj Scharff & Søren Toft (eds)] This book, dedicated to the influential Danish spider ecologist Edwin Nørgaard, contains contributions by authors from 16 European countries, and reflects the current areas of interest for researchers working with spiders, scorpions and related animals in Europe. It contains 46 original research articles and reviews covering a wide range of disciplines such as ecology and conservation, behaviour, physiology, morphology and systematics. A particular section is devoted to reproductive behaviour, with papers on sexual selection, sperm competition in relation to the structure of female genitalia, emasculation and sexual cannibalism in spiders, and parthenogenesis in scorpions. Silk, the structure and function of spider webs and how they are built, form another section. There are papers on sampling methods and faunistic analyses of the biodiversity and conservation value of spider communities from several types of habitats (forests, dunes, bogs etc.) in various European countries. Other papers deal with the value of spiders for agriculture, prey capture strategies, spiders' parasites, life cycles, neuronal mapping of reflex behaviour, the systematic classification of spiders and local faunistics. { 358pp, March 2002; PB, £28.50, 8779340016:9788779340015 , Aarhus University Press } |
| EVOLUTION & CREATION : A European Perspective [Svend Andersen & Arthur Peacocke (eds)] { 215pp, March 1987; PB, £14.95, 8772881143:9788772881140 , Aarhus University Press } |
| EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY OF PLANT-PLANT INTERACTIONS : An Empirical Modelling Approach [Christian Damgaard] By Working at the intersection of ecology and evolutionary biology, evolutionary ecologists tend to rely on the dominant mathematical models from one of the two parent fields. Yet these transplanted models have their shortcomings. On the one hand, the frequency models used in evolutionary biology have a hard time accounting for certain factors (like resource limitations) that are central to many ecological problems. On the other hand, there is a strong tradition in ecology, especially plant ecology, to eschew mathematical models altogether in favour of qualitative description. Even when such a model is used, it is too often an inappropriately applied standard linear model. The result has been a call for simple models that enable greater biological and environmental realism than heretofore -- models that will allow for more rigorous testing of hypotheses and more accurate predictions. Such predictions are increasingly in demand not only in the scientific pursuit of plant ecology, but also in public policy applications, such as conservation management and the risk assessment of genetically modified organisms. This volume seeks to address this need by presenting several simple empirical models that have proven invaluable to quantitative and statistical analysis in evolutionary plant ecology. Moreover, it provides conceptual links among the various models, e.g. describing the underlying ideas and relative strengths of plant-size explicit modelling and mean-field modelling. The overall approach is empirical rather than mechanistic, acknowledging at the same time the sedentary nature of most plants and the central role of neighbouring plants. { 151pp, 155x240mm, December 2005; PB, £15.00, 8779341160:9788779341166 , Aarhus University Press } |
| EXCAVATIONS AT BEIDHA : The Natufian Encampment at Beidha [Brian F Byrd (ed)] { 126pp, December 1989; HB, £13.75, 8772880546:9788772880549 , Aarhus University Press } |
| EXCAVATIONS AT TEPE GURAN IN LURISTAN : The Bronze Age & Iron Age Periods [Henrik Thrane] Luristan in Western Iran was largely inaccessible to foreigners until the early 1960s when a new road linking the Great Khorasan Road with Susiana or Elam was built by the Danish engineering firm, Kampsax. This volume presents the settlement and tombs and graves of the centuries around 1000 BC, and includes identifications of animal and human remains, and teeth found there. { 155pp, December 2001; HB, £22.95, 8788415074:9788788415070 , Aarhus University Press } |
| FAILAKA/DILMUN -- THE SECOND MILLENNIUM SETTLEMENTS : Danish Archaeological Investigations in Kuwait -- The Bronze Age Pottery [Flemming Højlund] { 197pp, December 1987; HB, £21.25, 8772880457:9788772880457 / HB, £14.50, 8788415066:9788788415063 , Aarhus University Press } |
| FAILAKA/IKAROS -- THE HELLENISTIC SETTLEMENTS : Danish Archaeological Investigations in Kuwait -- The Hellenistic Pottery [Lise Hannestad] { 270pp, December 1985; HB, £17.50, 8788415023:9788788415025 , Aarhus University Press } |
| FAILAKA/IKAROS -- THE HELLENISTIC SETTLEMENTS, VOLUME 3 : Danish Archaeological Investigations in Kuwait -- The Sacred Enclosure in the Early Hellenistic Period [Kristian Jeppesen] { 122pp, 215x300mm, December 1990; HB, £17.75, 8772880538:9788772880532 , Aarhus University Press } |
| FAKTICITETENS IRONI : facetter af kulturrelativismens idéhistorie [Søren Christensen] Text in Danish. { 112pp, June 1995; PB, £7.50, 8772885300:9788772885308 , Aarhus University Press } |
| FAROE ISLANDS [Susanne Dybbroe, Elisabeth Vestergaard & Vagn Wåhlin (eds)] { 63pp, March 1989; PB, £7.75, 8798342401:9788798342403 , Aarhus University Press } |
| FASCISM, LIBERALISM & SOCIAL DEMOCRACY IN CENTRAL EUROPE : Past & Present [Leslie C Eliason & Lene Bøgh Sørensen (eds)] The three main currents in twentieth century political thought and practice "fascism, liberalism, and social democracy", emerged not in isolation from one another, but rather as competing and conflicting ideologies connected with particular social strata in different parts of Central Europe. That historical legacy continues to exert influence on popular perceptions and the relationship of contemporary political parties in the post-communist world. This volume of essays seeks to place the forces of Neo-Liberalism, Social Democracy, and Neo-Fascism within their historical perspective and their appeal to contemporary constituencies. In addressing the left, center, and right political elements, an international group of authors presents detailed analyses of a myriad of political options, including the skinheads and Neo-Nazis of central Europe, Hungarian Social Democracy, the Civic Forum in the Czech Republic, the party system in Slovakia, the development of FPÖ in Austria, and the Radical right in the Czech Republic. Papers also document the fall and rise of Social Democracy in the Czech Republic, the undermining of Slovak democracy, and Austrian Social Democracy before and after 1945. Concluding articles reflect on the limitations of Liberalism in Hungary and the ideology and role of socialist parties in the post-socialist milieu of Eastern-Central Europe. This book will be invaluable in providing the historical environment with an understanding of a vibrant, sometimes turbulent political arena. { 364pp, March 2002; PB, £24.95, 8772887192:9788772887197 , Aarhus University Press } |
| FATWA : Violence & Discourtesy [Mehdi Mozaffari] The Islamic term "fatwa" became known in the West after Ayatollah Khomeini's death sentence in 1989 on Salman Rushdie, the author of ‘The Satanic Verses'. Mehdi Mozaffari reviews the history of the fatwa from its origins and its evolution to the present day. He looks at the general use of fatwa in relation to Islamic rules and traces the evolution of shi'ite Islam from a pacifist and quietist movement into a militant force. In comparing Shi'a violence before and after the Islamic revolution, it can be seen that Rushdie was not the only writer to receive a fatwa. It also emerges from this study that the revolutionary violence was also effected by the economic interests of a social group, the Bazar -- a controversial point of view in contrast to the widely held belief that it was a religious revolution only. { 213pp, July 1998; PB, £11.25, 8772887761:9788772887760 , Aarhus University Press } |
| FEUD IN MEDIEVAL & EARLY MODERN EUROPE [Bjørn Poulsen & Jeppe B Netterström (eds)] We tend to think of a feud as being a long established state of hostilities, especially between families or clans, which normally manifests itself in revengeful violence. One of the articles in this volume thus states: "What began as a dispute over the property rights of a woman to whom both parties were related quickly mutated into a violent clash between men, in which honour and reputation were at stake -- and from here to a full-blown feud the distance was rather short". However, the studies of feuds presented in this publication leave no doubt that they were very different in different societies. The phenomenon of feud turns out to be intimately connected with developments in society and state. Consequently, in recent years a growing interest has been aroused in further researching the topic and the aim of this book is therefore to present some of the principal positions of this new research. Contributions by leading scholars in the field cover a large span of years, from the classic Icelandic feuds of the Sagas to more recent Early-Modern incidents. One contribution even takes us back to the roots of mankind, but the focus of the book is mainly on the Medieval and Early-Modern period. The volume is opened with a comprehensive introduction to the field, followed by a chapter that seeks general definitions. Hereafter, we are presented with specific cases of Icelandic women from the Sagas who promote feuds, studies of feuds in 14th century Marseilles, Italian Medieval vendettas, and feuding in Medieval Germany and Denmark. { 206pp, 155x240mm, November 2007; HB, £17.30, 8779341586:9788779341586 , Aarhus University Press } |
| FIELD GUIDE TO PALMS IN PAPUA NEW GUINEA -- WITH A MULTI-ACCESS KEY & NOTES ON THE GENERA [Roy Banka, Anders Barfod & John L Dowe] Within South-East Asia there are over 1,000 species of palms and two centres of diversity. Sumatra, Borneo and the Malay Peninsula constitutes one such centre. The other is the world's second largest island, New Guinea, which is estimated to have over 300 species. This guide to Papua New Guinea palms contains a multi-access key which is very flexible and easy to use even though information is sparse. It is based on 42 simple characters. For each of the 31 palm genera in Papua New Guinea the book contains notes on variation in form, distribution and use. { 79pp, June 2001; PB, £9.25, 8787600552:9788787600552 , Aarhus University Press } |
| FIGURES OF FAILURE : Paul de Man's Literary Criticism 1953-1970 [Jan Rosiek] { 248pp, March 1992; PB, £12.95, 8772884037:9788772884035 , Aarhus University Press } |
| FINS DE SIÈCLE/NEW BEGINNINGS [Ib Johansen (ed)] The turn of the 20th to the 21st century provides an excellent vista for a look into language, especially the English language, literature, cultures, economics and European studies. Several essays deal specifically with issues of the 1990s, but others provide a contrast by looking into issues of the 1890s and one looks at 1000 AD. This is an excellent book for an educated overview of what we can expect in the new century. Contributors debate the significance of the ends and beginnings of centuries and millennia and touch on the controversy over when these actually occur, the end of the 99 year or the end of the 00 year. As an example of its wide-ranging focus, literary interpretations of the millennium are analysed from the standpoint of social sciences and vice versa. The contributors were chosen not only for the quality of their individual work but for their capacity to offer unexpected new perspectives on a topical and much-debated theme. { 256pp, February 2001; PB, £15.25, 8772883820:9788772883823 , Aarhus University Press } |
| FISHING COMMUNITIES : North Atlantic Studies, 3:2 [Elisabeth Vestergaard (ed)] Looks at how the international crisis in fisheries has a profound influence on fishery-dependent communities in Atlantic Canada, Iceland, the Faroe Islands, Denmark and Sweden.The focus of the book is on fishermen's organizations and strategies for sustainable development of marginal communities. { 61pp, March 1994; PB, £7.75, 8798342436:9788798342434 , Aarhus University Press } |
| FLOWERING PLANTS OF AMAZONIAN ECUADOR : A Checklist [Henrik Balslev, Lauritz B Holm-Nielsen & Susanne S Renner] { 241pp, March 1990; PB, £9.95, 8787600315:9788787600316 , Aarhus University Press } |
| FORGOTTEN VALLEYS / LOS VALLES OLVIDADOS : Past & Present in the Utilization of Resources in the Ceja de Selva, Peru / Pasado y Presente en la Utilización de Recursos en la Ceja de Selva, Perú [Carolina Espinoza, Victor Peña, Victor Quipuscoa, Inge Schjellerup & Mikael Kamp Sørensen (eds)] Text in Spanish and English. This book on the Chilchos Valley in the north-eastern slopes of the Andes in Peru attempts to understand how human activities have changed the landscape in the montane forests during the last 500 years. Settlements and terraces from the Chachapoya and Inca cultures in the Ceja de Selva witness of an ample use un pre-Hispanic times. Later after a drastic declination of the population in the colonial period the Chilchos Valley was forgotten in hundreds of years and then rediscovered and revisited in 1900. Within the stage of rediscovering the valley new socio-cultural processes of adaptation to the environment began with migrations from the Sierra. This book is about historical ecology and environmental studies carried out in 2000-2001 by a team of archaeologists, anthropologists, botanists and geographers in north-eastern Peru. During the last five hundred years the montane forest landscapes in the Huambo valley and La meseta, the provinces of Rodriguez de Mendoza and Huallaga were modified by tribal groups, the Chachapoyas and the Inca cultures and later by the invasion of the Spaniards. Today population pressure from the highlands is the cause of the transformations of the biologically diverse cloud forest. { 444pp, September 2003; PB, £13.50, 8789384997:9788789384993 , Aarhus University Press } |
| FORWARD TO THE PAST : Continuity & Change in Political Development in Hungary, Austria, & the Czech & Slovak Republics [Leslie C Eliason & Lene Bøgh Sørensen Other contributions by Attila Agh, Gerhard Botz, Christiane Brenner, Peter Bugge, Heinz Gärtner, Eva Hahn, László Kürti, Bill Lomax, Tibor Pichler, Curt Sørensen & Lene Bøgh Sørensen (eds)] { 280pp, October 1997; HB, £23.75, 8772886528:9788772886527 , Aarhus University Press } |
| FOUILLES DANOISES Á CARTHAGE : Premier rapport préliminaire -- Les campagnes de 1975 et 1977 [Søren Dietz & Steffen Trolle (eds)] Text in French. { 148pp, November 1979; PB, £2.95, 8748002240:9788748002241 , Aarhus University Press } |
| FOUNDATION & DESTRUCTION NIKOPOLIS & NORTHWESTERN GREECE : The archaeological evidence for the city destructions, the foundation of Nikopolis & the synoecism [Jacob Isager (ed)] The Greek city of Nikopolis was founded by Octavian (later known as the Emperor Augustus) after his victory in the naval battle of nearby Actium in 31 BC. The city was a result of a so-called synoecism, i.e., the inhabitants of numerous Greek cities in the region (Epirus, Acharnania and Aetolia) were forced to leave their former dwellings and establish themselves in the newly built city, which became the capital of the coastal region. Since 1987 a joint Greek-American archaeological and geological Nikopolis project has registered, conserved and restored monuments inside and outside the city and conducted a survey of Southern Epirus aiming at understanding the changing relationship between humans and landscape. The main issue has been the impact of the new metropolis in the region and to what extent the towns included in the synoecism were actually left uninhabited. { 277pp, 210x280mm, March 2001; PB, £22.95, 8772887346:9788772887340 , Aarhus University Press } |
| FRAGMENTS OF LEGAL COGNITION [Stig Jørgensen] { 60pp, December 1988; PB, £7.50, 8772881836:9788772881836 , Aarhus University Press } |
| FRAMING & FICTION : Studies in the Rhetoric of Novel, Interpretation & History [Morten Kyndrup] { 512pp, September 1992; PB, £12.00, 8772884150:9788772884158 , Aarhus University Press } |
| FROM FORAGER TO FARMER IN FLINT : A Lithic Analysis of the Prehistoric Transition to Agriculture in Southern Scandinavia [Michael Stafford] The transition from foraging to farming in prehistoric Denmark has been a topic of debate over the past sixty years. Michael Stafford contributes to this discussion via an analysis of stone tools from several well-known sites in Denmark spanning the transition to agriculture. Results of this analysis are applied to several |