Oriental societies and societal self-assertion : associations, funds and societies for the archaeological exploration of the 'Ancient Near East' / edited by Thomas L. Gertzen and Olaf Matthes.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gertzen, Thomas L., editor.

Matthes, Olaf, 1965- editor.

Series:

Investigatio orientis ; 2698-1904 Bd. 10.

Investigatio orientis : Beiträge zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte der Orientalistik, 2698-1904 ; Band 10

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Excavations (Archaeology)--Middle East--History.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Archaeology--Societies, etc.

Archaeology.

Middle East--Antiquities.

Middle East.

Antiquities.

Genre:

History

Physical Description:

323 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps, portraits, facsimiles ; 25 cm.

Other Title:

Associations, funds and societies for the archaeological exploration of the 'Ancient Near East'

Place of Publication:

Münster : Zaphon, 2024.

Contents:

Europe and the Orient: Bourgeois Scholarship and Imperial Sense of Mission in the Long 19th Century / Christoph Jahr. Part 1. Early Encounters. The Rise and Fall of the Società Asiatica Italiana / Marco Bonechi

The Motivations of the Palestine Exploration Fund: Hidden and not-so Hidden Agenda at Work in a Learned Society in the Late 19th Century / Felicity Cobbing

The "Assyrian Society" and the Early Exploration of Ancient Mesopotamia / Stefania Ermidoro. Part II. Imperial Self-Reflections. The Sichem Committee: A Case Study of Dutch Private Sponsorship of Near Eastern Archaeology / Sebastiaan R.L. Berntsen

Oriental Societies and Hittite Studies in Victorian England: Tracing the History of an Entangled Relationship / Silvia Alaura

Babylon Society, a Private Japanese Association in the Early Years of the 20th Century / Reiko Maejima. Part III. Egyptian Stakeholders. The Fondation Égyptologique Reine Élisabeth in Belgium and the Creation of National and Transnational Egyptological Research Infrastructures in the 1920s-1940s / Marleen De Meyer, Jean-Michel Bruffaerts and Jan Vandersmissen

Fundraising for Amarna: Evidence from the EES Archive / Stephanie L. Boonstra

Jews excavating in Egypt? An Archaeological Endeavour of the Centralverein deutscher Staatsbürger jüdischen Glaubens / Thomas L. Gertzen. Part IV. Absences and Adaptions. Hungarian Archaeological Presence and Absence in Egypt and the ORient at the End of the Long 19th Century and during the Interwar Period / Katalin A. Kóthay

Bohemian Absences: The Academy of Sciences in Prague and the Network of European Institutions Involved in Archaeological Research in Egypt in the 1900s / Hana Navratilova

From Wish to Reality: The Foundation and Early Years of the Netherlands Institute for the Near East (NINO) / Willemijn Waal

The Ancient Near East and Egypt in the Netherlands: Overview of Dutch Societies and Initiatives in the 19th and 20th Century / Carolien H. van Zoest

Financing Babylon: The German Oriental Society and its Funding System / Olaf Matthes.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9783963272486

3963272481

OCLC:

1447092083

Publisher Number:

9783963272486