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Ein Compendium sumerisch-akkadischer Beschwörungen
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Year: 2008 Publisher: Göttingen : Universitätsverlag Göttingen,

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Magisches Denken und Handeln gehört zu den augenfälligsten Charakteristika der altorientalischen Kultur: Bedrohungen des Menschen, insbesondere durch Krankheiten, werden durch das Auftreten und Agieren von Dämonen verursacht. Diese können aber mit Hilfe des Gottes Enki (Ea) und seines Sohnes Asalluhi (Marduk) abgewehrt werden. Die hier rekonstruierte Sammlung von 21 sumerischen und sumerisch-akkadischen Beschwörungen bildet einen Querschnitt durch die Ritualpraktiken zur Reinigung und Heilung von Kranken, die diesem Götterkreis zuzuordnen ist. Die Textherstellung basiert im wesentlichen auf Manuskripten aus der Bibliothek Assurbanipals in Ninive (7. Jahrhundert v. Chr.), die Beschwörungen gehen jedoch zum Teil auf frühere Niederschriften aus dem 2. Jahrtausend v. Chr. zurück. Die Ausgabe enthält in beträchtlichem Umfang erstmals publiziertes Material und leistet so einen Beitrag zur Rekonstruktion der religiösen Literatur des Alten Orients.

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Orientalism
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ISBN: 0582423864 Year: 2002 Publisher: London : Longman,

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Chapter Afterword. Notes on Rereading and Re-enacting "China"
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Year: 2022 Publisher: Florence : Firenze University Press,

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In Europe, the historical representation and narration of China and the Orient more in general from an outsider's point of view has conjured up an exotic and a-historical image of a poetical, mystical and refined civilization. In Walpole's Britain, for example, "the argument from the Chinese"-namely, the admiration for a prosperous and densely populated kingdom which did not belong to a single faith-was frequently used in religious disputes when claiming a wider or more coherent policy of tolerance or seeking to cut down the prerogatives of the clerical hierarchies. This chapter explores further Western uses of "the argument from the Chinese" in modern times and through different media (Antonioni; Yanne; Martin).

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Henri Lenaerts : [Exposition] 29. April-29. Mai 1976, Belgisches Haus, Köln
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Year: 1976 Publisher: [Köln] : [Belgisches Haus],

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A global history of ginseng : imperialism, modernity and orientalism
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ISBN: 9781032261416 9781032261423 Year: 2022 Publisher: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge,

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"Sul's history of the international ginseng trade reveals the cultural aspects of international capitalism and the impact of this single commodity on relations between East and West. Ginseng emerged as a major international commodity in the seventeenth century, when the East India Company began trading it westward. Europeans were drawn to the plant's efficacy as a medicine, but their attempts to transplant it for mass production was unsuccessful. Also, due to a failure of extracting its active ingredients, western pharmacology disparaged ginseng in the process of modernization. In the meantime ginseng was discovered on the American continent and became one of the United States' key exports to Asia and particularly China, but never cultivated a significant domestic market. As such, studying the ginseng trade provides a unique perspective both on the impact of culture, as well as economics, on international trade. A compelling interdisciplinary history over five centuries of east-west trade and cultural exchange, invaluable to students and scholars of transnational history, and a fascinating read for anyone interested in the history of international trade"--


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Restating Orientalism : a critique of modern knowledge
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ISBN: 9780231187626 0231187629 Year: 2018 Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press,

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"Edward Said's Orientalism not only inaugurated a new and highly controversial arena of discourse but also set the terms of debate around knowledge, power, and imperialism since 1978, when the book first appeared. The substance of discussions remains extensively political, limited to the so-called problem of knowledge and power and the complicity of Orientalism in the larger project of colonialism. One of the many critiques was that Said was too sweeping in his condemnation of Orientalists, leaving no analytical space for distinguishing degrees of difference between one scholar and another. Thus any scholar who depicts Islam negatively or too positively is an Orientalist, the former a bigot of some sort and the latter an exoticizer. Restating Orientalism offers an alternative account that accepts and transcends political thought and positioning while avoiding the totalization of authorial condemnation in Said's narrative. Hallaq reopens the problem of power and knowledge to an ethical critique, asking such questions as: What makes certain forms of knowledge useful to power, and what kind of cultural configurations exist in the world in which knowledge and power have virtually no relationship with each other? Refusing to isolate or scapegoat Orientalism, the book extends the critique to other academic fields, tracing their involvement in colonialism and genocide to a seventeenth- and eighteenth- century structure of thought whose most salient characteristic was a type of domination anchored in sovereignty over life and death. Orientalism, Hallaq argues, is no more an exception to liberal and modern forms of knowledge than genocide in general was an exception in modernity, but rather is the truest representation of modern sovereign capabilities"--


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Berlioz, Flaubert et l'Orient
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ISBN: 9782847424904 Year: 2022 Publisher: Paris ; New York : Le Passage,

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«Voilà un homme ! et un vrai artiste !» écrit Flaubert à la lecture de la correspondance inédite de Berlioz, ajoutant : «Que ne l’ai-je mieux connu, je l’aurais adoré !» Berlioz et Flaubert n’ont pas eu le temps de nouer ne longue amitié. Ils se rencontrent seulement en 1863 : le musicien enthousiasmé par Salammbô y a consacré un passage dithyrambique de sa Revue musicale de décembre 1862. Tandis que l’écrivain veut faire adapter son roman pour l’opéra, le compositeur est occupé par la préparation des Troyens. Mais il sollicite le romancier car il a besoin de «quelques conseils pour les costumes phéniciens et carthaginois.» Amis posthumes en quelque sorte, Flaubert et Berlioz ont accordé à l’Orient une place similaire dans leurs œuvres et leurs aspirations. Contemporains de l’orientalisme romantique, de la vogue des féeries et des grandes mises en scène orientalisantes, ils ont à leur tour apporté leur contribution à une rénovation de ses formes et de ses thèmes.


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Pierre Loti ve oryantalist söylem
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ISBN: 9758867318 Year: 2005 Volume: 25. Publisher: Konya Cizgi Kitabevi

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Victor Segalen : la connaissance de l'Est
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ISBN: 9791037031716 Year: 2023 Publisher: Editions Hermann

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"Poète, écrivain, voyageur, archéologue et médecin de marine, Victor Segalen (1878-1919) est l'un des témoins majeurs du tropisme extrême-oriental qui traverse la littérature française au début du XXe siècle. Sa poésie, ses textes romanesques, ses récits de voyage disent à quel point l'empire chinois finissant fut pour lui une source d'inspiration. Mais de quel Orient nous parle Segalen, et qu'allait-il y chercher ? Quelle est la nature profonde de cette connaissance de l'Est que, dans le sillage de Paul Claudel, il semblait si soucieux d'approfondir ? Des sinologues, des critiques, des lecteurs, tous attachés par un lien fort à l'un des aspects de son œuvre, tentent ici de répondre à ces questions."--Page 4 of cover.


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L'orient, le tantrisme et la psychologie des profondeurs
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ISBN: 9782846721745 2846721742 Year: 2009 Publisher: Cordes-sur-Ciel : R. de Surtis,

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