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Signs and symbols. --- Symbolic dynamics. --- Liangzhu culture. --- Neolithic period --- Dynamics, Symbolic --- Differentiable dynamical systems --- Representation, Symbolic --- Semeiotics --- Signs --- Symbolic representation --- Symbols --- Abbreviations --- Omens --- Semiotics --- Sign language --- Symbolism --- Visual communication

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Selves Engraved on Stone explores the ways in which multiple aspects of identity were constructed through the material, visual, and textual characteristics of personal seals from ancient Mesopotamia and Syria in the latter half of the 2nd millennium BCE. Typically carved in stone, the cylinder seal is perhaps the most distinctive art form to emerge in ancient Mesopotamia. It spread across the Near East from ca. 3300 BCE onwards, and remained in use for millennia. What was the role of this intricate object in the making of a person's social identity? As the first comprehensive study dedicated to this question, Selves Engraved on Stone explores the ways in which different but often intersecting aspects of identity, such as religion, gender, community and profession, were constructed through the material, visual, and textual characteristics of seals from Mesopotamia and Syria.

Identity (Psychology) --- Seals (Numismatics) --- Signs and symbols --- Representation, Symbolic --- Semeiotics --- Signs --- Symbolic representation --- Symbols --- Abbreviations --- Omens --- Semiotics --- Sign language --- Symbolism --- Visual communication --- Sigillography --- Signets --- Sphragistics --- Diplomatics --- Glyptics --- Heraldry --- History --- Inscriptions --- Intaglios --- Numismatics --- Emblems, National --- Signatures (Writing) --- Personal identity --- Personality --- Self --- Ego (Psychology) --- Individuality --- Islamic Empire --- Social aspects --- Coins, Ancient --- Coins, Ancient. --- Identity (Psychology). --- Seals (Numismatics). --- Social conditions. --- Social aspects. --- Middle East --- Middle East.

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"The Racial Railroad argues the train has been a persistent and crucial site for racial meaning-making in American culture for the past 150 years. This book examines the complex intertwining of race and railroad in literary works, films, visual media, and songs from a variety of cultural traditions in order to highlight the surprisingly central role that the railroad has played - and continues to play - in the formation and perception of racial identity and difference in the United States. Despite the fact that the train has often been an instrument of violence and exclusion, this book shows that it is also ingrained in the imaginings of racialized communities, often appearing as a sign of resistance. The significance of this book is threefold. First, it is the only book that I'm aware of that examines the train multivalently: as a technology, as a mode of transportation, as a space that blurs the line between public and private, as a form of labor, and as a sign. Second, it takes a multiracial approach to cultural narratives concerning the railroad and racial identity, which bolsters my claim about the pervasiveness of the railroad in narratives of race. It signifies across all racial groups. The meaning of that signification may be radically different depending upon the community's own history, but it nevertheless means something. Finally, The Racial Railroad reveals the importance of place in discussions of race and racism. Focusing on the experiences of racialized bodies in relation to the train - which both creates and destroys places - secures a presence for those marginalized subjects. These authors use the train to reveal how race defines the spatial logics of the nation even as their bodies are often deliberately hidden or obscured from public view"--

Race relations. --- United States. --- États-Unis --- United States --- Relations raciales. --- Representation symbolique. --- Symbolic representation. --- African American literature. --- American exceptionalism. --- Anna Julia Cooper. --- Asian American literature. --- Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad. --- Blues. --- Bong Joon-ho. --- C. Pam Zhang. --- Charles “Cow Cow Davenport”. --- Chinese American railroad worker. --- Chinese railroad worker. --- Chinese railroad workers. --- Colson Whitehead. --- Corky Lee. --- David Henry Hwang. --- Elizabeth Cotton. --- First Transcontinental Railroad. --- Frank Chin. --- Gertrude “Ma” Rainey. --- James Weldon Johnson. --- Jaque Fragua. --- Jim Crow. --- La Bestia. --- Lin-Manuel Miranda. --- Maxine Hong Kingston. --- Modernity. --- Narrative. --- Peter Ho Davies. --- Promontory Summit, Utah. --- Race. --- Railroad. --- Ralph Ellison. --- Tomás Whitmore. --- US railroad. --- W.E.B. Du Bois. --- Willa Cather. --- Zhi Lin. --- carcerality. --- champagne photograph. --- golden spike. --- landscape painting. --- manifest destiny. --- memoir. --- neoslave narrative. --- segregation. --- settler colonialism. --- sinophobia. --- slave narrative. --- speculative fiction. --- underground railroad. --- visual culture. --- “Immigrants (We Get the Job Done)”.