"Outlines the complex significance of bodies in the late Medieval central Arab Islamic lands. Did you know that blue eyes, baldness, bad breath and boils were all considered bodily 'blights' by Medieval Arabs, as were cross eyes, lameness and deafness? What assumptions about bod…
"Explores various methods archaeologists use to identify ritual in the material record and discusses the influence it had on the formation, reproduction, and transformation of community in past Andean societies. How ritual influenced, permeated, and altered political authority, …
"German and Jewish ways of life have been interwoven in Worms, Germany, for over a thousand years. Despite radical changes brought about by expulsion of Jews, wartime devastation, social advancement, cultural and religious renewal, and the Jewish community's destruction during t…
