Graduate Intensive Survey - bmc.ARCH.B602.001.F26
Section outline
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Please send me your current CV before this meeting.
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Reading
- Z. Bahrani, “Conjuring Mesopotamia: Imaginative Geography and a World Past,” in L. Meskell (ed.), Archaeology under Fire: Nationalism, Politics and Heritage in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East (London: Routledge, 1998), 159-74
- L. Meskell, “Imperialism, Internationalism, and Archaeology in the Un/Making of the Middle East,” American Anthropologist 122/3 (2020), 554–67 (already assigned in ARCH B101 for 9/2, but we’ll discuss it here too)
Supplementary Reading (to replace class on 9/4)
- T. J. Wilkinson, "Geography, Climate, Topography," in CAANE, 3-26
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Although you are not required to, I highly recommend that you watch the film Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life (1925). I've provided a link to the film through Tripod.
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This session will be run by Laura Surtees, Manager of Library Experience and Engagement. A venue will be announced in due course.
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Reading
- J. Baines, Visual and Written Culture in Ancient Egypt (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), Ch. 14 (“On the Status and Purposes of Ancient Egyptian Art”)
- D. Laboury, “Senwosret III and the issue of portraiture in ancient Egyptian art,” Cahier de recherches de l’Institut de papyrologie et d’Égyptologie de Lille 31 (2016–17), 71–84
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Please provide a citation of each of the following types of primary sources:
- A Greek or Latin historian
- A Greek or Latin orator
- A Greek or Latin poet (any genre will do)
- A book of the Hebrew Bible
- A Greek papyrus
- A Greek or Latin inscription
- An Egyptian language text or cuneiform text or any kind (optional)
Please also identify an example of each of the following, providing a full bibliographic reference (don’t bring me hard copies, please):
- Academic monograph
- Festschrift
- Conference proceeding
- Trade publication
- Museum catalog
- Archaeological report
- Peer-reviewed article
- Non-peer-reviewed article
- One thing that doesn't fit into any of these categories
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Reading
- I. J. Winter, On the Art of the Ancient Near East, II: From the Third Millennium B.C.E. (Leiden: Brill, 2010), Ch. 22 ("The Body of the Able Ruler: Toward an Understanding of the Statues of Gudea”)
- M. H. Feldman, “The Sense of Practice: A Case Study of Tablet Sealing at Nippur in the Ur III Period,” in K. Neumann and A. Thomason (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of the Senses in the Ancient Near East (London: Routledge, 2022), 17-34