Twentieth-century China experienced the collapse of its imperial system and the rise of a modern nation state. It was a century of war and revolution, as well as a time of reorientation and renewal. I
The Ngas (Angas) language is spoken by some 400,000 people on the southern escarpment of the central Nigerian Plateau (Plateau State). The historically innovative language of the Chadic Angas-Sura gro
Osaki Hachimangu (1607), located in Sendai, Japan, is one of only a handful of surviving buildings from the Momoyama period (1568?1615). The shrine is a rare example of ?lacquered architecture”?an arc
This is an original and unique collection of tales and legends from the Southern Highlands of Papua New Guinea (PNG). Recorded by a thirteen- year old boy from a small and remote rural village, the st
This volume presents a piece of the proto-lexicon of Semito-Hamitic or Afro-Asiatic, the language macrofamily with the oldest records in world history. The reconstruction of the underlying parental la
In the nineteenth and early twentieth century, the Hanseatic city of Bremen was a flourishing centre of rapidly growing international trade, profiting from colonial expansion and overseas migration. T
Founded as an episcopal city, it grew as a Hanseatic city and developed into a university city as well ? Münster has much to offer in terms of architectural history, despite severe damage during the S
Fluid materials are distinctive. They can spill, leak, mix, and dissipate. Fluids tend to movement and transformation: they bear witness to a material world in constant change. Due to their dynamic an
With a wealth of citizen organizations representing the interests of their constituents, Bolivians are known for their vivid engagement with government and democracy. At the same time, Bolivian civic
Emigré Walter Gropius started teaching at Harvard University in 1937. Eight years later he co-founded The Architects Collaborative (TAC). In this book, Koerte gives a vivid account of his encounters w
In many Ethiopian societies, occupational groups, descendants of hunters or slaves are differentiated from the societies they are part of or live next to. Until today, their ambiguous and often margin
The glossary explores and presents seventy essential and critical terms that define the textile medium as a specific form, material, technique and metaphor from antiquity to the present. It collects c
Numerous objects are kept in the storages of the Ethnologisches Museum, Berlin that were plundered from what was then known as German East Africa during the German colonial period of 1886-1918, for in
In the 1920s, architectural Modernism became the predominant form of expression for the Jewish community in Mandatory Palestine, where it gained acceptance faster than in most European countries. In T
