Even today the academic world often rejects the different manifestations of contemporary popular culture as a source of study in many subjects of the humanities. In the fields of history and archaeology its role is, however, fundamental to the framework of research into cultural reception. In this respect, as defined by Sonna and Illarraga (2016: 9-10):Cines, series, películas, …
Thus, the fictional ‘Doctor Nosidy, scientist, mesmerist, thought- reader, and electrician’, begins his experiments into communicating with the ‘brain- ether’ of the ancient Egyptian dead.2‘The Strange Discovery of Doctor Nosidy’ is the first of several short stories that make up a collection of tales entitled The Story Hunter: or tales of the weird and wild (1896) by the B…
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This is a book about how knowledge travels, in minds and bodies, writ-ings and performances. It explores the forms knowledge takes, the mean-ings it accrues and how they are shaped by the peoples and places that use it. This is also a book about the relationships between political power, family ties and literate scholarship in the ancient Middle East of the first millennium bc (see Tables 3a…
This collaboratively authored work, much like the object that has inspired it, is nonlinear and modular. It has been compiled together from several smaller component parts. We invite you to read this book accordingly. We have provided a series of experimental readings — just a few of what we be-lieve to be the numerous explorations of the creative possibilitie…
The man who owned twenty millions still smiled imperturbably. "Oh, yes, I know what you mean, but I'm not crazy. And really I'm interested in genealogy, too, and I've been thinking for some time I'd go digging about the roots of my ancestral tree. I have dug a little, in years gone. My mother was a Blaisdell, you know. Her grandfather was brother to some ancestor of these Hillerton Blaisdells;…
‘Yes, ma’am.’ Nancy stifled a sigh. She was wondering if ever in any way she could please this woman. Nancy had never ‘worked out’ before; but a sick mother suddenly widowed and left with three younger children besides Nancy herself, had forced the girl into doing something toward their support, and she had been so pleased when she found a place in the kitchen of the great house on th…