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The fourth volume in the Amheida series, ''Ain el-Gedida: 2006-2008 Excavations of a Late Antique Site in Egypt's Western Desert' presents the systematic record and interpretation of the archaeological evidence from the excavations at 'Ain el-Gedida, a fourth-century rural settlement in Egypt's Dakleh Oasis uniquely important for the study of early Egyptian Christianity and previously known only from written sources.0Nicola Aravecchia (Washington University), the Deputy Field Director of NYU's Amheida Excavations, offers a history of the site and its excavations, followed by an integrated topographical and archaeological interpretation of the site and its significance for the history of Christianity in Egypt. In the second half of the volume a team of international experts presents catalogs and interpretations of the archaeological finds, including ceramics (Delphine Dixneuf, CRNS), coins (David M. Ratzan, NYU), ostraca and graffiti (Roger S. Bagnall, NYU and Dorota Dzierzbicka, University of Warsaw), small finds (Dorota Dzierzbicka, University of Warsaw), and zooarcheological remains (Pamela J. Crabtree, NYU and Douglas Campana).

Excavations (Archaeology) --- Western Desert (Egypt) --- Antiquities. --- Dakhla Oasis (Egypt)

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First published in 1986, Lila Abu-Lughod's Veiled Sentiments has become a classic ethnography in the field of anthropology. During the late 1970s and early 1980s, Abu-Lughod lived with a community of Bedouins in the Western Desert of Egypt for nearly two years, studying gender relations, morality, and the oral lyric poetry through which women and young men express personal feelings. The poems are haunting, the evocation of emotional life vivid. But Abu-Lughod's analysis also reveals how deeply implicated poetry and sentiment are in the play of power and the maintenance of social hierarchy. What begins as a puzzle about a single poetic genre becomes a reflection on the politics of sentiment and the complexity of culture. This thirtieth anniversary edition includes a new afterword that reflects on developments both in anthropology and in the lives of this community of Awlad 'Ali Bedouins, who find themselves increasingly enmeshed in national political and social formations. The afterword ends with a personal meditation on the meaning-for all involved-of the radical experience of anthropological fieldwork and the responsibilities it entails for ethnographers.

Bedouins --- Folk poetry, Arabic --- Arabic poetry --- Bedouins --- Honor --- Sex customs --- Women, Bedouin --- Social life and customs. --- History and criticism. --- Bedouin authors --- History and criticism. --- anthropologist. --- anthropology. --- bedouin. --- community of awlad ali bedouins. --- egypt. --- ethnographic studies. --- ethnography. --- gender relations. --- international relations. --- morality. --- poems. --- poetry collection. --- sentimental. --- social normality. --- travelers. --- western desert.

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"A World of Relationships is an ethnographical account of the cultural use and social potential of dreams among Aboriginal groups of the Australian Western Desert. The outcome of fieldwork conducted in the area in the 1980s and 1990s, it was originally published in French as Les jardins du nomade: Cosmologie, territoire et personne dans le desert occidental australien." "In her study, Sylvie Poirier explores the contemporary Aboriginal system of knowledge and law through an analysis of the relationships between the ancestral order, the 'sentient' land, and human agencies. At the ethnographical and analytical levels, particular attention is given to a range of local narratives and stories, and to the cultural construction of individual experiences."--Jacket

Aboriginal Australians --- Mythology, Aboriginal Australian --- Dreamtime (Aboriginal Australian mythology) --- Aboriginals, Australian --- Aborigines, Australian --- Australian aboriginal people --- Australian aboriginals --- Australian aborigines --- Australians, Aboriginal --- Australians, Native (Aboriginal Australians) --- Native Australians (Aboriginal Australians) --- Ethnology --- Indigenous peoples --- Alchera (Aboriginal Australian mythology) --- Alcheringa (Aboriginal Australian mythology) --- Dream-time (Aboriginal Australian mythology) --- Dreaming, The (Aboriginal Australian mythology) --- Dreamtime (Australian aboriginal mythology) --- The dreaming (Aboriginal Australian mythology) --- Aboriginal Australian mythology --- Australian mythology --- Mythology, Australian aboriginal --- Social life and customs. --- Religion --- Religion, Primitive --- Atheism --- Irreligion --- Religions --- Theology --- Dreaming --- Dreams --- Australiens (Aborigènes) --- Mythologie australienne (aborigène) --- Temps du rêve (Mythologie australienne aborigène) --- Rêves --- Anthropologie sociale et culturelle --- Western Desert (W.A.) --- Occidental, Désert (Austr.-Occ.) --- Moeurs et coutumes --- Moeurs et coutumes.