TY - BOOK ID - 118024644 TI - Perspectives on the History of Ancient Near Eastern Studies AU - Adalı, Selim Ferruh AU - Alaura, Silvia AU - Almeida, Isabel Gomes de AU - Charvát, Petr AU - Daneshmand, Parsa AU - Dassow, Eva von AU - De Graef, Katrien AU - Erol, Hakan AU - Fink, Sebastian AU - Garcia-Ventura, Agnès AU - Giammellaro, Pietro AU - Gonçalves, Carlos AU - Hollowa, Steven W AU - Kzzo, Ahmed Fatima AU - Liu, Changyu AU - Michel, Patrick Maxime AU - Pfoh, Emanuel AU - Sýkorová, Jitka AU - Verderame, Lorenzo AU - Vidal, Jordi AU - Flygare, Jakob AU - Vacin, Ludek PY - 2021 SN - 9781646020898 1646020898 9781646020874 1646020871 9781575068367 1575068362 PB - University Park, PA DB - UniCat KW - Middle East KW - Study and teaching KW - History. KW - Historiography. KW - Asia, South West KW - Asia, Southwest KW - Asia, West KW - Asia, Western KW - East (Middle East) KW - Eastern Mediterranean KW - Fertile Crescent KW - Levant KW - Mediterranean Region, Eastern KW - Mideast KW - Near East KW - Northern Tier (Middle East) KW - South West Asia KW - Southwest Asia KW - West Asia KW - Western Asia KW - Orient KW - Assyriology KW - HISTORY / Ancient / General. KW - Assyro-Babylonian studies UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:118024644 AB - The present volume collects eighteen essays exploring the history of ancient Near Eastern studies. Combining diverse approaches—synthetic and analytic, diachronic and transnational—this collection offers critical reflections on the who, why, and how of this cluster of fields. How have political contexts determined the conduct of research? How do academic agendas reflect larger social, economic, and cultural interests? How have schools of thought and intellectual traditions configured, and sometimes predetermined, the study of the ancient Near East? Contributions treating research during the Nazi and fascist periods examine the interpenetration of academic work with politics, while contributions dealing with specific national contexts disclose fresh perspectives on individual scholars as well as the conditions and institutions in which they worked. Particular attention is given to scholarship in countries such as Turkey, Portugal, Iran, China, and Spain, which have hitherto been marginal to historiographic accounts of ancient Near Eastern studies. ER -