Author: Stephen Mitchell
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: anatolia, impact, roman, rule, celts, amp, minor, land, men, gods, asia, volume
Number of Pages: 266
Published: 1995-08-24
List price: $85.00
ISBN-10: 0198150296
ISBN-13: 9780198150299

This is the first comprehensive study of the history of Asia Minor in antiquity to be written for nearly fifty years and the first attempt to treat Anatolian history as a whole over the millennium from the time of Alexander the Great to the peak of the Byzantine Empire. The first volume is in two parts. The first examines the region in the Hellenistic period, when it was dominated by Celtic tribes who settled in the interior of Asia Minor in the first half of the third century B.C. The second covers the period of the Roman Empire and looks in detail at the changes brought about by imperial rul

Author: Peter Davies
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: anatolia, kilims, antique
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2000-10
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 0393730476
ISBN-13: 9780393730470

The authoritative account of the acclaimed and collectible kilims, the tribal flatwoven rugs of Turkey. From fleece, yarn, dyeing, looms, and weaves, to the visual language, tribal weavers, and meaning, origins, and aesthetics of the kilim, this book provides an ideal summary of the subject. It is illustrated with over 80 colorful examples, fine ethnographic photographs, and drawings that explain structural features and designs. 80 color and 70 black-and-white illustrations. Originally published in a previous edition as The Tribal Eye)

Authors:Time-Life Books, Dale Brown,
Publisher: Time Life Medical
Keywords: civilizations, lost, cultures, cauldron, anatolia
Number of Pages: 168
Published: 1995-09
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0809491087
ISBN-13: 9780809491087

Author: Vahakn N. Dadrian
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Keywords: balkans, anatolia, caucasus, conflict, ethnic, armenian, genocide, history
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 2004-02
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1571816666
ISBN-13: 9781571816665

The Armenian Genocide, though not given such prominent treatment as the Jewish Holocaustwhich it precedes, still haunts the Western world and has assumed a new significance in the light of "ethnic cleansing" in Bosnia. This study by the most distinguished scholar of the Armenian tragedy offers an authoritative analysis by presenting it as a case study of genocide and by seeing it as an historical process in which a domestic conflict escalated and was finally consumed by global war.

Author: Ethel Sara Wolper
Publisher: Pennsylvania State Univ
Keywords: space, medieval, anatolia, urban, transformation, saints, sufism, cities
Number of Pages: 134
Published: 2003-12-02
List price: $76.95
ISBN-10: 0271022566
ISBN-13: 9780271022567

In recent years, Sufism has become all but synonymous with the mystic poetry of Jala-l al-Din Ru-mi (d. 1273) and the ritual "whirling" of dervishes from Turkey. This branch of Islam does, however, have a long, complex history, and spiritual retreat was only one aspect of its significance. In medieval Anatolia, "Cities and Saints" contends, Sufis made alliances that gave dervish lodges powers so vast that they were able to alter the layout of cities and serve as the means of forging new social bonds. Through close examination of the design and function of medieval Sufi buildings in several Ana

Author: Pamela Webb
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Keywords: islands, aegean, wisconsin, studies, classics, anatolia, western, architectural, sculpture, figural, motifs, hellenistic
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1996-10-01
List price: $60.00
ISBN-10: 0299149803
ISBN-13: 9780299149802

Sculpted figural motifs were an important component of many buildings in the Hellenistic world, and their frequent relegation to subsidiary status has, until now, left our knowledge of both Hellenistic architecture and sculpture incomplete. In Hellenistic Architectural Sculpture, Pamela A. Webb examines the full range of figural embellishmentfrom simple to complex, on large monuments as well as on more obscure ones, and in the major population centers as well as the smaller cities, sanctuaries, and isolated areas throughout western Anatolia and the Aegean islands. In this book

Author: Linda Welters
Publisher: Berg Publishers
Keywords: dress, fertility, culture, protection, anatolia, europe, folk, beliefs
Number of Pages: 243
Published: 1999-11-01
List price: $37.95
ISBN-10: 1859732879
ISBN-13: 9781859732878

Shortlisted for the Katharine Briggs Folklore Award 2000.Relationships between dress and the body have existed in European and Anatolian folk cultures well into the twentieth century. Traditional cultures have long held the belief that certain articles of dress could protect the body from harm by warding off the ’evil eye,’ bring fertility to new brides, or assure human control of supernatural powers. Ritual fringes, archaic motifs, and colors such as black and red were believed to have powerful, magical effects.This absorbing and interdisciplinary book examines dress in a broad ra