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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809679603321

Autore

Pini Nicolò <1989->

Titolo

Arab settlements : tribal structures and spatial organizations in the Middle East between Hellenistic and early Islamic periods / / Nicolò Pini

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, England : , : Archaeopress Publishing Limited, , [2019]

©2019

ISBN

1-78969-362-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (270 pages)

Disciplina

939.4

Soggetti

Arabs - Middle East - History

Middle East Antiquities

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Table of contents -- List of figures -- List of plates -- Preface -- Part 1: Methodology and Theory -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Anthropological background and terminology -- 2.1: Nomadism and pastoral societies -- 2.2: Tribalism and segmented societies -- 2.3: "Arabs": the challenge of distinguishing between external labels and self-definitions -- Chapter 3: Typology -- 3.1: The "Settlement" level -- 3.2: The "Quarter" level -- 3.3: The "Block" level -- 3.4: The "house" level -- Part 2: Comparative Analysis -- Chapter 4: The case studies -- 4.1: The southern Hauran (Jordan) -- 4.1.1: Umm el-Jimal -- 4.1.2: Umm es-Surab -- 4.2: The Central Hauran (Syria) -- 4.2.1: Sharah -- 4.2.2: Mseikeh -- 4.3: The Negev -- 4.3.1: Shivta (Sobata/Soubaita) -- 4.3.2: Mamshit (Mampsis/Kurnub) -- Chapter 5: Regionalism and Transregional patterns -- Chapter 6: The "test" case-studies - The Central Jordanian Plateau -- 6.1: Tall Hisban -- 6.2: Umm er-Rasas -- Part 3: Archaeological data in the bigger picture -- Chapter 7: The regional historical context -- 7.1: The Desert and the Sown -- 7.2: Brothers in arms -- 7.3: Defended by the saints -- 7.4: A "Kaleidoscope of identities" -- 7.5: The "ruralisation" of the spatial model of the urban space -- Chapter 8: Arab settlements or settlements of the "Arabs"? -- References -- Abbreviations -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- Plates.



Sommario/riassunto

How can the built environment help in the understanding of social and economic changes involving ancient local communities? Arab Settlements aims to shed light on the degree to which economic and political changes affected social and identity patterns in the regional context from the Nabatean through to the Umayyad and Abbasid periods.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910957146103321

Titolo

Perspectives on multimodality / / edited by Eija Ventola, Cassily Charles, Martin Kaltenbacher

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., c2004

ISBN

9786613280138

9781283280136

1283280132

9789027275158

9027275157

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (259 p.)

Collana

Document design companion series, , 1568-1963 ; ; v. 6

Classificazione

AP 15000

Altri autori (Persone)

VentolaEija

CharlesCassily

KaltenbacherMartin <1966->

Disciplina

401/.41

Soggetti

Semiotics

Modality (Linguistics)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Multimodal issues -- pt. 2. Analyses and applications.

Sommario/riassunto

This volume sign posts several paths of multimodality research and theory-building today. The chapters represent a cross-section of current perspectives on multimodal discourse with a special focus on theoretical and methodological issues (mode hierarchies, modeling semiotic resources as multiple semiotic systems, multimodal corpus annotation). In addition, it discusses a wide range of applications for multimodal description in fields like mathematics, entertainment,



education, museum design, medicine and translation.