... and the history of the Roman aristocracy could become fundamentally the same. Life of Melania the Younger Rome late antiquity Melania the Younger Pinian property inheritance Serena empress wealth genealogy Paula aristocracy Basilica Constantiniana Constantine Eusebius Liber Pontificalis fastigium...

...This chapter discusses the key findings of the second section of this book about the genealogical travel writings of the Hadramis. The focus of this section is mainly on the Hadrami sayyids who combined their genealogies with other textual genres such as mysticism, history, and law. This chapter...

...This chapter examines Ahmad al-Junayd's localist project of restoring the houses, mosques, and graves of the ancestors in Tarim. It discusses his other work of writing manuals that could guide pilgrims in and around Tarim graves. It suggests that this is an example genealogy acquiring a bending...

...This chapter traces the genealogy of one critical transnational regime of care—what has been called the “new humanitarianism,” referring to the movement of sans-frontière-isme that started with Médecins sans Frontières in 1971. The chapter suggests that, in practice, this shift...

...This chapter focuses on visual hermeneutics and the genealogy of Liu Yuan, entitled Lingyan ge. It describes the rare and unusual picture book designed in the mid-1660s by Liu Yuan and argues that the practices of reading, especially those adapted to the recto–verso leaf...

... tantra esotericization of Aṣṭasāhasrikā Prajnāpāramitā sūtra book cult interactive book history of book word and image material culture genealogy of Buddhist manuscripts Therefore then, Ānanda, aspirants to awakening [i.e., followers of the Mahāyāna], aspirants to what is great who want to obtain...

...This chapter focuses on performative primitives in Africa. It examines how the Bushmen have become caught up in a dance that contains steps of their own devising but is at the same time staged by colonialism. It explains that performance is very much part of the ideological genealogy of the people...

...While Maliki commentators in postclassical Andalusia did not need to demonstrate knowledge of and personal connection to the genealogy of a canonical collection of hadith to be authorized to interpret it, a scholar’s genealogy became an important prerequisite for aspiring commentators in the late...

... by claiming a landscape. The association of certain kinds of space with particular divinities allowed new and fragile communities to recognize their landscape as protected by the gods. Genealogy is the earliest form of Greek historiography. boundaries bodily kinship Athenian kleroi land allotments kinship...

...This chapter examines two Hadrami travel texts written in Gujarat and Mecca. These writings, viewed together with other Hadrami texts, form a canon which evolved with the movement of the Hadrami diaspora across the Indian Ocean. A continuing thread through this evolution was the genealogy form...

...This chapter sums up the key findings of this study on genealogy and mobility across the Indian Ocean related to the Hadrami diaspora. It explains that Hadrami sayyid names did not stay within small locales but are distributed and recognized across the Indian Ocean and that the Hadrami genealogies...

.... Broadening the typology presented in chapter 7, this chapter also argues for a wider genealogy of redaction, extending beyond the typographic deletion marker to such markers of deletion as the common image of the covered kiss. censorship calls for reform of system prepublication manuscripts redaction marks...

... by genealogy. The Qing structure was quite different, particularly before the nineteenth century. The lingering centralities and marginalities of the Ming period remained identifiable, and many regions vigorous, beneath the formal, newly historicized hierarchies of the Qing conquest. Avars ethnicity Kitans...

...This chapter discusses the presence of Czernowitz on the web. It reveals that a Czernowitz-related internet mailing list was formed, due to people who were interested in genealogy and the search for family roots and connections related to the Jewish community of Czernowitz. The chapter...

...This chapter explores the actual process of genealogy compilation in the Jiangsu-Zhejiang area in China during the Qing and Republican periods. It investigates how and how often genealogies were compiled, who collected the necessary information and edited the texts, how genealogies were funded...

..., and recent social changes. In addition to being an ethnographic study, it is also an experiment in communication among three discourses: the cosmopolitan disciplines of history and the social sciences, the Chinese discourse of ethnology and ethnohistory, and the Yi folk discourse of genealogy and ritual...

...This chapter examines the concept of genre through an array of theoretical lenses. The first point is that music genres are relational: they are defined by their similarity to and difference from other genres. The chapter then advocates for a genealogical approach to history...

... Reconstruction as an archive of censorship Nakano Eizō fuseji deletion redaction negation historicization historicity archeology genealogy critique of positivism Epigraph: This eloquent epigraph, an epitaph for unknown thoughts eradicated from the battlefield of discourse, conveys a commonsense notion...

...This chapter explores the impact of the genealogical understandings of Hadrami travel writings on the conduct of kinship and marriage relations in the Malay Archipelago, both among Hadramis and between Hadramis and non-Hadramis. It explains that genealogy provides a conceptual bridge between...

... of the new nations out of imperial tutelage to the process of evictions. The chapter suggests that these evictions can be recounted in a language of names, which is perhaps a fitting way to end our account of genealogy and mobility across the Indian Ocean. Cold War Diaspora Hadrami Indian Mutiny 1857–1858...