A traitor among us: the story of Father Yusuf Akbulut : a text in the Ṭuroyo dialect of ʿIwardo
In: Semitica viva Band 56
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In: Semitica viva Band 56
In: Testi del vicino oriente antico
In: 6, Letteratura ebraica e aramaica 3
" 'If you want to know who you are and where you come from, follow the maíz.' That was the advice given to author Roberto Cintli Rodriguez when he was investigating the origins and migrations of Mexican peoples in the Four Corners region of the United States. Follow it he did, and his book Our Sacred Maíz Is Our Mother changes the way we look at Mexican Americans. Not so much peoples created as a result of war or invasion, they are people of the corn, connected through a seven-thousand-year old maíz culture to other Indigenous inhabitants of the continent. Using corn as the framework for discussing broader issues of knowledge production and history of belonging, the author looks at how corn was included in codices and Mayan texts, how it was discussed by elders, and how it is represented in theater and stories as a way of illustrating that Mexicans and Mexican Americans share a common culture. Rodriguez brings together scholarly and traditional (elder) knowledge about the long history of maíz/corn cultivation and culture, its roots in Mesoamerica, and its living relationship to Indigenous peoples throughout the continent, including Mexicans and Central Americans now living in the United States. The author argues that, given the restrictive immigration policies and popular resentment toward migrants, a continued connection to maíz culture challenges the social exclusion and discrimination that frames migrants as outsiders and gives them a sense of belonging not encapsulated in the idea of citizenship. The "hidden transcripts" of corn in everyday culture--art, song, stories, dance, and cuisine (maíz-based foods like the tortilla)--have nurtured, even across centuries of colonialism, the living maíz culture of ancient knowledge. "--
In: Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 327
In: Culture and history of the ancient Near East 54
In: Remnant stones: the Jewish cemeteries of Suriname 1
In: Biblical and Judaic studies from the University of California, San Diego volume 10
Lisbeth S. Fried's insightful study investigates the impact of Achaemenid rule on the political power of local priesthoods during the 6th-4th centuries B.C.E. Scholars typically assume that, as long as tribute was sent to Susa, the capital of the Achaemenid Empire, subject peoples remained autonomous. Fried's work challenges this assumption. She examines the inscriptions, coins, temple archives, and literary texts from Babylon, Egypt, Asia Minor, and Judah and concludes that there was no local autonomy. The only people with power in the Empire were Persians and their appointees, and this was true for Judah as well. The Judean priesthood achieved its longed-for independence only much later, under the Maccabees
In: Handbuch der Orientalistik
In: China Vol. 15
In: Handbook of Christianity in China Vol. 1
In: Handbuch der Orientalistik
In: Der Nahe und der Mittlere Osten Bd. 19
In: Abhandlungen zur Literatur Alt-Syrien-Palästinas 6
In: Handbuch der Orientalistik
In: Japan
In: Staat, Staatsdenken
In: Rechtswesen Teil 1
In: Handbuch der Orientalistik
In: Der Nahe und der Mittlere Osten
In: Geschichte der islamischen Länder
In: Regierung und Verwaltung des Vorderen Orients in islamischer Zeit Teil 2
In: Handbuch der Orientalistik
In: Der Nahe und der Mittlere Osten
In: Geschichte der islamischen Länder
In: Regierung und Verwaltung des Vorderen Orients in islamischer Zeit Teil 1