Making an Honorific Portrait
In: Statues and Cities, S. 243-266
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In: Statues and Cities, S. 243-266
In: Statues and Cities, S. 267-290
In: African studies, Band 12, Heft 3, S. 135-136
ISSN: 1469-2872
In: International journal of the sociology of language: IJSL, Band 1992, Heft 97, S. 87-96
ISSN: 1613-3668
In: Annals of the Constantin Brancusi University - Juridical Sciences Series, No. 1, 2011
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In: Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia archaeologica, Heft 30, S. 83-90
ISSN: 2449-8300
In: Cogent social sciences, Band 8, Heft 1
ISSN: 2331-1886
In: Brill Studies in Greek and Roman Epigraphy volume 17
The goal of this inscription-based study is to shed new light on Hellenistic and Roman Delphi by placing inscribed honours at the front and centre of the investigation. This book provides, for the first time, a comprehensive and coherent discussion of the Delphic gift-giving system, its regional interactions, and its honorific network. It employs both conventional and new scientific methods, including an analysis of quantitative trends in the epigraphic records and a Social Network Analysis (SNA) approach. The volume also addresses a broad spectrum of epigraphic topics and discusses current research questions as well as future perspectives
In: European journal of international relations, Band 30, Heft 2, S. 408-433
ISSN: 1460-3713
Almost every polity uses state awards as diplomatic tools. Their global spread, however, cannot be explained by dominant theories of International Relations (which focus on military or economic rationales) or of diplomatic practices (which lack criteria for what constitutes a functionally suitable practice). The success of such seemingly non-instrumental tools may be better explained with a combination of Modern Systems Theory with the evolutionary scheme of variation/selection/re-stabilization: the diplomatic system generates a variation of practices, enacts selection through the structural medium of peace, and stabilises the selected variant through legal formalization and global diffusion. Using this framework, this paper finds that state awards found worldwide ubiquity for two reasons: First, they satisfy the diplomatic system's societal function related to peace and power, that is, the foregrounding of peace-and-amity while invisibilizing power-and-enmity. Second, state awards exhibit a high degree of generalizability, meaning that they are so flexible that any state can use them towards any other states for any reasons at any time. This paper carries implications for understanding seemingly trivial, noninstrumental features of diplomacy, and, more generally, for the value of Modern Systems Theory and evolutionary perspectives in International Relations.
In: The Sociolinguistic Journal of Korea, Band 26, Heft 4, S. 23-55
In: Oxford studies in ancient culture and representation
In: International journal of the sociology of language: IJSL, Band 129, Heft 1
ISSN: 1613-3668
In: International journal of the sociology of language: IJSL, Band 1986, Heft 58, S. 37-58
ISSN: 1613-3668
In: The Sociolinguistic Journal of Korea, Band 24, Heft 3, S. 95-123
In: The Sociolinguistic Journal of Korea, Band 26, Heft 1, S. 229-250