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‘Een knecht der knechten sy hy syne broederen’
Christelijk geloof en slavernij in het Nederlandse Atlantische koloniale rijk van de zeventiende en de achttiende eeuw
2024 || Paperback || Ben Ipenburg || Sidestone Press Dissertations
Het Nederlands slavernijverleden roept vele vragen op. Eén ervan is hoe het toch kon dat het christelijk geloof slavernij niet afkeurde maar theologisch ondersteunde. De bijbel weersprak niet dat mensen tot slaaf konden worden gemaakt. De gereformeerde theologie van de zeventiende en achttiende eeuw gaf samen met rechtsgeleerdheid, verlichtingsfilosofie, politiek en maatschappelijk denken vorm aan de koloniale ideologie van de Republiek der Verenigde Nederlanden.
Twee slaventheologieën onde...
Silver of the Possessed
Jewellery in the Egyptian zār between 1900 – 1980
2024 || Paperback || Sigrid van Roode || Sidestone Press Dissertations
In the 19th century an African possession cult called zār arrived in Egypt and became hugely popular. Jewellery formed an integral part of this cult, and silver pendants with images of spirits started to appear in the early 20th century. And there is more: zār also used beaded jewellery as well as a wide range of other jewels.
Currently, jewellery items with spirit images are sought-after collectors’ items, present in collections of both private collectors and museums. These collections a...
Identity, Power and Group Formation in Archaic Macedonia (600-400 BC)
2024 || Paperback || Christos Giamakis || Sidestone Press Dissertations
The first ever large-scale synthesis on identity and social dynamics across archaic Macedonia (600-400 BC), Christos Giamakis’s book provides a detailed narrative exploring the role of power as displayed through material culture in the formation of group identities across the region. Giamakis focuses on data from nine cemeteries in the region combining multiple datasets including grave goods, osteological evidence, burial rites, tomb types and the organisation of the cemetery space in orde...
Serial Learners
Interactions between Funnel Beaker West and Corded Ware Communities in the Netherlands during the Third Millennium BCE from the Perspective of Ceramic Technology
2024 || Paperback || Erik Kroon || Sidestone Press Dissertations
5,000 years ago, a migration shaped Europe’s future. Migrating communities spread across Europe within two centuries, leaving lasting changes in interconnectivity, language, and ancestry. Yet these migrating communities did not enter an empty continent. Across Europe, they encountered indigenous communities with millennia-old roots. What interactions between migrating and indigenous communities gave rise to those lasting changes?
This study sheds new light on this question with an innovativ...