Books in the Etudes genevoises sur l'Antiquite series

Esito del 2 Degrees convegno della serie "E pluribus unum? L'Italia dalla frammentazione preromana all'unita augustea", il libro tratta la "romanizzazione" dell'Italia preromana, affrontando le dinamiche socio-politiche e linguistico-epigrafiche, le strutture economiche e del territorio, l'integrazione religiosa e le produzioni artistiche e artigianali.

A series, that aims to give a picture of the peoples of ancient pre-Roman central Italy and of the contribution made by them to the formation of the unaccomplished identity of the Italian peninsula during the late-Republic and Empire. Each book is the outcome of a conference, dedicated to a specific chronological period and to its problems.

Actes d'un colloque international (Geneve, 2-3 mai 2014), ce livre souhaite apporter, a travers les contributions de plusieurs specialistes internationaux, une vue d'ensemble des connaissances sur les rites lies aux portes dans l'Antiquite, plus precisement en Egypte, en Mesopotamie, en Anatolie, en Grece et dans le monde biblique.

Ranging from Sumer to ISIS, this collection presents an historic and anthropological approach to the beard in Middle Eastern religious traditions. The twelve contributions, along with a general introduction, cover the ancient Near East (Mesopotamia, Egypt and the Hittites), Judaism, and medieval to contemporary Islam. Since Antiquity the beard has been a symbol of masculine power, linked directly to ideologies of the male body. Whether the wearing of a beard is compulsory or prohibited, encouraged or mocked, it is a fundamental marker of identity and ideology, particularly in the Islamic world. The essays in Barbe et barbus are an elegant demonstration of the complexities inherent in the pilosity of the masculine visage.

Cet ouvrage reunit une serie de travaux portant sur la prehistoire et la protohistoire de la Grece et des regions avoisinantes. Presentes le temps d'une journee a l'Universite de Geneve, ils ont pour but d'illustrer toute la diversite des etudes egeennes.