Christ’s associations. Connecting and belonging in the ancient city. 9780300217049, 0300217048

Christ’s Associations: Connecting and Belonging in the Ancient City 9780300249309

A groundbreaking investigation of early Christ groups in the ancient Mediterranean As an urban movement, the early gro

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Bottleneck: Moving, Building, and Belonging in an African City 9780226489063

In Bottleneck, anthropologist Caroline Melly uses the problem of traffic bottlenecks to launch a wide-ranging study of m

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The Ancient City

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City in the Ancient World 9780674418387, 0674418387

The emergence of cities in the different regions of the ancient world presents two problems. First, in areas of common c

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Private Associations in the Ancient Greek World: Regulations and the Creation of Group Identity 9781009281300, 1009281305

Private associations abounded in the ancient Greek world and beyond, and this volume provides the first large-scale stud

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Memory and the City in Ancient Israel 9781575067124

Ancient cities served as the actual, worldly landscape populated by “material” sites of memory. Some of these sites were

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Kinship, Ethnicity and Voluntary Associations: Jewish Family Life in New York City 1351510010, 9781351510011

How can Jewish relatives who range in residence and occupation from a Scarsdale doctor to a Brooklyn butcher, and who di

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A Roman City in Ancient China

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Bureaucracy, Belonging, and the City in North India: 1870-1930 9780367818906

This book is a re-evaluation of modern urbanism and architecture and a history of urbanism, architecture, and local iden

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Sidon: The History and Legacy of the Ancient Phoenician City

*Includes pictures *Includes ancient accounts of Sidon *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading

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