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This collection explores the various forms of narrative, semiotic,
and technological mediation that shape the experience of place.
From the East End of London to Navajo lands to Ground Zero, Lived
Topographies examines the great effect of language, mass media,
surveillance, and other incursions of the contemporary world on
topographical experience and description. Gary Backhaus and John
Murungi have assembled a wide array of scholars to provide an
interdisciplinary approach to this subject, giving this rich,
focused collection a unique perspective on the phenomenology of
place.
Recent books about Jesus and early Christianity can be divided into
two kinds: those that examine the life and work of the historical
Jesus prior to his death and those that reconstruct events between
JesusGCO death and the writings of the first Gospels. SawickiGCOs
provocative book challenges the results of both kinds of research
by using both archaeology and anthropology to situate Jesus clearly
in his Galilean cultural context. Sawicki contests recent portraits
of Jesus as a Mediterranean peasant, a Cynic sage, or the convener
of a fellowship of equals. In addition, she calls into question
readings of ancient Galilee that emphasize it as a society marked
simply by economic stratification or by an GC honor-shameGCY
sociology. Rather, she discovers the Galilean JesusGCO indigenous
cultural idiom in its material structures for the negotiation of
kinship, the management of labor, the distribution of commodities,
and the construction of gender. SawickiGCOs book is the first to
balance classical urban archaeology against the more recent
archaeology of villages and of local and regional commerce. It
frames current issues in Jesus research in terms that can guide
both ongoing village excavations in Israel and responsible exegesis
of the Gospels in church and academy. Marianne Sawicki is the
author of Seeing the Lord: Resurrection and Early Christian
Practices. For: Seminarians; graduate students; biblical
archaeologists
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