Vêtements parfumés – corps oints

Lorsqu’aux VIe et Ve siècle av. J.-C., les législateurs grecs et romains ont commencé à fixer des règles concernant les dépenses funéraires, ils visaient les sens, à commencer par l’ouïe et la vue, mais aussi l’odorat. Le rituel des morts devait être moins audible, moins visible et moins odorant. C’est du moins ce que suggèrent les règles d’inhumation qui nous ont été transmises par la littérature et l’épigraphie concernant Athènes, Delphes et Iulis sur l’île cycladique de Kéos, ainsi que la ..

genus & generatio. Rollenerwartungen und Rollenerfüllungen im Spannungsfeld der Geschlechter und Generationen in Antike und Mittelalter

Die Beiträge in diesem Band gehen zurück auf die dritte Nachwuchstagung des Bamberger DFG-Graduiertenkollegs „Generationenbewusstsein und Generationenkonflikte in Antike und Mittelalter“. Neben Aspekten der Generationenthematik stehen dabei vor allem Überlegungen zu den genderstudies und die Frage nach den Valenzen des Rollenbegriffs im Vordergrund, wodurch sich vielfältige interdisziplinäre Berührungs- und Schnittpunkte ergeben. Der Band umfasst Beiträge der Fächer Klassische Philologie, Geschichtswissenschaft, Romanistik und Germanistik in einem Untersuchungszeitraum von der Antike bis ins ausgehende Mittelalter

The pancreas in human type 1 diabetes

Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is considered a disorder whose pathogenesis is autoimmune in origin, a notion drawn in large part from studies of human pancreata performed as far back as the 1960s. While studies of the genetics, epidemiology, and peripheral immunity in T1D have been subject to widespread analysis over the ensuing decades, efforts to understand the disorder through analysis of human pancreata have been far more limited. We have reviewed the published literature pertaining to the pathology of the human pancreas throughout all stages in the natural history of T1D. This effort uncovered a series of findings that challenge many dogmas ascribed to T1D and revealed data suggesting the marked heterogeneity in terms of its pathology. An improved understanding and appreciation for pancreatic pathology in T1D could lead to improved disease classification, an understanding of why the disorder occurs, and better therapies for disease prevention and management

The Fabric of Gifts: Culture and Politics of Giving and Exchange in Archaic Greece

When the Greek leader Agamemnon took for himself the woman awarded to Achilles as his spoils of battle, the warrior’s resulting anger and outrage nearly cost his side the war. Beyond the woman herself was what she symbolised — a matter of esteem rather than material value. In Archaic Greece the practices of gift giving existed alongside an economy of market relations. The value of gifts and the meanings of exchange in ancient societies are fundamental to the debates of 19th-century economists, to Marcel Mauss’s famous Essai sur le don (1923-4), and to the definition of experiential value by modern philosopher Yanis Varoufakis. In this book Beate Wagner-Hasel analyses the sensory content and the social context of many examples of Greeks bearing gifts: to guests, at sacrificial rituals and at funerals, to brides and to heroes. The fabric of these gifts unfolds a panorama of social networks and models of rulership embedded in a world of pastoral and textile economy. Among the gifted objects that represent this world, textiles offer the clearest representation of social cohesion — the key value ascribed to the gift by the earliest theorists of gift-giving. Beate Wagner-Hasel was Professor of Ancient History at the Leibniz University of Hannover 2001–2018, specializing in economic history and gender studies. She is the author of Antike Welten (2017), Alter in der Antike (2012), Die Arbeit des Gelehrten (2011), and Der Stoff der Gaben (2000), and co-editor (with Marie-Louise Nosch) of Gaben, Waren und Tribute (2019). The Fabrics of Gifts is a revised edition of her study of gifts in Early Greece (Der Stoff der Gaben, 2000).https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/zeabook/1092/thumbnail.jp

Le matriarcat et la crise de la modernité

Le Matriarcat et la Crise de la Modernité (pp. 43-61) L'article examine l'idée du matriarcat, créée par l'historien bâlois J.J. Bachofen, ainsi que sa réception par les historiens de l'Antiquité pendant les années vingt. L'auteur montre des liens entre la critique de la modernité (par exemple, progrès de la technique) et la conception du matriarcat. Il propose de lire cette idée comme contre-image de la modernité.Wagner Hasel Beate. Le matriarcat et la crise de la modernité. In: Mètis. Anthropologie des mondes grecs anciens, vol. 6, n°1-2, 1991. pp. 43-61