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DONALD and JOAN GEAR, Earth to Heaven: The Royal Animal-Shaped Weights of the Burmese Empires. Harrow, England: Twinstar, 1992. pp. xvii + 298.
(Brill Academic Publishers; E.J. Brill, Leiden ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1995-01)
The Pantheon of Emar
(Agade, 2002)
Collection of attestations of divine names appearing in the cuneiform documents from Late Bronze Age Emar on the Syrian Middle Euphrates.
Metrical Structure and Tone: Evidence from Mandarin and Shanghai
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 1999-01)
A well-known problem in Chinese phonology is that in some dialects most regular syllables keep their underlying tones, but in others the initial syllable determines the tonal pattern of a multisyllabic domain. Mandarin and ...
Essentialism, Culture, and Beliefs About Gender Among the Aravanis of Tamil Nadu, India
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 2003-11)
The purpose of this study was to investigate the gender beliefs of the Aravanis, a transgender community in Tamil Nadu. Gender transgression and gender transformation (attempts to change gender) tasks were used to examine ...
Family Values on the Middle Euphrates in the Thirteenth Century BCE
(CDL Press, 1996)
Discussion of the structure of family life in the Late Bronze Age Syrian city of Emar, as revealed in itsthe cuneiform texts.
Proverbs and Proverbial Allusions in Hittite
(1986)
Consideration of the genre of proverbs in Hittite literature and of proverbial allusions in records of other types.
The Siege of Uršu Text (CTH 7) and Old Hittite Historiography
(1995)
Edition of an Akkadian-language historical account from the Hittite Old Kingdom and a consideration of its significance for Hittite historiography.
An epidemiological model of the corn stunt system in Central America
(Elsevier, 1990)
There is increasing appreciation on the part of ecologists of the crucial role that pathogens may play in the structure of plant populations and communities. This study used classic equations of epidemiology to analyze ...
The Economics of Ritual at Late Old Babylonian Kish
(Brill Academic Publishers; by Koninklijke Brill nv, Leiden, The Netherlands ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1998-01)
A small archive of economic documents from the city of Kish in the late Old Babylonian period records amounts of money owed to the “supervisor of kezertu women” from the kezertu account. The employment of kezertu women in ...