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Volume 81; Issue 2

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

Volume 81; Issue 2

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The Silk Road and the Iranian political economy in late antiquity: Iran, the Silk Road, and the problem of aristocratic empire

Payne, Richard E.

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2018

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english

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Stephen Judd and Jens Scheiner (eds): New Perspectives on Ibn ʿAsākir in Islamic Historiography. (Islamic History and Civilization. Studies and Texts, 145.) viii, 296 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2017. ISBN 978 90 04 34520 5.

Mouton, Jean-Michel

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2018

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english

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Johannes Klatt: Jaina-Onomasticon. Edited by Peter Flügel and Kornelius Krümpelmann. (Jaina Studies 1.) 1012 pp. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2016. €178. ISBN 978 3 447 10584 2.

den Boer, Lucas

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2018

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english

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Borayin Larios: Embodying the Vedas: Traditional Vedic Schools of Contemporary Maharashtra. xvi, 271 pp. Warsaw and Berlin: De Gruyter Open, 2017. £90.99. ISBN 978 3 11 051731 6.

Gerety, Finnian M.M.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2018

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english

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Patrick Olivelle: A Dharma Reader: Classical Indian Law. (Historical Sourcebooks in Classical Indian Thought.) xii, 410 pp. New York: Columbia University Press, 2017. ISBN 978 0 231 17956 0.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2018

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english

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Keren Arbel: Early Buddhist Meditation: The Four Jhāna s as the Actualization of Insight. (Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism.) x, 224 pp. London and New York: Routledge, 2017. ISBN 978 1 138 93792 5.

Stuart, Daniel M.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2018

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english

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The origin of the Semitic relative marker

Huehnergard, John, Pat-El, Na‘ama

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2018

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english

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Mushegh Asatryan: Controversies in Formative Shiʿi Islam. The Ghulat Muslims and Their Beliefs. (The Institute of Ismaili Studies, Shi‘i Heritage Series, 4.) xviii, 206 pp. London and New York: I.B.Tauris in association with The Institute of Ismaili Studies, 2017. £29.50. ISBN 978 1 784 53895 8.

Capezzone, Leonardo

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2018

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english

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Giovanna Calasso and Giuliano Lancioni (eds): Dār al-Islām / Dār al-Harb: Territories, People, Identities. (Studies in Islamic Law and Society.) x, 450 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2017. £126. ISBN 978 9 004 33103 7.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2018

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english

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Tropes of entanglement and strange loops in the “Nine Avowals” of the Chuci

Williams, Nicholas Morrow

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2018

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english

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Christopher C. Rand: Military Thought in Early China. viii, 233 pp. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2017. £60.75. ISBN 978 1 438 46516 6.

Galvany, Albert

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2018

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english

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Yuri Pines: Shang Yang, The Book of Lord Shang: Apologetics of State Power in Early China. (Translations from the Asian Classics.) viii, 351 pp. New York: Columbia University Press, 2017. $60. ISBN 978 0 23117988 1.

Weingarten, Oliver

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2018

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english

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Ashley Eva Millar: A Singular Case: Debating China's Political Economy in the European Enlightenment. (McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas.) xii, 263 pp. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2017. $28.65. ISBN 978 0 7735 4918 0.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2018

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english

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Susan Verma Mishra and Himanshu Prabha Ray: The Archaeology of Sacred Spaces: The Temple in Western India, 2nd century bce –8th century ce . (Archaeology and Religion in South Asia.) 283 pp. Abingdon: Routledge, 2017. ISBN 978 1 138 67920 7.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2018

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english

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Sonja Brentjes, Taner Edis and Lutz Richter-Bernburg (eds): 1001 Distortions. How (Not) to Narrate History of Science, Medicine, and Technology in Non-Western Cultures. (Bibliotheca Academica. Orientalistik.) 278 pp. Würzburg: Ergon Verlag, 2016. ISBN 978 3 95650 169 2.

Akasoy, Anna A.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2018

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english

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Roger Owen: A Life in Middle East Studies. 210 pp. Fairfax, VA: Tadween Publishing, 2016. $18.99. ISBN 978 1 939067 23 4.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2018

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english

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Kathlene Baldanza: Ming China and Vietnam: Negotiating Borders in Early Modern Asia. (Studies of the Weatherhead East Asia Institute, Columbia University.) xii, 235 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. ISBN 978 1 107 12424 0.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2018

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english

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Peter Jackson: The Mongols and the Islamic World: From Conquest to Conversion. xx, 614 pp. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017. ISBN 978 0 300 12533 7.

Brack, Jonathan

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2018

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english

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Frank Daniels' report on the wartime Japanese courses at SOAS

Kornicki, Peter Francis

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2018

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english

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Helen Hardacre: Shinto: A History. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. 698 pp. ISBN 9780190621711.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2018

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english

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Patricia Buckley Ebrey and Susan Shih-Shan Huang (eds): Visual and Material Cultures in Middle Period China. (Sinica Leidensia.) xv, 334 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2017. ISBN 978 90 04 34937 7.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2018

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english

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Mark Stevenson and Wu Cuncun (eds): Wanton Women in Late-Imperial Chinese Literature: Models, Genres, Subversions and Traditions. (Women and Gender in China Studies.) xii, 213 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2017. ISBN 978 90 04 33915 6.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2018

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english

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Soyoung Suh: Naming the Local: Medicine, Language, and Identity in Korea since the Fifteenth Century. (Harvard East Asian Monograph Series.) xvi, 228 pp. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Asia Center, 2017. £31.95. ISBN 978 0 674 97696 2.

Barnes-Sadler, Simon

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2018

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english

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Fahmida Suleman: Textiles from the Middle East and Central Asia: Fabric of Life. 232 pp. London: British Museum and Thames & Hudson, 2017. ISBN 978 0 500 519912.

Phillips, Amanda

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2018

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english

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Rainer Osswald: Das islamische Sklavenrecht. (Mitteilungen zur Sozial und Kulturgeschichte der islamischen Welt 40.) 313 pp. Würzburg: Ergon Verlag, 2017. €45. ISBN 978 3 95650 238 5.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2018

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english

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Charlotte Horlyck: Korean Art from the Nineteenth Century to the Present. 264 pp. London: Reaktion Books, 2017. £40. ISBN 978 1 78023 736 7.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2018

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english

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Jean-François Salles (ed.): Mahasthan II, Fouilles du Rempart Est, Études Archéologiques. (Archaeologies of the Indian Ocean 10.) 438 pp. Turnhout: Brepols, 2015. ISBN 978 2 503 55240 8.

Hawkes, Jason D.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2018

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english

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Ceccarelli Manuel: Enki und Ninmaḫ: eine mythische Erzählung in sumerischer Sprache. (Orientalische Religionen in der Antike.) xviii, 251 pp., 16 plates. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2016. ISBN 978 3 16 154278 7.

Viano, Maurizio

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2018

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english

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Yuka Kadoi (ed.): Arthur Upham Pope and a New Survey of Persian Art. (Studies in Persian Cultural History.) xxiv, 417 pp. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2016. €146. ISBN 978 90 04 30990 6.

Roxburgh, David J.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2018

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english

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Timothy Greenwood: The Universal History of Step‘anos Tarōnec‘i: Introduction, Translation, and Commentary. (Oxford Studies in Byzantium.) xiv, 358 pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. £90. ISBN 978 0 19 879251 2.

La Porta, Sergio

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2018

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english

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George A. Bournoutian: The 1820 Russian Survey of the Khanate of Shirvan: A Primary Source on the Demography and Economy of an Iranian Province Prior to Its Annexation by Russia. xxvii, 238 pp. Cambridge: Gibb Memorial Trust, 2016. ISBN 978 190972480 8.

Tallon, James N.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2018

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english

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Leslie Peirce: Empress of the East: How a European Slave Girl became Queen of the Ottoman Empire. viii, 359 pp. New York: Basic Books, 2017. £20. ISBN 978 0 465 03251 8.

Woodhead, Christine

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2018

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english

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Martti Nissinen: Ancient Prophecy. Near Eastern, Biblical, and Greek Perspectives. xix, 448 pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. £95. ISBN 978 0 19 880855 8.

Dalley, Stephanie

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2018

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english

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Robert Elgood: Rajput Arms and Armour: The Rathores and Their Armoury at Jodhpur Fort. 2 volumes. 1,024 pp. New Delhi: Niyogi Books, 2017. £200. ISBN 978 93 85285 70 7.

Michell, George

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2018

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Louise M. Pryke: Ishtar. (Gods and Heroes of the Ancient World.) xv, 240 pp. London: Routledge, 2017. £105. ISBN 978 1 138 86073 5.

Palmero Fernández, Mónica

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2018

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BSO volume 81 issue 2 Cover and Front matter

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2018

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BSO volume 81 issue 2 Cover and Back matter

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2018

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english

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Piotr Taracha: Two Festivals Celebrated by a Hittite Prince (CTH 647.I and II–III). New Light on Local Cults in North-Central Anatolia in the Second Millennium BC. (Studien zu den Boğazköy-Texten 61.) xix, 222 pp. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2017. ISBN 978 3 44710799 0.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2018

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BSO volume 81 issue 2 Cover and Front matter

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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BSO volume 81 issue 2 Cover and Back matter

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2018

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Diana Junio: Patriotic Cooperation: The Border Services of the Church of Christ in China and Chinese Church–State Relations, 1920s–1950s. (Religion in Chinese Societies Series.) xiii, 403 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2017. ISBN 978 90 04 34175 3.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2018

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