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Aarhus University Press

Aarhus University Press is a commercial Foundation which was inaugurated in 1985 for the purpose of disseminating the results of scientific research, as well as other scientific activity within the University of Aarhus. The Foundation is managed by a board of at least 5 and maximum of 13 members appointed by the Academic Council of the University on the recommendation of the Rector on the basis of proposals from the main areas.

Bringing Culture Back In

Human Security & Social Trust
Format: Paperback
Pages: 322
ISBN: 9788771247916
Pub Date: 01 Mar 2016
Imprint: Aarhus University Press
Description:
Economists used to claim that material self-interest and the rational choices of the individual were universal factors that transcended cultural values and differences. This position has been challenged by critics, who have pointed out the methodological and philosophical weaknesses of this approach. They dispute the idea that social order can be explained as the product of the choices of individual agents, and that social agents operate independently of their social and cultural values and norms.

Past Vulnerability

Volcanic Eruptions & Human Vulnerability in Traditional Societies Past & Present
Format: Hardback
Pages: 279
ISBN: 9788771242324
Pub Date: 22 Jan 2016
Imprint: Aarhus University Press
Illustrations: colour & b/w illus
Description:
Volcanic eruptions can affect everything - nature, wildlife, people. From the earliest times, human resilience has been tested by this most severe environmental hazard resulting in a variety of collective responses - from despair and helplessness to endurance, increased worship of the gods, and even mass migrations. Past vulnerability breaks new ground by examining the histories of extreme environmental events, from the resent eruptions of Mount Merapi in Central Java to the prehistoric Toba supervolcanic eruption 74.
Medieval Archaeology in Scandinavia & Beyond Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 406
ISBN: 9788771243789
Pub Date: 31 Dec 2015
Imprint: Aarhus University Press
Description:
This book presents, in twenty international papers, the origin and development, and some of the main characteristics and diversities, of the academic discipline of medieval - and later - archaeology in a number of countries in northern Europe. Denmark is the main focus, together with the four other Scandinavian countries, the Faroes and Greenland. The book also provides an insight into some of the discipline's major achievements and fascinating discoveries in these parts of the world, as well as into some of the current research agendas, with their new perspectives, including developments towards the inclusion of the archaeology of more recent periods.
Prehistoric Aegean and Near Eastern Metal Types Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 76
ISBN: 9788771249385
Pub Date: 31 Dec 2015
Imprint: Aarhus University Press
Illustrations: illus
Description:
The present publication attempts to make the collection of Prehistoric Aegean and Near Eastern bronzes in the National Museum of Denmark known to scholars in the field. The catalogue contains all Aegean metals kept in the Department of Ancient Cultures of Denmark and the Mediterrenean. In the section on the Near Eastern metals, bronzes from Hama, however, are not included.

The Architecture of the Ancient Greek Theatre
Format: Hardback
Pages: 468
ISBN: 9788771243802
Pub Date: 31 Dec 2015
Imprint: Aarhus University Press
Description:
In this volume the leading experts on ancient Greek theatre architecture present new excavation results and new analyses of individual monuments. Many well-known theatres such as the one of Dionysos in Athens and others at for instance Messene, Sikyon, Chaironeia in Greece and Aphrodisias in Turkey have been re-examined since their original publication with stunning results. New research also includes less well-known or newly discovered ancient Greek theatres in Albania, Turkey, Cyprus and Sicily.

The Past in the Present

The Collection of Classical & Near Eastern Antiquities in the National Museum of Denmark
Format: Paperback
Pages: 166
ISBN: 9788789438092
Pub Date: 31 Dec 2015
Imprint: Aarhus University Press
Illustrations: illus
Description:
The past is inextricably embeded in the present – whether we are aware of it or not. The present was shaped by the thoughts and deeds of those who went before, and our daily life largely plays out on a stage set by our ancestors. The seven contributors to this volume have taken their cue from ancient artefacts of the cultures of the Mediterranean and Near East that are kept in the National Museum of Denmark.
Skelhøj and the Bronze Age Barrows of Southern Scandinavia Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 324
ISBN: 9788793423008
Pub Date: 22 Dec 2015
Imprint: Aarhus University Press
Description:
This two-volume publication presents a study of the barrows of South Scandinavian Early Bronze Age and their social and environmental context. It is based on a series of projects conducted between 1992 and 2004, culminating in the excavation of the great barrow of Skelhøj in Southwest Jutland, and the analyses of its surroundings in the Tobøl barrow group, from 2002 to 2004.The excavation of Skelhøj was the first near-complete excavation of a scheduled great barrow conducted for purely research reasons since these monuments became scheduled under the Nature Protection Act of 1937 and it therefore offered very rare opportunities for analysis.

Dark Continent?

Images of Africa in European Narratives about the Congo
Format: Hardback
Pages: 692
ISBN: 9788771248531
Pub Date: 03 Dec 2015
Imprint: Aarhus University Press
Description:
Africa: a forgotten continent that evades all attempts at control and transcends reason. Or does it? This book describes Europe's image of Africa and relates how the conception of the Dark Continent has been fabricated in European culture – with the Congo as an analytical focal point.

N F S Grundtvig

An Introduction to his Life & Work
Format: Hardback
Pages: 338
ISBN: 9788771249491
Pub Date: 18 Nov 2015
Imprint: Aarhus University Press
Description:
N F S Grundtvig (1783-1872) was a prominent preacher, poet, scholar and politician, who played a crucial role in the life of nineteenth-century Denmark. His sermons and hymns, and his educational and historical writings, gave birth to a national and spiritual awakening, which still strongly affects Danish life and thought today. This book is an introduction to Grundtvig to the English speaking world.

Power of Beauty

On the Aesthetics of Homer, Plato & Cicero
Format: Paperback
Pages: 178
ISBN: 9788771247718
Pub Date: 01 Nov 2015
Imprint: Aarhus University Press
Description:
The fascination of beauty has given rise to a long-standing European philosophical tradition on the idea of beauty the beginnings of which link back to ancient Greek mythology. However, at the dawn of Modernity the discourse on beauty slowly disappeared from theory and philosophy. While classical tradition dealt with the many and varied aspects of beauty in relation to cosmos, man's way of life, education and the arts, modern theory trivialized the idea of beauty and finally abandoned the topic.
Study of the Circulation of Ceramics in Cyprus from the 3rd Century B.C to the 3rd Century A.D. Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 390
ISBN: 9788771244502
Pub Date: 31 Oct 2015
Imprint: Aarhus University Press
Description:
This is the first monograph devoted solely to the ceramics of Cyprus in the Hellenistic and Roman Periods. The island was by then no longer divided into kingdoms but unified politically, first under Ptolemaic Egypt and later as a province in the Roman Empire. Submission to foreign rule was previously thought to have diluted - if not obliterated - the time-honoured distinctive Cypriot character.
Revealing & Concealing in Antiquity Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 202
ISBN: 9788771243895
Pub Date: 31 Aug 2015
Imprint: Aarhus University Press
Description:
Secrecy and the act of concealing and revealing knowledge effectually segregate the initiated and the uninitiated. The act of sharing or hiding knowledge plays a central role in all human relations private or public, political or religious. This volume explores the concept of secrecy and its implications in Antiquity, Late Antiquity and the Renaissance in eleven cross-disciplinary contributions using both textual and archaeological sources.
Tall al-Fukhar Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 400
ISBN: 9788771244090
Pub Date: 31 Jul 2015
Imprint: Aarhus University Press
Illustrations: illus
Description:
Recent excavations on the border between Jordan and Syria have uncovered ancient building ruins that provide interesting materials revealing the domestic and working lives of the people who settled within the valley of Tall al Fukhãr in Wadi ash-Shallale. The volume provides a detailed and thorough examination of the excavations conducted between 1990 and 2002. The Scandinavian expedition, located on a 375m natural spur, revealed a rare quantity of pottery, antiques and ancient building structures that provided archaeologists with an insight into the social, economic and material developments that emerged from the Early Bronze Age 3600 BC.

Making of the Other Half

Jacob A Riis & the New Image of Tenement Poverty
Format: Paperback
Pages: 200
ISBN: 9788771241648
Pub Date: 01 Jul 2015
Imprint: Aarhus University Press
Description:
The Making of The Other Half introduces a new theoretical approach to the study of Jacob A. Riis, the Danish-born photographer and reporter, who revolutionized the American tenement reform movement on the eve of the 19th century. Dag Petersson proposes a tailored mode of analysis, Discourse Mutation Theory, capable of probing into the shifting perceptions of immigration and tenement poverty that thanks to Riis's work gained a foothold across America.

Past, Present & Future (Danish Edn)

The Collection of Classical & Near Eastern Antiquities in the National Museum of Denmark
Format: Paperback
Pages: 200
ISBN: 9788789438085
Pub Date: 01 Jun 2015
Imprint: Aarhus University Press
Illustrations: illus
Description:
TEXT IN DANISH. This publication celebrates the 150th anniversary of the Collection of Classical and Near Eastern Antiquities in the National Museum of Denmark. The Collection traces its roots back to the Royal Kunstkammer founded by King Frederik III around 1650 and to the private archaeological collection of King Christian VIII.

Rights of Children in the Nordic Welfare States

Conceptual & Empirical Enquiries
Format: Paperback
Pages: 220
ISBN: 9788787564960
Pub Date: 26 Feb 2015
Imprint: Aarhus University Press
Description:
Rights are at stake every time a citizen encounters the welfare state through a welfare institution or through contact with welfare professionals. This anthology scrutinises how rights are actualised in such meetings, with a special focus on children in the Nordic welfare states. The anthology encompasses conceptual and empirical analysis of rights in welfare states.
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