Books by Hannes D Galter
Grazer Morgenländische Studien 8 , 2022
Schloss Hainfeld und Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall.
Grazer Morgenländische Studien 8
Herausgegeb... more Schloss Hainfeld und Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall.
Grazer Morgenländische Studien 8
Herausgegeben von Hannes D. Galter und Wolfgang J. Pietsch
Graz: Uni-Press 2022
Del Fabbro, Roswitha, Frederick Mario Fales, and Hannes D. Galter. ‘Headscarf and Veiling Glimpses from Sumer to Islam’. Antichistica 30. Venezia, 2021
This volume – which stems from an international conference held at the University of Graz on Marc... more This volume – which stems from an international conference held at the University of Graz on March 2, 2020, just before the outbreak of the
COVID-19 pandemic – represents a small, but specifically targeted contribution to a field of research and discussion that has increasingly come to the fore in the last two decades, regarding the practice of covering or veiling womens’ heads or faces over different times and places. “Dress is never value free”, as anthropologists state, and veiling functions as an assertion/communication of relationship dynamics in terms of gender, social and cultural identity, phases and stages of life (puberty, marriage, death)or of religious beliefs – even reaching to a typical dichotomy of our times, the female condition between tradition and modernity.
Papers by Hannes D Galter
Dietmar Goltschnigg (Hg.): Marianne Beth. Frauenrechtlerin, Friedensaktivistin und Universalgelehrte Texte und Kontexte, Analysen und Kommentare. Wien: Böhlau 2023, S. 87-98., Dec 12, 2023
Orientalist Gazes. Reception and Construction of Images of the Ancient Near East since the 17th Century. Edited by Kerstin Droß-Krüpe, Agnès Garcia-Ventura, Kai Ruffing and Lorenzo Verderame. wEdge 3. Münster: Zaphon, 37-53, 2023
Hannes D. Galter und Wolfgang J. Pietsch (Hg.) Schloss Hainfeld und Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall Grazer Morgenländische Studien 8, Graz: UniPress, 209-235., 2022
Hannes D. Galter und Wolfgang J. Pietsch (Hg.) Schloss Hainfeld und Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall Grazer Morgenländische Studien 8, Graz: UniPress, 149-179, 2022
Encyclopedia of the Bible Online, Apr 12, 2022
In: Constance M. Furey, Joel Marcus LeMon, Brian Matz, Thomas Römer, Jens Schröter, Barry Dov Wal... more In: Constance M. Furey, Joel Marcus LeMon, Brian Matz, Thomas Römer, Jens Schröter, Barry Dov Walfish, Eric Ziolkowski (Hg.): Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception Vol. 20. Berlin-Boston. De Gruyter. 2022. 1165-1167.
Antichistica, 2021
This volume – which stems from an international conference held at the University of Graz on Marc... more This volume – which stems from an international conference held at the University of Graz on March 2, 2020, just before the outbreak or the COVID-19 pandemic – represents a small, but specifically targeted contribution to a field of research and discussion that has increasingly come to the fore in the last two decades, regarding the practice of covering or veiling womens’ heads or faces over different times and places. “Dress is never value free”, as anthropologists state, and veiling functions as an assertion/communication of relationship dynamics in terms of gender, social and cultural identity, phases and stages of life (puberty, marriage, death) or of religious beliefs – even reaching to a typical dichotomy of our times, the female condition between tradition and modernity.
Antichistica, 2021
The discussions about the use of headscarves and veils shape the living conditions of Muslim wome... more The discussions about the use of headscarves and veils shape the living conditions of Muslim women in the Middle East and in Europe to this day. To overcome this situation, a thorough and dispassionate documentation of the cultural history of veiling is necessary. This paper will give a short overview of the long history of veiling and it will deal in detail with five different aspects of this phenomenon and with the various connections between Europe and the Middle East: the relationship between death and the veil in the Ancient Near East; the veil in early Christianity; the hair as an erotic symbol in the Ancient Near East; the traditional costume of the Transylvanian Saxons as a European example of the use of veils and the veil of mystery.
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It is widely known that the lion could function as symbol for the Assyrian king. Less known is th... more It is widely known that the lion could function as symbol for the Assyrian king. Less known is the fact that the scorpion could represent the Assyrian queen. This paper presents the evidence for this symbolism from the 8th and 7th centuries BC and surveys the appearances of scorpions throughout Mesopotamian art and literature. On Babylonian kudurrus the scorpion is associated several times with the goddess Ishara, who was closely related to Istar. The reason for the appearance of Ishara on the kudurrus probably was her connection with marriage, treaties and oaths. This paper argues that exactly the same association made the scorpion a symbol for the Assyrian queen in Neo-Assyrian times. It symbolized the queen's role as "Mother of the Land", who secured internal peace, as the lion symbolized the king as protector and enlarger of the empire.
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Books by Hannes D Galter
Grazer Morgenländische Studien 8
Herausgegeben von Hannes D. Galter und Wolfgang J. Pietsch
Graz: Uni-Press 2022
COVID-19 pandemic – represents a small, but specifically targeted contribution to a field of research and discussion that has increasingly come to the fore in the last two decades, regarding the practice of covering or veiling womens’ heads or faces over different times and places. “Dress is never value free”, as anthropologists state, and veiling functions as an assertion/communication of relationship dynamics in terms of gender, social and cultural identity, phases and stages of life (puberty, marriage, death)or of religious beliefs – even reaching to a typical dichotomy of our times, the female condition between tradition and modernity.
Papers by Hannes D Galter
Grazer Morgenländische Studien 8
Herausgegeben von Hannes D. Galter und Wolfgang J. Pietsch
Graz: Uni-Press 2022
COVID-19 pandemic – represents a small, but specifically targeted contribution to a field of research and discussion that has increasingly come to the fore in the last two decades, regarding the practice of covering or veiling womens’ heads or faces over different times and places. “Dress is never value free”, as anthropologists state, and veiling functions as an assertion/communication of relationship dynamics in terms of gender, social and cultural identity, phases and stages of life (puberty, marriage, death)or of religious beliefs – even reaching to a typical dichotomy of our times, the female condition between tradition and modernity.
This paper consists of three parts. The first part will describe the concept of the royal warrior within the framework of Assyrian state ideology and take a brief look at the history of its research. The second part will trace the development of this concept from Old Assyrian times to Ashurbanipal and point at several individual features. The third part finally will try to give a fresh perspective on the concept of the royal warrior by using Hartmut Rosa’s theory of resonance as a guideline.
royal inscriptions have been regarded as a means of royal propaganda, primarily for the self-representation of the rulers. Only rarely the question was asked, how they were able to achieve this objective. Walled up in public buildings, placed on inaccessible cliffs, in places with restricted access, or in foreign-language territories, they were conceivably unsuitable for propaganda purposes. A survey of the
discussions on possible audiences of Assyrian royal inscriptions and a detailed analysis of the concluding formulae in these inscriptions provide the basis for a new approach. Not only the intended addressees were taken into account, but also those who could have read the texts independently of the intention of its author. Subsequently, an alternative interpretation is proposed, which sees the royal inscriptions as attempts to generate historical resonance and accounts for how they have fulfilled their historical task. Being part of a chain of tradition, they reacted to historical examples and tried to set standards for the future. In this way, written history became an important way to understand political events and to shape political
actions. Finally, the question of the Assyrian elites and their influence on content and form of Assyrian royal inscriptions is raised.
die er zwischen 1951 und 1984 gemacht hat. Mein Beitrag stellt die überarbeitete Version meines Vortrags „Destroyed, damaged or sold – The fate of Syrian antiquities since 2011“, gehalten am 7. Juni 2016 auf der Sommerklausur des Instituts für Kulturanthropologie der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften dar.
Ausgehende von den rezenten Zerstörungen von Palmyra – Weltkulturerbe und nationaler Gedächtnisort – durch den IS wird die Bedeutung archäologischer Stätten im nationalen Kontext sowie die ihrer Zerstörung im dschihadistischen Diskurs beleuchtet. Aus historischer Sicht lassen sich Verbindungen zur Verwüstung von Mekka und Medina durch die Wahhabiten, zu jüdisch-christlichen Ikonoklasmen und zum kulturellen Zerstörungswerk assyrischer Herrscher herstellen.
It deals with the looting and destruction of cultural property in the context of the Syrian civil war, the purposeful destruction of cultural heritage by Daesh and the economic importance of the antiquities trade for Daesh with Focus on the Situation in Germany and Austria.