In Greece Reinvented Han Lamers explores the transformations of Byzantine Hellenism in Renaissance Italy and reveals the cultural dynamics between Greeks and Latins at work behind the much-studied tra
Knapen, a cultural anthropologist, deals with the long-term interrelation between humans and their environment in Borneo, going back to the early 17th century. Drawing on previously unused primary so
This study of Theophrastus' much neglected De sensibus offers a new interpretation of the treatment of the Presocratic and Platonic views on sense perception, and provides new insight into Theophrastu
Confucianism and Reflexive Modernity criticizes the paradigm of Asian Value Debate and defends a balance between individual empowerment and flourishing community for human rights in the context of glo
King of the waters describes how a brilliant Dutch engineer ultimately failed to implement his plans for modern irrigation in Siam. Homan van der Heide?s identification with the interests of the rice
Abbott (education, Manchester U.) and Han, retired from teaching English in Burmese universities, first survey folk-tale studies and present a broad functional classification of Burma's tales. Then th
The papers in this collection were presented at the 2007 Anglo Dutch Wellcome Symposium--Medicine and Space: Bodies, Buildings, and Other Borders, or were commissioned to augment the selections. Each
Both drawing and diverging from the humanistic intellectual climate of his time, French philosopher Geulincx (1624-69) sought to reinvest the classical approach to ethics with an input of Christianity
