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Change and Stasis: Assessing the Influence of Stereotyping and Intertextuality in British Travelogues of late-Qajar Iran: 1880-1905 (2024)
Thesis
Pieper, S. W. (2024). Change and Stasis: Assessing the Influence of Stereotyping and Intertextuality in British Travelogues of late-Qajar Iran: 1880-1905 [PhD thesis, SOAS University of London]. https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00042497

Tropes and stereotypes played a significant role in the mentalities of the British empire, reducing subject populations to a simplistic list of essential characteristics and thereby denigrating their capacity for change or advancement. While Iran was... Read More about Change and Stasis: Assessing the Influence of Stereotyping and Intertextuality in British Travelogues of late-Qajar Iran: 1880-1905.

Individuality and Identity in Cuneiform: Personalising Writing Practices in the Neo-Sumerian (Ur III) and Old Assyrian Periods (2022)
Thesis
Touillon-Ricci, M. (2022). Individuality and Identity in Cuneiform: Personalising Writing Practices in the Neo-Sumerian (Ur III) and Old Assyrian Periods [PhD thesis, SOAS University of London and The British Museum]. https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00038334

Writing is a product of the hand as much as of the mind; not an innate ability, it is a learned and practised skill, a combination of rules and standards performed by individuals. Inscribed objects, beyond their documentary content, materialise the w... Read More about Individuality and Identity in Cuneiform: Personalising Writing Practices in the Neo-Sumerian (Ur III) and Old Assyrian Periods.

Introduction (2017)
Book Chapter
Weeden, M., & Ullmann, L. Z. (2017). Introduction. In M. Weeden, & L. Z. Ullmann (Eds.), Hittite Landscape and Geography (pp. 1-13). Brill.