Review of A. Collar & T. Myrup Kristensen, eds, Pilgrims in place, pilgrims in motion. Sacred travel in the ancient Mediterranean, Aarhus: Aarhus University Press 2024

Reviewed by: Children's Literature in the Nordic World by Nina Christensen and Charlotte Appel Marianne Stecher-Hansen (bio) Children's Literature in the Nordic World. By Nina Christensen and Charlotte Appel. Aarhus University Press and University of Wisconsin Press, 2021. Children's Literature in the Nordic World serves as a concise introduction to children's reading cultures in the Nordic countries and demonstrates a significant evolution in reading practices, genres, and educational circumstances over the past 250 years. The book is co-authored by scholars at Aarhus University, Denmark: Nina Christensen, professor of children's literature and head of the Centre for Children's Literature and Media, and Charlotte Appel, professor of early modern cultural history. The work is published in the University of Wisconsin's small-book Nordic World series, as a co-publication with the Aarhus University Press; the series seeks to feature top thinkers in the Nordic countries—Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Iceland—in order to explore the region's history, culture, and values. Although the title Children's Literature in the Nordic World might suggest content from the entire Nordic region, which would include Scandinavia (Denmark, Norway, Sweden) as well as Finland, Iceland and Greenland, the study rests primarily on Denmark as "the main example" (7), making use of Danish children's books and Danish writers as case studies. That said, there are interspersed texts and examples from Norway (notably, that country was part of the Danish realm until 1814) as well as from [End Page 345] Sweden and Swedish-Finland mentioned in the study. In making use of the term children's literature, the title might also seem to suggest the analysis of literary texts for children; however, the study avoids close readings of the selected texts and media, instead focusing on the institutions, national policies, reading practices, and socio-economic circumstances that shaped the reading cultures of Nordic (i.e. mainly Danish) children. Christensen and Appel include precise descriptions of the material culture of children's literature and include a wide variety of texts, genres, and other media. The book includes good quality, color illustrations that accompany each chapter. The narrative is organized into six short chapters, each framed by the evolving conceptions of childhood in Scandinavia, from the Enlightenment to the present. The content of each chapter is illuminated by the legal, educational, and socio-economic developments in Scandinavian societies which determined children's reading practices, their access to books and materials, and their agency as citizens. The authors' approach involves opening each chapter with individual case studies that describe the reading practices and environments of two or three individual children (historical personages) of the respective eras, who are carefully selected to illustrate socio-economic and gender differences. In the opening three chapters, "Introduction," "Educating Young Hearts and Minds, 1750-1820" and " The Child as a Future Patriotic Citizen, 1820-1900," the authors illuminate the romantic concept of childhood which emerged in Europe during the Enlightenment and, subsequently, inspired the development of children's literature as a distinct genre (particularly via the popularized folk fairy tale) during the nineteenth century. In the opening chapter which explores the period 1750 to 1820, the humble childhood of the celebrated Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875), the son of an itinerate shoemaker, is effectively contrasted with that of the lesser-known Danish-German writer Friederike Bruun (1765-1835), a product of upper-class birth and private education. Scholars who are seeking a deeper discussion of H. C. Andersen's profound contribution as a radical innovator of children's literature via the fairy tale genre may be disappointed by this cursory treatment of his legacy, especially given that Andersen may be credited as the first modern writer to give voice and validation to the experiential world of the child. Nonetheless, the study does a fine job at painting a historical picture of children (such as young Andersen) as readers who were shaped and often limited by specific socioeconomic and material circumstances. Whereas the first half of the study delineates the gradual emergence of children as a new reading public and books for children as a distinct genre, the last three chapters depict a Nordic...

This introductory article to the following “cluster of articles” proposes to apply the term “signal” as a theoretical and analytical category for a new approach to the bearings of electronic and new media in particular. As the term “sign” was formerly developed from linguistics, the term signal was developed from Norbert Wiener's writings on mathematics and cybernetics. The electronic signal is a technological fact dating back to the telegraph that in a substantial way set the agenda for contemporary (popular) culture (electronic music, youth, and performance culture) and further facilitated the digital code and the Internet. In this article, as well as in the following articles, the term signal is above all applied in its broader sense to explore possible signaletic modes and characteristics in contemporary art and new media culture. It is thus a key point that technological implications could never be causal to aesthetic variations and cultural modes. Departing from this, this article explores artistic and cultural manifestations from the 1960s and onward in the light of the signal in order to analytically grasp the changes or supplements to the sign that in a contemporary culture is bringing new forms of events and affects to the fore.Bodil Marie Stavning Thomsen (Ph.D.) is Associate Professor at The Department of Aesthetics and Communication, Aarhus University, Denmark. Her main research interests include film, video, and new media. Recent publications in English are “Antichrist—Chaos Reigns—The event of violence and the haptic image in Lars von Trier's film,” Journal of Aesthetics and Culture, Vol. 1 (Co-Action Publishing: Stockholm, 2009), “The Haptic Interface. On Signal Transmissions and Events,” Interface Criticism. Aesthetics Beyond Buttons, ed. Christian Ulrik Andersen & Søren Bro Pold (Aarhus University Press: Aarhus, 2011), “Spatializing Time. On the Creation of Allegoric, Global Connections between Local and Auratic Sites,” Globalizing Art, ed. Bodil Marie Stavning Thomsen & Kristin Ørjasæter (Aarhus University Press: Aarhus, 2011). norbmst@hum.au.dk. http://pure.au.dk/portal/da/norbmt@hum.au.dk

Globalization remains a challenge for the art of cinema. No art form is more suited to the task of showing clashes between cultures and the internal conflicts of a society, but as films are both narratively and physically dependent on locations—even if these can be multiple and dispersed throughout the world—and because of the logistics and the finances required for the production of film, cinema has almost always been placed in a national or regional framework. Reflecting the totality and networked nature of the globalized world seems more readily attainable for more conceptual forms of art. This article discusses Alejandro Gonzales Iñárritu's 2006 film Babel, often cited as the “first film of globalization,” asking the question of whether this claim can be substantiated alone with reference to the networked narrative of the film and use of multiple locations, suggesting that the relationship between cinema and globalization should in fact be understood on the terms of the medium as a visual reflection of images of the globe. Drawing on theories on the visual nature of globalization by Arjun Appadurai, Martin Heidegger, and W. J. T. Mitchell, this article thus argues for a different conception of cinematic globalization rooted in the history of cinema rather than in theories of globalization.Mads Anders Baggesgaard, PhD, DFF Sapere Aude Postdoc in Comparative Literature, Aarhus University, Denmark. Has published extensively on contemporary French and Francophone literature and film. Recent publications includes “A World of Emotions – Mediality in the Works of Pierre Alferi” in S.E. Larsen & L. Sætre (eds.) Text, Action, Emotion, Aarhus University Press and Confronting Universalities: Aesthetics and Politics under the Sign of Globalization, ed. with Jakob Ladegaard, Aarhus University Press, 2011.

FORUM: A DISCUSSION OF JOHN LIEP’S RECENT BOOK, A PAPUAN PLUTOCRACY: RANKED EXCHANGE ON ROSSEL ISLAND (2009)
 
 In September 2009 a group of scholars met at Aarhus University, Copenhagen, for the defence of Mag. Scient. John Liep’s doctoral thesis, published by Aarhus University Press under the title, A Papuan Plutocracy: Ranked Exchange on Rossel Island (2009). The book is the first full-scale modern ethnography of the well-known shell money system on Rossel Island—one of the most complex such systems on record. Liep’s ethnography is very powerful, but more than that, the book is built around an ambitious and unusual critique of notions of reciprocity and the gift economy that are of great general importance. Liep’s three examiners were Joel Robbins, Chris Gregory and Ton Otto. In light of the depth of debate that marked the occasion of the defence, there was a eneral feeling that the discussion deserved a wider forum. The result is the texts that are published together here.

In this article, I investigate how colonized cultures were presented to “home” radio audiences through sound (music, speech, sound montages) during the inter-war years. The focus is on how a small group of broadcasts containing musical representations of the colonies of Greenland and India afforded the imaginative work and temporary imagined communities to Austrian, Danish, and British radio listeners in relation to the spatiality and otherness of distant peoples and locations. I suggest a typology of four modes of musical representation in broadcasts reaching from the European tradition of musical exoticism to the use of recordings of indigenous music. Biography: Morten Michelsen is a popular music scholar and professor of musicology at Aarhus University. His research interests include popular music and mediation, music radio and sound studies, historical radio studies, questions of taste and music criticism, and popular music historiography. 2013–2018 he led the research project A Century of Radio and Music In Denmark ( www.Ramund.ikk.ku.dk) and contributed to other large research projects concerned with radio. Among his recent publications on sound, music, and radio are three anthologies on music radio, including Tunes for All? (Aarhus University Press, 2018) on Danish music radio and Music Radio: Building Communities, Mediating Genres (Routledge, 2019) on international music radio.

In the Garden of EdenThe covers of the first three volumes of Kuml show photographs of fine Danish antiquities. Inside the volumes have articles on the Stone Age, the Bronze Age and the Iron Age in Jutland, which is to be expected as Kuml is published by the Jutland Archaeological Society. However, in 1954 the scene is moved to more southern skies. This year, the cover is dominated by a date palm with two huge burial mounds in the background. In side the book one reads no less than six articles on the results from the First Danish Archaeological Bahrain Expedition. P.V. Glob begins with: Bahrain – Island of the Hundred Thousand Burial Mounds, The Flint Sites of the Bahrain Desert, Temples at Barbar and The Ancient Capital of Bahrain, followed by Bibby’s Five among Bahrain’s Hundred Thousand Burial Mounds and The Well of the Bulls. The following years, reports on excavations on Bahrain and later in the sheikhdoms of Qatar, Kuwait and Abu Dhabi are on Kuml’s repertoire.However, it all ends wit h the festschrift to mark Glob’s 60th anniversary, Kuml 1970, which has three articles on Arab archaeology and a single article in 1972. For the past thirty years almost, the journal has not had a single article on Arabia. Why is that? Primarily because the character of the museum’s work in the Arabian Gulf changed completely. The pioneers’ years of large-scale reconnaissance and excavations were succeeded by labourous studies of the excavated material – the necessary work preceding the final publications. Only in Abu Dhabi and Oman, Karen Frifelt carried on the pioneer spirit through the 1970s and 1980s, but she mainly published her results in in ternational, Englishlanguage journals.Consequently, the immediate field reports ended, but the subsequent research into Arab archaeology – carried out at the writing desk and with the collections of finds– still crept into Kuml. From 1973 , the journal contained a list of the publications made by the Jutland Archaeological Society (abbreviated JASP), and here, the Arab monographs begin to make their entry. The first ones are Holger Kapel’s Atlas of the Stone Age Cultures of Qatar from 1967 and Geoffrey Bibby’s survey in eastern Saudi Arabia from 1973. Then comes the Hellenistic excavations on the Failaka island in Kuwait with Hans Erik Mathiesen’s treatise on the terracotta figurines (1982), Lise Hannestad’s work on the ceramics (1983) and Kristian Jeppesen’s presentation of the temple and the fortifications (1989). A similar series on the Bronze Age excavations on Failaka has started with Poul Kjærum’s first volume on the stamp and cylinder seals (1983) and Flemming Højlund’s presentation of the ceramics (1987). The excavations on the island of Umm an-Nar in Abu Dhabi was published by Karen Frifelt in two volumes on the settlement (1991) and the graves (1995), and the ancient capital of Bahrain was analysed by H. Hellmuth Andersen and Flemming Højlund in two volumes on the northern city wall and the Islamic fort (1994) and the central, monumental buildings (1997) respectively.More is on its way! A volume on Islamic finds made on Bahrain has just been made ready for printing, and the Bronze Age temples at the village of Barbar is being worked up. Danish and foreign scholars are preparing other volumes, but the most important results of the expeditions to the Arabian Gulf have by now been published in voluminous series.With this, an era has ended, and Moesgård Museum’s 50th anniversary in 1999 was a welcome opportunity of looking back at the Arabian Gulf effort through the exhibition Glob and the Garden ef Eden. The Danish Bahrain expeditions and to consider what will happen in the future.How then is the relation ship between Moesgård Museum and Bahrain today, twenty-three years after the last expedition – now that most of the old excavations have been published and the two originators of the expeditions, P.V. Glob and Geoffrey Bibby have both died?In Denmark we usually consider Bahrain an exotic country with an exciting past. However, in Bahrain there is a similar fascination of Denmark and of Moesgård Museum. The Bahrain people are wondering why Danish scholars have been interested in their small island for so many years. It was probably not a coincidence when in the 1980s archaeologist and ethnographers from Moesgård Museum were invited to take part in the furnishing of the exhibitions in the new national museum of Bahrain. Today, museum staff from Arab countries consider a trip to Moesgård a near-pilgrimage: our collection of Near East artefacts from all the Gulf countries is unique, and the ethnographic collections are unusual in that they were collected with thorough information on the use, the users and the origin of each item.The Bahrain fascination of Moesgård Museum. was also evident, when the Bahrain minister of education, Abdulaziz Al-Fadl, visited the museum in connection with the opening of the Bahrain exhibition in 1999.Al-Fadl visited the museum’s oriental department, and in the photo and film archive a book with photos taken by Danish members of the expeditions to the Arabian Gulf was handed over to him. Al-Fadl was absorbed by the photos of the Bahrain of his childhood – the 1950s and 1960s – an un spoilt society very different from the modern Bahrain. His enthusiasm was not lessened when he saw a photo of his father standing next to P.V. Glob and Sheikh Salman Al Khalifa taken at the opening of Glob’s first archaeological exhibition in Manama, the capital. At a banquet given by Elisabeth Gerner Nielsen, the Danish minister of culture, on the evening following the opening of the Glob exhibition at Moesgård, Al-Fadl revealed that as a child, he had been on a school trip to the Danish excavations where – on the edge of the excavation – he had his first lesson in Bahrain’s prehistory from a Danish archaeologist (fig. 1).Another example: When attending the opening of an art exhibition at Bahrain’s Art Centre in February 1999, I met an old Bahrain painter, Abdelkarim Al-Orrayed, who turned out to be a good friend of the Danish painter Karl Bovin, who took part in Glob’s expeditions. He told me, how in 1956, Bovin had exhibited his paintings in a school in Manama. He recalled Bovin sitting in his Arabian tunic in a corner of the room, playing a flute, which he had carved in Sheikh Ibrahim’s garden.In a letter, Al-Orrayed states: ”I remember very well the day in 1956, when I met Karl Bovin for the first time. He was drawin g some narrow roads in the residential area where I lived. I followed him closely with my friend Hussain As-Suni – we were twentythree and twenty-one years old respectively. When he had finished, I invited him to my house where I showed him my drawings. He looked at them closely and gave me good advice to follow if I wanted to become a skilful artist – such as focusing on lines, form, light, distance, and shadow. He encouraged me to practice outdoors and to use different models. It was a turning point in our young artists’ lives when Hussein and I decided to follow Bovin’s instructions. We went everywhere – to the teahouses, the markets, the streets, and the countryside – and practised there, but the sea was the most fascinating phenomenon to us. In my book, An Introduction to Modern Art in Bahrain, I wrote about Bovin’s exhibitions in the 1950s and his great influence on me as an artist. Bovin’s talent inspired us greatly in rediscovering the nature and landscape on Bahrain and gave us the feeling that we had much strength to invest in art. Bovin contributed to a new start to us young painters, who had chosen the nature as our main motif.”Abdelkarim Al-Orrayed was the first Bahrain painter to live of his art, and around 1960 he opened a studio from which he sold his paintings. Two of his landscape watercolours are now at Moesgård.These two stories may have revealed that Bahrain and Moesgard Museum have a common history, which both parts value and wish to continue. The mutual fascination is a good foundation to build on and the close bonds and personal acquaintance between by now more generations is a valuable counterbalance to those tendencies that estrange people, cultures, and countries from one another.Already, more joint projects have been initiated: Danish archaeology students are taking part in excavations on Bahrain and elsewhere in the Arabic Gulf; an ethnography student is planning a long stay in a village on Bahrain for the study of parents’ expectations to their children on Bahrain as compared with the conditions in Denmark; P.V. Glob’s book, Al-Bahrain, has been translated into Arabic; Moesgård’s photos and films from the Gulf are to become universally accessible via the Internet; an exhibition on the Danish expeditions is being prepared at the National Museum of Bahrain, and so forth.Two projects are to be described in more detail here: New excavations on Bahrain that are to investigate how fresh water was exploited in the past, and the publication of a book and three CDs, Music in Bahrain, which will make Bahrain’s traditional music accessible not just to the population of Bahrain, but to the whole world.New excavations on BahrainFor millennia, Bahrain was famous for its abundance of fresh water springs, which made a belt of oases across the northern half of the island possible. Natural fertility combined with the favourable situation in the middle of the Arab Gulf made Bahrain a cultural and commercial centre that traded with the cities of Mesopotamia and the IndusValley already in the third millennium BC.Fresh water also played an important part in Bahrain’s ancient religion, as seen from ar chaeological excavations and Mesopotamian cuneiform tablets: A magnificent temple of light limestone was built over a spring, and according to old texts, water was the gods’ gift to Bahrain (Dilmun).Although fresh water had an overwhelming importance to a parched desert island, no studies have been directed towards the original ”taming” o

Reviewed by: Living Well-Springs: The Hymns, Songs, and Poems of N. F. S. Grundtvig by Edward Broadbridge Paul Westermeyer Living Well-Springs: The Hymns, Songs, and Poems of N. F. S. Grundtvig. By Edward Broadbridge. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 2015. 420 pp. Edward Broadbridge, a teacher of English and Religious Studies at Aarhus University and the University of Michigan, served as the translator and editor of this book. He received help from John Nicholson who collaborated with him on the translation of every hymn, song, and poem in it. Nicholson, with an MA from Oxford and postgraduate studies at Sheffield and Southampton, worked in adult [End Page 236] education and "probation and prison after-care" (15). Both men are from England, married Danish wives, and moved to Denmark. In the Preface (19–29) Broadbridge describes the importance of Grundtvig's hymns and songs in Danish churches and schools. For example, Danish emigrants in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—287,000 people, one tenth of the Danish population (21)—carried his hymns with them as "spiritual luggage" (19). He sees Grundtvig as a major poet beyond Denmark whose reputation remains "confined to a relatively small circle," calls the hymns chosen for this book classic ones of Grundtvig, and gives a history of translations. In the section called "Translation as an Art," he begins with Anne Schjoldager's "six competencies required of the translator: linguistic, cultural, textual, subject-specific, research, and transfer" (22). He describes "the present translation" (25–26); "Grundtvig, England, and the English Language" (26–27); and makes final comments about Grundtvig as "surprisingly" by "his own admission, unmusical," though he said, "I often wish among my confirmands that I too could sing a hymn" (28). Uffe Jonas is a Danish singer, writer, and lecturer whose MA and PhD, from the University of Copenhagen, are on Kierkegaard and Nordic languages and literature. He provides a biographical study of Grundtvig (31–65). The remainder of the book (67–331) gives translations of 162 of Grundtvig's hymns (# 1–76), songs (# 77–103), and poems (# 104–162), followed by notes, a bibliography, and indexes (pp. 333–420). Broadbridge's aim was "to produce precise, poetical translations that reflect Grundtvig's intentions with the original Danish" (25). Although he followed the Danish "rhythms and rhymes" (25), he did not set out to provide a collection of hymns for singing assemblies as hymnal editors seek to do. The hymns are organized as they appear in The Danish Hymnbook (2002), the songs are divided as in The People's High School Song Book (2006), and the poems are ordered according to the editor's choice. Mythology, nature, history, poetry, Denmark, and England are all important to understanding Grundtvig. In his biographical sketch—titled "Earth and Heaven Be United, Grundtvig as poet [End Page 237] and hymn-writer"—Jonas discusses all of these topics along with Grundtvig's "Christian breakthrough," his understanding of history as poetry, the constructive jurists and the creative poets in the nation-state, his positive view of women, and his place as one of the three great Danes of hymn writing in Denmark along with Thomas Kingo (1634–1703) and Hans Adolf Brorson (1694–1764). Word and sacraments are included in these discussions. Whether they are sufficiently emphasized will have to be judged by Grundtvig scholars. This book will be of interest to hymn writers, editors, historians, and anybody who cares about hymnody, especially Danish hymnody and Grundtvig. Those less concerned about hymnody, but who study Denmark, Grundtvig, and the church in Denmark may also find this book to be of interest. Paul Westermeyer Luther Seminary Saint Paul, Minnesota Copyright © 2018 Johns Hopkins University Press and Lutheran Quarterly, Inc.

China's Education Reform in the 1980s: Policies, Issues, and Historical Perspectives. By Suzanne Pepper. Berkeley, Calif.: Institute of East Asian Studies, Center for Chinese Studies, China Research Monograph no. 36, 1990. ix, 196 pp. $12.00 (paper). - Secondary Education in China After Mao: Reform and Social Conflict. By Stig Thøgersen. Aarhus, Denmark: Aarhus University Press, 1990. 168 pp. DKK 146 (paper). - Volume 50 Issue 4

Book review of: Michael Böss (ed.), Conflicted Pasts and National Identities. Narratives of War and Conflict (Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 2014), pp. 161.

Previous articleNext article No AccessBook ReviewsKristian H. Nielsen;, Michael Harbsmeier;, Christopher J. Ries (Editors). Scientists and Scholars in the Field: Studies in the History of Fieldwork and Expeditions. 476 pp., illus., apps., bibls., index. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 2012. $67, £50, €54 (cloth).Mark V. Barrow Jr.Mark V. Barrow Jr. Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Isis Volume 104, Number 3September 2013 Publication of the History of Science Society Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/674465 Views: 42Total views on this site © 2013 by The History of Science Society. All rights reserved.PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

PORTRAITS ON SARCOPHAGI - (S.) Birk Depicting the Dead. Self-representation and Commemoration on Roman Sarcophagi with Portraits. (Aarhus Studies in Mediterranean Antiquity 11.) Pp. 333, b/w & colour figs, b/w & colour ills. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 2013. Cased, DKK349.95. ISBN: 978-87-7124-018-4. - Volume 64 Issue 2

In this paper we argue that transnational as well as national political demands and expectations on the educational field are contributing to (re)produce four ideological-based educational leadership discourses in the literature. In order to conceptualize these discourses, we turn to the work of Schmidt (Diagnosis I—Filosoferende eksperimenter. Aarhus University Press, Aarhus, 1999, On respect. Aarhus University Press, Aarhus, 2011) and Zizek (Mapping ideology. Verso, New York, 2000, The sublime object of ideology. Verso, New York, 2008a). On that basis we identify four dominant educational leadership discourses: (a) a personhood-based discourse, (b) a profession-based discourse, (c) a standard-based discourse, and (d) a resource-based discourse. These discourses have—as we will show—various consequences for the way we think and talk about education and educational leadership in our age. Using examples that stem from a project about educational leadership in Danish upper secondary school, we will illustrate how educational leaders’ beings and doings are ‘regulated’ by these discourses, which place them in a tension field where different and conflicting (ideological) fantasies seem to be played out. Then, we will discuss how these fantasies can be challenged and how we can think and speak more intellectually about education and educational leadership. By using the term intellectual we are referring to educational leaders’ ability as human beings to critically reflect on their contemporary doings and beings within and beyond the existing social order. Hopefully this can help them (and us) to establish new ways for discussing not only what educational leadership is and should be about, but also what it could be about.

EXCAVATIONS AT PETRAS - (M.) Tsipopoulou (ed.) Petras, Siteia. The Pre- and Proto-palatial Cemetery in Context. Acts of a Two-day Conference Held at the Danish Institute at Athens, 14–15 February 2015. (Monographs of the Danish Institute at Athens 21.) Pp. 446, figs, b/w & colour ills, maps. Athens / Aarhus: The Danish Institute at Athens / Aarhus University Press, 2017. Cased, DKK499.95. ISBN: 978-87-7184-157-2. - Volume 69 Issue 2

Vinnie Nørskov. Greek vases in new contexts: the collecting and trading of Greek vases - an aspect of the modern reception of antiquity. 407 pages, 87 colour & b&w figures, 17 tables. 2002. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press; 87-7288-886-5 hardback. - Volume 77 Issue 297

Steffen Terp Laursen , with contributions by Gianni Marchesi, Jesper Olsen & Thomas Van de Velde. The Royal Mounds of Aʿali in Bahrain: the emergence of kingship in Early Dilmun. 2017. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press; 978-87-93423-19-0 £54. - Volume 92 Issue 365