Two SOAS Library Book Reviews
A couple of reviews for books recently acquired by SOAS Library …
1.Denial of Violence: Ottoman Past, Turkish Present and Collective Violence against the Armenians, 1789-2009 by Fatma Müge Göçek. Reviewed by Dr. Joanne Laycock(Sheffield Hallam University) in the Institute of Historical Research’s Reviews in History
This book “is representative of the growing engagement of historians of this region and period with an expanding range of source material and a willingness to look for new ways to address the question of what may be suppressed or absent from the official Turkish archival record”
It engages fully with complex issues and examines both the Turkish “denial” narrative and the selective nature of some of the “official” Armenian accounts
” Thus for those already engaged in the complex histories of the aftermath of the Armenian genocide or on questions of memory, forgetting and denial of violence in the modern world more broadly, Göçek’s work is a welcome addition to the scholarship. ”
Classmark: NS956.62 / 744626
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2.Remembering the Dead in the Ancient Near East: Recent Contributions from Bioarchaeology and Mortuary Archaeology edited by Benjamin W. Porter and Alexis T. Boutin, reviewed by Yağmur Heffron (McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge) in the Bryn Mawr Classical Review
This intra-disciplinary work provides an “accessible, informative, and thought-provoking set of papers in which bioarchaeological data dovetails variously into site stratigraphy, artefact typology, visual culture, and textual history”
Classmark: FR / 513814
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